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 15 May 2008 13:05 BST

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Thursday, 08 May 2008 13:32
Emile Hirsch in pole position as Speed Racer
Speed Racer, Doomsday and Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? in this week's biggest movie releases.

For visual titillation, few directing teams come more exciting than the Wachowski Brothers with their brand of hyper-real, kinetic action coming to the screen this week in Speed Racer, a big screen adaptation of the classic Japanese cartoon.

Emile Hirsch stars as the eponymous driver whose desire to remain faithful to his family racing team - with John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Paulie Litt and a monkey named Chim Chim clad in very bright clothing - is threatened by the nefarious Albert Royalton (Roger Allam), owner of the influential Royalton Industries.

When Speed learns of the race-fixing that mars the sport's history, he vows to win fair and square to honour the memory of his late, great brother Rex Racer, with girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci) and mysterious rival Racer X (Matthew Fox) helping out on an exhilarating, unbelievably-fast cinematic experience.

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Having explored the damaging effects of a McDonalds diet in Super-Size Me, writer/director Morgan Spurlock goes in search of a far scarier villain in new documentary Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Spurlock sets off on an eye-opening jaunt around the globe to try and do what the CIA and FBI could not.

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Having scared the bejeesus out of moviegoers with Dog Soldiers and The Descent, Neil Marshall gets all apocalyptic on our arses this week with Doomsday, a futuristic thriller concerning a crack team - many of whom are therefore certain to meet their maker in the film - tackling the worrying rebirth of a deadly virus in the UK.

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Danny Glover stars in Honeydripper this week, a pleasantly nostalgic look at the power of the blues from Silver City director John Sayles, while Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher - who no longer have surnames if the poster is anything to go by - team up for What Happens In Vegas… , a comedy that could be just as depressing as the neon hole of which it speaks.

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Argentinean offering XXY tells the heart-rending story of a teenage hermaphrodite this week while Ludivine Sagnier and Bond actor Mathieu Amalric star in French family drama A Secret.

Also released this week is British comedy Cashback, Czech literary adaptation I Served the King of England and industrial documentary Manufactured Landscapes.End of story


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