The good old days when E.T. simply wanted to phone home are long gone.

An Irish director’s first foray onto the big screen has been awarded at a cult film festival in New York.

Houses in the UK were engulfed today as tributaries feeding the Thames spilled over on to the river’s already waterlogged flood plain.

If you enjoyed The Football Factory then writer director Nick Love has reunited some of the stars in The Business (Pathe, €24.99), a smart and sassy Costa crime work which sees Frankie (Danny Dyer) seek refuge from the law and earn some dosh among the locals.

A good opening to this British gangster film fails to be sustained, but while it's good it's very good. Pity it didn't last the distance.