The second and final of Timothy Dalton's outings as James Bond sees 007 leave Her Majesty's Secret Sevice and branch out on his own. The trouble begins when drug baron Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) makes an unexpected appearance at the wedding of Felix Leiter (David Hedison), Bond's good friend, leaving the groom maimed and the bride dead. Bond has no choice but to seek his revenge and, with a little help from the obligatory 'Bond girl' (Carey Lowell) and the ever-present Q (Desmond Llewellyn), sets out after the villainous Sanchez. Causing a storm on its release because of its violence and dark plot, the film was originally given an 18 certificate before studio cuts.

Joaquin Phoenix and Josh Brolin star in this Academy Award-nominated crime comedy drama written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Private Detective Doc Sportello (Phoenix) is happily getting on with his life when his ex-wife Shasta (Katherine Waterston) shows up at his office with a story that her billionaire boyfriend Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts)'s wife is plotting to kidnap her husband and get him committed to a psychiatric facility so that she can stake a claim on his money. As Doc reluctantly takes on the case he pays a visit to tight-fisted cop Bigfoot Bjornsen (Brolin) to see what he knows about the alleged kidnap victim. The all-star cast also includes Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro and Martin Short.