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MACHUCA (2004)
Chilean director Andres Wood's latest film arrives on these shores with a string of awards and a something of a reputation. A lovingly crafted, achingly nostalgic look at the growing pains of two teenage boys in Santiago in 1973, the film is set against the last tumultuous days of Salvador Allende's socialist government.
MADAGASCAR (2005)
From the makers of
Shrek 2, the hilarious animated film
Madagascar explores what happens when four pampered animals from a New York Zoo suddenly find themselves in the African jungle.
MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA (2008)
While discovering their roots, they quickly realize the differences between the concrete jungle and the heart of Africa. Despite long-lost relatives, romantic rivals and scheming hunters, Africa seems like a "crack-a-lackin" great place…but is it better than their Central Park home?
MAGIC ROUNDABOUT, THE (2005)
The update of the classic childrens animation,
The Magic Roundabout bounds enthusiastically onto cinema screens; hip, trendy, self aware and everything else that the much loved original wasn't.
MAGICIAN, THE (2005)
The Magician is a darkly comic film about Melbourne-based hitman Ray Shoesmith who is being filmed by his friend and neighbour Max, a film student. We interview
Scott Ryan, the star/director/producer of the lo-budget mockumentary
The Magician.
MAGICIANS (2007)
From the hottest new British comedians Mitchell and Webb and the creators of the award-winning 'Peep Show' comes
Magicians - a hilarious new British comedy set in the world of stage magic.
MAMMA MIA! THE MOVIE (2008)
This summer, the smash-hit musical
MAMMA MIA! dances onto the big screen for the first time. To celebrate, Universal Pictures, ODEON and proud partners Heart FM invite you to be among the first in the world to see
Mamma Mia! from July 4 - 9th when ODEON Leicester Square plays host to the world's first exclusive screenings of this highly anticipated film.
MAMMA MIA! THE MOVIE (2008)
Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that brings the timeless lyrics and melodies of iconic super group ABBA to movie audiences.
MAN ABOUT DOG (2004)
Latest in a reasonably long line of small-time crime capers, this Irish comedy about male friendship and dog racing is an amusing romp through the Emerald Isle taking in a few sharp characterisations along the way.
MAN ON WIRE (2008)
Directed by James Marsh, Man On Wire is the dramatic re-telling of Phillip Petit's daring, and illegal, scheme to walk the high-wire between New York's Twin Towers - the artistic crime of the 20th century.
MAN PUSH CART (2005)
Based on real events of a Pakistani man living in New York,
Man Push Cart is a sobering story of a man trying to make a living by starting at the bottom in a city where anything is possible but often comes at a high price.
MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, THE (2006)
James Bond has been marked for death, and he'll need all his lethal instincts and seductive charm to survive in this action-packed adventure! Roger Moore returns as Agent 007 and faces off in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with assassin Scaramanga. Featuring a wild automobile chase through Bangkok and Bond's stunning confrontation with an entire martial arts school,
The Man With the Golden Gun delivers pull-out-the-stops excitement!
MANDERLAY (2005)
Manderlay is the second leg of his trilogy of films dealing with contemporary America, following on from
Dogville in 2003.
MANSON FAMILY, THE (2003)
The Manson Family uses the fictitious TV show
'Crime Scene' as a device to frame the narrative of the near-mythic events of the summer of 1969, that saw the Family descend from peaceful, drugged up, free love hippies to murderous, paranoid "creepy crawlies".
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS (2005)
This is a lovely, gentle documentary about the life of the Emperor Penguin. Each winter these strange birds will make a number of pilgrimages across the harsh icy surface of Antarctica to their breeding ground
MARIA, FULL OF GRACE (2004)
Based on the tales of real life drug mules,
Maria Full of Grace is the story of Mara Alvarez, a 17-year-old Columbian girl who agrees to smuggle heroin into the United States, a decision which could change her financial situation forever, but which could also cost Maria her future, and even her life.
MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006)
Originally conceived before
the Academy Award winning
Lost In Translation, Coppola's
Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst, is a big, bold period movie that brings possible back-door royal mutterings to the fore instead of historical fact.
MARLEY AND ME (2009)
Newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in Florida. Unsure of their preparedness for raising children, the Grogans adopt a cute, twelve pound yellow Labrador, who in no time at all, grows into a 100-pound steamroller of unbridled energy that turns the Grogan home into a disaster area.
