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The Secret of Moonacre (2008)

6.2/10
Director: Gabor Csupo
Starring: Dakota Blue Richards, Juliet Stevenson, Tim Curry, Natascha McElhone, Ioan Gruff...

Following the death of her father, 13-year-old Maria Merryweather (Dakota Blue Richards) is shipped off to the mysterious Moonacre estate, presided ov... Read more

Alternative 3 (1977)

7.1/10
Director: Christopher Miles
Starring: Tim Brinton

This 1977 spoof documentary caused uproar when first broadcast on UK Television. Taking its premise that there was a colony of scientists on Mars, vie... Read more

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1997)

7.8/10
Director: Metin Huseyin
Starring: Brian Blessed, John Sessions, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Lindsay Duncan, Peter...

A ribald and bawdy romp through the mansions and taverns of Georgian England. Henry Fielding's fallen hero bed-hops his way out of a good home and alm... Read more

The Soloist (2009)

6.7/10
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr, Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander, LisaGay Hamilton

Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr star in this biography of Nathaniel Ayers (played by Foxx). Ayers was a musical prodigy who played the cello, but afte... Read more

In the Loop (2009)

7.5/10
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, David Rasche, Gina McKee, Anna C...

This razor-sharp political satire is the debut feature from Armando Iannucci, long-time BBC writer/producer behind such classics as 'I'm Alan Partridg... Read more

Lucky Country (2009)

Director: Kriv Stenders
Starring: Aden Young, Toby Wallace, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Pip Miller, Neil Pigot, Eamon F...

An outback western, set in the early 1900s, whereby a widower and former schoolteacher decides to leave the material world behind, and take his childr... Read more

Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

5.3/10
Director: Chris Nahon
Starring: Gianna Jun, Allison Miller, Liam Cunningham, JJ Field, Koyuki , Yasuka Kurata, L...

A live action adaptation of Hiroyuki Kitakubo's cult anime, starring Gianna Jun as the centuries' old vampire slayer. Now, in the 20th century, Saya i... Read more

Robot Chicken: Season 4 (2009)

7.8/10
Starring: Christian Slater, Rachael Leigh Cook, Ron Perlman, Seth Green, Skeet Ulrich, Bre...

Back to take the mick out of popular culture once again, Seth Green and his cohorts mercilessly parody everything from Indiana Jones to James Bond, to... Read more

The Likely Lads: All Surviving Episodes (1964)

6.7/10
Starring: James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Sheila Fearn

One of the very best and most popular British TV sitcoms, starring James Bolam as Terry, and Rodney Bewes as Bob, two working-class lads living in the... Read more

Rawhide: Season 1 (1959)

8.1/10
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eric Fleming, Sheb Wooley, James Murdock, Paul Brinegar, Steve R...

The long-running western series that kicked off Clint Eastwood's career. Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) is the trail boss running a cross-country cattle dri... Read more

Broken English (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Zoe Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Josh Hamilton, Parker Posey, Tim Guinee, Peter Bogdanovich, Justi...

Parker Posey is Nora, a 30-something New York hotel worker who feels life is going nowhere. An unexpected romance with a charming Frenchman turns her... Read more

Gamer (2009)

5.8/10
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Starring: Kyra Sedgwick, Gerard Butler, Alison Lohman, Michael C Hall, Logan Lerman, Amber...

Gerard Butler stars as Kable, condemned criminal and globally famous super-soldier in the ultimate multiplayer game, "Slayers". Human controllers dir... Read more

The Limits of Control (2009)

6.3/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Bill Murray, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Youki Kudoh, Gael Garcia Bernal, Isaach D...

A lone man (Isaach De Bankole) travels to Spain on an important mission, the details of which are deftly obfuscated in this enigmatic film from writer... Read more

Religulous (2008)

7.7/10
Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Bill Maher

"I'm just asking questions," Bill Maher demurs after a rhetorical challenge offends a devout Christian at a truck stop chapel. Is that all Maher's rea... Read more

The Films of Jean Vigo (1934)

Director: Jean Vigo
Starring: Dita Parlo, Jean Daste, Michel Simon

The life of masterful French auteur Jean Vigo was cut tragically short at the age of 29, leaving him with a filmography of only four films, all of whi... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Rathbone) / Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1939)

7.6/10
Director: John Rawlins, Sidney Lanfield
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Reginald Denny

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are widely celebrated as cinema's perfect Homes and Watson, filming more than a dozen adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan D... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night / Dressed to Kill (1946)

7.6/10
Director: Roy William Neill
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Mary Forbes, Nigel Bruce

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are widely celebrated as cinema's perfect Homes and Watson, filming more than a dozen adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan D... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers / The Woman in Green (1945)

7.6/10
Director: Roy William Neill
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Henry Daniell, Hillary Brooke, Nigel Bruce, Leslie Vincent

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are widely celebrated as cinema's perfect Homes and Watson, filming more than a dozen adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan D... Read more

Monsters, Inc. ( Blu-ray ) (2001)

8.1/10
Director: Pete Docter
Starring: Billy Crystal, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly, John Goodman, John Ratzenberger, St...

