This story takes placed somewhere between the present and the future. Loosely set within the science fiction genre we enter a time when the government have declared societies urban youth as out of control and in need of readjustment. Sighting the medias glamorisation and endorsement of images of cultural resistance, namely hip-hops 'ghetto fabulous' aesthetic as a root cause of the problem, a new antisocial law has been decreed. It has been declared that any unruly youth must be rounded up and literally reprogrammed in order for them to fit more harmoniously into current society. The idea is to first remove from their mind images associated with the 'ghetto fabulous' culture and then implant a microchip containing a standardised alternative that allows them to quietly reintegrate.
Two complete strangers, Anna (32) and Stephen (30), are brought together by chance by an elderly man named Roger who waits for his wife on a station platform. While they sit together in the deserted waiting room, Roger quietly reminisces about the special things he and his wife did when they were younger. As Stephen and Anna listen they are drawn together and make a connection. Anna is a single mother trying to do the right thing but sucked into a damaging affair with her best friend's husband. Stephen is coasting in a relationship with a partner who suddenly decides she wants a baby. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what is going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions for themselves. If they can change their lives perhaps they can meet again.
The Wake is a dark comic tale set at the wake of a strange urban hero. The accidental arrival of a man who never knew the deceased sets off a chain of events that will unravel a mystery, a death and a root canal.
Callum Campbell believes he has a gift to bring people together, that fate has chosen him to be an earthbound cupid. He spends his life finding other people their soul mates, but by doing so is left alone.
Hannah Welles is obsessed with death. She views it as a way of seeing life more clearly, and will stop at nothing to have her moment to experience death first hand and value the beauty of life.
Donald Jacobs is mad. In the final few months of his life he dresses as a character from his favourite novels. He becomes the character Sir John Greystone, a Wyrm hunter, and performs acts of bravery and daring do on the streets of London.
The Wake is the story of these three people and how death brings them together.
In the opulent world of Washington's political upper crust, one man's passion for the good things in life entrench him in a world of betrayal and murder.
Escorting the elegantly coifed but desperately lonely wives and widows of Washington's powerful elite is the favoured pastime of Carter Page III (Harrelson). Whether to the opera or dinner, or for a game of cards, Carter is their most sought after and willing companion.
When his best friend Lynn Lockner (Scott Thomas) - the beautiful, smart, adoring wife of a Senator-discovers her lover has been brutally murdered, she instinctively turns to Carter for help.
Caught in a web of intrigue and mixed motives, Carter suddenly finds himself implicated in the killing. As his friends desert him and the net grows tighter, he must race against time to find a way to clear his name.
A hard-hitting feature documentary from award winning writer-director John Pilger.
For decades Latin America's attempts at democracy have been repressed by the US. Using meticulous research, previously unseen footage and reconstructions, The War on Democracy charts how one by one these countries are fighting back and triumphing as they take control of their own destinies.
Set in the reign of King James VI of Scotland, The Witches tells the story of three fishwives who concoct a plan to save themselves from the threat of witch dooking.
Rebecca is brought back from the brink of death by top secret agency 'Project 571'. She is trained as a lethal assassin and sent on missions to kill that which she has become, a vampire.
When Project 571 is destroyed by a gang of vampires, Rebecca is thrown into a quest for an ancient book powerful enough to raise the dead. Rebecca joins two priests on a journey to kill the master vampire, Hugo Renoir, before he can unleash the grotesque souls of the damned into our dimension. If Hugo is allowed to perform the ancient ceremony the earth shall forever pass into the realm of darkness.
Along the way Rebecca must utilise her training to face Vampires, Demons and Witches all vying for the book and its awesome power.
In the early part of the twenty-first century, a virus 'Omega Strand' - a variant of the avian flu, began spreading among the populous. Within weeks it had reached the world's greatest cities and the infection spread with ferocious speed.
The loss of life was enormous, with an estimated 999 of every 1000 people succumbing to the virus. The virus would overwhelm a person within hours and upon death, the body would become reanimated until it was no longer able to sustain itself.
Mankind was robbed of the basic essentials of life: electricity, gas, running water. Survivors packed into small groups and found refuge in high-rise buildings and remote areas as the majority of urban land became uninhabitable. With looting and disease, food supplies dwindled and became unreachable in the majority of towns and cities.
Some survivors, not knowing if or when the chaos would end, began documenting their plight in whatever form they could: the written word, photographs and video.
There Will Be Something Later explores the dreams, obsessions and disfunctional relationships of seven characters. Some are friends, some family, some, neighbours. Some hold secret feelings of love or compassion for one another and all of them want to win the local talent contest.
"As Christmas approached I wanted nothing more than to drown in a pool of whiskey and nostalgia but with the support of the friends Kelly thought would lead me astray, I slowly and agonisingly recover from a broken heart. From those long lonely Sunday afternoons where all I could do was wonder what or who she was doing. Through to the thrill of a hot summer's date with a girl I fancied and the horror of realising she wouldn't be spending the night. Leaving me all alone, not wanting to go home and calling every woman in my phone book. Then eighteen months later, cool calm evenings of spring and here I am full of health and hope. I even have a new girlfriend - then of course I bump in to Kelly and it all starts to unravel again."
Full of funny and acute observations THIS IS WHAT IT IS, is a candid and very personal account of love as seen from the male perspective.
