Film Review

It's cool for a change to get a Scandinavian film that isn't filmed exclusively at night with daring killers and multiple plot twists.

It has been 15 years since Men in Black became a super-cool hit and I remember loving it, but after all this time the reasons for that are hazy.

Retired businessman Paul Torday had his first novel published in 2006 when he was 59. It was a gentle satire of bureaucracy and politics and did very well.

Man on a Ledge is about, well, a man on a ledge?

Starting with a dedication to the late Kim Jong-il, The Dictator gives us another slice of satire courtesy of Britain's Sasha Baron-Cohen.

Marketed as New Zealand's first Western - which is not entirely true - Good For Nothing certainly lives up to its billing as a "pavlova Western".

While scientists have been busy number-crunching to prove that there are innate differences between the sexes relating to spatial awareness and language development, Hollywood has stumbled on to the real truth - women go gaga over weddings.

Jason Segel has been a busy man lately. Fresh from having written and starred in the last Muppets movie, he also co-wrote this surprisingly engaging (sorry) romantic comedy.

As one of the standouts from last year's International Film Festival, A Separation is a highly-deserved winner of the Oscar for best foreign language film.

When I heard that Zac Efron was playing a marine who has served three tours of duty in Iraq in The Lucky One (Rialto) I rolled my eyes because Efron is famous for his ability to look high school-young.