The mechanism creaks and groans as Tom Hanks tools around Rome, trying to halt an imminent threat to blow up Vatican City in Ron Howard's clanking film of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons.

If Ben Stiller is such a comic genius, what is he doing in these movies?

As much as I enjoyed Star Trek, it was a guilty pleasure. Here was yet another movie that was devoted to selling us something we already had.

You'd think that WALL-E would be a tough act to follow - but here comes Pixar with Up, a movie that matches that Oscar-winner for heart, laughs and pure excitement.

As director Takita and Motoki, the film's star told me in a recent interview in New York, Departures has always been "the little movie that could."