As the US football team prepares to kick off its World Cup campaign just down the freeway from Hollywood, the greatest living movie director has a hat-trick on his mind.
The greatest of all Ealing comedies, the 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts And Coronets, really should be left to rest in eternal peace and everlasting appreciation.
The creator of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, has excelled himself - and that's a high bar of excellence - with this gripping, high-octane story set during World War Two.
It's rather glorious to find that another audience, 49 years after his death, can still be electrified by the king of rock 'n' roll. The film is riveting, and won't leave only diehard Elvis fans all …
Brutal and harrowing, the gripping prison thriller Wasteman shows us both that British film-making is in good shape - and that the British penal system is not.
We all know what it's like to receive a prettily-packaged present that doesn't quite live up to its wrapping. Crime 101 is like that, a slick thriller with a fine cast.
When a rugged, taciturn man played by Jason Statham lives alone with a dog in a disused lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, you can bet that he'll turn out to be a special forces veteran.
BRIAN VINER: Craig Brewer's film is based on a true story about a Mid-western husband-and-wife Neil Diamond 'tribute' act, impressively played by Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson.