6.8

Scoop

2005, UK, USA

• Actors: Jim Dunk, Robert Bathurst, Geoff Bell, Christopher Fulford, Nigel Lindsay, Ian McShane, Fenella Woolgar, Pete Mastin, Doreen Mantle, David Schneider, Meera Syal, Kevin McNally, Robyn Kerr, Richard Stirling, Scarlett Johansson, Romola Garai, Carolyn Backhouse, Guo Toa, Sam Friend, Mark Heap, Woody Allen, Suzy Kewer, Jody Halse, Matt Day, Elizabeth Berrington, Rupert Frazer, Christopher Godwin, Hugh Jackman, Julian Glover, Paula Wilcox
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
• Director(s): Woody Allen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the funeral of the famous British journalist Joe Strombel, his colleagues and friends recall how obstinate he was while seeking for a scoop. Meanwhile the deceased Joe discloses the identity of the tarot card serial killer of London. He cheats the Reaper and appears to the American student of journalism Sondra Pransky, who is on the stage in the middle of a magic show of the magician Sidney Waterman in London, and tells her that the murderer is the aristocrat Peter Lyman. Sondra drags Sid in her investigation, seeking for evidences that Peter is the killer. However, she falls in love with him and questions if Joe Strombel is right in his scoop.

  7.8

Match Point

2004, UK, USA, Ireland, Russia

• Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Alexander Armstrong, Paul Kaye, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton, Emily Mortimer, Janis Kelly, Alan Oke, Mark Gatiss, Scarlett Johansson, Philip Mansfield, Simon Kunz, Geoffrey Streatfield, Mary Hegarty, John Fortune, Rupert Penry-Jones, Patricia Whymark, Anthony O'Donnell, Miranda Raison, Rose Keegan, Zoe Telford, Margaret Tyzack, Scott Handy, Emily Gilchrist, Selina Cadell, Georgina Chapman, Colin Salmon, Toby Kebbell, Steve Pemberton
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport, Thriller
• Director(s): Woody Allen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Chris Wilton is a former tennis pro, looking to find work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy. Tom's sister Chloe falls in love with Chris but Chris has his eyes on Tom's fiancée, the luscious Nola. Both Chris and Nola know it's wrong but what could be more right than love? Chris tries to juggle both women but at some point, he must choose between them...

  6.5

Bright Young Things

2003, UK

• Actors: Simon McBurney, Michael Sheen, Emily Mortimer, James McAvoy, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stockard Channing, Adrian Scarborough, Jim Carter, Fenella Woolgar, Dan Aykroyd, Julia McKenzie, Bruno Lastra, David Tennant, Jim Broadbent, John Franklyn-Robbins, Simon Callow, Guy Henry, Alex Barclay, Lisa Dillon, Lisa Jackson, Neville Phillips, Imelda Staunton, Bill Paterson, Nigel Planer, Peter O'Toole, Stephen Fry, James Jackson Ritchie, Arturo Venegas, Harriet Walter, Angela Thorne
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
• Director(s): Stephen Fry
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A fool and his money. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes is part of the English idle class, wanting to marry the flighty Nina Blount. He's a novelist with a hundred-pound advance for a manuscript confiscated by English customs. He spends the next several years trying to get money and to set a wedding date: he trades in gossip, wins money on wagers then gives it to a drunken major who's suggested he bet on a horse in an upcoming race. Adam tries to get the money back, but can't find the major. Meanwhile, Nina needs security, friends drink too much, and general unhappiness spoils the party. Then war breaks out. Is Adam's bright youth dimming with the fall of an empire?

  8.5

A Clockwork Orange

1971, UK, USA

• Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin, James Marcus, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Sheila Raynor, Madge Ryan, John Savident, Anthony Sharp, Philip Stone, Pauline Taylor, Margaret Tyzack, Steven Berkoff, Lindsay Campbell, Michael Tarn, David Prowse, Barrie Cookson, Jan Adair, Gaye Brown, Peter Burton, John J. Carney
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Protagonist Alex is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If he goes through the program his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating.

  8.4

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968, UK, USA

• Actors: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain, Frank Miller, Bill Weston, Ed Bishop, Glenn Beck, Alan Gifford, Ann Gillis, Edwina Carroll, Penny Brahms, Heather Downham, Mike Lovell, John Ashley, Jimmy Bell, David Charkham, Simon Davis, Jonathan Daw, Péter Delmár, Terry Duggan, David Fleetwood, Danny Grover, Brian Hawley, David Hines
• Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.