Amelie was recently released on Blu-ray in the UK. Andy Boxall revisits the film that wowed audiences across the world on its release in 2001. But do its charms still work today?

Jerome Salle writes and directs this sequel to 2008′s Largo Winch based on the Belgium comic of the same name. Is it worth seeing? Andy Boxall finds out.

Taste of Cinema writer David Zou sets out his Chinese-language wish list for Criterion. Will the likes of Farewell My Concubine and A Better Tomorrow make the Criterion Collection? Do they deserve to?

Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas goes the horror-comedy route for his darkly comic tale of a serial killing re-imagination of Santa Claus. But is it worth your time?

Director Pedro Almodovar gravitates towards the world of horror in this tale of a mad scientist who keeps a woman captive while experimenting on a revolutionary new type of skin.

REC 2 continues the handheld camera thrills of the hugely entertaining original film as a group of well-armed policemen enter the building to try and contain the situation.

Expect the unexpected. Writer-director Joon-ho Bong is known for subverting expectation. He has a natural tendency to flirt between amusing farce and the dark side of human dysfunction. His 2009 mystery, about a doting mother desperately trying to find the culprit behind a murder her son is wrongly imprisoned for, is no different. Witness the film’s opening expanse on a sun-kissed grass field, Hye-ja Kim’s Mother walking towards camera to Byeong-woo Lee’s acoustic melodies, where she begins to haphazardly dance as if in rhythm with the sounds of the wind. Joon-ho Bong is telling us that not all is as it seems.

Throughout the decade we were wowed by fantasy, thrilled by action, and frightened by horror, all the while being annoyed by remakes and endless sequels. We had everything turned on its head with numerous twist endings and welcomed new and old Superheroes. New directors entered the scene (Christopher Nolan) and others were finally recognised by mainstream audiences (Peter Jackson, Alexander Payne), while older pros continued to make great movies (Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg).