Easter is, as we’re all well aware, all about the eggs. Whether you favour your yolk-encasing wonders painted, boiled, scrambled or made from chocolate, it’s definitely a time for eggs to shine. So we’ve trawled through our film library to bring you the VERY BEST EGGS of cinema. These little prolate spheroids are going to rock your world…

Every December, on the magical eve of collective financial ruin, mega-marketing corporations and advertising henchmen alike find a way to manipulate one and all into mindless, mass-consumerism. Alas, Christmas comes but once a year, the jolly holiday is eight long months away, and creme eggs don’t sell themselves. What to do? Well exploit Easter, of course, and monetise the hell out of the seasonal anthropomorphisms.

Jeepers. And here we were thinking Easter was the time of fertility. It’s been reported officially that Jim Carrey and his girlfriend of five years, Jenny McCarthy, have decided to break up. This marks yet another celebrity split, making us wonder if all this bunnies and eggs stuff is actually more of a curse than anything else.