Friday Oct 14 to Thursday Oct 20, 2016

"When an haute-coutured Kate Winslet sets a portable sewing machine in the dust and mutters, 'I'm back you bastards', expect fireworks.

“The Beatles: Eight Days A Week — The Touring Years,” directed by Ron Howard, is a thoroughly delightful, crisply edited film that takes viewers to Europe, Australia, the Far East and the U.S. where, between June 1962 and August 1966, the Fab Four played in 90 cities in 15 countries.

Nate Parker's directorial debut is a searing account of the life of Nat Turner, the enslaved African-American who spearheaded an insurrection in 1831. From its very title, appropriated from the canonized yet deeply racist D.W. Griffith film, The Birth of a Nation announces itself as a corrective reclamation of American history.

“Based on real people and events, this tale finds Fritz Bauer, a German Jew, serving as an attorney general in West Germany in 1957. Part of his work is to track down former Nazi officials, and he’s increasingly thwarted by superiors and underlings who are still sympathetic to the Third Reich.

“With a documentary called The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, there's no doubting that wonderful sounds will be in store. But that's not all that's on offer.