The most congested city in Europe with only 4% cycling traffic, Brussels Express is a documentary by Sander Vandenbroucke about bike messengers in Brussels. Music by Mathieu Vandekerckhove. More about the film here.

To celebrate the release of True Blood: Season Four on Monday 21st May, we’re giving you the chance to win every episode so far on Blu-ray.

The sexy, spooky and wildly entertaining TV series returns with TRUE BLOOD: THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON released on DVD and Blu-ray on 21 MAY 2012, from HBO Home Entertainment. Bursting with even more charisma and allure, satisfy your addiction and get sucked in right from the very start as the Complete Season 1 – 4 box set is also released on both formats.

Mixing romance, suspense and mystery with a taste for humour, TRUE BLOOD: THE FOURTH SEASON takes place in the not-too-distant future. Vampires have ventured out of the coffin thanks to the invention of a synthetic blood drink meaning they no longer need humans as a nutritional source – but is that enough to stop everyone?

In the latest spell-binding series, Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) finds herself entangled in a supernatural love triangle where she must decide between Bill (Stephen Moyer), the new Vampire King of Mississippi and Eric (Alexander Skarsgård), who is not the Viking he once was. However, are there bigger dilemmas on the horizon? When a charismatic Witch named Marnie (Fiona Shaw) threatens to overpower the Vampires once and for all, her Coven of white witches and mediums tempt Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), Tara (Rutina Wesley) and Jesus (Kevin Alejandro) with other worldly powers.

As old alliances crumble and new relationships form, Season 4 of True Blood proves that nobody’s safe when there’s magic in the air.

The fourth Season arrives on Blu-ray and DVD May 21st. Available on iTunes.

For your chance to win one of three copies, simply answer this question:

Which group threaten to overpower the vampires in Season 4?

a) Witches
b) Warlocks
c) Wizards

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Svjetlan Junaković’s hand-drawn story is brought to life by Veljko Popović, spanning a baby’s shoes to the moon.

By Dilation Studios, The Associate tells the story of a man who “has to choose between paying money or possibly losing his life.” Impressive stuff on what was probably a tiny budget, hopefully there’s more coming from Dilation.

MRK’s amazing animation explores “the digital nature of organic molecules and biological organisms” as virtual insects are injected into a closed environment where they must fight against creations on an ever increasing scale.

For their eighth collaboration, director Tim Burton and lead actor Johnny Depp have revamped the cult TV series Dark Shadows, condensing its many episodes into less than two hours, and doing a fairly decent, if functional, job of it.

Both Burton and Depp are confessed fans of the original show, and while that seemed like a great mix when this project was announced, it may well be their passion that ultimately takes the sting out of this. They perhaps enjoyed the central character too much, at the expense of the rest, and settled on a script which doesn’t quite hang together. Depp plays Barnabas Collins, head of the Collins family, a role which Canadian actor Jonathan Frid originally occupied. Frid sadly passed away recently, but he would surely have approved of this iteration of his character, because Depp inhabits it well.

In a short prologue, Depp’s voiceover explains how Barnabas’ family moved from Liverpool to America in the mid-18^th century and started a fishing business, around which an entire town, Collinsport, sprung up and began to flourish. During this time, Barnabas courted two women: first, Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), a house maid who he left in favour of Josette (Bella Heathcote), the woman he intended to spend his life with. Unfortunately for him, Angelique was secretly a witch, whose jealously knew no bounds. For Barnabas, choosing another over her would prove fatal: Angelique murdered Josette, turned him into a vampire and buried him alive. Nearly 200 years later, in 70s America, he is accidentally dug up and released.

This opening segment possesses a narrative focus and drive which most of the rest of the film sadly lacks. Barnabas’ awakening in the 70s invites plenty of fish-out-of-water comedy, particularly as he moves in with the latest generation of the Collins family, now living in his mansion, their family business threatened to breaking point by a rival business headed by ageless witch Angelique (the very same). They’re a dysfunctional group, headed by Elizabeth (Michelle Pfeiffer) and her no-good brother Roger (Johnny Lee Miller). Elizabeth’s daughter Carolyn (Chloe Moretz) and Roger’s son David (Gulliver McGrath) have issues of their own, the latter of which is being treated by Dr. Julia Hoffman, a live-in psychiatrist played by Helena Bonham Carter. Jackie Earle Haley, as an alcoholic housekeeper, completes the set.

