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S.W.A.T (2003)
S.W.A.T. is the uncomplicated tale of the 'Special Weapons and Tactics' division of the LAPD. Headed by Samuel L. Jackson, a team of recruits are handpicked and then trained to form an elite crime fighting team to apprehend a criminal mastermind.
SABAH (2005)
Making a romantic comedy by touching on the exposed nerve of Arab-Western cultural collision is certainly a new approach. Ruba Nadda's portrayal of an immigrant family living in Canada is a light-hearted film typical of the genre but still manages to engage with the multicultural debate.
SAINT-MARTYRS-DES-DAMNES (2005)
Appearing at first to be a conventional horror movie, filmmaker Robin Aubert's first feature grafts genres together to make something more akin to a mutant than anything seen on screen.
SAW II (2005)
The brilliant, disturbed mastermind who wreaked havoc on his victims in last year's
Saw is back for another round of horrifying life-or-death games.
SAW III (2006)
After carving up both the UK and US box offices this Halloween, the most terrifying instalment yet of the hugely successful horror franchise has pulled out all the stops with an Extreme Edition produced exclusively for DVD.
SCARY MOVIE 3 (2003)
This time directed by veteran satirist David Zucker (responsible for such seminal satire as
Airplane! and the
Naked Gun series),
Scary Movie 3 admirably manages to concoct a neatly woven story combining, amongst others,
The Matrix Reloaded, Signs, 8 Mile and
The Ring.
SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE (2006)
Temperatures soar between seven couples as they explore love, sex and relationships on London's Hampstead Heath. With a stellar British cast including Ewan McGregor, comedienne Catherine Tate and Oscar nominated Sophie Okonedo, Scenes of a Sexual Nature is a comedic and sexually charged look at what makes us tick.
SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
Widely considered his most critically acclaimed and personal work to date, Spielberg's masterpiece about the Jewish holocaust remains one of the most shocking, thought-provoking and moving pieces of cinema ever made winning Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars.
SEA INSIDE, THE (2004)
The Sea Inside is based on the memoir of Ramon Sampedro, a man paralysed in a freak accident as a young man who lived as a quadriplegic for 30 years.
SECRET WINDOW (2004)
Like so many King's stories,
Secret Window centres on the trials and tribulations of a writer. Rainey is the depressed and slightly misanthropic author of a string of pulp thrillers. The film opens with Rainey holed up in his remote log cabin, struggling hopelessly with a severe bout of writers block.
SECUESTRO EXPRESS (2004)
Young couple Carla (Maestro) and Martin (Leroux) are abducted by three men and spend a terrifying night in Caracas as they wait for Carla's father (Blades) to hand over the ransom.
SEED OF CHUCKY (2004)
Director Mancini's fascination with blood and gore has seen the previous
Chucky films exploring themes of the horror genre. Unlike
Child's Play, the
Chucky movies have increasingly deviated from the art of serious horror into interesting topics that slasher films rarely explore.
SEPARATE LIES (2005)
A glorious silly tale that purports to be a mature dissection of the 'tangled webs we weave' in lying to each other. Julian Fellowes' directorial debut,
Separate Lies, turns takes another look (as per
Gosford Park, which he wrote) at the lives of the privileged classes.
SERENITY (2005)
TV director Joss Whedon's ('Buffy' and 'Angel') cinema debut takes up the crusade of axed TV drama 'Serenity', which was so popular on the cult circuit that the DVD sold over 200,000 copies in the US alone. Whedon attempts to revive interest with this hideously brilliant spin-off.
SEVEN POUNDS (2009)
From the director of
The Pursuit of Happyness and starring two-time Academy Award nominee Will Smith comes the stirring and emotionally suspenseful tale of a man with a haunting secret who sets out to redeem himself by drastically changing the lives of seven total strangers.
SEVEN SWORDS (2005)
Seven Swords, which
opened the 2005 Venice Film Festival, is based on the classic and revered Wuxia (“martial arts chivalry”) novel “Seven Swordsmen from Mountain Tian” and directed by acclaimed genre helmer Tsui Hark (
Once Upon a Time in China).
