WITH great power comes great responsibility. Three high school students learn that harsh lesson in this low-budget sci-fi thriller, which imagines the catastrophic consequences for the pals when they are suddenly gifted incredible mental and physical skills.Read
DIRECTOR Roman Polanski strips away the veneer of civility that supposedly separates man from beasts and reduces two well-to-do couples to snarling adversaries in this film version of the award-winning stage comedy God of Carnage.Read
GENTLEMEN don’t prefer blondes in this scabrous black comedy about a faded beauty queen who clings to the past to avoid acknowledging the loneliness and despair that hang over her like cheap perfume.Read
GOOD things come to those who wait and it’s been an agonising seven years since writer-director Alexander Payne ventured to the sun-dappled vineyards of the quirky Oscar-winning comedy Sideways.Read
A GIANT flea nurtures a passion for music in this computer-animated fable that teaches us to never judge a wingless, blood-sucking parasite by its spiny legs or hairy abdomen.Read
DURING a turbulent and contentious term in power spanning almost 50 years, J Edgar Hoover was instrumental in the fight against criminality on the streets of America.Read
WHILE Madonna remains a formidable force of nature in the music industry, her repeated attempts to expand her creative empire on to the stage and screen have proved less fruitful.Read
ADDICTION is a dirty word yet we are all susceptible to compulsive behaviour. Hankerings for caffeine, sugar or tobacco stem from the same dark places as drug and alcohol dependency.Read
