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MOVIES PLUS DECEMBER 2010 NUMBER 106

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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale The Warrior's Way Secretariat Megamind in 3D Monsters The Pipe Of Gods & Men Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader The Tourist For Coloured Girls Somewhere

Burlesque Animals United Fred - The Movie Tron : Legacy

Gullivers Travels Little Fockers The Way Back Chat Room Love and Other Drugs

127 Hours The King’s Speech The Next Three Days

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Extras: Paul McBride, Ian Finnerty Design: David Peckett & Vincent Donnelly Dublin + Cork Distribution: Micromedia Ltd. + The Pictureworks Cinema Distribution: D Crowley, G Donnelly, C Treacy

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Meet... Cher Miss Sarkisian LaPierre Bono: She legally changed her name from "Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre Bono" to simply Cher in 1979.

The Oscar Club: Is one of only six actors/actresses to have both a number one music single and an Oscar for acting. The others in this exclusive club include, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland (Honorary Oscar), Jamie Foxx, and Bing Crosby.

When Sonny Met Cher: Cher met Sonny Bono at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood when she was 16. Sonny convinced record producer Phil Spector to hire Cher as a session singer in 1963, and the infamous duo were married by the following year!

Mr Chaz Salvatore Bono: Sonny and Cher had one child together, named Chastity Bono.

Chastity underwent gender reassignment surgery to become a man in 2009. He changed his name legally to Chaz Salvatore Bono in April 2010.

The Cher Files: Cher was the subject of an episode of "The X Files" called The PostModern Prometheus. This episode followed a deformed man who adored Cher because of her role in Mask in which her character cared for her deformed son. Several Cher songs appeared on the soundtrack of this episode.

Decades Diva: #1 She is the only certified female performer in music history to have had a U.S #1 single in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

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Full Name: Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere • Height: 5' 8 Birthday: May 20, 1946 • Born: El Centro, California, USA

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MOVIE SPOTLIGHT Words: Paul McBride

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Burlesque Secretariat

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Director: Randall Wallace Christina Aguilera, Cast: Diane Lane,

Gulliver’s Travels Director: Rob Letterman Cast: Jack Black, Billy Connolly, Chris O’Dowd

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John Malkovich,

Comedy based on Joanthan

Dylan Walsh

Swift’s much-loved tale.

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Jack Black plays travel writer

struggling burlesque club,

Lemuel Gulliver who heads

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run by one of its former

to Bermuda on an assignment

no horse racing experience

dancers but with its best

but finds himself shipwrecked

who takes over her ailing

days seemingly behind it.

on the strange island of

father’s stables and, with the

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Lilliput, where he towers

help of a trainer, succeeds

waitress but discovers a

over the miniature residents.

against the odds. One of

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Secretariat, which became the first winner of the US Triple Crown for 25 years.

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Rare Exports A Christmas Tale

The Tourist Director: Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck Cast: Johnny Depp, Angelian Jolie

Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Director: Jalmari Helander Cast: Per Christian Elefsen, Peeter Jakobi,

Director: Michael Apted Cast: Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgia Henley

Onni Tomila

This dark Finnish comedy adventure begins with the

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discovery of the body of

adventures adapted from

the real Santa Claus on

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stories. The two younger

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happen and while some

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voyage on the royal ship

about freeing their leader.

who introduces him to a

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dangerous world of intrigue

magical adventures.

and espionage in this paranoid thriller.

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When she arrived for the first day on set for Little Fockers, Jessica Alba admits she was nervous and just a little intimidated. It’s hardly surprising joining an ensemble cast that reads like a Who’s Who of comedy and acting greats - including Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Barbra Streisand.

Q: Were you nervous being the new girl on set?

A: Yeah. Everyone else has been part of this for the last decade, with the exception of my character, Harvey Keitel’s, and Laura Dern.

We’re the new ones, yeah. So I just wanted to make sure that I was good. it was challenging and a little intimidating. I mean, come on, with that cast - they’re the best.

