Siblings struggle with life and loss

READING’S own Kate Winslet co-produces and stars in Goodbye June (15), a story about fighting siblings and motherly love, with a screenplay by her son, Joe Anders, out at the Regal Picturehouse.

With Helen Mirren as the matriarch and the June of the title, Timothy Spall as her husband and the children’s father, Bernie, their four children, Julia (Winslet), Connor (Johnny Flynn), Molly (Andrea Riseborough) and Helen (Toni Collette), have to come together despite their differences as June is taken into hospital.

With a gaggle of grandchildren and various clashes, June decides to put everyone on the straight and narrow with some blunt talking while she still has time.

The film has a running time of just under two hours.

Also out is Fackham Hall (15), a spoof of Downton Abbey, directed by Jim O’Hanlon, with a screenplay by Jimmy Carr.

Lord Davenport (Damian Lewis) and his wife, Lady Davenport (Katherine Waterston), have lost their four sons in unrelated tragedies. As a result, their daughters, Poppy (Emma Laird) and Rose (Thomasin McKenzie), come under pressure to find marriage.

Poppy gets together with cousin Archibald (Tom Felton). When pickpocket (Ben Radcliffe) makes his way up from London and bumps into Rose, love blossoms.

All is well (ish). However, there is a murder, so enter Inspector Watt (Tom Goodman-Hill)… The film has a running time of one hour and 37 minutes.

Continuing is Zootropolis 2 (PG). Directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, rabbit cop Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and friend, fox Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman), have to investigate when Gary De’Snake (voiced by Ke Huy Quan), the first snake in Zootropolis, arrives on the scene.

The film has a running time of one hour and
48 minutes.