Read this sentence: In Texas, two brothers, one just trying to do the honourable thing, one just a little wild (and doomed to a dark end) stage bank jobs whilst being pursued by a day-before-retirement lawman.  It sounds like a cliché, doesn’t it?  Yet Hell of High Water takes that simple plot and...

It can be easy to sum up the work of Spanish director Almodovar in a few words: Gaudy, loud, controversial, melodramatic.  Yet Julieta confirms new strings to the director’s bow while maintaining some links with his past.

Whilst some may claim The Beatles: Eight Days a Week tells us nothing new, that's churlish in the extreme.  The Spotify generation for whom music is a digital abstraction deserve to experience the cheek, the chemistry, the wonder of The Beatles in full flight, on stage, in the studio and before the press where their wit is infectious.  With more personality than any current chart toppers can muster, Ron Howard's Eight Days a Week captures a musical, social and cultural phenomenon with joy and wonderful verve.