DIRECTED BY Shane Meadows STARRING Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell Opened October 1, Cert 18, 86 mins Now that the '90s trend for chucking Lottery cash at tax-break B-movies is over, we're left with a stripped-down who's who of great British directors. Jonathan Glazer's in it. Guy Ritchie isn't. Matthew Vaughn and Paul Greengrass are new entries. All great, but perhaps none are as worthy of your attention as Shane Meadows.

Return of the serious Brit crime flick

Mystery Train director serves up series of caffeine-aided celebrity shorts

Fine twisted kidnap thriller

Plodding tale of Russian spy in Paris

Kaufman and Gondry's complex romantic comedy dazzles

South Korean supernatural mystery

LIVE BY REQUEST

Described recently as "the ultimate good-bad rock movie", this 1994 movie (along with the 10m-selling album) brought the liquid-hipped one to middle America, mutating his funk into warped guitar rock. The story? Bad boy with warring mixed-race parents, Prince takes it out on girlfriend Apollonia, till she whips her top off. Then everyone's happy, so they jam.

Joe Dante's modern-day werewolf pulp, knowingly scripted by John Sayles. Traumatised TV reporter Dee Wallace takes refuge at a remote retreat only to discover it's a werewolf den. A treasure for horror aficionados, with memorable transformation scenes and a host of sly cameos. Scarier, smarter, sexier and funnier than the same year's An American Werewolf In London.