We were going to come up with an invented weather spell, but life’s too short.

Hopefully she won’t have to steal as many dogs this time round.

Christina Hendricks for Dorothy!

Robert Redford’s latest directorial exploit stars James McAvoy and Robin Wright (quondam Robin Wright Penn) in a sepia-tinted legal drama about the distinctly witch-hunty trials which followed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. You may need a short nap in the middle, but The Conspirator‘s beetle-browed intensity is more than made up for with a slew of well-judged performances in a supremely atmospheric setting.

Blah de blah de blah, it’ll make a billion squillion dollars and we’ll all hate it.

Really?

Francesca Simon’s wildly successful Horrid Henry books have at last made it onto the screen, and the eponymous terror’s cinematic exploits are guaranteed to keep kids rapt from his first act of unnecessary biscuit theft to his final defiant bit of on-screen graffiti. If you happen to be carting a child about, be a sport and take him/her/it along – he/she/it’ll have a fantastic time.

Because the man who wrote My Super Ex-Girlfriend should definitely still be getting work.

As if that’ll help.

And it’s lovely. SO LOVELY.