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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
1987 96mins USA (12A) Comedy
Directed by Rod Amateau Starring Mackenzie Astin, Anthony Newley, Katie Barberi

ON SALE 8th JUNE

Crude, grotesque, pint-sized aliens known as the Garbage Pail Kids® help a young boy (Mackenzie Astin)  exact revenge on his bullies and win the girl of his dreams, a fashion designer (Katie Barberi).

The Bad News Bears
1976 102mins (PG) Comedy / Sport
Directed by Michael Ritchie Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow

*ON SALE 16th JUNE*

Hard-drinking, ex-minor-league hopeful Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) grumpily agrees to coach a Little League team at the behest of lawyer-councilman Bob Whitewood (Ben Piazza), who has a vendetta against the league for excluding his marginally talented son from play. After failing with his new team of misfits, Buttermaker enlists feisty and gifted pitcher Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal) to lead the charge -- but can he find the luck and patience to whip these outcasts into shape?

Freaked
1993 86mins USA (15) Comedy / Horror
Directed by Tom Stern|Alex Winter Starring Alex Winter, Randy Quaid, Megan Ward, Mr. T, Brooke Shields, Keanu Reeves

* ON SALE 22nd JUNE *

Ricky Coogan is a self-absorbed former child star roped into promoting a toxic chemical. Along with his best friend and a radical activist, he's ensnared by an eccentric weirdo scientist at a mutant freak farm, where they're horrifically transformed and added to a sideshow of grotesque misfits.

Forty Guns
1957 80mins USA (PG) Western
Directed by Samuel Fuller Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger

* ON SALE 29th JUNE *

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006 108mins USA (12A) Comedy / Sport
Directed by Adam McKay Starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen

*ON SALE 6th JULY *

The story of NASCAR racing sensation Ricky Bobby, whose "win at all costs" approach has made him a national hero. He and his loyal racing partner and childhood friend, Cal Naughton, Jr., are a fearless duo that thrill their fans by finishing most races in the top spots - with Ricky Bobby always leading the pack. When a flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges him for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky Bobby must face his own demons and fight Girard for the right to be known as racing's top driver.

Three Amigos!
1986 105mins USA (PG) Comedy
Directed by John Landis Starring Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Alfonso Arau, Tony Plana, Patrice Martinez

* ON SALE 13th JULY *

Three cowboy movie stars from the silent era -- Dusty Bottoms (Chevy Chase), Lucky Day (Steve Martin) and Ned Nederlander (Martin Short) -- are fired when one of their movies bombs. In what seems to be a career-saving offer, young Mexican woman Carmen (Patrice Martinez) offers them a high-paying gig in her village. The three jump at the opportunity, expecting to do their typical act, but Carmen believes they are really heroes and asks them to rid her village of bad guy El Guapo (Alfonso Arau).

The Shootist
1976 100mins USA (PG) Western
Directed by Don Siegel Starring John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard

* ON SALE 20th JULY *

Legendary director Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) directs the iconic John Wayne as an ageing gunfighter dying of cancer in his final screen appearance, a superb adaptation of Glendon Swarthout's classic western novel, The Shootist.

John Bernard Books is the stuff of legend, a renowned 'shootist' whose reputation looms large. But it's 1901, and like the old west, John is dying and a reputation like his draws trouble like an outhouse draws flies. As word spreads that the famous gunfighter is on his last legs, the vultures begin to gather; old enemies, the marshal, newspaper men, an undertaker, all eager to see him dead. Other men might die quietly in bed or take their own lives, but J. B. Books will choose his executioner and face down death with a pistol in each hand.

With an outstanding cast that features not only Wayne, but James Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Scatman Crothers and John Carradine, The Shootist is an elegiac ode to a monumental screen presence and to the Western genre itself.

Galaxy of Terror
1981 81mins USA (18) Sci-Fi / Horror
Directed by Bruce D. Clark Starring Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston

* ON SALE 27th JULY *

As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence?

The Blade
1995 106mins Hong Kong (15) Wuxia
Directed by Tsui Hark Starring Vincent Zhao Wenzhuo, Xiong Xinxin, Sonny Song

* ON SALE 3rd AUG *

Among the boldest accomplishments of Hong Kong cinema’s golden age, this uniquely visceral martial-arts movie puts a gritty new spin on the story of the one-armed swordsman, an iconic figure from the moment he was introduced by the Shaw Brothers studio in 1967. Composed in a whirlwind of immersive close-ups and fractured editing, The Blade follows the young sword-maker Ding On (Vincent Zhao), who, after losing an arm in an ambush, transforms himself into a furious avenger. With its intentionally disorienting stylization and starkly brutal tone, The Blade was a rare commercial disappointment for Tsui Hark, but it has since been reclaimed as one of the director’s most radical visions—a tour de force of action expressionism, and a scathing reappraisal of the wuxia genre’s code of masculinity, that achieves a feverish intensity.

One Crazy Summer
1986 93mins USA (12A) Comedy
Directed by Savage Steve Holland Starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, Curtis Armstrong

* ON SALE 12th AUG *

An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.