Just Go With It is a good way to approach this average romantic comedy from long-time collaborators Adam Sandler and director Dennis Dugan (Happy Gilmore, You Don't Mess with the Zohan).

The past catches up with the present to potent and sometimes shattering effect in this moving French film that hints at the wartime horrors it revisits without ever explicitly depicting them.

With some of the momentum of the Clean, urgent droning vocals and pure psychedelic guitar jangle, this debut EP by Auckland-based three-piece Ghost Wave touches a lot of familiar places.

Somehow Dave Grohl's second famous band went from his post-Nirvana solo outing to stadium giants.

Copenhagen in the early 1990s. Bernardo Greene is a patient at a Clinic for Torture Victims. In his native Chile, he'd been tortured for two years by the Pinochet regime.

Julie Orringer’s first book, a stunning short-story collection entitled How To Breathe Underwater, was a New York Times notable book.

The lasting affection for Shatner is partly because he's been smart enough to make a fool out of himself, writes Russell Baillie.

After proving himself as a master of turning comic books into visually tantalising films, Zack Snyder was allowed to create his dream project.

Moodysson's film drew catcalls at its 2009 Berlinale screening, the first outside his native Sweden. On balance, such a response seems unduly passionate; it might have been more appropriate to snore.

Back in the 1970s Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City columns captured the off-beat spirit of San Francisco. One of Maupin's leading characters was Mary Ann Singleton, a TV presenter.

The limited edition of this album comes with a DVD doco about this New York garage band. It's entitled Pardon Us For Living But the Graveyard is Full and that's apt, as the Fleshtones have been around forever.

The G rating for this visually stunning nature documentary should be accompanied with a note that it "contains commentary that is banal, incomprehensible or unhelpful - sometimes all three at once".

Mixing live action with animated characters like we've seen in other films such as Alvin and The Chipmunks (which Tim Hill also directed), Hop is technically fantastic.

Continuing their exploration of folk-influenced rock and the ethos, if not the actual sound, of 60s psychedelic rock, the quartet come over reflective and quasi-cosmic on this third studio album.

After a series of fine albums, Ohio's Over the Rhine deliver their most sophisticated album to date

This issue of the British literary journal is dedicated to Pakistan.

As you'd expect from a film called Rio, music, dancing and Carnival play a large role in this bright, glossy animated comedy from the creators of Ice Age.

Stars: 3/5

Stars: 5/5. Verdict: The history of Chicago blues in Alligator's shoes across two exciting discs.

Stars: 3.5./5