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Turn the Beat Around (2010) #151 Remove Directed by Bradley Walsh. With Romina D'Ugo, David Giuntoli, Adam Brooks, Brooklyn Sudano. A struggling dancer in L.A. teams up with a young club impresario to bring back Disco. |
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Testament of Youth (2014) #978 Remove Directed by James Kent. With Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Dominic West. A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times. |
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Robin Hood (2010) #291 Remove Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Max von Sydow. In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power. |
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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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Never Let Me Go (2010) #356 Remove Directed by Mark Romanek. With Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Izzy Meikle-Small. The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood. The film is based on the book Never Let Me Go by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize. |
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The Pacific (2010) #160 Remove With James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Sebastian Bertoli. The intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. TV miniseries - episodes 1 & 2 |
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300 (2006) #40 Remove Directed by Zack Snyder. With Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West. King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. |
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Big Fat Important Movie (2008) #13 Remove Directed by David Zucker. With Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Trace Adkins. An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country. |
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Realive (2016) #1121 Remove Directed by Mateo Gil. With Tom Hughes, Charlotte Le Bon, Oona Chaplin, Barry Ward. Marc (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year left to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first man to be revived in history. It is then he discovers that the love of his life, Naomi (Oona Chaplin), has accompanied him this entire time in a way that he'd never expected. |
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Mama (2013) #508 Remove Directed by Andrés Muschietti. With Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse. A young couple take in their two nieces only to suspect that a foreboding evil has latched itself to their family. |
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Decoding Annie Parker (2013) #250 Remove Directed by Steven Bernstein. With Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Rashida Jones. Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer. |
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One Day (2011) #99 Remove Directed by Lone Scherfig. With Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Tom Mison. After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day. |
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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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War Horse (2011) #107 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch. Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on. |
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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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Casablanca (1942) #1169 Remove Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. A cynical nightclub owner protects an old flame and her husband from Nazis in Morocco. |
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The World's Fastest Indian (2005) #43 Remove Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell. The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. |
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Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) #194 Remove Directed by Mike Leigh. With Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin, Elliot Cowan. A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colourful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her. |
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Little New York (2009) #299 Remove Directed by James DeMonaco. With Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel, Julianne Nicholson. The lives of three residents of New York's Staten Island intersect as they struggle to get ahead. aka Staten Island |
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946) #229 Remove Directed by Frank Capra. With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell. An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed. |
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Milk (2008) #129 Remove Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna. The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. |
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The Lego Movie (2014) #238 Remove Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. With Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett. An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied 'Special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis. |
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Wagner (1981) #499 Remove TV series. With Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gálffi, John Gielgud. A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and political ideas, his German nationalism and even his anti-Semitism are set in the context of his life and times. |
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Little New York (2009) #299 Remove Directed by James DeMonaco. With Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel, Julianne Nicholson. The lives of three residents of New York's Staten Island intersect as they struggle to get ahead. aka Staten Island |
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Casablanca (1942) #1169 Remove Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. A cynical nightclub owner protects an old flame and her husband from Nazis in Morocco. |
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Farce of the Penguins (2006) #56 Remove Directed by Bob Saget. With Samuel L. Jackson, Alyson Hannigan, Bob Saget, Brie Larson. A mockumentary that illuminates penguin survival and mating rituals, as well as one bird's search for love while on a 70-mile trek with his hedonistic buddies. |
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The Young Victoria (2009) #155 Remove Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. With Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson. A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert. |
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Mo (2010) #677 Remove Directed by Philip Martin. With Julie Walters, Emma Cambridge, David Haig, Lucy Boynton. A revealing biopic about politician Mo Mowlam. |
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) #522 Remove Directed by Stephen Hopkins. With Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow. The feature adaptation of Roger Lewis' book about the actor best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. |
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Solomon Kane (2009) #295 Remove Directed by Michael J. Bassett. With James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Pete Postlethwaite. A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil. |
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The Descendants (2011) #95 Remove Directed by Alexander Payne. With George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause. A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident. |
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Twilight (2008) #191 Remove Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke. A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire. |
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Catch-22 (1970) #211 Remove Directed by Mike Nichols. With Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel. A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions. |
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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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Mo (2010) #677 Remove Directed by Philip Martin. With Julie Walters, Emma Cambridge, David Haig, Lucy Boynton. A revealing biopic about politician Mo Mowlam. |
