8.0

In Bruges

2007, UK, USA

• Actors: Elizabeth Berrington, Rudy Blomme, Olivier Bonjour, Mark Donovan, Ann Elsley, Colin Farrell, Jean-Marc Favorin, Ralph Fiennes, Brendan Gleeson, Eric Godon, Zeljko Ivanek, Sachi Kimura, Anna Madeley, Louis Nummy, Clémence Poésy, Jordan Prentice, Jérémie Renier, Thekla Reuten, Theo Stevenson, Inez Stinton, Emily Thorling, Angel Witney, Bonnie Witney, Ran Yaniv, Susan Ateh, Michael Bennett, Stephanie Carey, Jamie Edgell, Ciarán Hinds, Robbie Kay
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Martin McDonagh
• Available languages:
  • English English.

London based hit men Ray and Ken are told by their boss Harry Waters to lay low in Bruges, Belgium for up to two weeks following their latest hit, which resulted in the death of an innocent bystander. Harry will be in touch with further instructions. While they wait for Harry's call, Ken, following Harry's advice, takes in the sights of the medieval city with great appreciation. But the charms of Bruges are lost on the simpler Ray, who is already despondent over the innocent death, especially as it was his first job. Things change for Ray when he meets Chloe, part of a film crew shooting a movie starring an American dwarf named Jimmy. When Harry's instructions arrive, Ken, for who the job is directed, isn't sure if he can carry out the new job, especially as he has gained a new appreciation of life from his stay in the fairytale Bruges. While Ken waits for the inevitable arrival into Bruges of an angry Harry, who feels he must clean up matters on his own, Ray is dealing with his own problems, not only with Harry, but with a Canadian couple and a half-blind thief named Eirik. Ray hopes he can count on both Chloe and Ken to help him carve out a new life for himself. In the end, Harry, involved in an incident with Jimmy, may have to keep to his own principles.

  5.6

Fred Claus

2006, USA

• Actors: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, John Michael Higgins, Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Trevor Peacock, Ludacris, Elizabeth Banks, Jeremy Swift, Elizabeth Berrington, Kevin Spacey, Rio Hackford, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Allan Corduner, Jordon Hull, Liam James, Theo Stevenson, Allison Sparrow, Fred Zimmerman, Danny McCarthy, Keith Kupferer, Craig J. Harris, Peter McCabe, Jonathan Cullen, Wesley Chu, Claudia Michelle Wallace, Guy Massey, Gabriel Pimentel, Hassan Chikhaoui
• Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): David Dobkin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

During childhood, Fred Claus suffered his younger brother Nick's saintliness. Jump ahead: Fred is a fast-talking, genial but self-centered guy in Chicago looking for $50,000 to open an off-track-betting shop. When one scam goes awry, he calls Nick at the North Pole for a loan: Nick will give him the money only if Fred comes up to help a few days with the Christmas rush. After his girlfriend dumps him, Fred heads north. Santa's facing an audit from an efficiency expert, and it's not pleasant. Fred's job is to review charts and determine who's naughty and who's nice. Is there any fraternal feeling left, can either learn from the other, and what about Santa getting fired?

  6.8

Scoop

2005, UK, USA

• Actors: Jim Dunk, Robert Bathurst, Geoff Bell, Christopher Fulford, Nigel Lindsay, Ian McShane, Fenella Woolgar, Pete Mastin, Doreen Mantle, David Schneider, Meera Syal, Kevin McNally, Robyn Kerr, Richard Stirling, Scarlett Johansson, Romola Garai, Carolyn Backhouse, Guo Toa, Sam Friend, Mark Heap, Woody Allen, Suzy Kewer, Jody Halse, Matt Day, Elizabeth Berrington, Rupert Frazer, Christopher Godwin, Hugh Jackman, Julian Glover, Paula Wilcox
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
• Director(s): Woody Allen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the funeral of the famous British journalist Joe Strombel, his colleagues and friends recall how obstinate he was while seeking for a scoop. Meanwhile the deceased Joe discloses the identity of the tarot card serial killer of London. He cheats the Reaper and appears to the American student of journalism Sondra Pransky, who is on the stage in the middle of a magic show of the magician Sidney Waterman in London, and tells her that the murderer is the aristocrat Peter Lyman. Sondra drags Sid in her investigation, seeking for evidences that Peter is the killer. However, she falls in love with him and questions if Joe Strombel is right in his scoop.

  6.8

A Cock and Bull Story

2005, UK

• Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Conal Murphy, Joe Williams, Paul Kynman, Mark Tandy, Mary Healey, Dylan Moran, Jack Shepherd, David Walliams, Jeremy Northam, Benedict Wong, Naomie Harris, Claire Keelan, Kelly Macdonald, Mark Hadfield, Elizabeth Berrington, Mark Williams, Jenny Ogilvie, Tony Wilson, Justine Mitchell, Kieran O'Brien, Roger Allam, Ashley Jensen, James Fleet, Ian Hart, Ronni Ancona
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.

  7.0

The Moonstone

1996, UK

• Actors: Greg Wise, Keeley Hawes, Terrence Hardiman, Mellan Mitchell, Peter Vaughan, Patricia Hodge, Rachel Lumberg, Nicholas Lane, Surinder Duhra, Lesley Sharp, Kacey Ainsworth, Scott Handy, Paul Brooke, Anton Lesser, Antony Sher, Roger Walker, Janet Henfrey, Elizabeth Berrington, Bobby Bernard, Peter Jeffrey, Anthony Cumber, Carl Forgione, Andy Devine, Laurence Richardson
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
• Director(s): Robert Bierman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When the fabulous Moonstone diamond is stolen, all the suspects appear to have alibis. Even the young girl who owns the diamond won't say whom she saw took it. Her fiancee calls in the famous Sergeant Cuff to solve the case, but they'll have to untangle a skein of lies and retrieve lost memories before they'll find the path to the diamond.

  7.9

Naked

1993, UK

• Actors: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner, Peter Wight, Ewen Bremner, Susan Vidler, Deborah MacLaren, Gina McKee, Carolina Giammetta, Elizabeth Berrington, Darren Tunstall, Robert Putt, Lynda Rooke, Angela Curran, Peter Whitman, Jo Abercrombie, Elaine Britten, David Foxxe, Mike Avenall, Toby Jones, Sandra Voe
• Genre: Drama, Comedy
• Director(s): Mike Leigh
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very much like his own.