Cork Cine Club’s new season of films starts on January 23 at St John’s Central College with a screening of the 2012 French film Rebellion (L’ordre et la morale) directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (La Haine), who also stars in the film.

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There are moments, albeit too few, where this futuristic adventure yarn threatens to lift off: the storyline has much going for it, there is an excellent cast, some of the action is good … but somehow the film fails to click.

Anyone wondering why Paris exploded into ethnic rioting last year should look no further than La Haine Ultimate Edition (Optimum, €29.99).

On a dark and stormy night, Berry drives along a lonely road and sees a ghost. She crashes and when she comes to finds herself arrested and imprisoned for murder.

Robert Downey Jr is in negotiations to star opposite Oscar-winner Halle Berry in new supernatural thriller Gothika.

The Beatles were wrong: you can buy love, if you’re willing to pay the price. Birthday Girl is the tale of mild-mannered bank clerk John (Ben Chaplin) who is too shy to meet the woman of his dreams.