300 (15)

Action drama based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller, about the 300 Spartan warriors who fought one of history's greatest battles against the million-strong Persian army.

A History Of Violence (18)

Thriller from director David Cronenberg, starring Viggo Mortensen as a family man who attracts the attention of a mysterious mobster (Ed Harris) after he kills two hoodlums in his home town.

Akira (12A)

American Splendour (15)

Comedy drama based on the semi-autobiographical comic books by Harvey Pekar, starring Paul Giamatti as Pekar and Hope Davis as his wife, Joyce Brabner, alongside their real-life counterparts.

Batman Returns (12A)

Blindness (18)

Sci-fi horror based on the novel by Jose Saramago, starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo as a couple caught in the middle of a blindness epidemic.

Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, The (12A)

Wartime drama based on the novel by John Byne, starring Asa Butterfield as the son of a concentration camp commandant (David Thewlis) who befriends a Jewish boy on the other side of the fence.

Brideshead Revisited (12A)

Adaptation of the novel by Evelyn Waugh, starring Matthew Goode as a middle-class Oxford student whose close friendship with the carefree, upper-class Sebastian (Ben Whishaw) is threatened when he falls in love with Sebastian's sister (Hayley Attwell).

Dark Knight, The (12A)

Sequel to Batman Begins, in which the Caped Crusader (Christian Bale) takes on The Joker (Heath Ledger).

Ghost Town (12A)

Romcom starring Ricky Gervais as a misanthropic dentist who discovers he can see and hear dead people when he wakes up after an operation.

Grindhouse (18)

Hamlet 2 (15)

Comedy starring Steve Coogan as a failed actor turned drama teacher who decides to stage a politically incorrect musical sequel to Hamlet.

Hostel (18)

Horror film about a pair of American backpackers who get more than they bargained for when they stay at a Slovakian hostel.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (15)

Comedy, based on the book by Toby Young, starring Simon Pegg as an obnoxious, fame-hungry British magazine editor who's plunged into the world of celebrity when he's offered a job on a prestigious New York magazine.

Incredible Hulk, The (12A)

Reboot of the Hulk franchise, in which Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately searches for a cure to the gamma radiation that turns him into the Hulk, while staying one jump ahead of the military, who want to exploit the Hulk's power.

Iron Man (12A)

Blockbuster based on a Marvel Comics character, starring Robert Downey Jnr as billionaire industrialist and inventor Tony Stark, who becomes a superhero when he develops and builds a suit of flying metallic armour.

JCVD 

John Shuttleworth: It's Nice Up North 

Kill Bill Volume 1 (18)

Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited 4th film stars Uma Thurman as a deadly assassin on a vicious revenge quest to take out the killers who left her for dead.

Mamma Mia (PG)

Film version of the hit stage musical, starring Amanda Seyfried as a young bride who invites her three possible fathers (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard) to her wedding, unbeknownst to her mother (Meryl Streep) and her fiance (Dominic Cooper).

Max Payne (15)

Thriller based on the popular video game, starring Mark Wahlberg as a trigger-happy supercop seeking revenge for the murder of his wife and child.

Natural Born Killers (18)

Of Time And The City (12A)

Documentary by Terence Davies that gives a personal history of his beloved Liverpool.

Patti Smith: Dream Of Life (15)

Persepolis (12A)

Animated drama based on co-director Marjane Satrapi's semi-autobiographical graphic novel, about a young Iranian girl growing up during the Islamic Revolution.

Pulp Fiction (18)

Rachel Getting Married 

Drama, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Anne Hathaway as a recovering drug addict who gets out of rehab in time to attend her sister's wedding.

Religulous 

Sin City (18)

Thriller based on three graphic novels by Frank Miller, starring Bruce Willis, Clive Owen and Mickey Rourke as three hard-boiled heroes who get mixed up in tales of revenge and murder.

Somers Town (12A)

Director Shane Meadows reunites with This Is England star Thomas Turgoose for this low-budget black and white tale of the friendship between a lonely Polish teenager and a young runaway.

Spider-Man (12A)

Long-awaited comic-book adaptation, starring Tobey Maguire as the wall-crawling, web-slinging superhero.

Superman (PG)

Tropic Thunder (15)

Comedy starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr as three Hollywood megastars who get caught up in a real conflict while making a Vietnam movie on location.

Two Lovers 

Wall-E (U)

Animated adventure from Pixar, about a Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class (WALL-E) robot, who falls in love with a sleek search droid called EVE.

Wave, The (Die Welle) (15)

German thriller based on a true story, about a teacher who forms a fascist movement as part of a school "project week", only for things to get horribly out of hand.

Wrestlers, The (Uttara) 

X-Men (12A)

Zack and Miri Make a Porno (18)

Comedy directed by Kevin Smith, starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as two cash-strapped best friends who decide to make a porn movie to solve their financial crisis.