Penguins of Madagascar, Simon J Smith, USA (2014)

Manic penguins rule,
Chased by a mad octopus.
Gagging on the puns.

The Bletchley Circle, UK Crima Drama 2012-14

Deep crime has patterns.
Four female war code breakers
Solve, against all odds.

The Magic of Belle Isle, Rob Reiner, USA (2012)

Panned by the critics,
Suggests interacial love:
Place as a healer.

Wild, Jean-Marc Vallee, USA, ( 2014)

Life is suffering
Told as flashbacks while hiking:
Finding her best Self.

Scott and Bailey, UK Crime Drama (2011-14)

Three ace female cops
With messy personal lives;
Pitching class stories.

On My Way (Elle S'en Va), Emmanuelle Bercot, France (2013)

Homage to beauty-
Frollicking through rural France;
Regrets aren't useful. 

The Book Thief, Brian Percival 2013

Narrated by death:
Nazi destruction again,
The magic of words.

Fury, David Ayer, USA, (2014)

Unrelenting mud,
Is this an anti-war film?
And killed or be killed.

Whiplash, Damien Chazelle, USA (2014)

Buddy Rich returns:
Tyranny and giftedness,
Bleeding on the kit.

The Bridge, Hans Rosenfeldt, Season 1, 2011

Complicated crime;
Danish and Swedish sleuthing,
With power issues.

The White Masai, Hermine Huntegbunth, Germany (2005)

Visually hot,
Emmersed in Massai culture:
Love story goes bad. 

Flame & Citron, Ole Christian Madsen, Denmark (2008)

Two Danish hit man:
Collaborators, Nazies;
Confused loyalties. 

Hanna's Journey, Julia van Heinz, Germany (2014)

Inherited guilt,
In the context of romance.
Berlin/Israel.

Nebraska, Alexander Payne, USA (2013)

End of life frenzy,
With landscapes grey and striking:
A world unfulfilled.

Happy, Roko Belic, US (2011)

In the west, that is,
Fifty big ones is the bar:
It's all about clan.

Leviathan, Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russia (2014)

Full on corruption,
Vodka, sex, violence: too,
A visual feast.

Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, Grant Baldwin, Canada (2014)

Six months eat for free,
Market play creates hunger.
Start looking in bins.

Jungle School, Riri Riza, Indonesia (2014)

Teaching man to read,
As poachers pillage and steal.
We've seen that before.

Wallendar, Philip Marton, UK, 2008

Topics with merit,
Existential detective,
Whose life is a mess. 

Night Crawler, Dan Gilroy, US (2014).

Competition kills
Those who buy into the game.
US media. 

Homeland, US TV Series, Seasons 1 & 2, (2011,12)

Cheesy love story:
Doublecross and doublecross,
Who's the terrorist?