Saturday saw Grace is Gone with John Cusack as an Iraq widower, who avoids telling his daughters that their mother has died by launching a cross-country family road trip. This is not to be confused with Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone which has been pulled from the festival due to similarities between the stories.

Affleck’s film is about the abduction of a four-year-old girl, and the real life disappearance of Madeleine McCann five months ago in Portugal. This is in spite of the exasperating fact that Affleck's movie, which is being tipped for an Oscar, is about the daughter of a drug addict in Boston, rather than the child of middle-class English doctors holidaying in Portugal.

On the theme of controversy, the festival saw A Clockwork Orange return to cinema screens, eight years after Kubrick's death, and 34 years after he withdrew the film from cinemas after receiving death threats. Whilst the film has its moments, the controversy that has followed it has blown the impact of the film out of all reasonable proportion. Considering the amount of publicity the film has received over the years the festival could frankly do much better by shedding light on something else from the archives.

The evening saw biopic Talk to Me screening in the West End, telling the story of how Ralph Waldo 'Petey' Greene became a leading figure in the civil rights movement as a prominent radio personality in 1960s Washington, after having served a prison sentence for armed robbery. The film has Don Cheadle as Greene, whilst Chiwetel Ejiofor is his manager Dewey Hughes. Cheadle's performance can best be described as “part Richard Pryor, part Jesse Jackson” and the film is certainly something that audiences should be catching up with.

Considering the mountain of Iraq/veteran/Afghanistan movies that seems to be piling up, might there be a foothill of civil rights movies forming?