Another attempt to relaunch Superman into the movie skies, this time with uncharismatic Henry Cavill in the lead, propped up by a roster of famous names, including Russell Crowe as a superdad who rides dragonflies, Kevin Costner as a more homespun adopted father, and Amy Adams as a surprisingly spiritless Lois Lane.

Eighteen years ago, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy teamed up with director Richard Link­later to make what is probably the chattiest movie romance ever.

Diehards may mourn the lack of entrails but this is more of a suspense movie than a gorefest

YOU don’t get many chances to use the names Princess Diana and Hitler in the same sentence, so I’m relishing this one.

An Edinburgh Film Festival documentary reveals why we are in a golden age for screen depictions of children. Director Mark Cousins tells Andrew Eaton-Lewis how he became the toast of Cannes

TINA Fey’s recently concluded comedy show 30 Rock was a series so dangerously great that none of the terrestrial channels dared show it in case we started demanding our own great comedies written from a smart female perspective.

WHEN you’ve saved the world several times, what do you do in your brief downtime windows?

INTERVIEWING Lily Collins is a ­little like meeting a very polished Miss World contestant.

The rest of this week’s film releases reviewed by Siobhan Synnot

FOR Richard Kuklinski, murder was part of doing business, a way of covering up crimes with guns, knives and baseball bats, a ticket to providing his wife and three children with a comfortable life in the suburbs.

AT THE peak of his powers Liberace was the highest paid entertainer in showbusiness, but more than 25 years after his death, the Liberace museum in Vegas has been shuttered and boarded up.

DID I miss something, or has a consensus emerged around the idea that it’s time to cut the Edinburgh International Film Festival some slack? The launch of its 2013 programme on Wednesday was notable for the lack of controversy.

Viggo Mortensen plays identical twin brothers in Ana Piterbarg’s opaque thriller. Viggo 1 is an indistinctly unhappy doctor working in Buenos Aires who gets a visit from Viggo 2, a terminally ill, beekeeping petty criminal.

A SHORT list of things that are more amusing than The Hangover Part III: Beverly Hills Cop III, The Hangover Part II and possibly even The Wright Way.

THERE are currently so many vampires flapping around movies that new additions tends to get boxed by age, genre and state of mind.