Do you have a link for Kermode's review?

Those films keeping getting greenlit because countless people flock to see them and come away proclaiming them the funniest thing they've ever seen. They make lots of money. Studios would be mad to stop producing them. I saw the trailer for Disaster Movie the other day and was unsurprised to find that the gags simply focus on people dressing like the characters in other films (Hancock, Iron Man and, for some reason, Juno) and peddling risible 'jokes' that a toddler would roll its eyes at. The movies being sent up are extremely recent releases, suggesting that this 'spoof' sh*t is being churned out at a rate of knots. And you can't half tell, most of it looks like it has been put together by some failing film students. Oh wait...

New Bond trailer. This looks ace.

The product placement in the last film was outrageous. Sony Vaio, Sony Ericsson (the model I own in fact), Ford, Omega, Aston Martin all made an appearances. The film still managed to kick ass. I wouldn't worry.

Yes, it's utterly preposterous.

Empire magazine is usually dead on with its reviews. The Love Guru sounds typically rubbish. Empire did however miss a trick with Hellboy II (probably something to do with its ongoing love affair with Guillermo Del Toro). It suffers from exactly the same problems as the first film - all the best bits are in the trailer, a rambling, senseless story and some rather embarrassing, not too mention completely unconvincing, romantic fluff that doesn't half feel forced. This coupled with a very irritating smugness in its adherence to the source material (even if it isn't very good), the whole thing is a monumental waste of time. A ludicrous finale featuring the Antrim coastline and amputee goblins with Belfast accents is really the last straw. I just hope Peter Jackson manages to reign Del Toro in when it comes to making The Hobbit.

That's an insane movie. It looked like the inside of Philip K. Dick's head (so to speak )

The reviews I've read.

Mercenaries 2 is horrific by all accounts. Damn!

Another Max Payne trailer. The games were awesome and this could be very good. Let's hope so anyway.

I'm on holiday at the moment and thus had the opportunity to read The Road from start to finish in a couple of days. It's fantastic and thoroughly deserving of the endless praise. It is however very bleak.

Max Payne!

Taking on board Sidders's advice, I got stuck into Takashi Matsuoka's Cloud of Sparrows and found it to be excellent fun if a little cheesy. It's well constructed in parts (though the author clearly wrote it with a thesaurus to hand along with some sort of 'guide to writing like you know what you're talking about') but some of the forced creation of tension, ambience and coincidence is excruciating. Still, I enjoyed it enough to buy the sequel Autumn Bridge. For now, I've moved on to Cormac McCarthy's The Road which is really very good.

Why is he speaking like an Englishman on holiday? Has he not realised that the Dutch are fluent English speakers? They speak it better than we do.

It's been remade in the US. It's now called Quarantine.

Number 1 was really good fun. Number 2 was one of the sh*ttest films ever. This one is even worse apparently. What do you expect though? Not even Stephen 'CGI completes me' Sommers could be bothered with it, so Rob Cohen, a hack of the lowest class, and the man responsible for The Fast and the Furious, Stealth and xXx was brought in to try and make some sense of it all.

A slew of excellent points re: Doherty and his inane, gibberish music. I've had difficulty in the past putting my finger on just what annoys me about this over-hyped junkie and his soaringly pretentious persona and musical output but the points expressed above have helped me no end. Mentioning the guy in the same breath as Elvis or The Beatles is laughable.

Gillian Anderson has aged yes but she's still drop-dead beautiful as Scully. The scene where she and Mulder are cosied up in bed was not really in keeping with the series (though in the very late episodes they are, relatively, all over each other) but I did find myself cursing Duchovny his stupid luck.

There Will Be Blood is brilliant. Definitely recommended.

I saw The X-Files earlier and I have to say as a big fan of the show, I'm very disappointed. It's pretty dreadful and, crucially, features nothing approaching an 'x-file'.

Oh Hughes and Bentley undoubtedly. I have every confidence that Hughes will be out of a job this time next year and Bentley will be angling for a move back to Arsenal within two seasons.

For a comic-book film, it's extremely intense.

Going back to 1955 then?

I saw The Dark Knight last night. It's fantastic but utterly draining.

Yeah but the Stone Roses were clearly good.