Set in Johannesburg (more than a welcome change to the usual formulaic Hollywood paradigm whereby LA or New York are not only the backdrop for disaster but act too as the centre-point of planet Earth), An ominous mothership hovers above Johannesburg containing an alien race of insectoid refugees. Derogatively referred to as 'Prawns' by humans they are cordoned off in an apartheid-esque fashion and forced to live a desolate and slum-like existence in the titular District 9. While forcibly relocat find out more...

'Julie and Julia' tells the story of 2 women; Julia Childs, who wrote 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' and 'My Life in France', the latter of which is adapted for one half of this film, and Julie Powell, a present day New Yorker who, to escape the tedium of her own life, decided to cook her way through Julia's 524 recipes and writes a blog about doing so. The parallels and the differences between their two lives are highlighted. In the more interesting of the 2 stories Meryl Streep contin find out more...

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Once they were 'The Banger Sisters', notorious wild groupies from the height of rock's excess. One of them has never quite been willing to cast off her past, but the other has evolved into the epitome of the prim white middle-class American housewife, and they have drifted their separate ways. Decades later they meet up, rekindle their friendship and those memories come flooding back. find out more...

After the 11th September 2001 the War Against Terror is preparing to move on to Iraq. The UN have sent in the weapons inspectors to find if Saddam has indeed Weapons of Mass Destruction and the political machines in both the UK and US are working to present the strongest possible case for war in the face of (in the UK) very vocal opposition from the public. With the dossiers released and the threat established the "need for war" is set and, on the 19th March 2003, th find out more...

A rising biz executive with a strong line in fantasy becomes a whistle-blower on his employers' price-fixing collusion in the supply of commercial livestock additive lysine. 3 years of secret work for the FBI takes its toll on his mental health and soon after the arrest of his co-employees Mark Whitacre himself is accused of being involved in fraud on a massive scale. Matt Damon gives the performance of his life portraying the bipolaric's meltdown. Excellent stuff. find out more...