ANTHONY Hopkins reprises his role as the world's most feared big screen serial killer in Hannibal (18).

Now at large in Italy, Dr Lecter is being hunted by FBI agent Julianne Moore and a revenge-seeking victim (Gary Oldman) in this Ridley Scott-directed thriller.

MEL Gibson is a hotshot executive who finds his female side in What Women Want (12), a romantic comedy about a self-assured man who discovers the gift of hearing women's innermost thoughts - and is shocked by what he discovers.

Helen Hunt co-stars.

DISNEY'S latest animated adventure, The Emperor's New Groove (U), sees an arrogant, self-centred young emperor of a mythical mountain empire cut down to size by his power-hungry advisor.

Armed with new-found humility, he returns to reclaim his throne.

KATE Winslet stars as a laundry maid who smuggles out of prison the illicit work of the Marquis De Sade, in the period drama Quills (18).

Geoffrey Rush plays De Sade, while the cast also includes Michael Caine as a hard-line psychiatrist, and Joaquin Phoenix as a jailer.

ROBERT De Niro and Rene Russo play the chief villains in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (U), an adventure comedy mixing live action with animation, based on the classic Jay Ward cartoon TV characters.

Whoopi Goldberg co-stars.