INFIDEL (15): On General Release From Friday 9th April

Religious humour is always treacherous ground – half of the audience will be extremely offended and the other half are heathens who will just laugh and get over it.

But writer David Baddiel doesn’t seem to give a flying falafel about offending anyone and goes right for the funny bone. For the majority of this film, his aim is dead on.

In The Infidel, Omid Djalili stars in his first leading role as Mahmud Nasir, a not-so-strict Muslim whose penchant for yelling at cabbies gets him in a rift with Jewish American driver Lenny (Richard Schiff). But when Mahmud finds out that not only is he adopted but his parents were Jews, he finds Lenny to be an unlikely friend and mentor. Do It!

CITY OF WAR – THE STORY OF JOHN RABE (15): On Limited Release From 2nd April

Based on the diaries of John Rabe, a German-born member of the Nazi party, City of War follows the events of the 1937 Nanking Massacre, also known as The Rape of Nanking, by Japanese troops.

It’s disturbing source material I know, but it made for a compelling and deeply emotional war movie.

Rabe is a fairly complacent member of the Nazi party living in China and he’s grown fond of the country and of its people. At the request of the party, he and wife Dora are scheduled to return to Berlin. Do It!

LOURDES (U): On Limited Release From 26th March 2010

If you’re looking for something off the beaten track this weekend, then I implore you to go and watch Lourdes.

This film is a little French diamond and it would be a crying shame if it went unnoticed among the other Bullocks on this weekend, so make sure you follow Auntie Em’s advice and see it.

Hundreds of thousands of people travel to the holy site in the French town of Lourdes every year in order to be healed both physically and spiritually. While many leave disappointed, still afflicted by what ails them, a special few experience a miraculous recovery, unexplained by science but seemingly caused by the healing powers of the site. Do It!

MICMACS (12A): On Nationwide Release From 26th February 2010

For those of you who saw French lovely Amélie and didn’t like it, maybe it’s time to give director Jean-Pierre Jeunet another try. He’s returned to filmmaking after a gap of five years, and boy – it is quite a comeback.

Micmacs follows Bazil (Dany Boon), who was orphaned several years previously when a landmine killed his father and his mother was too traumatized to care for him. As an adult, Bazil is accidentally hit in the head with a stray bullet that ends up lodged in his brain, meaning he could die at any second. Do It!