We've got you covered if you're going to the cinema this weekend - check out what's worth checking out in our movie review round-up.
Horrible Bosses 2 - 2.5/5
Director: Sean Anders
Starring: Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston, Chris Pint, Christoph Waltz, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx
15A
If you're in the market for an undemanding, relatively amusing way to while away a couple of hours, then Horrible Bosses 2 could be just the ticket.
The follow-up to 2011's hit comedy sees hapless trio Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day) attempt to escape the shackles of the 9-5 slog by becoming their own bosses and making millions.
They devise the 'Shower Buddy' and after a disastrous appearance on daytime TV, somewhat incongruously get a contract to make 100,000 units of their invention from shady CEO Burt Hanson (Christoph Waltz).
Ah but there must be a catch - and there is...
Read Sarah McIntyre's full review here
The Possibilities are Endless 3/5
Director: Edward Lovelace and James Hall
Starring: Edwyn Collins, Grace Maxwell, William Collins, Yasmin Paige
12A
One Sunday evening in 2005, Edwyn Collins, former front-man of the band Orange Juice and successful solo musician - 1994's A Girl Like You was his biggest hit - suffered a cerebral haemorrhage, a burst blood vessel in the brain.
Collins' partner Grace Maxwell returned home that day to find Collins on the floor. After six days in intensive care, the musician went into a coma and he would spend six months in hospital.
He was diagnosed with acute aphasia, which meant he was unable to talk coherently. What was more serious was the fact that bleeding might start again in his brain and he could die.
Then began the slow path back.....
Read Paddy Kehoe's full review here
I Am Ali 3.5/5
Director: Clare Lewis
Starring: Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali Jnr, Hana Ali, Maryum Ali, Rahaman Ali
PG
The life of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali is well represented in film and documentaries - but with I Am Ali, director Clare Lewins has differentiated her approach with an emphasis on Ali as a family man and doting father.
The documentary weaves a non-chronological path through Ali's life, from the fateful day he took up boxing to his final fight in 1981, all told through the eyes of his family, friends and closest associates.
It's divided into chapters by interviews and interspersed with archival footage of Ali through the years. What really brings I Am Ali to life is the poignant absence of the boxer himself and the use of private audio recordings he made with his children.
In these intimate conversations, we hear...
Read Sarah McIntyre's full review here
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 3.5/5
Director: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
12A
When I first heard that they planned to do what has become so common in big blockbuster book adaptations, and split the final instalment of The Hunger Games into two films, I wondered how this was going to work. I 'got' it with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; I even, to an extent, 'got' it with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, but for Mockingjay, the least exciting and shortest of the Hunger Games novels, I wondered how they would make this story sustainable over two lengthy films. But lo and behold, they've done it.
Sometimes it's great to be proven wrong.
From the opening scenes we are drawn into Mockingjay - Part 1 with the familiar face of Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence). But it's clear that the events of Catching Fire have deeply affected our heroine...
Read Sinead Brennan's full review here
Get On Up 3/5
Director: Tate Taylor
Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer
12A
You can tell that Tate Taylor's misfiring biopic about the Godfather of Soul would have made more sense as a TV movie within the first few minutes. There is the great James Brown preparing for his legendary appearance in rock 'n' roll concert movie The T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. He is sauntering down a corridor backstage at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and there, lo and behold, are The Rolling Stones looking all Anglo and angular in one dressing room, and there next door, lordy! are those nice, wholesome Beach Boys huddled around, practising their five-part harmonies.
Next thing, we see an appreciative Mick Jagger (the real one produced Get On Up) grooving along and taking notes as Brown whips the crowd into a frenzy on stage. This is the kind of blunt exposition and shorthand that Taylor, director of the truly egregious The Help, uses in this rather sanitised biopic of the greatest funk soul brother of all time.
Instead of real character examination and a natural narrative...
Read Alan Corr's full review here
