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Sacha Baron Cohen stars as the title character in this outrageous comedy, Baron Cohen's follow-up to Borat. Bruno, a flamboyantly gay man who is obsessed with fashion, is the host of the Vienna-based TV show Funkyzeit when the movie opens. But after some European mishaps, Bruno and his assistant Lutz (Gustaf Hammarsten) head for LA, where Bruno struggles to become a celebrity. When this doesn't go well, he concludes it's because he's gay, and he tries to become heterosexual. But the plot here is mainly a clothesline on which to hang a series of comedy sketches.

Based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult, this weepie stars Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin and Sofia Vassilieva. The film was co-written and directed by Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook). Sara Fitzgerald (Diaz) has two daughters, 11-year-old Anna (Breslin) and the teenager Kate (Vassilieva). Kate has leukemia, and Sara had Anna with the intention that she would be a donor of blood, marrow, etc. to her older sister Kate. But when Kate's kidneys begin to fail, Anna shocks the family by seeing a lawyer (Alec Baldwin) about not having to donate one of her kidneys to her sister.

This is a reboot of the sci-fi franchise that originally starred William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Spock and ran as a TV series in the late 1960s, then later as half a dozen feature films. Kirk and Spock headed up a crew that did intergalactic exploration in a spaceship named the Enterprise. The 2009 film Star Trek is the story of the Enterprise crew's first outing when they were all young. Chris Pine plays Kirk, Zachary Quinto portrays Spock and other young actors play McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, Sulu and Chekov. Via time travel, Nimoy appears as old Spock.