Based on Anne Rice’s novel, Interview With The Vampire is the story of an immortal clinging to his innocence and the belief that evil is a choice and not human nature.
Brian De Palma’s first war film, based on the true story of a harrowing crime of kidnapping, rape and murder committed by American soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Should women be allowed in the army? Would they be treated equally? Alison takes a look at G.I Jane, and explains why she believes this film sends two messages.
Based on La Cage aux Folles, The Birdcage takes us to South Beach where a gay couple are about to put on the performance of their lives for the sake of their son.
Directed by Sam Mendes, American Beauty tells us there’s more to our lives than we think – we just have to look closer and see the beauty that’s hiding beneath.
Darren Aronosfky’s visually stunning tale weaves together three stories that reveal no past and no future, but one man’s quest to protect his love from the flaming sword of mortality.
A very real and emotional film, based on the novel by Andre Dubus III. It’s worth seeing, if only just once, to make sure the same thing never happens to you.
As a film that confronts us with the horrors within ourselves, Oliver Stone’s Platoon forces us to look back on the Vietnam War and ask “who were we really fighting?”
Alison brings us the female perspective on the characters created by Quentin Tarantino in Kill Bill; why she can relate to them and what we can learn from them.
If we could genetically engineer the children of the future and eradicate all ailments of the human condition, would they still be unique as individuals?
As kids we know everything, or we think we do, but as we get older and become parents, we realise we know even less. How did our parents get through it?
How do you make sense of the madness of war? Paul looks at Steven Spielberg’s 1998 World War II epic to see if the director has an answer to this question.
In Michael Mann’s 1986 adaptation of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon, sometimes to catch a killer, you have to think like a killer and see the world they way he sees it.
Fincher’s neo-noir thriller confronts us with a city on the brink of drowning in an existentialist crisis, while questioning the balance of good and evil in us all.
No one ever wants war, yet we seem to be a species that’s constantly engaged in it. Apocalypse Now tells a story that’s still happening in the world today.
Patrick explains what it’s like to be a Boy, Interrupted as he looks back on some of his more troubling times and the 1999 film based on Susanna Kaysen’s memoirs.
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