New nurse Val (Williams) turns up for her first shift at the East End Hospital in London. It’s 1974 and electricity blackouts mean that at night most patients are transferred out of the Edwardian building.
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With snappy storytelling, great swordfight sound effects and loads of battling ninjas, this Chinese swordplay movie deserves all the acclaim it gets.
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A man without a gun, by the name of Johnny Guitar (Hayden), rolls into town and looks up old flame Vienna (Crawford), who owns the local saloon-cum-casino.
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This Brit horror film has a great hook but is spoiled by a hackneyed back story and lack of story development.
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Kyle (Gibson, Fast and the Furious) is an ex-marine with PTSD, caught in a supermarket with his daughter when bad hombres storm in to take revenge on Kyle’s congressman stepfather (Malkovich).
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Sammo Hung’s homage to the American western is a disjointed affair with some great comic moments in Buster Keaton style. This edition gives fans 4 versions of the film to watch and a host of extras.
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Fairy tale becomes macabre, visceral horror in this superb Czech version of the story.
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Super-cool Asian superstar Chow Yun-Fat comes down to earth with a satisfying thud in this crime story that showcases the late Ringo Lam’s unshowy visual grittiness.
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Siblings Louise (Ireland) and Michael (Abbott) return to their family farm to help their mum (Oliver-Touchstone) as their bed-ridden father (Zagst) enters his last days.
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Sherlock Holmes solves the Jack the Ripper murders in this profoundly watchable film, grounded in spot-on performances by screen legends Plummer and Mason.
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