MARNIE (1964)
Marnie is a compulsive thief who regularly changes her identity to rob unsuspecting employers. When she tries it on with wealthy playboy Mark, he turns the tables on her, blackmailing her into marrying him. He thinks he can tame her, but Marnie has secrets neither of them are yet aware of.
MASTER AND COMMANDER: FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003)
Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World follows the adventures of British Naval hero Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) and the crew of the HMS Surprise in their battle to scupper the enemy's superior frigate, the French Privateer Acheron.
MATADOR, THE (2005)
The Matador consigns the Bond image to history with Brosnan playing Julian Noble, an amoral hitman enduring a nervous breakdown while on a mission in Mexico City. So he enlists the help of a total stranger to complete this crucial hit.
MATCH POINT (2005)
Match Point had its world premiere to great acclaim at the 58th Cannes Film Festival and is Woody Allen's first production to be filmed in London and entirely outside his native New York.
MATCHSTICK MEN (2003)
Phobia-addled con man Roy is on the verge of pulling off one his greatest scams, an ambitious 'long con'. But Roy 's ordered life is thrown into disarray when he discovers he has a 14-year-old daughter, Angela, who seems intent on getting to know her long lost father.
MAX (2003)
Choosing a 'controversial' subject on which to base a film is not necessarily a passport to interesting cinema, and sometimes the trick can backfire with a vengeance. But
Max, the film that 'humanised' Hitler by showing him as an angry young artist, does not disappoint.
MAX PAYNE (2008)
Max Payne tells the story of a maverick cop determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murder of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld.
ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (2005)
An ethereal story that reveals the remarkableness that underlies the everyday unremarkable. Miranda July's film is heavy on the Freudian, smooth with its cinematography and whimsically melodious in its score. Playful and kooky, albeit sometimes evasive in its deeper analyses.
MEAN CREEK (2004)
Sam, Clyde and Millie want to teach bully George a lesson. He's invited on a boat trip to celebrate Sam's birthday, unaware that he is about to be taught a humiliating lesson. However, as tempers become fractured and loyalties divided, events take a tragic turn which will change everyone's lives forever.
MEAN GIRLS (2004)
Mean Girls stars Lindsay Lohan as Cady, raised in the jungle and off to high school for the first time. Immediately, she finds herself engaged in a plot-driven subterfuge led by her misfit friend Janis, to infiltrate and destroy the Plastics, the all-powerful uberclique running the show.
MEET DAVE (2008)
Dave Ming Chang may be the ultimate fish out of water. There's something about him that's not quite right – for starters, he seems remarkably out of place and uncomfortable in his own body. And for good reason: "Dave" is not a man at all, but a ship made in the image of its miniature-sized captain.
MEET THE ROBINSONS (2007)
Lewis is a brilliant 12-year-old with a surprising number of clever inventions to his credit. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, which he hopes will retrieve early memories of his mother and maybe even rev eal why she put him up for adoption.
MELINDA AND MELINDA (2004)
Melinda and Melinda is a not quite classic Woody Allen; which still places it above many contemporary rom-coms. It engages the brain, the ears, Will Ferrell is a hoot, and its thoroughly enjoyable-and for that it doesn't have to be a masterpiece.
MEMOIRES AFFECTIVES (2004)
Alexander wakes up from a coma after his life support is switched off. Remembering only random images, he attempts to piece his past together using the testimony of an estranged wife, a former lover, a distant daughter and a policewoman attempting to discover the person who nearly killed him.
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (2005)
Director
Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha finally brings to the screen Arthur Golden's tale of life in a Geisha house “ and a sumptuous, visually-thrilling insight into a world of grace, elegance and startlingly imaginative cruelty it is, too.
MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003)
Based on a true story,
Memories of Murder is a haunting examination of two very different detectives' struggle to find Korea's first serial killer as, over a five-year period, ten women are raped and murdered, all in one small country town.
MIAMI VICE (2006)
The cocaine cowboys of the '80s are gone, but Miami's Casablanca allure, the under cover cops and the attitudes of
Michael Mann's culturally influential television series have been enhanced by time in the feature film version of
Miami Vice. Out now on DVD.
MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007)
Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. At the behest of the firm's co-founder he takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work and in doing so comes face to face with the reality of who he has become.
