Long Strange Trip
Long Strange Trip is a Grateful Dead documentary produced by the band, their families, Martin Scorsese and David Lemieux; the archivist best known for getting distracted by nature. At 4 hours this […]
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Wadjda
This is the story of a young girl in Saudi Arabia, Wadjda (Waad Mohammed), who has no interest in conforming to the super-strict gender role that is expected of her. […]
The War of the Roses
Danny de Vito directs and stars as a lawyer recounting the tale of the Roses, his close friends, whose long marriage was one of the thorniest he’s ever seen. The […]
Veronica Mars
“A teenaged private eye. Trust me, I know how dumb that sounds.” So begins the Veronica Mars movie, immediately establishing both the premise and tone of Rob Thomas’ (not the […]
Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves is a mixture of several other Joan Crawford films: Milly is a typist (Grand Hotel) who marries a man called Burt (Mildred Pierce) in this Robert Aldrich-directed (What Ever […]
Coach Carter
Samuel L Jackson plays a no-nonsense coach who joins a California school to turn its rag-tag team of angry youths into an academically successful winning team. Based on a true […]
The Last Picture Show
Set in a small Texan town in the 1950s, The Last Picture Show follows the lives of its eclectic inhabitants, focusing on the romantic entanglements of its teenagers who are […]
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
In searching for the elixir of life, Dr. Jekyll’s (Ralph Bates) self-experimentation transforms him into Mrs. Hyde (Martine Beswick) in this Hammer Horror from 1971. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde might […]
Clash of the Titans
In ancient Greece, Zeus (Liam Neeson) and his fellow gods are dependent on the prayers of humans to survive, so when their creations rebel, a huge conflict isn’t far behind. […]
Flash Gordon
American football player, hunk and all-round good guy Flash Gordon (Sam J Jones) is rocketed into space by a mad scientist (Topol) to save the earth from imminent alien invasion […]
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