Onward - Dragons, unicorns and other fairytale creatures are usually consigned to a mythical past resembling Ancient Greece or Medieval Britain, but the big idea behind Pixar’s latest animation is that they are all still alive and kicking in the US today. Tom Holland and Chris Pratt (better known as Spider-Man and Star-Lord) provide the voices of two elf brothers who go on a road trip – or a magical quest, depending on how you look at it – in an attempt to bring their father back from the dead. Ben Travis says “pure, perfect Pixar – a film with such warmth, whip-smart humour and creative energy that it’s a sheer joy to spend a few hours in its presence”., The Roads Not Taken - The tender and mystical new drama from Sally Potter (Orlando) offers viewers three lives for the price of one. Javier Bardem stars as Leo, a man who has lived in New York since he moved from Mexico 30 years earlier. Now, though, he is suffering from dementia, and while his daughter (Elle Fanning) and ex-wife (Laura Linney) care for him, he dreams of two other lives he could have led, as an author on a Greek island, and back in Mexico with his first love (Salma Hayek). According to David Ehrlich at IndieWire, Potter “draws from her personal experience of caring for her younger brother as he died from early onset Alzheimer’s… she captures the inner tension of loving someone in that state – the heart-breaking friction between presence and absence”., Radioactive - This movie is what you get when one female pioneer directs a biography of another. The director is Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French graphic novelist who found fame with her autobiographical comic, Persepolis, and the animated film adapted from it. The other pioneer is Marie Curie, the Polish-French scientist who won the Nobel Prize twice but was ultimately killed by the radiation she studied. Curie is played by Rosamund Pike alongside Sam Riley as her husband Pierre Curie and Anya Taylor-Joy (star of Emma) as their daughter Irene. “Compelling, creative, thoughtful and undeniably beautiful,” says Alexandra Heller-Nicholas of AWFJ, “This movie confirms Satrapi’s status as one of the most original and important filmmakers working today.”, Sonic - The Hedgehog - Considering that he is famous for his lightning-fast running, The main character has taken a long time to reach cinemas. The Sega video-game character debuted in 1991, but his first film wasn’t due to be released until last September. Then, when a trailer went online in April, the fans complained that he didn’t look right, and the film was delayed by three months while he was redesigned. Now at last we can see a computer-generated character (voiced by Ben Schwartz) being chased by a live-action Dr Ivo Robotnik (Jim Carrey). Let’s hope the results aren’t quite as mind-bogglingly weird as Pokémon Detective Pikachu, the last Hollywood film to be based on a Japanese game., A Beautiful day in the Neighborhood - The second film in as many years about universally-beloved children’s TV presenter Fred ‘Mister’ Rogers, this is warm, wise and sophisticated. This biography-of-sorts centres specifically on the friendship between an aged Rogers and the journalist Tom Junod, who is fictionalised as Lloyd Vogel, played by Matthew Rhys. But it is Tom Hanks as the sunny optimist Rogers who is a real draw in a “rich and subtle” performance writes Caryn James. Meanwhile director Marielle Heller “gives the film a distinctive style”., 1917 - Two young soldiers are given a mission that could save the lives of 1,600 others – including one of their own brothers. Sam Mendes shot it in long takes, and they were edited together to give the impression that the whole film is a single, action-packed shot. “I just wanted the audience to be part of every second of the journey with them,” Mendes told Entertainment Weekly. This movie is “tense, exhilarating and profoundly moving,” writes Caryn James, calling it “one of the most stirring films of the year”., Once upon a time in ... Hollywood - The ninth film from Quentin Tarantino is set in Los Angeles in the swinging 60s and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as a fictional declining actor and his stunt double, and Margot Robbie as the very real Sharon Tate. At nearly three hours long, this marathon love letter to Hollywood’s golden years “could be his late-career masterpiece: powerfully funny, surging with cinematic adrenaline and strewn with delectable period detail,” wrote Robbie Collin for The Telegraph. Just don’t tell anyone the ending., Parasite - Bong Joon-ho’s movie “is a black comedy, a social commentary, an action thriller and a bloodbath, all rolled into one,” said BBC Culture’s Emma Jones. The South Korean movie maker’s genre-bending seventh feature-film explores the dynamics of class through the intersecting lives of two families, one living in poverty, another in luxury. The son, Ki-woo, becomes a tutor at the rich family’s mansion, and is determined to share his new lifestyle with his parents and sister., Green Book - This movie is based on a true story. Tony Lip and Don Shirley were real people, and the movie grounds their journey to the South in interesting historical details. Don’s record company, having booked him on a tour through several southern states, hires Tony to serve as a bodyguard as well as a chauffeur, getting Don Shirley from gig to gig safely throughout the musician’s eight-week tour. The book reference in the title provides black travelers with information about “safe” places to stay and to eat while they travel. It deals with racism and homophobia but still has a fairytale, fantasy feel to it. This is a film about friendship as much as it is about civil rights. Tony will overcome his prejudices while Don will learn not to be quite such a cultural snob., Mulan - It’s another live-action remake of a classic Disney cartoon, but it looks as if it could be worlds away from Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. Based on the Chinese legend of a girl (Liu Yifei) who disguises herself as a man so that she can join the imperial army, it doesn’t have any of the songs from the terrific 1998 film, let alone a sarcastic dragon voiced by Eddie Murphy.,

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