SECOND SCREEN

In Home Again (12A)★★★★ Reese Witherspoon plays Alice Kinney, a newly separated 40-year-old who invites three much younger wannabe male film-makers to move into her summer house. Does anyone feel a morale-boosting ‘younger man’ romance coming on?

The age gap eventually emerges as about 13 years, which is hardly going to frighten the horses these days. Especially as Alice is virtually wrinkle-free (this is Los Angeles) and immaculately coiffed. She is living in a substantial Beverly Hills house left to her by her late film-director father while her glamorous mother (Candice Bergen, so scene-stealingly good you want more) was an actress and still has an eye for a handsome young man… or three. Great fun.

I love a good Western and early on Brimstone (18)★★★, with Dakota Fanning, pictured, as a young, mute midwife and Guy Pearce as a heavily scarred Old Testament-style pastor, has all the hallmarks of being just that. But as the title suggests, it’s heading somewhere dark, So dark, in fact, that it becomes tempting to turn away or simply stop believing. Which is a shame for such a well-made and well-acted film.