For The Week
Conclave (2024)
7.4/10
Director: Edward Berger
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini
Cardinal Lawrence has one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, participating in the selection of a new pope. Surrounded by powerful relig... Read more
The Passenger (1975)
7.6/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
Antonioni's suspenseful and haunting adventure is a portrait of a drained journalist, covering a guerrilla war in North Africa who exchanges identitie... Read more
Batman and Robin: The Complete Movie Serial (1949)
6.2/10
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Starring: Robert Lowery, John Duncan, Jane Adams, Lyle Talbot
Join superheroes Batman (Robert Lowery) and Robin (John Duncan) as they help Commissioner Gordon (Lyle Talbot) battle The Wizard, a villainous madman... Read more
The Birdcage (1996)
7/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Christine Baranski, Dianne Wiest, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Robin Williams, Cal...
This American version of 'La Cage Aux Folles' features the performances of Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and Gene Hackman. About a gay couple who must '... Read more
Absolute Beginners (1986)
5.6/10
Director: Julien Temple
Starring: David Bowie, Patsy Kensit, Eddie O'Connell, Anita Morris, James Fox
When London was starting to swing, they called the first teenagers 'Absolute Beginners'. David Bowie stars in this film which charts the lives of two... Read more
Apt Pupil (1998)
6.7/10
Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Elias Koteas, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, David Schwimmer
Bryan Singer's follow-up to his superb 'The Usual Suspects' is this grand psychological number based on a novella by Stephen King. Brad Renfro, a high... Read more
Jane Eyre (BBC) (1983)
7.4/10
Director: Julian Amyes
Starring: Timothy Dalton, Zelah Clarke
Charlotte Bronte's famous novel in a remarkable adaptation featuring Timothy Dalton as the mysterious Mr Rochester, and London stage star Zelah Clarke... Read more
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
6.5/10
Director: John Landis
Starring: Evan Kim, Master Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby
Hilarious, tasteless series of sketches that lampoon TV commercials, porn movies, kung fu epics and other staples of American culture. With appearance... Read more
Jail Bait (1954)
3.2/10
Director: Edward D Wood Jr
Starring: Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Steve Reeves
A hard as nails gangster film Ed Wood style. A hood on the lam shoots his partner, then forces his surgeon father to change his face... Stars Lyle Tal... Read more
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
7.4/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, Simon O...
The provocative, imaginative true-life story of how the intense and passionate relationship of 1950s Christchurch teenagers Pauline Parker and Juliet... Read more
Help! (1965)
7.3/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Alfie Bass, Eleanor Bron, George Harrison, John Bluthal, John Lennon, Leo McKern...
Richard Lester's follow-up to 'A Hard Day's Night' doesn't try to assess the power and impact of the Beatles on popular culture, but creates as many c... Read more
Impromptu (1991)
7/10
Director: James Lapine
Starring: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin
A spirited 'they do make them as well as they used to' comedy/drama about the 19th century romance between George Sand (Judy Davis) and Frederic Chopi... Read more
The Hunger (1983)
6.7/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie star as the lovers who need fresh blood to survive in the modern world. However, when Bowie starts to rapidly age, r... Read more
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
6.7/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart
Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is a sometime New York cabbie and fulltime conspiracy buff. Julia Roberts is a federal attorney who refused to believe him... Read more
Cleopatra (1963)
7/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton star in this truly mammoth production filled with spectacle and a cast of thousands. The legendary story of the Qu... Read more
Can She Bake A Cherry Pie? (1983)
5.6/10
Director: Henry Jaglom
Starring: Karen Black, Michael Emil, Frances Fisher
Karen Black and Michael Emil star in this comic story of a love affair between a pedantic, middle-aged divorcee and a neurotic would-be singer who are... Read more
Broken Arrow (1995)
6/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Samantha Mathis, John Travolta, Christian Slater
About a high-security, high-tech Air Force pilot (John Travolta) who deliberately crash lands a US plane in the middle of a desert and plans to hold i... Read more
Casablanca (1942)
8.5/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart
As time goes by, no film equals the popularity of this indisputable classic. In quintessential roles, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are former lo... Read more
Chaplin (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins, M...
This biopic of the silent cinema stars life from chirpy cockney to embalmed snob is played well by Robert Downey Jr. Dan Aykroyd is Mack Sennett, Gera... Read more
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
7.7/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell
Richard Lester meets John, Paul, George and Ringo in this exuberant film following an average day in the life of the Beatles as they take under their... Read more