CINEMA: Regal Cinema shows the latest blockbusters

Today is the last chance to see a spaceship full of ray gun-wielding extra-terrestrials, intent on invading Earth, in John Schultz's out-of-this-world family comedy. Aliens In The Attic (PG) is a special effects-laden adventure in which a group of kids save mankind, armed with items from their toy cupboard. High School Musical starlet Ashley Tisdale is almost surplus to requirements until the alien butt-kicking finale.

It's also the last chance to catch My Sister's Keeper (12a) today. Cameron Diaz headlines as a mother seeking to save her daughter by any means possible in the big-screen adaptation of Jodi Picoult's challenging novel My Sister's Keeper, but it's Abigail Breslin and Sofia Vassilieva who steal the show as her suffering kids. After enduring years of painful operations to save her sister, who next needs a kidney transplant, the 11-year-old Anna (Breslin) takes her parents to court to sue for the rights to her own body. A moral dilemma for the modern age.

Opening tomorrow is G-Force (PG), which proves that if you want a job done properly, hire a team of guinea pigs. G-Force is a light-hearted romp laden with gizmos including jet-propelled rodent balls that allow the cuddly characters to swerve through traffic in the film's centrepiece action sequence.

"We need back-up! Tell them we're in pursuit of three guinea pigs in mobile spheres," barks an FBI agent, charged with stopping the furry operatives, as director Hoyt H Yeatman Jr keeps the tone light.

The turbo-charged screenplay panders to the short attention-span of children by packing as many thrills and spills and poop gags into 88 minutes as is possible.

However, there are concessions to parents, such as a verbal nod to Die Hard when one heroic guinea pig attacks a killer espresso machine yelling, "Yippee ki-yay coffeemaker!"

In the battle against terrorism, governments are thinking outside of the box.

Also opening tomorrow is 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.