STARS: CHARLOTTE RAMPLING, BRUNO CREMER & JACQUES NOLOT
DIRECTED: FRANCOIS OZON
Story
The film opens with Marie (Charlotte Rampling) and her husband of many years, Jean (Bruno Cremer), driving out of Paris to their seaside holiday home. The drive and their quiet meal together after arriving at the cottage gives an insight into the personalities of this couple […]

The Thief of Bagdad is a fantastic silent film, produced by and starring Douglas Fairbanks. It really is a film of epic proportions, running for 139 minutes and costing over $1,000,000.00 to produce in 1924. Fairbanks features in most scenes and it is easy to see how he was such a star in the industry’s […]

“Let the Squashing Begin”While it probably isn’t going to make the nominations for this years Academy Awards, Eight Legged Freaks has all the hallmarks of a Horror Comedy and certainly entertains for the full 99 minutes. If you grew up on a steady diet of the classic horror movies from the 1950’s and the campy […]

The Movie:If you don’t like sentimental films, you won’t like this one. It’s hard to imagine though, how a film dealing with the issues this one does, can avoid sentiment.Kevin Kline plays George Monroe, a forty five year old architect who has difficulty adjusting to change, and is fired after twenty years of service. He […]

SYNOPSIS
Very much a ‘talking heads’ type documentary, interspersed with archival footage from matches during the MCC (English) cricket team’s tour of Australia in 1932-33 - later to become known as the ‘Bodyline’ series.
The film takes an even-handed approach to the controversy, with an outline of the background to the series and attempts to EXPLAIN why […]

STARS: NATHAN PHILLIPS, LUKE CARROLL, LISA FLANAGAN, TOM BUDGE, SIMON WESTAWAY, CELIA IRELAND & KEVIN HARRINGTON
DIRECTED: Paul Goldman
story
Based on the novel “Deadly, Unna?” by Phillip Gwynne who wrote the screenplay in conjunction with Paul Goldman. The story covers the few days in the life of young footballer Gary Black, “Blackie” (Nathan Phillips) his family and […]

STARS: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite, Scott Glenn.
STORY
If you like moody, atmospheric films with a haunting score, then The Shipping News is worth your time.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book of the same name by E. Annie Proulx, the story is very much an `interior’ journey of self-discovery […]

Principal cast: John Howard Davies (Oliver); Alec Guinness (Fagin); Robert Newton (Bill Sykes); Kay Walsh (Nancy) and a host of others.
Dir: David Lean. B/W Duration: 112 mins plus extras. 4:3 transfer
SYNOPSIS
On the face of it, this film is a story of a boy’s childhood; focussing on his tough early upbringing in a workhouse; his […]