Informed he has terminal cancer, an underachieving chemistry genius turned high school chemistry teacher turns to using his expertise in chemistry to provide a legacy for his family... by producing the world's highest quality crystal meth. Highly acclaimed HBO drama, with a soupcon of black comedy. find out more...

In a dark, moody South Central Los Angeles, with its drug dealers, gangs, prostitutes etc, ex-squaddie Jim, plagued by nightmares from the Iraq war, alternates between drifting back into a life of petty crime and drugs, with best buddy Mike, and hanging out south of the border with his mamasita, Marta, for whom he's promised a US visa. Mike's yuppy girlfriend is hauling him on to the straight and narrow and after Jim's job application with the LAPD goes down in flames an offer of a federal job k find out more...

A superb modern thriller in the ultra-hardboiled Jim Thompson mould, in which a trio of criminals, wanted for a brutally murderous drugs heist, converge on a small, quiet Arkansas township where the local cop, treated with contempt by the LA officers in charge of the case, looks forward to a High Noon-style showdown. The asides on racial and sexual inequality are made subtly and succinctly; the performances and pacing are nigh perfect; the violence is explicit, disturbing but never gratuitous; a find out more...

"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...