Red, White & Blue - One of the most compelling films I've seen in a while. The trailer presents it as basically a genre excercise (not going to say which genre) but it's so much more interesting than that. About relationships and retribution. This woman, shags about 20 guys in the first 10 minutes of the film. She starts getting to know her neighbour, a stoic, beardy ex-soldier who has just returned from Iraq. It's not a porno. I'm being vague cos I knew v.v. little about it when I saw it and left me pretty much stunned. Spoolroos (The Vanishing) - I liked this one too. It's about a guy who's girlfriend VANISHES on holiday. The narrative about his attempts to locate her years afterwards are inter-cut with scenes chronologically previous, concerning this shady character experimenting with chloroform and trying to coerce women into his car. I think Mark Kermode summed this film up best when he said it was about "the banality of evil" (and i've never liked Mark Kermode). Even though for most of it's duration the film is depicting the tedious occurrence of a central character obsessing inwardly over something, there's a heightening sense of dread over the course of the film. It pays off in the latter stages. The US remake is seemingly horrible though, I understand they changed the key plot-point that makes the original so affecting.