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It's a Boy Girl Thing
Parts exchange: The usual navel gazing, genital examining, body swapping comed. Kevin Zegers, Samaire Armstrong and Sharon Osbourne star.
TRAILER: Flags of our Fathers
Flags of our Fathers
Flag waving: The first installment of Clint Eastwood's two part look at the battle over Iwo Jima, this one following three soliders stuggling to cope with being made poster boys for the pacific war.
TRAILER: Flags of our Fathers
Eragon
Night rider: Fantasy epic blockbuster from Steven Fangmeier trying to cash in on a bit of the Harry Potter magic. But have we had our fill of wizards?
TRAILER: Eragon
Black Christmas
Slay ride (sorry): Katie Cassidy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Michelle Trachtenberg star in this Christmas slasher movie. Can it cut through some of the festive cheer?
TRAILER: Black Christmas
Dead Man's Cards Dead Man's Cards
Hard knocks: James Marquand's directorial debut is this gritty urban thriller set in Liverpool's seedy clubland. Paul Barber and James McMartin star.
Esma's Secret Esma's Secret
Tough times: Mirjana Karanovic and Luna Mirovic impress in Jasmilla Zbanic's frosty directorial debut about a mother struggling to cope in the aftermath of the Bosnian war.
The US vs. John Lennon
Love in: Entertaining if predictable look at the US government's attempts to silence ardent peacenik John Lennon.
TRAILER: The US vs. John Lennon
Big Nothing
Black mail: David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg star in this brilliant dark comedy about a scam going horribly wrong...
TRAILER: Big Nothing
London to Brighton
Gang land: Tough and gripping British urban thriller about a prostitute on the run with an eleven year old girl.
TRAILER: London to Brighton
Shortbus Shortbus
Hard core: John Cameron Mitchell's film contains unsimulated sex (gay and straight) and auto-fellatio. Is there a point beyond all the penetration?
Pan's Labyrinth
Fairy tale: Guillermo del Toro adds another superb fantasy piece to his filmography. Ofelia has only a few days to solve the mysteries of Pan's Labyrinth...
TRAILER: Pan's Labyrinth
Hollywoodland Hollywoodland
Murder mystery: Ben Affleck stars in this dark tale of a private eye investiagting the supposed suicide of George Reeves, the original man of steel.
Casino Royale Casino Royale
Blond Bond: Daniel Craig is 007 - buffed, vulnerable and villainous. Were the internet naysayers right, or is there life in the old franchise yet?
Antibodies
Dark place: Intense, Silence of the Lambs-esque German thriller from Christian Alvart about a paedophile convicted of the murder of thirteen young boys.
TRAILER: Antibodies
Joy Division
Eastern Front: Ambitious debut feature from Reg Travis which cuts between the horrors of the Eastern Front to the decadence of sixties London. But does it bite off more than it can chew?
Gabrielle
Love struck: Touching, intense drama from Patrice Chereau, featuing some outstanding performances from Pascal Greggory and Isabell Huppert.
Breaking and Entering
Hearts and minds: Anthony Minghella directs his own London-set script, with Jude Law and Juliette Binoche heading a cast of characters brought together by crime and a city's ever-changing face.
Starter For Ten
Brit flick: David Nicholls' book transfers to the big screen, with a cast featuring British film stalwarts Lindsay Duncan and Charles Dance, and newcomers Dominic Cooper and James McAvoy.
TRAILER: Starter For Ten
Borat
Star hack: Sacha Baron Cohen is Kazakhstan's sixth most famous reporter and the United States is his story. Funniest film of the year?
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Hammy Heath: Romcom featuring an array of British talent - seven short love stories intertwine on one afternoon in the famous London park.
The Page Turner
Sweet revenge: A failed pianist takes a job as an au pair with the woman who ruined her career, in Denis Dercourts vengeance flick.
Romanzo Criminale
Good looking: Michele Placido's stylish godfather-esque gangster movie charts 25 years in the life of a criminal gang in Rome during one of Italy's most turbulent times.
TRAILER: Romanzo Criminale
Mischief Night
Great divide: Penny Woolcock's comedy tackles drugs, extremism and racial segregation in a fictional Yorkshire town. Ramon Tikaram and Kelli Hollis star.
