Washed-up, fighting bankruptcy, and in the midst of a desperate struggle to win his daughter back from the jaws of a bitter custody battle, Van Damme returns home to Belgium. Unwittingly caught up in a lethal robbery the action hero/actor must confront not only the public's conceptions of him but his own personal demons. JCVD is a cracking tale that seamlessly and intelligently blends fact with fiction, while Van Damme is a revelation; his five minute monologue to camera being a particularly poi find out more...

A superb modern thriller in the ultra-hardboiled Jim Thompson mould, in which a trio of criminals, wanted for a brutally murderous drugs heist, converge on a small, quiet Arkansas township where the local cop, treated with contempt by the LA officers in charge of the case, looks forward to a High Noon-style showdown. The asides on racial and sexual inequality are made subtly and succinctly; the performances and pacing are nigh perfect; the violence is explicit, disturbing but never gratuitous; a find out more...