And I certainly wanted to be a part of it because I admire all of their work and I love this franchise so I was honoured to be asked and I wanted to definitely add to the project by being involved in it and doing a good job, instead of people saying ‘oh, she shouldn’t have been in this one. It would have been better without her.’ (laughs) Q: Did you watch both previous films in he series?

A: Yeah. I love those films. I think everyone can relate to this family dynamic, having the more conservative versus the more sort of unconventional family. I mean, I’m married and I’ve been in relationships, and the family dynamic is always really tricky, you never really know what’s going to happen, and you always have family members saying and doing inappropriate things and you cringe.

It’s very funny but it draws on a truth.

Q: Tell us about your character in the film…

A: I play Andi Garcia and yes, that’s a bit of joke. She’s very bubbly, very outgoing, she’s completely unedited and she never thinks before she speaks. She says exactly what’s on her mind and she has that cheerleader kind of attitude. She’s a pharmaceutical sales rep, and the stereotype of pharmaceutical reps is like that they are like ex-cheerleaders, and drill team captains, and we play around with that in our story. It’s hilarious because I was never that girl. I was never on a cheerleading squad. I was more like a loner,

so it was fun to play one of those girls. So she’s very forthright and speaks her mind - in fact she doesn’t edit herself at all.

Q: How does she fit into the story?

A: Well Ben’s character is a male nurse and my character, Andi, has been following his work because he’s running the nursing department at the hospital that he works at.

He writes essays on things like bedside manner and patient-nurse relations and doctor-patient relations and how important that is. Normally drug reps go to a doctor to represent a drug but she goes to him because she thinks he’s so articulate and compassionate and she admires his work.

And so he reps a drug for her, which is basically erectile dysfunction medicine for people who have heart problems (laughs). So there are a lot of laughs in that, let me tell you.

Q: You’re working with some great comedians here. Is it difficult to keep a straight face sometimes when you’re filming scenes.

A: Well the things is that you can laugh at the scene when they’re doing their close up, but when you are in the scene with a wide shot, you can’t really break character. So, my goal everyday was to try and get Ben to break character and laugh.

Q: Did you succeed?

A: I succeeded a few times, yeah.

Q: Hey, that’s a badge of honour, well done.

A: Yeah, when you can take an actor out of the scene and make someone like Ben laugh, well, I consider that a job well done.

Q: What about Dustin Hoffman? He’s very funny.

A: Dustin is the most supportive, sweet, loving, caring person. I’ve watched his movies so many times I can’t even begin to tell you and to work with him was just a dream come true. He’s a legend.

Q: Talking of legends, this is the second time you’ve worked with Robert De Niro. Is it intimidating when you first work with him?

A: Yeah, the first time I ever did a scene with Bob was actually on Machete, I was kind of terrified, and I told Robert Rodriguez that I was really scared and he’s like ‘it’s fine, just

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do this and this and it will be totally cool’ and it was. At the end of the day, he’s like an actor’s actor, and he wants to find the scene and he wants the scene to be the best it can be, and he is playful in that and open and generous. He’s not intimidating at all - it was just me projecting that on to him because, basically, I’ve watched him for my whole life.

Q: Is comedy hard to do?

A: Yes, comedy is the hardest thing to do.

Q: Why is that?

A: Well, acting in other things, it’s subjective what works. If it’s an emotional scene in a drama or a big scene in a horror movie, it’s subjective whether the scene works or not.

But with comedy if you don’t make people laugh you have screwed up. It’s hard.

Q: Can you tell on the day if it’s working?

A: Usually if I hear chuckles from the crew, it works.

Q: Everybody always assumes that if you’re making a comedy there are lots of laughs when the camera stops rolling. Is that the case?

A: No, you can’t stay ‘on’ and joking around

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all of the time. Everyone kind of fades it and saves their energy for the shot. I mean, we hang out but it’s just casual and it’s not like everyone is trying to one up each other and be the funniest person there. And you know, usually comedians are kind of shy and introverted.

Q: You’ve done most genres now - drama, comedy, horror. Are there any left that you haven’t tried?

A: Action (laughs). I don’t think I’ve done a straight up action movie.

Q: But is that part of the appeal, doing vastly different things?

