Film Archive

He looks a bit out of his comfort zone in the opulent surroundings of the fabled Grand Hotel in Paris.

FROM On the Town and On the Waterfront to Annie Hall and Mean Streets, film-makers have been drawn to New York like tides to the moon.

Warm Bodies (12A)

Remember those Open University programmes from the 1970s?

Flight (15)

Bullet to the Head (15)

Hyde Park on Hudson (12A)

I first saw Steven Spielberg's biopic of America's most popular president in a packed cinema in New York's Lincoln Square.

Brian Cox, whose new sitcom, Bob Servant Independent (Wednesday, BBC Four, 10pm), is set in Broughty Ferry, says people from the east and west coast of Scotland laugh at different things.

Lincoln (12A)

WHILE it may never happen, in the event you find yourself in a queue with Denzel Washington for a plane, train, automobile, bus, rickshaw, or any other form of transport, catch the next one.

Kerry Washington is doing it for her father.

These days Birkin is more likely to be spotted carrying one of the famously capacious Hermes totes designed for and named after her than a bulging hand-out from Happy Shopper.

The very idea of screen legend Brian Cox’s move into television comedy with a new BBC sitcom is without doubt a cause for celebration.