Oz: the Great and Powerful, the prequel to 1939’s The Wizard of Oz that everyone has been clamouring for these past 70-odd years (ahem), is most surprising in that it’s nowhere near the mess it promised to be. Luridly colourful and garish, but filled with likable performances and some excellent 3D. But while it may not be a total mess, but that’s not to say that it isn’t still wildly inconsistent at times.

And your little dog too!

We wonder who’ll be bagging a golden bauble this time around…

Have you ever wondered what happens after the “happily ever after” ending? Wonder no longer. Sarah Polley’s brutally honest film, Take This Waltz, examines the idea of the effect a long-term relationships has on love, with painful, remarkable and immensely moving results. Can we ever keep the flames of passion alive?

James Franco, playing a dick? NEVER.

PLEASE SAY YES

Is that… Sarah Silverman?

THEY’RE HERE! The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards have been released, and as we predicted The Artist has basically bagsied all the categories like a fat greedy child in a tuckshop. Standard.

Why doesn’t someone put Ricky Gervais in a silent film?

But where’s Drive?