Innovative publishers are using cigarette packaging and vending machines to sell a product just as addictive but far less deadly: literature.

German media executives are fuming that the topless Fräuleins gracing their print editions are not welcome in Apple’s iPhone and iPad apps. When it comes to media censorship, is this a couple of slippery slopes?

Kinda like Robin Begins, this hi-res actioner revises the Sherwood outlaw’s origin story. But Russell Crowe lacks the verve to give this tale the punch of Gladiator.

Jessica Hynes, co-creator (with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright) of cult UK series Spaced, pilots a gut-wrenching comedy with Nighty Night’s Julia Davis. Prepare to recoil at Lizzie And Sarah.

After decades of exhorting women to shake their asses and titties, hip-hop has finally produced a dance in which the fellas display their goods the same way. But will this milkshake bring all the boys to the yard?

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, returns as a disembodied head in a jar to laugh at Keyboard Cat. Is there anything insightful or original at all about this confused ad campaign?

Is your own home safe? And why should we be afraid of bedtime? Husband-and-wife theatre company IRAA brings the answers into your living room with its latest domestic provocation.

Why solve environmental problems the hard way when you can seal oil leaks with nuclear weaponry or shoot lasers into the sky to make it rain? Take that, Mother Nature!

M Night Shyamalan’s adaptation of the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender draws obvious initial comparisons to the James Cameron epic. But what will the effect here be on Shyamalan’s shaky reputation?