Friday Aug 14 to Thursday Aug 20, 2015

“Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin's What We Did on Our Holiday is a very British comedy about a family that's nuclear in more ways than one.

"Director Bill Condon's poignant and witty meditation on memory and ageing dispenses with the usual Holmes trappings. Now 93, retired and living in a ramshackle pile on the cliffs above the English Channel, he spends his time bee-keeping under the increasingly vexed eye of his housekeeper Mrs Munro (Linney) but still finds time to entertain her young son Roger (Parker).

"Getting away with murder in a godless universe is a theme that has long compelled Woody Allen, from Crimes and Misdemeanors to Match Point. Allen sees this as a cosmic joke. And in Irrational Man, the story of an impotent, alcoholic philosophy professor (Joaquin Phoenix) who tries to rationalize homicide, Allen serves the comedy black and stinging hot.

“How did director Crystal Moselle find the Angulo family? The seven kids — a girl and six boys, half-white, half-Latino — have never left their cavernous apartment on the upper floor of a sky-scraping Lower East Side housing project. But there she is, with cameras, watching the kids reenact their favorite movies — Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Halloween.