NO OFFENCE intended to that silly old bear Winnie the Pooh (G), but it’s a telling indictment of the week’s releases that an animated movie for a young audience is the most accomplished film of the week.

The 'Star Trek' sequel will begin shooting January.

When all else fails fetch a shaggy mutt with lots of canine charm … never fails.

It's tough in the frozen north, though being a dog helps ... and this tale - tail? - is mostly about dogs, in that twee Disney way we have all come to know.

The story, well told, of how Burt Munro (Hopkins) set out in the late l960s to beat the Land Speed Record at Bonneville Salt Flats on his vamped-up l920 Indian Twin Scout motor-cycle.

So there's this little zebra, abandoned - like this awful storyline - by everybody. And a little girl falls for him.

Bening - Mrs Warren Beatty - sets herself up for a possible Oscar nod with a gripping performance as a troubled, ageing actress who knows that the good times are coming to an end with the growing lines and lost pizzazz.

Most films of this sort come with the in-built assumption that one day computers will become ‘human’ and turn on us.

We are, here, in the sci-fi world of the world, as we know it, facing meltdown as the electromagnetic layer falters as the Earth's core goes off beam