The year is almost at an end, can you believe it?

A Walk Among the Tombstones ***

“Happiness is the enemy,” says Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) during Rush (15A), and you fear that Ron Howard’s movie about the rivalry between 1970s Formula 1 stars Lauda and James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) is going to descend into simplistic tale of Hunt’s cavalier flair triumphing over Lauda’s dour efficiency.

Not content with decimating the White House in his 1996 sci-fi blockbuster ‘Independence Day’, director Roland Emmerich reduces the Washington landmark to rubble again in this preposterous, high-octane action thriller.

Made in 1939 for the staggering sum of $3.7m, 'The Wizard Of Oz' failed to cast a spell over audiences on its initial release.