A great primer for those who haven’t closely followed the travails of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks and its founder.

When a film boasts a morbidly obese albino and a Swiss alpenhorn, you know you’re not in for an ordinary trip to the cinema.

A sumptuous yet grittily grounded drama sweeps audiences back into the Court of Versailles in 1789.

As much about ageing and death as it is about love, and many will find it uncomfortably close to home.

An extraordinary account of sexual exploration and intimacy against the odds.

Writer-director Andrew Dominic has reinterpreted George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade to fit America’s contemporary economic woes.

This US documentary on bullying arrives on the back of a Stateside ratings furore.

Packed with laughs, toe-tapping songs and performances as sparkly as the costumes, Wayne Blair’s musical is a sure-fire hit.

Taking a fairytale trope of the trip to Grandma’s, and relocating it in the final days of the Third Reich, Lore is at once a mesmerising and haunting ordeal

Shot with a light, naturalistic touch, Monsieur Lazhar is a film to cherish.

A genuinely original film with a mythic dimension that makes it sit even bigger in the imagination than it does on the screen.

It’s great to see more female actors moving behind the camera, since they so often bring a fresh and distinctive vision.