From Pixar, the people who gave you the "Toy Story" movies and "A Bug's Life," comes this computer animated wonder set in a hidden world of monsters a... Read more

Black Dog (1998)

5.4/10
Director: Kevin Hooks
Starring: Charles S Dutton, Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus, Lorraine Toussa...

Ex-con Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze) is set on a collision course with an incredible array of redneck assassins, well-dressed hit-men, murderous biker g... Read more

The Boys From Brazil ( Blu-ray ) (1978)

7/10
Director: Franklin J Schaffner
Starring: Gregory Peck, James Mason, Laurence Olivier, Lilli Palmer

Laurence Olivier stars in this high-tension political thriller as Ezra Lieberman, a Nazi-hunter who uncovers the existence of war criminal Dr. Josef M... Read more

Escape to Athena ( Blu-ray ) (1979)

5.7/10
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Starring: Claudia Cardinale, David Niven, Elliott Gould, Richard Roundtree, Roger Moore, S...

Outlandish WWII adventure has P.O.W.s planning an escape and art heist at the same time! Allied prisoners join forces with cultured Nazi Roger Moore a... Read more

Great Expectations ( Blu-ray ) (1946)

7.9/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Jean Simmons, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita...

One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's "Great Expectations" brings Charles Dickens's masterpiece to robust on-screen life... Read more

Wild South: Volume 8 (2010)

7.8/10

Award-winning, international filmmaker NHNZ has enthralled millions of viewers for more than three decades with their documentaries. Here is Volume Ei... Read more

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus (1964)

8.7/10
Director: John Gorrie
Starring: William Hartnell, Jacqueline Hill, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford

On a remote island of glass surrounded by a sea of acid, there is a machine that can remove evil from the minds of an entire population - the Conscien... Read more

Moon (2009)

7.9/10
Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Kay...

Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of a three-year tour as the lone inhabitant of a lunar outpost that harvests a clean fuel source to send ba... Read more

M*A*S*H ( Blu-ray ) (1969)

8.4/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Rene Auberjonois, Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerm...

Director Robert Altman's innovative dark comedy about the everyday escapades of an Army medical unit during the Korean War stars Elliott Gould, Donald... Read more

Julie and Julia ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Linda Emond, Amy Adams, Chris Messina

A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with a new recipe for life in the true stories of how Julia Child's (Meryl Streep) life and cook... Read more

Coco Avant Chanel ( Coco Before Chanel ) ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

6.7/10
Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Emmanuelle Devos, Marie Gillain, Benoit Poelvoorde, Audrey Ta...

Audrey Tautou plays the headstrong, self-sufficient designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel who, in pre-First World War France, was one of the first women to... Read more

The Edwardians (1972)

6.7/10
Director: John Howard Davies
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Michael Jayston, Nigel Davenport, Robert Powell,...

This eight-part BBC miniseries explores the influential characters of Britain's Edwardian Age - a period that underwent some of the greatest achieveme... Read more

Touchez Pas au Grisbi ( Hands Off the Loot ) (1954)

7.9/10
Director: Jacques Becker
Starring: Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Rene Dary

Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in this gem from director Jacques Becker ('Le trou'). Having pulled off th... Read more

A Shine of Rainbows (2009)

7.2/10
Director: Vic Sarin
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen, John Bell (II)

A heartwarming tale which looks at the struggles one orphan faces as he tries to find acceptance and belonging in his new home in Ireland. While he de... Read more

The Sea Wolf (2009)

7.5/10
Director: Mike Barker
Starring: Neve Campbell, Tim Roth, Stephen Campbell Moore, Sebastian Koch

This adventure on the high seas follows the exploits of the notorious Captain Wolf Larsen (Sebastian Koch) who engages young castaway Humphrey Van Wyd... Read more

Cold Sweat (1970)

5.9/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Charles Bronson, James Mason, Jill Ireland, Liv Ullmann

Aka "De la part des copains". One evening, Joe Martin (Charles Bronson), an American living in France, is approached by Captain Ross (James Mason), an... Read more

Johnny and the Bomb (2006)

7/10
Starring: Frank Finlay, Zoe Wanamaker, George MacKay, Keith Barron

Based on the novel by Terry Pratchett and starring Zoe Wanamaker, Frank Finlay, and Keith Barron. When Johnny Maxwell and his friends help mad old Mrs... Read more

Broken Rainbow (1985)

6.9/10
Director: Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd

Martin Sheen narrates this Academy Award-winning documentary chronicling the resistance of the American Navajo population to efforts made by industry... Read more

Earth Whisperers / Papatuanuku (2009)

Director: Kathleen Gallagher

Kathleen Gallagher's film "Earth Whisperers/Papatuanuku" was shot at spectacular locations around New Zealand by acclaimed cameramen Alun Bollinger an... Read more

The Battle of Red Cliff (2008)

7.4/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Zhang Fengyi, Zhao...

