Wet dream

I'm surprised to see Water Lilies - a new film about French teenage lesbians on the cusp of sexual awakening - garnering such universally drooling reviews from middle-aged male film critics. Must be something in the water!

Juno it makes sense

OMG, Juno may just be the schmindiest movie ever: if there’s any justice it’ll be this year’s Napoleon Dynamite/Little Miss Sunshine cross-over indie cult phenomenon. It features an awesomely sweet lead performance from Ellen Page (the eponymous Juno), who has that same gonna-be-a-humongous-star aura of invincibility displayed by Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls (hopefully sans the celebrity hang-ups and tawdry Callum Best trysts).

The soundtrack’s curated by Kimya Dawson from the much-missed Moldy Peaches. It features two of Belle and Sebastian’s greatest songs (‘Piazza, New York Catcher’ and ‘Expectations’) as well as stellar, career-best stuff from the likes of The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, Cat Power and Kimya herself. Best of all, though, it features Sonic Youth’s spine-tingling, otherworldly rendition of the Carpenter’s ‘Superstar’, one of my favourite cover versions.

Read Laura Barton's musings on the Juno soundtrack here.