If every village gets an idiot and every dictatorship gets an untouchable leader, what happens when the two combine? Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator.

Yes the man who brought us the mostly-real-life pranks of Borat and Bruno has turned his finely tuned offensive instincts on a fictional North African country in an effort to amuse audiences or spark global warfare ... or both.

Join the Sydney Morning Herald’s Giles Hardie, Rolling Stone’s Matt Coyte and film critic Nathan Lawrence as they risk political exile, radical extremism and temporary blindness by taking a close look at the hits and misses of The Dictator

With Puss in Boots releasing on DVD and Blu Ray, we decided it was high time The Movie Club take a look at Steven Spielberg’sDreamWorks.  Yes this is the studio that brought Mother Goose into the 21st Century with the Shrek franchise (not to mention our furry spin off), made knowing kung fu even cooler than in The Matrix and even gave Woody Allen one of his best onscreen roles to date.