Five years seems to be the appropriate mourning period which passes between a humanitarian disaster and its accompanying movies. But after Oliver Stone’s lumpen adaptation of the 9/11 attacks, Rachid Bouchareb’s look at the aftermath of the London bombings is well worth a watch.

The remake of The Karate Kid is coming out soon and I’m scared. I have visions of myself coming out of the screen a broken woman, feebly humming Joe Esposito’s You’re the Best to myself. The horror of seeing a much loved film pillaged by grasping Hollywood producers is traumatic enough to merit the forming of some sort of support group.

As people whose childhoods were made up entirely of watching cartoons in darkened rooms, we’re always happy to know that our tender years was not utterly, utterly wasted. Disney has decided to adapt their glorious 90s cartoon series Gargolyes into a feature-film, and frankly, we’ve never felt more knowledgable (who’s life is pointless now, mum?)

The estate of the late British author Adrian Jacobs is suing US publisher Scholastic for breach of copyright with regard to J.K Rowling’s fourth book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has been jetting round the world to meet with potential cast members of The Hobbit.

Best For Film is sobbing all over its morning packet of Minstrels at the news that Stephen Fry and his long term partner Daniel Cohen have apparently gone their separate..

Academy Award-winning actors Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz have tied the knot in the Bahamas. Hurrah!

Superhero films are big, big, BIG business, and the last decade’s worth of cinema has seen so many unitards and tooled leather boots I’m surprised it hasn’t run off to join the chorus line of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The days of the latest capering crusader being consigned to the 80s bargain bin alongside Surf Nazis Must Die! and Over-sexed Rugsuckers from Mars (both real titles – check them out or die unfulfilled) are long over.

To go or not to go, ‘it all begins…with a choice’. If you are able to stomach the sickly musings of young love, then I promise you will be rewarded by the visuals of this captivating story.

It seems that the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson since the recent leak of incriminating tape recordings is far from over.