Wreck-It Ralph (PG, 97 mins) ****
Featuring the voices of John C Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Jack McBrayer
Wreck-It Ralph (voiced John C Reilly) is the bad guy in a game called Fix-It Felix Jr, which has stood the test of time in an arcade. However, after years of destruction, Ralph yearns to be the hero for once. So Ralph abandons Felix and the other residents of his computerised world for a futuristic first-person shooting game called Hero’s Duty. Wreck-It Ralph is a feel-good computer-animated rollercoaster that leaves us unabashedly grinning from ear to ear, using a fictitious coin-operated arcade game as the backdrop to the pixellated characters’ uplifting journey of self-discovery. Children will squeal with glee at the turbo-charged action sequences; grown men, meanwhile, will shed silent tears into their popcorn as the film gently shifts through the emotional gears.
Flight (15, 108 mins) ****
Starring Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle, Bruce Greenwood, John Goodman, Tamara Tunie, Nadine Velazquez, Brian Geraghty, Melissa Leo
Following a night of excessive boozing, Captain William “Whip” Whitaker (Denzel Washington) takes charge of a SouthJet flight to Atlanta alongside co-pilot Ken Evans (Brian Geraghty). En route, the airplane suddenly hurtles towards the ground at terrifying speed. Whip is forced to perform a daredevil manoeuvre to halt the rapid descent before crash-landing in a field. A subsequent investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, led by Ellen Block (Melissa Leo), threatens to expose Whip’s alcoholism. Flight is a provocative drama that refuses to cast judgment on the central character as he repeats past mistakes and attempts to dodge the repercussions of his reckless actions.
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