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'
Total Recall (1990)
7.5/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a bored construction worker in the year 2084 who dreams of visiting the colonized Mars. He visits "Rekall," a... Read more
Touch (1997)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Skeet Ulrich, Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken
A satirical fable based on the Elmore Leonard novel about a young ex-monk who may have God-given healing powers and who is pursued by people seeking t... Read more
Touch of Evil (1958)
8.1/10
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia, Marle...
This twisting cinematic masterpiece of style and suspense, based on the Whit Masterson novel, features Orson Welles as a corrupt cane-wielding officia... Read more
Traffic (2000)
7.6/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzma...
Steven Soderbergh won the Best Director Oscar for this sprawling, controversial look at the global narcotics trade and America's on-going "war on drug... Read more
Trouble In Mind (1985)
6.7/10
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Keith Carradine, Kris Kristofferson, Lori Singer, Genevieve Bujold, Joe Morton,...
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City. With Kris K... Read more
Trumbo (2015)
7.5/10
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Bryan Cranston, David Maldonado
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo (Academy Award Nominee Bryan Cranston) was Hollywood's top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted... Read more
Trust (1991)
6.9/10
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson
This insightful black comedy follows the developing romance between an unlikely pair of misfits. Maria (Adrienne Shelly) an obnoxious, tartily dressed... Read more
Turbo Kid (2015)
6.7/10
A raucous retro action-comedy that delivers fun and gore by the bucket-load, this debut feature from Quebecois filmmaking collective RKSS (Francois Si... Read more
Two Way Stretch (1959)
7/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Liz Fraser
A fast and funny British farce about three convicts who break out of jail to rob a Maharajah and then break back in again, all in the same night. Star... Read more
Unfaithful (2002)
6.7/10
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Margaret Colin, Kate Burton
In this ultra-steamy romantic drama, Diane Lane and Richard Gere are a seemingly happily married couple with a young son who live in an upper middle c... Read more