1. Make the most of your summer holidays

Don’t be stuck for something to do this summer holiday – there are loads of brilliant activities taking place, offering fun for all ages.

2. Teenage kicks

Based on the popular books by Louise Rennison – Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God – and adapted for the screen by Bend It Like Beckham’s Gurinder Chadha, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging has the credentials for a good film.

3. Cobra class

The first thing you notice when you walk into the Blue Cobra is a grand piano slap bang in the middle of the dining area.

4. My close encounter with The Joker in Dark Knight

A Reading actor is basking in the glory of the record-breaking success of the latest Batman film.

5. Linger and learn the lingo

Ten days in Sicily and a weekend in Milan preceded my night in Mari e Monti so the grazies and per favores were flowing.

6. WALL-E (U)

After recent disappointing CGI animations from Pixar’s own Cars to Dreamworks’ Shrek the Third and Bee Movie, it’s a relief to see with WALL-E.

7. Why be kind when VHS no longer matters?

Be Kind Rewind has an interesting – albeit stupid – concept behind it.

8. Rogue redeemed

Imagine you could travel the world in a nano-second.

You are immortal and you have no responsibilities. You also have superhero powers, such as the ability to fly. What would you do?

9. Kung fu flick is fighting fit

With so many CGI animations these days, it is perhaps understandable that the majority stick to a tried and tested formula.

10. Blowing their own trumpet

When the Coombs family decided to entertain their village with a few tunes, little could they have known what they had started.