Informed he has terminal cancer, an underachieving chemistry genius turned high school chemistry teacher turns to using his expertise in chemistry to provide a legacy for his family... by producing the world's highest quality crystal meth. Highly acclaimed HBO drama, with a soupcon of black comedy. find out more...

A bullied factory worker decides to change his life by getting pally with a bunch of bouncers and learning to fight back. However, he finds himself dragged into a world of crime with some brutal consequences. Not a film critics' choice. find out more...

Part 4 of the turbo-driven lads' car chase and girls action flick... and he's back... yep Vin Diesel is with us again... find out more...

Ex FBI agent Brian O'Conner and conman petrol head Dom escape across the border and find themselves residing in the slums of Rio De Janeiro with an old colleague. In order to finally gain their freedom, and a dumper truck of cash, they plan one last daring heist. Quite possibly the best of this unlikely franchise, slightly more plot, slightly more characterisation and still shed loads of car on car action. find out more...

Doug Liman's follow-up to brilliant indie hit "Swingers" is a witty, pacy and brilliantly observed slice of LA life. This darkly comic movie follows the misadventures of three characters over a crazy 24 hours, as their individual shenanigans are woven together by a botched drug deal, a hit-and-run robbery and a very large night out. Some may say it's a homage to Tarantino, but, if so, it's a damn fine one with great performances and a storming soundtrack. A must-see. find out more...

In a dark, moody South Central Los Angeles, with its drug dealers, gangs, prostitutes etc, ex-squaddie Jim, plagued by nightmares from the Iraq war, alternates between drifting back into a life of petty crime and drugs, with best buddy Mike, and hanging out south of the border with his mamasita, Marta, for whom he's promised a US visa. Mike's yuppy girlfriend is hauling him on to the straight and narrow and after Jim's job application with the LAPD goes down in flames an offer of a federal job k find out more...

An educated, highly efficient, mid-level cocaine dealer is working towards his dream of early retirement. He's not flash, he's not brash, he's a businessman. His business just happens to be illegal and many of his colleagues and customers happen to be lethal. When our dubious hero reluctantly takes on a missing person's job for one of London's kingpins, his organised existence begins to unravel, and when some ruthless Serbian gangsters enter the scene looking for their stolen ecstasy, early reti 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...

An Icelandic crime thriller with the gloss stripped away - leaving a bleak, sad and despairing narrative - director Oskar Jonasson's Reykjavik-Rotterdam ho find out more...

If on this side of the Atlantic the image of American college ritual Spring Break remains something of a caricature of wanton debauchery, this is unlikely to be altered by Harmony Korine's film, a lascivious story of four WASPish girls whose mid-term holiday descends into a hazy nightmare of booze, promiscuity and guns. The neon-hued aesthetic and dreamy ellipses both suggest Michael Mann directing an episode of Jersey Shore, but it's never clear whether this is all late capitalist find out more...