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There's too much schmaltz and not enough smashes in this cyborg slugfest

Sentimental sci-fi really is a very worrying genre. And like a horrendous combination of Joe Bugner and Wall-e, the star of this film is a great big boxing robot, a tin man with a lot of heart. He's called Atom, and as Harry Carpenter might have put it: what a gutsy, unassuming automaton Atom is. He's been discovered in a junkyard by Charlie Kenton, played by Hugh Jackman, a washed-up robot trainer and ex-fighter who in this bland futureworld coaches souped-up 'bots to bash the jeepers out of each other. You can tell he's supposed to be washed up, incidentally, because in the first scene he drinks half-finished bottles of warm beer on tumbling out of bed – and after that, of course, never touches another drop.

A quirk of fate means he has to look after his adorable...

The Fighter picked up some Oscars but the main event is in trouble, plus Mike Tyson's latest rehabilitation

Hollywood has always loved boxing - but not enough this time for The Fighter to beat The King's Speech at the Oscars. Still, it picked up a couple of gongs, including one for Welsh actor Christian Bale, who beat Geoffrey Rush for best supporting actor in his role as Mickey Ward's wayward half-brother, Dicky Eklund. "Mate, you're the best," Bale shouted out to Eklund in the audience. "He's had a wonderful story and I can't want to see the next chapter … If you want to be a champion, if you want to train with him, go and meet with him. Go and check him out. He deserves it."

Eklund was not bowled over in a rush of luvvies. There will not be another chapter. He has had his Hollywood moment and will be forgotten soon enough,...