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Here comes a great horror films for all you blood thirsty horror fans! This Spanish films is about a film crew who follow the fire service on a night shift to find out what happens when the nation ... Read More

17 Again

Now on face value I though this was going to be another tragic teen American film, but I was pleasantly surprised, it was actually an enjoyable film, not the best film I’ve ever seen, but not a waste ... Read More

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

24: Redemption

Keifer Sutherland plays Jack Bauer a former member of CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) who during the film is currently residing in a children’s home in an African country. The country is being torn ... Read More

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma is brought to you by James Mangold that director who brought us Oscar winning Walk the Line. 3:10 to Yuma is set in the late 1800’s, it’s a time when unlawful gun men are a menace and ... Read More

Adam and Steve

Adam and Steve first met in the late 80’s in a club Adam was a Goth and Steve was a dancer. After talking and drinking Steve introduces drugs to Adam after getting on well they go back to Adam’s for ... Read More

Alien Autopsy

Alien Autopsy follows Ray (Declan Donnelly) and Gary (Ant McPartlin) as they try and recreate funnily enough an Alien Autopsy that took place in Roswell in 1947. This is a film based on true ... Read More

American Dad

This great animation comedy American Dad comes from the same people who brought you Family Guy and is just as funny! Based around an American family, the dad Stan who’s a CIA agent and loves ... Read More

Apocalypto

Mel Gibson brings us this film from Mayan culture. Apocalytpo follows the story of Jaguar Paw as he is captured and taken to a Mayan city to be offered as a human sacrifice, but left behind is his is ... Read More

Appaloosa

Written, directed and starring Ed Harris. Appaloosa is set in 1882 New Mexico, chaos is brought to a town called Appaloosa when the sheriff and his deputy are shot by Bragg (Jeremy Irons) and his men ... 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

Babylon A.D

Vin Diesel plays Toorop an ex-army veteran turned mercenary. In Babylon A.D Toorop takes on a high risk job of escorting a girl from Russia to America. With a lot of money and his life at risk he ... Read More

Band of Brothers

This TV mini-series follows a group of soldiers during the Second World War. Starting off with the recruits going through training the film follows their story all the way through to the end of the ... Read More

Batman: The Dark Knight

This Batman film is my favourite by far. The Batman films directed by Tim Burton are good, but Heath Ledgers performance as The Joker in this movie blows them out of the water. This is one of his ... Read More

Bedtime Stories

When Skeeter (Adam Sandler) and Wendy (Courteney Cox) were growing up they lived with their father in a hotel he owned and helped his father with the running of it, Skeeter loved it he found it one ... Read More

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Chloe the Chihuahua (Drew Barrymore) is the prized and well loved pet of Viv (Jamie Lee Curtis) she is spoilt rotten and wears only the best dog clothes there are and of course they are the best ... Read More

Black Hawk Down

From the multi-award winning director Ridley Scott comes Black Hawk Down, which is based on true events in Mogadishu, Somalia on 3rd October 1993. This action film follows American soldiers which ... Read More

Body of Lies

Ridley Scott brings Body of Lies to our screens and it’s great. Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a CIA operative in the Middle East trying to uncover where a terrorist leader is. With Roger ... Read More

Bolt

Bolt (John Travolta) is a dog, who appears in his own television show, but thinks it’s real and that he has real super powers and is a super dog, ‘his human’ Penny (Miley Cyrus) is his co-star on the ... Read More

Bride Wars

Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) have been friends since they were little girls and nothing has come between them before. When they were young they were taken to the Plaza with their ... 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

Bruno

Bruno is the follow up to the highly successful film Borat. If you have seen Borat or know what Sacha Baron Cohen is like then you know what to expect. Bruno is a flamboyant gay fashion designer ... Read More

Burn after Reading

The Coen brothers write and direct this new comedy Burn after Reading, with an all star cast. Following the story of a CIA agent, information from his computer falls into the hands of two gym ... Read More

Cars

Pixar films are great films haven’t watched one yet which I didn’t enjoy. You join Lightning McQueen a racing car in his first year, and doing very well he’s in with a chance of winning, but all goes ... Read More

