Shadow Dancer
(Paramount, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)
ITN reporter Tom Bradby adapts his own book for the screen and brings first-hand knowledge to a gripping, dirty drama about an IRA woman (Andrea Riseborough, brilliant again) being recruited by MI5.
360
(Artificial Eye, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)
Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Ben Foster and Rachel Weisz star in City of God director Fernando Meirelles’s version of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, a luxuriously slick series of almost-linked love stories threatening at every turn to become interesting.
Tabu
(New Wave, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)
From Miguel Gomes, director of the unique Our Beloved Month of August, another amazingly original work — a story of forbidden love set in colonial Africa that looks and feels like an archive photograph of the “dark continent” come to life.
Forks Over Knives
(Crystal Lake, cert E, DVD)
Supersize Me done back-to-front, as documentary maker Lee Fulkerson puts the argument for a wholefood, plant-based diet. “Animal protein is really good in turning on cancer,” says one of his medical-expert. Polemical, chewy stuff.
Dredd
(EV, cert 18, Blu-ray/DVD)
A visually impressive outing for 2000AD comic’s most vengeful creation, starring an overacting Keith Urban as the hi-tech lawgiver wasting perps. This is better than Stallone’s attempt, if only just. Note to Hollywood: Dredd is not meant to be sympathetic.
Lawless
(Momentum, cert 18, Blu-ray/DVD)
The mystery of Shia LaBeouf’s star status is the hole at the centre of this otherwise tasty tale of rough, tough moonshiners directed by The Proposition’s John Hillcoat. Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain almost compensate.
