DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18)

MILTON (Nicolas Cage) is condemned to purgatory, from where he must watch as his beloved daughter falls into the clutches of demonic cult leader Jonah King (Billy Burke), and is murdered for her baby girl. Jonah intends to use the infant as a sacrifice to raise Satan’s army. “First full moon, she’s dead and all Hell’s gonna walk the Earth,” growls Milton, who breaks out of the underworld to stop the cult leader and rescue his granddaughter. Milton heads for a diner where he flirts with sex-starved waitress Norma Jean (Katy Mixon) and then thumbs a lift with her colleague, Piper (Amber Heard), who is trapped in an abusive relationship. Milton helps to rescue the young woman from the beatings and she joins him on a quest to track down Jonah King and rescue the innocent infant.

STAR RATING: **

I AM NUMBER FOUR (12A)

THE film opens with a night-time chase through a jungle in Kenya, culminating in the grisly demise of a boy. “Number Three is dead,” gasps 15-year-old John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), who lives hundreds of miles away with his guardian Henri (Timothy Olyphant). John looks like any other high school student but he is really an alien from the doomed planet Lorien, hiding on Earth from a destructive rival race called the Mogadorians. These aggressive hunters intend to kill the Lorien refugees in a specific order, and since John is Number Four, he is next on their hit-list. When the Mogadorians finally catch up with John and Henri, they escape to the quaint town of Paradise, Ohio, where John befriends students Sam Goode (Callan McAuliffe) and Sarah Hart (Dianna Agron).

STAR RATING: ***

NO STRINGS ATTACHED (15)

ADAM (Ashton Kutcher), whose father Alvin (Kevin Kline) is a famous actor, works as a lowly TV producer on a show that is cynically jumping on the High School Musical bandwagon. After disastrous previous encounters, Adam stumbles back into the life of medical student Emma (Natalie Portman), who once told him, “People aren’t meant to be together”. They agree that there would be no harm in no-strings-attached sex as and when the need arises. Adam’s friends Eli (Jake M Johnson) and Wallace (Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges) are envious that their buddy has found the perfect woman. Meanwhile, Emma’s housemates – including fellow medical student Patrice (Greta Gerwig) – diagnose imminent heartbreak.

STAR RATING: **

PAUL (15)

BEST friends Graeme Willy (Simon Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Nick Frost) wander dumbstruck around the comic book and popular arts convention, Comic-Con. They meet famous sci-fi author, Adam Shadowchild (Jeffrey Tambor), before embarking on a road trip across America, stopping at locations associated with alien contact including Area 51. En route, Graeme and Clive encounter Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen), a potty-mouthed alien stranded on Earth, who is being hunted by mysterious special agent Zoil (Jason Bateman). The pals agree to help Paul return home, abducting Ruth (Kristen Wiig), the one-eyed daughter of Bible-bashing trailer park owner Father Moses (John Carroll Lynch), on the way.

STAR RATING: ****

TRUE GRIT (15)

“I WAS just 14 years of age when a coward by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down and robbed him of his life,” explains Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) in her opening voiceover. And so Mattie seeks out marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) and hires him to help her track down Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin). A tenacious Texas Ranger called LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) also joins the hunting party.

STAR RATING: ****