A retro audio-visual package designed to bring to mind the heyday of the 8-bit era.

A critical view

Anarchic "classic" out to secure development funding via crowd-funding service.

Wainwrights make UK's sunless Sundance sing, but will it return?

The hair/make up

These women talk in Wildean epigrams and want you to tap dance, yet you may well end up pals

He made his name in the Eighties smash 'Back to the Future' – but director and actor Crispin Glover will never bow to the mainstream, he tells Kaleem Aftab

Television: I really enjoy 'Mad Men', but I'm hugely into 'Homeland'. The characters are very well drawn and complex. All too often, female characters in particular aren't multi-layered enough. Claire Danes is brilliant playing Carrie Mathison, the chemically imbalanced CIA agent. Sergeant Brody, played by Damian Lewis, is brilliant too. You're always waiting for the next thing to happen or trying to anticipate the plot twists. It's flawless.

Blackthorn (102 mins, 15)

The heyday of American indie cinema is long gone – but as the Sundance Festival visits these shores, Jonathan Romney detects life in the old dog yet ...

Actress, musician and model Clémence Poésy is poised to star opposite Michael Caine. Gerard Gilbert meets the rising vedette

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Here's a story. Urban-dwelling middle class couple, one bright school-age daughter. Nice apartment, good part of town. Husband and wife juggle the demands of their respective careers and the twice-daily school run with the obligations of extended family (the husband's Alzheimer's-afflicted father is living with them). But the marriage is unravelling.