Superb drama with Costner in perhaps his best role as jailbreaker Butch Haynes, a career criminal who has to kidnap a young boy to escape the law. The drama unfolds with the relationship between the two, and the pursuing Eastwood. Great performances, particularly the boy (T J Lowther) and excellently directed. find out more...

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'Collateral', a new BBC drama, has been written by distinguisged playwright David Hare. Writing for the theatre, an author has to make great use of dialogue; they lack access to the inner monologue that a writer of fiction can call upon, or the camera and its access to varied surroundings of someone writing for TV or cinema. Hare has his own trademark style of dialogue; and he retains it even when television is his medium. So one thing one doesn't get is naturalistic find out more...

January 1966: in a Paris flat police discover the body of Georges Figon. A year earlier, tired of dodgy deals and petty scams, ex-con Georges Figon had gone in search of something big and, through his underworld connections, had got himself hired as producer for a documentary on de-colonialisation to be written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju. The well-known Moroccan dissident Mehdi Ben Barka was to be the film's 'historical advisor', but the whole film project was an elaborat find out more...

Riveting stuff from Clint as the aging Fed desperate to prove he's not over the hill, and that JFK's death wasn't his fault! John Malkovich is superb as the laconic and devious killer out to get both the president and Clint in one go. Cliches aside, tight direction keeps up maximum pace. find out more...

After a brief introduction, in the 60s, to three young criminals, Lebanese, Ice and Dandy, the film jumps forward to the 70s prison release of Lebanon. It's the birth of a smart and ruthless organization which soon crushes all its rivals assuming total control of the Roman drugs, and other criminal, business. Their progress, and changes in leadership, is viewed over twenty-five years and is inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy; terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at th find out more...

A body of a young woman, horrifically disfigured, is found in a skip. It is up to a prosecutor, a cop and a judge to uncover the truth, and also discover why the womans sister has also disappeared...
Superior television conspiracy thriller, utilising the French expertise in 'policier' plotting.

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A body of a young woman, horrifically disfigured, is found in a skip. It is up to a prosecutor, a cop and a judge to uncover the truth, and also discover why the womans sister has also disappeared...
Superior television conspiracy thriller, utilising the French expertise in 'policier' plotting.

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The hard-hitting, stylish and critically acclaimed French police thriller returns for a second series as Pierre Clement and Police Captain Laure Berthaud descend into the paranoid rivalries of the drug trafficking underworld. Providing a glimpse at the French legal system along with the seedier side of Paris, this series will leave you on the edge of your seat. Unflinchingly realistic and nail-bitingingly tense, the series follows the investigators into the dark and uncompromising world of or find out more...

The hard-hitting, stylish and critically acclaimed French police thriller returns for a second series as Pierre Clement and Police Captain Laure Berthaud descend into the paranoid rivalries of the drug trafficking underworld. Providing a glimpse at the French legal system along with the seedier side of Paris, this series will leave you on the edge of your seat. Unflinchingly realistic and nail-bitingingly tense, the series follows the investigators into the dark and uncompromising world of or find out more...