THE weather continues to disappoint us and people are looking for inside activities so we are nicely busy. We are continuing to change films around so that we keep a varied programme, while keeping the films that are still bringing audiences in. Milton Rooms Music in the Studio has Blackheart on Friday.

Films this week

Coming back for this week is How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG and number five in the top 10) for a run.

What If (15) is the rom-com I mentioned last week starring Daniel Radcliffe as Wallace, and Chantry played by Zoe Kazan, who when they meet at a party find that they have great chemistry together as friends. As they spend more time together they experience romantic feelings, while they find out if men and women can control their desires simply enjoying a platonic relationship.

Lucy (15) is played by Scarlett Johansson and is forced to become a drug mule. But the drug goes into her system, transforming her into a fighting machine. She can absorb knowledge instantaneously, is able to move objects with her mind and doesn’t feel pain and other discomforts.

Morgan Freeman plays Professor Norman. I have been trying to think about what I couldn’t place last week in that it has a feel in places of the Matrix.

Planes (U and number seven in the top 10) has been a little quieter than expected but really enjoyed by those who have seen it.

The Nut Job (U and number eight in the top 10) is with us for another week.

The Inbetweeners 2 (15 and, same as last week, number one in the top 10). We watched this one last night. I was optimistic and had trepidations about watching this film and I have to say that while it was bawdy, crude and disgusting, it was touching and realistic for what might be a group of misfits growing up. Most of all though, Inbetweeners 2 is entertaining with continual laugh-out-loud situations.

Some of the disgusting scenes I had to look away were just because of what it was and how they had gone a bit overboard with.

There is continual “F’ing” and quite a lot of “Blinding” and more but for some out of control “Youff” (Youth ;-) ) it probably represents fact (not that I was EVER like that honest!) The scenarios that are built-up in the film are strangely believable and verge on all too close to what may have happened, as well as the way that they get out of them, or how they are helped out of them by others.

I really enjoyed Inbetweeners 2, as did Caroline, but it has to be accepted that it is a film in its genre and has a lot of nudity (mostly male), vulgar language, disgusting scenes and general painful scenes of some over-confident young people growing up and failing in that way that gangly and out of sync youngsters do.

I thought that it is debatable whether it should be an 18 or not and I suspect that the rules are right and a 15 certificate is adequate, but I would say that it is up to the line of an 18 certificate. Some of those leaving also said that they would not have issues letting their 15-year-olds watch it.

So be warned, it is a modern film for the age in which it is made – not necessarily different from the school yard – but I have forgotten what that is like. Inbetweeners 2 is thoroughly entertaining.

Looking further ahead

Hector and the Search For Happiness (15) stars Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette and Stellan Skarsgard, among others, and is a romantic comedy drama in which a psychiatrist, played by Simon Pegg, sets out on a global search for the secret of happiness.

Sex Tape (15) stars Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz and is a fun romp where a couple make an interesting tape for their own consumption and it gets uploaded to The Cloud, something that no one understands, and it spreads among others who know them.

Live stage productions

Shakespeare’s Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream is on August 24, at 7pm. I quite fancy watching this and be very judgmental of a proper actor playing Egeus – my first line in the production in the Market Place in Malton (directed by Nick Bagnall now their first permanent associate director at Liverpool Everyman andPlayhouse) was “Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke” I have no idea how you deliver that line meaningfully. Anyway we have a few seats available at the time of writing. I think I will have to hope for an Encore.

RSC Live: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (12A) is on September 3, at 6.45pm. Valentine and Proteus are best friends until they both fall in love with the Duke’s daughter Silvia. But Proteus is already sworn to his sweetheart Julia at home in Verona, and the Duke thinks Valentine is not good enough for his Silvia. There are plenty of seats available “in all parts”.

The following day (September 4) NT Live: Medea (12A) shows at 6.45pm. Again, there are plenty of seats available. The story of Medea is mentioned in the myths of Jason and the Argonauts.

Medea is a wife and a mother who, for the sake of her husband, Jason, leaves her home and bears two sons in exile. When Jason abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children, she is cornered and begs for one day’s grace.

We have added NT Live: Frankenstein (15) with Benedict Cumberbatch playing the Creature on Thursday, October 30. If you remember Benedict Cumberbatch was more popular than Johnny Lee Miller as the Creature last year and there has been interest in this performance both from people who missed it last year and from those who just want to see it again. The Encore performance of Billy Elliot on October 2, is also proving to be very popular and there are only a few seats available.

Salomé, Wild Salomé, plus live question and answers with Al Pacino (15) shows on September 21, with Stephen Fry interviewing Al Pacino, who plays King Herod, after the performance.

Seats are still available.

Plenty of seats for this show at the time of writing.