Our film recommendations

Diving into a TV series feeling like too much commitment? No worries - we've got a list of film recommendations to keep you entertained for those self-isolation nights! If this isn't enough, why not check out IMDB's Top 100 Films.

Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar winner reimagines both the Old West and the Italian film series Django into something that only QT could make. It features one of Jamie Foxx’s best performances as the title character, a slave who escapes and teams up with a bounty hunter played by Christoph Waltz.

School of Rock

Jack Black plays a guitarist who becomes a substitute teacher at a prep school and teaches the stuck-up kids there how to rock. It’s a smart, funny family comedy with a huge heart and one of Black’s most lovable performances.

Shutter Island

In 2010, Martin Scorsese released his adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s best novel, the story of a U.S. Marshal who investigates a missing patient at a legendary mental hospital. Scorsese is in full command of his skill as a craftsman in this riveting thriller that also co-stars Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Williams.

Us

Inspired by an old episode of The Twilight Zone, the film follows a family who are enjoying their holidays in Santa Cruz only to find that they are being stalked by a group of terrifying doppelgängers – who very soon make their life a living hell.

The Trial of the Chicago Seven

The film follows the Chicago Seven, a group of anti–Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intention of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. What was uspposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

Best books for a quarantine read

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow follows Count Alexander Rostov, a Russian aristocrat sentenced to house arrest indefinitely during a particularly tumultuous period of history. Surprisingly funny and uplifting. 

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

If you’re looking to get stuck into an epic book series, Lucinda Riley’s Seven Sisters has it all; love, loss, mythology, and a crumbling, sun-drenched mansion in Brazil.

The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley

Flamboyant elderly artist Julian feels lonely and invisible to the outside world, so he decides to write the truth about his life in a notebook and leaves it in a cafe for others to read. Before long, the book has found its way across the world and brought a motley group of people together. 

1984 by George Orwell

The ultimate piece of dystopian fiction. Our hero, Winston, tries to resist a grey world where a screen watches your every move, but bravery is ultimately futile when the state worms its way inside your mind.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Stick another log on the fire and curl up with this dark, peculiar and quite brilliant literary murder tale. A group of classics students become entranced by Greek mythology – and then take it up a level.