Warren Schmidt has retired after many years with Woodman Worldwide Insurance. He and his wife, Helen, had planned to travel around the country in their new Winnebago but, when Helen suddenly dies, Schimdt begins to wonder if his life had ever meant anything at all. As his daughter's wedding approaches, he tries to get reconnected with her as he takes the Winnebago on the road, solo. Meeting his new in-laws as well as some other trailer travellers, Schmidt begins to learn that his preconceived find out more...

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Cockney safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is released from prison after serving a 12-year sentence for refusing to snitch. Eager to collect his reward from suave, psychotic mob boss Mr Fontaine, Dom heads to southern France with his only friend and accomplice Dickie. Dom is a drug fuelled, sex obsessed, self-regarding, over compensating sociopath…all good, but find out more...

Nick Porter sells salesmanship for a living, but the days of being on top of his game are long gone, thanks in no part to his ever losing battle with alcohol. Finally fired and discovering his wife has also decided it’s all over on the same day, Nick finds himself on his front lawn with all that is left of is worldly belongings. An adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story, don’t expect an archetypal Will Ferrell movie, this a bitter sweet drama...with some humour. A low key, thoughtful and tou find out more...

The Hoover family are your typical suburban American demographic; dad's a failed inspirational speaker, grandpa's a coke snorting lay-about, the teenage son has embraced Nietzsche and abstains from the spoken word, the brother-in-law has just missed out on a successful suicide and the mum….well bless her, she really does try. The young daughter, however, is an upbeat bundle of positive energy and when the chance comes to enter the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant the whole family embark on a find out more...

After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he's struck it rich, and bullies his son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska is a beautifully performed bitter sweet tale from the director of the equally excellent ‘Sideways’ and ‘The Descendants&rsquo find out more...

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Lucy Fife Donaldson says: "Directed by Michael Winterbottom, this series is based around Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embarking on a short tour of restaurants in the North of England, commissioned by The Observer. Each episode features ameal with the two men where the competitive quality of their somewhat uneasy relationship manifests itself through a one-up-manship routine of comic improvisations and impressions of Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery and others. Blending real-life an find out more...

Thunderbolt is a veteran robber, sharp, cunning and laconic, Lightfoot is young, feisty, good natured and with a gob on him that's in danger of getting him into even more trouble than his thieving ways. Together the two men are on a road trip to regain their misplaced heist, a dangerous task due to the vengeful and brutal nature of the ex-members of their gang. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is an intelligent, fast moving and impressively superior take on the buddy, buddy movie. A fine debut from the find out more...