Reviews • Real World

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Everything in the news these days seems to be doom and gloom so why not cheer yourself up with a quick trip to the cinema. If you'd rather stay all comfy at home, get some friends round to watch one of the latest great DVD releases. We've got lots of reviews coming up in the next few weeks so keep checking to find out what's hot, what's not and what's really Real World!

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SUNSHINE CLEANING

From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine comes this equally quirky, poignantly funny film about sisterhood, motherhood, small dreams and big amounts of mess. The sisters are Rose (Amy Adams), a single mum working as a maid, and slobby slacker Norah (Emily Blunt), who is so incompetent she can’t even keep her job as a diner waitress.

RUDO Y CURSI

In which director Carlos Cuaron and actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna are reunited after the success that was Y Tu Mama Tambien. The story here is a lightweight tale of two footballing brothers who both become stars for opposing teams in the Mexican domestic league.

KATYN

Based on fact, this film revolves around the atrocities perpetrated by the Red Army deep in the heart of the Katyn forest during World War 11. However, as what occurred there was subject to a cover up by the Russian authorities, this is not so much a straight historical account, but...

LOOKING FOR ERIC

Not many internationally famous footballers could reinvent themselves as successful actors but Eric Cantona has pulled it off spectacularly and you really can't imagine anyone else playing his role in this film (Looking For Beckham? I think not).

TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

Oh dear. Director Michael Bay has taken a movie that cost millions to make and took a small army of SFX experts to complete and produced a totally impenetrable mess. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is certainly a spectacle; a spectacular jumble of machines that turn into other machines that join together to form yet more machines..

GIGANTIC

Having sprung to the public's attention as the preacher who squares up against Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood, actor Paul Dano now enhances his reputation by not only starring in but also producing this quirky and weirdly compelling indie.

TERMINATOR SALVATION

So, after all the rants, the raves, the ratcheting up of tension, can this, the latest instalment of the Terminator franchise, really live up to the hype? The answer is a resounding yes, because there's never been a summer blockbuster where the money has been more up there on the screen.