7.4

Micro Men

2009, UK

• Actors: Alexander Armstrong, Martin Freeman, Edward Baker-Duly, Sam Phillips, Stefan Butler, Colin Michael Carmichael, Derek Riddell, Rhona Croker, Amy Beth Hayes, Nicola Harrison, Anthony Smee, Michael Keating, Peter Davison, Jon Glover, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Renny Krupinski, James Garnon, James Fleet, Tim Downie, Rasmus Hardiker, Alison Dowling, Perdita Avery, Elizabeth Bower, Jason Fitzpatrick, David Mahoney, Mark Mansfield
• Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Saul Metzstein
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.

  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.

  7.2

The Phantom of the Opera

2003, USA, UK

• Actors: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Ciarán Hinds, Simon Callow, Victor McGuire, Jennifer Ellison, Murray Melvin, Kevin McNally, James Fleet, Imogen Bain, Miles Western, Judith Paris, Halcro Johnston, Paul Brooke, Oliver Chopping, Alison Skilbeck, Lee Sellers, Ramin Karimloo, Chris Overton, Jesika Cannon, Annabel Porter, Laura Hounsom, Lorraine Stewart, Lucy Casson, Jonathan D. Ellis, Jose Tirado, David Langham
• Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Joel Schumacher
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night but the soprano doesn't want her show stolen so she comes back. The ghost demands they keep giving his protégé lead roles. Meanwhile, His pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student. The Phantom is outraged by their love and kidnaps Christine to be his eternal bride. Will Raoul, the Vicomte, be able to stop this dastardly plan?

  4.7

Kevin & Perry Go Large

2000, UK

• Actors: Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Rhys Ifans, Laura Fraser, James Fleet, Louisa Rix, Tabitha Wady, Paul Whitehouse, Natasha Little, Anna Shillinglaw, Badi Uzzaman, Sam Parks, Kenneth Cranham, Mark Tonderai, Patsy Byrne, Amelia Curtis, Christopher Ettridge, Frank Harper, Rupert Vansittart, Steven O'Donnell, Shugs, James Dark, James Murray, Steve McFadden, Jo Burton, Kerry Burton, Ed Bye, Donna Ewin, Joe Gunn, Lynne Hazelden
• Genre: Comedy, Music
• Director(s): Ed Bye
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Kevin and Perry are two 15-year-old boys whose desperation to lose their virginity is so great that it inspires a sort of awe. In the rare moments when they're not thinking about girls, Kevin dreams of being a singer, and Perry has ambitions toward becoming a dance music DJ. When Kevin and Perry manage to stop a bank robbery, they're given a sizable cash reward, and they decide to go on a holiday in Ibiza, which is supposedly populated with thousands of beautiful women willing to sleep with anyone. However, after the boys pack plenty of sunscreen and condoms, Kevin's parents announce that they're tagging along. Undeterred, Kevin and Perry make the trip and meet superstar DJ Eyeball Paul , who may or may not listen to their demo tape. The boys also encounter Gemma and Candice, two scruffy teenage girls who are nearly as eager as Kevin and Perry to get horizontal.

  7.1

Four Weddings and a Funeral

1993, UK

• Actors: Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Bower, Charlotte Coleman, Andie MacDowell, Timothy Walker, Sara Crowe, Ronald Herdman, Elspet Gray, Philip Voss, Rupert Vansittart, Nicola Walker, Paul Stacey, Simon Kunz, Rowan Atkinson, Robin McCaffrey, Michael Mears, Kenneth Griffith, David Haig, Sophie Thompson, Corin Redgrave, Donald Weedon, Nigel Hastings, Emily Morgan, Amanda Mealing, Melissa Knatchbull, Polly Kemp
• Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
• Director(s): Mike Newell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will ever find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend.