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Gregorio (Antonio Banderas) and his wife Ingrid (Carla Gugino) quit the world of espionage to raise a family. But after some of the world’s top spies start disappearing, they come out of retirement. When they are seized by evil techno-wizard Fegan Floop (Alan Cumming), only two people can save them – their own children Carmen and Juni (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara). This is perfect family viewing for half-term – as are the three sequels.
Andy Warhol would have been knocked sideways by this uproarious all-art, all-advertising family adventure that perfectly captures Lego’s unique charms. The plot is a Star Wars/matrix hybrid with jokes, in which a builder from the town of Bricksburg becomes the unlikely leader of a resistance movement. Parents who grew up with Lego will feel the prickle of nostalgia, and children will be swept away.
In the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2009, a police officer killed 22-year-old black father Oscar Grant after an altercation at the titular Oakland railway station. His death led to rioting, but Ryan Coogler doesn’t give a campaigning or polemical account of it, rather concentrating on the meaning of the life of Oscar (played with burning charisma and good-guy appeal by the terrific Michael B Jordan).