UNFOLDING over the course of 35 years, The Time Traveler’s Wife recounts a heartbreaking romance between two people who were always destined to meet and fall in love – one of whom suffers from random fits of time-travelling.
Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana star in director Robert Schwentke’s faithful adaptation of the best-selling book by Audrey Niffenegger, which builds to a harrowing finale.
Rating: llll
ALIENS IN THE ATTIC (PG)
A SPACESHIP full of ray gun-wielding extra-terrestrials, intent on invading Earth, meets resistance in a most unexpected form in John Schultz’s out-of-this-world family comedy.
Aliens In The Attic is a special effects-laden adventure in which a group of kids save mankind, armed with items from their toy cupboard.
Rating: lll
BANDSLAM (PG)
BANDSLAM hopes to woo the pre-teen High School Musical crowd, charting the fortunes of a group of high-school misfits who seek glory in their local battle of the bands.
HSM star Vanessa Hudgens is cast in a key role alongside Gaelan Connell, whose lead character blooms from an unhappy target for bullies when he reinvents himself as a cool loner at his new school. Director and co-writer Todd Graff delivers a winning rites of passage story.
Rating: llll
GI JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA (12A)
BASED on the popular, military-themed action figures, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra is an action adventure by numbers from the director of The Mummy and Van Helsing, starring Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Sienna Miller and former Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston.
Aimed squarely at teenage boys with limited attention spans, Stephen Sommers’s all-guns-blazing romp has big weapons, bigger explosions and visual effects-heavy sequences in abundance.
Rating: lll
THE UGLY TRUTH (15)
THE battle of the sexes turns ugly in the new romantic comedy from director Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde, Monster-In-Law), starring Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl.
Uproariously funny in places and politically incorrect to the point of offensiveness in others, The Ugly Truth is as reassuringly predictable as it is unexpectedly potty-mouthed, with a voracious appetite for sex talk that marks it out as distinctly adult fare.
Rating: lll