Casino Royale

Casino Royale takes James Bond 007 back past all the cheese that has gone into it over the years. Right back to the start. Daniel Craig makes his first appearance as James Bond 007 in Casino ... 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

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I think everyone has seen the original film, but Tim Burton has re-made in true Tim Burton style. So Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter star in this film (well it is a Tim Burton film who else do ... Read More

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Isla Fisher plays the part of Rebecca a writer for a gardening magazine with one love, shopping! Shopping isn’t just a hobby or love it’s and obsession, so much so she is seriously in debt, and ... Read More

Confetti

Confetti is a mockumentary based around three couples competing for the title of ‘Most Original Wedding of the Year’. Each couple are extremely competitive, the couples have to choose different ... 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

Disturbia

Shia LaBeouf plays Kale, when his father dies in a car crash Kale starts to go off the rails which escalates to him punching his Spanish teacher. Being placed under house arrest and not allowed to go ... 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

Eagle Eye

With modern technology it is possible that Big Brother is watching and listening into everything we are doing on CCTV, telephones and what we do on the internet. When Jerry (Shia LaBeouf) and many ... Read More

Eating Out

Here is a comedy like no other. Eating Out shows how some guys will go to any length in order to get the girl that they want. When Caleb (Scott Lunsford) sees Gwen (Emily Brooke Hands) at a party ... Read More

Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest

Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest is genius! If you are a fan on Family Guy or even if you have never seen it before (which is hard to understand!) you will love this. Family Guy is Star Wars for ... 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

Fracture

Anthony Hopkins plays Ted Crawford an intelligent and wealthy structural engineer. He discovers that his wife is seeing another man behind his back. He plans to get his revenge. His wife is shot and ... Read More

Friday the 13th (2009)

Now if you have seen any American horror film then, you have seen this film before and know what will happen. With a group of young Americans on a camping trip they want to drink, smoke and have ... 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

Futurama Bender’s Game

Futurama is back once again and great, I love Futurama this time the crew of Planet Express are back to break into the only dark matter mine run by Mom. With dark matter prices going through the roof ... Read More

Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs

With the television show off the air they come back with feature length films. Great I’ve seen the episodes so many times because I love them, especially Zoidberg very funny! With a rift in space ... Read More

Get Smart

Get Smart is an action comedy about an analyst for CONTROL, eager to become an agent he keeps taking the test year after year. This year is his year. He becomes Agent 86. He teams up with Agent 99 ... Read More

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Ghost in the Shell is back and the human race is shrinking all that remain of a lot of humans are their spirits in cyborgs/dolls/robots. With Section 9 investigating a series of murders they come ... Read More

Ghost Town

From the start I should say I can’t stand Ricky Gervais! However I did like this film despite him being in it so that says a lot for the film! The films follows Bertram Pincus D.D.S. (Ricky ... Read More

Gomorrah

Gomorrah is five stories put together to show mob life in Naples. Based on the bestselling expose of the Neapolitan mafia by Roberto Saviano and is the story about money, power and blood. Gomorrah ... 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

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People follows the story of Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) and how he tries to make it in a high profile magazine in New York. Sidney has his own small time magazine in ... Read More

I am legend

Will Smith is alone in New York in I am Legend, not only in New York but possibly the world. Well not entirely alone he is kept busy by the mutants that roam the dark alleys and streets at night ... 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

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

After 19 years yes 19 years Indiana Jones is back. Set in 1957, the Soviets are after Indy and turn at the university where he works and is forced to leave his post. Upon leaving the town where he ... Read More

Inkheart

Inkheart is the story of how every story can become real, it just needs to be read. However it just takes someone special to read it. Years ago when his daughter was a young child Mo (Brendan ... 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

Jarhead

Directed by Sam Mendes and based on the book by Anthony Swofford (played by Gylenhall) this is an action film like no-other set during the Gulf War, there is no fighting with the enemy in any ... 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

Knocked Up

From the director of 40 Year old Virgin comes Knocked Up. A comedy about how one night can change your life forever. Ben (Seth Rogen) who likes nothing better than getting high and going out and ... Read More

