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Crush
(1992) [M]

A passionate story of lives turned upside-down. Crush is a darkly comic tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge. Wreaking havoc is brash Lane (Marcia Gay Harden), whose reckless driving leaves her friend Christina hospitalised. Fleeing the scene, Lane then crashes into the lives of a novelist and...  More

Empire Records
(1995) [M]

The director of Pump Up the Volume cranks it up another notch with this comedy about an eventful day in the lives of the young slackers, doers and dreamers who work at the bustling store called Empire Records. "This music is the glue of the world", one of Emprire's clerks says. "It holds it all...  More

Kids
(1995) [R]

An amoral, HIV-positive skateboarder sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible while a local girl who contracted his disease tries to save his next target from her same fate.  More

Small Faces
(1996) [M]

Teenage brothers: gang-member Bobby, troubled mama’s boy Charlie and self-assured prankster Lex, live in a slum suburb of Glasgow, Scotland circa 1968. While Bobby and Charlie are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex’s downward spiral after he...  More

Down By Law (2 disc set)
(1986) [M]

Jim Jarmusch's quirky follow-up to his groundbreaking STRANGER THAN PARADISE is a comic fable about finding the American dream in the most unlikely of places. After being thrown out of the house by his girlfriend, Zack (Tom Waits), an out-of-work DJ, takes a job driving a stolen car with a body...  More

Dogma
(2000) [MA]

The plot is set in motion by two banished angels, Loki (Matt Damon) and Bartleby (Ben Affleck). After a few millenia in Wisconsin, they've discovered a loophole in Catholic doctrine that would allow them back into heaven - but prove the fallibility of God and destroy the universe. Unaware of the...  More

Annie Hall
(1977) [M]

Arguably the best of all of Woody Allen's movies, Annie Hall portrays with candour the fragility of relationships in an amusing and touching manner. As with Allen's other movies you don't have to look far to find the idiosyncratic neurosis that is innate in most of his work but his handling of...  More

The Million Dollar Hotel
(2000) [MA]

A gang of outcasts and misfits live in a downtown Los Angeles flea-pit, known locally as "the Million Dollar Hotel". When one of the residents comes to a grisly end, the hotel becomes the focus of a police investigation led by FBI hardliner Detective Skinner (Mel Gibson). Every inhabitant of the...  More

Leaving Las Vegas
(1995) [R]

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera. Cage won Best Actor Oscar and the film received 3 other...  More

Blue Velvet
(1986) [R]

Possibly the most influential American film of the 1980's, David Lynch's bizarre erotic mystery spawned a whole raft of imitations with its portrayal of the dark underside of American small-town life. Critics and audiences responded to Lynch's original and startling images of sex and violence and...  More