The Milton Rooms hosts the Cajun Festival this weekend with some absolutely astounding bands. If anyone tries to tell you that Cajun music is all eeeee or huuuuurr, they don’t know what they are talking about. Cajun music played at this festival is so exciting and the people who go to dance, or just for the experience, are lovely – a great atmosphere.

The line-up opens on Friday evening with The Wandering Aces who have played two years before and are local (ish – North Yorkshire based) they are an acoustic Cajun band. Then also on Friday there is Dwayne Ego And The Electricians (great name I thought!) “Fantastical Zydeco Creole dance party, with glitter and glitz panache and pizzazz, featuring greatest hits from Mr Dwayne Ego himself” and “A shimmering mirage of some of the best Creole and Zydeco musicians in Europe as you’ve never seen them before”.

On Saturday there is the food market incorporating a Cajun food cooking demonstration as well as a Mardi Gras parade about 12.45pm. Rough Chowder is the next band on around 12.30pm, next on stage in the evening is Zydego Nutz followed by the Bluebell Cajun Dance Band. Both bands have played the festival before and are brilliant.

The music continues on Sunday with The Miri Kools. The band was formed out of a jam session at the festival two years ago and is a down home, front porch unplugged style traditional Cajun music.

They are followed by Bosco Beret “their music has a good time feel, which has resulted in many folk festival and club appearances during the last 18 months, and leaves their audiences with that good time feeling”.

Last on the order is La Gang du Queteux (a French band if that is not obvious). The festival is truly international with bands and audience it attracts.

I have managed two films this week Chappie and “that film” – Fifty Shades of Grey. Chappie (15) I have to say I had high expectations for this film (as did the rest of the team at the Palace), but what a disappointment.

I can usually find something good to say about a film, but Chappie is formulaic and there are lots of those egotistical shouting sections of dialogue where a case is partially put to the boss who says no anyway without asking for clarification.

The robot that is Chappie has a different coloured “ear” put on to it so that we always know that it is Chappie we are looking at. The baddies then turn softies then back again.

The genius engineer designer manages to develop an enormously complicated artificial intelligence program that another program can detect whether it will work or not and the whole film hinges on it.

I would normally say that a bit of suspension of disbelief is necessary, but I was so disappointed about the whole film.

Science Fiction is what I love and this was just so poor in my opinion – making a few twists to the script it could have been a comedy with Leslie Nielson popping up to make it a parody of itself.

Sigourney Weaver is such a brilliant actor (I prefer actress, but I will acquiesce to the modern way), but she just was not in the film enough and had nothing more than bit parts. The same went for the similarly big hitting Hugh Jackman whose character’s ego takes over as a bad guy on the side.

Dev Patel is in the lead role and is also in the lead role in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – two films out at the same time – and just couldn’t give life to the part. The director Neill Blomkamp, who co-wrote the story, is well known for the well-received District 9 (I didn’t like this one either) and Elysium (I liked this one much more). When I was at school, it would have been said that he seems to have done his homework on the bus before school.

There is so much in this film, but it just misses the mark and doesn’t seem joined-up, really rather boring. Even the ending, setting it up for the sequel, is so corny and obvious.

Well, now on to “that film” – Fifty Shades of Grey (18). I must have been in a really funny mood last week because both Caroline and I left the screen saying “that is two hours we will never get back”. We knew it to be a love story, but it was one of those stories that left me cold and disinterested in their lives.

Whether it was trading on the 18 certificate content or what we don’t know, but I hope the next two episodes of the story have a bit more warmth in the characters. It seemed the usual case of people having so much, but it is not buying happiness.

Films from Friday: Still Alice (12A) is a difficult subject to watch, following the effects of someone succumbing to Alzheimer’s – which Julianne Moore was recognised for her Oscar. Chappie (15 and a surprising number four in the top 10), will be with us another week.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG and still number one in the top 10) carries on for another week (and more beyond).

Fifty Shades of Grey (18 and number three in the top 10) carries on for another week with one show a day.

Home (U) Previews only on Saturday/Sunday.

Big Hero 6 (PG and yet again number five in the top 10) continues at the weekend.

Shaun The Sheep Movie (U and yet again number six in the top 10) is staying for another week at weekends.

Coming soon: Insurgent (12A) previews on Thursday next week, for one show. From the Divergent trilogy, it hits the screens properly on March 20 and Beatrice Prior has inner demons to conquer in the fight with the powerful alliance threatening to tear society apart.

Furious 7 (12A tbc) is expected to be the last in the franchise of Fast and Furious after the horrific death of Paul Walker last year. It will be on our screens on April 3.

Live stage productions: Swan Lake is sold out next week. There may be some returns of course.

André Rieu Maastricht Concert 2015 has been added to our schedule on Saturday, July 18. This is the 11th consecutive year of his traditional summer evening concert from the most romantic city square.