Mike Figgis’s Stormy Monday (Optimum, €21.99), is a romantic thriller encompassing a fine tribute to film noir.

ARE the British learning, or is the charging of the British soldiers with war crimes in Iraq just a cosmetic exercise? In this country it seemed the British did not learn from their mistakes.

Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone star as husband and wife on the lookout for a place to live, buy the distinctly odd-ball Cold Creek Manor diner then find themselves surrounded by strange and dangerous locals and events.