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The White Ribbon – DVD Giveaway

Michael Haneke’s critically acclaimed epic The White Ribbon has swept the globe and you can win it on DVD.

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Saved by the Bell – DVD Giveaway

To celebrate the first DVD release of Saved By The Bell, Pure Movies is giving away two copies!

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Wall Street – Prize Giveaway

To celebrate the release of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, we’re giving away three goodie bags.

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Green Zone Prize Giveaway

Green Zone is in cinemas from 12 March and, to celebrate, we’re giving away dvds and merchandise.

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NEW RELEASES

Alice in Wonderland

The design is pure Burton: the familiar twisted, claw-like trees, the fairground grotesquerie, but what’s back and what we missed recently is that he seems to be having fun.

Shutter Island

Shutter Island is a faithful, detailed movie not set in 1954, but of 1954. Scorsese is fully flexing his cinephilic chops.

Chloe

Whereas the original, Nathalie…, is virtually devoid of any tension and anticipation, Chloe is a Hitchcock thriller for the 21st century.

Ondine

Neil Jordan’s whimsical tale full of Celtic charm, Ondine, will make sure that you fall in love with Ireland all over again.

Legion

If you haven’t quite got the message from Hollywood yet, folks, it’s this: Wake up and smell the diner coffee now, or post-apocalyptic doom awaits us all.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Adapting any novel is a challenge; faithful readers can be very demanding, wanting films to live up to their high expectations.

Extraordinary Measures

In purely cinematic terms this has more the feel of a made-for-TV weepie. One that probably won’t even make you weep.

The Lovely Bones

Jackson and his tag along writing team strip back the complex story of this probably unfilmable book to a core plot of whimsy and sentimentality.

Leap Year

According to Irish tradition, a lady may propose to a man on the 29th February which, of course, only occurs in a Leap Year.

The Wolfman

In the same way that it’s funny seeing a dog wearing clothes, there is something amusing about a wolfed-up Benicio Del Toro still wearing a suit.

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The White Ribbon

Haneke and his wonderful cast convincingly create a richly evocative portrait, and devastatingly illustrate the harsh realities of life for rural communities in the first...

The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker is both a war movie and a character study, where the action scenes provide genuine tension and excitement, because we care about...

Taking Woodstock

It is 1969. And that’s important. Man is landing on the moon but in upstate New York the El Monico, an ‘International Casino and...

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The film is more than a simple adaption of the much-loved story. It is a wholesale re-imagining of Dahl’s...

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When Tim Burton is prominent in the billing, it's safe to expect an atmospheric world peopled by shadowy yet relatable characters; it isn't, however, a...