Playing patience under African skies

Excellent debut in style of Hartley or Labute

Miami vice action caper overshoots

Shorts compilation from international auteurs

US kids learn their letters the hard way

Clooney and the Coens return to screwball territory

DIRECTED BY Eli Roth STARRING Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent Opens October 10, Cert 15, 90 mins David Lynch protégé Eli Roth has been planning this, his gore-soaked debut, for 10 years. It's some labour of love.

Knockabout adaptation of clever cult comic

Ambitious British-Asian musical

Meg Ryan drops good-girl act in Jane Campion chiller