Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, Théodore Pellerin and Kathleen Chalfant feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of June 19th, 2026Sun Jun 21 2026 - 04:51 • 3 MIN READToy Story 5 ★★★☆☆Directed by Andrew Stanton. Voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Greta Lee, Conan O’Brien, Tony Hale, Craig Robinson, John Ratzenberger. G cert, gen release, 102 minDecent enough fifth episode in the animated cycle finds the playthings (rather belatedly, one might say) running up against the threat of a tablet that saps their young owner’s attention. The animation continues to be a marvel, now accommodating flesh and fluid as it could not on Toy Story’s release in 1995. Randy Newman’s music still weaves poignancy in with frivolity. There is, however, no escaping a sense that the franchise is getting squeaky around its middle-aged joints. That finger is wagging throughout to tell children off about their screen use. Ah, give it a rest, Dad. DC Full reviewNino ★★★★☆Directed by Pauline Loquès. Starring Théodore Pellerin, William Lebghil, Salome Dewaels, Jeanne Balibar. 15A cert, limited release, 97 minA young man (Pellerin, charismatic) knocks about Paris in the days before he has to receive chemotherapy for throat cancer. We can read his apparent calmness in several ways. Perhaps Nino really is the sort of fellow to approach such challenges in a spirit of hope. Maybe he is stunned by the suddenness of it all. Or is he heading for an eventual collapse? Shot with a wistful liquidity by Lucie Baudinaud, the film is unmistakably in thrall to an actor who exudes leading-man charisma. More is communicated in his fraught silence than any page of dialogue could manage. DC Full reviewFamiliar Touch ★★★★⯪Directed by Sarah Friedland. Starring Kathleen Chalfant, Carolyn Michelle, Andy McQueen, H Jon Benjamin. No cert, limited release, 91 minMoving, poetic drama about Ruth (Chalfant, transcendent), an older woman facing confusion as she moves into a care home. Rather than observe dementia from the perspective of relatives, carers or medical professionals, Friedland places the viewer alongside Ruth. Friedland consistently attempts to inhabit her fluctuating reality rather than reduce her to a diagnosis or a burden to be shouldered by others. Anchored by an incredibly varied performance, Familiar Touch brings great humanity to the theme. It acknowledges loss without overshadowing its protagonist, passionately insisting on personhood and dignity even as the heroine’s awareness drifts away. TB Full reviewLesbian Space Princess ★★★★☆Directed by Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese. Featuring Shabana Azeez, Bernie Van Tiel, Gemma Chua-Tran, Richard Roxburgh, Mark Samual Bonanno, Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane. 16 cert, gen release, 87 minSince The Rocky Horror Picture Show, queer cinema has excelled at producing crowd-pleasing midnight-movie oddities: exuberant, defiantly niche works that transform limited resources into virtues. Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese’s animated musical comedy belongs squarely in this royal lineage. Made on what the film-makers describe as an almost impossible budget, it is a small miracle of invention: scrappy, funny and incorporating comic-book squares to make it look as accomplished as its $200 million box-office rival Toy Story 5. Not every joke lands, but the generous, camp sensibility buoys the material. Mad fun throughout. TB Full reviewIN THIS SECTION