School. Remember that? When life was all crayons and small glass bottles of milk and the winters were colder and summers dragged out for years..... aaaaaah. Aside from that great scene in Fanny And Alexander when the dad tells his kids the history of a green chair, this beautifully made documentary is about as powerful an evocation of childhood you can get on film. The crew manages not to intrude on the class and as a result we get brief sincere glimpses of children at their most open, childish find out more...

Neil Marshall has chosen another trapped-in-the-middle-of-nowhere horror flick to follow the splendid Dog Soldiers and has managed to pull it off with great gusto (or should that be guts-o?). This time it's a group of girlfriends who go on a daredevil caving trip where a sudden rock fall traps them inside... and it's not long before they realise that they are not alone... Gory, shocking and intense - if you don't suffer from claustrophobia before watching The Descent you probably will afterwards find out more...

From the director of Rushmore comes the story of Royal Tenenbaum and his idiosyncratic family. Having separated from his wife ten years ago, Royal has been estranged from his strange children and wants to make up for some lost time. A little white lie gets Royal back into his family home but all will not go as he plans. Richie used to play tennis professionally until a breakdown on the court; Margot, a chain-smoking playwright has an unseemly marital past and an even dimmer present, while widowe find out more...