Lords Of Dogtown
on DVD
(2004) Starring:Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, Rebecca De Mornay Director:Catherine Hardwicke Certificate:
Lords of Dogtown tells the radical true story behind the teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever...
The Royal Tenenbaums
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Anjelica Huston, Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller Director:Wes Anderson Certificate:
In their youth, the Tenenbaums--an eccentric New York family--were extraordinary. They were all geniuses. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful litigator. His wife Etheline (Angelica Huston) raised their children to be ambitious, entrepreneurial, and creative--then published an acclaimed ..read more »
Amelie
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Yolande Moreau Director:Jean-Pierre Jeunet Certificate:
Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who glides through the streets of Paris as quietly as a mouse. With wide eyes and a tiny grin, she sees the world in a magical light, discovering minor miracles every day. A shy and reserved person whose favorite moments are spent alone skimming ..read more »
Pan's Labyrinth
on DVD
(2006) Starring:Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu Director:Guillermo del Toro Certificate:
Accompanied by her parents, Ofelia moves from a large Spanish city to a more rural area in the North of the country. Faced with the upheaval of moving home, an abusive stepfather and the general unpleasantness surrounding Franco's victory in 1944, Ofelia enters an imaginary world of creatures and ..read more »
Spirited Away
on DVD
(2001) Director:Hayao Miyazaki Certificate:
In the middle of her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by witches and monsters, where humans are changed into animals.
Princess Mononoke
on DVD
(1997) Starring:Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes Director:Hayao Miyazaki Certificate:
A beautifully realized tale of civilization versus nature, PRINCESS MONONOKE is a true epic by Japan's master animator Hayao Miyazaki. While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the warrior Ashitaka (Billy Crudup) is cursed with a rapidly spreading scar that threatens to end his life. ..read more »
Withnail And I
on DVD
(1986) Starring:Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths Director:Bruce Robinson Certificate:
WITHNAIL AND I is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker Bruce Robinson's early years as an actor. In 1969 London, two unemployed thespians--Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann)--take a holiday in the Lake District at the home of Withnail's uncle Monty (Richard ..read more »
Crazy Beautiful
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Lucinda Jenney Director:John Stockwell Certificate:
CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL is not your typical teen romance. The film offers a grittier, more realistic take on the subject than most. It manages to be sweetly romantic without pandering to, or insulting, the intelligence of its intended audience. Director John Stockwell uses an unobtrusive, verite style to ..read more »
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
on DVD
(2006) Starring:Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham Director:Ken Loach Certificate:
A gripping drama from Ken Loach, The Wind That Shakes The Barley is the story of the Irish Civil War in the 1920's - a fight for freedom which saw the Irish Republican Army up against the occupying British forces.
Workers from field and country unite to form volunteer guerrilla armies to face ..read more »
Storytelling
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom Director:Todd Solondz Certificate:
Director Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, HAPPINESS) presents this characteristically bleak and darkly comic drama in two distinct parts. The first story, "Fiction" stars Selma Blair as Vi, a confused university student who engages in an impulsive tryst with her Pulitzer Prize-winning ..read more »