MEN IN BLACK III (USA 2012) ****
Directed by Barry Sonenfeld

Films on time travel have always fascinated audiences (especially me) as they often tamper with logic that could change the course of History.  What is then best not then to include this element in the sci-fi aliens action comedy franchise MEN IN BLACK.

WHERE DO WE GO NOW?  (Lebanon/Fr/Egypt/It 2011) **
Directed by Nadine Labaki

The film begins in a solemn atmosphere with women in black going to cemetery to pay respects to the dead males in their families be they husbands or sons.  They do an odd dance swaying their heads left, right, up and down as they make their way there.  Once there, they separate and lie or sit by the tombs.

MARLEY (USA/UK 2012) ****
Directed by Kevin MacDonald

The lengthy but comprehensive two and a half hour documentary of Bob Marley does the Reggae King justice.

TURN ME ON, DAMMIT!  (Norway 2012) ***
Directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

TURN ME ON, DAMMIT is a teen sex comedy!  But before dismissing it as adolescent rubbish of the likes of AMERICAN PIE, PROJECT X et al., this film should be seen as it takes the well-worn genre on to a different level. 

BERNIE (USA 2011) ***1/2
Directed by Richard Linklater

Jack Blake must be one of the most irritating actors alive.  One only has to see his films like TROPIC THUNDER and especially TENACIOUS D IN THE PICK OF DESTINY to see the reason why.  In BERNIE is cast as the title character who happens to be the most lovable man in the town of Carthage, Texas.