Total Recall
Bored construction worker Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) seeks a quick thrill with memory implants of a spy adventure on Mars. But when the procedure goes wrong, Quaid realises he’s actually […]
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Ran
Akira Kurosawa once again takes Shakespeare from The Globe to the other side of the globe in this adaptation of King Lear. As compared to Throne of Blood, Ran is […]
The Show Must Go On: The Queen+ Adam Lambert Story
The story of Queen has been told numerous times, but this is the first to cover the period after Freddie Mercury’s death in 1991, showing how the remaing band members […]
Raw Deal
Arnie takes on the mob again as a small town Sherriff who goes under cover in the Chicago underworld to bust the crime family that killed his daughter. This film […]
Hercules in New York
In Arnie’s cinematic debut he plays Hercules, a Greek demigod whose brain has turned to muscle. Bored of the 24hr toga party on Mount Olympus he heads to earth to […]
The Running Man
In the future, helicopter pilot Richard (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is framed for the massacre of innocent civilians. As punishment he’s entered into The Running Man, the hottest new gameshow where competitors […]
Throne of Blood
The Scottish Play goes to Japan in this reimagining of Macbeth from Akira Kurosawa. Is that a samurai sword I see before me? Toshiro Mifune gives an intense lead performance […]
Eraser
John Krueger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is an eraser who helps fake the deaths of people who need to be forgotten, or something. When he’s charged with protecting (not erasing) Lee Cullen […]
Starter for 10
Pencil-necked pushover Brian (James McAvoy) is a quiz-obsessed working class kid whose dreams come true when he gets on Bristol’s University Challenge team and meets not one but two generic […]
Curse of the Golden Flower
As the chrysanthemum festival approaches, trouble is brewing in the Chinese royal household as the Empress (Gong Li) plots revenge against her manipulative husband (Chow Yun Fat). Zhang Yimou, director […]
