Not sure what's in and what's out in the movies this season? You need Kim's guide to all things in vogue...

IN: Dynamic, imaginative, cinematic films with subtitles ("Amelie", "Amores Perros", "Brotherhood of the Wolf", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon")
OUT: Eighties-style Hollywood action heroics, plotless summer blockbusters, sequels and remakes, and TV series spin-offs ("Charlie's Angels", "Planet of the Apes", "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", "The Mummy Returns", "Jurassic Park III")

IN: Reese Witherspoon, Leelee Sobieski, Kirsten Dunst
OUT: Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Denise Richards

IN: Ghosts ("The Sixth Sense", "The Others", "Urban Ghost Story", "Thir13en Ghosts")
OUT: Slashers ("Valentine", "Urban Legends: Final Cut", "The Watcher")

IN: Billy Bob Thornton in a toupée ("The Man Who Wasn't There"); Bruce Willis bald ("Unbreakable")
OUT: Billy Bob Thornton as director ("All the Pretty Horses") and writer ("The Gift"); Bruce Willis in a rug ("The Whole Nine Yards", "Bandits")

IN: Digi-Beta
OUT: CGI

IN: Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel
OUT: Tom Cruise, Ben Affleck
REALLY OUT: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone

IN: Wizards, hobbits, rings, trilogies that end after part three
OUT: Jedi, ewoks, light sabres, making-it-up-as-you-go-along nine (or more) part sagas.

IN: Plot, characterisation, originality
OUT: Explosions, big guns, car chases

IN: "Apocalypse Now Redux", "The Godfather" films on DVD
OUT: Anything Francis Ford Coppola has actually made in the last decade ("Jack", "The Rainmaker")

IN: Steve Coogan
OUT: Adam Sandler

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