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CHRISTOPHER Nolan’s wildly ambitious and achingly beautiful World War II drama is my top film of 2017. The British-American director re-stages 1940’s miraculous escape from three different perspectives – land, sea and air. All three strands begin and end together but each spans a different period of time. For Fionn Whitehead’s stranded soldier Tommy, it’s a week. For Mark Rylance’s Dorset sailor the events last a day. While for Tom Hardy and Jack Lowden’s Spitfire pilots, the ordeal barely lasts an hour. Nolan interweaves his timelines and his perspectives to devastating effect. As this is a film which favours foreground spectacle over character, you’ll need a big TV and powerful speakers to appreciate it in it’s full glory. A must-see film is now a must-buy DVD. LOOKS like 2017

★ will go out with a bang with the new Star Wars tale set to overtake Beauty and the Beast to be the year’s highest grossing movie.

And next year will see another raft of big-budget sequels plus remakes of old favourites heading into the multiplexes.

Here are some of the movies that I’m tipping for box office glory in 2018… Total £ ALDEN Ehrenreich will climb into the Millennium Falcon to play Han Solo in a spin-off reportedly set 10 years before the first Star Wars movie.

He will star alongside Donald Glover (Lando Calrissian), Emilia Clarke (Kira), Woody Harrelson (Beckett), Joonas Suotamo (Chewbacca), Paul Bettany and Thandie Newton in the stand-alone story. After

STEVEN Spielberg takes us back to the future with a sci-fi that is set in 2044 but is chock-full of 80s references. Mark Rylance plays the creator of a CHRIS Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return for the fifth instalment in the dinosaur series. They...