Ryan Gosling's performance behind the wheel would have made Steve McQueen proud. "Intelligent Action Movie" is no longer an oxymoron.

Drive is what Ryan Gosling's character knows best. By day as a Hollywood stuntman, and by night as a get-away car driver. When he makes to help out - and falls for - a beautiful but married neighbour, life takes a more complicated, threatening and downright violent turn. The result is at times grisly but the extreme violence is never gratuitous - and always in keeping with the gripping story.

Go To Blazes is a riotous example of classic British comedy. Perhaps not as subtle as some of its contemporaries, but just as funny.

When hapless crooks decide to desguise themselves as firemen in order to get away from their next heist fast, one can guess things may not go quite as per the half-baked plan. And indeed they don't, for our greatest pleasure. Starring Dave King, Daniel Massey, Robert Morley and Maggie Smith.

One of the 70s lesser known revenge films that truly deserve a new lease of life in HD. Tarentino is a fan. 'nuff said.

Rolling Thunder sees Major Charles Rane (played by William Devane) return home to Texas after 8 years in a Vietcong prison - and get a hero's welcome that includes a Cadillac and a silver dollar for each of his captive days. When thugs target his stash things start to go awry and it isn't long before he enlists the help of best friend Johnny Vohden (Tommy Lee Jones) to deal the fleeing crooks his own brand of revenge. Stylish and wonderfully acted. Not hard to see why QT felt inspired.

Summing up a complex LeCarré in a two-hour Hollywood friendly format was always going to be a tricky job, despite superlative performances from the Who's Who of British actors.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are the codenames of British Intelligence operatives that recently retired George Smiley must investigate in order to rid the Secret Service of a suspected Russian mole. The John LeCarré's spy novel, though brilliantly adapted here, was always going to be a difficult one to shorten up. Its previous screen outing was the 1979 7-part mini-series starring Alec Guiness which at least had a bit more time to delve into the depths of the story. The star-studded 2011 version is pleasant enough, but the many shortcuts dictated by the format have taken their toll on one of the greatest Cold War spy yarns ever written.