The new James Bond flick feels like a Jason Bourne movie for the hip green generation. It's all dirty, gritty, and undercoated with a socially responsible message about going green.

Before anything can be said, let's get this straight: amusing creepy penguins aside, Madagascar stunk like damp animal. Its only lasting memory is of annoyance in the song, "I like to move it move it", for crying out loud! However, before you roll your eyes at the topic of this review, we can assure you that Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa completely usurps its predecessor.

Stepping out into the shiny surrounds of the shopping mall after the screening of Punggok Rindukan Bulan at the cineplex, I noted the striking contrast. Here was middle-class Malaysia proudly toting crisp, fully laden shopping bags, drooling over the latest electronic playthings on display, sipping overpriced cups of coffee at oh-so-trendy cafes. It was far removed from the world of grungy nasi goreng warungs and grotty rundown flats to which, back in the darkened confines of the theatre, I had been transported.

If you’re heading to the cinema and want to watch a movie packed with car chases, explosions and a lot of running around, without having to think all that much about the plot then this is right up your alley.

As soon as the credits began to roll to Meet Uncle Hussain's "Lagu Untukmu", the audience at the media premiere of KAMI: The Movie burst into applause. True, it wasn't The Dark Knight but it was obvious to everyone in the hall that the film they had just watched was a labour of immense love from creators and co-directors, Effendee Mazlan and Fariza Azlina Isahak.

The Love Guru takes its name from yet another crazy character created by Mike Myers, the funny-man behind Austin Powers and Shrek. Guru Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who, as a child, was left on the doorstep of an Indian ashram. Flashforward more than 30 years and His Holiness is the world's #2 spiritual man, inferior to none but child-hood rival Deepak Chopra...

Death Race has everything you need to give yourself a nice testosterone jolt. The movie is set in a time when America’s overcrowded prison population becomes fodder for televised entertainment.

The film Penelope can essentially be summed up with one word: charming. This modern fairy tale has Christina Ricci playing the role of Penelope Wilhern, a blueblood who carries a curse passed on from her great-great grandfather.

The mass fascination with anything Tudor-related denies the slightest chance for television and filmmakers to go wrong. Who can resist the general formula of barbaric scandal beneath royally refined closed doors?

Just when we thought The Mummy was laid to rest; it rears its ugly head. Back after a 7-year hiatus, the third installment of The Mummy catches up with Rick (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn (Maria Bello) O'Connell who have retired from the business of risky adventures and chasing mummies.

Pixar’s latest sci-fi animated feature film, WALL-E is Disney’s answer to Dreamwork’s Kung Fu Panda. To date, it has raked in over USD$163 million at the box office and is already garnering Oscar buzz for Best Picture (a first for an animated feature).

Forgetting Sarah Marshall centralises on the repercussions of a break up between the very slobby Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) and his long-time girlfriend, television star Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). Wretchedly depressed, he attempts numbing his inner pain with a string of tawdry one-night stands, until he is advised to go on a much-needed vacation in Hawaii. However, he subsequently discovers Sarah and her new beau, rock sensation Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) are staying at the same hotel.

Without even the film’s marketers doing much, Sex and the City is already the chick flick movie event of the year. When the television series ended with Carrie’s and Mr Big’s happily-ever-after in 2004, it was a finale that only left fans wanting more.

It's been 15 years, 8 seasons, and one feature length motion picture since Chris Carter's paranoid tale of government conspiracies, alien abductions, and things that go *insert sound here* in the night. I Want To Believe is a resurrection of that narrative and possibly a cure for the ailment that was Special Agent Dogget. Can faith save the day?

Whatever happened to good ol' fashioned movies like Teen Wolf? That's the question you'll be asking after watching the latest offering from James Isaac. Skinwalkers, as you might guess, is a werewolf movie to which "run-of-the-mill" has hardly been so boringly applied.

To categorise The Dark Knight as just another summer blockbuster hit should be considered an insult. To top the box office for several weeks, then disappear, as its screening listings become tomorrow’s roti canai linings. No, not The Dark Knight.

Hellboy is back! With how boring and dull this new flick is though, maybe he should have just stayed away.

Teasers and trailers established Wanted as a must-see summer blockbuster right from the start. Hello, from the previews alone, bullets defied the laws of physics to curve a shot and drifting became the new pullover to pick up passengers. However, the movie can only be enjoyable once you accept and overlook the ludicrous stunts that come in abundance during the movie's duration as possible within the movie’s realm. But while it might seem fake in almost every aspect, Wanted nonetheless is the sort of movie that keeps you on your toes, biting your nails with sudden yelps.

So a best friend takes his best friend for granted until she gets engaged, subsequently cueing him to fall in love with her a wee bit too late, forcing him to try to force her to not only call off the wedding, but marry him instead to much adverse effect along the way. Sound familiar? A little too much perhaps – we’d been there, done that, bought the now stale formula and the little Julia Roberts souvenirs.

As Cloverfield recently demonstrated, there is still life in making movies through the angle of a video camera, ala The Blairwitch Project. But where Cloverfield was a nausea-inducing exercise of shaky camera angles, crudely constructed conspiracy theory, and big-budget viral marketing, something more intimate and scary recently came out of Spain.