MIGHTY WIND, A (2003)
Better known for turning his amp up to "eleven" as theatrical lead guitarist Nigel Tuffnel in the legendary
This Is Spinal Tap, Christopher Guest is the unrecognized genius of the modern mocumentary genre. Here he turns in an irreverent and funny look at the world of American folk music.
MILK (2009)
From the acclaimed director
Gus Van Sant (
Good Will Hunting, Elephant) comes the powerful and inspiring story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk (Academy Award nominee
Sean Penn) who was assassinated by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White.
MILLIONS (2004)
While coming to terms with the death of their mother, two young boys find a distraction in a bag of stolen loot that seemingly comes floating down from heaven. With the UK just days away from adopting the Euro, the boys indulge in a spending spree to splash the cash before it's all rendered worthless.
MINDSCAPE OF ALAN MOORE, THE (2003)
An unconstructed voyage into the mind of one of the best loved writers working in comics today,
The Mindscape of Alan Moore deals with the life and ideas of the occasionally reclusive auteur of comic book fiction.
MIRANDA (2003)
A romantic comedy with dark, crime thriller leanings,
Miranda markets itself as 'smartsexydangerous'. Rather like its leading lady, who is an alluring and mysterious figure with a hidden identity.
MIRROR (1975)
This is an extraordinary piece of cinema from an extraordinary cineaste. More than 30 years after its original release,
Andrei Tarkovsky's beguiling memory quilt remains as uncompromisingly enigmatic as it is profoundly moving.
MISCHIEF NIGHT (2006)
Everyone has Halloween but in Yorkshire, England they have Mischief Night – for one night only, madness and mayhem rule!
MISS POTTER (2006)
This, somewhat belated, biopic captures Beatrix Potter's innocent world that would go on to fertilize many a young imagination, single-handedly creating a revolution in the world of literature with her lovable characters.
MISSING, THE (2003)
Attempting to be all things to all viewers,
The Missing is part-Western, part-thriller, part-drama; though whether it fully achieves any of these is debatable. Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones star as father and daughter reuninted while searching for Blanchett's kidnapped daughter.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE SCE (0000)
To celebrate the theatrical release of Mission Impossible 3, Paramount Home Entertainment brings <em>Mission Impossible</em> SCE to DVD. Exciting, fast paced and explosive, <em>Mission Impossible</em> SCE is not for the faint hearted and not to be missed.test edit<br />
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (2000)
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) returns in his second outing, endeavouring to complete his Mission: Impossible. This time he's on the track of a genetically modified disease, whilst juggling love interest Thandi Newton and the usual slew of high-kicking baddies.
MISTER LONELY (2008)
Mister Lonely tells the tale of a shy and sensitive Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna), eking out a living moon-walking on the streets of Paris, with the occasional engagement at a local retirement home.
MISTRESS OF SPICES (2006)
Take one beautiful Bollywood actress, two award-winning filmmakers, an acclaimed novel and a host of talented actors, and you should have a hit film on your hands. Almost.
MONA LISA SMILE (2003)
Like a
Dead Poets Society in drag,
Mona Lisa Smile sees Julia Roberts playing the unconventional teacher out to teach her students how to think for themselves, be themselves, and "sieze the day'.
MONDAYS IN THE SUN (2002)
A study of unemployment, and its effects on character, status and life of five men who live and - attempt to - work in a grotty, post-industrial Spain far removed from the tapas and fiesta environs often imagined by outsiders.
MONGOL: THE RISE TO POWER OF GENGHIS KHAN (2008)
Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning historical epic,
Mongol. Based on leading scholarly accounts,
Mongol delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler.
MONSTER (2003)
After Aileen Wuornos's arrest in 1990 for a two-year murder spree, she quickly became labelled America's most notorious female serial killer. Several TV networks and film companies have been quick to cash-in on the lurid appeal of Wuornos' tale, Patty Jenkin's
Monster being one of the latest.
MONSTER HOUSE (2006)
A darkly comic thrill-ride for the whole family,
Monster House is available to buy on DVD and UMD Video and DVD. The adventure of a lifetime begins when three teens discover their creepy neighbour's house is really a living, breathing, pet-munching monster!
MONSTER MAN (2003)
Imagine we're in some alternate universe for a moment in which the Farrelly Brothers had made
Jeepers Creepers. The result would be something like
Monster Man, which embraces its trashy 80s gore-fest roots as warmly as it does the teen gross-out phenomenon.
