Having spent rather more time in hotel rooms recently than I would like, I'm thinking about all those great "coming home" movies like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and I wonder just what is it that makes some of them so special?

Are there such things as successful movie comedies that are not funny? You tell me there are.

Like many others I am exiled from my homeland by a large cloud, so here is what I look like on Skype...

Drawing on the world of both Saturday Night Fever and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's new movie Cemetery Junction is a delight, but just because it's them, does that mean we should expect it to be the definition of comedy?

Since the great Beatles movie Backbeat, and via such diverse destinations as Ken Loach's Spain and the first screen Hogwarts, Ian Hart never fails to deliver anything less than a fascinating performance. With his new movie A Boy Called Dad just over the horizon I want to know your thoughts on this great British actor.

Kickass is in your cinemas and carrying nothing more to warn you of its content than a BBFC '15' certificate. And while I applaud the common sense that results in such decisions couldn't some of that wisdom be applied retrospectively?

A couple of blogs on a couple of movie institutions (Richard Gere and Emma Thompson) elicited a world of comment on the nature of thespian credentials, and for these many insights and observations I thank you and here humbly respond.