Knowing

Now is it just me, or does someone else think it as well, why does Nicolas cage keep on getting jobs as an actor he is just awful! Despite him being in Knowing it’s a very good film. In the 1950’s ... Read More

Kung Fu Panda

Po (Jack Black) has always dreamt about learning the ways of Kung Fu so he could be the Kung Fu Panda like his heroes. With the village under threat from Tai Lung (Ian McShane) they look for the ... 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

Lesbian Vampire Killers

Well what can I say about Lesbian Vampire Killers the title says it all really. I really enjoy Gavin and Stacey so was looking forward to this film, even if it did look a bit tragic! Fletch (James ... 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

Love Guru

Guru Pitka (Mike Myers) is the Love Guru, raised outside of America, he returns in order to launch his career in the self help industry. With Jane (Jessica Alba) a chairwoman of an unsuccessful ice ... Read More

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Madagascar is back, with the guys stuck on Madagascar they plan to head back home to New York to go back to what they know. They set off in a plane, piloted by the penguins and after being in the air ... Read More

Man on Wire

Man on Wire is the documentary telling the story of how Philippe Petit aspired to tight rope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Centre. This documentary brings everyone who was ... 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

Max Payne

I have to say I never played Max Payne the video game so not sure what I was expecting when I sat down to watch it. Max Payne is a cop trying to figure out why his wife died and by whom, and has ... 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

Mirrors

When a down and out New York detective (Kiefer Sutherland), needs a job to prove to his wife that he changed in order to get back together with her. After he killed a man he was suspended and ... 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

My Bloody Valentine

Ten years ago on Valentine’s night the murder of 22 people happened in a small American town. This towns main employer is the mine located there but that’s where the murders happened, now its time ... 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

Paris je t’aime

Paris je t’aime if you haven’t guessed from the title is set in Paris. With 18 different short films put together to form a film, all 18 short films are set in different areas of Paris, with one ... 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

Paul Blart Mall Cop

Paul Blart (Kevin James) is the mall cop and takes his job very seriously, however being over weight and mild mannered not many people notice of him, but his job is his life. So much so he is still ... Read More

Pineapple Express

Pineapple Express is from the same director who brought you Knocked Up and 40 Year old Virgin. Pineapple Express follows the story of Dale (Seth Rogen) and Saul (James Franco) as they run away from ... Read More

Planet of the Apes

Tim Burton brings back Planet of the Apes from the 60’s, and does a cracking job. Mark Wahlberg plays the main character, on a mission in space; one of his monkeys gets sent out on a mission and ... 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

Push

Push is the story about people with special powers, not superheroes. Some of them can see the future but only glimpses of it, some people can put thoughts in other people minds, the list continues. ... Read More

Quantum of Solace

James Bond is back in Quantum of Solace. In this dark James Bond film he is after revenge for the death of the woman he loved. James Bond goes after Dominic Greene, a famous developer of green ... 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

Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill follows two New York detectives both with 30 years of experience they have seen everything and are two of the best detectives, with retirement on everyone’s mind, they get to re-open a ... 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

Robots

If you loved Ice Age then watch out here is another film from the people who brought you Ice Age. Robots follow Rodney Copperbottom voiced by Ewan McGregor from birth. Growing up and always wanting ... Read More

Role Models

Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott) have been working together for ten years and promote drinking an energy drink over taking drugs. Until one day when Danny’s life isn’t going ... Read More

S. Darko (Donnie Darko 2)

Now if have blinked you might have missed the release of this film, if you have seen Donnie Darko you either loved it or hated it, as was a bit confusing, personally I loved it, it was a cult classic ... Read More

Saw

Saw is simply brilliant no other words can discribe this film. James Wan has come up with a great idea. I want to play a game are the words that come out of a scary looking puppet. Two people wake ... Read More

Saw 2

One year on and Saw is back! Fantastic a year was too long in my eyes! If you hadn't guessed I love these films. People say sequels are never as good as the first film but Saw 2 changes that it's ... Read More

