Reservoir Dogs
on DVD
(1991) Starring:Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Penn Director:Quentin Tarantino Certificate: Watch now: £2.49
Former video store clerk Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut, RESERVOIR DOGS, is a brutally funny, supercharged introduction to his supremely distinct cinematic vision, which was later to become one of the most mimicked styles of the 1990s. Mastermind Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) assembles a crew ..read more »
Pulp Fiction
on DVD
(1994) Starring:John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis Director:Quentin Tarantino Certificate:
Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster follow-up to RESERVOIR DOGS is a breathtaking tribute to old dime store novels about small time hoods and dangerous criminals. It features deftly woven plotlines, creating a mythic Los Angeles underworld of drug dealers, molls, affable hitmen, restaurant-robbing ..read more »
Sweet Sixteen
on DVD
(2002) Starring:Martin Compston, Annmarie Fulton, William Ruane Director:Ken Loach Certificate:
Using a cast of unknown actors and newcomers, Ken Loach fashions another gritty social drama in SWEET SIXTEEN. In his acting debut, Martin Crampston plays Liam, whose mother is about to be released from prison on his 16th birthday. Liam recognises that the only chance for the pair of them to escape ..read more »
The Usual Suspects
on DVD
(1995) Starring:Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro Director:Bryan Singer Certificate:
Director Bryan Singer's labyrinthine crime drama centers on five career criminals (played by Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, and Stephen Baldwin) who meet after being rounded up for a standard police line-up. Upon their release, the men band together to pull off an ..read more »
Great story. What makes it better is that is true!
The Great Escape
on DVD
(1963) Starring:Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Garner Director:John Sturges Certificate:
Arguably the best World War II adventure film ever made, John Sturges's dramatisation of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944, stars Steve McQueen as the rebellious Virgil Hilts. The ..read more »
American History X
on DVD
(1998) Starring:Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo Director:Tony Kaye Certificate:
Edward Norton gives an impassioned performance as Derek Vinyard, a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he sees the error of his ways. Upon reentering the real world, he must now turn his attentions to his younger brother ..read more »
Enemy At The Gates
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz Director:Jean-Jacques Annaud Certificate:
September 1942. The German Army has advanced to the gates of Stalingrad. The Russian Army holds on desperately. It is so poorly equipped that every pair of soldiers is given a single rifle--the second man only gets the weapon when the first is cut down. Trapped in no man's land between the opposing ..read more »
You Only Live Twice
on DVD
(1967) Starring:Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Lois Maxwell Director:Lewis Gilbert Certificate:
Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. With the Soviet Union and the United States blaming each other for mysteriously missing space capsules, nuclear warfare between the two superpowers seems imminent. However, Her Majesty's Secret Service suspects the rockets are being held in ..read more »
Layer Cake
on DVD
(2004) Starring:Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman Director:Matthew Vaughn Certificate:
As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly ..read more »
Downfall
on DVD
(2004) Starring:Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch Director:Oliver Hirschbiegel Certificate:
Not since G.W. Pabst's 1956 effort, 'Letste Akt' (The Last Act) has a German film attempted to tackle the subject of their most famous leader, Adolf Hitler. Breaking a long-standing taboo, the director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, has made a film that has sparked much debate in Germany and the rest of the ..read more »