BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE (12A):

Recently-divorced lawyer who forms a friendship over the Internet with a woman who claims to be a lawyer. But when she comes to visit him she turns out to be an escaped convict who wants him to help her overturn her conviction.

THE MATRIX RELOADED (15):

Follow-up to the Wachowski brothers' acclaimed sci-fi spectacular about humanity's fight back against the machines.

RIPLEY'S GAME (15):

John Malkovich stars as Tom Ripley in this follow-up to The Talented Mr Ripley. Believing he has been insulted, Ripley hatches a plan to bring the man who offended him down by turning him into an assassin.

A young woman who has recently been released from a mental institution gets a job as a legal secretary. But soon she and her boss become drawn into a world of sadomasochism as the pair develop a bizarre yet sensitive relationship

ANGER MANAGEMENT (15): See review page 34&35.

DARKNESS FALLS (15): Horror movie in which a man returns to his home town to confront the murderous ghost who almost killed him when he was a child. The ghost, The Tooth Fairy, can only kill in the dark and is afraid of light.

DIRTY DEEDS (18): See review page 35.

THE HUNTED (15): See review page 35.

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN TEN DAYS (12A): A columnist for a women's magazine is assigned to 'lose a guy in ten days' by making classic relationship mistakes.

I CAPTURE THE CASTLE (PG): A period love story about the eccentric inhabitants of a converted castle, based on Dodie Smith's classic novel.

IN THIS WORLD (15): See preview opposite.

JOHNNY ENGLISH (PG): A bumbling secret agent is given the job of protecting the Crown Jewels and finds himself struggling to foil a plot by an evil mastermind to take over Britain.

JUNGLE BOOK 2 (U): Mowgli and co get another outing in this rehash of the 1967 classic cartoon.

KANGAROO JACK (PG): Two inseparable friends are embroiled in a series of shady get-rich-quick schemes. When their latest scam goes wrong, a mob boss sends them to Australia to deliver $50,000 to an associate.

MOSTLY MARTHA (PG): German movie about an obsessive chef who takes in her niece when her sister dies.

OLD SCHOOL (15): A man rents a house on the edge of a campus and goes about setting up a fraternity for disenfranchised men.

PHONE BOOTH (15): An arrogant publicist finds himself pinned down in a phone booth in the middle of New York by a sniper with a grudge.

X-MEN 2 (12A): Wolverine and the other X-Men are forced to team up with their enemies Magneto and Mystique when war on mutants is declared following an attempt to assassinate the president.