High Times
Your hands are looking at you funny. Gods and Devils are dancing at the periphery of your vision. The colours don't sound right and you're not sure if you'll ever be sure of anything again.
You're not in Kansas anymore, but you might, perhaps, have partaken of a pick-me-up from Alice's sweet stash of psychoactive cinema. Dive into the depths of delerium. Soar angelic on the immaculate high. Try to keep it together.
Now THAT'S a good cup of coffee.
Pusher Trilogy (1996)
7.4/10
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Kim Bodnia
The complete Pusher trilogy. Dubbed a Scandinavian 'Trainspotting' by critics, this edgy Danish drama follows a small-time drug dealer who loses his s... Read more
Quadrophenia (1979)
7.3/10
Director: Franc Roddam
Starring: Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Philip Davis, Sting , Leslie Ash, Toyah Wilcox, Mich...
Phil Daniels is a pill-popping, scooter-riding Mod coming to terms with growing up, who heads off with his mates for a headline-grabbing clash in Brig... Read more
Rated X (2000)
5.9/10
Director: Emilio Estevez
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Terry Quinn, Peter Bogdanovich
The bizarre, tragic story of the porno mavens known as the Mitchell Brothers ("Behind the Green Door") is chronicled in this film directed by Emilio E... Read more
Reefer Madness (1936)
3.7/10
Director: Louis Gasnier
Starring: Warren McCollum, Dorothy Short, Dave O'Brien
'If you smoke it...you will go insane'. This classic anti-marijuana propaganda film depicts innocent high school kids being "turned on" by adult pushe... Read more
Renegade ( aka Blueberry ) (2004)
5.2/10
Director: Jan Kounen
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Temuera Morrison, Ernest Borgnin...
This loose adaptation of Jean 'Mobius' Giraud's comic series 'Blueberry' stars Vincent Cassel as the lawman whose past comes back to haunt him when th... Read more
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
8.3/10
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn
As powerful an anti-drug statement as it is a drama, director Aronofsky's ('Pi') visually hypnotic film graphically tracks the downward spiral of four... Read more
Rockers (1977)
7.7/10
Director: Theodoros Bafaloukos
Starring: Leroy Wallace, Richard Hall, Monica Craig
A funky drama/comedy about a Rastafarian drummer's efforts to earn money and crack the music establishment in 1970s Kingston. Superior reggae score fe... Read more
Rush (1991)
6.7/10
Director: Lili Fini Zanuck
Starring: Sam Elliott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Patric, Max Perlich
A gritty adaptation of Kim Wozencraft's novel about a young woman recruited to be an undercover narc in 1970s Texas, joining a man who's already too s... Read more
Saving Grace (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tcheky Karyo
On discovering she is left penniless after her husband's death, Grace turns for comfort to the one thing she loves - her greenhouse. But even Grace's... Read more
Scarface (1983)
8.3/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Loggia, Steven...
One-time 'Godfather' Al Pacino returns to his screen beginnings with a bravura performance in the title role of this modern take on Howard Hawks' 1932... Read more