It climaxes with an apocalyptic plague of locusts. It’s about a family of itinerant workers who prey on a dying farmer. I had never previously considered Terrence Malick’s period drama as a comfort blanket. Photograph: Allstar/Paramount Days of Heaven Frances McDormand voices Chantal DuBois, the animal catcher on a single-minded, vivacious self-destruct, culminating in a rendition of Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien that is more poignant (seriously) than Édith Piaf’s. It’s true of Die Hard, it’s not true of the Madagascar franchise, which goes from a playful fish-out-of-water romp in the first film, through some coming-of-age and communitarian sagas in the second, to the third, which has one of the best villains in cinema history. It is a rude supposition among people who haven’t seen enough animated films to think there’s a diminishing-returns principle, each sequel the same as the last, only less good. Then they go back in time to save the ghost children from a fire – and they become the ghosts! Amazing! Jon Ronson, writer and broadcaster Madagascar 3 Two children, exiled to a country house, become friends with ghost children of their own age. It’s basically The Railway Children, but with ghosts. Lionel Jeffries made this adorable film in 1972 as a kind of follow-up to The Railway Children, but it has practically vanished from history.
Photograph: Allstar/Hemdale The Amazing Mr Blunden
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