Popcorn and Opinions: April 2

Do you like seeing muscle cars parachute down to the earth from a cargo plane or perhaps watching a car chase high up, inside Abu Dhabi's Etihad Towers? If that's your thing, along with huge explosions and wild stunts, then this film is right up your alley. Even with the untimely death in 2013 of Paul Walker, Furious 7 (as it is also called) still hits all the right gears, leaving us to assume that Furious 8 will be revving up its engine in the near future.

Our favourite asexual, yellow sea sponge is back for a new adventure, but this time it's on land. When the magical, secret formula for the Krabby Patty goes missing, Bikini Bottom is thrown into an apocalyptic tizzy and it's up to SpongeBob and his pals to figure out who the thief is. Kids will appreciate this animated/live action comedy more than adults, but there are a few one-liners that only the big kids will understand. Stars Antonio Banderas as Burger-Beard, the Pirate.

After a Beijing student is sent to the steppes of Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution to teach the locals how to read and write Chinese, he develops a fascination for the hinterland's wolves, which are seen by the Party faithful as a menace that must be destroyed. Wolf Totem is a visually spectacular film but the political undertones that were present in Jiang Rong's novel of the same name have been replaced with a message of environmental sustainability.