SEVERANCE (2006)
Working nine to five is a real killer, but teambuilding holidays can be even worse. Seven colleagues find themselves faced with the chop when their corporate weekend is sabotaged by a deadly enemy. Forget office politics, only the smartest will survive this bloody office outing.
SEX AND PHILOSOPHY (2005)
There's a good deal of unashamed gazing at the female form in this tale of a middle-aged dance tutor summoning his ex-lovers together to celebrate his birthday. Part male fantasy and part mournful threnody to the transcience of love, Makhmalbaf's film brings a fresh approach to a hackneyed subject.
SEX AND THE CITY (2008)
New York's favourite, fashionable, female foursome are back, continuing their search for sex, love and relationships not to mention the perfect pair of sling backs in
Sex and the City: The Movie. Out now on DVD.
SEX DRIVE (2008)
Loveable underdog Ian is the last American virgin. But his luck finally seems to be changing when he meets Ms.Tasty on the internet. There's just one problem: she lives 500 miles away and she thinks he's the Brad Pitt lookalike he's pretending to be on Facebook.
SEX IS COMEDY (2002)
Catherine Breillat's partly autobiographical film is a movie about movies about movies. That is, she plays with the current penchant for 'The Making Of' videos, which promise to reveal the mysteries of a film shoot, but provide nothing but superficial glossing: the heart of it remains a secret.
SHALL WE DANCE (2004)
Bored, married laywer John (Gere) spies forlorn dancer Paulina (Lopez) and takes up dancing lessons to get close to her. It's not quite
Flashdance, however, as he has to battle his romantic feelings and hide his new hobby from his wife and co-workers.
SHALLOW GROUND (2004)
Sheriff Jack Sheppard (Murphy) is set to leave his hometown when the appearance of a blood-soaked teenage boy offers him the answer to a year-old murder case. Sheppard races to unravel the mystery as bodies pile up around him and the blood of the past seeps through to the present.
SHANGHAI KNIGHTS (2003)
By no means a cinematic masterpiece, Jackie Chan's inventive fight sequences and Owen Wilson's sardonic wit rescue
Shanghai Knights from the mundane. Introduce some irreverent historical humour and kung fu, and what you've got is a lot of fun and an excuse for family-size popcorn.
SHAOLIN SOCCER (2001)
With a record breaking release in Hong Kong, the most successful home grown movie ever (HK$60 million at the local box office) is a film with much to live up to - featuring, as it does, the collision of the West (football) and the East (Kung Fu).
SHATTERED GLASS (2003)
A film about a lying journalist doesn't sound like a particularly interesting topic, but
Shattered Glass is a fast-paced and slickly made examination of office politics, ambition and ego, based on the real-life scandal of a journalist who goes one step too far.
SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE (1994)
Touching and cinematically close to perfect,
The Shawshank Redemption chooses not to linger on the misery of the incarcerated, but rather through the noble character of Andy Dufresnes (Tim Robbins), shows in a deeper sense what it means to be free.
SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009)
In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous characters, “SHERLOCK HOLMES” sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. The action-adventure mystery “SHERLOCK HOLMES” is helmed by acclaimed filmmaker Guy Ritchie, and stars Robert Downey Jr as Holmes, and Jude Law as Watson.
SHOOT 'EM UP (2007)
Clive Owen promises "I'm a British nanny and I'm dangerous." Known only as Mr Smith, he comes across a young pregnant woman in a grimy part of New York City, who is being pursued by gun-toting assassins in this over-the-top action packed movie.
SHOOTING DOGS (2005)
Don't miss this poignant portrayal of the Rwanda genocide. It's a moving story that will stay with you and force you to consider some uncomfortable but necessary questions.
SHOPGIRL (2005)
Typically of Steve Martin's scripts, LA is as much of a character as any of the people in the film, and this movie is an adaptation of Martin's novella.
SHORTBUS (2006)
Shortbus follows various New York City characters as they navigate the comic/tragic intersections between sex and love in. We speak with director
John Cameron Mitchell about making such a controversial film.
SHORTS: C'ETAIT UN RENDEZVOUS (1976)
To celebrate its 30th Anniversary, Claude Lelouch's mesmerising breakneck journey through 1970s Paris, the short film
C'était un Rendezvous has finally been released on Special Edition DVD. An underground phenomenon, the DVD includes exclusive candid interview footage of the director. "Makes
Bullitt look like a cartoon" Jeremy Clarkson.
