In adapting Mexican American astronaut José Hernández’s memoir “Reaching for the Stars”, Director Alejandra Abella traces the remarkable journey from child migrant farm worker to NASA engineer and candidate for a place on the space shuttle.

In 2013, Tim Ballard and a team of former agents left the US Department of Homeland Security to form Operation Underground Railroad, a private foundation that assists international governments and US law enforcement in dismantling criminal trafficking organisations that target children.

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Unintended comedy paces the boredom-inducing banality of this follow-up to a 2018 feature about the accidental unleashing of an outsized prehistoric shark.

Just as its protagonist had his highs and lows, so Christopher Nolan’s three hour-long film Oppenheimer has its strong passages and weaker chapters.

In a hardscrabble neighbourhood of 1967 Dublin, best friends Lily (Maggie Smith) and Eileen (Kathy Bates) excitedly prepare to journey to the sacred destination in the company of a third pal, Dolly (Agnes O’Casey).

For Jim Caviezel, portraying Ballard – and replicating his dramatic real-life rescues of enslaved children – is a role second only to that of playing Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, with a similarly compelling mission.

With Ford now on the verge of his 81st birthday comes Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Disney). How does this fifth and presumably final outing for the nonchalantly heroic protagonist measure up to its generally illustrious forebears?

Using technology not available in the waning days of the Cold War, director Rob Marshall and his team serve up a charming fresh take on the timeless story.

The 10th direct instalment of the “Fast & Furious” car-racing franchise features the clan’s patriarch, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel), going up against Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa), the scion of a Brazilian drug-dealing dynasty.

Star Russell Crowe brings verve to his portrayal of Father Amorth. Genial and fond of a joke, the cleric is nonetheless never frivolous. The film starts off promisingly enough but eventually becomes overheated and lurid.