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Lily Allen divides people, plain and simple. Some people think she’s a snarky firecracker who transcends genre, while others view her as nothing more than Katy Perry without the Zooey Deschanel resemblance. There are well-read arguments for both sides, but one thing Allen proves on her sophomore disc is that she can be more mature and eloquent than Perry — but only when she wants to.

The songs about sex and relationships with wildly blunt and inappropriate language that caught the eye of many people on her first album, Alright, Still, gets a little tiresome here. “Not Fair,” with its spaghetti western beat complete with banjo solo could be a sequel to Alright, Still’s “Not Big.” About a guy who is great in every aspect of their relationship except for his selfishness in the bedroom, it gets a little cringe-worthy: “Oh I lie here in the wet patch in the middle of the bed / I’m feeling pretty damn hard done by, I spent ages giving head.” Announced to be the second single, I can’t wait to see how that couplet works on radio.

The album’s two lead-off tracks, “Everyone’s at It” and “The Fear” are acceptable, though not distinctive, which tackle, respectively, the prevalence of drugs and the spoiled culture of young female celebrity (“I want loads of clothes and fuckloads of diamonds / I heard people die while they’re trying to find them”). They’re polished, clean and single-ready (indeed, “The Fear” is the record’s first single) but ultimately disposable.

It’s Not Me, It’s You takes a turn for the better on track 5 with the sublime “I Could Say,” starting a block through track 10 of the album’s best songs. Here is where her well-written, offbeat style meets maturity to a satisfying level. “Who’d Have known,” the album’s best track, bears a White Album-era Beatles piano stomp that looks at a budding relationship through a sophisticated lens. It’s followed by the dreamy “Chinese,” which paints a fully realized portrait as well as Lily ever has.

“Slumdog Millionaire” was the big winner at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. The rags-to-riches saga of the Mumbai slums picked up a total of eight Oscars, including best director for Danny Boyle and best picture. Going into the evening, the film seemed an absolute shoo-in, having picked up numerous critic and industry awards. Sunday night, it started winning early and didn’t stop, but alas, the predictable nature of it all made for a listless evening.

Bolt is a 2008 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and is the 48th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animation Studios canon.

The film stars the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Claire Holt, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Greg Germann, Susie Essman and Mark Walton. The film’s plot centers around a small white dog named Bolt who, having spent his entire life on the set of a television series, thinks that he has super powers. When he believes that his human, Penny, has been kidnapped, he sets out on a cross-country journey to “rescue” her. The film is directed by Chris Williams, who previously worked on Mulan and The Emperor’s New Groove.

Bolt was released on November 21, 2008, and received an 85% “Certified Fresh” approval rating from review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes [2] and was rated PG by theMPAA for some mild action and peril, and is Walt Disney Animation Studios’ first computer-animated film to be rated PG since 2000’s Dinosaur. As with earlier CGIDisney films, such as Chicken Little and Meet the Robinsons, Bolt was also distributed in Disney Digital 3-D in the theaters equipped for it.

The film was released in the UK on February 6, 2009 in 3D format on approximately 100 screens, and will be widely released in 2D the following week.