The Graduate (dir: Mike Nichols, 1967, cert 12A)
Iconic coming of age story starring a boyish Dustin Hoffman; in his first major role as Benjamin Braddock, a drifting and unremarkable graduate awkwardly engaged in an illicit affair with a bored and married Mrs Robinson (Ann Bancroft). For a film set in the sixties the lack of reference to the tumultuous events sweeping the world is stark. Braddock’s universe is divorced from flower power, hippies, new music and drugs, but there is just a sense that times are changing. What those changes are we’re still trying to figure out; wrapped, as we are, in the confused thoughts of the film’s close as Braddock and girlfriend Elaine (Katharine Ross) trundle towards an uncertain future, like the decade.
Mon 26 Jun to Thu 29 Jun at Electric, Station Street, Birmingham B5 4DY £9.50 www.theelectric.co.uk

Trash Film Night presents Theodore Rex (dir: Jonathan Betuel, 1995, cert 18)
Let the scorn commence. The Trash Film Night boys Luke and David have lined up a colossus of cinematic ineptitude in the dystopian future buddy cop movie Theodore Rex. Theodore is a talking; clumsy and rather annoying dinosaur, partnered with a leather clad Whoopi Goldberg and tasked with saving the world from a megalomaniac bent on destroying it. Goldberg desperately tried to back out of the film but was sue’d into appearing and received a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for her performance.  A 2.4 out of 10 rating on IMDB is frankly very generous, come and join in the derision and remember to duck if the cookie shooter goes off.
Wed 28 Jun 8.30pm at Electric, Station Street, Birmingham B5 4DY £7 www.theelectric.co.uk

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (dir: Juho Kuosmanen, 2016, cert 12A)
Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes, Kuosmanen’s charming comedy is based on the true story of Finnish boxer Olli Maki’s one shot at the big time in 1962. Shot in gorgeous black and white and tinged with just a hint of Scandinavian melancholy, it’s a beautifully told tale of enjoying life’s pleasures whilst overcoming its difficulties. Sweet, good natured and heart warming.
Thu 29 Jun 6pm at mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham B12 9QH £9 macbirmingham.co.uk

Wild at Heart (dir: David Lynch, 1990, cert 18)
Lynch’s choking bubblegum road movie is a cacophony of visual histrionics that just about manage to out pace the ubiquitous scenery munching of Nicholas Cage’s Sailor Ripley. Cage and Laura Dern’s Lula, barrel across a murderous deep south encountering various oddballs, violence and death along the way. Shot with dizzying skill the film is a gaudy technicolor riot of imagination and subversion but best of all Cage gets to sing a couple of Elvis songs.
Thu 29 Jun 8.15pm at mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham B12 9QH £9 macbirmingham.co.uk

Mean Girls (dir: Mark Waters, 2004, cert 12)
Do you dare immerse yourself in the bitchy world of The Plastics as Lindsay Lohan’s Cady starts life at the terrifying North Shore High School. Tina Fey’s script crackles along at a blistering pace and is littered with dialogue so sharp it will make your ears bleed. Hilariously biting satire and so culturally relevant Barack Obama’s dog quotes it on Twitter. Now ‘would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?’
Sat 1 Jul 8.40pm at Mockingbird, The Custard Factory, Gibb St, Birmingham B9 4AA £6 veezi.com

Heat (dir: Michael Mann, 1996, cert 15)
Thoughtful and intricate crime caper film pitting two of the genre’s greatest actors against each other. Pacino as detective Vincent Hanna and De Niro as career thief Neil McCauley, world weary and grudgingly respectful of each other the scenes they share are beguiling in a way no two other actors would be. Mann’s script and pacing is cinematic perfection as the weathered character’s circle one last heist. Not even Val Kilmer’s hair can ruin it.
Sun 2 Jul 2pm & 6.15pm  at Mockingbird, The Custard Factory, Gibb St, Birmingham B9 4AA £6 veezi.com

Run Lola Run (dir: Tom Tykwer, 1998, cert 15)
Possibly the most breathless film ever made. Three scenario’s play out and in each Franka Potente’s flame haired Lola has to find 100,000 Deutsche Mark’s in twenty minutes to save her petty criminal boyfriend from being murdered. Kinetic; flashy and with a super wired energy, each segment unfolds at breakneck speeds riven with tension. Potente’s Olympic level sprinting is a spellbinding piece of cinematic folklore. Fearlessly inventive and highly recommended.
Sun 2 Jul 7pm at Cafe Ort, 500-504 Moseley Rd, Birmingham B12 9AH £5 www.facebook.com

The Birmingham Indian Film Festival is also running this week, see our feature here and the Shock and Gore festival is just around the corner, see our feature here.