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Happy new year . . . if you’re into werewolves, wizards, and the world’s most famous detective, 2009 is going to be a great year at the cinema, writes Carl Jones.If it’s originality you’re after, however, don’t hold your breath.

The Spirit

Frank Miller, the creator of Sin City and 300 directs this visually arresting adaptation of the comic series about a rookie cop (Gabriel Macht) in the crime-riddled metropolis of Central City, who returns from the dead as the masked avenger The Spirit.

The Reader

The collective guilt of Germany’s ’second generation’, struggling to come to terms with their parents’ role in the Holocaust, underscores every elegant frame of The Reader.

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The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2

Audiences who looked past the unwieldy title of the original The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants back in 2005 were rewarded with a well written and impeccably acted coming of age story.

Bedtime Stories

Director Adam Shankman follows up the global smash Hairspray with this colourful family feature, proving that sometimes dreams do come true.

Yes Man

Based on Danny Wallace’s humorous memoir, Yes Man is a comedy about what would happen if one man said ‘yes’ to everything that he would have previously dismissed with a cursory ‘no’.

Australia

Since his eye-catching 1992 debut, the ugly duckling fairy-tale Strictly Ballroom, Australian writer/director Baz Luhrmann has left us in a swoon with beautifully crafted stories of romance across the social and cultural divide.

Twilight

Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling Twilight novels, a series of teen fantasies in which vampires and mortals live side by side, have become one of the biggest publishing phenomena since Harry Potter.

The Tale Of Despereaux

Director Sam Fell (Flushed Away) returns to the rodent underworld with first-time co-director Robert Stevenhagen for this visually colourful yet emotionally hollow fable based on the award-winning book by Kate DiCamillo.