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STAR RATINGS

A world away from the pleasing kids’ cartoon, this big screen venture sees Pat (voiced by Stephen Mangan) audition for a talent competition – Ronan Keating provides his singing voice – to make some cash. As Pat learns to cope with celebrity, a sinister plot is hatched back in Greendale to deliver the post by robot and take over the world. Likely to be too scary for younger children.

Our own Patrick McGoohan (from The Prisoner) stars in this episode as a crooked lawyer, Oscar Finch. Finch kills a former associate who threatens him with blackmail, then stages it to look like a suicide. The police think it’s an open and shut case of self-murder, but Columbo realises the clues don’t add up and are pointing in another direction altogether. The mighty Peter Falk stars.

A cheering British comedy sees Thelma Caldicot (Shirley Valentine’s Pauline Collins) refusing to grow old gracefully after she is packed off to a rest home by her ungrateful son (Dr Who himself, Peter Capaldi) and daughter-in-law. There, Mrs C finds new purpose, starting with campaigning for a change in the home’s daily menu.

This fun-filled Marvel blockbuster stars a buff Chris Pratt as brash traveller Peter Quill, whose adventures in outer space form the basis of the plot. After he steals an orb coveted by a villain, Quill finds himself chased to the outer limits by the bad guys as he’s saddled with an unlikely team of allies, including a sardonic raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper and a tree voiced by Vin Diesel.

This powerful period children’s tale tells of two young boys who grow friendly through a barbed wire fence. Bruno is the son of a Nazi soldier (the father is played by Harry Potter’s David Thewlis), the other Shmuel, a young Jewish prisoner in a concentration camp. Slowly, young Bruno’s eyes are opened to the horrors of the Holocaust.