This week’s new DVD & Blu-ray

Haywire | True Blood: The Fourth Season | The Grey | Ghost In The Shell – Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society | Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things & Dead Of Night

This week’s new films

The Dictator | The Raid | 2 Days In New York | If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle | Even The Rain | She Monkeys | The Source | The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp

Danny Glover: the good cop

He found fame as a policeman in the Lethal Weapon films, but it's his political activism that really drives him. He talks about his beloved Haiti, Obama's disappointing presidency and his friendship with Mel Gibson

Where are the women in film?

The conversation: This week's Cannes festival has been mired in controversy because of the lack of female film-makers. Producer Trudie Styler and director Lucy Walker spill the beans

Cannes 2012: Paradise: Love – review

In the first part of a trilogy, Ulrich Seidl explores the subject of sex tourism among rich, middle-aged white women. But does he tell us anything we didn't know already? asks Peter Bradshaw

Cannes 2012: Mekong Hotel – review

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's interesting but indulgent featurette is no more than a diverting footnote to his more acclaimed work, writes Peter Bradshaw

2 Days in New York – review

Family relations and cross-cultural mishaps might be the stuff of Hollywood cliche, but Delpy whisks it all into a delightful comedy, writes Steve Rose

The Source – review

It could have been a neat, well-aimed satire, but myriad subplots dissipate the energy and comedy, writes Steve Rose

Klitschko – review

This conventional boxing story gains a piquant flavour from the Klitschkos' upbringing in a Soviet-era Ukraine, writes Andrew Pulver

She Monkeys – review

This worthwhile film is a tremulous, pained study of awkward emotions among teenage Swedish lesbians, writes Andrew Pulver

Even the Rain – review

This smart fable stars Gael García Bernal as a heartthrob Herzog whose film crew starts to perpetuate the exploitation they hope to denounce, writes Mike McCahill

The Dictator – review

Sacha Baron Cohen's latest is an unashamed firework display of bad taste – and very funny, writes Peter Bradshaw

Last night a DVD saved my life

A teenager diagnosed herself with cancer after watching her illness depicted in the Cameron Diaz weepie My Sister's Keeper, writes Ben Child

Cannes 2012 diary: day two

With Cannes scrubbed up for the tourists, you have to cross a red carpet to face reality in Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone, writes Xan Brooks

The Raid – review

This violent, intense and brilliant bulletfest from Indonesia puts western action movies to shame, writes Peter Bradshaw