Aka "The Battle of Red Cliff". An epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. A power hungry... Read more

The Big Bang Theory: Season 2 (2008)

6.9/10
Starring: Sara Gilbert, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Kunal Nayyar, Simon Helberg, Jim Pars...

At work, physicists Leonard and Sheldon and their geek pals conquer the cosmos. At home, real life - from dating to driving - conquers them. This seas... Read more

Californication: Season 2 (2008)

8.3/10
Starring: David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone, Madeline Zima, Madeleine Martin, Pamela Adlon...

In Los Angeles, famed novelist and former New Yorker Hank Moody (David Duchovny in his Golden Globe-winning role) is struggling to get his career back... Read more

Fortysomething (2003)

7.8/10
Director: Nic Phillips, Hugh Laurie
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Stephen Fry, Anna Chancellor, Benedict Cumberbatch,...

How do you know when you're having a midlife crisis? Maybe it's when you can't remember exactly where your wife works - or whether she works at all. O... Read more

This Is It (2009)

7.3/10
Director: Kenny Ortega
Starring: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts at... Read more

A Serious Man (2009)

7/10
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg

An original and darkly humorous story from Joel and Ethan Coen ("The Big Lebowski") about one ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics pr... Read more

The Take (2009)

7.9/10
Director: David Drury
Starring: Brian Cox, Charlotte Riley, Tom Hardy, Kierston Wareing, Shaun Evans

Freddie Jackson (Tom Hardy) is a free man after spending a considerable stretch at Her Majesty's Pleasure, and now he plans to take the underworld by... Read more

Battle for Terra (2007)

6.6/10
Director: Aristomenis Tsirbas
Starring: Brian Cox, Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, James Garner, Luke Wilson, Amanda Peet, J...

Aka 'Terra'. When the peaceful inhabitants of the beautiful planet Terra come under attack from the last surviving members of humanity adrift in an ag... Read more

Departures (2008)

8.1/10
Director: Yojiro Takita
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Ryoko Hirosue, T...

When his orchestra disbands, Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) decides to start over and moves back to his small hometown. Desperate for work, he secr... Read more

The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)

8.6/10
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Narrated by, Peter Coyote

The American national parks sprung from a radical idea that the most precious portions of the land should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, b... Read more

The Warlords ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Starring: Andy Lau, Jet Li, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jinglei Xu

Far from the stylistic martial arts pics of recent times, this unrelentingly violent historical epic set during the Qing Dynasty of the late 19th cent... Read more

Is Anybody There? (2008)

6.8/10
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Leslie Phillips, Michael Caine, Rosemary Harris, Sylvia Syms, David Morrissey, A...

Ten-year-old Edward (Bill Milner) lives in his family-run retirement home. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his fathe... Read more

Adam (2008)

8/10
Director: Max Mayer
Starring: Amy Irving, Mark Linn-Baker, Peter Gallagher, Rose Byrne, Hugh Dancy, Frankie Fa...

A delightful, romantic story about two strangers in search of an extraordinary connection. Adam (Hugh Dancy) is a brilliant but awkward astronomy buff... Read more

Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)

8.1/10
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Jason Alexander, Joan Allen, Richard Gere, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Erick Avari, Sa...

Richard Gere stars as Professor Parker Wilson, a distinguished scholar who discovers a lost Akita puppy on his way home from work. Despite initial obj... Read more

Perversion Story (1969)

Director: Lucio Fulci
Starring: Elsa Martinelli, Faith Domergue, Jean Sorel, John Ireland, Marisa Mell

Jean Sorel stars as an arrogant San Francisco doctor trapped between his sultry mistress (Elsa Martinelli) and an amoral stripper (Marisa Mell) who be... Read more

My Year Without Sex (2009)

5.8/10
Director: Sarah Watt
Starring: Matt Day, Sacha Horler, Sonya Suares

A kind of love story about a family dealing with all the big questions and even more of the small ones. Set over one messy year, Ross (Matt Day) and N... Read more

Whiteout (2009)

5.5/10
Director: Dominic Sena
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Tom Skerritt, Gabriel Macht, Columbus Short, Alex O'Loughlin

Kate Beckinsale ("Underworld") stars in this suspenseful film based on a graphic novel by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber, portraying a U.S. marshal stati... Read more

Genius Party Beyond (2009)

7.2/10
Director: Koji Morimoto, Mahiro Maeda, Kazuto Nakazawa, Shinya Ohira, Tatsuyuki Tanaka

From the cutting edge anime production house STUDIO4ºC ('The Animatrix', 'Tekkonkinkreet') comes this collection of five new films from five anime hea... Read more

Haeundae ( Tidal Wave ) (2009)

6.4/10
Director: Je-gyun Yun
Starring: Jeong-hwa Eom, Ji-won Ha, Kyung-gu Sol, Joong-Hoon Park

During the summer, the beach resort of Haeundae is packed with up to one million vacationing Koreans. On one such day, marine geologist Kim Hwi (Joong... Read more

Just Another Love Story (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Ole Bornedal
Starring: Anders W Berthelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Charlotte Fich, Dejan Cukic, Rebecka Hems...

