

It doesn’t help that the family home has been sold to well-heeled interlopers (Shepherd and Woodvine) as a weekend getaway. Martin continues to eek out a living by selling fish and lobster door-to-door Steven uses their late father’s boat to ferry tourists along the coast. Martin (Rowe, glowering magnificently) and Steven (King) are bickering brothers in a Cornish fishing village. There is heft behind the phantasmagoria and a story that is certain to resonate with many Irish fishing communities. The promising auteur brings the same evocative and ghostly methodology to his extraordinary debut. TBĬinema can still be magic and light! Jenkin achieved a degree of prominence among film anoraks with his 2015 exposé of Cornwall’s housing crisis, shot on a clockwork Bolex cine-camera on monochrome 16mm and developed in a coffee solution. The lush visuals make for a pleasing tourist guide.

And it shines as a travelogue that makes the magical best of its Chinese landmarks, including the Gobi Desert, Huangshan, and the Leshan Giant Buddha. A kaleidoscope of colours, Abominable is the most sensorial family entertainment since the similarly textured A Wrinkle in Time. Yi and her friends name the adorable monster "Everest" and embark on an epic cross-country quest to reunite the creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. Shanghai teen Yi (Bennet) is grieving for her late father and feeling distant from her mother and grandmother when she encounters a Yeti on the roof of her apartment block. Voices of Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Eddie Izzard, Sarah Paulson, Tsai Chin, Michelle Wong. TBĪBOMINABLE ★★★☆☆ Directed by Jill Culton. But its set pieces make for some of the most thrilling scenes of the year. At times the film is so thoughtful and interior, the dialogue sounds like it came from a classy mindfulness app.

The mission: find the father (Jones, as brilliantly mad as a box of frogs) he believed was dead, as said patriarch is believed to be responsible for electrical pulses that may soon destroy Earth. Ad Astra is a ponderous, $80 million epic concerning Major Roy McBride (Pitt, never better), a cool-headed, slow-pulsed, emotionally stunted astronaut who is recruited to journey to Neptune. Gray's seventh feature is part of a strange subgenre, one that covers everything from Solaris to 2001 to Interstellar. 12A cert, gen release, 123 min From the iconic swagger of The Right Stuff to the gals-at-home of Apollo 11, space travel is a butch business. Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland.
