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THE best things in life are often said to happen in threes.Read

I want to be a playwright

JESSE Eisenberg has chosen an unusual career path.Read

The September Issue (12A) ****

I’M A BLOKE with no particular interest in fashion.Read

Adventureland (15) ****

SET IN 1987 and taking its name from a theme park, Adventureland treads not dissimilar ground to last week’s release (500) Days of Summer.Read

Whiteout (15)

KATE Beckinsale keeps making films for distributor Entertainment which, more often than not, refuses to offer regional preview screenings on the grounds of lack of prints/piracy issues.Read

Sorority Row (15) **

THE HOUSE on Sorority Row, aka Seven Sisters, is a little-known 18-certificate horror film from 1983 which was cleverly taglined ‘When the nightmare ends... the terror begins’.Read

Julie & Julia (12A) ****

SHE might have turned 60 in June, but there’s no stopping Meryl Streep – as her latest brilliant performance illustrates.Read

Fish Tank (15)

TO PARAPHRASE sci-fi writer Philip K Dick (Total Recall), if anybody wants a truly bleak, two-hour snapshot of the downside of modern British life, this film will deliver it for you wholesale.Read

Bumper crop of top films

WITH the Holy month of Ramadan coming to an end, Vue Star City Birmingham is gearing itself for big blockbuster releases to mark the beginning of the Eid celebrations.Read

Dorian Gray (15) ***

WHERE would director Oliver Parker be without a master wordsmith to fall back on?Read

District 9 (15) ***** (with trailer)

IN THE first six months of 2009, UK cinema attendances were up a whopping 14 per cent.Read

500 Days Of Summer (12A) **** (with trailer)

ROMANTIC dramas which might actually mean something to the viewer are few and far between.Read

Cassel king of screen villainy

CHARISMATIC French actor Vincent Cassel is known for taking on villainous roles in films such as Ocean’s Twelve, but his latest incarnation is perhaps the most feared of them all.Read

Audition led to true romance for funny girl

FUNNY People might be the latest film from Judd Apatow, but behind every successful man there is supposed to be a powerful woman.Read

Funny People (15) ** (with trailer)

RUNNING TO a self-indulgent 145 minutes, Funny People is the latest movie from Judd Apatow – a writer-director described as a ‘genius’ on BBC Breakfast News this week.Read

Broken Embraces (15) *** (with trailer)

BROKEN EMBRACES (15)Read

Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 (15) ****

THE second half of the film about the French gangster Jacques Mesrine arrives at Cineworld Broad Street today – and it’s even better than part one, Killer Instinct, which has sadly just left the cinema.Read

Kisses (15) ***

HERE’S another film about children running away.Read

The Final Destination 3D/2D (15) * (with trailer)

THE flavour-of-the-month gimmick of digital 3D breathes new life into this uncalled for fourth edition of the Final Destination series. But only just.Read

The Hurt Locker (15) ***** (with trailer)

EVER since George Bush led the invasion of Iraq, Hollywood’s war machine has been shot to pieces.Read