Film choice

Cars 3 (2017) BBC ONE, 3PM ★★★★

The adventures of Lightning McQueen are often held up as the shabbiest thread in the lustrous Pixar tapestry: too corny, too cute, no conceptual muscle or subtext. But Brian Fee’s third instalment proves the naysayers wrong, as now fading champion McQueen (Owen Wilson) attempts to find his mojo in the backwoods with the help of a young personal trainer (Cristela Alonzo).

Wonder Park (2019) CHANNEL 4, 4.20PM ★★★

This is Paramount Animation’s answer to Pixar’s Inside Out, but for four-year-olds rather than 10-yearolds. The plot centres on June, who is packed off to summer camp after her mum is diagnosed with what adults in the audience are gently given to understand is cancer, and ends up in her own version of Alice in Wonderland, based on a magical theme park she used to draw with her mum.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) ITV, 7.30PM ★★★★

JK Rowling’s spectacular Harry Potter spin-off, about a magical zookeeper (Eddie Redmayne) whose mythical menagerie is on the loose, turned out to be one of the most relevant blockbusters of the last few years. It’s set in the Twenties in the build-up to the Great Depression, but its vision of America caught in the jaws of fear has acontemporary ring.