For a birthday evening out with the girls this movie, several years on from the tv series, was perfect fodder. It sees the 4 leads (including Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker)encountering new traumas, being jilted, adultery, pregnancy, with obligatory happy endings. Bit slow to start but fun. (48 words)

A US compound in Saudi Arabia is blown-up by religious fundamentalists and hundreds of locals and US citizens are killed. We follow the joint investigations by the local police and the FBI (Jamie Fox, Jenifer Garner and Patrick Bateman). An interesting take on terror and how 2 cultures interact. (49 words)

The scenario is reminiscent of the post-apocalyptic scene portrayed in Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road (see earlier). Will Smith is the sole survivor on earth and scientist in New York city following armageddon. He experiments on the once-human, inhabitants to find the cure to the man-made virus. Very frightening indeed. (50 words)

Billed as a rom-com, I found little humour and more than a pinch of sadness in this subtitled film of a group of Lebanese hairdressers in Beirut. Affairs, senility, sex before marriage and other neuroses to boot are the sub-plots here. Well filmed but far too worthy for me! (49 words)

It's rare that a "techno-thriller" is anywhere close to accurate in technical terms but this story of a computer program taking over the world is actually founded in reality. Well written and exciting we follow the story from all sides as a dead programmer's gradually takes apart the economic world. (50 words)

Salesman Chris Gardner (Will Smith) can't make ends meet for his wife and son but dreams of being a stock broker. It's difficult to watch as Chris and his son are made homeless as he completes an unpaid internship at a stock-broking firm. A tear-jerking end. Worth the heartache. (49 words)

There was so much potential to ruin this in the same way as Star Wars, but in the end we got what we wanted, a classic Indy movie. Harrison Ford looks incredibly spritely for his age, and even the new characters work pretty well. A worthy addition to the franchise. (50 words)

If bright colours aren't your thing you will hate this comic book story, but the Wachowski brothers produce stunning visuals (as ever) and a really impressive movie for boys everywhere. Some of the acting isn't the best but John Goodman and Christina Ricci are impressive (although for different reasons). (49 words)

After the really disappointing first film in the classic childrens series I wasn't hopeful, but this was a major step up in quality. With more of a whiff of the quality of the LOTR franchise hopefully this bodes well for the remaining stories. Excellent effects, well told story. (48 words)

Superior comic book take-off with Robert Downey Junior starring as the weapons inventor who, after being captured tries to make good on the bad he has done. Brilliant effects, surprisingly funny and set up nicely for a sequal. Given how well this went down it won't be far behind. (49 words)