FASHION IN FILM

2015 Film4, 6.30pm

Hollywood wouldn’t have been Hollywood without the costumes. As early as 1935, the studios were selling knock-off gowns “as seen on screen” in their Cinema Fashion Shops. Christopher Laverty’s Fashion in Film takes the reader from Audrey Hepburn – pictured in 1967, on a rare day off from Givenchy, in Mary Quant – to Agnès B’s New Wave suits in Reservoir Dogs and Azzedine Alaïa, “The King of Cling”, who dressed Grace Jones so outrageously in A View to a Kill. (Laurence King, £14.99)

Murray’s strikingly original debut novel is set in 2059, some 30 years after the Earth has stopped turning, leaving half the world in darkness. The inventive, richly detailed worldbuilding makes up for a slightly cheesy thriller plot.

Baltasar Kormákur’s vertigo-inducing adventure is based on the 1996 Everest disaster in which 12 climbers died. It tells the same story as Jon Krakaur’s memoir Into Thin Air, but the impressive CGI and breathless high-altitude sequences justify the retreading. The rivalry between the two expeditions leaders, played by Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal, is well handled, as are the emotional scenes back in base camp.

Jeannot Szwarc’s follow-up cannot compete with the Spielberg’s original, or the two-tone terror of John Williams’s signature motif. But it’s a strong sequel in a franchise of everdiminishing returns. Roy Scheider returns as Police Chief Martin Brody with another toothy problem on his hands. Murray Hamilton is also back as the unsackable mayor of Amity Island. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water…