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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'

Alien (1979)

8.5/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hu...

On its way back to Earth, a spacecraft is re-routed to a remote planet to investigate a distress call. When a member of the landing party returns to t... Read more

Angel Heart (1987)

7.3/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling

Mickey Rourke is thrown into a head-bending world of violence and voodoo that moves from the streets of New York to the swamps of Louisiana. Lisa Bone... Read more

Annie Hall (1977)

8/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon, Carol Kane, Shelley Duvall,...

One of Woody Allen's most well-loved and funniest films, with Diane Keaton as the ditsy sometime object of Woody's neurotic affections. Originally co... Read more

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

7.4/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Laurie Zimmer, Darwin Joston, Austin Stoker

A riveting movie about a deserted L.A. Police Station that finds itself under siege by a youth gang. Exceptional performances by Austin Stoker, Laurie... Read more

Awake: The Life of Yogananda (2014)

7.2/10
Director: Paola di Florio

Fittingly enlightening, Awake: The Life of Yogananda is a vivid, elegantly assembled portrait of the savvy guru with the cherubic face and penetrating... Read more

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

7.1/10
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Paul Hipp, Victor Argo

About a morally bankrupt cop (Harvey Keitel) who starts to pull himself out of the abyss when he investigates the rape of a nun who refuses to press c... Read more

Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980)

7.1/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel

Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the el... Read more

Barfly (1987)

7.3/10
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Alice Krige, Faye Dunaway, Mickey Rourke, Frank Stallone, J C Quinn

Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway are superb in this film, based on Charles Bukowski's writings, which offers insight into the world of the alcoholic, wh... Read more

Barney's Version (2010)

7.3/10
Director: Richard J Lewis
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Paul Giamatti, Scott Speedman, Rosamund Pike, Rac...

You could say Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti) earned the right to be a cynical, hard-drinking S.O.B. - except that most of his problems seem to be mos... Read more

Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)

6.4/10
Director: Rose Troche
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Hugo Weaving, Tom Hollander

A breezy and bustling farce about a man (Kevin McKidd) who enters therapy after many failed relationships. In the group session he comes clean about h... Read more