It's a good week for LGBT-friendly movies and movies that fall in line with the general LGBT agenda!

Our pick of the week is Bernie, where Jack Black plays a genuinely nice and popular small-town mortician who may be gay... and may have murdered the town's resident mean, rich widow, much to the gratitude of the townsfolk! Based on a true story, this film mashes dark comedy and documentary to create an unforgettable tale.

Manny the woolly mammoth and his friends are back again in Ice Age 4: Continental Drift. You know what this means: it's time to expose your favourite nephews and nieces to a treatise on the theory of evolution, plate tectonics, and other nasty scientific stuff in the guise of a crowd-pleasing animated comedy!

Fans of Hong Kong noir films will rejoice in Motorway, a crime film that sets traffic cops against speed-racers moonlighting as getaway drivers for the criminal underworld. High octane, gritty, and packed with set pieces, this film gives the Fast and Furious franchise a run for its money.

What happens when a group of silly American tourists enter the Chernobyl exclusion zone to have a day tour of an abandoned Soviet-era Ukrainian town? Since Chernobyl Diaries is a horror film, it's safe to expect a high body count and various scares involving cannibalistic, radioactive survivors of the 1986 nuclear disaster!

Till next week,

Vernon Chan