SHREK THE THIRD (2007)
When Shrek married Princess Fiona, becoming the next King and Queen of Far, Far Away wasn't part of the plan. So when his father-in-law, King Harold, falls ill, it is up to Shrek to find a suitable heir or he will be forced to give up his beloved swamp for the throne.
SHROOMS (2006)
When five American students arrive in Ireland to go on a camping trip with their old buddy Jake, they are in high spirits.
SICKO (2007)
Michael Moore's
Sicko is a straight-from-the-heart portrait of the insane, often cruel, and always profit-hungry U.S. health care system, told from the vantage point of everyday people faced with extraordinary and heartbreaking challenges in their quest for basic medical care.
SIDEWAYS (2004)
Sideways is an unassuming comedy from the pen and megaphone of Alexander Payne, who's already shown with
Election and
About Schmidt that he has a master's eye for smaller-than-life characters, and a feel for comedy that builds up slowly, then gets you right in the gut.
Sideways is vintage Payne.
SILENCE BETWEEN TWO THOUGHTS (SOKAATE BEINE DO FEKS) (2003)
It's in the silence between two thoughts that dissension and doubt can weave themselves. In this Iranian tale, the doubts are of an executioner, questioning the orders from his leader that, before he may execute a young virgin, he must first marry and then sleep with her.
SIN CITY (2005)
Welcome to
Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark. Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home.
SINGING DETECTIVE, THE (2003)
An American remake of Dennis Potter's tale of a flaky-skinned, resentful writer of detective stories who lives increasingly in the imaginative world of his own fiction. Originally an eight-hour TV series, some of the stories may have been sacrificed to fit the new format, but the painfully sharp comedy remains.
SISTERS IN LAW (2005)
Winner of the Prix Art et Essai award at the Cannes film festival, Kim Longinottos documentaries have won her critical acclaim. Her subjects often highlight the plight of female women and the oppressive worlds in which they live. Her latest film,
Sisters in Law is no different.
SIXTY SIX (2006)
It is the summer of '66, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12 year-old Bernie though, the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah, and the day he becomes a man.
SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY (2005)
Sketches of Frank Gehry is the first documentary by acclaimed Hollywood director
Sydney Pollack, presenting an overview of Gehry’s life and work, showing us sketches and models created by this unique architect and his collaborators.
SKY BLUE (2003)
Would you know the color “sky blue” if you had never seen the sky in your life?
Sky Blue is a love story set against the forces of destruction, a dystopian vision of Earth's destiny, yet ultimately a reminder of our hope for the future.
SKY HIGH (2005)
“Sky High would like to remind all students that there is no smoking… freezing, or exploding allowed in the hallway.”
Sky High, another Disney classic, hits our screens fuelled with Kurt Russell and driven by fast flying, stretching action; this movie is positively radioactive.
SLEEPING DOGS (2006)
In his third feature
Sleeping Dogs, Goldthwait questions our idealization of the absolute virtues of honesty: "Total honesty for the sole sake of getting a weight off your chest, even at the cost of hurting someone close to you .."
SLEEPOVER (2004)
Ah, the sleepover: rite of passage for adolescents everywhere. Joe Nussbaum enters the tweenie market with this comic caper of a sleepover whose success will separate the geeks from the chics in the all-important freshman year.
SLEUTH (2008)
A dramatic and thrilling study of sexual conflict, jealousy, power and manipulation handled with both lacerating wit and humour,
Sleuth tells the story of a wealthy writer of detective stories (Caine) and an aspiring yet out-of-work actor (Law) who is having an affair with the writer's wife.
SLIPSTREAM (2005)
LOTR's Sean Astin finds himself much further than the shires in this low-budget sci-fi story. Here he plays a physicist developing time travel technology (which he uses for his own gains) while trying to evade investigation by his own employer.
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (2008)
The amazing
Slumdog Millionaire,
Danny Boyle's four time Golden Globe winner and hotley tipped for Oscar success, is the most talked about film of the year about a boy from the slums who is just one one question away from winning 20 million rupees.
