Humpday, the surprise comedy hit of the year

The team behind this Sundance festival hit have turned a difficult concept into peerless screen comedy, says Kevin Maher

Actor and D-Day hero Richard Todd dies aged 90

Dashing matinee idol who fought Nazis on screen and in real life remembered as quintessential stiff upper lip actor

Superman of Malegaon flies in — on a plank of wood

Shaikh Nasir, an Indian film-maker, is starting to make waves with his ultra low-budget spoofs of Bollywood and Hollywood hits

Polanski reunited with family under house arrest

Film-maker reunited with wife and children at home in the Swiss Alps after release on bail of 4.5 million Swiss francs

So much more than a stiff upper lip

The quiet surprise of Richard Todd’s career was just how effective he was at playing deranged characters

Four stars for star-filled Nine

Sharp-suited and full of Italian Sixties zing, this musical razzle-dazzles us with grit as well as glitter. We give it four stars

The woman who's the Wizard of Oz memorabilia

'Prices for Wizard of Oz items have quadrupled over the past ten years - it’s getting scarcer and scarcer'

Mixed-up Brown pays tribute to 'Renee Witherspoon'

Who's who in Hollywood - PM confuses Reese Witherspoon and Renee Zellweger in a Commons tribute

Cinema’s 10 wettest moments

From Andy Dufresne’s post-prison baptism to Andie MacDowell’s ‘Is it raining? I hadn’t nowdiced’, the top rainy films

Avatar: a musical adventure in 3D

The film composer who brought love to the Titanic and gave William Wallace his freedom on his toughest challenge yet

The Descent: Part 2

This is a serviceable shock machine that at times seems too much like a remake of the first. But it does its job

Planet 51

This animated tale takes an interesting premise and drains the joy out of it. It’s essentially E.T. backwards

Me and Orson Welles

The freshness and energy of Linklater at his best (Before Sunset) or even second best (A Scanner Darkly) is absent

The Box

In trying to expand Richard Matheson’s short story, Kelly drops the ball and proceeds to kick it around for several hours

Departures

The direction from Yojiro Takita is stately, the soundtrack dreamy, but the push-button crying becomes wearisome