The Thursday Film Forecast: June 12
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Stop everything - the week's biggest movie news has been the release of a still from Wanted, in which Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy nearly lock lips (Jolie describes her Wanted character as "Mr & Mrs Smith after she's killed Mr Smith"). I know he's a big movie star and everything now, but he'll always be Steve from Shameless to us ... Transformers and Indiana Jones star Shia LaBouef is sorry for saying "faggot" ... Cameron Crowe is making a new movie, which will hopefully be as good as Almost Famous, but at the very least should be better than Elizabethtown ... Is Keira Knightley ever out of a corset? Not bloody likely - here's the trailer for taste-iffy, Princess Diana-linking movie The Duchess:
Hot tickets
What choice you have at the cinema this weekend! The Incredible Hulk (12A) has been de-arthoused and is ready for action, with a Lipster-friendly cast including Liv Tyler and Edward Norton ... M Night Shyamalan spooks Marky Mark in The Happening (15), which Time Out gives a blah 2/6 ... The always wonderful Marianne Faithfull stars in arty prossie drama Irina Palm (15) ... Priceless (12A), or Hors de prix in its smooth native tongue, is about a a gold-digging Audrey Tautou (who plays a "complete slut" according to one charming IMDB user) ...
Irina Palm trailer
Home movies
The Peep Show box set, featuring all five series, is out on Monday, which is us sorted for the next few weeks. Best-bits-are-in-the-trailer sci-fi Jumper is released, as is Will Ferrell vehicle Semi Pro, which is not as good as Dodgeball or Anchorman (but oh, what is?) Ryan Reynolds swoonfest Definitely Maybe aims to do better on DVD than it did at the flicks. But hold on, we've saved the best for last: clear a space in your DVD player for Murder She Wrote, series eight...
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