After Jonas (Anders W. Berthelsen) causes a car accident that leaves Julia (Rebecka Hemse), a mysterious stranger, crippled with amnesia, he's compell... Read more

Brink of Life (1958)

7.7/10
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Max von Sydow, Eva Dahlbeck

Three seemingly different women meet in a Stockholm maternity ward in this award-winning drama from Ingmar Bergman ("Persona"), which compares and con... Read more

Every Little Step (2008)

7.5/10
Director: James D Stern, Adam Del Deo

For over three decades, there's been one singular sensation: "A Chorus Line", the groundbreaking hit musical inspired by the emotional lives of dancer... Read more

Derek Jarman: Life as Art (2004)

7.3/10
Director: Andy Kimpton-Nye
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Peter Tatchell, Tariq Ali, Simon Fisher-Turner

Derek Jarman was one of the most idiosyncratic, innovative and controversial film-makers in Britain throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s. On-screen and off... Read more

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks (1973)

8.7/10
Director: David Maloney
Starring: Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning

The TARDIS arrives on Spiridon, an inhospitable planet where the vegetation is hungry and extremely dangerous. The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) has been badly... Read more

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

6.8/10
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Catherine Keener, Catherine O'Hara, Chris Cooper, Forest Whitaker, James Gandolf...

Nine-year-old Max (Max Records) runs away from home and sails across the sea to become king of a wonderous realm of gigantic fuzzy monsters - but bein... Read more

Victor / Victoria (Broadway) (1995)

7.6/10
Director: Blake Edwards, Matthew Diamond, Goro Kobayashi
Starring: Julie Andrews, Michael Nouri, Tony Roberts, Gregory Jbara, Rachel York

Julie Andrews is a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman - again! An out-of-work British soprano in Paris, Victoria (Julie Andrews), f... Read more

Little Dorrit (2008)

8.3/10
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence, Dearbhla Walsh, Adam Smith
Starring: Bill Paterson, Judy Parfitt, Tom Courtenay, Andy Serkis, James Fleet, Alun Armst...

Scandalous secrets, strangling bureaucracy, and crippling debts collide in this compelling adaptation of Charles Dickens' weighty novel, which debuted... Read more

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005)

6.5/10
Director: John McKay
Starring: Indira Varma, Nicholas Rowe, Rupert Graves, Zoe Wanamaker, Tom Sturridge, Anna C...

In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature. But w... Read more

The Brothers O'Toole (1973)

4.5/10
Director: Richard Erdman
Starring: John Astin, Pat Carroll, Lee Meriwether

The Old West has never been funnier than when two ne'er-do-well siblings turn a sleepy mining town upside-down in their search for quick riches. John... Read more

The Young Land (1959)

5.4/10
Director: Ted Tetzlaff
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Patrick Wayne, Yvonne Craig

The time is 1848 in California when an American justice system has to try Californians who are either Mexican in culture and speech and heritage, or n... Read more

Children of Fire Mountain (1979)

8.4/10
Director: Peter Sharp
Starring: Mark Hadlow, Terence Cooper, Melissa-Arohn Baker, Paul Airey

Set in 1900, a small town is the backdrop for this award-winning 13-part children's drama series about a group of children living in Wainamu, a therma... Read more

True Blood: Season 2 (2009)

7.9/10
Director: Various
Starring: Anna Paquin, Michelle Forbes, William Sanderson, Sam Trammell, Michael McMillan,...

Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality and dark secrets. For Sookie Stackhouse, life is more dangerous than ever after she an... Read more

L.A. Takedown (1989)

6.1/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Daniel Baldwin, Michael Rooker, Xander Berkeley, Vincent Guastaferro, Scott Plan...

As cop and criminal, two ruthless professionals have the same outlook and code. Vincent Hanna (Scott Plank) is an obsessive cop tailing a callous and... Read more

The Broken (2008)

5.5/10
Director: Sean Ellis
Starring: Lena Headey, Melvil Poupaud, Richard Jenkins, Ulrich Thomsen, Michelle Duncan, A...

A successful radiologist (Lena Headey) watches her life spiral out of control after she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London stree... Read more

Blessed (2009)

6.8/10
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Starring: Deborra-Lee Furness, Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto, Victoria Haralabidou, Willi...

