Get Him To The Greek 15

104 mins

AFTER years of dizzying success, rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) releases the album African Child, which is lambasted by critics.

Soon after, he breaks up with girlfriend Maggie Q (Rose Byrne) and falls into disrepute in London. During a pitch meeting with crazed record company supremo Sergio (Sean Combs), underling Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) hits upon the brilliant idea of a tenth anniversary comeback concert to celebrate Snow’s most famous live outing at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.

Green has the task of getting Snow to the gig, but unfortunately, Aldous loves to party, leading to a series of debauched encounters that jeopardises Aaron’s relationship with his girlfriend, Daphne (Elisabeth Moss).

Get Him To The Greek is a filthy-minded road movie pairing a sweet, lovable everyman with a swaggering lech.

Rapport between the leads is lukewarm.

Writer-director Nicholas Stoller contrives some sporadically hilarious sequences including a hallucinogenic brawl at a Las Vegas casino, and the songs and music videos for Aldous and Jackie Q are a foul-mouthed delight. However, he also pads out the running time with some dull interludes.

Predators 15

102 mins

TENACIOUS mercenary Royce (Adrien Brody, above) wakes in the sweltering heat of a jungle, where he stumbles upon other people in a similar disoriented state, including Israeli Defence Force sniper Isabelle (Alice Braga).

Reconnaissance reveals that the strangers are stranded on an alien world with limited ammunition, at the mercy of a new breed of Predator, which is more cunning than before.

Brody imposes himself physically on the film, losing his shirt to flex muscles in the climactic showdown, but there is no emotional component to the role and he delivers the leaden dialogue in a monotonous growl.

The Pacific 15

540 mins

EIGHT-DISC box set of the harrowing wartime mini-series made by the team behind Band Of Brothers, unravelling the fates of three Marines during the Pacific War based on the memoirs of these men or those who served with them.

Corporal Eugene “Sledgehammer”

Sledge (Joseph Mazzello) and the 1st Division land on Guadalcanal, followed by Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone (Jon Seda) and the 7th Division.

The ten-part series builds to the dramatic events at the Battle of Iwo Jima and the eventual surrender of the Japanese.