Lucy Fife Donaldson says: "Written by Apatow-adjacent Jay Baruchel (asseen in Knocked Up) and Evan Goldberg (PineappleExpress, Superbad),this is an affectionate and violent insight into the life of an Ice Hockeyenforcer, the player used to protect his team and intimidate the other players.Sean William Scott is Doug, a nice but none-too-bright bouncer, the black sheepof a family of Jewish doctors, who finds his calling as an enforcer who iseventually hired to protect a star player who has been find out more...

When snowplow driver, Nils receives news that his son has died of a heroin overdose, he is disbelieving of the official report and soon uncovers evidence of his son s murder an innocent victim of local crime boss, The Count . Armed with heavy machinery, Nils embarks upon a quest for revenge that inadvertently ignites a full-blown underworld gang war, with the body count spiraling ever higher and higher. A hugely entertaining, darkly comic thriller from the reliably idiosyncratic Norwegians

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Mike Leigh serves up another delicious slice of frighteningly real British family life. Alison Steadman is outstanding as the suburban mother of teenage twin daughters, one a plumber, the other a heavily depressed and anti-social bulimic. Stark, hilarious, tragic but ultimately uplifting. Brilliant British film making. find out more...

Tita's heart is broken when she is forbidden to marry the man she loves because of a family tradition. When her sister instead marries her lover her anger goes into her magical cooking. A wonderfully inventive and touching story, with superb visual flourishes - a beautiful, colourful fable.. find out more...

Saajan, a Mumbai office worker nearing retirement is delivered the wrong lunch by a dabbawala. Young housewife Ila had intended it for her emotionally indifferent husband. To Saajan's surprise, the food is a vast improvement on his usual meal. When he finds a note from Ila enclosed with another meal, he decides to write back. So begins Ritesh Batra's exquisite comedy drama.

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Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking are his increasingly frequent escapes to the local tavern. On the eve of the mid-summer Italian holiday of Ferragosto, Gianni is approached by a building manager and blackmailed into looking after his mother and aunt for two nights in exchange for forgiving certain debts. Soon after, Gianni's doctor friend asks if he to can leave find out more...

Toula's just hit thirty and there's no man in sight, not a problem you might think for a modern woman, but Toula belongs to a traditional Greek family and she's still very much embroiled in their embrace. Ian is the tall not so dark stranger who transforms her world and while the infatuated couple prepare for life together her eccentric family move in to add some traditional chaos. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is a delightful romantic comedy, light, fluffy and full of farce. Pure escapism. find out more...

Control-freak Kate is a master chef who lives her life like she runs her kitchen, with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates all around her. Kate's perfectionist nature is put to the test when she not only 'inherits' her nine-year-old niece Zoe but also has to contend with the brash, but gifted, new sous-chef, the high-spirited and freewheeling Nick. Kate and Nick immediately get off on the wrong foot but we, the audience, know they're a match made in heaven. A likeable en find out more...

April has not long escaped the joyless suburban nest of her family, and to prove her independence she invites the clan to her New York flat for Thanksgiving. What could be an opportunity to ease a scratchy relationship with her dying mother begins to look increasingly doomed when April is forced to acknowledge she can't actually cook and the oven doesn't work anyway. As the arrival of April's jaded family looms, in desperation she calls on her hitherto unknown neighbours for help. Pieces of Apri find out more...

A gothic, psychological horror from "Face" director Antonia Bird. It's the mid-19th Century and accidental war hero John Boyd is assigned to a remote "fort" in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains. There, he and seven others, all bored out of their minds, proceed to live in squalor like barbarians. Things liven up considerably with the arrival of a half-dead Scotsman, (Robert Carlyle, looking spookily like Charles Manson), who has a chilling tale to tell. He and his travelling companions, he recou find out more...