THE GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD: On General Release From Friday 23rd October 2009

If you’re a fan of Entourage then you probably know how persuasive Jeremy Piven can be as the workaholic agent, Ari Gold.

So I can’t say I was surprised to see him play the ultimate salesman, the man who could sell snow to an Eskimo, Don Ready in The Goods.

A desperate car dealer who’s about to lose his dealership hires Don Ready and his team of hard-hitting salespeople to help him survive a Fourth of July sale weekend. But Don is still struggling with a mysterious incident from his past whilst falling for the car dealer’s daughter, Ivy. Do It!

TRIANGLE: On General Release From 16th October 2009

Some people like to eat ice cream in the cinema but I’d recommend you go for popcorn whilst watching Triangle.

There’s always a danger of brain-freeze when munching on Ben and Jerry’s at the cinema and you’ll need your brain fully operational for this one.

It’s a beautiful sunny day when Jess (Melissa George) and friends go on a sailing trip only to encounter a fierce storm. When the waves subside they find themselves stranded at sea on a capsized boat when rescue appears in the form of an abandoned ocean liner. Do It!

UP: On General Release From Friday 9th October 2009

Pixar set the bar ridiculously high last year with their magnificent robo-romance WALL-E, justly garnering praise left and right for their innovative approach to directing animated features.

It seems that they’ve managed to sustain their high standards with this year’s Up in glorious, eye-popping 3D.

Carl Fredricksen is a grumpy, balloon selling septuagenarian who, after losing his wife, decides that he wants to go on an adventure to the place they both dreamed of: South America. His dream is to have a house on top of Paradise Falls and with property developers closing in on him, he decides that he’ll just take his own with him. Do It!

PANDORUM: On General Release From Friday 2nd October 2009

In space, no one can hear you scream. But if what if there was no one to hear you anyway?

Christian Alvart’s space based thriller explores a seemingly abandoned space freighter that was supposed to be on its way to the human race’s last hope, the planet Tanis.

Earth’s natural resources are nearly gone and so 60,000 people aboard the starship Elysium and head off to Tanis. Given the fact that the flight will take over a hundred years we can’t blame the flight crew for taking it in turns to go into the ever popular space movie device, hyper-sleep.

But while the crew are in the land of nod, something goes awry. Do It!

FISH TANK: On General Release across the UK from Friday 11th September 2009

When you think of Essex, a number of things come to mind. It would be easy to drag up some cultural stereotypes but that’s prejudice and I don’t swing that way.

Oh alright: white stiletto heels, teen pregnancies and dumb blondes and chavs.

While there is more to Essex, you won’t really find it in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank. Yes, on the whole the film is borderline amazing but it’ll pretty much show you everything you’d expect to see in a film set in Essex. Although it does have a few surprises up it’s velour tracksuit sleeve.

The film follows the teenage confusion of 15-year-old Mia who lives on a council estate in Essex. When Connor (Michael Fassbender) begins dating Mia’s deadbeat mother (Kierston Wareing), Mia isn’t sure whether she wants him as a father figure, a friend or more. Do It!

MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY No 1: On General Release From 28th August 2009

Vincent Cassel returns as French firecracker Jacques Mesrine in the follow up to Killer Instinct that was released only a few weeks ago.

Filmed back to back, these two are seamlessly joined together with the same current of style, sex and shoot outs.
We last saw Mesrine constantly evading capture from French and Canadian authorities while going on a rampage with girlfriend Jeanne.

We catch up with Mesrine back in France where he is about to stand trial for various atrocities but there’s no way he’s going down without a fight. He quickly finds that the quickest way out of a courtroom is with a Judge kicking his feet as you drag him out with you at gunpoint. This little escapade earns him the prestigious title of Public Enemy No. 1. Do It!

The Hurt Locker: On General Release Friday 28th August 2009

War, huh, yeah! What is it good for?

Making bloody good films, as it turns out.

Director Kathryn Bigelow returns to form with this absolutely rockin’, docu-style fiction film set in Baghdad.

It follows the exploits of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit AKA a bomb squad. When the team lose their leader (in the most impressively shot explosion I’ve ever seen) they get a new chief who’s more than a little bit of a loose cannon.

This isn’t your typical modern war movie. There’s no Bush bashing and no in depth discussion as to the moral and ethical implications. And we’re grateful; Kathryn Bigelow keeps the political chatter to a minimum and concentrates on a moment-to-moment type of tension. Do It!