Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) challenges the system and defies conventional wisdom when he is forced to rebuild his small-market team, on a limited budget. Despite opposition from the old guard, the media, fans and their own field manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Beane - with the help of a young, number-crunching, Yale-educated economist (Jonah Hill) - develops a roster of misfits and changes the way the game is played forever.
1924. In the small southern town of Delano a series of unsolved murders threatens the delicate balance between the powerful and the powerless. An action-packed thriller seething with the racial tensions political intrigue love and hate that lie beneath the surface of a small town community.
Arctic prospector Jack McCann (Hackman) after fifteen years of solitary searching becomes one of the world's wealthiest men when he literally falls into a mountain of gold in 1925. Twenty years later he lives in luxury on a Caribbean island that he owns. But his wealth brings him no peace of mind as he copes with Helen his bored alcoholic wife; Tracy his dear but headstrong daughter who has married a dissolute philandering social-climber; and Miami mobsters who want his islan
Love & Distrust
In the 1960s the UK Government, through the Central Office of Information (COI), produced a number of films for overseas distribution. Essentially designed to promote British industry and values abroad, Roundabout was one of the most popular of these cine-magazines, with its selection of topical stories for the Asia market. The BFI has collected all the Roundabout films from 1963 to produce a unique and fascinating glimpse back to Britain and its place in the world 50 years ago. Consisting of over 30 films, highlights include a visit to the Royal Mint, a trip around a British Doll factory and a look at modern architecture in London, Djakarta and Saigon. Special Features: Newly remastered to High Definition from best available film materials Illustrated booklet with essay and films notes by film archive experts
In Tumbledown, a young widow (Rebecca Hall), falls for a brash New York writer (Jason Sudeikis) who barrels into her rural Maine town investigating the death of her husband, folk-music hero Hunter Miles. Hannah is scraping her life back together in a cabin at the foot of Tumbledown mountain, attempting to seal every shred of her husband's life into a biography. When Andrew, an academic who has a different take on Hunter's life and death, shows up looking for the truth of this mysterious musician, the pair clash. But gradually they find themselves collaborating to craft Hunter's story, and beginning to write the next chapter of their lives together.
Six short films including the directorial debut of Romola Garai (The Hour) as well as films starring Academy Award Winner, Dame Judi Dench (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Peter Mullan (War Horse), Luke Treadaway (Attack the Block) and creator of the character Garth Marenghi, Matthew Holness.
Life is good for Susan (Mercedes Ruehl), her two children and new boyfriend Russell (Alex Carter). But life abruptly changes when she discovers her perfect boyfriend is a drug dealer. Realising the danger this could bring to her family she tells him to leave. Suddenly her house is raided and Susan is arrested as a co-conspirator in Russell's drug business. Her situation goes from bad to worse when she finds herself behind bars with violent criminals. How will she ever prove her innocence when...
Based on the book by Danielle Steel Bill Grant (John Ritter) is the popular producer of a top TV soap but separated from his ex-wife and two young sons he badly misses family life. Adriane (Polly Draper) is a happily married news executive at the same TV station. But when she unexpectedly becomes pregnant her child-phobic husband deserts her rather than compromise his career with the responsibilities of parenthood. Both alone and lonely Bill and Adriane eventually meet and quickly become close - their friendship soon deepening into love despite Adriane's pregnancy and inner longing for her husband. Caring and supportive right up to the birth Bill never doubts his love for Adriane though she secretly hopes the baby's arrival may rekindle her marriage. Will Bill's heart be broken again... or will Adriane finaly realise who will make more loving husband and father?
Remy (Vincent Cassel Black Swan La Haine Ocean's 13) and Patrick (Olivier Barthelemy Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1) are ostracised redheaded strangers who bond over their hatred of society. The sociopathic Remy manipulates Patrick into going on a road trip from France to Ireland where Remy dreams he will assume the mantle of a redheaded messiah. They wreck havoc along the way. This is the first feature film by Romain Gavras director of M.I.A's controversial Born Free music video. The striking and moody visuals are complimented by a score by electro artist SebastiAn.
Starring the legendary Leni Riefenstahl and directed by the pioneer of the mountain film Arnold Fanck 'Holy Mountain' is a filmic event that cannot be missed. A majestic tale set against a breathtaking Alpine backdrop 'Holy Mountain' follows the story of Diotina (Leni Riefenstahl) a beautiful and exotic dancer who travels to a small mountain village to find the man of her dreams. There she meets a climber (Louis Trenker) and a young skier (Ernst Petersen) both of whom are pursu
Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.
