COP OUT (15)

VETERAN detective Jimmy Monroe (Bruce Willis) is struggling to make ends meet and to pay for the exceedingly expensive dream wedding of his daughter, Ava (Michelle Trachtenberg). So he plans to sell his mint condition trading card of Major League Baseball star Andy Pafko to a local dealer but the card is stolen by stoner thief Dave (Seann William Scott). While Jimmy and partner Paul Hodges (Tracy Morgan) hunt for the card, they clash with strait-laced colleagues Hunsaker (Kevin Pollak) and Mangold (Adam Brody) and become unwittingly embroiled in a turf war.

STAR RATING: **

EDGE OF DARKNESS (15)

MARTIN Campbell of Casino Royale fame directs this film version of the British TV series starring Mel Gibson as a police detective investigating the death of his daughter and uncovering her secret life and evidence of a government conspiracy. Showing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold on Saturday and Wednesday.

STAR RATING: ***

FOUR LIONS (15)

OMAR (Riz Ahmed) is a devout Muslim, who is enraged by the West's treatment of his spiritual brothers and sisters. He spearheads a terrorist cell in the heart of multi-cultural northern Britain with best friend Waj (Kayvan Novak) and paranoid, white Islamic convert Barry (Nigel Lindsay), who believes passers-by are undercover police officers gathering intelligence on the group. The jihadists debate potential targets for their deadly payload with Faisal (Adeel Akhtar), who is training crows to fly through windows carrying primed explosives in their beaks. Omar brings the men together to pose as charity fun runners in the capital, with the aim of blowing themselves up on the streets and taking innocent members of the public with them.

STAR RATING: ***

FURRY VENGEANCE (PG)

DAN Sanders (Brendan Fraser) works for a real estate company which is developing a small community in the forests of Oregon. Sanders transplants his teacher wife Tammy (Brooke Shields) and teenage son Tyler (Matt Prokop) to the back of beyond while he completes the year-long project. However, a tenacious racoon and his forest friends, including a rowdy bear, fight back to protect their stomping ground, lighting the touch paper on a titanic battle between man and beast.

STAR RATING: ***

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18)

NIELS Arden Oplev directs this adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s best- seller about a journalist who sets out to find a missing girl and uncovers a network of serial killers. Showing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold from Tuesday-Thursday.

STAR RATING: ***

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (15)

PARTY guy Lou (Rob Corddry) attempts to commit suicide by choking down exhaust fumes in his garage, and childhood pals Adam (John Cusack) and Nick (Craig Robinson) rush to his hospital bedside. The three men decide to return to the Kodiac Valley skiing resort which was the site of their greatest triumphs when they were teenagers. Adam drags along techno-savvy nephew Jacob (Clark Duke) and the four men drive to the snow-laden mountains where the hotel is now in disrepair. Thankfully the hot tub still works and after a night of heavy drinking under the stars, the drunkards wake to find that they have been sent back to the decade of Adam, Nick and Lou's youth.

STAR RATING: ***