TRAILER: Mischief Night
All the King's Men
Power play: Sean Penn and Jude Law star in this tale of corruption and power in 1950s Louisiana, adapted from Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer prize winning novel.
Marie Antoinette
Eat cake: The life and death of history's most famous socialite. Kirsten Dunst plays the Austrian princess drawn into the incredible decadence of Versailles.
The Last Kiss
Love woes: Zach Braff and Rachel Bilson have a dangerous liasion in what is certainly not your typical Hollywood romantic comedy.
The Grudge 2
Back again: Another instalment in Takashi Shimizu's Grudge franchise - this time an American remake of the Japanese movie of the same name.
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
Conspiracy theory: Recreation of the events that lead to the death of Ben Barka, a 1960s Moroccan dissident. Serge Le Peron directs.
The History Boys
Teaching times: Alan Bennett's examination of why learning matters transfers from the stage to the silver screen, with Richard Griffiths again heading the cast.
Idlewild
Plus fours: Outkast turn their talented hands to the movie business, in this jiving, jitterbugging, star-studded musical drama.
New Police Story
Jack's back: Stuntman superstar Jackie Chan remakes one of his old classics. But is it a big budget blockbuster or and ill conceived rehash of a perfect original?
The Devil Wears Prada
Knives out: Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway are at daggers drawn in this bitchy, backstabbing drama about the hyper competitive fashion industry.
The Departed
Second take: Martin Scorcese remakes Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson head the all-star cast.
World Trade Center
Cometh the day: Oliver Stone dramatises events of 9/11 from the point of view of two "first responders". Nicolas Cage stars.
TRAILER: World Trade Center
Life 'N' Lyrics
Star crossed: Another take on Shakespeare's most famous romance; Ashley Walters continues his impressive rise to stardom in this sweet tale of love and music.
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Golden Balls: Directors Gordon and Parreno produce a decidedly different take on the biopic, seventeen cameras trained on the man known as Zizou for a 92 minute match.
Children Of Men
Urban dystopia: Alfonso Cuarón follows Y Tu Mama Tambien with this adaptation of PD James' novel, set in London in 2027. Clive Owen and Michael Caine star.
Trust The Man
Chick lit: David Duchovny and Julianne Moore head a strong cast in this tale of two couples, also starring Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Clerks 2
Time wasters: Kevin Smith follows up his original cult classic, returning to the lives of bored minimum wagers Dante and Randal ten years later.
Keane
Lost child: Lodge Kerrigan's powerful look at a man slowly falling to pieces after losing his daughter. Damian Lewis and Amy Ryan star.
Eros
Triple the confusion: Three short films from directors Wong Kar Wai, Michelangelo Antonioni and Steven Soderbergh linked by the theme of impossible love.
The Queen
Royals we: Helen Mirren gets regal as Elizabeth II in Stephen Frears' dramatisation of events following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
An Inconvenient Truth
Enviro Doc: This year's hit documentary sees Al Gore saying how it is on global warning. Riveting and terrifying, a must-see for everyone concerned about the future.
Talladega Nights
Boy Racers: Will Ferrell dons a crash helmet and sends up the world of NASCAR, with a cameo cast including Dale Earnhardt Jr and Elvis Costello. Really.
Little Miss Sunshine
Loser baby: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette and Alan Arkin star in this low-budget family road movie that was the toast of Sundance.
Snow Cake
White heart: Alan Rickman lights up the screen as troubled loner Alex, thrown together with Sigourney Weaver's high level autistic in this icy melodrama.
Driving Lessons
Grande Dame: Julie Walters hams it up as an eccentric actress leading Rupert Grint on a rights-of-passage road movie experience.
Shanghai Dreams
Country life: A father struggles to return his family to Shanghai 10 years after being sent to the countryside in the Cultural Revolution.
Adrift
Sinking feeling: Six friends go for an ill-advised dip off the coast of Mexico, and end up trapped at sea. Can it surpass 2003's surprise package Open Water?
Volver
Women on the verge: Pedro Almodovar's latest is a surreal comedy with hints of film noir, starring two of the director's favourites - Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura.
Look Both Ways
Train wreck: Australian feature debut by director Sarah Watt, bringing unlikely characters together following a train crash.
A Scanner Darkly
Far out: Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr star in Richard Linklater's superbly realised trip into the dark world of Phillip K Dick.
