Culture bores suggest a movie simply can’t match the sensory experience provided by the depth and breadth of a novel, Declan Burke says Fifty Shades of Grey has already put the old canard to bed.

The dark world of the Corleones returned today as the first copies of the Godfather sequel arrived in book shops.

The bloody saga of the Corleone family has enthralled generations of film fans, and now a new Godfather movie could be on the cards.