This week's movie guide

Writer-producer Adele Lim, who worked on the script for Crazy Rich Asians, now makes her feature directing debut with Joy Ride - a funny and brash Asian-American comedy about four women leaving the US for a trip to the Chinese homeland. Joy Ride is showing at the Odeon Multiplex.

Dome Cinema

■ Sugar and Stars

Film based on the autobiography of champion pastry chef Yazid Ichemrahen. From the time he was a child, raised between foster homes and group homes, Yazid has had one big passion — pastry making. His dream is to work with the greatest pastry chefs and become the best. In French, with subtitles.

■ Country Cabaret

A dairy farmer in danger of going broke sees a dazzling nightclub performance and decides to save his farm by turning his big old barn into a country cabaret. All goes well until his traditionalist grandfather steps in, out to put an end to such follies. In French, with subtitles.

Odeon Multiplex

■ Joy Ride

When Audrey’s business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo’s eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are. Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu star in a road trip comedy that is the directorial debut of screenwriter Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians).

■ Insidious: The Red Door

Josh Lambert heads east to drop off his son Dalton at school. However, Dalton’s college dream soon becomes a living nightmare when the repressed demons of his past suddenly return to haunt them.

■ Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team set out to track down a terrifying new weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most. Stars Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales and Rebecca Ferguson.

■ No Hard Feelings

Jennifer Lawrence stars as a woman who needs money fast and who sees an advert from parents wanting a “date” for their 19-year-old son.

■ Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

When a new threat emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots must team up with a faction of Transformers known as the Maximals to save Earth.

■ Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a dial able to change the course of history.

■ Elemental

Computer-animated romantic comedy-drama produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios.

■ The Flash

The Flash uses his superpowers to go back in time to change the past. His attempt to save his family changes the future and traps him in a reality in which General Zod has returned. The Flash must coax an ageing Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian.

■ The Little Mermaid

New star Halle Bailey as Ariel and old favourite Melissa McCarthy as Ursula help make Rob Marshall’s remake of a Disney classic a hit.

■ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Teenage graffiti artist Miles Morales, who has taken over as the Spider-Man of his universe after the death of his reality’s Peter Parker, is asked by Spider-Woman to help save every universe of Spider-People from the Spot, who could cause a catastrophe.