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High Fidelity

    Director Stephen Frears' 13th feature film is a fantastic character study of a man analysing past break-ups in order to fully understand why it is that he continually finds himself doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.  Based on the novel by Nick Hornby.

    After breaking up with his current girlfriend, record store owner and former DJ, Rob Gordon takes stock of his past relationship woes in an attempt to figure out what keeps going wrong with hi...

The Town

    Writer/Director/Star Ben Affleck's 2nd feature behind the camera is an absolute masterpiece that is visually stunning, action packed, and full of tremendous performances across the board.  Based on the novel Prince Of Thieves by Chuck Hogan.

    Doug Macray and his friends are typical citizens of the Charlestown district of Boston, townies through and through, and highly adept at armoured transport heists.  When Doug and crew are forced to take a hostage from...

Heat

    Writer/Director Michael Mann's 5th feature film is a visually stunning, action packed, adrenaline inducing, epic masterpiece like no other about a crack team of thieves and the veteran police officer willing to sacrifice everything in his life to bring them down.

    A crew of expert thieves suddenly find themselves under surveillance from a tenacious police detective, Vincent Hanna, and his squad when an alternate player on their crew decides to shoot an armoured truck...

THX 1138

    Director George Lucas's debut feature is a well made, thought provoking look into a possible dystopian society of the future where human behaviour is regulated through doping in order to suppress urges, creating a more docile and productive populace.

    THX 1138 lives a normal life with his roommate LUH 3417.  He works daily as a technician on an assembly line designing robots that are used to police the human populace, and takes his daily medication as he is told...

The Thing (2010)

    Director Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr's debut feature is a suspenseful, action packed, gory, solid horror film that is less a remake and more a prequel based on a premise from John Carpenter's 1982 film that ties in to said film at the conclusion.  Based on the short story Who Goes There? by John Wood Campbell Jr.

    A team of Norwegian scientists stationed in Antarctica unearth what appears to be a spaceship buried in the ice for 100,000 years along with the inhabi...

Quarantine

    Director John Erick Dowdle's 4th feature film is a masterful remake of the 2007 Spanish horror film Rec shot entirely in a POV style from the perspective of a late night news program documenting a tour with a pair of L.A. firefighters that are responding to a call in an apartment building.

    A reporter and her cameraman chronicle a typical night in the life of L.A. firefighters and end up on a ride along to a call in an old apartment building where they are soon confr...

Jurassic Park

    Director Steven Spielberg's 14th feature length film is a tremendous special effects feast for the senses featuring a tremendous script, great action, and some of the best visual effects of the time period that would set the standard for the future of film.  Based on the novel by Michael Crichton.

    When John Hammond, an eccentric Zoo owner and chairman of a genetic research company named Ingen, locates the secret to genetically reproducing dinosaurs by using DNA...

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

     Director Steven Spielberg's 16th feature film and follow-up to the smash hit Jurassic Park finds Dr. Ian Malcolm heading a rescue mission to save his new paleobotonist girlfriend from imminent danger after discovering that she is alone on a secret island near Costa Rica where John Hammond and his company Ingen first began to create and breed dinosaurs.  Based on the novel by Michael Crichton.

    After a vacationing family accidentally discovers the existence...

Jurassic Park 3

    Director Joe Johnston's 5th feature film is a fast paced action packed adventure that sees the return of Dr. Alan Grant commissioned by a couple searching for their son who was lost near Isla Sorna while parasailing.

    After their son goes missing while parasailing near Isla Sorna with his mom's new boyfriend, the Kirby's enlist the aid of several mercenaries and Dr. Alan Grant to fly over the island in an attempt to mount a rescue. After their plane is attacked by a...

Paul

    Director Greg Mottolla's 4th feature film is a very funny sci-fi spoof from the creative team of Nick Frost and Simon Pegg that keeps the laughs coming a mile a minute with their typical brand of humour and some dynamite cameo appearances and homages to science fiction films of the past.

    Graeme and Clive, two life long friends, have travelled from England to the U.S. for a road trip across Arizona and New Mexico in search of alien hot spots.  While touring arou...