Movie reviews: Tomorrowland: A World Beyond, Poltergeist, The New Girlfriend

Past, present, future and parallel dimensions come together in Tomorrowland: A World Beyond (12A) , Brad Bird’s ambitious sci-fi thriller.

The movie opens with disenchanted inventor Frank Walker (George Clooney) squabbling with idealistic teenager Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) about the best way to explain ‘Tomorrowland’ to the viewers, and soon we’re whisked back to the 1950s and what appears to be a Norman Rockwell-designed World’s Fair, where the young Frank Walker (Thomas Robinson) showcases his new invention, a jet-pack. Ridiculed by competition judge David Nix (Hugh Laurie), the devastated Frank is consoled by young Athena (Raffey Cassidy), who shows him how to access Tomorrowland, a secret futuristic city designed by the finest minds in the world.