MOVIES: Finding great fantasy prior to Lord of the Rings, also exposing a preacher and gunning for a drug lord
And: a very realistic picture of drug addiction in a family
Entertainment
MOVIES about saving the rainforest, Idris Elba up against one angry lion and one man's love story amid dementia
Also: an unusually truthful film about young women and sex
MOVIES: about millennials' problems, a sky-borne thriller and a call to dare fate
Also saving the rainforest, opposing arranged marriage and partying angry
Brad Pitt on a crazy train, Ron Howard at a cave rescue and a space alien in Indigenous culture
Also Indigenous/settler contact in a long lost opera and frazzled times running a restaurant
MOVIES: When even super-heroes need rescuing, a high-school is tricked and thoughts turn to vengeance
Also small films from Canada and the U.K. with high goals
MOVIES: Glitzy Becoming a Queen, paradise spoiled in Costa Brava and Buddhist sci-fi in Karmalink
Also love in and around volcanos and a new, not-improved Gulliver
MOVIES: Summer action, a good summer read, Jane Austen, Leonard Cohen's most famous song
Also Jane Austen's Persuasion, Mrs. Harris's fantasy, a growing up tale and a dog tale among cats
MOVIES: Minions outdone by a mollusk named Marcel and the Regency era lives again with Mr. Malcolm's List
Also: current world events foreseen in a thriller and and life in Paris as we rarely see it
MOVIES: A strong line up this week with Elvis, Emma, The Long Rider and more
Including The Man from Toronto, Inuit girls battling aliens and Ethan Hawke as “The Grabber”
MOVIES: a Toy Story off-shoot, effervescent music in New Orleans and Peter Pan's story reimagined
Also two fantasies about Big Pharma and two British comedies
Top Gun soars; Emergency kicks racism through teen comedy and Memoria spins a cool mystery
Also: the joys of community bookstores and Anthony Hopkins in one of his lesser works
Your Downton Abbey friends are back; a Parisian couple struggles with old age and a visionary offers wise words to live by
Also: a cryptic view of Men, an Indigenous fight for land, and mild fun x2 from Disney
Movies: Colin Firth in wartime, a French student and the abortion law and Cinderella's most alternate version ever
Also: a nifty modern western and contrasting documentaries: Navalny and Doug & the Slugs