A tender and stirring portrayal of a single day from two very different perspectives. Seven children wander the streets in an urban odyssey but not al... Read more

Engineering an Empire: The Complete Series (2006)

8.2/10
Director: Mark Cannon
Starring: Peter Weller

Hosted by Peter Weller, this Emmy Award-winning series examines the most magnificent and sophisticated civilizations in history through the lens of th... Read more

James May's Toy Stories (2009)

Director: Alexander Dunlop, Graham Strong, Paul Buller
Starring: John Carroll, James May, Edwina Currie, Michael Inberg, Jim Gamble

James May is a man on a mission: he wants to get kids out of their bedrooms and away from their games consoles, he wants to drag parents off their bac... Read more

A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

6.2/10
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: Harry Andrews, Laurence Harvey, Lionel Stander, Mia Farrow, Per Oscarsson, Peter...

A foppish Londoner working in British Intelligence, Alexander Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) is actually a Russian counter-espionage agent named Krasnevin.... Read more

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within ( Blu-ray ) (2001)

6.4/10
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Ming-...

The year is 2065 A.D. The Earth is infested with alien spirits and mankind faces total extinction. Led by a strange dream and guided by her mentor, Dr... Read more

If You See God, Tell Him (1993)

7.8/10
Director: Marcus Mortimer
Starring: Adrian Edmondson, Imelda Staunton, Richard Briers

Richard Briers plays Godfrey Spry, who, having been hit on the head in a freak accident, ends up with an attention span of just 30 seconds. As a resul... Read more

Blott on the Landscape (1985)

7.8/10
Director: Roger Bamford
Starring: David Suchet, George Cole, Geraldine James, Simon Cadell, Julia McKenzie

An adaptation of Tom Sharpe's comic tale in which an MP attempts to get a motorway built through his wife's ancestral home in order to get rid of a ho... Read more

The Haunted Palace (1963)

6.8/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr, Vincent Price

A perversely evil 18th-century warlock is burned at the stake. A century after the human barbecue, the warlock's great-great grandson returns to the f... Read more

The Big Night (1951)

6.5/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: John Drew Barrymore, Philip Bourneuf, Joan Lorring, Howard St John

John Drew Barrymore takes the lead in this coming-of-age noir drama in which a teenager comes of age while seeking revenge on the man who beat up his... Read more

Nash Bridges: Season 1 (1996)

6.9/10
Starring: Cheech Marin, Don Johnson

Action-packed police drama stars Don Johnson as Nash Bridges, the charming, street-smart inspector for San Francisco's elite Special Investigations Un... Read more

Great British Commanders (2004)

Director: Emma Hawley

Fascinating historical biography series about six of the greatest military commanders Great Britain has ever produced. The internationally known chara... Read more

Heath Franklin's Chopper: Make Deadsh*ts History - Live at Pentridge (2010)

Starring: Heath Franklin

Heath Franklin's Chopper has head-butted his way across the country, tackling an issue bigger than world poverty or global warming - eradication of th... Read more

Amelia (2009)

5.8/10
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere, Hilary Swank, Joe Anderson

Her exploits made her a hero; her disappearance made her a legend. Hilary Swank stars as pioneering American aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who defied the s... Read more

Zombieland ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

7.7/10
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone

In the vein of "Shaun of the Dead," this fun-filled mix of horror, comedy, and action focuses on two guys, nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisen... Read more

Black Dynamite (2009)

7.4/10
Director: Scott Sanders
Starring: Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield

Meet Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White, who also co-wrote), the smoothest, baddest cat on the street. He's a ladies' man and the man with a plan. He's... Read more

Newsfront (1978)

7.2/10
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Bill Hunter, Bryan Brown, Chris Haywood, Don Crosby, George Kennedy, Wendy Hughe...

"Newsfront" is the story of the previously unsung newsreel cameramen, who raced to beat deadlines and dangers to capture on film, for a voracious audi... Read more

Once Upon a Time... Les Enfants du Paradis & Le Mepris (2009)

Director: Antoine de Gaudemar, Julie Bonan
Starring: Arletty, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Jean-Louis Barrault, Michel Piccoli, Pi...

A behind-the-scenes look at two classic French films and the era in which they were created. "Les Enfants du Paradis" ("Children of Paradise") (1945)... Read more

Weeds: Season 4 (2008)

8.4/10
Director: Various
Starring: Elizabeth Perkins, Mary-Louise Parker, Justin Kirk, Kevin Nealon, Hunter Parrish...

Everyone's favourite pot-selling soccer mom, Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), is back in the complete fourth season of the hit series. Last time we... Read more

Dexter: Season 3 (2008)

8.7/10
Starring: James Remar, Lauren Velez, C S Lee, David Zayas, Julie Benz, Michael C Hall, Jen...

