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The Goonies
on DVD
(1985) Starring:Mary Ellen T, Sean Astin, Josh Brolin Director:Richard Donner Certificate: Watch now: Unavailable
The Goonies are a bunch of misfit kids who take on some greedy property developers and try to save their neighbourbood by finding the lost treasure map of a 17th century pirate.
Awesome; I... Shot That!
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006) Starring:The Beastie Boys, Ad Rock, Mike D Director:Nathaniel Hornblower Certificate:
Live concert performance by the acclaimed rappers, with footage entirely shot by the fans in the audience. The Boys gave out 50 mini-DV cameras to selected fans and had them shoot the entire show from the audience's perspective, to offer a unique take on the band's sound.
All About Eve
on DVD
(1950) Starring:Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm Director:Joseph L. Mankiewicz Certificate:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz writes and directs this classic award-winning drama starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter. Eve Harrington (Baxter) is famous actress Margo Channing (Davis)'s biggest fan. When, by chance, she gets to meet the great lady, she quickly ingratiates herself into her life. Before long,..read more »
Alien Quadrilogy
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring:Charles Dance, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser Director:Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher Certificate:
All four films in the 'Alien' saga. In Ridley Scott's 'Alien' (1979) the crew of a deep-space mining vessel come across something decidedly unpleasant on a mysterious planet. After leaving the desolate planet, they realise that something has survived and is on their ship. In James Cameron's sequel, ..read more »
Bad Education
on DVD
(2004) Starring:Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho Director:Pedro Almodovar Certificate:
First screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's powerful and passionate semi-autobiographical melodrama follows the intertwining stories of two boys, Enrique (Fele Martínez) and Ignacio (Gael García Bernal), who fall in love at an abusive Catholic school and are parted by a ..read more »
Munich(2005) Starring:Arthur Chazal, Mathieu Amalric, Ziad Adwan Director:Steven Spielberg Certificate:
Steven Spielberg directs this tense and controversial thriller, following the actions of a team of Mossad agents dispatched by the Israeli government to seek revenge against the Palestinian terrorist organisation that funded and carried out the assassinations of eleven Israeli athletes during the ..read more »
Beautiful Thing
on DVD
(1996) Starring:Tameka Empson, Glen Berry, Ben Daniels Director:Hettie Macdonald Certificate:
In this alternately somber and witty coming-of-age drama, a pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighborhood become aware of their homosexuality. Introspective Jamie (Glen Berry) is the son of Sandra (Linda Henry), a tough but warm-hearted barmaid who lives in a public housing block ..read more »
Carlito's Way
on DVD
(1993) Starring:Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller Director:Brian De Palma Certificate:
Carlito's Way is a tale of a former hood trying to escape his former life. Al Pacino is Carlito Brigante, a high-level Puerto Rican drug dealer sprung from a three-decade jail sentence after only five years, thanks to a technicality and his sleazy, cocaine-addled lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn). ..read more »
All About My Mother
on DVD
(1999) Starring:Candela Pena, Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes Director:Pedro Almodovar Certificate:
Single mother Manuela (Cecilia Roth) takes her seventeen-year-old son, Esteban, to see a stage performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' as a birthday treat. Tragically, Esteban is killed when he chases after a taxi carrying his favourite actress, Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes). Consumed with guilt, ..read more »
Amelie
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Yolande Moreau Director:Jean-Pierre Jeunet Certificate:
When Montmartre-dwelling Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) discovers a hidden collection of childhood toys in her apartment and conspires to return them to their now-elderly owner, the happiness on the old man's face is enough to start her on a campaign of further good works. Thus she sends her father'..read more »