Run Fatboy Run posterThe Fes­ti­val of the Arts has been soak­ing up almost every spare minute of my work­ing day so this is going to be a bare bones update.My high­light: Simon “Shaun of the Dead” Pegg back on screen in Run Fat­boy Run about a mar­riage-shy waster who tries to win the love of his life (Thandie New­ton) back by run­ning the Lon­don Marathon. Read­ings, Empire, Regent-on-Man­ners, Light­house Petone, Pent­house.

For the kids who like those dance-as-a-sub­sti­tute-for-gang-war­fare movies we have Step Up 2 The Streets, sequel to the mas­sive 2006 hit that launched Chan­ning Tatum on an unsus­pect­ing world. He returns for the sequel. Read­ings only.

[The rest of this week’s new releas­es after the jump]

Van­tage Point is a Rashomon-like thriller with a good cast includ­ing Sigour­ney Weaver, For­est Whitak­er, Den­nis Quaid and, em, Bruce McGill. Read­ings, Empire, Regent-on-Man­ners and the neutered Embassy.

Final­ly, the Para­mount’s Steve Busce­mi sea­son con­tin­ues with Inter­view. This time Busce­mi is also the direc­tor and if you’ve ever seen his film Trees Lounge you will be encour­aged to give this one a go. Para­mount exclu­sive.

All these films will be reviewed at Funer­als & Snakes on Wednes­day (and in the Cap­i­tal Times on the same day). Tick­ets for the World Cin­e­ma Show­case are on sale. Check out the pro­gramme before it opens next Thurs­day.