Place in the Sun, A

What happens when anything can happen? Pretty much nothing. Or at least nothing that anyone needs to care about

A rather splendidly repellant film about a rather extreme case of sex addiction

A mildly amusing exercise in progressive nostalgia that has been much overpraised

A harrowing account of the brutal Japanese occupation of the Chinese capital in 1937, of which few are left alive to tell the tale

What is it that has lately induced the makers of romantic movie comedies think of Jane Austen as the Everest of their ambition? Now we can add Bridget Jones’s Diary, directed by Sharon Maguire to the spate of Jane films in the last decade, since its self-conscious updating of Pride and Prejudice confirms its homage…

Regeneration directed by Gillies Mackinnon from a screenplay by Allan Scott and based on the novel by Pat Barker is another retelling of the great left wing myth to come out of the Great War: that it was all the generals’ fault. “Half the seed of Europe,” to use Wilfred Owen’s angry poetic formulation, were…