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.