Dexter is back and more killer than ever! The groundbreaking and critically acclaimed original series from Showtime returns with all 12 thrilling and... Read more

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007)

8/10
Director: Ian McCrudden, Robbie Cavolina
Starring: Annie Ross, Anita O'Day, Dick Clark

The world lost the defiantly unpredictable, trend-busting bop vocalist Anita O'Day in November 2006, to dementia and pneumonia. A year or so prior, do... Read more

Expedition Antarctica: Into the Frozen Abyss (2009)

Three documentaries on the exploration of Antarctica - both past and present - celebrates man's determination to discover more about the world - whate... Read more

The Diary of a Nobody (2007)

7.4/10
Director: Susanna White
Starring: Hugh Bonneville

In a fantastic solo performance, Hugh Bonneville perfectly captures the small mind and large aspirations of Mr. Charles Pooter, a middle-aged, middle-... Read more

Apparitions: Series 1 (2008)

8/10
Director: John Strickland, Joe Ahearne
Starring: Martin Shaw

Take a terrifying journey into a world of passion and satanic conspiracy with Father Jacob (Martin Shaw) - a Roman Catholic priest who is working to p... Read more

Stardust ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.7/10
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Claire Danes, Ian McKellen, Jason Flemyng, Mark Strong, Michelle Pfeiffer, Natha...

In this inventive fairytale from the pen of Neil Gaiman ('Mirrormask') a young man (Charlie Cox) sets out from his closeted home village to prove his... Read more

Apollo 13 ( Blu-ray ) (1995)

7.6/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks

It had been less than a year since man first walked on the Moon, but as far as the American public was concerned, Apollo 13 was just another routine s... Read more

Blood Creek (2009)

5.4/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Emma Booth, Shea Whigham, Michael Fassbender, Henry Cavill, Dominic Purcell

Aka "Town Creek". Director Joel Schumacher ("The Number 23") helms this bone-chilling tale in which two brothers (Henry Cavill and Dominic Purcell) em... Read more

Harper's Island (2009)

7.5/10
Director: Craig R Baxley, Jon Turteltaub, James Whitmore Jr, Guy Norman Bee, Rick Bota
Starring: Elaine Cassidy, Adam Campbell, Brandon Jay McLaren, Katie Cassidy, Jim Beaver, M...

A horror-inspired drama about a group of friends and family who meet to celebrate a wedding on an island just outside Seattle, an island that is famou... Read more

South Park: Season 7 (2003)

8.7/10
Director: Trey Parker
Starring: Matt Stone, Trey Parker

Cartman's attempt on Kyle's life, Jimmy and Timmy joining the "Crips" and the boys' experimentation with metrosexuality. Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and... Read more

Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)

6.9/10
Director: Kari Skogland
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Rose McGowan, Natalie Press, Tom Collins, Kevin Zegers, Jim Sturge...

Inspired by Martin McGartland's shocking real life story, Martin is a young lad from West Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British po... Read more

American Violet (2008)

7/10
Director: Tim Disney
Starring: Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, Michael O'Keefe, Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner, Charles S...

Falsely accused of distributing narcotics in a school zone, Dee Roberts (impressive, relative new-comer Nicole Beharie) is offered a deal she can't re... Read more

Little Big Soldier (2010)

7/10
Director: Sheng Ding
Starring: Lee-Hom Wang, Jackie Chan

Warring states Liang and Wei collide in battle leaving only two men standing - an aging foot soldier (Jackie Chan) and the rival general (Lee-Hom Wang... Read more

Doctor at Large: The Complete Series (1971)

6.1/10
Starring: Arthur Lowe, Richard O'Sullivan, Barry Evans, Geoffrey Davies

Uncover the madness and mayhem created by Dr. Michael Upton as he tries to make a start in his profession as a fully qualified doctor. He takes up num... Read more

Real Time (2008)

6.8/10
Director: Randall Cole
Starring: Randy Quaid, Jay Baruchel

Randy Quaid plays a seasoned hitman on a job to off a young gambler (Jay Baruchel) who has acquired one debt too many. But when Quaid decides to give... Read more

Bride Flight (2008)

7/10
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Elise Schaap, Anna Drijver, Karina Smulders...

Based on a true story that tells of the last Great Air Race, from London to Christchurch in 1953, which carried 26 young Dutch brides-to-be on their w... Read more

Bright Star (2009)

7/10
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Kerry Fox, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, Abbie Cornish

Written and directed by Academy Award winner Jane Campion ("The Piano"), "Bright Star" is a riveting drama based on the three year romance between 19t... Read more

Kisses (2008)

7.3/10
Director: Lance Daly
Starring: Kelly O'Neill, Shane Curry

On the fringes of Dublin two kids, Kylie and Dylan, live in a suburban housing estate devoid of life, colour and the prospect of escape. Kylie lives w... Read more

Banacek: Season 1 (1972)

7.6/10
Starring: Broderick Crawford, George Peppard, Jessica Walter, Margot Kidder, Stella Steven...

