Bob Balaban

Six-part miniseries from The Wire and We Own This City creator David Simon, starring Oscar Isaac (in a Golden Globe-winning performance) as Yonkers mayor Nick Wasicsko, who took office in 1987 during the city's most tumultuous time.

12-time Emmy nominee Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) leads this comedic scandal-filled series as the new Chair of an English department at a major university, the first woman and person of colour to hold the role in the institution, right when the ship looks to be on the verge of sinking.

Returning to the role that earned him a Golden Globe nomination, Ben Platt (Pitch Perfect) continues his run as wannabe US President Payton Hobart squaring off against a New York Senator (Judith Light, Transparent) and her brutal associate (the great Bette Midler).

Ben Platt (Pitch Perfect) scored himself a Golden Globe nomination as wannabe US President Payton Hobart in this Netflix comedy series, navigating the rough seas of high school politics as he starts his journey to The White House. 

Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated comedy about a Japanese boy who sets out on an adventure to find his dog.

Netflix original haunted house horror centred on a nurse looking after an elderly author. Available on Netflix from 28 October.

A Netflix Original, this mockumentary from Waiting For Guffman director Christopher Guest takes place in the ultra-competitive world of professional mascots, where each mascot is out to win the most prestigious award on offer: the Gold Fluffy. Stars Parker Posey, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge and many more Guest regulars.

Documentary focusing on the life and times of Eva Hesse, a ground-breaking artist whose life was tragically cut short in the prime of her career.

Woody Allen pimps out John Turturro (O Brother, Where Art Thou) to love-hungry women in this comedy written and directed by Turturro himself. Co-stars Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara and Liev Schreiber.

George Clooney directs, co-writes and stars in this WW2 true story of the dedicated crew of art historians and museum curators who take up arms to recover pieces of art stolen by the Nazis. The all-star cast includes Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman and Cate Blanchett.

French animated comedy from the director of Shark Tale. Set in Paris 1910, three friends and a monkey attempt to protect an unfairly maligned monster - a giant, singing flea - from the authorities.

Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox) comedy set in the summer of ’65 where a small community is mobilised in search of two runaway 12-year-old lovebirds. The all-star cast includes Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray.

Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin and Billy Crudup star in this crime-comedy tale of murder and double-dealing set in the Wisconsin snow.

Steven Spielberg’s 1977 sci-fi drama following Roy Neary, a simple cable man hampered with a vision of a mountain-like location. Provoked by an intrusive obsession, he seeks out this mysterious place.

Shyamalan's follow-up from the laughable 'The Village'. Fairytale style story begins with an animated sequence introducing the film's "ancient myths"

Philip Seymour Hoffman is author Truman Capote. Set in 1959, it covers the fey New York writer's dubious methods in writing In Cold Blood, his non-fiction chronicle of a horrific and senseless Kansas murder and its subsequent trial.

Director Christopher Guest reunites the team from Best In Show and Waiting for Guffman to tell tell the story of 60's-era folk musicians, who inspired by the death of their former manager, get back on the stage for one concert in New York City's Town Hall.

Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts attempt to take a cursed gun called 'The Mexican' back across the border in this 2001 crime comedy from director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl). 

Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ends up falling in love with Amy.

Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine's 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway style.

Black comedy in which a successful writer (Samuel L. Jackson, Shaft) hoping for a peaceful vacation in New England is instead mistaken for a burglar. He unites with a thief (Nicolas Cage, Pig) to go up against a corrupt police chief (Dabney Coleman, Boardwalk Empire).

Sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, based pm Arthur C. Clarke's novel which was a literary sequel to the Kubrick's original.

A sensory deprivation tank and shamanic drugs combine to take a psychology professor (William Hurt) to some unexpected states of consciousness in this mind-bending drama by Ken Russell (Tommy, The Lair of the White Worm).

Mike Nichols directs this screen adaptation of the classic Joseph Heller satire, with Alan Arkin as Captain John Yossarian, a WWII bombardier desperate to escape the insanity of war but learning that sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.