A late-night cult hit or a cat’s dinner?

Tom Hooper may have won an Oscar for The King’s Speech but his screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hitherto hugely popular musical

Cats (above), based on the poems of T.S. Eliot, has been one of the great cinematic disasters. Judi Dench and Ian McKellen attempt to add a bit of furry, feline class, but it’s the sungthrough structure and too much baffling talk of ‘Jellicles’ and ‘heaviside layers’ that do the real damage. Might just become a latenight, cult thing, though. Sky Store to buy & Rakuten, from Friday