The pick of the week’s films on Sky, Virgin & other platforms

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP

Marvel Comics’ miniscule superhero returns for his second screen adventure. There are some whopping thrills and spills, as well as some big laughs as Paul Rudd’s goofy Scott Lang, alias Ant-man, joins Evangeline Lilly’s feisty heroine Hope Van Dyne, aka the Wasp, on a mission to rescue her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) from the Quantum Realm. 12,118MIN

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN

PREMIERE (Available from Mon) See review, right. PG,104MIN

DOG DAYS

If you’re a sucker for cute dogs then you should go for this feelgood ensemble comedy that loosely ties together a series of stories involving Los Angelinos – Vanessa Hudgens and Eva Longoria among them – and their pooches. The plot strands intertwine throughout the movie and everything gets neatly wrapped up with a little bow by the close. 12,113MIN

THE EQUALIZER 2

PREMIERE (Available from Mon) Denzel Washington’s freelance righter of wrongs returns to mete out violent retribution on another bunch of evildoers in this superior sequel to the 2014 action thriller. Everything builds to a ferocious showdown in a deserted Massachusetts beachside town in the midst of a hurricane, but it is Washington’s super-cool charisma that makes the film so compelling. 15,121MIN

HEARTS BEAT LOUD

A widowed father (Nick Offerman) is preparing to shut down his Brooklyn record store after a run of 17 years. And his cherished daughter (Kiersey Clemons) is about to leave for medical school in Los Angeles. But then the song they’ve just bashed out together becomes a semi-hit… This bittersweet tale hits all the right notes. 12, 95MIN

HOTEL ARTEMIS

In a riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, the city’s crooks can get themselves patched up in a secret members-only hospital, where Jodie Foster’s wry, worldweary Nurse and her hulking assistant (Dave Bautista) have their hands full dealing with the latest guests (including Sofia Boutella. This offbeat action thriller delivers some slick and stylish B-movie thrills. 15, 94MIN

MAMMA MIA!

HERE WE GO AGAIN

Raiding the ABBA back catalogue again, the sequel to 2008’s blockbuster musical finds super troupers Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried and co reprising their roles. But with the new film going back and forth in time, there is a fresh crop of faces as well, led by Lily James as the younger incarnation of Streep’s free-spirited Donna. PG,114MIN

THE MEG

PREMIERE (Available from Mon) The title creature in this shark movie makes the monster in Jaws look like a shrimp. Jason Statham is the badass hero, a strapping deep-sea diver who comes to the rescue of a band of international scientists trapped in a submersible at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Essentially a B-movie with a big budget, the film has a sense of cheesy fun. 12,113MIN

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT

Tom Cruise returns for his sixth adventure as daredevil spy Ethan Hunt. The tortuous plot is the usual hokum (once again, it involves rogue nukes) – but it serves well enough as a skeleton on which to hang a series of hair-raising, white-knuckle sequences. Rebecca Ferguson is among the returning faces, joined by Henry Cavill as a CIA agent. 12,147MIN

MOWGLI: LEGEND OF THE JUNGLE

(Available on Netflix) Swinging on to the screen a mere two years after Disney’s 2016 The Jungle

Book, director Andy Serkis’s new live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tales is even more red in tooth and claw than its predecessor, and may prove too scary for a family audience. The film features the vocal talents of Christian Bale, Benedict Cumberbatch and Cate

Blanchett among others. See

Watchlist, page 14. 12,104MIN

ROMA

PREMIERE (Available on Netflix from Fri) Mexican director

Alfonso Cuarón’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Gravity couldn’t be a more deeply personal project. Set in Mexico City in 1970 and shot in lustrous black and white, the film takes inspiration from his upper-middle-class childhood and pays affectionate tribute to the generous-hearted maid (Yalitza Aparicio) who did so much to raise him and his siblings. Subtitled. 15,135MIN