Get Smart (12A)

Thursday 21st August 2008

Mel Brooks began his career as spoofmaster-in-chief in the Sixties with a TV series about a bungling Bond-type secret agent. Somewhat late in the day, the Stateside hit is reinvented as a movie, with Brooks listed as a consultant, and this year's hottest comedy property, Steve Carell, the headline talent.

Zero: An Investigation into 9/11

Thursday 21st August 2008

Seven years on from that day in 2001, conspiracy theories continue to lurk on the wilder reaches of the internet. This patchy Italian documentary takes a few of the notions and holds them up to the light with varying degrees of success.

Her Name is Sabine (15)

12:01am Thursday 21st August 2008

French actress Sandrine Bonnaire turns director to deliver an impassioned and moving portrait of a little sister lost to autism.

College Road Trip (U)

12:03am Thursday 21st August 2008

College Road Trip, the latest vehicle for Martin Lawrence's tireless facial mugging, is a dispiriting excursion into the comedy mire from a director whose previous wrecks include Just Friends and The Sweetest Thing.

Accomplished party to a conflict

12:37am Thursday 14th August 2008

If her Oscar-winning performance as a no-nonsense police chief in Fargo wasn't enough to make you realise that Frances McDormand isn't at least as talented as her contemporaries Meryl Streep and Susan Sarandon, her lead role in this ought to do the trick.

You Don’t Mess With the Zohan (12A)

12:43am Thursday 14th August 2008

Having played it semi-serious with his last few films – Spanglish, The Longest Yard, Reign Over Me – the prince of potty humour, Adam Sandler, returns to what his legions of fans love him for with this supremely daft and wantonly crude comedy.

Wild Child (12A)

12:44am Thursday 14th August 2008

Emma Roberts, aka Nancy Drew, aka Julia Roberts’s niece, plays a spoilt Malibu princess whose despairing father (Aidan Quinn) packs her off to a strict girls-only British boarding school in the hope that the brat will learn some life lessons.

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (PG)

12:45am Thursday 14th August 2008

The precocious Hana Makhmalbaf, the youngest member of a distinguished Iranian filmmaking family, joins her father Moshen (Kandahar), mother Marzieh (Stray Dogs) and sister Samira (At Five in the Afternoon) to make a film about life in contemporary Afghanistan.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (PG)

12:48am Thursday 14th August 2008

Having brought the space opera saga full circle with the last of the three prequels, Star Wars creator George Lucas has been filling in the narrative gaps with animated television shows and computer games.

In Which We Serve (U)

12:46am Thursday 14th August 2008

A season of digitally restored classics by the great British filmmaker David Lean continues with his first directorial effort, a robust slice of wartime propaganda co-directed with star and playwright Noel Coward.

Let this Mummy rest in peace

12:36am Thursday 7th August 2008

When it was announced that Rob Cohen’s action caper would be set in China rather than dusty old Egypt, traditional home to the men in bandages, the big question was where the mummy would come from.

Married Life (PG)

12:21am Thursday 7th August 2008

"This is my friend Harry. He's married. He likes his wife. It can happen." So Pierce Brosnan opens this smartly done, noirish thriller set in late Forties America.

The Fox And The Child (U)

12:20am Thursday 7th August 2008

Luc Jacquet charmed millions with his stunning Oscar-winner March of the Penguins but his latest, far more intimate venture The Fox and the Child will struggle to find as appreciative an audience.

Elite Squad (18)

12:18am Thursday 7th August 2008

There's nothing pretty about Jose Padilha's drama about warring cops and drug dealers. What the Golden Bear winner has is a ferocious energy that's in tune with its setting and subject.

Elegy (15)

12:16am Thursday 7th August 2008

Best to wear roomy shoes to Isabel Coixet’s drama about an affair between a professor and his student, the better to deal with the toe-curling moments in an otherwise polished piece.

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