Enigma

England in the darkest days of World War Two, and both Britain and Russia rely on food convoys from North America.

German submarines prowl the Atlantic sinking supply ships in a bid to wreck the Allied war effort.

But the U-Boats need messages from home to guide their hunt: and British boffins are determined to crack their codes.

The home of these experts, and the setting for this new thriller based on Robert Harris' bestselling novel, is Bletchley Park.

Dougray Scott plays a code-breaker returning to work after a nervous breakdown caused by a ruined romance.

He finds colleagues frantically trying to crack the Germans' latest code in order to save a vitally-important convoy.

He also discovers he is the prime suspect in a hunt for a spy leaking secrets to the enemy.

Double-crosses, car chases and a love triangle feature in this movie starring Kate Winslet and Saffron Burrows.

Enigma (15) is at Keighley Picture House daily.

The Others

Nicole Kidman heads a cast that also includes Brit stalwarts Eric Sykes and Christopher Eccleston in this supernatural thriller.

Nicole plays a woman who moves to a remote mansion in Jersey with her two children just after the Second World War.

The kids, whose father is still away, have a dangerous allergy to sunlight .

But the arrival of three servants sets in motion supernatural events that threaten the family's lives and sanity.

The Others (12) will be screened every day at Keighley Picture House from today.

Disney cartoon adventure Atlantis (U) continues at the Picture House tomorrow and Sunday afternoons.

GAMES: Zelda

The Game Boy Color goes out in a blaze of glory with the two latest instalments of Nintendo's long-running Zelda adventure saga.

Don't be fooled by the cute characters, jolly music and simple graphics offered by Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages.

The inch-wide cartridges offer quests as complex, deep and enthralling as anything found on the PCs and PlayStations of the world.

Each game can be played separately, but success in one reveals passwords that begin new versions of the other.

And though the games are set in similar fantasy worlds with distressed damsels, beastly bosses and maze-infested dungeons, they offer different challenges.

Young sword-master Link is the hero of both games, arriving each time in a new land to discover supervillains trying to wreck it.

Oracle of Ages sees him tripping backwards and forwards in time, changing landscapes and towns as he restores order.

Careful use of the "harp of time" opens up new areas and gives clues to solve seemingly impossible puzzles encountered earlier in the game.

Gradual revelation is also the order of the day - or months - in the equally-excellent sister game Oracle of Seasons.

This time the baddie has tampered with summer and winter and Link's adventures centre on him reversing the ruin.

Both games bubble with fiendish puzzles, whimsical dialogue, interesting plot twists and ingenious gadgets and weapons.

Both will last many hours, with Seasons being simpler than Ages, and they're quite simply the best games available for the Game Boy.

DAVID KNIGHTS

ALBUM: Incubus

In today's music scene the genre known as "alternative rock" usually infers either angsty rap-metal or commercial pop-punk.

However, on their third album Make Yourself, Incubus provide a more thoughtful and mature approach.

Combining laid-back funky verses with melodic heavy choruses, the effect is most refreshing.

Slower tracks take rock to a higher, almost spiritual plane, such as the beautiful The Warmth and acoustic-led Drive, avoiding musical clich and demonstrating innovative songwriting.

The bonus CD included on this reissue contains four acoustic versions of the originals, and shows that this is a band equally effective unplugged as with amps cranked up to 11.

Lyrically the album focuses on relationships and situations life throws up; at times uplifting, at times less so, but always philosophical and mirrored by the mood of the music.

Cumulatively, the result is an album of depth and originality; Make Yourself is a profound and coherent work.

JAMES SILLS

NOVEL: The Crow Trap

The story of three women conducting an environmental survey in an isolated cottage in North Yorkshire may not, at first, appear particularly interesting.

But a suicide, two murders and the arrival of a somewhat unorthodox police inspector, set the stage for a who-dun-it of mammoth proportions.

With ambition, alcoholism, abandoned children, adultery and mental illness lurking in the background, the village of Langholme seems over-run by possible suspects.

Too many characters with too many motives and a disjointed style of presentation do not make Ann Cleeves' £6.99 paperback an easy read.

But with a macabre twist at the end, this novel is much more rewarding the second time around, when the reader can appreciate how the interwoven story-lines create a fascinating spider's web of intrigue.

CATHERINE SCURRAH