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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.

Drug Wars: The Rise and Fall of the World's Largest Cartels (2006)

The international 'war on drugs' seems to be a ceaseless battle, with no good end in sight. While various governments purport to be combatting drug tr... Read more

Candy (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Neil Armford
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Noni Hazlehurst, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tony Martin

Wannabe poet and intravenous heroin user Dan (Heath Ledger) is freshly in love with Candy (Abbie Cornish), a blonde Botticelli angel with a yen for pa... Read more

Carlos Castaneda - Enigma of a Sorceror (2006)

Director: R Torjan
Starring: Readings By , Peter Coyote, Carlos Castaneda

Best-selling author and dubbed 'the godfather of the new age movement', Carlos Castaneda claimed to be the apprentice of sorcerer, Don Juan and to hav... Read more

Pusher 3: I'm the Angel of Death (2005)

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Zlatko Buric, Marinela Dekic, Ilyas Agac

The concluding chapter in Nicolas Winding Refn's brutal underworld trilogy finds middle-aged, Balkan-born drug kingpin Milo (Zlatko Buric) desperate t... Read more

The Meth Epidemic (2005)

Known here as 'P', what started as a fad among motorcycle gangs in the 1970s has become big business, both overseas and here at home, largely due to t... Read more

Tideland (2005)

6.5/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Jodelle Ferland, Jeff Bridges, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly, D...

Terry Gilliam's macabre and surreal fairytale centres on young Jeliza-Rose, the neglected daughter of a couple of strung-out drug addicts (Jeff Bridge... Read more

Weeds: Season 1 (2005)

8/10
Director: Burr Steers, Lee Rose
Starring: Indigo , Alexander Gould, Romany Malco, Andy Milder, Kevin Nealon, Mary-Louise P...

Recently widowed mother of two, Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker), looks like any other resident in her affluent South California suburb - and she is - excep... Read more

Drug Wars ( aka Bristol Boys ) (2005)

Director: Brandon David
Starring: Daniel Franzese, Tom Guiry, Will Janowitz, Adrian Martinez, Kevin Toolen, Tammy...

Based on the true story of a bunch of arrogant slackers in Bristol, Connecticut who set up a marijuana distribution business, but get so caught up in... Read more

Duck Season (2004)

7.3/10
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Starring: Diego Catano, Daniel Miranda, Enrique Arreola, Danny Perea

What starts off as a boring Sunday becomes a life-altering experience for an unlikely quartet of people in this affecting serio-comedy from Mexico. Wh... Read more

Trailer Park Boys: Season 4 (2004)

8.2/10
Director: Mike Clattenburg
Starring: John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells, John Dunsworth, Sarah Dunsworth, Patrick Roach

The power has shifted and now Ricky lords over the park from the palatial supervisor's trailer, living (platonically) with Lucy, Trinity and Sara. The... Read more