The Simpsons Movie posterThe high­lights of the North­ern Hemi­sphere block­buster sum­mer keep on arriv­ing, led this week by the long-awaited Simpsons Movie. I pre­viewed it today and I recom­mend that you stay through all the cred­its. Play­ing Read­ings, Empire Island Bay, Sky City Queens­gate and Regent-on-Man­ners which des­pite the best efforts of some enthu­si­ast­ic staff is com­plete pants.

Lind­say Lohan teams up with Jane Fonda and Feli­city Huff­man for the inter-gen­er­a­tion­al com­edy-drama Geor­gia Rule. Love interest is provided by Dermot Mul­roney and Gar­rett Hed­lund (Eragon). Again all over town: Read­ings, Regent-on-Man­ners and Sky City Queens­gate.

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More exot­ic fare is provided by The Ban­quet at Rialto and Light­house Petone. It’s a loose adapt­a­tion of Ham­let relo­cated to imper­i­al China. Hol­ly­wood Report­er described it as “msmerising” and says it has “astonishing peri­od cos­tumes and art dir­ec­tion”.

Last, but def­in­itely not least, the won­der­ful Romola Garai gets to open anoth­er pic­ture (two in two weeks) with François Ozon’s Angel, an adapt­a­tion of an obscure 1950s Brit­ish nov­el. By all accounts it’s a rip-roar­ing cos­tume melo­drama that Bette Dav­is or Joan Craw­ford would have been proud of. Or not, as the case may be. Pent­house exclus­ive.