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This week Jude Law takes the plunge as a submarine captain in ‘Black Sea’ and Christmas comes early in the form of a red suited Jim Broadbent in 'Get Santa.' Also featured are internet-based family drama ‘Men, Women and Children’ and spooky archaeological horror ‘The Pyramid’ starring James Buckley.

Ashley Clark is a film critic and film programmer who divides his time between London and New York. He writes for SightÌý&ÌýSound, The Guardian, Reverse Shot, Time Out, Little White Lies, Film Comment, and VICE, among others. He is currently writing his first book, 'Facing Blackness: Minstrelsy and the Media in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.' He has programmed at venues including BFI Southbank and Clapham Picturehouse in London.

Penguins of Madagascar (3D) (U)

In this spin-off from Dreamworks’ successful franchise, the Penguins from Madagascar reveal themselves to be an elite international espionage group. The gang team up with ‘North Wind,’ an interspecies taskforce for ‘animals who can’t help themselves.’ In this brand new caper the gang are lead by a sophisticated wolf, voiced by Beneditch Cumberbatch, in order to defeat an evil Octopus voiced by John Malkovich. Also features a vocal cameo from legendary director Werner Herzog.

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Hello Carter (15)

A newÌýBritish comedy about a turbulent day in the life of a lost, unemployed, temporarily homeless thirty year old (Charlie Cox) as he criss-crosses London in a desperate bid to win back the affections of his ex-girlfriend (Jodie Whittaker).

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Me Myself and Mum (15)

An uproarious French coming-out comedy starring Guillaume Galliene playing his younger self and his own glamorous and terrifying mother. Amid a superb ensemble cast he grapples to come to terms with the truth about himself that everyone else has already accepted.

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Bonobo (15)

An original comedy in which an uptight, middle aged divorced mother attempts to extricate her bright young daughter from a free loving Hippy-Commune, where she has chosen to live according the principles of the chimpanzee, rather than continuing her law studies.

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Mea Culpa

A high paced French thriller directed by Fred Cavayé . A retired policeman tries to save his young son who is in danger after witnessing a mob execution in a bathroom.

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Eastern Boys (15)

A new French drama which explores male sexuality though the lens of European migration. A kind middle aged Frenchman picks up a young Eastern European only to find himself at the mercy of his love interest’s gang of robber rent-boys.

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Open Bethlehem

An incredible personal and political insight into the last seven years of Bethlehem’s troubled history. Taken from 700 hours of footage made when film-maker Laila Sansour returned to her provincial home town, which she’d thought she’d left behind, only to find a wall being built up around her, keeping her there and forcing her into action.

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Action Jackson

A Hindi action comedy about a man of few words and even fewer shirts, whose main interests are revenge, justice, honour and action, with a bit of dancing and romance thrown in.

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School of Babel (PG)

A touching French documentary following an academic year in a classroom of 11-15 year old immigrants from a wide variety of origins and backgrounds. Their teacher Brigitte Cervoni offers reception classes of extra French for these new arrivals who are trying to come to terms with their new lives, France and growing up.