The Babadook (15)
Aussie director Jennifer Kent scored a hit with this low-budget horror turning on the relationship between a stressed mother and her troubled six-year-old son. The Babadook of the title is a top hat-wearing bogeyman who turns up in her son's book - and then turns up in her house. It's all a little more run-of-the-mill than some critics would have you believe, but Kent's background - she gave up drama school to study film-making under Lars Von Trier - means there's an auteur's eye to the camera at all times. And it shows.
Coherence (15)
Superb first feature from American director James Ward Byrkit which proves it is possible to shoot a compelling sci-fi chiller in five days for no money using eight actors, no script and your own living room as a set. The plot: four couples meet for dinner as a comet passes over head. Strange things happen, Then even stranger things. And when you get to the end you'll want to watch the whole thing over again to see if you can figure it out. Do: it's worth it.
The Book Of Life (U)
An animated kids' film with a difference - that difference being producer Guillermo del Toro and a storyline which turns on an old Mexican folk tale. Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana and Channing Tatum do the voices.
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