(Shane Black / USA / 2005 / 103 Mins / 35mm / Cert 15)
(Tues 10th-Thurs 13th / 7pm / £2)

After several years in the wilderness Shane Black - author of the Lethal Weapon series - returns with this, his directorial debut. A smart, witty and uber-cool post-modern take on the noir genre, which packs punches in all the right guts. A petty thief (Robert Downey Jr) posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder
investigation along with his high school dream girl (Michelle Monaghan) and a detective (Val Kilmer) who's been training him for his upcoming role...