Even with all the Hot Docs talk there's a good chance that you just don't like documentaries, preferring instead to stick to fiction. (Which is interesting, really. We were just reading a piece that was, er, reviewing the last season of Doctor Who, which discussed how long it took people to warm to the idea of "made-up stories.") So you'd probably be better served by some of the other films on offer this week in general.

Not Ben X, though. We were interested to see this as a result of its award-winning status and heavy use of MMORPG Archlord as part of the story, but despite not having any sort of preconceptions we were still sorely disappointed. It's a mess of a film in form (mixing up first-person narrative with TV-style interviews) that tried to tell a foolish, crowd-pleasing story about a bullied kid with Autism moving forward with his life. Except you'd have to be pretty unobservant to not note that the conclusion undoes any goodwill by implying that he could only move on by going completely insane.

It will make you feel weird, so we suggest you skip it.

We've also seen a few other of this week's releases, too (a red letter day indeed) with Jonathan Goldsbie having weighed in on Emotional Arithmetic during TIFF 07, calling it a "highly-polished drama" with some reservations ("the movie plays out exactly as one would expect") and we also saw London To Brighton at TIFF 06, saying that there was "no soul" to the film and in general not really liking it. We do refer to a "battered prostitute" though, which sounds like a delicious entrée from your local cannibal chippy.

This week's big releases are Forgetting Sarah Marshall (pictured, right) and 88 Minutes, obviously. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is another Judd Apatow film, and it's got to the point where we might as well just say when films aren't produced by the fellow. British comedian Russell Brand is in it, which is most interesting to us, and it's been given mostly positive reviews.

88 Minutes though! Blecch. What happened to Al Pacino? He's always had his ups and downs, but we watched Sea of Love on TV a while back and he just had a charisma that stood through the schlock. But this has been getting one star reviews all round! Is it worse than S1m0ne, we wonder?

No matter. Rent Crank, because it's amazing and, honestly, still overlooked as one of the classics in the "oh noes I only have an hour and a half to live!" genre.

And finally, Jet Li and Jackie Chan! Together at last! In Forbidden Kingdom! Except it's in a western-orientated mainstream wire-fu film. Oh well, could still be good!

Oh. Apparently "Li pees in Chan’s face." So no, then.