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Murder In Mind

Follow-up documentary about notorious US female serial killer

Cuckoo

Unusual but effective struggle-and-survival story

Thelonious Monk – Criss Cross

Overdue reappraisal of mid-'60s Monk

The Early Films Of Peter Greenaway—Volumes 1 & 2

Greenaway has more than once been known to disappear up his own aesthetics, but this collection of his short films plays to his strengths, tolerating little tedium. Disc One includes six films exploring his constant themes, from A Walk Through H (numbers, maps, the afterlife) to Windows (37 people fall through windows to their deaths). Disc Two features the obsessive Vertical Features Remake and The Falls (92 mini-biogs), and is—if you're in the mood—monumental like video art pioneer Bill Viola.

Where Eagles Dare

Released as part of an Eastwood box set, this finds Clint and Richard Burton breaking into a Nazi-held Alpine fortress to rescue a US general, then spectacularly blazing their way out. With bombings, knifings, shootings and that famous fracas atop a cable car, the body count is gratifyingly high. One wonders, given the bloody duo's amazing strike-rate, why they didn't ride their luck and continue straight on to Berlin.

American Cousins

The Sopranos do Glasgow

Taking Sides

Keitel struggles to enliven tepid war crimes drama

The Mother

Hanif Kureishi's inter-generational love story

Irish Stew

Lively, multi-layered Dublin-set comedy drama

Rock’n’Roll Hearts

Frances McDormand impresses in triangular love story set amid the West Coast rock fraternity
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