Set on beautiful Bora Bora (it's almost worth seeing the film just for the views), Couples Retreat, rated M, co-stars and was co-written by the scene-stealing Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, together again after last year's Four Holidays.

Stars include Malin Akerman and Kristen Bell while Carlos Ponce wins laughs as the island's yoga instructor.

Julie & Julia, M, is a delightful comedy combining the careers of American television cook and cookbook author, Julia Child, played by Meryl Street, and the much-younger Julia Powell (Amy Adams), who wrote an internet blog, based on the year she spent cooking and serving Julia Child's recipes 524 recipes in 365 days. Streep is terrific as Child, although for audiences not familiar with the original, she initially seems way over-the-top.

And tall! Streep and Jane Lynch who plays her sister Dorothy, tower over fellow cast members (Julia Child who died in 2004 was more than 180 centimetres).

Moon, M, is a space thriller sure to please sci-fi fans. Directed by Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie), this is a film in which Sam Rockwell, as Sam Bell, is coming to the end of three lonely years on the moon working for an international mining company.

His only "companion'' has been a computer, GERTY, which is voiced by Kevin Spacey.

But when the only man on the moon is involved in an accident in the field he wakes up, mysteriously, in a bed back inside his moon base.

Whip It, M, is a sporting drama about roller derby in which Drew Barrymore makes her debut as director, while also appearing on-screen as a character with the unlikely name of Smashley Simpson.

The film stars Juno's Ellen Page as a small-town Texas teenager whose mother is determined to turn her into a beauty queen, but the teen secretly prefers competing in a roller derby league.