Gorgeous George is a sly old fox

Oct 23 2009 by Lizzie Struthers, Irvine Herald

GEORGE Clooney is a sly fox in the family animated adventure film Fantastic Mr Fox (PG).

He voices a dapper one-time chicken hustler trying to protect his family from evil farmers.

Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray also voice characters in this adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story.

In the fantasy adventure Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (12A), a teenager’s (Chris Massoglia) life changes forever when a vampire (John C Reilly) gets his teeth into him. He joins the Cirque Du Freak, a travelling freak show.

Heath Ledger’s last role before his untimely death was in Terry Gilliam’s fantastical film The Imagination of Doctor Parnassus (12A).

A gifted doctor (Christopher Plummer) makes a deal with the devil trading immortality for his daughter Valentina (Lily Cole) when she reaches 16.

Desperate to protect her, he renegotiates a deal to save her if he can deliver five souls to an alternate world of the imagination with the aid of Tony, played variously by Ledger, Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell.

In the horror Halloween II (18), Michael Myers returns home to Illinois on family business and unleashes a trail of terror.

A group of friends set sail into stormy seas and are saved by a passing ocean liner in the horror film Triangle (15). They soon discover the ship is deserted and someone is trying to hunt them down.

In the drama Love Happens (12A), self-help author Dr Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) and florist Eloise Chandler (Jennifer Aniston) must put aside their hang-ups to find love.

An unlikely duo become the only survivors in a world overrun by zombies in the comedy horror Zombieland (15).

Woody Harrelson plays the fearless Tallahasse and Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus who is scared of everything.

In the 3D-animated adventure Up (U), pensioner Carl Fredricksen ties thousands balloons to his house to fly away to the wilds of South America.

However, he soon discovers he has a stowaway, an eight-year-old wilderness explorer called Russell, who has tagged along for the ride.