Of all the films in contention for the best picture Oscar this year, Nebraska is the darkest horse in the pack. Shot in black and white on a relative shoestring, it’s a road movie through a depressed small town America with an Oscar-nominated Bruce Dern as a senile man who believes he’s won the lottery. American ex-pat and Variety critic Eddie Cockerill pops in to discuss the career of its director, Nebraskan born Alexander Payne, a chronicler of bittersweet life in the Midwest. Plus, the British film about a couple who head to Paris to reignite the flame, Le Week-End.