LUCKY is a local feature film about a 10-year-old orphan who leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city. He finds that the only person who will help him is a formidable Indian woman called Padma. - Staff reporter

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

THE big-screen adaptation of Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black is a bouquet of creepy surprises. Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) is a bereaved young solicitor with a three-year-old son who is sent by his firm to broker the sale of Eel Marsh House in the remote village of Crythin Gifford. Once there, he uncovers the story of a black-cloaked apparition that lures children to their deaths. - ©Jenny McCartney, The Daily Telegraph

MAGIC MIKE

MATTHEW McConaughey plays Dallas, the owner of a male strip club in Tampa. The movie is Steven Soderbergh's take on the world of American male stripping and it veers more towards the toxic decadence of Boogie Nights than the seaside-postcard sauce of The Full Monty.