The Smurfs 3D attempts to tackle the ultimate question: what DO you do when cuddly blue money-spinners get lodged in your toilet? It turns out the answer is: get self-referential, mother SMURFERS. Harmless, silly fun along the lines of Elf and Enchanted, Smurfs 3D does a fair job of appealing to humans big and small – but it does feel like everyone’s aware that this is fluff and nothing more. Nothing smurf? Smurfing more? You’ll pick it up.

For those of us not living in a Gothic shrine, it has been a long time since The Nightmare Before Christmas introduced us to Jack Skellington. According to Time Burton, the wait for a sequel might be over.

Jeffrey Jones, who played Dean Edward Rooney in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has been sentenced to 250 hours community service for failing to update his entry in a sex offenders register.