Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
Every year, a group of talented children's football teams assemble on the Westman Islands, off the Icelandic coast. There they play out a tournament in the shadow of a looming volcano. When 10-year-old Jón comes along with his team the Falcons, he expects some difficult football games - but finds something much more troubling. The ...
As winter approaches, and the Moomins prepare to hibernate until the spring, Moomintroll (Bill Skarsgård) grows concerned about what happens while he sleeps. When he wakes early he, his father Moominpappa (Stellan Skarsgård), and Little My (Alicia Vikander), and drawn into a strange new world of invisible creatures and the coming of "Christmas" - whoever ...
Ten-year-old Morten lives unwillingly with his guardian - the ballet-obsessed Anna - while his father is away captaining a ship. When the mysterious magician Senor Cucaracha comes to town, Morten is shrunk to the size of an insect and trapped onboard a toy ship in a flooded house. To captain his own ship, Morten must ...
Decades after leaving the Hundred Acre Wood for boarding school, troubled veteran Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) now works in middle-management at a London-based luggage company. Neglecting his wife (Hayley Atwell) and daughter for his job, Christopher reaches an ethical crisis when he is confronted with firing half of his staff to save the company money. ...
Casey (Jodie Foster) is a wayward teenager who bounces from one Los Angeles foster family to another. She is lifted from her rough life by con artist Harry Bundage (Leo McKern), who offers her a chance to get in on the criminal opportunity of a lifetime: impersonate a missing British heiress, and search the Elizabethan ...
Identical twins Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson) and Fozzie Bear (Frank Oz) join the staff of the Daily Chronicle newspaper. When they immediately lose their jobs for failing to report on the theft of fashion designer Lady Holiday's (Diana Rigg) jewelry, Kermit, Fozzie and photographer Gonzo (Dave Goelz) travel to London on a quest to ...
An orphaned girl named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) is kidnapped by a mysterious giant (Mark Rylance) and transported to 'giant country', where he plans to keep her captive to prevent the human world from learning of his existence. When Sophie sees the giant getting bullied by his larger and more destructive neighbours, she tries to help ...
