Director: Vincenzo Natali
Cast: Adrien Brody, Delphine Chanéac, Sarah Polley
Certificate: 15
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We've all been there. Created our own species by splicing together random genes. Created our own species and then introduced some human DNA just for kicks. Created our own species with human DNA and then raised the creature in secret. Created our own human-derived species and raised it in secret before developing a warped psycho-sexual relationship with it. We've all been there. If you haven't been there, get ready to see some weird stuff.

Director: Lee Unkrich
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn, Don Rickles, John Ratzenberger, Ned Beatty
Certificate: U

It took Pixar four years to come up with a flawless sequel to an instant classic - Toy Story established an entirely new genre back in 1995, its technical innovation easily matched by the excellent Toy Story 2. But now Lee Unkrich faces the challenge of continuing that warmth and humour into the third of the trilogy. Is 11 years enough time to give Woody and Buzz a proper final outing? You bet it is.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine
Certificate: 12A
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So it's a masterpiece. Right? Right. Ok, that's the hype dealt with - the director easily meets it. It's hard to think of many film-makers who could pull off a twisting tale of dreams-within-dreams. It's even harder to name people who would think to do it in the first place. Inception is a bold concept, deftly woven into a thrilling tale, and cleverly wrapped up as a summer blockbuster. It succeeds on every one of those levels.

Director: Catherine Corsini
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Yvan Attal, Sergi Lopez
Certificate: 15

Following last year’s I’ve Loved You So Long, Kristin Scott Thomas continues to prove herself one of the best bi-lingual actresses around – when she’s English she’s very good, and when she’s French she’s faultless. Here she plays Suzanne, bored housewife to the well-off Samuel (Attal). He’s a doctor. So naturally it’s only a matter of time before Suzanne falls in love with someone else. And, as is often the case, the man’s name is Ivan (Lopez).

Director: David Slade
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Bryce Dallas Howard, Xavier Samuel, Jackson Rathbone, Billy Burke
Certificate: 12A
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Blood rushes to the head of any girl within 10 miles of Eclipse, the third instalment in the Twilight phenomenon. And who can blame them? It's got Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, and Kristen Stewart all on the same screen at the same time. And they take their tops off. Plus there's the whole blood-sucking face-biting sex-driving impulses going on. But putting aside the fangirl hype and hormonal overload, the main question is this: is Eclipse fun to watch? The answer? Yes. Yes it is.

Director: Nimrod Antal
Cast: Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Topher Grace
Certificate: 15
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"A slightly above-average actioner that tries to compensate for tissue-thin plot with ever-more-grisly death sequences and impressive special effects" - that was Variety back in 1987 on John McTiernan's original Predator. And it's a pretty accurate analysis. Undeveloped characters, non-existent story, over-the-top gore. Step in Robert Rodriguez and Nimrod Antal, ready to give modern audiences more of the same. The result is one heck of a reboot. Remake. Sequel. Thing.

Director: Mike Mitchell
Cast: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Walt Dohm, Antonio Banderas
Certificate: PG

What if you could go back in time and change history so that Shrek was never born? It's a question most parents (and other sane people) have asked themselves in the middle of Shreks 2 and 3, and the unstoppable franchise has gone on to answer it. Hopefully before actually stopping. There was nowhere else for them to go after plundering their writers' shallow imagination and wit, and so Shrek 4 (or Shrek: The Final Chapter, or Shrek Forever After if you fancy the idle threat) enters Capra territory with this final outing for the ogre and his friends.

Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood
Certificate: 12A

A month before Toy Story 3 and cinema's other favourite Woody returns - a momentous occasion for his fans, craving that elusive return to form, but a minor irrelevance for those whose tastes turn more towards Russell Brand. Whatever Works sees another ageing male hook up with a fledgling female, dispensing acerbic wisdom about the hopelessness of existence. Dated, much?

It's not that Woody has said it all before, it's that he's said it better, and funnier. Nowadays, the comic genius coasts along at a moderate level, never quite recapturing his former glory. He's like the Jewish version of Tim Henman. If Tim Henman had made Annie Hall.

Director: Marcus Dunstan
Cast: Josh Stewart, Juan Fernandez, Michael Reilly Burke, Andrea Roth, Karley Scott Collins
Certificate: 18
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Having written Saw VI, V and VI, Marcus Dunstan has lost none of his taste for gruesome bloody torture, invariably followed by gruesome bloody death. His directorial debut sees a man trying to escape from a locked house, full of fatal booby traps. It's like Home Alone reinvented as torture porn, but not entirely in a bad way.