Our regular arts contributors select their highlights of the year.

The Ferrari Portofino is one of the last production cars released under Sergio Machionne’s, reign, writes Hannah Elliot.

HITCHENS’ death in 2011 robbed the world of one of its foremost critics of cant, tyranny and puritanism.

There has been a lot of publicity about the new UK alcohol guidelines and much discussion about the benefits of a “dry January” these past few weeks. I’m not convinced.

Now that we are properly into 2016, I have had some further thoughts on wine experiences I enjoyed last year.

Opening in Copenhagen in 1926, The Danish Girl (15A) centres on recently married artists Einar (Eddie Redmayne) and Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander). 

Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea (12A), which is adapted from Nathan Philbrick’s award-winning book of the same name, opens in Nantucket in 1850, with the young novelist Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) interviewing retired sailor Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson) about the dramatic events that befell the whale ship Essex some three decades previously.

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson stars in San Andreas (12A), playing LAFD chopper rescue pilot Ray, whose considerable skills are tested to their limits when California experiences a massive earthquake.

Once there was a little girl called Emily Brown and an old grey rabbit called Stanley.

DESRIBED by himself as ‘poor, friendless and joyless’ Anthony Trollope arrived in Ireland in 1841 to work as clerk to an Irish surveyor at a salary of £100 a year.

AT JUST over 90 pages Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Fatale is a magnificent example of French noir stretched into the realms of art.

Venue: Mahon Omniplex (Met Live in HD)

Album: The Pixies - Indie Cindy

Classical

Theatre: Where in the World is Frank Sparrow?