Let’s face it, the majority of people attending the ANU Film Group have, at one time or another, been totally addicted to the mobile game Angry Birds.

If you haven’t played it, it’s very simple. You use a sling shot to shoot targets or to initiate chain reactions to knock over targets. The ingenious part is the targets are bright green pigs, and the ammo you use to hit them are birds. Angry birds. That don’t fly. Which is why you need the sling shot. It’s cute, imaginative, and it’s incredibly addictive.

Angry Birds became so massive, that when I heard that they were releasing a film, I was not at all surprised, but was left wondering how they could make it all work in the context of an actual narrative. But they do.

In an island paradise, populated entirely by happy, flightless birds, three social outcasts, Red (Sudeikis), Chuck (Gad), and Bomb (McBride) have been sentenced to anger management classes as punishment for assorted and hilarious crimes. When the island is visited by mysterious, yet obviously dodgy, green pigs, Red, Chuck and Bomb have to team up to figure out what the pigs are up to.

The Angry Birds Movie has a similar feel to Despicable Me, with isolated social outcasts, piggy minions, morals learned, and hearts warmed. It has a huge cast of very funny people, making for a cute and fluffy family film which the kids will love and plenty of adult humour to keep the grown-ups entertained.

A film by Jodie Foster starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts: a sure-fire bet. Clooney is the Money Monster giving stock tips on TV and Roberts is his producer. Just another formulaic TV program until a nobody, who has bet his life savings and his mother’s inheritance on a stock that has mysteriously tanked invades the TV studio, takes Clooney hostage and goes live on air.

Events happen in real time as Roberts sets out to find answers and uncover the truth behind the stock crash, all as Clooney sweats it out and temporises with the hostage-taker in the TV studio, doing anything he can to stay alive.

Quite a novel scenario and very contemporary. Regrettably, perhaps, the scenario is all too lifelike and we end up with a conclusion that some might deem unworthy of the powerful story preceding it.

We are invited to re-evaluate, along with the Clooney and Roberts characters, our views on TV and entertainment. The film has a lot to say about how we live now, but the film is 90 minutes of entertainment – a Catch-22.