A: Yeah, for sure, before I had my baby, I was just focused on being as diverse as possible, and I didn’t focus so much on the film maker, it was just about the part and doing diverse work, and doing stuff that was going to be distributed globally. And after I had my daughter, I had less of a business sense about my work and it’s really just about the filmmaker, so that’s my focus now. And I don’t know what’s up next, it could be a little tiny million dollar movie, or it could be something big or small. I don’t really know.

Little Fockers is at Irish cinemas from Dec 22nd

Don’t miss our 2011 movie preview next month on Movies.ie

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Jameson and Empire magazine are challenging budding film makers to enter the International amateur film-maker competition Done in 60 Seconds.

To enter the Done in 60 Seconds competition, aspiring directors are asked to re-make their favourite movie into a mere minute of screen time and upload their masterpiece to www.entertainment.ie/donein60seconds before January 9th 2011.

Each entry submitted will be judged by an expert panel of judges including Jim Sheridan, John Moore, Lisa Cannon, John Maguire and Gordon Hayden.

Commenting on the competition, acclaimed Irish director Jim Sheridan said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am honoured to be on the judging panel for the prestigious Jameson Done in 60 Seconds Film competition, we have a wealth of talent and budding directors in Ireland, this competition offers a potential platform for international recognitionâ&#x20AC;?

Two Irish winners will be announced in January. The finalists from each country will travel to London for a VIP weekend. International finalists will gather for a special Done in 60 Seconds Award ceremony on Friday 27th March where five shortlisted entries will attend the Jameson Empire Awards on March 29th.

In front of a room of top movie talent, one overall winner will be chosen and presented with their very own Jameson Empire Award.

This year, Jameson and Empire have come together to offer the Jameson Empire Film School - an online tool featuring helpful tips and video interviews from Jason Issacs, Simon Pegg and Kenneth Brannagh, log onto www.entertainment.ie/donein60seconds for more details and view last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winning entry, TopGun. Facebook.com/jamesonireland

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AUGMENTED REALITY COVER To see this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cover spring to life visit Movies.ie website and load our Tron Legacy widget Click start to allow your webcam access to the technology - then hold up the front cover infront of your webcam.

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Time is playing tricks on Jeff Bridges, as he revisits Tron after 28 years and remakes True Grit after 41 years. Helpfully, Paul Byrne meets The Dude in the present. In Paris.

For Jeff Bridges, returning to former glories is nothing new.

One of his breakthrough roles, as the wide-eyed Duane Jackson in 1971’s sublime The Last Picture Show, was dusted down and given a second chance 19 years later, in 1990’s so-so Texasville. Returning to Tron was a little more difficult though.

For one, the gap this time is 28 years. More significantly, as we’ll see in this month’s Tron: Legacy, Bridges has to play not only gamer Kevin Flynn today but also - thanks to the magic of CGI - that younger self who went AWOL inside a computer game back in 1982.

“Which made this a lot of fun,” smiles the just-turned-62-year old actor. “Just getting to go down the typical Hollywood route of looking much, much younger, only without all that messy, complicated surgery. It’s incredible what they can do - we had the same guy who worked his reverse-ageing magic on Benjamin Button - and I was as thrilled and excited as anyone to see how they were going to give me back some of my youth.

“I think I might have them round for all my home videos too, from now on...” The special effects wizard in question is Eric Barba, who picked up an Oscar for his visual effects on David Fincher’s overwrought, Oscar-baiting The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.

Barba began working on Bridges’ younger self in Tron: Legacy two years before the movie started rolling, laying down 100 different impressions of the actor’s face. Add to that Bridges also playing Kevin Flynn’s evil, computer-dwelling doppelganger, Clu, and you’ve got something of a schizophrenic marathon.

The shoot must have looked like Being Jeff Bridges...

“There was a lot of me to contend with, yeah,” laughs the man in the middle. “It’s like getting to play, you know, more than just that

one part you normally get, and that was fascinating. And invigorating. I was having to tap into these different psyches, and it was like you were dividing up your good and bad sides sometimes, and exploring how they would manifest themselves.

