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Disaster Movie (12a)

YET another lame spoof film, from the people who brought us Epic Movie, Date Movie and Meet The Spartans. Read

RocknRolla (15)

MARRYING Madonna has not been good for Guy Ritchie’s film career. Read

The Duchess (12a)

THE marketing men have been quick to jump on the similarities between Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire, and her descendant Diana, Princess of Wales. The film’s tagline is “there were three people in her marriage”. Read

STEP BROTHERS (15)

WILL Ferrell co-wrote and produced this movie as well as starring in it. And it feels as if he’s got his mates together to have a good laugh, with no clear idea about plot or how the film will end. Read

THE STRANGERS (15)

KRISTEN (Liv Tyler) and James (Scott Speedman) leave a wedding reception and drive to his family’s summer home in the middle of nowhere. Read

THE WACKNESS (15)

SIR Ben Kingsley really is becoming a dirty old man on screen! I pointed this out in his last film, Elegy, when he went to bed with Penelope Cruz – and now he’s snogging 22-year-old Mary-Kate Olsen. Read

BABYLON A.D. (12a)

MERCENARY Toorop (Vin Diesel) is living in the futuristic, war-torn Russian state of New Serbia. Read

Get Smart (12a)

THE 1960s TV series has been brought to the screen with a likeable cast – Steve Carell’s character of bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart likes Abba, for a start. Read

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (12a)

I can’t wait to see what del Toro does next with The Hobbit. Read

You Don’t Mess With The Zohan (12a)

ADAM Sandler is the greatest Israeli soldier that ever lived – who gives it all up to become a hairdresser. Read

Wild Child (12a)

POPPY (Emma Roberts, niece of Julia) is a spoilt Malibu brat. Read

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (PG)

THE wonderful Francis McDormand plays Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged Londoner dubbed “the governess of last resort”, who finds herself fired from her latest job in 1939. Read

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (PG)

THIS animated adventure might be called Episode 2.5, as it’s set between Attack Of The Clones and Revenge of The Sith. Read

The Fox and The Child (U)

LUC Jacquet, director of the Oscar-winning March Of The Penguins, has based this story on his childhood in the French alps. Read

Elegy (15)

YOU can see why Ben Kingsley jumped at this role – he gets to spend a lot of time in bed with a naked Penelope Cruz. Read

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WIN the new Batman book written by Dark Knight genius Frank Miller. Read

'Get Smart' and win some Odeon cinema tickets

This is YOUR chance to see this hilarious summer blockbuster, which took the US Box Office by storm, at special previews in the ODEON cinema, Birmingham before it opens nationwide on 20th August. Read

Space Chimps (U)

ARE your young children bored already of the school holidays? Then they might enjoy this, the only new release made for them. Read

The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (12a)

IT starts in a Shanghai nightclub filled with dancing girls, there’s a fight over a jewel and then the action moves to the Himalayas. Read

Man on Wire (12a)

It's an odd time to make this film now, 34 years after the event and seven years after the World Trade Center was destroyed. Read

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