From Russia with Love

★★★★ SPY THRILLER This second outing for Ian Fleming’s superspy James Bond saw Sean Connery now comfortably settled into the role and out to thieve a decoder – and Russian agent

Daniella Bianchi – from the Soviet embassy in Istanbul. The film, however, gets stolen from under Sean’s nose by Lotte Lenya and Robert Shaw as a pair of assassins: Lenya with her deadly footwear and Shaw with his equally lethal wristwatch. Dir: Terence Young 1963, PG, 135min

Alba is on hand as the story’s damsel in distress and Tommy Lee Jones briefly turns up as an arms dealer with a conscience, but the plotting is lazy and the fight scenes all too repetitive. Dir: Dennis Gansel 2016, 15, 110min

Hugh Jackman in Bad Education

autistic teenage maths wiz never becomes formulaic, thanks to a great script and deft performances. Asa Butterfield is convincingly naive and awkward as the gifted, emotionally withdrawn youth and he gets warm, sympathetic support from Sally Hawkins as his widowed single mother. Dir: Morgan Matthews 2014, 12, 100min