Snakes On A Plane
Hissy fit: Samuel L Jackson takes flight in this internet-hyped tale of snakes. On a plane. Were reviewers barred from advance screenings for good reason?
Harsh Times
Rock bottom: Can recently demobbed Jim Davis find a new purpose in life? Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez star in David Ayer's bleak LA drama.
Stray Dogs
Hard times: Gol-Ghotai's superb performance lights up this unhappy tale of two children eking out an existence in Kabul's rubbish dumps.
Lady In The Water
Scary lady: M Night Shyamalan's latest stars Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard in a fairy tale made real, complete with fantasy baddies.
Nacho Libre
Jack Black gets dressed up as a masked wrestler in this Mexico-set screwball comedy that nods just a little to Jackass.
Monster House
Animated Hallowe'en horrors of the Goonies variety, featuring the voices of Steve Buscemi and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Miami Vice
Sharp suits: Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx star in Michael Mann's take on the action-packed '80s Don Johnson TV vehicle.
The Notorious Bettie Page
Tied Up: Gretchen Mol stars as 1950s fetish icon Bettie Page in American Psycho director Mary Harron's biopic.
TRAILER: The Notorious Bettie Page
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Superwoman: Uma Thurman stars as a spurned superhero determined to make her ex-boyfriend's life Hell.
TRAILER: My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Three Times
Love Affair: Brilliant romance from Taiwanese director Hsiao-hsien Hou, juxtaposing three tales of love from different times in history.
CSA: Confederate States of America
Parallel universe: Kevin Wilmott's documentary intrigue asks what would the world be like had the Confederacy won the American Civil War.
Cars
A hotshot rookie racer discovers life is about the journey, not the finish line. He's a talking car, of course.
TRAILER: Cars
Warrior King
Muay Thai: Tony Jaa follows up his smash hit Ong Bak with another bone cracking martial arts spectacle, playing (don't laugh) a Thai farmer searching for his missing elephants.
Stay Alive
A killer videogame targets a group of hapless friends in William Brent Bell's horror, starring Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong and Frankie Muniz.
Renaissance
Contrasting Fortunes: Experimental black and white animation, featuring the voices of Daniel Craig, Ian Holm and Jonathan Pryce.
Angel A
Love Letter: Shady con artist Andre meets blond bombshell Angel A - can she bring out his inner woman? Redemption story, by Luc Besson.
Little Fish
Suburban setting: Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill head to Sydney's western suburbs for this eye-opening character study.
The Break-Up
Odd couple: Jennifer Aniston picks another timely topic to commit to celluloid, with Vince Vaughn. War of the Roses-lite, anyone?
Les Amants Réguliers
Risibly real: Philippe Garrel directs this realist flick, beginning in the 1968 Paris insurrection. Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme and Éric Ruilliat star.
Superman Returns
Caped crusader: The man of steel is back in Bryan Singer's addition to the Super franchise - can it light up this year's blockbuster season?
TRAILER: Superman Returns
Atomised
Little pieces: Brilliant adaptation of Houllebecq's bleak postmodern novel of the same name - a mind bending tale of psychotic drugs, plastic surgery and asexual reproduction.
The Death Of Mr Lazarescu
Divine Comedy: A protagonist with the name Dante mixes it up with two unseen Virgils in an idiosyncratic journey to the heart of the Romanian health service.
11:14
Points of view: Greg Marcks' debut feature stars Hilary Swank, Patrick Swayze and Henry Thomas in amongst a convoluted plotline that ends just about where it starts.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
High Seas: Johnny Depp, Keira Knightly and Orlando Bloom set sail again in this hotly anticipated follow up to the 2003 ghostly pirate flick.
TRAILER: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
District 13
Free Running: The French art of le parkour hits the screens in Luc Besson's visually spectacular action flick. Shame about the plot though.
Ju-On: The Grudge 2
Shock Horror: Brutal murders, pale faces, and curses from beyond the grave...it must be another iteration of Takashi Shimizu's superbly creepy horror series.
40 Shades of Blue
Coveted colour: Ira Sachs' debut feature was winner of the Sundance Festival's Grand Jury Prize last year. Find out what happens when you want something you can't have.
Cave of the Yellow Dog
Modern life: Byambasuren Davaa delivers again with this haunting docudrama about a nomadic family struggling to preserve their lifestyle in a changing Mongolia.
