Pick of the week
Avatar: Fire and Ash
James Cameron’s bold, blue-tinged fantasy epic returns for a third outing. This one has a similar feel to The Way of Water: regular bouts of stupendous aerial and aquatic action; plenty of dastardly human behaviour; and – underlying the whole enterprise – warnings about colonisation and the ignorant exploitation of the natural world. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Sigourney Weaver are back as our favourite human-Na’vi blended family, still defending their way of life. The new element is the Mangkwan, a clan living next to a volcano led by the ambitious Varang (a lip-curling Oona Chaplin), who sees a collaboration with the gun-toting Earth forces as a route to power.
Wednesday 24 June, Disney+
