Don't Look Now CONSIDER this, for a moment: When Nicolas Roeg's masterful study of grief, premonition and gloomy foreboding Don't Look Now was unleashed on UK cinema goers in 1973 it came packaged up with The Wicker Man on a double-bill so dark it barely seems possible.

FOR years, two-time Oscar winner Quentin Tarantino has been publicly declaring his intention to retire after 10 films in the director's chair

GOOD boys go bad in director Gene Stupnitsky's potty-mouthed coming-of-age comedy, a haphazard misadventure in the company of three pre-teen pals on the precipice of puberty

EDUCATIONAL cartoon series Dora The Explorer, which teaches preschoolers basic Spanish through repetition, is reimagined as a rollicking live-action adventure a la Raiders Of The Lost Ark by director James Bobin and scriptwriters Matthew Robinson and Nicholas Stoller

Fu Manchu IT'S hard to imagine a vintage literary figure who's less likely to make a cinematic come back than Fu Manchu.

CO-PRODUCED by Belfast-based Fine Point Films (No Stone Unturned, Bobby Sands: 66 Days), Gaza is an empathetic and visually arresting film focusing on day-to-day life in this embattled 25-by-seven-mile strip of Mediterranean coastline.

IN 1984, Bruce Springsteen raged against his sense of isolation and alienation in the lyrics to Dancing In The Dark.

AN IMPECCABLY groomed golden retriever with a pithy Kevin Costner internal monologue keeps a tight leash on his owner's emotions in The Art Of Racing In The Rain.