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:

Tony Odyssey 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

Latest DVD reviews:

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

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A news crew get trapped in an apartment block with a deadly virus and something else...
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Son Of Rambow
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Delightful comedy about childlike imagination and love of the movies.
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Shelter
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Love is all you need for troubled surfer who didn't know he was gay.
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Strange Wilderness
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Wildlife TV presenters go in search of Bigfoot with a crew of idiots and stoners.
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How She Move
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A troubled teenager tries to prove herself through dance.
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The Elephant Man
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True story of a grotesquely deformed man who is saved from a freak show to become a sensation in Victorian London society.
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The Sick House
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The spirit of a murderous doctor continues to kill kill kill from beyond the grave.
Hell's Ground
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Pakistani horror flick along traditional slasher lines - young people, road trip, Leatherface lookalike, oops!
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Dark City: Director's Cut
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Extravagant sci-fi fantasy about a hunted man struggling with his memory gets a directorial polish.
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Hester Street
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The Americanisation of Jewish immigrants in New York at the turn of the 20th century.
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Writing hidden messages Arnaud Desplechin on guilt, melodrama, feeling haunted, and Two Pianos

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

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Cannes 16 titles added to line-up


Cannes Critics' Week selection of first and second features announced


Cannes Directors' Fortnight selection


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