Attention, film fans: The gods of cinema distribution want you to know that they are really, really sorry about last week, when the multiplexes were bombarded with Larry the Cable Guy and Stay Alive. In their defense they did give you Inside Man. Still, they recognize that Larry demands a lot of apologizing, so they’re making it up to you this week with more worthwhile movies than you can shake a stick at.

The recent contretemps over the US airport detention of Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams as an officially listed security risk focused attention once again on the ancient Irish struggle against English control and tyranny. But as Peter Watkins’ 1964 documentary film Culloden insists, the most ruthlessly violent English campaign against a subject people in the British Isles unfolded in mid-18th-century Scotland.