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What Happens In Vegas

WHAT Happens in Vegas is a romantic comedy along all-too familiar lines. Two mismatched strangers who tie the knot in the gambling capital — under the influence of several bottles of alcohol — start off hating each other before ending up madly in love. Read

Doomsday

WE’RE all doomed! A deadly plague will soon spread across the North and Scotland, forcing the Government to rebuild Hadrian’s Wall and shut us off from the rest of the world.Read

Speed Racer

OLDER viewers may need sunglasses for this live-action version of a Japanese cartoon series. Read

Iron Man

ARE there still any Marvel Comic superheroes out there who haven’t made it in the movies?Read

Made of Honour

DIRECTOR: Paul Weiland. CAST: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Sydney Pollack, Kathleen Quinlan. RUNNING TIME: 101mins. RATING: 12A.Read

Nim’s Island

DIRECTORS: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin. CAST: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler. RUNNING TIME: 95mins. RATING: U.Read

Deception

SUBTLETY and deft sleights of script are not part of this film’s limited vocabulary. Director Langenegger works with a heavy hand, so that on-screen clues an audience would normally feel good about picking up on are thrust in their faces, leaving their puzzle-solving needs unfulfilled.Read

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

IN the words of that most demure and delightful songstress Amy Winehouse, Love is a Losing Game.Read

Three and Out

BASING a comedy around a train driver’s plan to hit somebody on the tracks may seem a little insensitive, given the recent string of tragedies.Read

Funny Games

IGNORANCE is bliss when it comes to Michael Haneke’s update to his explosive 1997 film of the same name. Remade virtually shot for shot, Funny Games is a violent and provocative thriller about a normal family facing the ordeal of a home invasion.Read

Son of Rambow

FOR those of us who lived through the 80s, it was the decade of leg warmers and Space Dust popping furiously on the tongue. Son Of Rambow is a delightful coming-of-age story harking back to those days of kitsch attire and Bucks Fizz losing their skirts at Eurovision.Read

Awake

I FEAR there may be a typographical error in the advertising for Joby Harold’s feature film debut. A space seems to have gone astray in the film’s title, so audiences will stumble blindly into this hokey medical thriller unaware they are attending A Wake for actor Hayden Christensen’s once glittering, yet now sadly mouldering, career.Read

27 Dresses

IT’S hard to imagine Katharine Heigl being overlooked by the less-fair sex, but such is her first true leading role.Read

Drillbit Taylor

IF you ever encountered a bully at school, you’ll know where Drillbit Taylor is coming from.Read

The Hottie and the Nottie

THE fact that Paris Hilton plays the Hottie of the title should alert you to the likeability of this movie.Read

Lars and the Real Girl

SHY office worker Lars lives alone in an outhouse in the backyard of the family home, where older brother Gus — Paul Schneider — and his wife Karin — Emily Mortimer — are preparing for the birth of their first child.Read

The Other Boleyn Girl

FALLING victim to the same excesses as Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Other Boleyn Girl is a beautifully dressed and staged costume drama that has pomp and pageantry in abundance but a paucity of deep emotion. Read

The Game Plan

ALTHOUGH the setting and underlying themes are contemporary – the corruptive allure of celebrity, the pressures of single parenthood, rampant materialism – The Game Plan is, at its soft, gooey heart, an old-fashioned Disney yarn extolling the virtues of the family unit. Read

Vantage Point

SOMETIMES, the truth is hidden in plain sight – you just need to know where to look. Vantage Point is an intricate action-thriller, which replays a devastating terrorist attack from eight perspectives.Read

Diary Of The Dead

You just can’t keep a good zombie franchise down. Forty years after George A Romero reinvigorated the horror genre with his low-budget classic Night Of The Living Dead, the godfather of gore returns with the fifth instalment of the blood-soaked franchise Read