Southport comedian Lee Mack talks to Jade Wright about his forthcoming Liverpool gigs

LIVERPOOL FC call it the 12th man, and countless bands, actors and comics refer to the unspoken support that comes from playing in front of a home crowd.Read

Review: Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief (PG), Rating: III

PERCY Jackson & The Lightning Thief juxtaposes a battle of the Gods on Mount Olympus, and the exploits of a teenage boy destined for greatness, based on the first of five books by Rick Riordan.Read

DVD releases: Up (Cert U)

FOLLOWING the death of his wife Ellie voiced by Elie Docter), retired balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen refuses to be parted from the house he built with his beloved. When developers threaten to bulldoze the property, Carl ties thousands of brightly coloured helium balloons to the roof and takes flight, bound for Paradise Falls in South America, where he and Ellie had always planned to visit. Unexpectedly, a Junior Wilderness Explorer called Russell is stranded on the porch and the plucky tyke joins Carl on his big adventure. Up is another modern classic from the computer animation wizards at Pixar and arguably the studio’s most sophisticated and adult film to date. The opening 10 minutes are among the finest Pixar have ever created, and are guaranteed to have viewers choking back tears. Visuals are astounding too in their vibrancy and minuscule detail, and you soon forget that you are watching something that has been created meticulously on computer hard-drives.Read

Brodre: No brotherly love to be found here

ALL'S fair in love and war. In Jim Sheridan's English language remake of Susanne Bier's celebrated Danish drama, Brodre, love is war as two siblings – polar opposites – are divided by their deep bond to the same woman.Read

THE BOYS ARE BACK (12A))Rating: lll

A WIDOWER struggles to raise his young son in the aftermath of terminal illness in Scott Hicks's moving drama, based on Simon Carr’s emotional memoir.Read

Fame (12)

THE New York City High School of Performing Arts is one of America’s most prestigious training grounds for the country’s artists, dancers, musicians and singers. Read

JAMES Cameron’s epic 3D flick Avatar continues to pack out cinemas this week; screenings have regularly sold out in Southport.

But with award season upon us there are still plenty of other top notch blockbusters worth checking out. With George Clooney starring as an exec re-evaluating his life choices, bittersweet drama Up In The Air is tipped for Oscar success.Read

(500) Days Of Summer (12)

TOM (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has always nurtured a passion for architecture and he is transfixed by New York’s concrete jungle. Read

Film Review: All About Steve (12A)

AMERICA’S sweetheart she may be, but Sandra Bullock should really have thought twice about signing up for this quirky romantic comedy from Phil Traill.Read

George Clooney flying for another Oscar in The Air Up There

UNEMPLOYMENT is no laughing matter . . . although Up In The Air begs to differ. Directed by Jason Reitman, of Juno fame, this portrait of a loveless man, who earns his living flying around America and making total strangers redundant, hardly sounds like cause for merriment.Read

Film review: It’s Complicated - (15) Rating: lll

WRITER-DIRECTOR Nancy Meyers has forged a reputation with smart, insightful comedies that reveal myriad potholes in the road to true love.Read

Film Reviews: The Road

ABANDON hope, all ye who enter here. The future isn't bright, not in the slightest, in John Hillcoat's Oscar-tipped, post-apocalyptic thriller, adapted by Joe Penhall from the novel by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country For Old Men.Read

The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 (15)

WALTER GARBER (Denzel Washington) is a dispatcher in the busy transit control centre, monitoring New York’s subway trains. Read

This week’s cinema highlights – 04.12.09

THIS week a young suburban couple receive a gift with fatal and irrevocable consequences in The Box.Read

This week’s cinema highlight – 27.11.09

THIS week children are in for a festive treat with the release of Nativity, an improvised comedy based around a school nativity play.Read

This week’s cinema highlights – 20.11.09

THIS week sees the release of the second instalment of the teen vampire saga, Twilight, based on the bestselling novels by Stephenie Meyer.Read

This week’s cinema highlights – 13.11.09

THIS week Michael Caine makes a welcome return to our screens in Harry Brown, in which he plays an elderly former serviceman who is drawn to vigilantism while living in a run-down suburb.Read

This week’s cinema highlights – 06.11.09

THE festive spirit takes over cinemas this week with the release of a Christmas Carol, an animated retelling of the classic Charles Dickens novel.Read

This week’s cinema highlights – 30.10.09

THIS week a small-town high-school knockout goes from dream girl to nightmare date when she is possessed by a demon in an advanced screening of Jennifer’s Body.Read

This week’s cinema highlights – 23.10.09

THIS week a travelling theatre company gives its audience much more than they bargained for in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.Read

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