Surrogates
Starring Bruce Willis, Rhada Mitchell
Directed by Jonathan Mostow
Genre: Action/Thriller
Age restriction: 13V
Running time: 1 hr 27 mins

The filmmakers behind sci-fi romp 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' return with this action thriller starring Bruce Willis, which is based on a graphic novel by author Robert Venditti and illustrator Brett Weldele.

Willis stars as an FBI agent in a futuristic society where humans have all but withdrawn from venturing into the outside world, preferring instead to enjoy life outside their front doors via high-tech robot surrogates of themselves who have assumed their roles outside the home.

Willis' character has been called in to investigate the murder of a genius college student whose brainchild invention is the very same robot surrogates who undertake the daily chores of their human counterparts.

As the case grows more complicated, however, and despite bringing in his own surrogate to help with the investigation, the withdrawn detective soon discovers that in order to actually catch the killer he will have to venture outside the safety of his own home for the first time in many years, and enlists the aid of another agent, played by Radha Mitchell in tracking his target down.

And soon the investigation brings forth the real question: in a world of masks, who's real and who can you trust?

Read the review of 'Surrogates' here.

Julie and Julia
Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams
Directed by Nora Ephron
Genre: Comedy
Age restriction: 10M
Running time: 2 hrs

From comedy writer and director Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle) comes this hybrid adaptation of two best-selling memoirs: 'My Life in France', by Julia Child with her nephew Alex Prud'homme and 'Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously' by Julie Powell.

Based on two true stories, the film intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

Meryl Streep plays celebrity chef Julia Child whose influence on American household kitchens in the 1950's and 60's cannot be understated and whose most famous book 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' sold over a million copies.

Her story is intertwined with that of Amy Adams who plays Julie Powell, an amateur chef who, in real life, endeavoured to cook every recipe in Childs' book over the period of one year as a means of creating material for her online blog.

The film also covers the years Child and her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci) spent in Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, when he was a foreign diplomat who was eventually investigated by Senator Joseph McCarthy for alleged communist ties.

Check out the 'On Screen' team's review of 'Julie and Julia'!