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Sound system: Documentary following Dave Chappelle, and some famous friends, brighten up a brooklyn neighbourhood with a titanic block party.
TRAILER: Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Over the Hedge
Food fight: RJ the Raccoon has a few weeks to replace food he stole from a grizzly bear or he'll be on the menu himself in Dreamworks' latest.
Just My Luck
Fortune kooky: Lindsay Lohan stars in this rom-com for the tweenage market. Should she change agents?
The Lake House
Watery tale: Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock are reunited in this time displacement suspension of disbelief that's better than it sounds.
TRAILER: The Lake House
Half Light
Highland fling: Demi Moore and Hans Matheson get together for this supernatural thriller. Is it enough to revive Moore's career?
Ultraviolet
Comic caper: Milla Jovovich goes all comic book in a cyberpunk futureworld with an enhanced CGI palette and Cameron Bright.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Ken Loach directs this look at the formation of the Irish Free State, starring Cillin Murphy, Padraic Delaney and Liam Cunningham.
Hard Candy
Nasty stuff: Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson turn in superb performances in this bleak, gripping thriller about internet paedophilia.
Thank You for Smoking
Lung Cancer: Can Nick Naylor be a good father and a tobbaco lobbyist at the same time? Effective send up of the cigarette industry.
TRAILER: Thank You For Smoking
Imagine Me & You
Runaway bride: A girl falls in love on her wedding day - but the object of her affections is not the groom. Starring Piper Perabo and Matthew Goode.
Election
Polling time: Simon Lam and Tony Leung Ka-fai battle for control of Honk Kong's oldest triad in Johnnie To's slick Hong Kong crime thriller.
TRAILER: Election
The Omen
21st century Satan: Liev Schreiber takes the Gregory Peck role in this week's Hollywood remake of a '70s classic, centred on the spawn of Beelzebub.
TRAILER: The Omen
Poseidon
Sinking ship: Wolfgang Peterson directs this remake of the classic disaster movie.
TRAILER: Poseidon
36
Paris police: A throbbing crime drama exploring the fine line between the police and the criminals they pursue. Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu star.
TRAILER: 36
United 93
Final flight: Paul Greengrass directs this dramatisation of the hijacked United Airlines plane that crashed in Pennsylvania before reaching its target on 9/11/2001.
X-Men: The Last Stand
Super power: The enjoyable X-Men franchise delivers again with another action packed tale of mutants with bizarre powers.
Down in the Valley
Dakota drifter: The first release from Ed Norton's production company Class 5 stars the boss as a cowboy in LA. But is it a crime drama, or a romance?
The Wild
Animal kingdom: Kiefer Sutherland, Eddie Izzard and William Shatner are among the voiceover artists in this animal animation.
TRAILER: The Wild
Friends With Money
Cashing in: Jennifer Aniston stars in Nicole Holofcener's character study of strong women, with Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack. Brangelina isn't invited.
The Da Vinci Code
Conspiracy theory: Tom Hanks plays the professor on a quest to unravel Opus Dei's secret in the big screen adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller.
The King
Prodigal sailor: Gael Garcia Bernal stars in his first English language feature as Elvis Valderez, a young man discharged from the US Navy on a search for his heritage.
TRAILER: The King
Brick
Cult classic: Joseph Gordon-Levitt needs to find his girlfriend's murderer and the meaning of 'Brick' in this superb noir/teen drama crossover.
Mission: Impossible 3
Suspend disbelief: Tom Cruise brings Ethan Hunt out of retirement for blockbuster antics, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne and Simon Pegg.
TRAILER: Mission: Impossible 3
Love + Hate
Collision course: Dominic Savage's directorial debut is a gripping, superb tale of divided communities and doomed romance.
TRAILER: Love + Hate
Fateless
Identity crisis: Based on Imre Kertesz's Nobel winning novel, Lajos Koltai's directorial debut stars Marcel Nagy as a Hungarian Jewish boy searching for meaning in his past.
The Magician
Magical mystery: Dark Aussie mockumentary about a Melbourne hitman, starring, written and directed by Scott Ryan with a budget only slightly bigger than tuppence.
TRAILER: The Magician
16 Blocks
Drive Time: Bruce Willis and Mos Def have 118 minutes to survive a 16 block journey in Richard Donner's entertaining crime thriller.
