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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

THERE are moments of real beauty in this dark tale set in Nazi Germany. Read

Pineapple Express

THERE are an awful lot of buddy movies around at the moment — such as Step Brothers and the up-coming Sex Drive — which means there must be a huge appetite for them among movie-goers. Read

Bangkok Dangerous

THIS testosterone-fuelled tale of a hit man’s final hurrah on the crime-riddled streets of the Thai capital is an English language remake by Hong Kong film- makers Oxide and Danny Pang. Read

NOT content with the two hugely popular trilogies, George Lucas serves up yet another chapter in the Star Wars saga with this animated adventure.

Filling in the gaps between Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith, the film seems little more than a glossy teaser for a forthcoming television series. Read

COMEDY is probably the wrong word to describe this latest Adam Sandler vehicle.

Despite the brains behind the script — Sandler, plus Robert Smigel and Jud Apatow — the story of an Israeli agent who dreams of becoming a hairdresser is a witless, puerile piece. Read

Wild Child

DROP the square peg of a fashion-obsessed US teen girl into the round hole of a stuffy English boarding school and you have the classic ingredients for a culture clash comedy. Read

Angus, thongs and perfect snogging

DIRECTOR: Gurinder Chadha. CAST: Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Georgia Henshaw, Manjeeven Grewal, Sean Bourke, Aaron Johnson, Kimberley Nixon, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Steve Jones. RUNNING TIME: 100 mins. RATING: 12A. Read

Mamma Mia!

DUST off your dancing shoes and flares . . . Mamma Mia’s melodies and all-star cast are sure to put a spring in your step. Read

The Forbidden Kingdom

DAZZLING and gravity-defying action is the name of the game in Rob Minkoff’s adventure, which sees martial arts titans Jet Li and Jackie Chan share the screen for the first time. Read

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

THIS 21st-century makeover of Jules Verne’s 19th-century novel Journey To The Centre Of The Earth is unquestionably an ultra-modern creature. Read

Hancock

DON’T mistake this superhero movie for an amusing kids’ flick it has crude humour and dark moments. Read

Kung Fu Panda

HOW can a high-kicking panda fail to delight audiences young and old? In some hands, it just might, but this film has enough skillful plot moves and masterful comic touches. Read

Edge of Love

WRITER-DIRECTOR John Maybury adopts a similar approach here to his extraordinary Francis Bacon biopic Love Is The Devil, observing — in this case — the creative genius of Dylan Thomas from a distance. Read

The Incredible Hulk

FIVE years after we sighed with disappointment at Ang Lee’s movie about the green giant, director Louis Leterrier has repeated the same mistakes. Read

The Happening

HAVING lapped up all the trailers for this movie with relish, you can’t come close to understanding how gutted I was to find out that all the hype was nothing but hot air. Read

Priceless (Hors de Prix)

CONSIDERING the top-notch performances and relentlessly feel-good tone on display here, it’s difficult to see why Salvadori’s film has taken the best part of 18 months to make its way across the Channel. Read

Gone Baby Gone

DELAYED to spare the family of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann any further pain, Gone Baby Gone makes its mainstream debut some six months late. Read

Superhero Movie

DIRECTOR Craig Mazin could be forgiven for thinking that the time was right for a superhero spoof, with Iron Man just released and a Hulk remake on the way. Read

Prom Night

NOTICEABLY absent from this latest teen slasher flick are the full-on blood and guts scenes that are this genre’s hallmark. Read

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

WELCOME Home Roscoe Jenkins centres around a dysfunctional southern US clan in this culture clash comedy. Read

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