Much, much better than the tiresomely earnest endeavor you might expect given the nature of the independent production, art-house values and risque subject material, Lawrence Anyways is an engaging and powerful look at identity and acceptance, sexuality and love, all told with incredible performances and some interesting – but not alienating – direction.

Come now, Mr. Bond, stop arsing around with the Queen, and let’s get back to business, shall we?

Presumably his raging antisemitism won’t be a major aspect.

Because who doesn’t want to see a walking, talking, gun-toting space-raccoon giving it some on the big screen?

What’s that in the card-box box? Is a present? OH GOD OH GOD NO IT’S NOT.

With both bicycle courier nightmare Premium Rush and bonkers sci-fi feast Looper on the horizon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is fast becoming one of Hollywood’s premier leading men. But what of the man himself? What do we really know? One thing’s for sure… we have to go deeper.

The Wire meets Bat-Girl?

“They finally made a monkey out of hiiiiiim!”

Now that Film4’s Frightfest has been and gone, leaving gory red stains of blood and viscera all over London (pity the poor street-cleaners), there’s a somewhat tamer festival of all things film for the capital to embrace. Called the Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival, it does exactly what it says on the tin, exactly where it says on the tin. The festival has a diverse roster of films and events, all of which are wonderfully free.

Expect to hear this A LOT.