IAN McEwan has often been hailed as sitting among Britain’s greatest living writers. When it comes to film adaptations, he usually takes on the task of translating his own pages to screen. Recent examples include the BBC’s A Child in Time and 2007’s Oscar-winning Atonement, whilst this week sees the release of On Chesil Beach.

A story of social backgrounds and sexual experience, On Chesil Beach is a novella set in the 1960s, with the action unfolding during a honeymoon at the titular Dorset attraction. Saoirse Ronan plays Florence Ponting, fresh from her acclaimed role in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, whilst rising star Billy Howle is her beau as Edward Mayhew. The film is the feature debut of theatre stalwart Dominic Cooke and screened to general positivity at last year’s Toronto Film Festival.

What is most remarkable about On Chesil Beach is the ways in which McEwan has deviated from his own source. So often are adaptations criticised for being unfaithful that this decision marks McEwan as a writer who understands that books and films are different media and demand different treatments. That said, the film On Chesil Beach remains constrained by the book’s use of flashbacks and forwards. It is tender, tortured and touching but not entirely a success.

Deadpool 2, out since Tuesday, should repeat the success of its smutty predecessor. Ryan Reynolds once again plays Wade Wilson, the dishonourably discharged special operative who gained superhuman self-curing abilities from brutal experimentation in asphyxiation. Those who saw the first film - which became a smash hit in 2016 - will remember it for its intelligent, fourth-wall breaking humour and refusal to take the genre seriously. Deadpool 2 is the perfect antidote for those left worse for wear by Avengers: Infinity War.

Oddly, Josh Brolin joins the action as Deadpool’s new nemesis Cable, just two weeks after playing Infinity War baddie Thanos. Both roles render the actor unrecognisable beneath CGI and rely on his terrific on-screen presence for the visceral effect. In Deadpool 2, he is a time-travelling cybernetic mutant soldier on the hunt of Julian Dennison’s young mutant Russell.

Whilst this is an off-shoot of the X-Men franchise, the film’s director – David Leitch – has compared the relationship of Cable and Deadpool to that of Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs. Just another way in which Deadpool breaks convention.