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21

21 tells the true story of five students who head to Las Vegas to count cards and win big. Kevin Spacey plays a university professor who recruits the best students into his group of young talented ... Read More

Australia

Australia is set during the World War II in northern Australia. Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) sets out to Australia to see what her husband is up to out there, as she thinks he is up to no good. ... Read More

Beautiful Thing

Again this is one of those British films that does deserve a lot of praise. Beautiful Thing follows the story of Jamie on a council estate in London and without a lot of friends. He spends a lot of ... Read More

Brokeback Mountain

This multi-award winning film is a modern day classic and will go down in history as one of the best films as all time. Award winning director Ang lee brought this love film to the big screen. Set ... Read More

Bronson

Bronson is a true story based on Michael Petersen who later in life became known as Charles Bronson. Michael Peterson wanted to make a name for himself and become famous so the best he thought to do ... Read More

Changeling

Changeling is brought to us by Clint Eastwood, Changeling is based on a true story of Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) and her son Walter (Gattlin Griffith). Starting off in Los Angeles in 1928, ... Read More

Control

Control starts off with the execution of Lee Ray (Ray Liotta) a convicted criminal. However all is not what it seems, Lee Ray is tied down to the table and given his lethal injection and he appears ... Read More

Defiance

Defiance is set during World War II in Belarus this true story is about three Jewish brothers who escape to the Belarusian forests when the Nazi’s start killing thousands and thousands of Jews in ... Read More

Doubt

Set in the early 1960’s Doubt is about a the principal of Saint Nicholas Church School Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) and how she brings fear to all the students and rules with an iron ... Read More

Downfall

The multi-award winning Downfall, as told by Adolf Hitler’s secretary tells the story of Hitler’s last few days as the Russian Army surround him in his Berlin bunker, at the end of World War ... Read More

Flawless

Hobbs (Michael Caine) has been a cleaner at London Diamond Corporation for 16 years, he arrives in the evening and is locked in with a few security guards and cleans the building, and every night he ... Read More

Frost/Nixon

This is the true story of the highly anticipated interview between David Frost (Michael Sheen) and Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). During the 70’s Nixon was the American President and then came the ... Read More

Goodbye Lenin

Multi-awarding Goodbye Lenin is set in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin. Christiane (Katrin Saß) is raising for family in hard times alone after her husband left many years ago when the ... Read More

Gran Torino

Whenever Clint Eastwood releases a film or stars in a film and I am always sceptical don’t ask me why because I just don’t know why, and I am always surprised at how good his films are and how good ... Read More

Green Street (Hooligans)

Elijah Wood is kicked out of Harvard University for being planted with drugs, he goes to visit his sister in London. His brother-in-law gets in to go out with his brother (Charlie Hunnam), and gets ... Read More

Green Street 2

Green Street is back with Green Street 2 and surprisingly it’s not a bad film! With three of the guys in prison life is hard they start off in a prison with a Chelsea firm, these guys are West Ham ... Read More

Grow your Own

Some people have an allotment to grow their own vegetables, get some peace and quiet and some to escape their families. A quiet allotments peace is destroyed when a group of refugees are given an ... Read More

He’s Just Not That Into You

He’s Just Not That Into You follows the lives of nine people and their quest for the love of life, some are single and looking others are married but are they married to the person they love or is ... Read More

Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda is a multi-award winning true story about Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) and what how he helped 1000+ Tutsi refugees during the early 1990’s by letting them stay in the hotel and hotel ... Read More

I’ve Loved You So Long

I’ve Loved You So Long stars Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman who has spent the last fifteen years in prison and how she struggles to get back into ‘normal’ life. After so many years in prison ... Read More

Incendiary

Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) plays a young mum to her four year old son and her life revolves around him. However, all is not well he husband works most of the time and spend little time ... Read More

Inside I’m Dancing

This little known British film is very very good! It’s from the makers of Billy Elliot. The film is about Rory (McAvoy) and Michael (Robertson) they meet in a Residential care home for the ... Read More

Into The Wild

Into The Wild is a very good film, very well acted and well written. After doing what his parents wanted and going to university and getting a degree Chris (Emile Hirsch) makes a decision that he has ... Read More

Juno

Juno is a different teenager who likes to be different, but after sleeping with her best friend when bored, and after doing three pregnancy tests she soon discovers that she is pregnant, seeking ... Read More

Kidulthood

Now when I worked for a well know DVD rental company this film annoyed me with the amount of teenagers that used to come ask for it, they were Essex born and bred but spoke like if they were from ... Read More

Lakeview Terrace

A newly wed couple move in to their first home together, with the plan to start a family and stay there for many years. After moving in they find out that their next door neighbour is a police ... Read More

Let the Right One In

Let the Right One In is a vampire film like no other, usually filled with violence and lots of teenagers running around trying to figure out what is going on, this couldn’t be further from ... Read More

Lorenzo’s Oil

This real life story directed by George Miller is based around the Odone family, life is good and nothing is going wrong. Then everything changes and their son Lorenzo becomes ill. At first the ... Read More