SMOKIN' ACES (2007)
A dying mob boss takes out a $1 million contract on the life of his former protégé, a Vegas magician turned gangster who has agreed to testify against the mob. The FBI attempts to protect their key witness as an array of hit men (and women)descend on Lake Tahoe in a race to take the magician out. Starring an ensemble cast, including
Ben Affleck, Ray Liotta and
Andy Garcia,
Smokin' Aces is out in cinemas January 12th.
SNOW CAKE (2006)
Premiering at this years Edinburgh Film Festival,
Snow Cake is a taught drama focusing on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident. We speak with
Sigourney Weaver about her experiences playing an autistic woman.
SOCIAL GENOCIDE, A (2004)
A Social Genocide shows how Argentina has been betrayed by politicians who put the business interests of the rich and powerful over the wellbeing of its citizens. Solanas may focus on Argentina, but his arguments could be applied to any country.
SOMERS TOWN (2008)
Directed by BAFTA award-winning Shane Meadows,
Somers Town follows two teenage boys Tomo and Marek, adrift in an adult world, who develop a mutual trust and acceptance through an unlikely friendship.
SOMERSAULT (2004)
This is a tale of beauty in the weeds from an Australia not often seen on this side of the planet: a working Australia that isn't defined by racism, bigotry or sexism – though these all make appearances – a backdrop to Heidi's journey to an out-of-season ski town.
SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE (2003)
On first glance,
Something's Gotta Give looks like another Rom-Com vehicle for Jack Nicholson and his eyebrows. In fact this is Diane Keaton's film, in which she play feisty Erica Barry, who falls in love with Nicholson's aged lothario and attempts to convert him from his penchant for 'uncomplicated' 20-year-old girfriends.
SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY (2003)
Based on Patrick Galvin's true story of abuse within a Catholic instituion,
Song For A Raggy Boy is not an easy film to watch. New teacher William Franklin (Aiden Quinn) takes up a post at a reformatory school and quickly bonds with the boys. However his sensibilities bring him into tragic conflict with the other masters.
SOPHIE SCHOLL - THE FINAL DAYS (2005)
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days tells the story of the last few days in the life of a young heroine in the White Rose Resistance group in Nazi Germany. The amazing strength of a girl under intense interrogation is uplifting in a sobering film based on real historical records.
SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (1965)
What can be said about
Sound of Music that hasn't already been passed into legend? Those mountains, those nuns, those tunes: relive the spectacle in unashamed nostalgic whimsy. You deserve it.
SPARTAN (2004)
Val Kilmer plays Robert Scott, an emotionally detached and super-efficient military killer. Scott is the kind of specialist who trains elite soldiers in the dark arts, and turns up in crisis situations - immediately revered by his colleagues, and never referred to by his full name.
SPECIAL (2006)
An offbeat dark comedy that follows the journey of Les Franken, a lonely parking enforcement officer, who decides to take part in a clinical trial for a new and exciting antidepressant called 'Special'. An unexpected side effect of the drug renders him with superpowers - or so he thinks.
SPELLBOUND (1945)
The arrival of a new chief-of-staff at the Green Manors mental asylum brings chaos. Not only does icy blond Dr. Peterson (Ingrid Bergman) fall in love with him on sight, when it's revealed the chief is an amnesiac imposter, both doctors go on the run together, trying to piece together his fragmented identity.
SPIDER-MAN 2 (2004)
With
Spider-man 2 Sam Raimi has given us the greatest comic book adaptation since Richard Donner's 1978 release,
Superman. He pleases the cult crowd by sticking closely to the comics, while adding context for a mainstream audience unfamiliar with the ins and outs of Spiderman's complex mythology.
SPIDER-MAN 3 (2007)
Spider-Man 3 reunites the cast and filmmakers from the first two blockbuster adventures for a web of secrets, vengeance, love, and forgiveness that will transport worldwide audiences to thrilling new heights. Interviews with
Tobey Maguire and
Kirsten Dunst now running online.
SPIRIT TRAP (2005)
Spirit Trap tells the story of four young people summoned to live in a 'cursed' house while they study at college. It doesn't take too long before things start to go bump in the night and old fears and neuroses return to haunt the housemates.
SPUN (2003)
Not perhaps your typical subject for a comedy except amongst doped-out Beavis and Butthead types:
Spun is the comi-tragedy of a group of 'Speed Freaks' (Methamphetamine users, not boy races) who spin out on a 3-day run of highs and confusion.
