This month’s picks include a musical adaptation of a Roald Dahl classic, an animated coming-of-age story and an assortment of lovable farm animals.

Our inaugural list of picks include films about a shell dealing with loneliness, an adventure from the archives of Jim Henson and a singing crocodile.

The actor recently donated hundreds of boxes of scripts, props, notes and other objects from his work on “Raging Bull,” “Taxi Driver” and more. We...