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 »
Donnie Darko
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Noah Wyle Director:Richard Kelly Certificate:
Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-travelling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)...read more »
Fight Club
on DVD
(1999) Starring:Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf Director:David Fincher Certificate:
FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or tourist, the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who ..read more »
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 »
Memento
on DVD
(2000) Starring:Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano Director:Christopher Nolan Certificate:
MEMENTO, the second feature by writer-director Christopher Nolan (FOLLOWING), is an intricately constructed film noir that masterfully inverts time to comment on the foggy relationship between memory and truth. MEMENTO tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a former insurance investigator ..read more »
The Shawshank Redemption
on DVD
(1994) Starring:Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Robert Gunton Director:Frank Darabont Certificate:
City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying. The bonus features stretch over two ..read more »
American Beauty
on DVD
(1999) Starring:Kevin Spacey, Sam Roberts, Annette Bening Director:Sam Mendes Certificate:
AMERICAN BEAUTY tells the story of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a suburban father who snaps when he becomes disgusted with his stale, repetitive existence. Burnham lets us know in voice-over from the film's opening that this is the day he dies (using the SUNSET BOULEVARD flashback approach), a ..read more »
The Big Lebowski
on DVD
(1997) Starring:Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore Director:Joel Coen Certificate:
When unemployed Dude is attacked in his apartment by two thugs who mistakenly think he is millionaire Jeff Lebowski, he decides to pay a visit to his namesake in the hope of receiving compensation.
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 »
Seven
on DVD
(1995) Starring:Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow Director:David Fincher Certificate:
Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box-office successes. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a ..read more »