I love that phrase, “It won’t leave the island.” I never understood it until it was explained to me that that is what producers, etc, call a British film that doesn’t stand a chance of achieving success (or whatever) anywhere but here – ‘on the island’. So, what the heck do the BIFA awards – British Independent Film Awards – have to do with anything? They’re not the Oscars, are they? They’re... 

OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT…. Never mind, here are the films released this week, leaving out ‘Anjaana Anjaani’ because it couldn’t make up its mind about its own release date. ‘Made in Dagenham’ – The Big British Movie of the week stars Sally Hawkins as the real life union leader fighting for equal pay for Ford workers in 1950s UK. Bob Hoskins is awful cute too. A nice moving story that’s not sure if its a comedy... 

Dennis Quaid may have been one of the first stars in rehab and maybe Mark Wahlberg is embarrassed with his old rapper days, but nobody tops Bob Hoskins when it comes to method. A veteran of over 100 productions, the actor was also a fight magnet. The man’s been stabbed more often than a Sunday roast. He’s even got a hole in his nose to show for one of the incidents – and the hole isn’t a nostril. “First I got stabbed in the shoulder...