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

Excellent debut in style of Hartley or Labute

Playing patience under African skies

Stephen Fry's take on Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies

OPENS OCTOBER 17, CERT TBC, VARIOUS MINS Boldly straddling the chasm between obscure gallery installation and provocative arthouse epic, The Cremaster Cycle, made by Björk's boyfriend Matthew Barney, is as sumptuous as it is obtuse, as impervious as it is ambitious.

Slow, slow journey into heart of darkness