“I’d been there before, with the original Tron, but this was different. Now, suddenly, there were more layers for me to take on board, more characters for me to play really. And the toys are cooler this time too.”

When the original Tron hit cinemas back in 1982, no one was quite ready for the computer worlds that would come to dominate so much of cinema in later years, and director Steven Lisberger wasn’t even allowed a Best Special Effects Oscar nomination. Back in 1982, the Academy let him know that they felt such computer trickery was tantamount to cheating. Now, Lisberger gets his revenge, or thereabouts, making a cameo in Tron: Legacy as a barman at the End Of The Line Club - where resident DJs just happen to be Daft Punk, the enigmatic French electronica duo who are also handling the film’s soundtrack. Look closely in the barroom scene, and you’ll spot Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter sans their trademark invisibility helmets.

“It was pretty amazing, getting these guys to do the soundtrack,” says Bridges. “A perfect fit, you know. They phoned up the minute they heard this Tron sequel was finally being made, and offered their services. How could anyone refuse Daft Punk? They were born to do this soundtrack...”

So much so that director Joe Kosinski (a commercials wiz making his feature debut) edited much of his movie to Daft Punk’s soundtrack as the film progressed, the French duo having their own office on-set.

Something a music lover - and music maker - like Bridges reckons should be the norm on every movie. Having released his own album, Be Here Soon, in 2000, Bridges handled all his own vocals in last year’s Crazy Heart - for which, of course, he finally picked up a Best Actor Oscar, having been nominated four

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times before (for The Last Picture Show, 1974’s Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, 1984’s Starman, and 2000’s The Contender).

“Music’s definitely very important to me, throughout my life,” nods Bridges. “One of the reason I loved playing Bad Blake in Crazy Heart was the music; I could relate, instantly, to that life. Luckily, I haven’t suffered all the blues and booze that Bad has suffered, being a happily married family man for as long as I can remember, but then, maybe if I’d been a bum, my music would have some blood on the tracks, you know.

“I’m happy with the path I chose though.

My life is just great, and I can still make some music...”

There’s little doubt that Jeff Bridges was long overdue an Oscar when he finally bagged one last February for his fine turn in Crazy Heart. And you can’t say the guy didn’t work for it. No one wins an Oscar lying down - with 6,000 Motion Picture Academy members to schmooze, a media blitz, and numerous Q&A screenings for guilds, award groups and the Oscar faithful too, such campaigns take dedication, perspiration and oodles of

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charm. And a few million dollars.

Bridges’ own Oscar campaign was charted in a New Yorker piece, and it made for enlightening, and frightening, reading. Did our boy ever worry that he was selling his soul?

“I enjoyed the ride, you know,” he answers.

“I was happy to step out for this small movie - heaven knows you really have to convince people to take a shot with those movies that don’t have big explosions, or talking dogs, or big, big marketing budgets. I was proud of the movie, and I was happy to go out there and represent it.

“But, yeah, it can be tricky, and you do have to hold something back. I wasn’t about to start high-fiving babies, you know? I’ve been in this business all my life, and I know what’s good about it and what’s not, what’s real and what’s not. And the Oscars somehow manage to be real and unreal at the same time. And I’m very, very happy to have one.”

Finally.

“Yeah, finally.”

Words - Paul Byrne

Tron: Legacy is at cinemas on Dec 17th • True Grit arrives in cinemas on Jan 14th

Watch video interviews with the Tron Legacy cast on Movies.ie

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BEST MOVIES OF

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We asked Movies.ie visitors to vote for their favourite film of 2010. 1000’s of film fans cast their vote and we’ve listed the results below. The poll included all movies released between December 2009 and November 2010 and delivered some interesting results. Director Christopher Nolan topped the poll with his dream-stealing epic ‘Inception’, he previously won the same poll in 2008 with ‘The Dark Knight’. 2008’s poll also had the original ‘Iron Man’ movie come in second place, but this year’s sequel didn’t impress fans as much, charting at 14th place. Pixar scored highly with ‘Toy Story 3’ coming in 3rd place, which is the same position scored by their previous film ‘UP’ in our 2009 poll.

