A bleak look at the unravelling life of a New York sex addict, Shame showcases brave work by director Steve McQueen and his second time collaborator, Michael Fassbender. Expertly shot and powerfully acted, the film takes an affliction often the subject of ridicule and uses it to tell an affecting story of vice and isolation.

And it’s not rubbish!

Another week of 2012 ebbs away, and the offerings at your local gigaplex are still distressingly dull – basically, it’s sugar-coated biopics of female politicians or bust. Still, if there’s one thing we know how to do it’s make the best of a bad situation – all you need is to go on and on about The Artist even though it came out last week! Yay!

Seann William Scott is disarmingly loveable in this blood-spattered sports comedy written by Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg. Goon might initially strike you as brainless Lad fare, but don’t let appearances deceive you. It’s warm, funny and actually has something (vaguely) serious to say about a culture which encourages, and even downright applauds, violence – as long as it’s safely in the confines of a sports venue, of course.

Damn you, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea…

Who enjoys nice harmonies anyway?

That’s the BAFTA OWRSA to you.

Everyone loves Stanley Tucci. You know him, he’s the little bald chap in The Devil Wears Prada. And the little bald chap in Julie & Julia. And the little bald chap in Burlesque. And the not-bald paedophile in The Lovely Bones. See? That’s how good an actor he is – sometimes he acts HAVING HAIR. He’s not actually gay, either. Feeling ignorant? Come inside…

Yay! Wait, is he still a Nazi?

What? I mean, what? Really?