Wrecking Ball (2013) ****

Blurred Lines (2013) ****

That Wasn't Me (2013) ****

Shocking and powerful short film about child soldiers.

Epic Split (2013) ****

Pola (2013) ***

L'Ouragan fuck you tabarnak (2013) ***

Noah (2013) ***

Mémorable moi (2013) ***

Les Lézards (2013) ***

Justine And Charlie (2013) ***

Une Constitution (2013) ***

Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire (2013) ***

Clever film about young women bitching among themselves.

CaveDigger (2013) ***

Short documentary about an artist who digs and sculpts artificial caves.

Na nitochke (2013) ***

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Avant que de tout perdre (2013) ***

Suspenseful short about an abused wife trying to escape from her husband. Nominated both for an Academy Award and for a César Award.

Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013) ***

Short documentary about Holocaust survivors.

Low Pro (2013) ***

Lover's Cave (2013) ***

Dems (2013) ***

Big Smoke (2013) ***

Nage (2013) ***

A pas de loup (2013) **

French short about a physically abused woman.

My Guide (2013) **

Amusing and touching Hungarian short about nagging wives and GPSs.

Ina Litovski (2013) **

Short Canadian film about a little girl who plays a violin.

La Fugue (2013) **

Interesting French short about the sentencing of a juvenile delinquent girl.

I Love YU (2013) **

Croatian short full of nostalgia for the good old days of Tito's Yugoslavia, but curiously apolitical.

A Grand Canal (2013) **

Short film about corruption in China.

Nous avions (2013) **

A Pakistani-Canadian family are having a picnic while watching planes landing.

The Voorman Problem (2013) **

Clever short about God and a psychiatrist.

Cell From Hell Episode 1 One Helluva Night (2013) **

Amusing and well-directed short about a cell phone.

Bar None (2013) **

Short film about a suicidal man going to a bar.

Mr Spontaneous (2013) **

Rather outrageous short film about a normal guy who becomes a crazy mass murderer.

Just As I Remember (2013) *

Short documentary about people suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.

Penelope (2013) *

British short starring Juliet Stevenson as a woman who meets her rival in a café.

Callback (2013) *

A bisexual man is asked some very direct questions.

Blankets (2013) *

Short film from New Zealand.

Inertia (2013) *

Short film about fear and isolation.

The Pick Up (2013) *

A laundry, a guy trying to pick up a girl, a bromance.

Prison Terminal The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (2013) *

Short documentary about Jack Hall, a terminally ill octogenarian lifer at Iowa State Penitentiary. The film looks at the last six months of Jack's life and the creation of a hospice run by other inmates serving life sentences.

Red Light And Green Wine (2013) *

Short film about a gay sex worker.

Creative Masturbation (2013) *

South Korean short about a young student masturbating.

Gaspé Copper (2013) *

Enigmatic film about the need to kill a dog.

Helium (2013) *

Sad, melancholic short film about a dying boy and his fantasy world.

Truths And Liars (2013) *

Canadian short about corruption and Mafia.

Do I Have To Take Care Of Everything? (2013) *

Short comedy from Finland.

I Missed My Mother's Funeral (2013) *

Bizarre British short film about a father, his son and an inexplicable police intervention.

Get A Horse! (2013) ****

Terrific pastiche of the old Mickey Mouse cartoons in black and white, with plenty of more colorful surprises in store.

Possessions (2013) ***

Japanese cartoon set in a haunted house.

Room On The Broom (2013) ***

British cartoon about a witch, a cat, a dog, a bird, a frog and a dragon.

Gloria Victoria (2013) ***

Excellent animated short about war and destruction.

Mr Hublot (2013) ***

Visually impressive cartoon nominated for an Oscar.

Subconscious Password (2013) ***

Le Jour nous ecoute (2013) ***

Impromptu (2013) ***

Hollow Land (2013) ***

Feral (2013) ***

Errance (2013) ***

Passing (2013) **

Animated film about love and loss.

The End Of Pinky (2013) **

A film noir animated short from Canada.

Le Courant faible de la rivière (2013) *

Boring cartoon from Quebec.

Mary And Myself (2013) *

Documentary animated short about comfort women.

Downton Abbey: Season 4 (2013) ***

The Walking Dead: Season 4 (2013) ***

The first 8 episodes are set in the Prison during an epidemic, the last 8 episodes are set on train tracks leading to the Terminus.

Peaky Blinders: Season 1 (2013) **

True Blood: Season 6 (2013) ***

Submission Of Emma Marx (2013) ***

Breaking Bad 6 (2013) ****

Mad Men 6 (2013) ****

Ray Donovan: Season 1 (2013) ***

The Girl's Guide To Depravity: Season 2 (2013) ***

Orange Is The New Black: Season 1 (2013) ***

The Vikings: Season 1 (2013) ***

The Americans: Season 1 (2013) ***

House Of Cards: Season 1 (2013) ****

Game Of Thrones: Season 3 (2013) ****

Banshee: Season 1 (2013) ***

Underworld (2013) ***

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) **

Uneven film about a struggling musician. Greatest highlight - Golden Globe nominated song, "Please Mr Kennedy".

The Lone Ranger (2013) **

Violent western starring Johnny Depp.

Oz The Great and Powerful (2013) **

Handsome prequel to "The Wizard Of Oz" (1939).

Frances Ha (2013) **

Mumblecore pic in black and white, with Greta Gerwig, but without any nudity.

Saving Mr Banks (2013) **

Moderately amusing comedy about Walt Disney trying to convince P.L.Travers to let him adapt "Mary Poppins" for cinema. Emma Thompson is terrific, but the mix of "excentric Brit" comedy set in Hollywood and heavy melodrama about Travers' childhood in Australia doesn't always work.

The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013) **

Uneven English-language film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, about a young boy genius from Montana.

The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) **

The first hour of this film is quite boring, but stick with it because in the seconds half it becomes quite interesting, despite a disappointing conclusion.

August: Osage County (2013) **

A "Fucked-Up Family Movie" to end all Fucked-Up Family Movies. Julia Roberts is terrific, but Meryl Streep starts to descend into a "Joan Crawford in her later years" campiness.

Enough Said (2013) **

By accident, a woman becomes friends with an ex-wife of her new boyfriend.

Iron Man 3 (2013) *

Lame and boring action flick.

All Is Lost (2013) *

A bit like "Life Of Pi", but without a tiger. And very depressing.

Epic (2013) *

Boring animated film with a ecological theme.

The Book Thief (2013) *

Extremely boring film set in Nazi Germany.

Admission (2013) *

Tina Fey plays a Princeton admission officer in this tiresome movie.

The Butler (2013) *

Great story - 50 years of the civil rights struggles in America as seen through the eyes of a black White House butler who served under seven presidents from Eisenhower to Reagan - betrayed by a badly directed film that squanders its potential. Simplistic and dogmatic, the film almost never allows psychological complexity to meddle its carefully arranged talking points. The only exception is Ronald Reagan (well played by Alan Rickman), who is allowed to be complex and multi-dimensional.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) *

The second film in the series. Just as disappointing as the first. Even Jena Malone`s striptease is a disappointment - we only see her bare shoulders. Equally disappointing - its Golden Globe nominated song, "Atlas".