Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of acclaimed films such as “Network”, “Serpico”, “Dog Day Afternoon” and “12 Angry Men” has died. He was 86.

NOW that the games have begun again, and the vapours have subsided for those shocked by the revelations in Donal Óg Cusack’s autobiography, we can focus.

Another wedding/dysfunctional family drama but one that, thankfully, delivers a deliciously multi-tiered cake, full of brilliant human observation and characters that might be flawed but are nevertheless sympathetic.

Director Sidney Lumet delivers a real cracker in ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’ (EIV, €24.99).

Lumet brings us a complex but brilliantly constructed heist drama, told from several points of view after the robbery goes wrong.

Tom Cruise is set to be honoured at New York City's Museum of the Moving Image in November.

Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon Special Edition (Warner, €24.99) is yet another great Al Pacino movie.

Sideways, the film based on the Rex Pickett novel about two middle-aged men who take a road trip through California's wine country, won the best adapted screenplay gong at last night's Academy Awards.