That’s an awful lot of pillow talk, Emma!

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

Cert: 15, 1hr 37mins

Lightyear

Cert: PG, 1hr 40mins

Everything Went Fine

Cert: 15, 1hr 53mins

Already, Good Luck To You, Leo Grande has become famous as the film in which Emma Thompson gets her kit off. Yes, all of it. But before the historic moment when the 63-year-old star of Nanny McPhee, Saving Mr Banks and Love Actually finally lets the dressing gown slip, there is an awful lot of talking.

So much so that at times what the film – directed by Australian film-maker Sophie Hyde – resembles more than anything is a single-set stage play.

Nearly all the episodic action unfolds within the same hotel bedroom and, for the most part, only two characters are involved: Nancy (Thompson), a fiftysomething widow and retired teacher who has never had good sex, and the Leo Grande of the title, played by Daryl McCormack (above, with Thompson), a male escort decades her junior who she has paid to finally supply it. But first, of course, they must talk.

With the spectre of the nowchallenging morality of films such as Pretty Woman hovering in the background, much of the screenplay, penned by comedian and writer Katy Brand, who co-starred with Thompson in Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang, deals with the ethics of sex work, albeit with the more common gender roles now reversed.

The eloquent and well educated Leo insists it is his choice and that he enjoys it. Nancy, who, in a twist arguably too far, used to be a religious education teacher and set essays on morality, is doubtful.

But Thompson, despite being too glamorous to convince totally in the role, is a proven class act, ensuring that the couple’s long discussions about Nancy’s unhappy sex life – and what she’d specifically like done to put it right – are amusing, revealing and really quite sexy too. Definitely worth a peek.

Buzz Lightyear, explains a simple opening caption, was given to Andy – the child at the epicentre of the Toy Story films – because he was the star of Andy’s favourite film. ‘This is that film…’

All of which means that Lightyear isn’t so much a straightforward prequel to 1995’s Toy Story but stands at least one cinematic remove away. The important thing is that it’s good fun as Buzz (above) and his Space Ranger crewmates get marooned on a dangerous planet and spend years, even lifetimes trying to get off. Something to do with hyper-speed and timedilation, I think. Or maybe it’s just infinity and beyond…

The animation is great, the voice cast good, in spite of the disappointing absence of Buzz’s original voice artist, Tim Allen, and the screenplay is not only genuinely funny but poignant too, despite its occasional repetitions. Accompanying adults will enjoy noting the, at times, marked structural resemblances to Top Gun: Maverick. Everything Went Fine is one of those sophisticated French dramas you sometimes worry they’ll stop making one day. In this one, André, the ageing and irascible patriarch of the Bernheim family – beautifully played by André Dussollier – is struck down by a serious stroke. His two middle-aged daughters, Emmanuèle (Sophie Marceau, inset with Dussollier) and Pascale (Géraldine Pailhas), rush to his hospital bedside full of concern.

But André is a difficult man who led a complicated life and is about to make a seemingly impossible request.

With an arthouse favourite director François Ozon leavening proceedings with dark humour, and Charlotte Rampling in a supporting role, this is a must for lovers of French cinema.