THE DAY SHALL COME
★★★★★
THE war against terror is conducted by careerdriven buffoons in director Chris Morris’s barbed satire.
Miami-based preacher Moses Al Shabaz (Marchant Davis) presides over the ramshackle yet well-intentioned Star Of Six community farm and mission. Moses received his call to arms when God chose to speak to him through a duck.
The congregation includes his wife Venus (Danielle Brooks), their daughter Rosa (Calah Lane) and three loyal lieutenants: Farmer Afrika (Andrel McPherson), Farmer Evangeliste (Curtiss Cook Jr) and Farmer X (Malcolm M Mays), so-called because he loves the X-Wing
ABOMINABLE (U)
★★★★★
A GRIEF-STRICKEN teen repairs fragments of her broken heart by reuniting a mystical mountain creature with its parents in this sweet but familiar computer-animated yarn.
Resourceful teenager Yi (voiced by Chloe Bennet) intends to honour the memory of her father by visiting his favourite locations around China. During a night-time visit to the roof of the family’s apartment block to play her father’s cherished violin, Yi stumbles upon an injured Yeti, which has escaped from deranged explorer Burnish (Eddie Izzard) and zoologist Dr Zara (Sarah Paulson). fighters in Star Wars, not because of a spiritual affinity with human rights activist Malcolm X.
Undercover FBI operative Reza (Kayvan Novak) brokers the sale of AK47 assault rifles to pacifist Moses, who intends to paint the weapons white and use them as fence posts for the mission compound.
The deal brings the Star Of Six to the attention of Agent Kendra Glack (Anna Kendrick) at the FBI’s anti-terrorism unit in Miami, led by Andy Mudd (Denis O’Hare).
He sanctions a sting operation involving FBI informant Nura (Pej Vahdat), who will pose as a wealthy sheikh and agree to supply Moses with fake nuclear warheads as proof of the mission’s dark intentions.
A tender bond forms between the girl and the stricken creature, whom she christens Everest.
Yi pledges to return her new friend to his snowladen home in the Himalayas. Two young neighbours, Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor) and Peng (Albert Tsai), become Yi’s accomplices as she and Everest travel more than 3,000km west by land, sea and airborne giant dandelion seed head.