SPY KIDS 3D: GAME OVER (2003)
On their most mind-blowing mission yet, the Spy Kids are about to enter an entirely new dimension: the third dimension.
SPY WHO LOVE ME, THE (2006)
Nobody does it better than Bond, and he proves it once more in this explosively entertaining adventure that takes him from the Egyptian pyramids to the ocean floor and to a gravity-defying mountaintop ski chase! Roger Moore brings inimitable style to Agent 007 as he teams with beautiful Russian agent Anya Amasova to stop the megalomaniac Stromberg from unleashing a horrific scheme for world domination.
SQUID AND THE WHALE, THE (2005)
Noah Baumbach's semi-autobiographical family drama is a quirky tale of dysfunctional relationships. Jeff Daniels plays the bullish father and Laura Linney the oddball mother to teenagers Frank and Walt, who are more alike their parents than they realise.
STAGE BEAUTY (2004)
An inversion of themes begun in
Shakespeare in Love,
Stage Beauty focuses on Ned Kynaston, the English stage's foremost renaissance 'female actor'. While his star wanes once laws about women acting are reversed, his dresser, Maria, finds her fate more heaven-bound.
STAR TREK (2009)
From director J. J. Abrams comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time; Star Trek, featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no one has gone before. Now showing at the
IMAX.
STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005)
A cultural phenomenon comes to a close with the final installment of the prequel trilogy that wraps up the legend of
Star Wars. In
Revenge of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker's fate is sealed as Senator Palpatine takes ultimate control of the boy's future, pushing him irrevocably towards the dark side.
STARDUST (2006)
Stardust, based on the best-selling graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess, takes audiences on an adventure that begins in a village in England and ends up in places that exist in an imaginary world.
STARSKY AND HUTCH (2004)
Not so much
Starsky and Hutch as 'Stiller & Wilson': here the modern-day Lemmon & Mathhau pay homage to all things 70s, from bad hair to bad cardigans. Fans of the original show, its characters and cars, won't be disappointed either.
STARTER FOR TEN (2006)
In
Starter For Ten, Brian Jackson (James McAvoy) embarks on a university career determined to experience life – and fulfil his boyhood ambition to appear on University Challenge. But all does not go according to plan.
STATE OF PLAY (2009)
Oscar® winner
Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled in a case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders.
STATION AGENT, THE (2003)
The Station Agent neatly offers us a microcosm of life's experience in the story of a man born with dwarfism and his unlikely friendship with two people struggling with their own emotional issues. It's a quiet and unassuming film, dominated by an outstanding lead performance from Peter Dinklage.
STAY ALIVE (2005)
A group of young people stumble upon a frightening video game which details the grisly true story of a 17th century noblewoman known as "the blood countess." A chilling connection is made when the gamers are murdered in the same method as the character they played in the game.
STEAMBOY (2005)
'Steamboy' - aka headstrong young inventor Roy finds himself pitched explosively into the middle of a Victorian arms race and against his disfigured, embittered scientist father.
STEP BROTHERS (2008)
In this funny ‘family’ comedy
Stepbrothers, Will Ferrell plays Brennan Huff who still lives at home at the ripe old age of thirty-nine and is without a job.
STEPFORD WIVES, THE (2004)
A glossy re-make of the 1975 original, both based on Ira '
Rosemary's Baby Levin's book of the same name. After a nervous breakdown, successful career woman Joanne Eberhart and husband Walter decamp to Stepford, Conneticut, where they find the women perky, perfect, and ever so slightly sinister...
STINGRAY (2006)
Stingray follows a bad day in the life of Kurt Flint, a struggling writer and part-time dreamer. Kurt thinks he's a great writer but after an uncomfortable pitch meeting he finds something that may lighten his mood in the shape of pretty young teacher Lucy.
STOKED: THE RISE AND FALL OF GATOR (2002)
The higher they rise, the harder they fall.
Stoked documents the rise to fame of skate legend Mark 'Gator' Rogowski, and his tragic fall from grace that ended in drink, drugs, rape and murder.
