"What it is often most appealing about animated films is that despite, or perhaps because of, the infinite pains and almost superhuman attention to detail that go into making them, they are fast-paced, fun, and not a minute longer than necessary.

Making use of the stop-motion technique of animation" ...

"Directed by veteran director Ridley Scott, American Gangster is based on the real-life story of notorious New York drug lord Frank Lucas, who rose from humble North Carolina beginnings to rule over a drug empire totalling hundreds of millions of dollars.

As the disastrous war in Vietnam dragged on " ...

"As Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) lies dying in her Cambridge Massachusetts home in 1998, she relives a life-defining weekend in 1954 when she was invited by her best friend Lila (Mamie Gummer) to be maid of honour at her Newport Rhode Island society wedding.

During the weekend the young Ann (Claire " ...

"When an unsuspecting Sylvia (Amy Brenneman) learns that her husband of 20 years (Jimmy Smits) is leaving her for another woman, her best friends, middle-aged, multi-divorced Bernadette (Kathy Baker) and obstinately single dog-breeder Jocelyn (Maria Bello), decide to start a book club to distract her" ...

"As in the movie Secret Window starring Johnny Depp, 1408 is based on a Stephen King short story about a writer with nothing left to lose except his sanity.

The writer in this case is Mike Enslin (John Cusack), who has been disappointed in life and now makes a living tearing the illusions of others" ...

"Based on the bestselling novel by the same name, the Spiderwick Chronicles is about a single mom who moves her three children to a decrepit old mansion in the country to rebuild their lives after a nasty separation.

When one of the boys, played by a slightly older and angrier Freddie Highmore (Cha" ...

"Okay, so like, this totally hot chick’s family got killed by this nut job, see, and then like, on her prom night this loser breaks out of the asylum and tries to stab her and her best friend and their boyfriends and half the school to death! How bad is that?

It couldn’t be worse, to " ...

"My Blueberry Nights stars singer Norah Jones as Elizabeth, a waitress who, after her latest break-up, spends a night at a New York street café getting chatted up by Jude Law before embarking on a cross country road trip, trying to earn enough money to buy her own car.

Her quest leads her through" ...