This Week

The Lion King is one of the crowning achievements of Disney's 90s Renaissance. This new live action remake brings eye-popping photorealism to the Hamlet-like story of a lion cub accepting his responsibilities.

What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing.

With electric camp and epic swagger, the early years of Elton John are brought to the screen for an anthemic sing-a-long. Taron Egerton charms as the man once known as Reg Dwight, from his journey to unassuming prog-band keyboardist to bona fide pop royalty. With the help of his mother (Bryce Dallas Howard), lyricist Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) and manager John Reid (Richard Madden), we see the rise of one of the Twentieth Century's true musical icons.

Ritesh Batra, the director of The Lunchbox, returns with this beautifully realised, Mumbai-set would-be-romance. Rafi is a photographer who takes a picture of a stranger in front of The Gateway of India. He pretends it's his girlfriend, but when his grandmother announces her intention to visit, he must magic up the real life young woman.

The first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe following the jaw-dropping events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far from Home find everyone's favourite web slinger (played by Tom Holland) taking a well-earned break on a school trip to Europe.

Jim Jarmusch resurrects the gang for his take on the zombie comedy. Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny and Adam Driver are small town cops working their beat when nature turns on itself, the sun refuses to set and the dead rise from the grave. Putting aside chicken theft, they set out to get to the bottom of these strange ghouls, with the help of Tilda Swinton’s mortician (who’s handy with a samurai sword if needs be).

A collaboration up there with Lennon-McCartney, Yesterday is the brain child of director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) and screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually). As full of soul and heart as any of the Liverpool lads best tracks, this is an hilarious story of finding your own voice.

When Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.

Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love is a beautiful yet tragic love story between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. It was on Hydra in 1968 that director Nick Broomfield, then aged 20, first met Marianne Ihlen. Marianne introduced him to Leonard Cohen's music and also encouraged Nick to make his first film and was an enormous influence on him.

The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening. Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons.