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From its opening moments, of a girl jumping rope while counting and naming the stars in the nighttime sky, Peter Greenaway’s Drowning by Numbers is perhaps the most direct illustration of the filmmaker’s key thematic and aesthetic interest in ascribing structure to a chaotic universe. Throughout, the film slowly counts from one to 100 via a combination of character dialogue and visual markers sprinkled in frames like an elaborate game of I Spy. In deadpan voiceovers, a young boy also elaborates the byzantine rules of made-up games whose goals seem altogether too banal to be worth their complexity.

The plot that strings together these playful games involves three women, each named Cissie Colpitts, who drown their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner, Madgett (Bernard Hill), to cover up the crimes. In a relatively light preamble to the darker feminist revenge drama of Greenaway’s subsequent The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover...

The BBC press office has released a synopsis of episode number No.6 in season 5 of Doctor Who, which will follow the two-parter "The Time Of Angels Flesh And Stone'.

Vampires Of Venice is outlined by Auntie thus:

Dessicated corpses, terror in the canal and a visit to the sinister House of Calvierri – the Doctor takes Amy and Rory for a romantic mini-break, as the Tardis touches down once again.

But 17th-century Venice is not as it should be. The city has been sealed to protect it from the Plague, although Rosanna Calvierri may have other plans...

The cast list detailed so far includes Rory Williams, Helen McCrory, Elizabeth Croft, Alex Price, Simon Gregor, Lucian Msamati, Alisha Bailey and Michael Percival.

Following up the presumably chilling return of the quantum-locked weeping angels with a vampire story reveals what many had suspected about Who producer Steven Moffat's first season that it...