The Big Short (Blu-Ray)

Paul Dano moves behind the camera for his directorial debut, starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. His nuanced adaptation of Richard Ford’s novel features outstanding performances by its leads. Jeanette and Jerry seem like the perfect couple, but their son has long noticed fissures in the relationship, which are gradually tearing them apart. 

When Odysseus left Troy it took him ten years to get back to his home in Ithaca. Steve and Rob have only six days on their own personal odyssey in The Trip To Greece. On the way they argue about tragedy and comedy, astronomy and biology, myth, history, democracy and the meaning of life! Featuring […]

Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh, Belfast is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s. Buddy’s family lives in a largely Protestant district with a few Catholic families, but one day his community and everything he thought […]

It might have begun as a publicity stunt for ageing tennis player Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrell), but his challenging star women’s player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) to a tennis match ignited a series of issues that shone a light on the sport’s sexist attitudes. It’s a smart choice of material for the directors of […]

In this second of Francis Ford Coppola’s back-to-back screen adaptations of novels by S. E. Hinton, the grand romanticism of The Outsiders was flipped to create an expressionist, monochrome vision of youthful passion and melancholy, and became one of Coppola’s most personal and dazzling works. Against a run-down, industrial Tulsa, Oklahoma, Coppola presents a vivid portrait of […]

Dune: Part Two explores the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only […]

A runaway hit on the London stage, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman recreate their drama for the screen, replete with its unerring sense of dread. Phillip Goodman, professor of psychology and self-styled ‘belief buster’ has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave. His mentor Charles Cameron, the […]

Following up his surprise Oscar winner Moonlight, Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s novel of 1970s Harlem in this sumptuous tale of lovers divided by circumstance. Deeply in love, Tish (KiKi Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James) find their hopes for a life for themselves are dashed when Fonny is wrongly imprisoned. Their fight for justice pushes […]