Green Book (2018)

The movie opens in a Chicago club, the Copa, in 1962 with a big band number playing that will have you tapping your foot and wishing you were there in your tuxedo with a cocktail in your hand and despite the depressing ever-present racism of the era and suggestions the movie presents a far from factual account of the duo's time together, that energy continues throughout the upbeat, incredibly feel-good story of real-life concert pianist Dr Shirley and his driver, real-life Tony Lip and their cross-country concert tour through America's Deep South, destination: lifelong friendship.

★★★★★

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The Founder (2016)

Like The Social Network, this corporate biopic details the staggering rise and rise of a business - here, McDonalds - and uncannily it too centers on a corporate go-getter whose vision and drive far outstrip those of the founding brothers left watching their own creation run away from them; whatever your thoughts on the golden arches, Michael Keaton's Ray Kroc, with his mad enthusiasm for the speedy kitchen and his simple but ingenious corporate manoeuvres, is so compelling he will have you grinning from ear to ear. 

★★★★☆

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