Cast entirely with non-professionals Battle in Heaven tells the story of Marcos (Marcos Hernandez) the middle-aged chauffeur of Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz) daughter of a Mexican general. Marcos is the only member of Ana's household who knows she leads a double life. Although a child of Mexico's political elite Ana amuses herself by working as a prostitute in a high-end brothel. But Marcos also has a secret. He and his wife (Berta Ruiz) kidnapped a baby for ransom and the infant died in their custody. When he confesses to Ana a bond of secrecy consecrated by the flesh unites them. As the police draw closer Ana urges Marcos to turn himself in but he seeks redemption from a higher power...
The Devil's Foot: While recuperating in Cornwall Holmes becomes involved in the tragedy of the Tregennis family. Silver Blaze: A kidnapped racehorse poses particular problems for Holmes and Watson.
Meg (Sorvino) a former medical school student is desperate to escape from a tragic past. Moving back to her hometown and bluffing her way into a job as a waitress in a 'family-run' Italian restaurant Meg strikes up what appears to be an unshakeable bond with her two fellow waitresses Raychel (Carey) and Kate (Walters). But when Meg unwittingly gets involved with the Mafia due to a string of circumstances beyond her control all three women discover that survival is going to depen
NASA's worst nightmare turned into one of the space agency's most heroic moments in 1970, when the Apollo 13 crew was forced to hobble home in a disabled capsule after an explosion seriously damaged the moon-bound spacecraft. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton play (respectively) astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise in director Ron Howard's intense, painstakingly authentic docudrama. The Apollo 13 crew and Houston-based mission controllers race against time and heavy odds to return the damaged spacecraft safely to Earth from a distance of 205,500 miles. Using state-of-the-art special effects and ingenious film-making techniques, Howard and his stellar cast and crew build nail-biting tension while maintaining close fidelity to the facts. The result is a fitting tribute to the Apollo 13 mission and one of the biggest box-office hits of 1995. --Jeff Shannon
Lifelong friends stumble back home after high school when word goes out on Facebook that the most popular among them has died. Old girlfriends, boyfriends, new lovers, parents, your first dead friend - how do people deal? The reunion stirs up sticky feelings of love, longing and regret, and the novelty of forgiveness, mortality and gratitude.
Martha Marcy May Marlene creates a sense of uneasy suspense within seconds of coming on screen: a young woman, who will be known by all the title names at various times in the movie, is escaping from a rural commune of some sort. And not just a commune, but by the looks of it, a cult--an impression that will grow as Martha flashes back to her experiences once she reaches the safety of her sister's antiseptic country place. It is part of director Sean Durkin's design that we experience the film as Martha's point of view, which means there may be some question about whether she's an emotionally unstable person to begin with or simply in a legitimate terror about the traumatising events that have unfolded for her in recent months. Although the film has one storytelling contrivance (Martha withholds her experiences from her sister, when a little exposition would help matters tremendously), in general Durkin keeps a lid on this simmering situation, and he's got a good compositional eye that only occasionally tips over into preciousness. Sarah Paulson and Hugh Dancy play Martha's complacent but concerned sister and brother-in-law, and John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) is a spellbinder as the commune leader, a manipulator of subtle skill. (With some stories like this, you have a hard time believing cult followers could fall for these creepy charismatics; in this one, Hawkes demonstrates how such things might happen.) The movie's most unexpected and alluring touch is the performance by Elizabeth Olsen, as Martha; this younger sister of the child-star Olsen twins brings a zonked-out centre of gravity to the part. She's got just a bit of blankness, too, which enhances the movie's well-wrought guessing game. --Robert Horton
Two Men. Two Worlds. One Cause. When newly-commissioned SS Lieutenant Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur) witnesses the chemical disinfectant he's helped perfect being used to systematically murder interred Jews he has no choice but to act. The only sympathetic ear Gerstein is able to find is that of a young Father Riccardo (Mathieu Kassovitz) a priest with deep ties to the Vatican. While Riccardo takes on the obstructive Vatican hierarchy Gerstein must walk a tightrope between do
Aspiring rock star Joby Taylor (Paul Dano; Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood) finally agrees to sign divorce papers with his estranged wife but discovers he is about to forfeit all custody of his six-year-old daugher Ellen. Even though he has never been in his daughter's life, Joby suddenly realises he's not ready to give up his right to fatherhood and aided by his good natured lawyer (Jon Heder; Napoleon Dynamite) sets across a wintry U.S landscape to try and see her before it is too late.
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