Initial D: Driftracer
Power slide: Jay Chou stars in this slick racing thriller, based on the popular manga comic and made by the team behind Infernal Affairs.
Slither
Meat Eater: Alien slugs and zombified deer abound in James Gunn's horror movie, which serves up laughs and frights in equal measures.
Don't Come Knocking
Lost soul: Sam Shepard plays a washed out B-movie actor, searching for a past he left behind, in Wim Wenders tale of seedy Americana.
American Dreamz
Pop idol: Hugh Grant and Dennis Quaid send up the Bush administration and reality TV in equal measure. Sally Kendoo and Sam Golzari support.
Tristan and Isolde
Love triangle: Kevin Reynolds, of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves fame, directs an epic tale of love and honour.
TRAILER: Tristan and Isolde
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Jean-Marc Vallée directs this French-Canadian revolution in the family drama genre, starring Michel Côté and Danielle Proulx.
Glastonbury
Green fields: Documentary charting the evolution of the famous music festival, from tiny hippy gathering to titanic corporate behemoth.
Junebug
Avant guarded: An "outsider" art dealer travels from the metropolis of Chicago to North Carolina to meet her in-laws. Amy Adams stars.
Alien Autopsy
Area 51: Ant and Dec add some commercial pulling power to Shameless director Jonny Campbell's likeable comedy about the truth behind the Roswell footage.
TRAILER: Alien Autopsy
Ice Age 2
Big freeze: Manny, Sid and Diego return in the follow up to the 2002 animated childrens movie. Ray Romano and Queen Latifa add voice talent.
TRAILER: Ice Age 2
The Squid and the Whale
Dual custody: Noah Baumbach's comedy drama about family breakdown is already a huge hit in the US. Can it survive the trip across the pond?
Unknown White Male
Amnesiac imagining: You wake up not knowing who you are, then have to meet your family. This happened to Doug Bruce. This documentary filmed what happened next.
Shooting Dogs
Kigali catastrophe: John Hurt and Hugh Dancy star in this harrowing account of events leading to the Rwanda genocide of 1994, directed by Michael Caton-Jones.
TRAILER: Shooting Dogs
Failure To Launch
Intervention too far: Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker head to rom-com hell, accompanied by Kathy Bates and a strange job title.
Inside Man
Crime caper: Spike Lee gets back to basics with an old school crime thriller and a cast headed by Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster.
TransAmerica
Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman plays pre-op transsexual Bree, discovering the joys of fatherhood in this she to he comedy of errors.
TRAILER: TransAmerica
Romance & Cigarettes
Smoke stack: The Sopranos star James Gandolfini heads the cast of this drama-cum-musical of working class New York life, with Susan Sarandon and Kate Winslet.
TRAILER: Romance & Cigarettes
The Ringer
Self help: Johnny Knoxville gets to enter the Special Olympics in the Farrelly Brothers' latest stab at gross-out humour. But is it funny?
V For Vendetta
Bleak future: Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving star in the Wachowskis' adaptation of Alan Moore's Orwellian graphic novel.
TRAILER: V For Vendetta
The Proposition
Wild South: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston and Emily Watson star in this Nick Cave-scripted "western".
TRAILER: The Proposition
The World's Fastest Indian
Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, a New Zealander who builds a 1920s Indian bike to take on the land speed record in 1967.
TRAILER: The World's Fastest Indian
L'Enfant
Underage underbelly: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's second Cannes Palme d'Or winner is set in a Belgian urban dystopia and stars Jérémie Renier.
The Hills Have Eyes
Rural retread: Alexandre Aja helms this remake of Wes Craven's 1977 bloodcurdling screamathon, featuring a quota of nonentities in need of killing.
The Road to Guantanamo
Michael Winterbottom directs this campaigning tale of the Tipton Three, captured in Afghanistan and flown to Guantánamo as suspected "insurgents".
Syriana
Intertwining stories examine the oil trade between the US and the middle east, starring Matt Damon, George Clooney and Chris Cooper.
TRAILER: Syriana
KiDULTHOOD
Grime and crime: Garage and suicide sit cheek by jowl in Menhaj Huda's gritty tale of schoolmates in West London.
TRAILER: KiDULTHOOD
MirrorMask
A CGI fest based on Neil Gaiman's vivid imaginings, with Rob Brydon.
