Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of WW1, which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences go on to inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle Earth novels
Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of WW1, which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences go on to inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle Earth novels
This spectacular drama re-imagines one of literature's most enduring heroes, the great warrior Beowulf. Having left the rugged frontier town of Herot some twenty years before, he returns seeking a sense of purpose and belonging and to say goodbye to it's dying Thane, Hrothgar. Although quickly, and wrongly, accused of murdering Herot's Reeve shortly after his arrival, Beowulf once again finds a home in the town. And, after driving off the beast Grendl, he becomes the enigmatic and unconventional Reeve, whose job it is to uphold the law and protect the town from the external and internal dangers which constantly threaten its existence. What he doesn't plan on however, is falling in love with Herot's beautiful if secretive healer. Featuring an ensemble cast of fascinating characters, this epic drama follows Beowulf as he strives to be a man as well as a hero whilst defending those he loves from an increasingly hostile world.
Being a teenage girl is tough. Being an uncool 15 year old lesbian who's completely infatuated with the most outrageous and popular girl in school is downright unfair! Sugar Rush explores the world of Kim and her earth-shattering lust for the gorgeous and sassy Maria Sweet otherwise known as Sugar. And if Sugar wasn't enough to blow Kim's mind there's also her dysfunctional embarrassing family; a mini-freak for a brother an obsessively house-proud dad and a
Three college students set out to find what people dread most.
A factual drama telling the remarkable but little known story of George Best's relationship with his alcoholic mother. The film will have a tragicomic tone and focus on Best''s year long retirement from football aged 26. A year in which Best decided he was going to enjoy himself. Sod Manchester United. Sod football. Sod everyone and everything except himself. But the harder Best tries to establish himself in the life of a Soho dandy the more surprised he is to find himself pulled back to his raw Belfast roots. George is trying to concentrate on dating three Miss Worlds at the same time and building up his collection of night-clubs and sports cars when he discovers his formerly tee-total 'mam' has taken to heavy drinking. And he thinks it''s all his fault... Through the course of this 90 minute film the black farce of Best's life - his carousing his evasion of those trying to save him or lure him back to football his stumbling into the politics of Northern Ireland - will be counter-pointed by the tragedy of his mother''s slow death from alcoholism. Until finally Best gives up on hedonism and puts on his boots again... only to discover his genius has gone. The Bests will be an unfamiliar telling of a very familiar story. It will capture Best at a point where his future his mother's future and the future of Belfast are all hanging in the balance. It's the forgotten year of the George Best legend but it may just be the most important.
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