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1. Inception

16. The Town

2. The Social Network

17. A Prophet

3. Toy Story 3

18. Crazy Heart

4. His & Hers

19. I love you Philip Morris

5. Kick-Ass

20. Winter’s Bone

6. Shutter Island

21. The Road

7. Up In The Air

22. Easy A

8. Alice In Wonderland

23. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1

9. A Single Man

24. The Expendables

10. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

25. Let Me In

11. Avatar (Special Edition)

26. Date Night

12. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

27. Get Him To The Greek

13. The Crazies

28. How To Train Your Dragon

14. Iron Man 2

29. I Am Love

15. The A-Team

30. White Material

This December will also see the return of the Movies.ie Awards. You’ll be able to vote in all our film categories including Best Animation, Best Hero, Best Villain, Best Comedy, Best Horror and most fun of all… Worst film of 2010. Make sure you log onto Movies.ie this month and have your say… Your multiplex needs you!

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‘We were not trying to tell Shell’s story’ director Risteard O’Domhnaill tells Brogen Hayes, ‘It is the story of a small Irish community under immense pressure from the world’s largest oil company and a state who was putting the interests of the oil company first. It is about how they deal with that pressure as a community, how they rise to the challenges, how they descend into in-fighting and the tragedy of how the relationship with the local Gardaí breaks down’.

Q: What inspired you to make The Pipe?

A: I wasn’t inspired to make it. I was living down there. My uncle is a farmer down there. In 2006 there was a big force of Gardaí sent in to clear the blockade of the locals at the refinery. At 4am the roads were blocked off and the locals were surrounded at the gate. Then they were systematically lifted and man handled out of the way. I was filming this and thought it was mad. I had spent all of my summers down there as a child on my uncle’s farm. The area has the second lowest crime rate in the country. You would never see a Garda, there would never be any trouble and you would wonder, how could a small community like this end up being criminalised in this way. I just felt like, because I know these people, and the community, that there is something very wrong here and I just kept filming more and more. The more I filmed, the more I saw footage going back to the news and the more sensational stuff being used and the real story of the local people not being told, the more I felt that I should keep filming - more out of curiosity than a plan to make a documentary. About six months later I thought ‘I have something worthy here’ so I approached the Irish Film Board and TG4 and they agreed in principle to come on board. I thought I would get a half hour documentary and that would be it, but I kept on filming and the more incredible it got, the more interesting the characters got.

Q: Shell had no input into the film, how different do you think the film would have been if they were involved?

A: Yeah it would have been different. I tried

my best to get Shell to contribute and I was always looking for a frank interview and access to the site to film - it’s not like Dr evil’s volcano - it’s a gas refinery, there is nothing too secret about it. At every turn Shell would not consent to an open interview. They were always trying to put some conditions in the way, they were always trying to have some editorial control over the film or the interview or have the questions approved beforehand and I couldn’t allow that. I gave them a deadline, they didn’t comply, so I had to say I would go ahead without them.

Q: The Pipe is not an ‘activist documentary’, it is about the community. Did you decide this from the start?

A: It just naturally evolved, and that is all the people wanted. They wanted an independent, open and honest platform on which they can expand their views and opinions. They have always beaten Shell hands down when they had an open platform, but the problem is, they have been deal with very badly through the courts, by the media and the politicians.

It is incredible that they are still standing, they still have their sense of humour and the resilience and they still won’t give in. Which, in today’s Ireland is very admirable, seeing as everyone else is rolling over!

Q: How difficult was it for you to remain objective when you spent four years living in and filming this community?

A: I don’t really understand objectivity. When I was down there I wasn’t really ‘directing’ anything, I was just filming what was going on - the good, the bad and the ugly. When it came to the edit, there were decisions to be made about objectivity. What I tried to do was show the story honestly, to be as honest as possible, to show people and events in as honest a way as possible - the rough and the smooth - hopefully that came across. It’s a perspective on the local community and it is just telling their story and hopefully it will inform people on where we went, as a society, during the Celtic Tiger, how our country was run, especially at this time when the IMF are in town. People can see Corrib was just a

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microcosm of what went on across the State. How our regulators, our politicians and private interests all conspired to put the citizens of this country in second place and to put private interests first. That’s what the story is about - how one community suffered that fate. Now Ireland, as a community, is suffering that same fate at the moment.

