“Good Omens”, starting on BBC2 tonight after an exclusive first run on Amazon Prime is a nice and accurate translation of a long-thought unfilmable book to the small screen, but that’s about it. Despite note-perfect casting, decent special effects and the presence of Neil Gaiman himself as showrunner, somehow the series ends up less than the sum of its parts, lacking that divine spark that made…

If you’re to have any hope at all of enjoying “Victor Frankenstein”, you’ll need to ‘consciously uncouple’ yourself from the source novel. Screenwriter Max Landis – a divisive figure in the rarefied and polarised world of movie fanatics but a relative unknown to the movie going public at large – takes his inspiration not from Mary Shelley’s text but instead the many, many works derived from it in…