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  Kitty Green's 'The Assistant' moves to the beat of the fax machine, the elevator and the telephone. However it is the ordinariness of this office setting that makes Green's first fictional feature a disturbing and gripping watch. Coated in the dark palettes of Michael Lathem's cinematography, the movie immediately conjures up the seediness of the Harvey Weinstein affair. However this #MeToo cautionary tale could just as easily have been set in a corporate law firm, an investment bank or a tech conglomerate. Green's film is about toxic workplaces that turn a blind eye and facilitate the worst behaviour. Julia Garner plays Jane, a quiet, overworked junior assistant working for a monstrous movie mogul at a film production company in New York. Set during the course of a working day in the dead of winter, the film follows Jane's grim life. Basically a dogsbody for the chief executive, who we never see, she has to field phone calls including from his often angry

  I'm not going to pretend I've read Vikram Seth's 'A Suitable Boy'. However I do know it is one of the longest novels ever written and a highly respected work. Published in 1993, Seth's epic story set in post-partition India was a huge success and last year made the BBC Arts list of the 100 most influential novels . So there was some excitement when the BBC commissioned Welsh screenwriter Andrew Davies to adapt it into a six part miniseries, with the Indian American film director Mira Nair helming. With acclaimed adaptations of classic novels like 'Pride and Prejudice,' 'Vanity Fair,' 'Bleak House,'  'War and Peace' and 'Les Miserables' under his belt, Davies' has been one of the most respected and in demand television dramatists. Nair not only won the Cannes Film Festival's Camera d'Or for her 1988 Oscar nominated, Hindi language crime drama debut 'Salaam Bombay' but picked up the Berlin Film Festival

  The passing of any rising star rattles the public. However the news that ' Black Panther ' star Chadwick Boseman had died after battling colon cancer is particularly shocking as no-one outside a tight circle of family and friends knew he had been battling the disease for four years. It will have a particular resonance for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe who will not only remember him as the Black Panther but as a star who conclusively proved that an African American dominated franchise, the ninth biggest film of all time, could dominate the box office and earn the first Best Picture Oscar nomination for a superhero movie. Born in Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, he had recently caught the eye of audiences in Spike Lee's Vietnam War adventure  ' Da 5 Bloods ' and audiences believed he was clearly destined for great things. His mother Carolyn was a nurse and his father Leroy worked in a textile factory and also managed an upholstery business. At high school,

  Earlier this year, Steve Coogan's partnership with director Michael Winterbottom served up a double helping of comedy. The pair reunited with Rob Brydon on the small screen for what they say will be the last time with Sky Atlantic's sublime improvised sitcom ' The Trip to Greece '.  Around the same time in cinemas the director and his star served up the satirical movie 'Greed' - a withering expose of the illusion of wealth in big business. Written and directed by Winterbottom, 'Greed' has a lot to get off its chest and it attacks its subject with great vigour. Coogan plays Sir Richard McCreadie, a cheap fashion magnate modelled on the real life figure Philip Green. Like the Arcadia Group chairman, McCreadie is under the microscope of a Parliamentary committee as Westminster MPs led by Miles Jupp's unnamed chair. The committee is probing unethical practices in his business empire and the wider fashion industry. Using flashback, Winterbottom shows ho

  Great murder mysteries keep you on the edge of your seat from the off. They make you care about the characters and speculate as events unfold. They scare you and often surprise, as you piece together a messy jigsaw of clues as to who the culprit may be and how he or she may cover his or her tracks. They even send you down the wrong path. ' Derry Girls ' creator Lisa McGee and her husband Tobias Beer clearly had high hopes for their Channel 5 miniseries 'The Deceived'. Broadcast over four consecutive nights, the TV channel had high hopes too that it could be a ratings smash and take its place as a great murder mystery. Riffing on classics such as Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca,' the Gothic thriller is a particularly bold change in tone for McGee whose Northern Ireland Troubles sitcom has wowed audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. It also had the fortune of having the next screen appearance of Paul Mescal, the Emmy nominated star of one of the most talked