Q: In light of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the film is very timely…

A: When we were over in Canada at the Toronto Film Festival the BP disaster and the issue of tar sands in Canada and Arctic drilling were to the forefront of people’s minds because it was all over the news. The coverage that we got over there was amazing

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- we got seven minutes on the main primetime show on CBC because they saw such common causes. In London also, people really got it and they really connected what is going on globally with the story of this tiny community. It could be a community anywhere - Canada, Nigeria, Russia… It’s global in that context, people identify with the story. Although it’s timely in terms of the issues raised, I think it’s the human story that is the strongest element of it.

Q: After your experiences in Rossport, do you intend to make more documentaries?

A: Never again! [laughs] I shouldn’t say that… I will probably make another one.

Words - Brogen Hayes

The Pipe is now showing in Irish cinemas

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DVD - New Releases INCEPTION DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a 'subconscious security' specialist who can orchestrate and enter people's dreams and then extract information through sleight-of-mind tricks. Business tycoon Saito (Watanabe) needs Cobb to insert rather than extract a thought though - by heading inside a dream of arch rival Robert Michael Fischer (a sterling Cillian Murphy) and planting the idea of breaking up the billion-dollar empire run by his soon-to-be-late father (a bedridden, gibbering Pete Postlethwaite).

It's a Bond movie directed by M.C. Escher. It's also, according to Nolan, Fred Astaire's dancing-on-the-ceiling classic Royal Wedding meets 2001: A Space Odyssey. In truth, it's somewhere between The Matrix and one of the two unforgivably long, boring and overlytalky Matrix sequels. Almost brilliant, Inception is also at least halfan-hour too long.

KNIGHT AND DAY Diaz is the hot, innocent bystander, June Havens, who finds herself caught up in the high-octane world of Cruise's top-of-the-range secret agent Roy Miller, the two soon jetting around some of the world's hotspots as the latter realises his life is in danger and the former goes from hostage to huggy bear.

Cruise turns on the charm as only Cruise can, but there's a hollowness now to the chiseled everyman persona that has served him so well in the past. And no amount of jump-cuts, high-octane set pieces and surprisingly brutal violence in this by-the-numbers hitman-andher comedy thriller is going to distract from that career-stopping fact.

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DVD - New Releases TOY STORY 3 The teenage Andy is getting ready for college, and so Woody, Buzz, Rex the Dinosaur, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head and the rest of his childhood toys are fearing the worst – rubbish bags. Due to a little mix-up, they end up at the Sunnyside Day Care centre, with Woody unable to convince his playtime buddies that Andy had other plans for them. When they discover that this retirement haven is not quite the dream home they had first thought, a daring escape is the only answer for our toy wonders.

As with the 1995 original and the 1999 sequel, Toy Story 3 concerns itself with letting go, a bunch of toys convincing themselves that their owner, Andy, has grown out of love with them. Within that limited toy box that has already generated two feature films, director Lee Unkrich (who co-directed Toy Story 2) and his team of writers (Little Miss Sunshine scripter Michael Arndt joining the Pixar regulars) have somehow come up with enough magical moments to more than justify your love. Again.

Early on, Buzz is determined that he and the toys “go out on a high note”, and here, they certainly do, the humour and pathos throughout making the emotional ending all the more heartfelt. And tearinducing. It's a film about being needed, about feeling loved, about not becoming redundant. It'll reduce quite a few parents to tears too.

SHREK FOREVER AFTER With a plot that owes more than a little to It's A Wonderful Life, our boy gets his wish to turn back the clock and become a carefree, crowd-scaring grumpy ogre once again, his marriage to Princess Fiona and having all those screaming little tykes suddenly wiped from his history. And it's all thanks to a conniving little Rumpelstiltskin who looks uncannily like Patrick Kielty playing Jurys. Which can only be a matter of time. I'm sure Capra would love seeing his story retold once again, even if his leading man is now a great big bogie.

Reviews by Paul Byrne

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