It may be one of the casualties of the auteur theory and the general solemnization of directors that some of the most talented people now just start shooting a script as if big ideas and directorial vision were enough to hold a movie together.

NEWYORKER: Rough Rides

This is the first of two report stage days, with amendments grouped into several subjects - (a) sex education, (b) conscientious or other objection to marriage of same sex couples, (c) equality law, (d) religious organisations' opt-in to marriage of same sex couples, and (e) protection against compulsion to solemnize marriages of same sex couples or to carry out activities in relation to the solemnization of such marriages.

BBC: Week ahead