Altman (15)
Whether it's MASH, Nashville, Popeye or Gosford Park, the chances are everyone has come up against a Robert Altman film at some time. But the success and the populism mask a true maverick and, though pretty workaday, Ron Mann's film tells that story satisfactorily enough, from the early days shooting public information films, to the multi-character works which became Altman's trademark in the 1970s. James Caan, Elliot Gould and Bruce Willis are among the interviewees.
Orange Is The New Black: Season Two (15)
Jodie Foster and 1980s Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy are among the guest directors in the second series of Jenji Kohan's black comedy set in a women's prison. It's a Netflix production so isn't widely seen in the UK which is a shame as it's up there with the best. Season two finds our WASP-y heroine Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) facing a murder rap and still battling her feelings for ex-girlfriend Alex (Laura Prepon).
A Most Violent Year (15)
Directed by JC Chandor, who made his name with Oscar-nominated 2011 film Margin Call, this slow-burn thriller is set in New York in 1981 and stars hotly-tipped Oscar Isaac as the boss of a crime-plagued heating oil company who runs into trouble with money, the Mafia and the law. In that order. Jessica Chastain plays his enterprising wife, David Oyelowo the DA out to bring him down.
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