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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

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

California Dreamin’ (Endless) (Nesfarsit)

THE final cut of California Dreamin’ (Endless) (Nesfarsit) was completed in honour of director Cristian Nemescu, who died shortly after beginning this project.Read

Cassandra's Dream

WOODY ALLEN used to make great films, but he seems to have lost his touch somewhat, particularly in his three films shot in England. Read

Caramel

DIRECTED, written by and starring Nadine Labaki, Caramel is a deliciously sweet melodrama revolving around a Beirut beauty salon called Si Belle, which provides a focal point for the gossiping local women as they search for love and fulfilment. Read

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

AFTER a 19-year absence, the man with the fedora and the whip is back. Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull maybe the most eagerly anticipated movie of the summer, but it’s only half a great film. Read

Smart People

IT doesn’t necessarily follow that being brainy equals being well- mannered, which is the premise behind Smart People.Read

Charlie Bartlett

EPONYMOUS hero Charlie exploits the over-reliance on prescription medicine of today’s schoolkids in this bittersweet comedy about a rebellious teenager battling his demons with the help of psychiatric drugs. Read