Warning: male viewers of this savage satire on sexual double standards are likely to experience intense wincing throughout. Then again, the tale of a virginal high school student (Jess Weixler) who finds she has gnashers in an unexpected place is not one for the faint-hearted of either sex.
Noel Clarke’s youth drama arrives on screen with all the hot-button topicality of a text alert. Drugs, gangs, sex, impenetrable dialects – it’s well tuff out there on London’s mean streets, and this picture means to make you realise it.
“Four Americans on a vacation don’t just disappear!” In addition to being criminally ignorant of the holidays-from-hell horror genre, the characters in Carter Smith’s upscale B-movie are the usual band of spectacularly unlucky saps destined to meet grisly ends.
Rupert Wyatt’s prison-break drama boasts a stellar British cast and a true grit that’s all its own. The ever-brilliant Brian Cox plays an old lag who needs to get out of jail quick for family reasons.
Sumptuous photography, sun setting over the British Empire, dialogue as starchy as the shirts – it barely needs the name in the credits to identify Santosh Sivan’s tepid drama as part of Merchant Ivory’s stable.
Three generations gather in a fabulously stylish abode in the French countryside in Oliver Assayas’s stately drama. Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling and Jeremie Renier are the siblings who stand to inherit the part home, part museum after their mother dies.
They tried to make him go to anger rehab and he said, yes, yes, yes. At the start of The Incredible Hulk, its hero Bruce Banner is living in Brazil and getting to grips with his rage.
It’s only minutes into our chat and I’m already beginning to get an inkling that Noel Clarke, who has starred in TV shows including Doctor Who and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet doesn’t like me very much.
This indie charmer, first seen at the Edinburgh Film Festival a year ago, now has a date with a wider audience. It's one worth turning up for, particularly if you're partial to moody monochrome romances.
Pretty young woman seeks rich old man with one foot in the grave - the seedy business of gold-digging is given a makeover in Pierre Salvadori's twinkly rom com.
Ben Affleck's directorial debut was pulled from last year's London Film Festival because its subject, the hunt for a missing child, had very distant yet still distressing echoes of the Madeleine McCann case.
"He was bad, he was trouble, and he was beautiful" - just one of several lyrical assessments of Chet Baker to be found in this classic documentary, reissued 20 years after the jazz giant's death. Photographer and film-maker Bruce Weber shoots in mono throughout, lending the piece a stylish, moody feel that's in keeping with the man and his milieu.
The Go of the title is an ancient oriental board game and Wu Qingyuan, played here by Chen Chang, its real-life master. The glacial pace of this biopic by the director of The Blue Kite contrasts with the turbulent times through which Qingyuan has lived.
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