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Michael Winterbottom's newest movie has a promising premise but the film that results is all style in search of story.

Something you don't expect to see in yet another film about resistance heroism in Nazi-occupied Europe: a stagecoach chase.

Bloody, brainy and British - a superhero movie reinvented as gory comedy works out surprisingly well, writes Russell Baillie.

Tina Fey and Steve Carell strut their comedic abilities by taking this far-fetched story and turning it into an enjoyable laugh-out-loud comedy.

With its crude, tasteless humour set against an underlying sweet and heartfelt story, <i>She's Out of My League</i> is straight out of the Judd Apatow school of comedy, mixed with the buddy flick element of <i>The Hangover</i>.

An affair to remember.

Stock standard tear-jerker.

Be prepared for some tense scenes in Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker.

Nanny McPhee's back, wart and all.

There are some lovely moments and funny sequences in this wacky satire about the use of psychics within the American military, but <i>The Men Who Stare at Goats</i> never quite reaches its potential to be a laugh out loud film or a sharp po

Taika Waititi calls this his first feature, even though it arrives after the lovably deadpan <i>Eagle vs Shark</i>.

Based on the best-selling kid's book by Cressida Cowell, <i>How To Train Your Dragon</i> comes wonderfully to life on the big screen thanks to fabulous 3D computer animation, great voices, a story full of adventure, and plucky young her

Russell Baillie reviews new movie <I>Green Zone</I> starring Matt Damon...

The film of Cormac McCarthy's howlingly bleak apocalyptic novel is, first and foremost, a triumph of location scouting (the process by which film-makers find where they are going to set their shoot).

The source of this surprisingly affecting family drama was the book The Boys Are Back In Town, by English journalist Simon Carr, who worked as Jim Bolger's speechwriter in the early 1990s.

Peter Calder reviews new movie <I>The Admiral</I>...

The Karena family dynamics are captured on film.

The dancing sequences are sublime in <i>Mao's Last Dancer</i>.

<i>Twilight</i> star Robert Pattinson proves he's more than just every teenage girl's favourite vampire.

It's not just because of fancy 3D computer graphics that Tim Burton's <i>Alice and Wonderland</i> is the closest to what Lewis Carroll saw when he wrote the book.

On paper, it's hard to imagine Travolta and Rhys Meyers together, but on screen they have a nice thing going.

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