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Jane Eyre (2011) #492 Remove Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. With Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Su Elliot. A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret. |
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Castles in the Sky (2014) #846 Remove Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt. It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII are forming in Germany. This film charts the work of Robert Watson Watt, the pioneer of Radar, and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality. Hamstrung by a tiny budget, seemingly insurmountable technical problems and even a spy in the camp. 90 mins. BBC. This is the remarkable human drama behind the invention that was to prove pivotal in the Battle of Britain. It is also the thrilling story of the tenacity and courage of a most unlikely group of British heroes. |
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) #1233 Remove Directed by Richard Marquand. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. |
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The Light Between Oceans (2016) #1349 Remove Directed by Derek Cianfrance. With Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Florence Clery. A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat. |
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) #1262 Remove Directed by Mike Newell. With Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay, Michiel Huisman, Katherine Parkinson. In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. |
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War and Peace (2016) #1055 Remove With Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Adrian Edmondson. As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever. BBC. 6 Episodes. |
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Roots (2016) #980 Remove With Herbert Cavalier Jr., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants. 4x90min episodes. |
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National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019) #1287 Remove Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Paul Adeyefa, Hammed Animashaun, Charlotte Atkinson, Oliver Chris. Young lovers, a troupe of actors, and fairies have romantic encounters in the forest on summer's night. |
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The Remains of the Day (1993) #1392 Remove The Remains of the Day: Directed by James Ivory. With John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson. A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer |
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The Pirates of Somalia (2017) #1109 Remove Directed by Bryan Buckley. With Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Barkhad Abdi. In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them. |
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Frankenstein (1931) #1245 Remove Directed by James Whale. With Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles. An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. |
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Whip It (2009) #31 Remove Directed by Drew Barrymore. With Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Wiig, Sarah Habel. In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin. |
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The Remains of the Day (1993) #1392 Remove The Remains of the Day: Directed by James Ivory. With John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson. A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer |