Enshrouding darkness, vast emptiness, imminent death, and the foetal position… it all sounds like a Sunday hangover, but in fact these are some of the perils that Sandra Bullock confronts in Alfonso Cuarón’s tense space thriller, Gravity. A routine repair job morphs into a harrowing ordeal for medical engineer Ryan Stone (Bullock) and veteran astronaut,...

Steve Coogan has become adept at mining his own desire for credibility for comedy effect, but in Philomena – alongside the ever-impressive Dame Judy – he finds an unexpected vein of tenderness and nuance. Dench is Philomena, a woman haunted by the forced adoption of her illegitimate son in 50s Ireland; Coogan plays the...

He used to seem such a wholesome wee boy, but in Filth, he doesn’t so much shed that image as utterly defile it. He plays the mad-eyed Bruce Robertson, an Edinburgh copper with a penchant for hard drugs, illicit sex, and emotional manipulation. All he wants is to be promoted to Detective Inspector, and...