The Squid and the Whale News

With a presidential election scheduled in 2012, there will be much said about "family values." Friday Night Flicks, the Belfast Free Library's free movie series, will start the year with three films that focus on the often-muddled state of the American family.

It's not in cinemas until next October, but RTE TEN is giving you a look at what you can expect from the new animated family comedy, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted .

A couple years before Jesse Eisenberg hit his commercial watershed moment as the star of The Social Network and Zombieland , he was starring in smaller indie films like The Squid and the Whale and not above making a brief cameo in the completely forgotten low-budget horror movie Camp Hell as a favor to some friends involved in its production.