There's an old Polish proverb that says...High class and high mystery is the world of suave, Polish-American Thomas Banacek. Boston's leading insuranc... Read more

Stalingrad: The 3 Part Documentary (2003)

7.5/10

Stalingrad - a name forever associated with horrors of war at its most unimaginable and traumatic. This three-part film was conceived and edited by in... Read more

Campion: Series 2 (1990)

7.7/10
Director: Christopher Hodson, Ken Hannam, Michael Owen Morris, Robert Tronson
Starring: Peter Davison, Ian Ogilvy

Behind distinctive owlish glasses and a gentle, deceptive naivety, intrepid detective Albert Campion conceals a passion for excitement and danger, fre... Read more

Hard Pill (2008)

6.7/10
Director: John Baumgartner
Starring: Jonathan Slavin

Lonely, cynical, and desperate for his life to change, gay bachelor Tim (Jonathan Slavin) agrees to be a test subject for a controversial pill designe... Read more

Bedroom Mazurka (1970)

4.8/10
Director: John Hilbard
Starring: Ole Soeltoft, Birte Tove

Max (Ole Soeltoft) is the popular teacher at a public school who needs a new schoolmaster. In an effort to entice him to take the vacated position, th... Read more

The Loyal 47 Ronin (1941)

7.3/10
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Starring: Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa

A timeless tale of honor and revenge, told in two parts by master director Kenji Mizoguchi. 'The Loyal 47 Ronin' tells the true story of a loyal group... Read more

Classic James Mason: Odd Man Out / The Man in Grey / A Place of Ones Own (1944)

Director: Carol Reed, Leslie Arliss
Starring: James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Robert Newton, Stewart Granger

One of the finest actors of the twentieth century. Leading man, menacing villain or brooding anti-hero, James Mason brought an intensity to each role... Read more

Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)

7.8/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Brian Cox, George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl S...

The visually ravishing animated movie 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox' follows a fox (George Clooney) as he cheerfully and recklessly takes his thieving too fa... Read more

UFO Hunters: Season 1 (2009)

6.5/10

They look to the stars, to the earth, and within the human body. Their determination, attitude, and methodologies stand strong against ridicule and di... Read more

Carry On Christmas (1969)

6.4/10
Director: Ronald Fouracre
Starring: Sid James, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Kenn...

A truly wonderful addition to the "Carry On" Collection that can be enjoyed at any time of the year. Its main claim to fame is the ballerina sequence... Read more

The X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008)

5.9/10
Director: Chris Carter
Starring: Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly, David Duchovny, Amanda...

Mulder and Scully are back in this stand-alone sequel directed by series creator, Chris Carter. Things have changed, the sexual tension of the series... Read more

10 Rillington Place (1971)

7.6/10
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt

The true story of British mass murderer John Reginald Christie, played with chilling normality by Richard Attenborough. Throughout the late '40s, Chri... Read more

Feast of Love (2007)

6.7/10
Director: Robert Benton
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke, Selma Blair, Alexa Da...

As college professor and writer Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) sits quietly in the coffee shop of his tight-knit Oregon community, the local residen... Read more

Crazy (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Rick Bieber
Starring: Waylon Payne, Ali Larter, Lane Garrison, Scott Michael Campbell, David Conrad, J...

The true story of one of Nashville's most innovative instrumentalists comes to the screen in this bio-pic based on the life of Hank Garland. A gifted... Read more

The First Saturday in May (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Brad Hennegan, John Hennegan

Described as 'the most exciting two minutes in sport', the Kentucky Derby is the world's most prestigious horse race and for trainers around the globe... Read more

War Dance (2007)

7.9/10
Director: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix

Since the 1980s, Uganda has been locked in a violent civil war; a war in which children are often snatched from refugee camps or even their homes and... Read more

Marshall McLuhan: McLuhan's Wake (2007)

Starring: Marshall McLuhan

Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 'Descent Into the Maelstrom' as its central metaphor, this documentary about theoretician Marshall McLuhan covers basic biogr... Read more

My Way Home (1964)

7.5/10
Director: Miklos Jancso

In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and im... Read more

The Abbott and Costello Show: Season 1 (1952)

8.5/10
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke

The landmark comedy show that showcased the talents of the kings of slapstick. Contains all 26 episodes of the first season (1952-1953), complete and... Read more

Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story (2005)

8.4/10
Director: Julian Shaw
Starring: Pieter-Dirk Uys, Nelson Mandela

Controversial South African political satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, who gained infamy in the 1980s for his cross-dressing parodies of the apartheid regime... Read more

Nickelodeon (1976)

6.3/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Stella Stevens, John Ritter

Ryan O'Neal stars as the ambitious young attorney who decides to go into the glamorous world of filmmaking, only to discover it's filled with dirty bu... Read more

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)

7.4/10
Director: Mike Barker
Starring: Tara Fitzgerald, Rupert Graves, Toby Stephens, James Purefoy, Pam Ferris, Kennet...

When Helen Graham becomes the new tenant of the dark, decaying Wildfell Hall, her independent spirit and radical views set her apart from the staid ru... Read more

Closing the Ring (2007)

6.6/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Pete Postlethwaite, Neve C...

