Anger Management

Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson star in a comedy about a mild-mannered young man who is put into the care of an anger management therapist who looks as if he needs more help than his client.

After a misunderstanding aboard an aircraft that escalates out of control, Dave Buznik (Sandler) is ordered by a judge to attend anger management sessions run by Dr Buddy Rydell (Nicholson).

Rydell’s unorthodox treatment is confrontational and abrasive, but poor Dave is unassertive and uncomfortable about expressing his true feelings.

Rydell believes that his patient must come to terms with his pent-up anger. So he puts him through some hilarious ordeals in which Dave must decide whether to crawl back into his shell or stand up for himself.

Dave has to cope with confronting a childhood tormentor, being propositioned by a transvestite, and being forced to team up with the most explosive member of the anger management therapy group, Chuck (John Turton).

For “relaxation”, Dave is made to stop in the middle of Queensboro Bridge, New York, in the middle of rush hour to sing I Feel Pretty.

Watch out for a surprise cameo appearance by Woody Harrelson.

Sweet Sixteen

Sweet Sixteen is a powerful and grittily realistic story of a Scottish teenager, Liam, from the working-class suburb of Greenock near Glasgow.

His mother is due to be released from prison on his 16th birthday.

Liam – played superlatively by Martin Compston – has an unhappy relationship with his mother’s drug-dealer boyfriend Stan (Gary McCormack) and his grandfather Rab (Tommy McKee).

The two men try to get Liam to smuggle drugs into prison for his mother Jean (Michelle Coulter) to sell to her fellow prisoners, but he refuses to do so – and earns a savage thrashing.

Liam runs away from home to live with his sister, an unmarried mother.

He dreams that he and his mother might one day settle down and live together as a family. But this would mean creating a safe haven beyond the reach of losers like his mother’s boyfriend and his own mean-spirited grandfather.

To realize this dream, however, Liam must first raise cash. But he makes all the wrong choices.

Director Ken Loach (Kathy Come Home) has long been famous for his true-to-life productions. Sweet Sixteen won the Cannes best screenplay award for Loach’s long-time collaborator Paul Laverty.

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Andie Anderson (Golden Globe winner Kate Hudson, Almost Famous), Composure magazine’s “how-to” columnist, has a very unusual assignment and a pressing deadline. She has to write a firsthand account of all the things that women do inadvertently to drive men away… and she’s got to do it in 10 days.

Now she’s on a mission to get a guy to fall in love with her, then make all the classic dating mistakes so that he’ll dump her.

Andie’s target is ad agency employee Benjamin Barry (Matthew McCounaughey, Frailty, The Wedding Planner) who has just made a high-stakes bet with his boss that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days.

Ben shows amazing patience under extreme duress as Andie tests him to the limit: she redoes his apartment, changes his music, and even invades his poker room.

X-Men 2

The mutants are back, with almost the entire cast of the original movie X-Men.

In X-Men 2, society still distrusts and fears the mutants who are super heroes born with unique powers that have made them outcasts.

When an aggressor with mutant-like abilities launches a shocking attack, there is an immediate public outcry and demand for a so-called Mutant Registration Act.

A wealthy ex-army commander William Stryker (Brian Cox) leads an anti-mutant movement. He is rumoured once to have experimented on them – possibly even on Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), who still searches for clues about his origins.

As part of his strategy, Stryker launches an attack on the mansion of Xavier (Patrick Stewart).

The powerful mutant Magneto (Ian McKellen) – who believes that mutants will never be able to exist in harmony with normal humans – has escaped from prison. He suggests to Xavier that they join forces to combat their common and formidable enemy: Stryker.

With the fates of Xavier, mankind – and mutantkind – in their hands, the X-Men face their most dangerous mission ever.

The Matrix Reloaded

Neo, Morpheus, Trinity and the rest of the crew continue to battle the machines that have enslaved the human race in the Matrix.

However, more human beings are waking up out of the Matrix and attempting to live in the real world. As their numbers grow, the battle moves to Zion – an underground haven for human beings – the last real-world city and centre of human resistance.

The machines, having learned the location of Zion near the Earth’s core, plan to tunnel down and use thousands of sentinels – squid-like kamakizes – to obliterate the city.

The humans’ only hope is to track down a tiny character, the Keymaker, who has access to all the doors in the machine world.

He is guarded at all times by the Twins, albinos with blond dreadlocks, who can vanish and reappear like ghosts.

The Twins were formerly deleted programmes from the Matrix, but were given the chance of a new lease of life as roaming elements in the programme.