Marley & Me

John Grogan (Owen Wilson) and Jennifer Grogan (Jennifer Aniston) are newlyweds, life is good. With Jennifer having a job John sets out to get one at the local newspaper, and he gets the job of ... Read More

Milk

This true story shows how one man in can make such a difference in the World. Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) is your average gay guy working for a big company, and one day he meets Scott (James Franco) on ... Read More

Monster

Monster is based on a true story of Aileen Wuornos played by Charlize Theron, and is a multi-awarding winning. Aileen Wournos didn’t have the best start in life, and turned to prostitution as a ... Read More

Notorious

Notorious is the life story of Notorious B.I.G aka Christopher Wallace. B.I.G was one of the biggest rap artists of the 1990’s despite being killed before his second album was released. Notorious ... Read More

Passengers

Claire Summer (Anne Hathaway) is called in as a counsellor to help the survivors of a plane crash. Little does she know what she is about to uncover. Out of her comfort zone she hasn’t done ... Read More

Pride and Glory

Pride and Glory is the story about a group of New York Police officers. After four police officers are shot dead, Ray (Ed Norton) a police man is asked by his father Francis (Jon Voight) to head a ... Read More

Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road was nominated for 3 Oscars, and is very popular. Set in America during the 1950’s a couple move into suburbia to raise their two young children. However not all is rosy in the ... Read More

Ripley's Game

John Malkovich a great actor and again doesn’t disappoint in Ripley’s Game. He plays Tom Ripley a man who keeps himself to himself, but is a thief and killer amoungst other things. He lives in a ... Read More

Seven Pounds

When Ben (Will Smith) turns up at your door and tells you that he’s from the IRS panic sets in as you know your in trouble, but is he there to make your life worse or to make it better? If you’re a ... Read More

Slumdog Millionaire

After the wait Slumdog Millionaire is finally on DVD and Blu-Ray, after picking up 8 Oscars and numerous other awards it’s on of the most anticipated films of the year, and I’m sure if I was still ... Read More

Snow Cake

This brilliant film is about the story Alex (Alan Rickman) and Linda (Sigourney Weaver) and the events that brought these two very different people together and how they cope. Alex is on his way ... Read More

The Baader-Meinhof Complex

The Baader-Meinhof Complex is a film based on a best selling non-fiction book by Stefan Aust. It follows the RAF (Red Army faction) during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s based on true events this ... Read More

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Set during World War II this film follows a family who live in Berlin. When the father is promoted within the German army the family are forced to move out in the country. This means that 8 year old ... Read More

The Bucket List

Imagine lying in a hospital bed with someone in the next bed, and it turns out to be the owner of the hospital. Worlds apart the doctors running around after him, eating good food not hospital food. ... Read More

The Burning Plain

The Burning Plain follows the story of Sylvia (Charlize Theron) you see the story of her difficult childhood and her as an adult. Whilst growing up in a small town in America her father worked ... Read More

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a multi-award winning film and is finally on DVD and Blu-Ray, this is the story of how a boy was born but was different to everyone else. When Benjamin ... Read More

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a re-make of the classic 1951 film about an alien visitor to Earth. Keanu Reeves plays the alien visitor Klaatu. Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) is recruited ... Read More

The International

Louis (Clive Owen) works for Interpol and is working with the New York D.A headed by Eleanor (Naomi Watts) and together they are trying to expose the world’s biggest bank role in dealing with ... Read More

The Passion of the Christ

This multi-award winning film follows the final hours before Jesus is crucified. Being betrayed by Judas, Jesus is captured no one believing that he is the son of God. He is taken to Pontius Pilate ... Read More

The Reader

The Reader is the story about how a summer romance changes everything. On his way home from school feeling unwell Michael (David Kross) becomes sick and finds himself being helped by a stranger Hanna ... Read More

The Wrestler

Finally on DVD and Blu-Ray is the multi-award winning film The Wrestler and what a film it is, I wasn’t looking forward to watching it, however I was wrong to doubt it. After spending most of his ... Read More

The Young Victoria

When Princess Victoria was growing up she was protected from everything, not allowed to go to school, had to sleep in the same room as her mother and couldn’t even walk down the stairs by herself ... Read More

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood is the story about how money and oil can change lives. Daniel (Daniel Day-Lewis) hears of a land where oil is in abundance and heads there, with his son H.W by his side to portray ... Read More

This Is England

This Is England is based on the experiences of writer and director Shane Meadows, set in England in 1983 the story follows Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) a troubled boy, his father went away to fight in the ... Read More

Valkyrie

Valkyrie is based on true events about a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take over Germany and put a stop to the war which was tearing not only Germany apart but the whole of the World. Now ... Read More

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Now I must have missed something, because this film won numerous awards including an Oscar, but this is probably one of the worst films I have ever had the misfortune to watch. After five minutes ... Read More

W.

Oliver Stone brings W. to our screens and what a great film this is! Following George W Bush Jnr America’s 43rd President from his days at university to the White House. Starting in 1967 when W. ... Read More

World Trade Centre

World Trade Centre is a film about true events on 11th September 2001. Waking up to a normal day the Port Authority Police go to work as normal. Going about there duties they are recalled to head ... Read More