The film Juno has also been picking up a lot of good press and with good reason. Directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking), it's a refreshing comedy drama about a bright young teen Juno MacGuff (Page), an unconventional sparkily, cool brunette who bored one afternoon, decides to have unmemorable first-time sex with nerdish, spiny, teen athlete Bleeker (Michael Cera).

Being teenagers neither is prepared for what comes next - Juno getting pregnant. Juno falls back on best mate Leah (Olivia Thirlby) and opting against abortion, decides she'll have the baby and then give it away to a set of parents of her choice who can't have a baby of their own.

Sounds simple, but Juno is going to have to face various hurdles. Firstly to tell her parents, then to tell the 'father' Bleeker, then to find the perfect couple, and then to work her way through a pregnancy whilst still at school.

Juno is a beautifully created human comedy that will hook you early on merely because the lines of the script contain some brilliant put-downs for the wisecracking Juno, dialogue which doesn't seem overly contrived. The clever script is the work of blogger Diablo Cody (Candy Girl).

What is particularly touching is the relationship between Juno and Bleeker. Like in Gregory's Girl, this is no polished teen romance, it's played out between two youngsters in all its awkward gawkiness by youngsters uncertain of themselves and learning how to find maturity as they go along. It's believable and well-played, but that's not the only relationship that comes off well in front of the camera.

Equally interesting is Juno's interaction with the couple she intends to give the baby to, Mark and Vanessa (Garner) is pleasant enough, but also slightly cold and offish. Mark though is a different fish altogether. He's a successful thirty-something ads-producer going through the angst of not wishing to see that his younger hip years have passed him by. Hitting it off with the young Juno, they find they share unorthodox indie music tastes, and Mark begins to feel young again around Juno in a way that will force him to look at his cosy lifestyle more closely.

Juno first and foremost is great fun. It's easy to identify with lead Juno MacGuff merely because she is a feisty, livewire young thing. It's likely you'll laugh out loud at many of the lines (whatever your gender) and just enjoy following Juno's early life-changing experience. Ellen Page provides the right mix of making Juno spirited without making her turn-off beligerent and equally good is Michael Cera as the shy, offbeat, thinking 'other half' Bleeker.