Movies out this week include:

Akira The Blue Trail Bridget Jones's Diary California Schemin' Colours of Time Departures Endless Cookie Mirrors No.3 Rebuilding Stand By Me The Stranger The Undertone The Wizard Of The Kremlin

Latest reviews:

Departures Marama PH-1 The Cramps: A Period Piece Trauma Or, Monsters All Grace Frankie, Maniac Woman Bugboy Tirrenica The Stranger We Are Stardust Violence Body Of Our Own Mr. Burton Two Women Being Ola Mariinka Night Stage Mother's Baby Four Minus Three

Latest DVD reviews:

Cruel Tale Of Bushido Fear In The Night The Devil's Hand Zen And Sword All The President's Men

Eye For Film >> DVDs Out Now

Edward And Caroline
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Trouble brews for a couple from different classes when the husband is asked to perform for the friends of his wife's rich uncle.
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New Battles Without Honor And Humanity Box Set
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Three tales of yakuza conflict.
The Mourning Forest
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A carer and a patient from a small retirement home become stranded in the forest.
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Casque d'Or
Blu-Ray Review
In turn of the 20th century France, working girl Marie snubs the affections of the local gangsters for Georges Manda, a reformed hoodlum himself, with unpleasant consequences.
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A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
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The life story of British conflict photographer Jason P Howe.
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The Sense Of An Ending
DVD Review
A second-hand camera dealer remembers his university years when relationships were scarred with tragedy and desire while living a life of selfish isolation.
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A Dark Song
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A grieving mother sets out to contact her dead child.
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Free Fire
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A meeting between two gangs in a deserted warehouse turns into a shootout.
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Kung Fu Yoga
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A Chinese archeology professor teams up with an Indian professor to search for lost Magadha treasure.
Westfront 1918
Blu-Ray Review
Four soldiers face the horrors of the front line in the First World War.
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Facets of fashion Ferzan Özpetek on the all-encompassing art of cinema, and Diamanti

The dying house Taratoa Stappard on colonial horrors and inventing the Maori Gothic with Marama

Klapisch – Proud to be populist Colours Of Time director on success and why he wants to stay on the edge

After the fire Max Walker-Silverman on social realism and Rebuilding

Deep water Millicent Hailes and Ksusha Genenfeld on intimacy, immersion and Perfect

More than meets the eye Thales Banzai on the creative processes behind Tony Odyssey

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


Cannes This year's star-studded line-up announced


Cannes Critics' Week selection of first and second features announced


Cannes Acid sidebar announced


Cannes Directors' Fortnight selection


Cannes Leïla Bekhti heads Un Certain Regard jury