FILM

Casino Scorsese returns to the mob milieu of GoodFellas for a morality play set in the nocturnal world of Vegas gambling. De Niro and Joe Pesci are the corrupt anti-heroes locked in a downward spiral of coke, chips and hideous kipper ties. Flabby, but worth seeing for Scorsese's usual technical brilliance and for Sharon Stone as Ace's hooker-bride Ginger.

Ulysses' Gaze Exile Harvey Keitel returns to Greece, only to set off on an odyssey which leads him to war-torn Sarajevo. Stunning photography and a beautiful score evoke Theo Angelopoulos's themes of war and national identity. A dream-like art movie that meditates on the nature of cinema without ever navel-gazing.

Trainspotting (left) Welsh's cult novel loses none of its pungency in this visceral adaptation by Danny Shallow Grave Boyle. Ewan McGregor gives an understated performance as narrator Renton, moving through the jellie- popping, needle-swapping underbelly of 1980s Edinburgh. A blistering rollercoaster of a movie that mines a rich vein of black humour.