An epic, yet intimate romantic drama that spans fifty years from wartime Europe, to present day small-town USA. As a crusty old woman (Shirley MacLain... Read more

Hale and Pace: Series 3 and 4 (1990)

7.9/10
Director: Peter Orton, David G. Hillier
Starring: Gareth Hale, Norman Pace

The madcap and highly successful comedy duo, are renowned as Britain's funniest and most notorious double act. Their special blend of risque visual hu... Read more

Wild South: Summer Special (2008)

7.8/10

Award-winning, international filmmaker Natural History New Zealand has enthralled millions of viewers for more than three decades with their documenta... Read more

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ( Blu-ray ) (2003)

7.4/10
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy, Billy Boyd

Director Peter Weir's ("Witness") riveting mix of sweeping high-seas action and intense character study stars Russell Crowe as the captain of a Britis... Read more

Death Note: Volume 5 (2007)

9/10

Volume 5 of 9. Episodes 17-20. After fifty days of confinement, the killings continue, and Light and Misa are released, only to face the ride of their... Read more

No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg (1997)

6.4/10
Director: Colin Still
Starring: Dick Cavett, Allen Ginsberg, Paul McCartney

Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary... Read more

Training Day ( Blu-ray ) (2001)

7.7/10
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, C...

Rookie cop Ethan Hawke, newly transferred to undercover duty in the narcotics department, is partnered with top veteran detective Denzel Washington fo... Read more

Mr and Mrs Smith ( Blu-ray ) (2005)

Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Vince Vaughn, Kerry Washington, Adam Brody

A first-rate Hollywood blockbuster, slick in all the right ways - snappy dialogue, good-looking actors and plenty of bare-knuckle action. Brad Pitt an... Read more

Independence Day ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

7/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Will Smith, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret C...

Who will save the Earth after huge alien spacecraft demolish the Empire State Building, the White House, downtown Los Angeles and most of the world's... Read more

Screen Legends: Starring Bing Crosby (1936)

5.6/10
Director: Leo McCarey, Mark Sandrich, Norman Z McLeod, Victor Schertzinger
Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, Fred Asta...

A collection of four Bing Crosby classics. "Pennies From Heaven" (1936) - Legendary crooner Bing Crosby sings and dances his way through this charming... Read more

Sleeping Beauty (Disney) ( Blu-ray ) (1959)

7.3/10
Director: Clyde Geronimi

The timeless story tells of Princess Aurora, cursed by the evil sorceress Maleficent to die on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger on a poison... Read more

Casino ( Blu-ray ) (1995)

8.2/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Alan King, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Don Rickles, Ke...

A dazzling, richly layered record of a criminal dynasty during the transformation of Las Vegas from a sin-laden mecca to a family-oriented Disneyland,... Read more

The Fog ( Blu-ray ) (1980)

6.8/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Hal Holbrook

A small coastal town in California is attacked by the ghosts of mariners, who take a grisly revenge on the descendants of the six people who lured the... Read more

The Grand (2007)

6/10
Director: Zak Penn
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Dennis Farina, Richard Kind, Ray Rom...

A largely improvised mockumentary with Woody Harrelson as a playboy actor who enters a poker tournament in order to save his grandfather's hotel from... Read more

Buddha Wild: The Monk in a Hut (2006)

8/10
Director: Anna Wilding

Buddhist monks aren't usually described as wild (at least not in our urban dictionary), but director Anna Wilding's intriguing feature documentary deb... Read more

Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons (1978)

4.8/10
Director: Henri Gruel, Rene Goscinny

The villainous Dalton brothers are a few days into their 2,400 year-long prison sentence when they learn of the death of their Uncle Henry. Before he... Read more

Blue Fin (1978)

6.1/10
Director: Carl Schultz
Starring: Hardy Kruger, Greg Rowe, John Jarratt, Hugh Keays-Byrne

Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author Colin Thiele, this is an emotional father and son story about catching the Souther... Read more

Babel ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

7.5/10
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Harriet Walter, Trevor M...

The director of '21 Grams' has loosley weaved together four stories from three conitinents in this powerful drama about cultural barriers. Brad Pitt a... Read more

Punishment Park (1971)

7.9/10
Director: Peter Watkins
Starring: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Jim Bohan, Catherine Quittner

Set in a detention camp in an America of the near-future, Punishment Park's pseudo-documentary style places a British film crew amongst a group of you... Read more

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Casey Affleck, Zooey Deschanel, Mary-Louise Parker, Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell, Sam...

A realistic view of the overly romanticised Jesse James, casting Brad Pitt as the psychopathic outlaw and Casey Affleck as the infatuated and volatile... Read more

Letters From Iwo Jima ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

7.9/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shi...

Clint Eastwood's companion-piece to 'Flags of Our Fathers' recounts the same battle, only from the perspective of the Japanese. Iconic actor Ken Watan... Read more