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Flesh eating zombies and cannonball riding. Doomed twisted losers. Lightsabers colliding. Eloquent monkeys, a pot plant that sings. These are a few of my favourite things.




  12 Angry Men  (1957) (G)   
Directed by: Sidney Lumet. Starring: Ed Begley, Lee J Cobb, Henry Fonda, E G Marshall, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam.
A teenage boy is accused of killing his father, and between him and capital punishment stands just o...
 
  2001: A Space Odyssey  (1968) (PG)   
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea, Leonard Rossiter, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Douglas Rain.
Light years ahead of its time, this groundbreaking, visually stunning masterpiece grows even more wo...
 
  Adam's Apples  (2005) (R16)   
Directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen. Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen.
A wickedly dark comedy about an overly-optimistic preacher with a penchant for taking in lost causes...
 
  Allegro Non Troppo  (1976) (PG)   
Directed by: Bruno Bozzetto. Starring: Maurizio Nichetti, Marialuisa Giovannini.
Bozzetto's cult feature-length parody of Walt Disney's classic 'Fantasia' is both a send-up and an i...
 
  Amelie  (2001) (M)   
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Dominique Pinon.
This whimsical, visually inventive gem of a movie from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, (co-director of 'Delicat...
 
  Babe  (1995) (G)   
Directed by: Chris Noonan. Starring: Magda Szubanski, James Cromwell.
An orphaned piglet named Babe is won by a farmer at a fair and is taken home to a barnyard where the...
 
  Bad Boy Bubby  (1993) (R18)   
Directed by: Rolf de Heer. Starring: Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill.
Locked in his room for 35 years (no TV or Radio here) as not much more than a sex slave, Bubby's per...
 
  Being There  (1979) (PG)   
Directed by: Hal Ashby. Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart.
Peter Sellers gives the performance of his career as Chance, a middle-aged gardener who's led a shel...
 
  Blazing Saddles  (1974) (M)   
Directed by: Mel Brooks. Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn.
Hollywood Westerns were never the same after director/co-writer Mel Brooks put them through the come...
 
  Blue Velvet  (1986) (R18)   
Directed by: David Lynch. Starring: Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dean Stockwell.
The most talked about film of the '80s, David Lynch's controversial, surreal mystery is set amid the...
 
  Boogie Nights  (1997) (R18)   
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, William H Macy, Heather Graham, John C Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
This acclaimed, disco-filled chronicle of the adult film industry's rise and decline in the late 70s...
 
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid  (1969) (PG)   
Directed by: George Roy Hill. Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross.
One of the most successful and entertaining Westerns of all time chronicles the hair-raising adventu...
 
  Chopper  (2000) (R18)   
Directed by: Andrew Dominik. Starring: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field, Dan Wyllie.
Standover man, unrepentant underworld executioner, inventive raconteur, and Australia's most infamou...
 
  Cool Hand Luke  (1967) (M)   
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg. Starring: Dennis Hopper, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Paul Newman, Harry Dean Stanton.
A taut honest drama greatly aided by Stuart Rosenberg's direction and a marvellously controlled and ...
 
  Cube  (1997) (M)   
Directed by: Vincenzo Natali. Starring: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller.
Six strangers wake up inside a three-dimensional maze of interlocking cubes. None of them know how t...
 
  Dead Man  (1995) (R18)   
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch. Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, John Hurt, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Alfred Molina, Crispin Glover, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Mitchum.
A one-of-a-kind stylish western written by director Jim Jarmusch, about a city accountant (Johnny De...
 
  Deadwood: Season 1  (2004) (R16)   
Directed by: Walter Hill, Daniel Minahan, Davis Guggenheim, Michael Engler, Ed Bianchi, Steve Shill. Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson, W Earl Brown, Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Dayton Callie, Robin Weigert.
"Welcome to Deadwood... a hell of a place to make your fortune" - the words that serve as a greeting...
 
  Deliverance  (1972) (R16)   
Directed by: John Boorman. Starring: Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds.
Four Atlanta businessmen's weekend canoe trip turns into a desperate fight for survival in John Boor...
 
  Doctor Who: The Two Doctors  (1985) (G)   
Directed by: Peter Moffatt. Starring: Colin Baker, Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Nicola Bryant.
Whilst investigating unauthorised experiments into time travel aboard Space Station Camera, the Seco...
 
  Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb  (1963) (PG)   
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Tracey Reed, James Earl Jones.
A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union wit...