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CHIPS Cert 15, 100 mins by Charlotte O’Sullivan

IN WHICH the TV series that no one in Britain gave much of a toss about gets a big-screen adaptation. Basically, this is an origin rigin story, with a maverickk FBI agent who knows nothing about motorbikes (the brilliant Michael Peña) forced to adopt a new identity — Ponch — and infiltrate the California Highway Patrol. Naturally, Ponch has an unwitting ng partner, Jon Baker (Dax Shepard), who’s the chalk to his cheese. Shepard (also the film’s director) has gangly charm and the chemistry between the leads creates some daft but involving moments. There are lots of good people in the cast (Maya Rudolph, Kristen Bell), but too many of the gags are lazy and/or have a nasty edge. GRGRIPPING, hilarious US ddocumentary. Jenny Gage and her cinematographer hhusband, Tom, spent three years hanging out with a group of New YoYork girls, all in their late teenteens and all middle class but withwit very different family set-ups.ups SomeSo are about to go to college. One — the wretched and wrathful Ginger — decides to take a year out. These kids must love Gage. Without seeming to perform for the cameras, they talk about private stuff (two of the girls have self-harmed) and allow some pretty excruciating altercations to be captured on film. By the end you adore them all. Whatever your age and gender, it’s stirring stuff. WHAT a month for “gay moments”. First, LeFou in Beauty and the Beast. Now one of the helmeted, magiccoin-wielding heroes in this children’s franchise reboot, aka Yellow Ranger, who admits she’s having “girlfriend troubles”. Fans of the Nineties TV series may wonder what the $100 million budget was