How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Dir: Robert B Weide, with Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges 2 stars Conflicted British journo Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) used to poke fun at celebrity culture in his left-field London mag, but, now that he's at glitzy glossy Sharps, he finds himself doing the unthinkable and falling for Hilton-esque starlet Sophie (Megan Fox). Kirsten Dunst and Gillian Anderson also star in this liberal adaptation of Toby Young's recent bestseller. »

Burn After Reading

In the Coen brothers' latest, a dimwit (Brad Pitt) finds a disc containing CIA secrets and attempts to blackmail the agent (John Malkovich) it belongs to.»

The Duchess

A restrained portrayal from Knightley, a masterclass in passive aggression from Fiennes and a performance of tender seduction from Atwell.»

The Tender Hook

Out of a crime noir fog comes The Tender Hook's emblem image: the east-west spans of the Sydney Harbour Bridge reaching for each other across black waters.»

Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging

From the director of Bend It Like Beckham and Bride & Prejudice comes this coming-of-age drama adapted from a novel»

Wall-E

Eco-friendly, pro-exercise and featuring a glorious use of a fire extinguisher, Wall-E sparks with genuine creativity. »

Funny Games

Michael Haneke shakes up his classic original to produce a scathing, sordid 2008 thriller.»

In Bruges

The world wasn't exactly clamouring for another movie about sensitive hit men- not least one directed by a first-time feature filmmaker»

Hellboy II - The Golden Army

Guillermo del Toro's fairytale is a fusion of the fabulist imagination of Pan's Labyrinth with the witty, irreverent comic-book action of his own Hellboy.»

Persepolis

A delightful, curious film that indulges in both the personal and political and provides a potted history of modern Iran»

Son of A Lion

Benjamin Gilmour taps into the reality of Pakistani civilian life in his debut directional effort, Son of A Lion.»

Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder is nothing but mild vulgarity mixed with explosions and entitlement, a piss-take on Hollywood excess that doubles as an example of it.»

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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden

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Star Wars - The Clone Wars

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The Visitor

The road to white people's salvation is paved with the misery of brown and black folks, or so we learn in writer-director Tom McCarthy's sophomore feature.»

Zombie Strippers

The premise is exactly what you'd expect: a zombie escapes from a government lab and winds up infecting strippers. »

The Ruins

It's hard to take entirely seriously a film in which the vibrating stamens of red vine flowers are able to mimic the sound of a mobile phone»

College Road Trip

An Illinois cop, overprotective of his college-bound baby, is pushing for matriculation at nearby Northwestern.»

Baby Mama

When Angie falls out with her slack-jawed yokel of a mate the surrogate-to-be naturally moves in with Kate, cueing much nutrition- and hygiene-based humour.»

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