The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1946) Starring:Humphrey Bogart, Charles Waldron, Lauren Bacall Director:Howard Hawks Certificate:
Chandler's first novel introduced private detective Philip Marlowe, and THE BIG SLEEP set the standard for private detective movies. Down-at-the-heels private eye Marlowe gets the assignment to clean up after the daughters of a dying millionaire, but dead people have a nasty habit of trailing in ..read more »
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover
on DVD
(1989) Starring:Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Richard Bohringer Director:Peter Greenaway Certificate:
Master director Greenaway (THE PILLOW BOOK) outdoes himself with this grisly fairy tale. The thief, Albert Spica, (Gambon) is a gangster, repugnant and boorish, who holds court at the same table in his opulent restaurant every night surrounded by his lackeys (Tim Roth and the late Ian Dury included)..read more »
Gone With The Wind
on DVD
(1939) Starring:Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard Director:Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood Certificate:
Absorbing film version of Margaret Mitchell's Pullitzer Prize-winning novel about life in America's Deep South during the Civil War. Winner of ten Academy Awards.
Please Note: The Feature disc is doule-sided, please flip over.
Goodfellas
on DVD
(1990) Starring:Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci Director:Martin Scorsese Certificate:
Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy", Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is a wry, violent, and exhilarating film about the life of Henry Hill, an aspiring criminal who ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after testifying against his former partners. As a poor Irish-Italian growing up ..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 »
Brick
on DVD
(2006) Starring:Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas Director:Rian Johnson Certificate:
Brick follows the path of the hard-boiled noir mystery but wittily and bracingly immerses itself in a modern-day Southern California high school. Student Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Mysterious Skin) prefers being an outsider and he stays that way until the day that his ex-girlfriend Emily (..read more »
Dazed And Confused
on DVD
(1993) Starring:Milla Jovovich, Anthony Rapp, Michelle Burke Director:Richard Linklater Certificate:
Richard Linklater's DAZED AND CONFUSED takes a hysterical, nostalgic cross-clique look at American high school social development. On the last day of school in May 1976, students at a suburban Texas high school wait, lackadaisically, for classes to end. The restless almost-seniors--an eclectic ..read more »
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
on DVD
(1975) Starring:Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick Director:Jim Sharman Certificate:
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is a magical phenomenon unlike anything ever before seen onscreen. Borrowing largely from cinema's horror conventions, the film begins as an innocent young couple is stranded at the home of a mad scientist who is building the perfect man. The castle is filled with a ..read more »
Electra Glide In Blue
on DVD
(1973) Starring:Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitch Ryan Director:James William Gurcio Certificate:
The ultimate, notoriously rare, infamously violent, action packed cult classic road movie is finally available on DVD.
Along with Vanishing Point and Two Lane Black Top, Electra Glide In Blue reflects a generation in turmoil and encapsulates the gritty, uncompromising, fiercely independent ..read more »