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A Secret is a drama told in flashbacks and starts in the 1950’s post war Paris where 9 year old Francois, the son of a champion swimmer mom and gymnast father, feels the disenchantment in his father’s heart at the boy’s physical limitations. Francois invents an imaginary older brother with all the attributes that he lacks. His hero increasingly becomes a real presence in his life which is uneasily tolerated by his mother but mysteriously infuriates his father. Six years later he discovers that his vivid creation isn’t all a dream and that there is a dark unspoken part of the families past. With the holocaust as a backdrop there was a heated

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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a follow up to Brendan Fraser’s 1999 remake of the 1932 Boris Karloff classic and his subsequent 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns. Again Fraser is Rick O'Connell, now a retired gentleman in post war Oxfordshire sharing his country estate with his wife Evelyn (no longer Rachel Weitz but now Maria Bello who uses her excess leisure time to oversell a British accent). The secret service comes calling on the bored adventurers to entrust them with one final sortie – repatriate a precious artefact to China. While in Shanghai they drop into the nightclub of Evelyn’s shady, entrepreneurial buffoon brother John

Swing Vote solidifies Kevin Kostner as the new go-to-guy for the personification of rumpled. Here he’s known as Bud to everyone including his child. He’s a middle aged slacker and single father to Molly (the endearing Madeline Carroll who has an impressive resume for a 12 year old) in an arid small town with the unlikely name of Texaco New Mexico. The pre teen Molly is the Hollywood cliché child effectively raising the parent but her shenanigans in a razor close Presidential race leaves Bud as the only elector uncounted after a nation wide tie vote. The election slate is refreshingly dufus free - but not so with the lone remaining franchisee.

STEP BROTHERS is some more summertime silliness re-teaming Taladega Nights stars Will Farrell and John C. Reilly again portraying blithely vacuous characters under encore director Adam McKay. This time Farrell and Reilly are 40ish man-boys each enjoying his own hapless failure to launch. Farrell’s Brennan Huff lives with his mom Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) until she falls in love with Robert Doback (Richard Jenkins) and after they get married they move into Richard’s house. One of the connections Nancy and Richard made was having a grown son at home but it’s far less endearing for Brennan as he finds himself having to share a room with his new

THE WACKNESS takes us back to 1994’s New York as Rudi Giuliani embarked on turning the mean street into clean streets in the Big Apple. Josh Peck plays Luke, a confused high school senior spending his transition summer selling ganja from a modified ice cream vending unit to Central Park customers one of whom is Union played by Mary-Kate Olson (lets hope this sparks her appetite). Josh’s parents have marital problems largely due to financial problems which does little for his delicate self esteem. He barters weed for psychoanalysis from Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley in a bad mullet – like there’s any other kind) who might not be so anxious

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED brings the novel by Evelyn Waugh to the big screen - shorter but richer that the 1981 serialized TV version. Brideshead is a palatial English country estate which is a touchstone for our protagonist Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) but for its heirs it’s a prison and if it had a warden that would be Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson) the family matriarch. Working class Charles is introduced to this late 1920’s uber-privileged lifestyle by Sebastian Flyte (Ben Winshaw) who befriends him as an Oxford freshman. Sebastian is clearly gay while Charles is at best curious but any attraction between them is nullified when Charles is smitten

THE LAST MISTRESS is adapted from a controversial 1851 Novel Central to the story is Ryno de Marigny (newcomer Fu'ad Ait Aattou who is much too pretty for a guy) and Vellini his lover of 10 years portrayed by veteran Italian actress Asia Argento - clearly the more macho of the two until seen unclad which becomes more and more frequent as the film progresses. We meet Ryno in 1835’s Paris as it’s announced that he’s engaged to the chaste aristocratic Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida). Parisian tongues stat to wag about a marriage of social climbing convenience for the hedonistic Ryno who is summoned by Hermangarde’s worldly grandmother for

JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER resurrects Robert Englund but not as Freddy Kruger. This time he’s a kindly chemistry professor but hey, this is Robert Englund so you know eventually he’s going to get ugly and dangerous. In a departure from the recent horror film trend towards gory torture this movie relies on good old fashioned gross outs peppered with dark humour. Jack Brooks (Trevor Matthews) is a twenty-something plumber taking a night school credit course although he should probably be enrolled in some kind of anger management. His teacher Professor Crowley (Englund) asks for his assistance with a plumbing problem at his new rural house that positively

JUST BURIED stars Montrealer  Jay Baruchel as Oliver Zinc, a reluctant mortician after he surprised to inherit a small town funeral home from his estranged father. He soon finds out from the morgue’s handyman Henry (Graham Greene) that the only thing dying in town is Oliver’s newly acquired business venture. Dad also left behind a young widow whose overactive libido also transfers from father to son but Oliver is more interested in Roberta (Rose Byrne) the company embalmer. On their first besotted date they accidentally kill a pedestrian but rather than face vehicular homicide, Roberta’s quick thinking manufactures Oliver’s first