Martin McDonaugh's first collaboration with Colin Farrell, 2008's In Bruges, has justly gone down as something of a minor cult masterpiece, its quirky, dark comedic slant on the crime drama coupled with fine performances from a cast which included Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes making it a standout film of the year. McDonaugh's follow up, Seven Psychopaths, reunited the director with Farrell but this time around expanded the canvas considerably and brought in an ensemble cast of top talent including Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken. This is a playfully meta crime comedy-drama, with the protagonist writing a film within a film where genre conventions are held up and shot down. It's a real shame that Seven Psychopaths, despite all its strengths, barely broke even at the box office. Far inferior films have gone on to earn considerably more for so little comparative effort.