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Mirrors (2008) #201 Remove Directed by Alexandre Aja. With Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce. An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home. |
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W. (2008) #186 Remove Directed by Oliver Stone. With Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd, Colin Hanks. A chronicle of the life and presidency of George W. Bush. |
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The Secret Life of Bees (2008) #166 Remove Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. With Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys. Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father T-Ray, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily ... |
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Macbeth (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Rupert Goold. With Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Burch, Suzanne Burden. Sir Patrick Stewart stars in a gripping Tony-nominated production. |
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Jersey Boys (2014) #495 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza. The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. |
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A Very British Christmas (2019) #1334 Remove Directed by Steven Nesbit. With Rachel Shenton, Mark Killeen, Isla Cook, Michele Dotrice. Opera singer Jessica's flight to her concert in Vienna gets delayed and she is stuck in a remote area of England. The only place to stay is a bed-and-breakfast in an enchanting village run by a handsome widower named Andrew. Also billed as 'A Very Yorkshire Christmas' this film stars Knaresborough. |
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They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) #1149 Remove Directed by Peter Jackson. A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war. Employing state-of-the-art technology to transform audio and moving image archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the men who were there. |
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012) #384 Remove Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong. A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011. |
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Run Lola Run (1998) #223 Remove Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks. |
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The Descendants (2011) #95 Remove Directed by Alexander Payne. With George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause. A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident. |
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Diva (1981) #530 Remove Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. With Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu. Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed. All these characters twist their way through an intricate and stylish French language thriller. |
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It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) #354 Remove Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck. With Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Dana DeVestern. A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward. |
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Parkland (2013) #1151 Remove Directed by Peter Landesman. With Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Giamatti. A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. |
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Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009) #163 Remove Directed by Harvey Glazer. With Jonathan Bennett, Kristin Cavallari, Kurt Fuller, Steve Talley. Van Wilder starts his freshman year at Coolidge College and embarks on an adventure to land the campus hottie and liberate his school from sexual oppression and party dysfunction. |
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Pride (2014) #474 Remove Directed by Matthew Warchus. With Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine. U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. |
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The Uninvited (2009) #174 Remove Directed by Charles Guard, Thomas Guard. With Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn. Anna Ivers returns home to her sister Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother. Her dismay quickly turns to horror when she is visited by ghastly visions of her dead mother. |
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Juno (2007) #219 Remove Directed by Jason Reitman. With Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. |
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The Death of Stalin (2017) #1341 Remove Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough. Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly thirty years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power. |
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Shakespeare's Globe: Henry IV, Part 1 (2010) #510 Remove Directed by Dominic Dromgoole. With Roger Allam, Jamie Parker. |
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Citizen Kane (1941) #29 Remove Directed by Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead. Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. |
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Run Lola Run (1998) #223 Remove Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks. |
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Best Possible Taste (2012) #124 Remove Directed by James Strong. With Oliver Lansley, Katherine Kelly, Perry Millward, Glenn Wild. Schoolboy Maurice Cole,growing up in 1960s Liverpool,is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes,one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station,changing his name to Kenny Everett.Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and... |
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) #87 Remove Directed by Wes Anderson. With Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray. A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them. |
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Citizen Kane (1941) #29 Remove Directed by Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead. Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. |
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For a Good Time, Call... (2012) #426 Remove Directed by Jamie Travis. With Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller, Justin Long, James Wolk. Former college frenemies Lauren and Katie move into a fabulous Gramercy Park apartment, and in order to make ends meet, the unlikely pair start a phone sex line together. |
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Whale Rider (2002) #327 Remove Directed by Niki Caro. With Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis. A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize. |
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Le moine (2011) #419 Remove Directed by Dominik Moll. With Vincent Cassel, Déborah François, Joséphine Japy, Sergi López. Madrid, in the seventeenth century. Abandoned at the doorstep of a monastery, Ambrosio has been brought up by the Capucin Friars. After becoming a friar himself, he becomes an unrivaled preacher whose sermons draw crowds and earn him the admiration of all. Admired for his extreme rigor and absolute virtue, Ambrosio is certain he is safe from any temptation. But Satan has not said his final word... aka The Monk |
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) #507 Remove Directed by Roger Michell. With Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West. The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York. |
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Secret State (2012) #117 Remove With Gabriel Byrne, Ralph Ineson, Charles Dance, Jamie Sives. Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks. 4x45min episodes C4 |
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Inside Out (2015) #428 Remove Directed by Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen. With Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling. After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. Pixar/Disney |
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The War You Don't See (2010) #296 Remove Directed by Alan Lowery, John Pilger. With Julian Assange, Tony Blair, Wilfred Burchett, George W. Bush. Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it. |