1970s; Harlem hood Frank Lucas has hijacked the New York heroin business by dealing directly with the Chinese growers in SE Asia and importing large amounts of the drug inside the caskets of soldiers killed in Vietnam. However his nemesis, flamboyant, tenacious and unbribable narcotics cop Richie Roberts, is on his tail and is determined to bring him down.
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AMERICAN MADE (2017)
Certification15 Our Rating
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
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AMERICAN SNIPER (2014)
Certification15 Our Rating
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DOMINO (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Domino Harvey is not your archetypal Hollywood socialite, to begin with she genuinely hates the world she was born into and despite, or perhaps in part because of, her mother's horror she signs herself up for the world of bounty hunting. As a ruthless rough and ready gun totting adventurer Domino finally, ironically, finds some kind of peace and with her colleagues a family that she genuinely feels she belongs with. Very loosely based on the real life escapades of Dominic Harvey and directed by
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LAST DAYS (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Gus Van Sant's latest masterpiece is very much in a similar vein to his previous two films (Elephant and Gerry). Meditative, ambivalent and beautifully shot, Last Days is a loose retelling of the Kurt Cobain suicide. The dialogue is made up of mumbled non sequiturs and directionless enquiries. The cinematography, as in Elephant, is a mixture of pristine framing, expert use of natural light and patient static observation. Though the pace of the movie is arguably too testing for some viewers, the
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LEGEND (2015)
Certification18 Our Rating
The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960s.
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NED KELLY (2003)
Certification15 Our Rating
A rip-roaring re-enactment of Ned Kelly, the man who led the police and indeed the British Empire a merry dance across the vast expanses of Australia's outback. Many of us may know the outcome and of his propensity to wear a wrought iron pot on his head to deflect the bullets of his many detractors, but this is Ned Kelly as folklore, a decent man fighting a dirty war against injustice. Not a history lesson Mr Schwama would approve of but good fun.
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THE LOST CITY OF Z (2016)
Certification15 Our Rating
A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
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WINCHESTER (2018)
Certification15 Our Rating
Ensconced in her sprawling California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.