This Week's Cinema

World Trade CenterTim Evans casts his expert eye over this week's new movie releases.

This week: Oliver Stone's eagerly awaited World Trade Center, Adam Sandler in Click and cartoon capers of the fairytale variety in Hoodwinked!

WORLD TRADE CENTER

Certificate: 12     Running time: 129m

What's it about? Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena play two heroic New York cops trapped in the rubble of the city's twin towers in Oliver Stone's unadorned tribute to the victims of September 11.

What's good? Pena and Cage play sympathetically off one another and the immense violence of the terrorist attack is chilling conveyed.

ClickWhat's bad? Director Oliver Stone's straightforward approach risks rendering it merely a disaster movie - albeit one with the plane attacks on the World Trade Center as a terrifying backdrop.

Worth a look? Yes. It's solid film-making... but if you're after a really convincing treatment of the same outrage check out the superior Flight 93.

Click for full skymovies.com World Trade Center review.

CLICK

Certificate: 12       Running time: 103m

Hoodwinked!What's it about? Adam Sandler plays a workaholic family man who chances upon a remote control that can fast-forward, rewind and freeze life itself.

What's good? It's a neat premise, the idea that you can skip certain segments of your life - rows, the boring bits - and fast-forward to something more interesting.

What's bad? In two words - Adam Sandler. The dead hand of his distasteful, oafish goofball routine cripples any comic potential and a decent idea is strangled by ratings-chasing smut.

Worth a look? Only if you're a Sandler fan. And there's plenty of those.

Click for full skymovies.com Click review.

HOODWINKED!

Certificate: U      Running time: 81m

What's it about? The classic fairytale Little Red Riding Hood is retold as a detective yarn with frog-cop Nicky Flippers delving into the alibis and motivations of LRR (Anne Hathaway), grandma (Glenn Close) and a hipster wolf.

What's good? Ostensibly pitched at the kiddies (but, you suspect, also at mum and dad), it lampoons police procedurals with a bit of kung-fu and conspiracy theories thrown in for good measure.

What's bad? The animation's a bit slapdash and things tail off after an hour but there's no denying the comic invention.

Worth a look? Yes. It's far wittier than your normal kid's cartoon and there's splendid voice work, particularly from Benjy Gaither as a mountain goat.

Click for full skymovies.com Hoodwinked! review.