Is Greed Good (Out this week - 08/10/10)

Surprisingly quiet week with just 7 films jostling it out for the top spot. It's highly likely that the return of Gordon Gekko will take the lead, even though it's far from the best reviewed of the releases and there is plenty of counter programming going on. My film of the week is actually reflecting the box office though and remains Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps



Crook: It's good to be Bad

From the producers and director of Raaz: The mystery continues comes another colon using Bollywood drama, this time about a crime spree in Australia and it's racism hating anti-hero.

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Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

It's crunch time for Zac Efron in this sappy and dull looking drama. Will he be able to get over the death of his brother in a car accident? Will he join the "sailor girl" in her round the world trip? Will the target teen audiences actually show up? Will they know that the adul actors Kim Basinger and Ray Liotta used to do much better films? So many questions...

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Jackboots on Whitehall

Odd looking mix of Team America, Inglourious Basterds and the Carry On series with puppet nazi's invading a model London leading to a resistance army led by plucky Ewan MacGregor having to fight back. Tom Wilkinson co-stars.

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Life as we Know it

Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel go on a disaterous date then find out they have joint custody of their best friends child. Of course they fall in love, of course they learn the hard way about parenthood. Of course this looks like a colossal waste of money.

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Mr. Nice

The true story of welsh pot smuggler Howard Marks is brought to the screen in this light hearted and knowing picture based on the protagonists bestselling memoirs. Rhys Ifans (in reality a close friend of Marks) plays the titular anti-hero and Chloe Sevigny his long-suffering wife.

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A Town Called Panic

Oddly the best reviewed movie this week is this surreal animation from Belgium with a plastic Cowboy and Indian investigating the mystery behind their stolen walls. From the makes of the Cravendale adverts.

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Oliver Stone is back with Michael Douglas reprising his iconic Oscar winning role. I've already seen the film - review coming on Wednesday - and whilst it may not live up to the hype you can't deny we've all been waiting for this sequel for a long time.

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