Nick's Favourites
Through the musty halls of the old Harbour Light Picture theatre Lyttelton and where the old merchant crusty sea captains checked their hand held compasses with the metallic 'star' inbuilt in the foyer floor I knew i had a passion till life's end. Contained therein is my retina's wink of approval with no one genre favoured. Ladies and Gentleman "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war'
Happy Together (1997)
7.8/10
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Chang Chen
This mesmeric story of love lost and endured focuses on two gay lovers who go to Buenos Aires to start over, but find themselves in a familiar vicious... Read more
Hard Eight (1996)
7.3/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, John C Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow
Set in Las Vegas and Reno, the film takes place in a neon twilight zone where glitz and seediness meet. John C Reilly, a naive loser in desperate need... Read more
Heat (1995)
8.2/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Diane Venora, A...
This intense police story showcases Al Pacino as a frazzled Los Angeles detective out to stop a group of thieves headed by mastermind Robert De Niro,... Read more
Henry Fool (1997)
7.3/10
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey
Hal Hartley's poetic fable concerns the relationship between Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan), a free spirit and Simon Grim (James Urbaniak), an inexpress... Read more
Homicide (1991)
7.1/10
Director: David Mamet
Starring: Joe Mantegna, William H Macy, Natalija Nogulich
Award winning playwright David Mamet's third outing as director is a gritty crime drama about a cop taken off the biggest case of his life into a seem... Read more
I, Daniel Blake ( Blu-ray ) (2016)
7.9/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Briana Shann, Hayley Squires, Dave Johns, Dylan McKiernan
British cinemas social realist enters his eighties with a second Palme dOr to his name after the Cannes Jury this year awarded his feisty new film t... Read more
If.... (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan
A daringly anarchic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in 'A Clockwo... Read more
If.... (Blu-ray) (1968)
7.6/10
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan
A daringly anarchic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in 'A Clockwo... Read more
In A Better World (2010)
7.7/10
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm
The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this acclaimed drama from Denmark concerns two families struggling to cope with their problems.... Read more
In the Soup (1992)
7.1/10
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Will Patton, Carol Kane, Stanley...
A wonderfully bizarre comedy about a naive, ambitious writer (Steve Buscemi) who's penned a 500 page screenplay, and the eccentric flim-flam man (Seym... Read more