Latest Staff Picks
The films listed below are Alice's Latest Staff Picks, finding their way into this category generally as a result of agreement between staff that they have real merit for one reason or another. Most titles represent a safe choice for those that find choosing a film difficult or are bewildered by Alice's depth and breadth...
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The Shawshank Redemption ( Blu-ray ) (1994)
9.3/10
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Bob Gunton, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore, Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbi...
Director Frank Darabont's powerful adaptation of the novella by Stephen King stars Tim Robbins as a man serving two life sentences in New England's Sh... Read more
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
9.3/10
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Tim Robbins, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bello...
Director Frank Darabont's powerful adaptation of the novella by Stephen King stars Tim Robbins as a man serving two life sentences in New England's Sh... Read more
Naked (1993)
7.9/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge
Lacerating tale of England's disaffected centers on Johnny, a scruffy, loquacious drifter whose visit to London to see an old girlfriend leads him int... Read more
Philadelphia (1993)
7.7/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance as a hotshot gay lawyer fired from his firm for having AIDS. Denzel Washington is the legal ace hired to def... Read more
High Hopes (Blu-ray) (1988)
7.4/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Edna Dore, Philip Davis, Philip Jackson, Ruth Sheen
A provocative, original, slice-of-life Comedy-Drama about love, alienation and responsibility centred on a young laid-back working class couple, his a... Read more
High Hopes (1988)
7.6/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Edna Dore, Philip Davis, Philip Jackson, Ruth Sheen
A provocative, original, slice-of-life Comedy-Drama about love, alienation and responsibility centred on a young laid-back working class couple, his a... Read more
Bull Durham (1988)
7.1/10
Director: Ron Shelton
Starring: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
A quirky, intelligent comedy with plenty of surprises about a minor-league baseball team and its attentive groupie (Susan Sarandon) who feels it is he... Read more
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
6.4/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper
Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Diane Keaton star as flaky Southern sisters who are uneasily reunited when Spacek is arrested for shooting her politic... Read more
The Thing ( Blu-ray ) (1982)
8.1/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat
John Carpenter's under-rated remake of the 1951 classic actually follows the original source material (John W Campbell, Jr.s 'Who Goes There?') more c... Read more
The Thing (1982)
8.1/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat
John Carpenter's under-rated remake of the 1951 classic actually follows the original source material (John W Campbell, Jr.s 'Who Goes There?') more c... Read more