nominations.

Instead, a group called the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films awarded it nominations in the category of "best action/adventure/thriller'' as best film.

Stars Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman and Bailee Madison were nominated for best actor, best actress and best child performer respectively. However, the film and those cast members missed out.

In Brothers, rated M and based on a 2005 Danish film of the same name, Maguire and Portman play husband and wife, Sam and Grace Cahill, and Madison is one of their two daughters.

He is a captain in the US Marines about to be redeployed to Afghanistan, and Jake Gyllenhaal is his brother, Tommy, just released from prison after a sentence for armed robbery.

If you don't want to know what happens to these brothers in Brothers, stop reading but, because it happens so early in the film, I can't avoid revealing that (a) the family is told that Sam has been killed, and (b) he is actually alive, captured by the Taliban, along with one of his fellow platoon members. Both men will face extreme torture.

Meanwhile, back in America, Tommy steps in to help Grace around the house and they become close. How close we don't really know, apart from a chaste kiss.

And then Sam comes home, emotionally scarred, burdened with grief and deeply suspicious of what may have happened while he was a prisoner of the Taliban. Forget Spiderman, this is the best performance in Maguire's career so far.

Cop Out, MA, sees Bruce Willis reinventing his Die Hard persona in another one of those white cop/black cop action comedies. In other words, it's a movie where people get killed and shot at and it's all supposed to be funny. Willis is Jimmy Monroe, and his partner Paul is played by Tracy Morgan from the television series, 30 Rock.

Willis's character finds himself suspended without pay at about the same time family problems mean he needs lots of money to pay for his daughter's wedding. But first he and his partner must find a gang of Mexican drug dealers.