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Songwriter
1984 94mins USA (15) Musical / Drama
Directed by Alan Rudolph Starring Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon

Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, a country outlaw with a heart of gold. Doc's singer-wife, Honey Carder, has thrown him out of the house. And now he's gotten involved with a sleazy music manager, Rodeo Rocky, who's out to steal his material. Teaming up with Blackie, Doc takes drastic measures to win back his family and reclaim his songs.

White Men Can't Jump
1992 115mins USA (15) Sport / Comedy
Directed by Ron Shelton Starring Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes, Rosie Perez

* ON SALE 4th MAY *

Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) is a white basketball hustler who banks on black players underestimating his skills on the court. When he pulls one over on Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes), his victim sees a lucrative opportunity, and they become partners in the con game, plying their trade across the courts of Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Billy has to keep one step ahead of mobsters, to whom he owes money, while staying on the good side of his Jeopardy!-obsessed, motormouth wife (Rosie Perez).

Bull Durham
1988 108mins USA (15) Sport / Comedy
Directed by Ron Shelton Starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins

* ON SALE 11th MAY *

In Durham, N.C., the Bulls minor league baseball team has one asset no other can claim: a poetry-loving groupie named Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon). As the team's season begins, Annie selects brash new recruit Ebby Calvin Laloosh (Tim Robbins), whom she christens "Nuke," to inspire with the religion of baseball. Nuke also receives guidance from veteran player Crash Davis (Kevin Costner), who settles Nuke's erratic pitching and teaches him to follow the catcher's lead.

Flirting with Disaster
1996 93mins USA (15) Comedy
Directed by David O. Russell Starring Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni

*ON SALE 18th MAY *

Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina (Tea Leoni), he departs on an epic road trip that quickly devolves into a farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and overzealous and love-struck ATF agents (Josh Brolin, Richard Jenkins).

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
1986 97mins USA (18) Comedy
Directed by Richard Pryor Starring Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen, Art Evans

* ON SALE 25th MAY *

Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.

Bamboozled
2000 136mins USA (15) Comedy
Directed by Spike Lee Starring Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith

* ON SALE 1st JUNE *

Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
1987 96mins USA (PG) 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).