New movies today!

It’s Friday, and that means we have a fresh selection of features for your viewing entertainment. This week, our selections include a Hammer Horror, a Vinnie Jones gangster flick, sci-fi fun with Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel, a comedy starring an angelic Penélope Cruz, a hip-hop mockumentary and an Oscar-winning performance by Daniel Day Lewis.

First off (and quite topical it is too) we’ve got Daniel Day Lewis in Oscar-winning form. My Left Foot is a moving drama based on the true story of artist and poet Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy into a working class Dublin home. This film is for our users in the UK and Australia.

Next is the London-based gangster thriller Johnny Was. Johnny Doyle (Vinnie Jones) escaped a violent past which catches up with him when his old IRA mentor escapes from prison. Holed up in an unsafe safe-house between a Rasta pirate radio station (with none other than Lennox Lewis spinning the wheels of steel) and a Yardie crack dealer (played by Eriq La Salle) in the heart of Brixton, Doyle must negotiate his own peace settlement to survive. Johnny Was is available for our US users only.

We've also got some classic sci-fi fun on offer, in the form of Saturn 3, which was scripted by novelist (and teeth-obsessive, though that's neither here nor there) Martin Amis. At a remote base on one of Saturn's moons, scientists Adam and Alex (Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett) come under threat from unhinged killer Benson (Harvey Keitel) and his droid Hector. This film is viewable from the US and Canada.

Don't Tempt Me is a metaphysical comedy starring Penélope Cruz. With Heaven flagging in the eternal struggle with Hell, extra efforts are made to secure the soul of a suicidal boxer. However his soul is also wanted down below, and a comely operative is dispatched to win him over. This film is for our US viewers only.

Next up is a Hammer Horror classic, Hands of the Ripper (mwahahahahaha). Jack the Ripper’s daughter is just an infant when she witnesses her mother’s brutal murder at the hands of her father. Fifteen years later, she is taken in by a psychiatrist who wants to study her after a mysterious death at her home. Could Anna be possessed by the Ripper’s spirit? This film is available for viewing in the UK and Australia.

Finally, and for all territories (UK, US, Canada and Australia), we have Fear of a Black Hat.  It's a mockumentary focusing on a year in the life of fictitious hip-hip outfit NWH, with groupies, gunshots and inter-band rivalries galore. Fear of a Black Hat does for rap what Spinal Tap did for stadium rock – skewering the recording artists of the mid-1990s scene.

Good night, movie lovers!