For most intelligent people the idea of going away with a group of work colleagues on a team-building weekend is horror enough, but for the hapless employees of Palisade Defence they have more to contend with than just the usual soul-sucking turgidity of paint-balling and raft building. From the director of 'Creep', 'Severance' is a comedy horror with likeable characters (apart from the nasties), a good script and plenty of the red stuff, and, while it ain't no Shaun of the Dead (not romantic en 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...

A superb, stylish and tense noir thriller unlucky not to win any of its four Oscar nominations. Roy is a con-man in hospital having just been beaten up after a con backfired. This is where his con-artist mum catches up with him after eight years, and when she meets his girlfriend the tension erupts. find out more...

Outstanding thriller with the amazing Linda Fiorentino as a woman on the run from her husband with a suitcase full of his ill-gotten gains. When she meets small-town nice guy Mike he doesn't stand a chance. Superbly clever, a razor sharp script and the most evil screen bitch in movie history. find out more...

Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London two gifted young magicians competitive relationship descends into a bitter rivalry that will haunt them for the rest of their lives, their mutual loathing and jealousy in danger of destroying not just themselves but everyone around them. Prestige is, though at heart a drama, so tightly bound it puts many a conventional thriller to shame, and marks yet another intelligent, populist tour de force from ‘Memento' Christopher Nolan. And if you li find out more...

A formidable gangster thriller later to be cribbed by Tarantino. An itchy crew of criminal cronies grab a metro carriage of civilians and demand $1 million ransom, causing the kind of chaos in New York City that a traditional train heist causes the cavalry. But, once they've got the ransom, how on earth do they expect to get away? find out more...

Definitely THE film of 1995, with the added bonus of bearing up to repeated viewing even when you know the final twist. A tightly scripted, complex and compelling whodunnit which slowly unpeels layer upon layer to reveal the truth behind the opening carnage, and in which nothing is as it seems. find out more...

Britain is under the grip of a brutal totalitarian regime but while the people live in wilful ignorance of their lack of basic freedoms one man is determined to bring about revolution and wreak vengeance on those that created him. Taking Guy Fawkes as his inspiration V sets in motion a chain of bloody and explosive events designed to bring the government to its knees and provide the populace with an opportunity to seize back their free will, should their apathy and fear allow them. Adapted fr find out more...