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The England versus Argentina ‘hand of God’ match dominates this engaging
documentary about Diego Armando Maradona the man rather than the footballer.

John Sayles delves into the early years of rock’n'roll. Danny Glover plays the owner of a blues club in Fifties Alabama who tries to stave off bankruptcy by hiring the New Orleans legend “Guitar Sam” for a one-night-only gig.

Gerard Butler’s character spends most of Nim’s Island lost at sea, and I know
how he feels. Drifting between an ocean survival drama, a metropolitan chick
flick, and a twee children’s comedy with a lizard that plays the bongos, the
film starts by introducing a girl called Nim (Little Miss Sunshine’s Abigail
Breslin), who lives on a remote tropical island with her father (Butler) and
her pet sealion.

If I were rating films on good intentions alone, this eco agitprop would earn
five stars: but pretty pictures of nature in all its majesty, punctuated by
decontextualised talking heads and earnest monologues from Leonardo
DiCaprio, are not going to change anybody’s mind about climate change.

Watch the trailer for ‘The 11th Hour’.

A conceptual comedy by Lars von Trier is not a prospect to gladden the heart. This takes off from a quite promising idea – the owner of an IT firm wants to sell up, but anticipating hostility from his staff he hires an actor to play the “real” boss.