Film Pick: Ad Astra

Between this and his supercool turn in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 2019 is turning out to be the year of Brad Pitt. Here he’s on more subdued form as an astronaut who barely breaks a sweat as he literally falls to Earth in the opening scene. Soon enough, he learns his dad, a fellow spaceman long thought dead, is alive and in orbit around Neptune – but what does he have to do with the mysterious energy pulses ruining everyone’s fun on Earth? Cerebral but with real emotional heft, this is a little like Apocalypse Now spliced with a book on emotional intelligence and fired into space, and is the first big Oscar contender to come down the Autumn pipe. At Cineworld at Resorts World. Get a VVIP card, with all this. Mention us at guest services before 8pm on Sept 30 to claim.