Train, The (1964)

A Brazilian revenge-drama is too portentous and fraught with religious significance for all but the most militant of atheists to appreciate

Trust Merchant-Ivory to find a way to transform the elegant and the sophisticated into the banal

Middle-aged women become overnight celebrities by taking their clothes off. Phooahh! That’s what I call empowerment

The Spanish title of Only Human by Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri is Seres queridos, or “loved ones” and suggests one of those happy-clappy, boosterish Euro-junk films, like Cédric Klapisch’s Auberge Espanole, in which everybody is part of one big happy European family living in a tolerantly multicultural spirit stronger than any differences between them….

James Bond? Isn’t he “the dude/Who lets the girl down before/The hero arrives”

A very watchable version of Charles Portis’s 1968 novel that is better than its authors’ recent form but still not so good as the first movie version