Up for review this week: Tropic Thunder, the new Hollywood satire starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jnr and Jack Black and Linha De Passe, the latest film from Brazilian director Walter Salles.

This week we review the new Guy Ritchie gangster film ‘Rocknrolla’ and the Kiera Knightley period drama ‘The Duchess’.

This week on the review podcast we look at Will Ferrell comedy ‘Step Brothers’, Vin Diesel sci-fi actioner ‘Babylon A.D.’ and the 90s set indie film ‘The Wackness’.

This week we review Hellboy II: The Golden Army, the sequel to the 2004 comic book adaptation; Get Smart, the movie version of the 60s TV show; and Somers Town, the new film from Shane Meadows. Plus, we also hear from director Guillermo Del Toro about Hellboy II and his upcoming film version of The Hobbit.

This week we look at the latest Adam Sandler comedy You Don’t Mess With The Zohan; the new animated Star Wars film The Clone Wars and period comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day.

This week we review the latest summer blockbuster ‘The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor’; the new film from Luc Jacquet ‘The Fox And The Child’ and an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel ‘Elegy’.

On this week’s review podcast we look at the new documentary ‘Man on Wire’ (and hear from it’s director James Marsh), the new X-Files film ‘I Want to Believe’ and the latest Mike Myers comedy ‘The Love Guru’. If you have any comments or questions just email me via [email protected]

This week we give an early review to the new batman film The Dark Knight, the sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins. Starring Cristian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Heath Ledger as the Joker and Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent it explores what happens when Gotham City is plunged into a nightmare wae of crime and terror. We also hear from director Christopher Nolan about reinventing the caped crusader and casting Ledger as the villain.

This week we review: Standard Operating Procedure, the new documentary about the Abu Ghraib scandal by director Errol Morris; City of Men, the follow up of sorts to 2002’s City of God and Meet Dave, the new Eddie Murphy comedy. For more links go to www.filmdetail.com.

In an early review we examine WALL-E, the latest animated film from Pixar and hear from the writer-director Andrew Stanton, sound designer (and voice of WALL-E) Ben Burtt and Sigourney Weaver (who also voices a character in the film).