The film 'The House Bunny', this week's big new release, tells the story of Shelley Darlington, a Playboy bunny who has to deal with the ignominy of being kicked out of the Playboy Mansion.
Darlington (played by 'Scary Movie actress Anna Faris) is ejected from Hugh Hefner's legendary Hollywood mansion on her 27th birthday - for being too old (God help the rest of us!) - and now must try to cope with life in the real world.
One day Shelley was eighty-two year old Hugh Hefner's favourite girl - whatever exactly that means. Then, the next day, she suddenly she finds herself homeless and lacking in the essential survival skills one would imagine a pretty blonde girl might need to survive on the streets of LA.
But worry not - before long Shelley finds herself a new job - and not in the adult entertainment industry either. Shelley diversifies and gets a job as a 'house mother' in a university sorority house (which is, I think, a building where students who share similar lifestyles, or ideas on life, live together on campus).
The 'rub' for poor Shelley is that instead of being in one of the 'cool' sororities she finds herself amongst a bunch of young women who are her absolute polar opposite, and as far from the 'IT' crowd as she ever thought she would be.
In her previous roles Faris has proved quite a funny and likeable actress and expect more of the same here. Much of the humour in 'House Bunny' comes from how the clueless Shelley tries to give 'life lessons' to the much more street-smart college kids.
There is nothing very new here but yet 'House Bunny' should manage to entertain, and raise a few laughs, during its hour and a half run-time.
Also showing at the moment is 'Mirrors', a light horror starring Kiefer Sutherland taking a break from racing against the clock as Jack Bauer in '24'.
Like so many horrors of recent years the inspiration for this flick, we are told, comes from the magical and mysterious Far East - a Korean horror entitled 'Into the Mirror' to be exact.
In this adventure Kiefer stars as a former New York policeman who has since quit the force and has found himself a nice security job looking after an abandoned building - which sounds like a barrel of laughs.
There isn't much left in this big building but remnants from an fire and lots and lots of mirrors.
To someone vain this might be like a musty nirvana but, alas, to poor Kiefer he has more to worry about than looking at this reflection.
That's because the mirrors in this particular building are haunted and everytime he looks in one - intentionally or not - he sees something horrible, scary and a little bit yucky.
When he tells his nice wife that he sees nasty things in the big mirrors at night she thinks he's either gone a bit mad, or that he has been drinking a bit more than a night watchman should.
But Kiefer has to prove to them he's not a mad drunk if he is to save his sanity, and maybe even their lives, before the end of this rather strange and sometimes supernatural, movie.
'Mirrors' might be one of the first big screen outings for young Master Sutherland since he embarked on the '24' gravy-train but it seems to be something of an ill-advised choice and 'Mirrors' asks a lot more questions than it answers.
There are horrific moments in this, and ones that will may you jump and/or, turn away, so 'Mirrors' is released with an '18' certificate.
