This week: Jason Solomons meets director John Michael McDonagh to discuss his black comedy, The Guard. The film stars Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle, who play an Irish cop and an FBI agent caught up in an international drug smuggling investigation on the west coast of Ireland. John talks about the importance of casting Gleeson and Cheadle as his odd couple and how it feels to compete with his brother, In Bruges director Martin McDonagh.
Jason also speaks to Oscar-winning Danish director Susanne Bier, who's film In A Better World sets out to connect the lives of people in a quiet Danish village with those a world away in a Sudanese refugee camp.
Finally, this week's review rodeo includes Cowboys & Aliens, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie and the reissue of the Sir Alec Guinness classic Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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