Made in Dagenham (2010)

This sexed-up version of events that led to the Equal Acts Payment to pass through the UK Parliament in 1970 is neither funny, nor inspiring. The team that brought you Calendar Girls is responsible for this mess. Nigel Cole's camera couldn't be less boring and Billy Ivory's script ticks as many cliches as it can for a stuttering 2 hours. Sally Hawkins and a criminally underused Richard Schiff are the only things that are really worth anyone's attention.

The Infidel (2010)

  British stand-up David Baddiel-scripted comedy not only shares an actor with East Is East (1999), but also shares its strengths (albeit very mildly) and frustrating weaknesses (in freakish abundance). And until Three Lions (2010) is released, it will fill the vacant spot of self-deprecating Muslim / Jewish (delete as necessary) comedy in our cinemas.

  Omid Djalili (another British comedian who is all the rage on the East Side of the Pond with his ubiquitous TV ads) is the minicab driver, Mahmoud. He is sorta, kinda Muslim - he goes to mosque when he feels like it, he admits to enjoy an occasional pale ale, and he yells "Christ" left and right when he gets angry with London cabbies. After his mother's death he finds out that he was adopted and - shock! horror! - his real name was Sully Shimshilewski (he's Jewish, see?). Amidst this unexpected identity crisis, his son is marrying a girl whose new stepfather is an extremist Muslim cleric who will visit Mahmoud's home and subsequently bless the marriage.