Josef Herman's early, cathartic work should not be missed
Red Army Faction Blues persuasively blends fact and fiction in its account of Germany's turbulent times from the '60s to the '80s, writes Paul Simon
Canadian director David Cronenberg usually mixes cinematic cocktails that court controversy, never mind being cropped by censors.
As this film demonstrates, it's depressing to witness the contemporary obsession with celebrity.
Daniel Radcliffe graduates from Hogwarts to an old-fashioned Hammer horror in which he plays a callow lawyer who has to sort out the sale of a coastal mansion which everybody believes is haunted by a child killer.
A super-soppy romance, The Vow stars Rachel McAdams as an artist who wakes from a coma after a car crash unable to remember her life with loving hubby (Channing Tatum), thus necessitating the latter to woo her all over again.
This is inspired by the true story of a family of whales trapped in the Alaskan ice in 1988 which captured the attention of the world before the advent of 24-hour news and Twitter.
If you were a fan the first time round of the surreal satire dressed up as a children's puppet show then James Bobin's affectionate tribute to The Muppets will make for a great family night out while being reminded that capitalism is still destroying our heritage in the search for profits.
Martha Marcy May Marlene is one of those message films that isn't so much mysterious as irritating since it fails to satisfy the advance hype.
This hugely entertaining cross-genre tale contrives to meld cops-and-robbers elements into a fast nail-biter.
The veneer of social civility and respectability and the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie are stripped bare in Roman Polanski's razor-sharp satire which descends into total carnage.