Revolutionary Road is a film that communicates irresolution and a confusion of purposes. Despite, perhaps even because of, its often stridently histrionic tone, you can get the impression the people behind the film had some trouble coming to terms with the nature of their own project.

Based on the first of a trilogy of children’s books popular with the same set that can recite entire chapters of Harry Potter from memory, Inkheart is a story to tickle the fancy of kids who love reading books. An admirable goal, but one I would have thought as potentially lucrative as anchovy bubblegum: that the books are apparently quite successful perhaps indicates that the age of post-literacy isn’t entirely inevitable.