Pomona Rewind

Just when you thought the courtroom drama could not be reinvented, along comes Justine Triet. The French filmmaker's Palme d'Or winning movie doesn't slavishly follow the conventions of a well worn genre. Instead it takes its formula and really shakes things up. At the heart of her film is a classy drama about whether Sandra Huller's novelist Sandra Voyer's husband accidentally fell to his death from an attic window from their Grenoble chalet or was pushed by her. © Le Pacte & Lionsgate UK The film begins with Sandra giving an interview in the lodge to a student which becomes quite flirtatious. This is the first telling sign that all is not well in Sandra's home. The next comes the interview has to be cut short when her husband, Samuel Theis' Samuel Maleski starts to blare Carribbean steel band music offscreen. We then see the couple's visually impaired 11 year old son, Milo Machado-Graner's Daniel take his guide dog Snoop on a walk though the sn

With each season of 'The Sopranos' comes new threats. James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano may have put paid to  his mother's scheming in Season One  but, as we will see in subsequent seasons, the perilous world of the Mafia means there's always new menaces lurking in the shadows. In Episode Three that menace comes in the form of David Proval's Richie Aprile. Richie is released from prison after 10 years and enters the show like a whirling dervish, immediately wreaking havoc on New Jersey's streets. The brother of former New Jersey Mob boss Jackie Aprile, whose death in Season One led to an uneasy peace between Tony and Dominic Chianese's Corrado 'Uncle Junior' Soprano, Richie is riddled with petty insecurities about his diminished status within the Mob. © HBO Despite taking up yoga and meditation, he has a propensity for violence. He's a bully who revels in inflicting pain on those who he perceives as weak and he is also extremely thin skinned, t

  © MUBI, Film 4 & BFI Molly Manning Walker's 'How To Have Sex' tackles what should be every parent's worst nightmare. The winner of last year's Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes, the film follows the hedonistic adventures of three teenage girls on holiday in Crete. It's one of those Club 18-30 style holidays or Spring Break where young people go out of control. They get wasted on alcohol, go to raves, take part in crude package holiday pool games and engage in casual sex. © MUBI, Film 4 & BFI But the reality is that all that hard partying comes with a heavy price. Arriving in Malia at the start of the film, Mia McKenzie Bruce's Tara, Enva Lewis's Em and Lara Peake's Skye are escaping the impending doom of their GCSE exam results and are in a mood to party. Their first course of business is to go for a pre-dawn swim in the sea, get chips and then head to their hotel where they blag a poolside view from their apartment. Entering the apar