Under Milk Wood (15)

Rhys Ifans and Charlotte Church star in this second film version of Dylan Thomas’s renowned radio play, timed for the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth. Ifans takes on the dual role of narrator and Captain Cat (effectively the daunting task of reprising the roles of both Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole) and certainly has the diction and the strangeness to pull it off. However, the rest of the film, adapted rather fancifully by Kevin Allen, is a bit of a mess, playing like a surreal episode of Hi-de-Hi!

Black Souls (15)

Italian crime drama, set in Calabria and centring on three brothers, two of whom are fully signed-up Mafiosi, while the other’s attempt to lead a peaceful life as a goatherd is disrupted when his firebrand son reopens an old blood feud amongst rival gangs.