A million years ago, Clive James (in my humble opinion perhaps the best television critic of my lifetime), admitted to his infatuation with the Ameri...

Just like a London bus, you wait ages for a new tennis film and then two come along almost at once. At the end of November there’ll be the Batt...

Welcome to Dunkirk. Just look at it on the screen. Glorious blue skies. Magnificent white beaches. A lot of men hanging around waiting for boats to ar...

In reviewing The Sense of an Ending, one critic – OK, it was Camilla Long in the Sunday Times – wrote: “It’s a story about loo...

One of the most esteemed novels of the past 30 years is probably Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities. It was published in 1988 and was rapt...

There are three stars in La La Land. Ryan Gosling plays Seb, an aspiring jazz pianist making ends meet by playing Christmas jingles; Emma Stone is Mi...

In what is the third film in the series, Bridget Jones’s Baby is the first not to be based on a Helen Fielding novel (other than embodying the...

Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling are The Nice Guys of the eponymous film. Crowe plays Jackson Healy, a rough-and-ready bruiser who will administer ph...

This understated but beguiling story (it’s a U certificate) is based on a Jane Austen novella called Lady Susan, which she wrote at the age of ...