STONED (2005)
Cashing in on conspiracy theories that have abounded for years,
Stoned purports to reveal the 'truth' behind the death of flamboyant junkie and one-time Rolling Stones member, Brian Jones.
STORMBREAKER (2006)
This summer sees the eagerly awaited big screen debut of 14 year old special agent Alex Rider in
Stormbreaker, based on the first of Anthony Horowitz's chart-topping series of novels about a teenage superspy. We speak with Director
Geoffrey Sax.
STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL, THE (2003)
A unique and touching documentary about the lives a nomadic family of Mongolian herders. At the heart of the tale is the difficult birth of a rare albino camel, Botok, and his subsequent rejection by his mother, leaving the infant in serious danger of starvation.
STRANGERS (2006)
Devin lives with his mom, sister and volatile stepfather in a comfortable middle-class Californian suburb. Devin’s mother becomes mildly concerned when her son develops an obsession with aliens, and insists he is visited at night by creatures from outer space. Thinking it will discourage his fantasies, Devin’s school teacher asks for some proof of these extra-terrestrial night calls, but discovers more than she bargained for.
STRAY DOGS (2004)
Stray Dogs is about two Kabul street kids and their existence with the harshness of Afghanistan in 2003. The film premiered a the Venice Film Festival in 2004, but clearly getting UK distribution has taken some time.
STRINGS (2004)
A unique premise: a variation of the 'Hamlet' tale re-made with puppets. Despite the mario-vision, the life-like cast and some imaginative themes draws viewers in to this fairytale of Prince Hal and his revenge for his father's murder.
STUCK ON YOU (2003)
Fans of typically Farrelly brothers gross-out comedy may come away from
Stuck on You feeling, well, not so enamoured. While the title hints at bad taste punning of the highest order at the expense of conjoined twins, this is more a saccharine - and toilet-humour free - exploration of brotherly love.
SUMMER THINGS (2002)
Comedies of manners, deadpan humour, and the ability to be self-deprecating are not the sole preserve of the British, as this French movie from Cannes winner Michael Blanc neatly demonstrates.
SUNSHINE (2007)
Sunshine once again pairs director Danny Boyle with writer Alex Garland and
producer Andrew Macdonald, who previously teamed up for the thinking person's zombie film,
28 Days Later for this new sci-fi action thriller, now out on DVD.
SUPER SIZE ME (2004)
Having passed into cultural legend, Morgan Spurlock's documentary takes the facts behind a famous McDonald's lawsuit to see if they float in the real world: Spurlock vows to eat nothing but McDonald's meals for 30 days to see if processed food really is as wholesome as Ronald would have us believe.
SUPERHERO MOVIE (2008)
How many superheroes does it take to save the world? The creators of
The Naked Gun and
Scary Movie answer this question in hysterical ‘David Zucker’ fashion with the uproarious comedy
Superhero Movie.
SUPERMAN RETURNS (2006)
Epic action-adventure
Superman Returns is a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world's most beloved superheroes. 'The Man of Steel' is on his way back to Earth after a mysterious absence. Special Edition two-disc DVD and UMD now out to buy.
SURVEILLANCE (2009)
Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) arrive at Captain Billing’s office, they have three sets of stories to figure out and a string of vicious murders to consider.
SUZIE GOLD (2004)
Based around the loves and lives of a tight-knit Jewish family in modern day North London,
Suzie Gold is a light and entertaining Jewish version of
My Big Fat Greek Wedding that tackles similar issues of belonging, family ties and tradition.
SWEPT AWAY (2002)
Not quite as legendarily bad as it was whitewashed on first release, Guy Ritchie's re-make of an Italian cult favourite is more soporifically ordinary. Real-life Mrs Ritchie, Madonna, gets the
Overboard treatment as a rich bitch cast away on an island with one of her abused crew.
SWIMMING UPSTREAM (2003)
Talented swimmer Tony Fingleton struggles to gain recognition from his violent, alcoholic father. He dreams of attending Harvard University, and winning the Olympics, but father Harold threatens to tear his dreams - and family - apart.
SYRIANA (2005)
A relatively inexperienced director Stephen Gaghan, who also wrote the screenplay, has made a taut thriller that uses its landscape as much as its characters to impressively depict the labyrinthine nature of oilmen politics.
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2008)
