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The Gingerbread Man
(1998) [M]

Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the weight of his law firm behind Mallory, has Dixon arrested and subpoenas her ex-husband Pete to testify against Dixon...  More

The King Of Comedy
(1983) [PG]

In Martin Scorsese's masterful black comedy, Robert De Niro plays Rupert Pupkin (his motto: "Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime"), a wannabe comic who will go to any lengths to further his career. A joke writer who has never performed anywhere except his mother’s...  More

The Sweet Hereafter
(1997) [M]

A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer (Ian Holm) visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is...  More

Homegrown
(2007) [MA]

Life is good for Jack, Carter and Harlan, three inept ne'r-do-wells who help run master dope-grower Malcoms flourishing marijuana plantation somewhere in northern California. But then Malcom is suddenly bumped off by a mysterious assailant, after a moment of panic, the naive trio decide to take...  More

Velvet Goldmine
(1998) [MA]

1984: It's the 10th anniversary of Brian Slade's disappearance and Journalist Arthur Stuart is sent out to expose the truth about the myth and through his investigation we are told the controversial and explicit story of Velvet Goldmine. 1971: Glam Rock explodes on the world, challenging the...  More

Year Of The Horse
(1997) [M]

This film documents Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour. Jim Jarmusch interviews the band about their long history, and we see backstage footage from the 1970s and 1980s.  More

The Acid House
(1998) [R]

Three twisted tales of abuse, drugs, displaced personalities and insect life by Scottish writer Irving Welsh. - 1st story: "The Granton Star Cause": The first story is a black comedy that combines revenge, football, and religion. After a disastrous 24 hours where Boab is sacked from his...  More

Rounders
(1998) [MA]

Set against the backdrop of New York's high-stakes underground poker world, Rounders is the tale of Mike McDermott, a master card player who trades the poker-playing rounds for law school and a shot at a new life with his girlfriend Jo. For Mike, the new life he's staking out seems like a...  More

Bulworth
(1998) [MA]

Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty) takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. But his impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is. Suddenly the senator is the surprise political favourite...  More

Lolita (1962)
(1962) [M]

From Stanley Kubrick, the director of A Clockwork Orange, comes this powerful, provocative and profoundly moving adaption of Vladimir Nabokov's twentieth century literary masterpiece. It tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, who travels to...  More