TRAILER: MirrorMask
Manderlay
Lars von Trier's sequel to Dogville stars Bryce Dallas Howard and Willem Dafoe.
Stay
Suicide story: Ewan McGregor is a professor trying to prevent a suicide in Monster's Ball director Marc Forster's highly visual latest, with Ryan Gosling.
The Weather Man
Stormy forecast: Gore Verbinski's tale stars Nicolas Cage as a weather man who debates what makes for professional and personal success. With Michael Caine.
Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as gay Breakfast at Tiffany's author Truman Capote in a refreshingly different biopic, directed by Bennett Miller.
Lucky Number Slevin
Lucky numbers: Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley star in Paul McGuigan's modern day film noir, with Bruce Willis and Lucy Liu.
Seven Swords
Tsui Hark's adaptation of Liang Yusheng's novel of Early Qing Dynasty China.
Good Night, And Good Luck
David Strathairn stars in George Clooney's tale of legendary broadcaster Edward Murrow's struggle with Senator McCarthy. Also starring Patricia Clarkson.
TRAILER: Good Night, And Good Luck
Casanova
Heath Ledger is the infamous Venetian in Lasse Hallstrom's lighthearted spin.
Proof
Sum of all parts: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal star in John Madden's adaptation of the mathematical play of the same name.
Chicken Little
Plucky hero: Zach Braff is the starring voice in Disney's latest, about an unlikely hero who saves his town from disaster.
Final Destination 3
Sliced and diced: Many and varied unknown young things are served up to the slasher movie genre. Is this the final instalment?
Walk The Line
Carting Cash: Joaquin Phoenix stars and sings as Johnny Cash in this biopic of The Man In Black, with Reese Witherspoon as June Carter.
Zathura
Jon Favreau's science fiction spiritual sequel to '90s superhit Jumanji... but with more asteroids and less Robin Williams this time.
North Country
Making history: Whale Rider's Niki Caro directs Charlize Theron as the winner of the first successful US sexual harassment case.
Derailed
Off track: Clive Owen, Vincent Cassel and Jennifer Aniston team up for the Weinstein company's first release.
Hidden (Caché)
Bo-bo chic: Bourgeois bohemians Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche star in Michel Haneke's thought-provoking study of social attitudes in modern day Paris.
Munich
Secret service: Steven Spielberg tells of the events following the assassination of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics from a Mossad agent's viewpoint.
The New World
Uncharted territories: Terrence Malick's first film since 1998 finds Colin Farrell as a settler exploring Pocahontas' 17th century new world of mystery.
Bee Season
Mystic honey: Kaballah mysticism and spelling competitions drive Juliette Binoche and Richard Gere to distraction in present-day San Fransisco.
A Cock And Bull Story
Shandy thinkers: The famously 'unfilmable' Tristan Shandy novel has the cinematic treatment from Michael Winterbottom. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon star.
TRAILER:  A Cock and Bull Story
Shopgirl
Three's a crowd: Claire Danes plays a shop assistant torn between three men in this adaptation of Steve Martin's novella that also stars the author.
TRAILER:  Shopgirl
Jarhead
Soldier boys: Sam Mendes directs Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Jamie Foxx in a tale of American marines in the Persian Gulf.
TRAILER:  Jarhead
Memoirs of a Geisha
Hard times: A penniless Japanese child is set to work in a geisha house in a film of Arthur Golden's novel, with Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe and Michelle Yeoh.
Breakfast on Pluto
Plutonic journey: Neil Jordan directs Cillian Murphy as a small-town Irish lad who reinvents himself as a transvestite cabaret singer in swinging '60s London.
TRAILER:  Breakfast On Pluto
Brokeback Mountain
Cowboy lovers: Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Ang Lee's epic rendering of Annie Proulx's story, with stetsons, stirrups and sheep.
Match Point
Rich pickings: Woody Allen directs Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Wilton and Steve Pemberton in this upper crust tale of relationships.
TRAILER:  Match Point
Just Friends
Christmas cracker? A mix of Friends and family Christmas movie results in this slapstick tale of a reformed overweight high school geek turning tables.
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TRAILERS
UK box office top 10
to 6 November 2009
1. This Is It
2. Up
3. Fantastic Mr Fox
4. Saw VI
5. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
6. Couples Retreat
7. 9
8. An Education
9. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
10. Dead Man Running
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