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Pick of the week
Time Bandits
Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement bring their trademark deadpan absurdism to this reimagining of Terry Gilliam’s 1981 time-travel romp. Kal-El Tuck stars as geeky 11-year-old Kevin, whose vivid imagination is rewarded when a portal to a variety of eras and places appears in his wardrobe. Soon after stumbling into this parallel world, he encounters an engaging rabble of space robbers led, somewhat shakily, by Lisa Kudrow’s Penelope, and joins them on a series of hair-raising adventures as they protect their stolen map from Wrongness (Clement). It doesn’t quite possess the creaky charm of the film but it establishes its own very distinct tone and Tuck is a bright spark of a lead.
Apple TV+, from Wednesday 24 July
