8.2

How to Train Your Dragon

2010, USA

• Actors: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, Robin Atkin Downes, Philip McGrade, Kieron Elliott, Ashley Jensen, Peter Aude, Rasmus Ellersgaard, Robert Hansen, Julian Eliot Kellerman, Sasia Mølgaard, Niclas Mortensen, Niels Olsen, Özlem Saglanmak
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Dean DeBlois
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Long ago up North on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town's fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy, but inventive son to do so. Regardless, Hiccup ventures out into battle and downs a mysterious Night Fury dragon with his invention, but can't bring himself to kill it. Instead, Hiccup and the dragon, whom he dubs Toothless, begin a friendship that would open up both their worlds as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species. But even as the two each take flight in their own way, they find that they must fight the destructive ignorance plaguing their world.

  5.9

Nativity!

2009, UK

• Actors: Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Pam Ferris, Clarke Peters, Marc Wootton, Ricky Tomlinson, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jason Watkins, Ben Wilby, Phyllis Logan, John Sessions, Matt Rippy, Alan Carr, Martha Howe-Douglas, Rosie Cavaliero, Jake Pratt, Katie Maguire, Rhydian Jones, Amelia Tyler, Rebecca Maguire, Jesus de Miguel, Dennis Santucci, Llewella Gideon, Paul Moorhead, Mark Noyce, Charlotte Malbasa, Kieron Garrett, Neil Dodgson-Hatto, Victoria Martin
• Genre: Comedy, Family
• Director(s): Debbie Isitt
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This Christmas, primary school teacher Paul Maddens is charged with producing the school's nativity play. Competing against the posh rival school for the honor of best reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when Paul idly boasts that his ex-girlfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood Producer, is coming to see his show with a view to turning it into a film. The only trouble is - they haven't spoken in years. With eccentric assistant Mr Poppy fuelling his 'little white lie', Maddens suddenly finds himself a local celebrity and at the center of quarreling parents and over-excited children desperate in their bid for fame and fortune. Maddens' only hope is to get back in touch with Jennifer and lure Hollywood to town so that everybody's Christmas wishes come true.

  6.8

A Cock and Bull Story

2005, UK

• Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Conal Murphy, Joe Williams, Paul Kynman, Mark Tandy, Mary Healey, Dylan Moran, Jack Shepherd, David Walliams, Jeremy Northam, Benedict Wong, Naomie Harris, Claire Keelan, Kelly Macdonald, Mark Hadfield, Elizabeth Berrington, Mark Williams, Jenny Ogilvie, Tony Wilson, Justine Mitchell, Kieran O'Brien, Roger Allam, Ashley Jensen, James Fleet, Ian Hart, Ronni Ancona
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.

  7.3

"Screen One" Down Among the Big Boys

1993, UK

• Actors: Billy Connolly, Maggie Bell, Ashley Jensen, Douglas Henshall, Alex Norton, Ken Drury, Katherine Stark, Rab Affleck, Iain Agnew, Bill Barclay, John Bett, Freddie Boardley, Kenneth Bryans, Paul Burnham, Jim Byars, Simon Donald, David Findlay, James Gibb, Stevie Hannan, Stuart Hepburn, Gary Lewis, Kenneth Lindsay, Bill Little, Donald MacNeil, Maggie MacRitchie, Martin McCardie, David McKay, John Murtagh, Victoria Nairn, Sandy Neilson
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
• Director(s): Charles Gormley
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise. JoJo learns of his peril and begins an exercise in risk management.