Movies out this week include:

Akira The Blue Trail Bridget Jones's Diary Colours of Time Departures Endless Cookie Fight Club Itch! Mirrors No.3 The North Rebuilding Rose Of Nevada Strictly Ballroom The Wizard Of The Kremlin

Latest reviews:

The North Rose Of Nevada Heat The Illusion Of A Quiet Night Walud Ben-Hur Itch! Camp Tulips Departures Marama PH-1 The Cramps: A Period Piece Trauma Or, Monsters All Grace Frankie, Maniac Woman Bugboy Tirrenica The Stranger We Are Stardust

Latest DVD reviews:

Ben-Hur Cruel Tale Of Bushido Fear In The Night The Devil's Hand Zen And Sword

Eye For Film >> DVDs Out Now

Tales Of The Riverbank
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Hammy the hamster and pals get a re-imagining.
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XXY
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Coming of age drama about an intersex teen.
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La Ronde
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The love lives of a series of inter-related characters.
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Dante 01
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A new arrival with alien powers upsets the equilibrium amongst prisoners in a deep space psychiatric detention centre.
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Protégé
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A drug lord unwittingly grooms an undercover cop to be his successor.
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Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
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Morgan Spurlock goes in search of the al-Qaeda leader.
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The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman
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The life of a freed slave in the American Deep South, from the end of the civil war to the black protest movements of the Sixties.
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Caught
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Tense psychological drama about a young woman whose dream of marrying into riches descends into a nightmare.
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Lilith
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A troubled ex-soldier takes a job as a counsellor at a mental institution and finds himself falling for a patient.
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Trial & Retribution: The Third Collection
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Three more cases for Lynda La Plante's irascible detectives.
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Clever crafting with Idiots Chris Barfoot on his six-camera set up and three-day shoot of his debut feature

'You get in the car, you go somewhere, you have an experience' Cole Webley and John Magaro on poignant road trip Omaha

Open to magic Pete Ohs on growing as a filmmaker and making Erupcja

Catching a wave Mark Jenkin on time travel, the cinema experience, and Rose Of Nevada

Stray cats Bruno Martín and Santiago Taboada on the grime and the glory of Luger

From the withered tree Taratoa Stappard on colonial hierarchies, Ariana Osborne and Marama

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It's a busy time for festivals and here's the latest from the spring events:


Cannes 16 titles added to line-up


Cannes Critics' Week selection of first and second features announced


Cannes Directors' Fortnight selection


Cannes Payal Kapadia heads Critics' Week jury