Unless you’ve been, for instance, down a well for two years, you’ll be aware that The Girl Who Played with Fire is the second story in the Millennium trilogy, the late Steig Larsson’s extraordinarily well-selling series of Sweden-set crime thrillers.

12 cert, Universal

Scott Pilgrim is the film of a cartoon that itself draws heavily from videogames, and it does not wear these origins lightly. Combining the staged linearity of a videogame with a cartoonish love of image and throwaway wit, it is at times exceedingly stylised.

As Michel Roux identifies in his new series, Service (which begins at 8pm tonight on BBC Two), the British have a problem with being served. Though the quality of restaurant cooking has improved no end over the past 20 years, the standards of front-of-house remain dreadful. Compared to France, Italy or even – the horror – America, in Britain waiters often will be ill-informed, incompetent and, most frequently of all, simply rude. There is a reluctance on the part of British staff to admit that they are serving, rather than simply passers-by doing the restaurateur, and by extension you the customer, some kind of unpleasant favour.

HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The daddy of them all. Kubrick's monolithic masterpiece has, at its core, a computer of unmatched menace. "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave", HAL says, and he really means it. Who'd have thought he could lip-read? In his calm, monotone malice, HAL made the central philosophical point: a sentient being is at its most dangerous when it is afraid.