Saw 3

Saw is back now it's the third time round and Saw 3 keeps up the tradition of excellent Saw films! This time around Jigsaw watches as his apprentice has her go at proving she has what it takes to ... Read More

Saw IV

Another year has gone by and another Saw film is released! And yet again Saw IV is as good as the rest. With other films when they get to the fourth they start getting a bit ropey but this set of ... Read More

Saw V

Saw V is here and doesn’t disappoint it’s as good as the Saw films before it. Set after Jigsaws death it follows the police as they try and put the case to rest and put it all behind them. However ... 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

Sex Drive

Here comes another American teenage comedy about teenagers trying to have sex. Sex Drive is the story about how a virgin Ian (Josh Zuckerman) and his best friends go on a nine hour road trip in order ... Read More

Shaun of the Dead

The tag line is simply great for this film ‘a romantic comedy. With zombies.’ This is a good British film written by Simon Pegg who is the main character in this film. Pegg who loves his local ... Read More

Shrek

This film is excellent I don’t know one person who dislikes this film. Mike Myers is the voice of Shrek and ogre who likes his own space, but after meeting Donkey (Eddie Murphy) he will never have ... Read More

Shrek 2

This is the follow up to the hugely popular Shrek, and this film doesn’t disappoint at all. Shrek is back after getting married to Princess Fiona life is good, until its time to meet the in-laws. ... Read More

Shrek the Third

Yeah that’s right Shrek is back again, third time around and just as funny. This time around the King is ill and Shrek is next in line to the throne, not happy at the thought of giving up his much ... Read More

Skeleton Key

Kate Hudson plays the character Caroline in Skeleton Key. She gets a job in a remote house to look after Ben (John Hurt) a stroke victim. Whilst looking after Ben and talking to his wife Violet (Gena ... 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

Snakes on a Plane

Snakes on a Plane, the title says it all doesn’t it! However it’s not actually that bad. When Sean (Nathan Phillips) witnesses a murder by a man who is wanted by the police, and he’s the only witness ... 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

Spirited Away

Spirited Away what a great film. I was surprised, never watching an Anime film before I didn’t know what to expect, but didn’t expect it to be so good. Chihiro and her parents are heading to their ... Read More

Star Trek XI

Well I have to say that I am a Star Trek fan before we get started, so get your mocking out of your system. It has been seven years since the last Star Trek film and now it’s back with a new ... Read More

Sun Kissed

This film follows the love growing between to men, Teddy goes to a remote house so that he can concentrate on his writing, but when picked up by Leo, other things are more important than writing. The ... Read More

Sweeney Todd

Tim Burton brings Sweeney Todd to our screen, and who’s in it, well it’s a Tim Burton film so of course, its Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Benjamin Baker or Sweeney Todd as he is better known ... Read More

Taken

Liam Nelson plays Bryan Mills a former spy. When his daughter turns 17 she wants to go to Paris. Not happy with this Bryan is uneasy because he knows what the world is like, and doesn’t want her to ... Read More

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

When Will Ferrell is in a film you know what you are going to get because every role he plays he plays it exactly the same or is that just me? This film is about Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) who ... Read More

Tarnation

This is a documentary like I have never seen before, truly is mesmerising. This film/documentary is by Jonathan Caouette, he was given a video camera many years ago when he was a little boy and ... Read More

Team America World Police

Team America will change you perception of puppet films for the rest of your life! Brought to you by the people who made South Park, you can kind of gist from that? Team America World Police are a ... 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 Break-Up

The break up is a romantic comedy which must have been based on real life, I mean the majority of us have split up with someone then fight over your friends? Haven’t we? After many arguments they ... 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 Children

Two sisters and their families get together for Christmas and everything looks like it’s going to be a great one, all the children are happy and playing away except one who is unwell. The parents are ... 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 Haunting in Connecticut

When a family have to move to Connecticut in order to be closer to a hospital as a member of their family has cancer, strange things start to happen. Matt (Kyle Gallner) has been ill for sometime ... Read More

