The Last Song ***½You (don’t) wait ages for a movie adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel, then two come in the space of a fortnight - firstly, the somewhat inexplicably popular Dear John starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, and now The Last Song starring Miley Cyrus and (if rumours

Date Night ****Last month the awful Jennifer Aniston/Gerard Butler starrer The Bounty Hunter attempted to combine aspects from the romance, comedy and action genres. Suffice to say, despite solid credentials from its cast and director, the attempt was a complete disaster with the film failing to provide anything of value

The Joneses ***It has been estimated that the average person sees 20,000 adverts in a single year. Marketing is a key part of everyday life that, try as you might, cannot be avoided, with advertising appearing pretty much everywhere - on television, in cinemas, in magazines and newspapers, on buses

Dear John **½Adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels are just the kind of films that separate most film critics from the average moviegoer. Past Sparks adaptations such as A Walk to Remember, The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe proved relatively successful at the box office