So famed author and unwitting CIA guinea pig Ken Kesey takes a lot of acid, teams up with a beatnik and some hippies and cruises through america in a technicolour schoolbus. How could this be anything other than amazing? Well, read on and we’ll tell you exactly how.

Rod Lurie’s remake of Sam Peckinpah’s controversial thriller follows the original virtually beat-for-beat – except where it matters. As a stand alone film it’s OK, but held up to the original it feels almost entirely pointless. Half a star goes to James Marsden’s lovely curly hair.

Nanni Moretti’s new film explores the trials and tribulations of becoming Pope. It’s more drama than comedy, and excels where it follows Il Papa himself, Michel Piccoli, who puts in a wonderfully tragic performance as the ailing pontiff. But what’s with the volleyballing Cardinals?

This glum tale of homelessness and drug addiction in Dublin features strong performances from its leads, but is let down by an overbearing soundtrack and a predictably worthy storyline. Also, clock metaphors, clock metaphors everywhere I turn!

Do you like machine guns? Do you like Jesus? Then you’ll love Machine Gu- oh, wait. That might not actually be enough to close the deal. Let’s try again: do you like the flagrant deification of bikers with hearts of gold? Do you like Gerard Butler being utterly dull as usual? Do you like the White Messiah fable? Then you’ll love Machine Gun Preacher! That’s more like it.

Daniel Craig goes all Doctor Doolittle in this fun little documentary that tries to convince us that, deep down,we’re not so different from the animals. Actually, as it turns out,that only applies to Daniel Craig.

What would happen if the creators of Catfish, Doctor Who and Saw all got together, downed a few pints and then decided to make a film? Why, you’d get Panic Button of course!

In March of 2009 American stockbroker Bernard Lawrence Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for defrauding his investors of some $13 billion. Considering the ever-growing global fury at the financial big-wigs, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that such a brazen act of corporate vandalism has made it to the big screen; what might raise a few eyebrows, however, is that its come in the form of a farcical comedy starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. Huh.

A lovely lady and her video camera go round the streets of LA and follow the lives of a half dozen homeless across the course of a few years. Hilarity ensues. Wait, it doesn’t? Oh, you mean it’s actually quite depressing? Also a bit uplifting? Well, that sounds worth a watch.

Eight angsty teenagers decide to kill themselves together. Then someone starts murdering them. Then one of them decides to kill the others. Then the slasher who isn’t the guy who decided to kill everyone strikes again but he might be all in the goth girl’s head. Then Asher D from So Solid Crew turns up. Confused? Yeah…