Film

JEFF SAWTELL praises Ali Salim for criticising the twisted reality of the American Dream in the film that Hollywood wouldn't touch.

THE film poster reads: "There were three people in her marriage." The movie trailer has sparked controversy because it features a picture of the late Princess of Wales and mentions "two women related by ancestry" and "history repeats itself."

FROM the people behind Scary Movie and Meet The Spartans comes another spoof movie.

AFTER the truly dreadful Swept Away and Revolver, you wonder how Guy Ritchie had the will or financial backing to make another film and why anyone of note would want to appear in it.

HAVING sucessfully directed Bangkok Dangerous in 1999, the Pang brothers have taken the road to Hollywood to produce another risible version starring Nicolas Cage as a hitman who's sent to Bangkok on a mission.

JEFF SAWTELL overlooks a crossroads between two cultures, as portrayed by Turkish film-maker Reha Erdem's epic personal and political parable.

FINALLY, a horror film that will have you genuinely cowering behind your popcorn or date. The Strangers is a terrifying suspense thriller which has just featured in the Film4 Frightfest Festival.

THIS is a coming-of-age story with a wacky twist.

A FASCINATING and powerful film about an autistic teenager who is bullied mercilessly at school and deals with it by withdrawing into his favourite computer game.

I KNEW as soon as I saw Barry from EastEnders (Shaun Williamson) turning up as a moustachioed police chief to investigate a daylight robbery that things would somehow all come terribly unstuck.