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The Lost King (2022) #1484 Remove The Lost King: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, Helen Katamba, Lewis Macleod. An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years. |
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Attack the Block (2011) #346 Remove Directed by Joe Cornish. With John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones. A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion. |
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Colombiana (2011) #331 Remove Directed by Olivier Megaton. With Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan, Callum Blue, Jordi Mollà. A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. |
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The Shining (1980) #542 Remove Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. |
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Strength and Honour (2007) #228 Remove Directed by Mark Mahon. With Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain. A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death. |
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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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A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016) #782 Remove 90mins. BBC. Directed by David Kerr. With Nonso Anozie, John Hannah, Matt Lucas, Maxine Peake. A modern re-telling of the classic fantasy drama by William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream holds a star-studded cast with euphoric effects and melodramatic storytelling. |
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Hereafter (2010) #341 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Bryce Dallas Howard, Thierry Neuvic. A drama centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways. |
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) #214 Remove Directed by Shawn Levy. With Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria. Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake. |
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La musica del silenzio (2017) #1199 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Antonio Banderas, Jordi Mollà, Toby Sebastian, Luisa Ranieri. Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues. aka The Music of Silence |
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In the Loop (2009) #153 Remove Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Harry Hadden-Paton. A political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries. |
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Land of Mine (2015) #1355 Remove Directed by Martin Zandvliet. With Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard. In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight. |
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Saw VI (2009) #22 Remove Directed by Kevin Greutert. With Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell. Agent Strahm is dead, and FBI agent Erickson draws nearer to Hoffman. Meanwhile, a pair of insurance executives find themselves in another game set by jigsaw. |
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The Wave (2008) #136 Remove Directed by Dennis Gansel. With Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Jürgen Vogel. A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. |
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How Wars Begin 1 (1977) #10 Remove The Modern War: From French Revolution to French Empire. | |
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Zorba the Greek (1964) #172 Remove Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis. With Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova. An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba. |
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MacGruber (2010) #31 Remove Directed by Jorma Taccone. With Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer, Ryan Phillippe. Former special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his arch-enemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, D.C. |
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Being Shakespeare (2011) #416 Remove Directed by John Wyver. With Simon Callow. | |
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) #316 Remove Directed by Neal Brennan. With Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, James Brolin. Used-car liquidator Don Ready is hired by a flailing auto dealership to turn their Fourth of July sale into a majorly profitable event. |
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Downfall (2004) #249 Remove Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler. Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. |
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The Beauty of Diagrams (2010) #309 Remove 60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design. | |
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Billy Liar (1963) #1193 Remove Directed by John Schlesinger. With Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne. A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family. |
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Rory's Way (2018) #1259 Remove Directed by Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis. With Thora Birch, Brian Cox, Tim Matheson, JJ Feild. Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. He moves in with his estranged son Rory, as he sees his life getting transformed through a newfound bond with his baby grandson. aka The Etruscan Smile |
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Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) #457 Remove Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. With Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge. In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. |