Barnabas’ introduction into 70s life in America is played for plenty of laughs, but the thrust of the story is lost in them. Sub plots involving the other characters in the house tend to get overlooked. Burton would rather include a cameo performance by Alice Cooper than develop any real emotional connection between Barnabas and his new love interest Victoria (also Bella Heathcote, a casting quirk which seems irrelevant). By the time we get to the disappointing finale in the Collins’ mansion, some of the strands are buried too deep to be revived, a twist involving one of the minor characters fails to ignite any interest, and one event involving a ghost is deployed with seemingly little consideration for the logic of the plot.

Meanwhile, we have a relationship between Eva Green’s snarling, sexy witch and Barnabas’ ever-polite, out-of-time vampire to enjoy. Green gives it a good go, but her performance really cries out for a stronger role to sink her teeth into, and her evil witch is ultimately not one of the greats. Depp, meanwhile, puts in a very mannered, committed performance, and he carries the film. The only issue is that not enough of his screen time is spent doing anything really meaningful to the story.

Dark Shadows works best as a comedy, and after the introduction it becomes rather dramatically light. There are good performances, in particular another Johnny Depp curio to add to the pile, but it feels like less than the sum of its parts. It does look great, though; Burton is supremely comfortable doing this sort of thing, but after Alice in Wonderland and this, one can’t help but wish that he’d step outside his comfort zone just a little on the next project.

★★★★★

With Mel Gibson’s career long falling by the wayside, the action star returns to his B-movie roots in another attempt to reignite his career after years of trouble in his personal life.

Being chased by the police after a botched heist, Driver (Gibson) crashes through the US-Mexico border to take his chances in the Mexican legal system. But after the local police pocket the swag, he’s sent to prison under an arbitrary misdemeanour only to find life behind bars in Central America is nothing quite like what he’s used to.

Making an unexpected companion in a nine-year-old boy (Hernandez), Driver works his way up the food chain to discover his new friend’s life is at risk. Saving the boy and his mother’s lives quickly becomes just as important as finding a way out himself, but luckily if there were one man for the job, it would be Driver.

Persistent voiceovers doing a lazy job of what the director should have told in the narrative are fairly annoying at first, however once How I Spent My Summer Vacation gets into a rhythm, it’s not necessarily what you’d come to expect.

The film is set almost exclusively in a Mexican prison, and filmed entirely on location the setting feels refreshingly realistic. In the end they have to diversify but it’s still a really nice twist, if only the movie’s grit and intensity were able to match the locations too.

While their surroundings portray the horror of living behind bars, there isn’t the sort of inmate rivalry you might expect as Driver gets himself in amongst the top channels far too easily. More backstory to the local don and his relationship with the central kid also wouldn’t have gone amiss; the pair have a nice tussle that develops throughout the film, but why the relationship means so much is delivered in a mere line where as it would have been nice to see it explored a little more.

Mel Gibson is as accomplished as you’d expect though it does sometimes feel like he’s on autopilot. Not because his performance feels lazy, just because the script never really pushes him. Young actor Kevin Hernandez is more impressive, and a world away from his cushy role in The Sitter; he could have a very nice career in the future.

There are moments to enjoy in How I Spent My Summer Vacation but on the whole it’s a fairly average affair. Gibson co-wrote and co-produced the film, and it’s a less than subtle attempt to get him back to the renegade action star roles with which he made his name. And yet beyond a wonderful set piece in a high office building, there’s some way to go yet before his reputation will be repaired.

★★★★★

Ruben Fleischer returns with something a little more serious than Zombieland and 30 Minutes Or Less, and it looks like he’s finally at home. As you might have guessed, it’s a gangster movie, set in Los Angeles, 1949, as mob boss Mickey Cohen comes up against a secret gang of LAPD outsiders trying to tear his world apart. Out in the fall.

Kangmin Kim’s gorgeous 38-39˚C “gives us the blueprint of a relationship between a father and son inside the dream the protagonist experiences while under the spell of the elevated temperatures of a bathhouse. Thick sheets of paper in exquisite arrangement represent the two men who are linked by their identical birthmarks, yet cannot seem to look at each other.” A wonderful callback to classic animation, hopefully there’s more to come from Kim.

The simple ideas are often the best. Renaud Hallée drops objects to a rhythm, that’s it, and it’s just so captivating.