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  • Beam me up, Simon

    Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz star Simon Pegg has been beamed up into the role of Scotty in Star Trek, JJ Abram's prequel that is set during the USS Enterprise crew's time as cadets at Starfleet Academy.

  • Boomtime for celebrity cellblock

    Is jail the new rehab for Hollywood folk? Die Hard director John McTiernan is appealing the four-month sentence he was given for lying to the FBI about hiring a private eye to wiretap a producer.

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  • Rendition

    As a critique of US policy, Rendition is well meaning but cliched, writes Michael Dwyer .

  • The Last Legion

    This puzzling film concerns events surrounding the Fall of the Roman Empire and stars such assorted luminaries as Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Peter Mullan and that big-eyed child from Nanny McPhee.

  • Stardust

    The prologue of Stardust begins in a village called Wall, named after the structure separating it from a supernatural parallel universe on the other side. The time is the mid-19th century, when border security is altogether more lax than it would be in the modern world, and represented solely by an elderly guardian (David Kelly) apparently on round-the-clock duty.

  • Nancy Drew

    'Oh, think yow." That's what the latest version of Nancy Drew says whenever somebody hands her a biscuit or compliments the modesty of her decolletage. "Think yow." There's something about those pinched, small-town American vowels - not to mention the ironed hair and gleaming knee socks - that urges you to run at the juvenile detective with oily hands and push her into a cowpat.

  • Razzle Dazzle

    As played by Kerry Armstrong in Razzle Dazzle, Justine is the Australian stage mother from hell. She channels all the disillusionments of her own life ("I could have been a Spice Girl," she frets) into an unstoppable obsession with seeking success for her young daughter, Tenille, in dance contests. These events are so popular in Australia, we are told, that there are more than 700 every year.

  • The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D

    Though directed by stop- motion wizard Henry Selick, The Nightmare Before Christmas, re-released here in a satisfyingly unobtrusive 3-D version, stands as a practical demonstration of all that is good and bad in the work of Tim Burton.

  • The Dark Is Rising

    In a time of claptrap, in a land of balderdash, a child will come to spread confusion and boredom throughout the land.

  • Daddy Day Camp

    Unless Ellen Burstyn has been running a cockfight in her spare time, this cosmically atrocious sequel to Daddy Day Care must constitute the greatest professional indignity yet visited upon a living Oscar winner.

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  • Encounters of the third kind

    3-D may be in for a rebirth, with the release of a number of movies in the new "digital 3-D" format. Don't rush out and buy the specs, though - only one cinema in Ireland is equipped to screen them. Denis Clifford reports.

  • Screenwriter

     Movie remakes are nothing new, writes Donald Clarke .

  • The weekly movie quiz

    From the blood simple to the die hard

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