The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes is based on Wes Cravens 1977 film. The Hills Have Eyes follows a family’s trip across America. Stopping off for petrol they get advice form the locals to take a short cut, short ... Read More

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy comes to the big screen, after starting life as a radio show then becoming a set of books. Then in the early 80’s become a TV show, which was great to watch now ... 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 Long Way Round

This television series follows Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman two best friends that are big motorbike fans. They decide to ride their motorbikes around the world London to New York. Travelling ... Read More

The Orphanage

This is a great film! Laura grew up in The Orphanage and now all grown up decides to move back there with her husband and son to do it up and re-open it and home 5/6 children. The family work hard ... 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 Smoking Room

This award winning television comedy based in the Smoking Room of a work place, the staff go there to enjoy peace and quiet from the work. With a no shop talk policy in force they go, have their ... Read More

The Spirit

The Spirit is a comic book brought to our screens and comes from the same director of Sin City and has the same feel and look about it. The Spirit (Gabriel Macht) is a police man who was shot and ... Read More

The Strangers

The Strangers is a very good horror which keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time. A young couple return home from a wedding staying in a house in the middle of nowhere they are alone. Or ... Read More

The Tattooist

I was really looking forward to watching The Tattooist, and I wasn’t disappointed at all. Jake (Jason Behr) is a tattooist and believes in tattoos that can heal. Working in Singapore, he comes ... Read More

The Trip

This little known film is a great film, and should be watched! Starting off in 1973, two men meet for the first time Tommy (Steve Braun) a gay rights activist and Alan (Larry Sullivan) a member of ... Read More

The Unborn

The Unborn, well what can I say about it? It’s one of those films that you’ve seen many times before hand, just your typical American Horror film. For example you’re out jogging and you come ... Read More

The Wild

Here is another good animated kid’s film. The Wild is based around the animals of New York Zoo, a young lion that has yet to find his roar, and is finding it hard to live up to his fathers ... 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

Three and Out

Here comes a good British comedy. Underground train driver Paul Callow (Mackenzie Crook) has no luck in his job within a short space of time he kills two people who end up in the way of his train. ... Read More

Transformers

If you grew up during the 80’s then this is one of the films to watch. Remember those days sat in front of the TV watching the cartoon of Transformers and thinking how good it was well this film is ... Read More

Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder follows a high budget war film being made. With an all star cast this is a very funny film. Set in Vietnam Things don’t go to plan when the novice director can’t control the actors. ... Read More

Twilight

When Bella (Kristen Stewart) moves to a small town called Forks to live with her dad, her life changed for ever. Never being the one to fit in, she heads off to her new school, being taken under 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

Vantage Point

The President of the United States of America is in Spain ahead of a summit against global terrorism, where he is due to make a public appearance. As always there is always a threat of him being in ... 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

Wall-e

This fantastic animation is made by the same people who brought you Finding Nemo, Cars and Ratatouille. Wall-e has been left alone on Earth for hundreds of year and still cleaning up all the ... Read More

Watchmen

The year is 1985 and the government have brought and end to the days of men and women dressing up and being ‘superheroes’ a few are left, but one of them is murdered and an investigation gets ... 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

Wrong Turn

In a horror film a wrong turn is never the best thing to do, you know it’s a recipe for disaster, when will people learn?! Wrong Turn is a great horror film. Stuck in traffic Chris Flynn (Desmond ... Read More

Yes Man

Can you imagine saying yes to everything I certainly can’t, but that’s what Carl (Jim Carrey) challenges himself to do. After splitting with his wife and getting stuck in his own world of not doing a ... Read More

You Don’t Mess with the Zohan

You Don’t Mess with the Zohan is a film about an Israeli counter terrorist officer, who has had enough of all the fighting and hatred in his home country. He is the best there is and because of ... Read More

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Zack and Miri have been friends forever and now live together. With a high school reunion looming, neither of them really want to go, but when they go Zack gets a brilliant idea. With money tight ... Read More

Zathura: A Space Adventure

Zathura is a great family film packed with enough fantasy to keep any family entertained. This is similar to Jumanji but set in space. With two brothers bored and with nothing to do but fight, ... Read More