MONSTERS VS. ALIENS 3D (2009)
From the studio that brought you
Kung Fu Panda and
Madagascar 2, comes a hilarious and out-of-this- world animated adventure,
Monsters vs Aliens, opening at the BFI
IMAX, marks the first 3D collaboration between IMAX and Dreamworks.
MOOLAADE (2004)
Focusing on 'the heroism of daily life', director Ousmane Sembene's feature
Moolaadé tells the stories of Senegalese girls who face terror and mutilation through the 'cultural tradition' of female circumcision, and of Collé, who stakes her well-being on protecting the victims.
MOONRAKER (2006)
James Bond blasts into orbit in this pulse-pounding adventure that takes him from Venice to Rio de Janeiro and to outer space! Roger Moore stars for the fourth time as Agent 007 and joins forces with a NASA scientist to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying all human life on Earth.
MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, THE (2004)
The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara before he was Che - before his image, defiant and James Dean-cool, was plastered over t-shirts, washing powder boxes, vodka bottles and student bedrooms the world over. You could say that this is Che on his Gap Year.
MR AND MRS SMITH (2005)
Could this be the perfect date movie? John and Jane are two beautiful people locked in a boring marriage; it takes the revelation that each is an assassin hired to kill the other to kick-start their chemistry.
MR BROOKS (2007)
Mr. Brooks is a successful businessman, a generous philanthropist and true pillar of the community. But Mr. Brooks harbors a sinister secret - he is an insatiable serial killer, known as The Thumbprint Killer - and no one has ever suspected him, until now.
MR PILIPENKO AND HIS SUBMARINE (2006)
Built over twenty years, designed from blueprints in mouse-eaten diving magazines and financed by squirreling away a meager pension, the do-it-yourself submarine looks far from sea-worthy. Yet Mr Pilipenko is determined to sail the craft in the Black Sea and as he prepares to fulfill his ambition.
MR. BEAN'S HOLIDAY (2007)
Mr. Bean is heading to the South of France for a simple holiday in the sun. His voyage from London to the Riviera soon transcends into one of mischief and mayhem as he inadvertently creates havoc wherever he goes culminating in an unscheduled and riotous screening of his own video diary at the Cannes Film Festival.
MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS (2005)
Mrs Henderson Presents is one of the best films to come out of Britain in the last decade. No, it really
is that good: witty one-liners, loveably frustrating characters, a superbly sharp script and an emotional rollercoaster thrown in for good measure.
MUNICH (2006)
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, a Palestinian terrorist group took eleven Israeli athletes hostage and brutally murdered them. Spielberg's film opens with a haunting re-enactment of these events before following the secret aftermath.
MURDERBALL (2005)
Murderball is about men who play Quad Rugby, an intense - rough even - contact sport, and who are singularly driven to win. And it's about how they go about doing that. Really, the title gives it away.
MUSIC AND LYRICS (2006)
Alex Fletcher is a washed-up '80s pop star who's been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit at county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora invites him to duet with her.
MUST LOVE DOGS (2005)
Ah, the wonderful world of internet dating.
Must Love Dogs explores the modern challenges in that age old quest – searching for a soul mate.
MY BEST FRIEND (2007)
Francois is a middle-aged antique dealer. He's got a stylish apartment and a fabulous life, but at a dinner with a group he considers his dearest acquaintance, he is blindsided by the revelation that none of them actually like him.
Out now on DVD.
MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D (2009)
Presented in stunningly real, cutting edge 3-D projection,
MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D is the new way to experience cinematic horror.
MY HOUSE IN UMBRIAq (2003)
After a terrorist explosion disrupts a train journey, romantic novelist Mrs Delahunty invites her fellow travellers to her villa to recuperate. There she becomes particularly immersed in the life of orphan Aimee, who since the explosion has not uttered a word.
MY SUMMER OF LOVE (2004)
Teenagers Mona and Tamsin meet one summer in a quiet Yorkshire town and form an intense friendship that helps them cope with absent parents, a fanatical brother and all-consuming emotions.
MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2004)
Based on a novel by Scott Heim,
Mysterious Skin is a troubling story of childhood reminiscence and teenage angst, centred on a terrible secret that has cast a shadow over the lives of two young men.
