Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

Boston police officer Thomas Craven's engineer daughter is gunned down on a visit home and, as he investigates, he is dragged into a web of corporate and government conspiracy.
We don't have a genre for poor Hollywood remakes of great foreign stuff - perhaps we should - and I strongly recommend that you watch instead the quality 1985 BBC mini-series of the same name from which this detective thriller is adapted. Nevertheless 'Edge of Darkness' the remake works efficiently enough. find out more...

Charlotte Hollis has been closeted in her mansion, a deteriorating Southern plantation, since the grisly murder of her married lover many years earlier. When the county wants to tear down the house to build a highway, the spinster's relatives and friends appear to rally behind her but each slowly preys on her mind until the gruesome rumours of the last forty years appear to be coming true. On hand are cousin Miriam, Dr Drew Bayliss, Jewel Mayhew and the scariest inhabitant of all, loyal serva find out more...

Brilliantly directed story about a psychotic Hollywood scriptwriter, who is suspected of murder but given a false alibi by his gorgeous neighbour. Bogart's character never lets up and you're never sure if he's guilty or not, and nor is his lovestruck neighbour. As the police close in, it develops into a beautifully tense psychological thriller, did he do it and will the girl stand by her man? Awesome, awesome, awesome!!! find out more...

A dark, intriguing thriller. The enigmatic Laura becomes an object of obsession to a hard-bitten journalist and is found dead shortly before her wedding. As the mystery deepens with every twist and turn, the detective on the case also falls under the spell of the tragic beauty. Classic film noir. find out more...

A young architecture journalist stumbles upon a unique building in the process of being demolished under the supervision of an old college mate. Erotically drawn to his friend's fiancee he is pulled into a complex web of events relating to an act of extreme violence 30 years past. Arty thriller. find out more...

Three civil rights activists are murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and the local community remains tight-lipped when the two FBI agents arrive. One is determined to go by the book but the other is determined to blow open the case any which way. Another powerful masterpiece from Alan Parker. Watch it! find out more...

Excellent courtroom comedy starring Joe Pesci as an offbeat just-qualified lawyer, dispatched to the Deep South to defend his young cousin (and friend) from a bogus murder charge. Pesci is superb, as is Marisa Tomei, his nasal New York fiancee who's sassy performance peps up the whole thing and won her an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. find out more...

Dave, Sean and Jimmy were childhood buddies, but a shocking turn of events leaves one of them emotionally ravaged and a mixture of guilt and confusion sees the three boys drift apart. When Jimmy's teenage daughter is murdered, Sean, now a cop, is assigned to the case and the deeper he delves the more suspect his old friend Dave begins to look. Mystic River is as much a study of damaged lives and the grief of loss as it is a thriller; taught, hard edged and emotional, the performances are uniform find out more...

A powerful thriller with an ingenious plot that leaves you piecing it together well after the end. Tom Farrell wins a plum job in the Pentagon only to find himself investigating a murder to which he was a witness and is a potential suspect. His mission becomes a quicksand of double bluffs, concealments, and attempts to sabotage the clues in order to avoid the Pentagon fingering him for the crime. A plot full of twists and surprises as he enters a race to clear himself. Excellent. find out more...