There is such a thing as overcastting – when a supremely silly picture has somehow managed to attract smart, talented stars. Consider Mad Money. After her husband is laid off, a pampered rich woman (Diane Keaton) is forced to work as a janitor at a federal reserve bank, where she plans a heist with a

A decided relief after 2007’s batch of clumsy, heavy-handed Iraq war dramas. This actually makes you laugh as it demonstrates the folly of American foreign policy. The picture is a fictionalized account of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s covert aiding of Afghan fighters against the Soviets in the 1980s. Portrayed here as a drinker, womanizer and

“Reilly has an absolute sincerity – especially in the many musical numbers – that’s essential for something this goofy.

“Juno gets two things dead right about contemporary teenagers…

“It would be funny even without the wigs.”

“It’s enough to make you hope that a full-blown musical is in Kelly’s future.

"Is there a point at which excessive public self-humiliation becomes its own form of warped narcissism?"

“… political at heart, even if its overall approach is comic.”

Forget Max Fischer – this is Wes Anderson’s opus. A sprawling tragicomedy about the resentment and possible reconciliation that drive the Tenenbaum family, this features Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson at their most ambitious. The story just keeps spilling out of them. It’s as if they are pre-schoolers who have more to say when coloring