Neil Brand and I discuss the best soundtracks of 2014 to date...

It's the season when the nominations start rolling in for the BIFAs and The BAFTAs and The Golden Globes and The Oscars. But I've got my very own awards to hand out - which films do you think should feature in The Kermodes this year?

There's a brilliant documentary on BBC2 this Sunday called You've Been Trumped. Here I meet the director Anthony Baxter to talk about his film - which made me very angry - in a good way.

I met up with director Bill Forsyth at the recent Shetland Film Festival where he showed me some extraordinary never-before-seen documents showing how he financed his first film That Sinking Feeling.

Here my highlights of the Shetland Screenplay film festival which I co-curate and which finished on Sunday. The brilliant Miranda Richardson was our guest as well as Bill Forsyth plus we screened the controversial documentary You've Been Trumped.

It's time for the annual Shetland Screenplay Film Festival which I co-curate. This year we've got a brand new cinema and some great guests including the incomparable Bill Forsyth, director of Local Hero and one of my cinematic heroes.

These days film clubs are springing up all over the country. I'm planning to start a Kermode Uncut virtual film club. What do you think of the idea?

This Friday Robert Redford is coming on the 5 live programme to talk about launching Sundance London.

What I want to know is are festivals really important and who goes to them?

Next week the great British actor Jim Broadbent is a guest at the Screenplay Film Festival in Shetland, which I co-curate every year.
We are also showing Longford - the outstanding portrayal of the eccentric peer and his controversial campaign to free Myra Hindley.

Time to go home but not before a last report on Doug Liman's thriller Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, a movie version of the true story of CIA operative Valerie Plame who paid the price for her husband's reaction to the evidence that launched the Iraq war during the Bush Cheney years.

In today's Cannes movie round-up: Ken Loach's Route Irish, Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, Sergei Loznitsa's Schastye Moe, Vikramaditya Motwane's Udaan, Stephen Kijak's Stones in Exile, and seven words on Olivier Assayas's Carlos.

It's all been going so well and now I'm not quite feeling myself, mainly because I no longer am myself apparently.

Stephen Woolley, legendary British producer whose epic back catalogue of cinematic brilliance includes Mona Lisa, Angel, Scandal, The Big Man, Little Voice, and The Crying Game - not to mention his own directorial debut Stoned (that Rolling Stones movie you didn't see), lends us an insider's perspective on the festival after more than a quarter century of Croisettes.

Three reviews today: Kitano's Outrage, Godard's Film Socialisme and Kiarostami's Copie Conforme and one of them is by far the worst film at Cannes this year with days left to go...

Stop press: there's now a serious contender for Best Actor in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful, and as a special treat I get to chat with one of my heroes, Fernando Trueba, the man behind the overlooked Mad Monkey, and now completing an animated movie in collaboration with the brilliant Spanish artist and designer Javier Mariscal.