5.6

Smooch

2011, USA

• Actors: Kellie Martin, Simon Kassianides, Kiernan Shipka, Nick Ullett, Rod Myers, Michael R. Wilson, Emma-Lee Hess, Geoffrey Beauchamp, Joanna Hastings, Sonja Crosby, Drew Shackelford, Rio Scafone, Erin Nicole, Olivia Wickline, Peter Carey, Tom Carlson, Rhett J. Brandt, Kira Spencer Hesser, Shirley Benyas, John Dezsi, James Feaheny, Martin Malota, Dan Pesta, Caroline L Price, Rocky Rector, Keith Seccombe
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Ron Oliver
• Available languages:
  • English English.

SMOOCH is a modern retelling of the classic Frog Prince tale with a romantic comedy twist. A rakishly handsome "English Royal" comes to America for an arranged marriage, and ends up being mugged in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and left with amnesia. A precocious 11-year-girl, who can't bring herself to dissect a frog in science class, goes to the park with the intent of setting it free, and through a serendipitous misunderstanding thinks she turned the frog into a man after kissing the frog's boo-boo away with a kind smooch. She brings him home and soon realizes the only way she can "keep him" is to have the man impersonate a "Royal Nanny" and convince her beautiful widowed mother to hire him. With the clock ticking and his royal family searching for him, the man - whose memory eventually returns to him - falls hard for the girl's mom, and it seems like a Valentines Day dream come true until he's found by his family and is forced to finally stop being a bit of a "toady"... and become a real man. In the end, the little girl, the guy, and the gal, all discover that even in today's crazy world, "happy ever after" is possible.

  7.5

Wuthering Heights

2009, UK

• Actors: Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley, Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Lancashire, Burn Gorman, Rosalind Halstead, Rebecca Night, Tom Payne, Andrew Hawley, Kevin McNally, Des McAleer, Shaughan Seymour, Sia Berkeley, James Harper, Barnaby Kay, Jack O'Connell, Jack O'Connell, Simon Kassianides, John Hollingsworth, Declan Wheeldon, Steve Furst, Alexandra Pearson, Joseph Taylor, Molly Howe
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Coky Giedroyc
• Available languages:
  • English English.

[PART I] Braving her father Edgar Linton's warning not to cross the estate border, young Catherine discovers her charming, but sickly cousin, and the manly Hareton are the heartlessly scorned and abused sons of wealthy Heatcliff on the Earnshaw estate. This launches a flashback how Heathcliff was raised as Cathy's best friend by her kind father, Mr. Earnshaw. After his death, the son and heir returns from boarding school, married, and reduces Heathcliff to the rank of stable boy, enduring constant abuse in order to remain with Cathy. After an accidental meeting with elegant gentleman Edgar Linton, she falls in love. To Hindley's delight, this drives Heathcliffe away. [PART II] Three years later, he returns wealthy enough to buy the estate, a day after Kathy married Edgar. He takes revenge, which instead of satisfaction brings misery to all. After Kathy and later Edga's death, his scorn includes the next generation, which nevertheless finds each-other striving for nobler values.

  6.8

Quantum of Solace

2007, UK, USA

• Actors: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, David Harbour, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman, Rory Kinnear, Tim Pigott-Smith, Joaquín Cosio, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Jesús Ochoa, Lucrezia Lante della Rovere, Glenn Foster, Paul Ritter, Simon Kassianides, Stana Katic, Neil Jackson, Oona Chaplin, Brendan O'Hea, Rufus Wright, Kari Patrice Coley, Sarah Hadland, Jake Seal, Peñarandam Felix, Emiliano Valdés, Elizabeth Arciniega
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
• Director(s): Marc Forster
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Is there solace in revenge? Bond and "M" sniff a shadowy international network of power and corruption reaping billions. As Bond pursues the agents of an assassination attempt on "M," all roads lead to Dominic Greene, a world-renowned developer of green technology. Greene, a nasty piece of work, is intent on securing a barren area of Bolivia in exchange for assisting a strongman stage a coup there. The CIA looks the other way, and only Bond, with help from a retired spy and from a mysterious beauty, stands in Greene's way. "M" wonders if she can trust Bond, or if vengeance possesses him. Beyond that, can anyone drawn to Bond live to tell the tale?

  6.2

The Edge of Love

2007, UK

• Actors: Simon Armstrong, Ben Batt, Geoffrey Beevers, Rachel Bell, Paul Brooke, Huw Ceredig, Richard Clifford, Richard Dillane, Joel Dommett, Rachel Essex, Craig Gallivan, Callum Godfrey, Simon Kassianides, Keira Knightley, Anne Lambton, Raymond Llewellyn, Alastair Mackenzie, Neville Malcolm, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Acacia Pattison Biggs, Bethany Towell, Jonathan Phillips, Kyle Redmond-Jones, Matthew Rhys, Leo Robertson, Olivia Robertson, Jenny Runacre, Camilla Rutherford, Lisa Stansfield
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
• Director(s): John Maybury
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. She's working as a singer whilst he's churning out scripts for government propaganda films and living off the last in a long line of infatuated women. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas is now married to the adventurous Caitlin. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship. Caitlin indulges in her own infidelities, and recognises a similar adventurous spirit in her husband. But she knows his connection with Vera is something different, not to mention dangerous. Romantic turmoil continues in Vera's life. She marries her devoted admirer William Killick, but she can't deny the chemistry between herself and Dylan, nor does she want to - even if this means betraying Caitlin. When William is posted abroad, and a pregnant Vera returns to Wales with her married friends, the battle between her heart and head becomes more intense. William returns a changed man, but neither is Vera the carefree cabaret girl he married. Neighbourhood gossip fuels her husband's jealousy towards his rival. Enraged, William stages a violent attack on Dylan - an attack that forces Vera to choose between the men in her life and the friend that she loves. Desire and guilt are complicated by love and friendship in this real-life tale set in beautiful London and the majestic Welsh countryside.