"Rio" is a 3-D animation feature from the makers of the "Ice Age" films. Set in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and the lush rainforest of Brazil, the comedy-adventure centers on Blu, a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind.

Much like the titular Brazilian city, Rio is a festive film, heavily favouring frivolity over anything more deep and meaningful. With computer-animated features no longer as exclusive as they once were – it feels like there’s one a week nowadays – Rio is hardly a rare breed, but it’s certainly a peppy and playful one.

I saw a pre- screening of Not Forgotten directed by Dror Soref. This movie is awesome! I can't wait for it to come out. Everyone has to see this. Simon Baker- the handsome guy from the Mentalist, Paz Vega- sexy woman from Spanglish are in it. Claire Forlani also makes an appearance at the end. The plot is so deep and intricate. It keeps you guessing till the very end. This movie has so many twists and turns. The movie is a thriller, and a thrill-ride, in that it takes very unexpected twists and turns throughout—almost from the get-go. What was refreshing about this film was that it always stayed several steps ahead of the audience. Most modern audiences figure out films too easily. I can emphatically state that this will not be the case in Not Forgotten. The tale follows a family living in Del Rio, Texas—a typical border town, between the US and Mexico. Although it starts off with scenes of girls’ soccer games and hotdogs in the town squares, it quickly takes a turn to a darker side into the occult—the Santa Muerte cult (which roughly translates into “Holly Death”). When the daughter of successful bank manager is kidnapped, it sparks a chain of events that don’t stop igniting until the very end.

Anyone familiar with football will know that Rio Ferdinand has had a very tough time recently with enough defensive mistakes to fill an episode of You’ve Been Framed. None, however, are as catastrophic as his first foray into movie production, along with England colleague Ashley Cole. Dead Man Running is a 90-minute gangster movie that arrives about a decade too late and is filled with more clichés than a match day commentator.

They've been fast. They've been furious. Hell, they've even Tokyo drifted. But can the dynamic duo of Vin Diesel and Paul Walker keep the high-speed action going with Fast Five -- the fifth installment in the popular street racing franchise? In a nutshell: yes.

When last we saw these speedsters, FBI agent Brian O'Conner (Walker) walked away from the badge in order to free Dom Toretto (Diesel) from a life in prison. His daring rescue mission involved his girlfriend and Dom's sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), a spectacular bus crash, and -- of course -- a fleet of souped-up roadsters. Since that time, the trio has blown across the globe, eluding the authorities at every turn. But when they're been backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, circumstances force them to pull the proverbial "one last job" in order to buy back their freedom.

The production notes for Lucy Walker's excellent documentary, though not the film itself, include a celebrated quote from Eliot's "The Waste Land" ("What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow/ Out of this stony rubbish?" etc) that throws light on the work of Vik Muniz, the New York-based Brazilian sculptor, artist and photographer.

Corset dramas are usually the stuff of gooey, doe-eyed romances against the odds or in the midst of war. The Other Boleyn Girl tries something a little different with the pretty dresses genre and gives us a costumed political procedural in which a women are traded like baby-birthing poker chips and a king is only as good as his libido.

There is a quick and simple litmus test to tell whether or not you'll enjoy Get Him to the Greek. If you found Aldous Snow, Russell Brand's caricature of a rock star, to be one of the funnier elements of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, then you will no doubt have a riot with the increased raunchiness his character once again brings to the screen for director Nicholas Stoller. If, for whatever reason, you find Brand's larger-than-life presence to be as insufferable as the real rock stars he's lampooning, chances are good his spin-off film will do little to convince you there's more to him than just an outrageous persona. Get Him to the Greek is exactly what the trailers advertise: Aldous Snow turned to 11.

Malibu Shark Attack (David Lister, 2009) is a made-for-TV sci-fi movie, that can often be unearthed from the late-night schedules of such channels as Syfy and Movies 24. Given this status, it is rarely granted anything more substantial than a skinny, half-paragraph summary in a TV guide magazine. But surely it deserves to have at least one full-length, unbiased review before we all just cast it aside on the assumption that it is completely awful. So here we go:
It's awful.