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Almost Famous

a great road movie and coming of age story.. really makes you wish you could travel back to the real age of rock n roll
  • Almost Famous on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Kate Hudson,  Frances McDormand
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Writer-director Cameron Crowe brings the 1970s music scene to life with his semiautobiographical story of a teen journalist who goes on the road with a rock band. Uncool 15-year-old William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is living every teenager's dream. He's touring with Stillwater, an up-and-coming rock ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 9,518 members

Death Becomes Her

meryl streep versus golid hawn in a battle over a geeky bruce willis almost to the death... need i say more!

Notting Hill

my favourite richard curtiss movie by far!!and hugh grant by this time has perfected the bungling character of four weddings and is magnificent opposite robert's self assured movie star
  • Notting Hill on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Hugh Grant,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two features 'About A Boy' Will Freeman, a shallow thirty-something bachelor, lives a carefree life courtesy of his deceased father's fortune. Will is terrified of commitment and so decides that single mothers will make the easiest romantic targets... His world is turned around when he meets Marcus,..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 42,232 members

Papillon

prison movie with a very young dustin hoffman playing opposite steve mcqueen, in the film we are able to watch them become great friends whilst taking part in a great journey which takes them from catching butterflies in prison to landing on a deserted island inhabitted by leppers
  • Papillon on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Steve McQueen,  Dustin Hoffman,  Victor Jory
    Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One man sentenced to life in the French prison system refuses to give up trying to escape even when transferred to the prison colony on Devil's Island. Despite years of degradation and horror, the undying spirit of "Papillon" never dies. Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Dramatic Score.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 6,418 members

Overboard

goldie hawn is a scream a minute opposite her real life love kurt russell and his characters kids who cause all sorts of mayhem for the amnesiac rich bitch in this 1980's classic from the director of pretty woman, Garry Marshall
  • Overboard on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Goldie Hawn,  Kurt Russell,  Edward Herrmann
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Garry Marshall's comedy, Joanna Stayton (Goldie Hawn) is an obnoxious, wealthy woman, who becomes afflicted with amnesia after she slips off her yacht. Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell) is the gruff, blue-collar woodworker who recently had a nasty run-in with Joanna. Dean spots the memory-free lass ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,251 members

Pretty Woman

julia roberts and richard gere shine together in this feel good movie for everyone.. and if the soundtrack doesn't get you head bobbing there is something wrong with you
  • Pretty Woman on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Richard Gere,  Julia Roberts,  Ralph Bellamy
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Cinderella story that made Julia Roberts a star. While driving back to his Beverly Hills hotel, millionaire corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) takes a wrong turn and ends up on Hollywood Boulevard, where he meets prostitute Vivian Ward (Roberts). She steers him back to his hotel, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 39,051 members

Y Tu Mama Tambien

amazin amazin road movie with twists and turns you don't expect.. gael garcia bernal is jumps off the screen. sometimes i close my eyes and wish im in the car with them
  • Y Tu Mama Tambien on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal,  Maribel Verdu,  Diego Luna
    Director: Alfonso Cuaron
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This beautifully filmed, expertly acted film about two 17-year-old, middle class Mexican boys on summer break is deceivingly complex. The basic plot of the film is that best friends Tenoch (Diego Luna, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS) and Julio (Gael Garcia Bernal, AMORES PERROS), who think of nothing but sex, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 24,087 members

Adventures Of Priscilla, The - Queen Of The Desert

camp comedy at it's best all of the characters have their redeeming qualities and best bits.. if you want to giggle and have a sing song wit a bottle of wine i reccomend this as the film for you

Let the Right One In

sweet and touching love story between an immortal little girl and a bullied little sweedish boy who happen to meet by chance, an ideal backdrop of the stark white snow in a sleepy sweedish town.. make you smile, jump and maybe even cry
  • Let the Right One In on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Kare Hedebrant,  Lina Leandersson,  Per Ragnar
    Director: Tomas Alfredson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oskar is a bullied 12 year-old boy, longing to extract revenge on his tormentors but unable to build the courage to do it himself. But then he meets a girl called Eli, who gives him the strength he's been looking for. But Eli is not all she seems to be...
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 16,513 members

Billy Elliot

coal miners son defies his father to become a great ballet dancer.. julie walters and jamie bell are great in this happy story about beating the odds
  • Billy Elliot on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jamie Bell,  Julie Walters,  Gary Lewis
    Director: Stephen Daldry
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Features the films BILLY ELLIOT and SIXTY SIX, which both chronicle an adolescent boy's difficulties with his family.In BILLY ELLIOT, the titular character (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy living in north-east England in the mid-1980s. While his gruff father and brother are taking part in a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 10,782 members




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