A crackingly realised biog of a man who relentlessly dodged death with a cocky ambivalence that frankly defies credulity. 'Mesrine' is stylishly shot, smoothly directed and perfectly, charmingly, sociopathically performed by Cassell. A tight, pacey thriller considerably enhanced by the fact that it's based in, well…fact. This first film takes us from his brutal initiation as a soldier during the horrors of Algeria's fight for liberation to the end of the 1960s via France and French Canada. find out more...

The Kemp brothers are superb in this atmospheric film of the violent rise, and eventual fall, of the notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins from their deprived childhood through their vicious protection and gambling empire to the infamous murder of Jack "The Hat" McVeigh in The Blind Beggar pub. find out more...