Waterloo

“This magnificent sequel, the centerpiece of director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo's 20th Century gangster saga, is still one of the most ambitious and brilliantly executed American films, a landmark work from one of Hollywood's top cinema eras.

“The Neverending Story is a fairytale of the very best kind, with luscious effects which include a flying dragon, a rock monster, a fairy princess, and a threat in whose vanquishing lies hope.

New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it.

“Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton, is a ghost story from the haunters' perspective.The drearily happy Maitlands (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) drive into the river, come up dead, and return to their beloved, quaint house as spooks intent on despatching the hideous New York yuppie family which had usurped their property.

Corporate drone Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) hates his soul-killing job at software company Initech. While undergoing hypnotherapy, Peter is left in a blissful state when his therapist dies in the middle of their session. He refuses to work overtime, plays games at his desk and unintentionally charms two consultants into putting him on the management fast-track.

“For years now, people have been complaining that movies are turning into video games and comic books. English director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), takes the approach that movies have been far too reticent. His 2010 film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, is as vibrant as a cluttered wall of graffiti, jumpy enough to risk retina damage.

Part of our March Break Family Film Festival!

A heartwarming and deeply imaginative retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” from the dream triumvirate of Hayao Miyazaki, Pixar’s John Lasseter and Disney.

“Studio Ghibli has produced one animated classic after another, but Spirited Away  is the one that goes into the vault. Part fantasy, part adventure, part dream, and part metaphor, Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece follows a 10-year-old girl who's forced to work in a extra-dimensional bath-house for ghosts and demons after a mysterious spell turns her parents into pigs.

“Miloš Forman’s 1975 version of Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, stars Jack Nicholson is Mac McMurphy, the subversive wildman and incorrigible troublemaker, sent down for statutory rape, whose unstable behaviour gets him a transfer to what he clearly thinks will be the cushy option of the mental institution.