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Whip It! (12A)

Dir: Drew Barrymore
Bringing punk roller derby together with 21st century feminism – go Drew Barrymore! Actually, the star of this is Juno’s Ellen Page, Drew’s only the director and acting support. Ellen plays Bliss, a young girl from a backwater town. Her mother wishes success for her, it’s just that her idea of success is winning the local beauty pageant. Not quite Bliss’s. So when she sneaks off
to the big city with her best mate and stumbles across a world of celebrated individuality at the roller derby, it’s not long before she’s trying out for a spot herself in raggle taggle underdog team the Hurl Scouts. Renaming herself
Babe Ruthless Bliss soon finds herself up against rivals like Iron Maven (Juliette Lewis) and falling for a boy in a band (Landon Pigg – real name!), making life all the more complicated still. Adventures in the big city. Coo.
Showing at Odeon

Wall-E (U)

Director: Andrew Stanton

Pixar blitz the opposition in this animated masterpiece. The story follows itty-bitty robot Wall-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) who discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE.

With a host of superbly imagined characters and a lead character who utters no more than three words throughout, this is classic Pixar tomfoolery. Chuck in a whole bucket of cuddles, a refreshing dose of surreal humour, a touching environmental message and a race across space and you have pure, unadulterated cinematic pleasure.
5/5

Showing at Cineworld and Worthing
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Cert: PG – Director: Mark Osborne and John Stevenson

This latest effort from super studio Dreamworks is a CG-animated comedy about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda called Po, who must become a kung fu master in order to save his furry friends from the villainous snow leopard, Tai Lung. What it lacks in detail it makes up for in humorous sight gags, gleeful abandon and Jackie Chan.

Showing at Cineworld

Cert: 12A – Director: Peter Berg

Since directing the hilariously cynical Very Bad Things in 1998, Berg has been making gruff machismo efforts like Friday Night Lights and The Kingdom. This time he’s a bit more tongue-in-cheek as Will Smith plays a hard-living superhero who enlists the help of Jason Bateman’s PR guru to help repair his damaged public image. A joyfully irreverent and original take on the superhero genre.

4/5

Showing at Cineworld and Odeon