this film of jacqueline wilson's modern update doesn't have the charm of those productions. ave is a hint of the real world issues that wilson's books have always tackled, a buoyant score by anne nikitin, and a likeably wrinkly sand fairy, to which caine lends deadpan, droll vocal appeal. you also get to hear russell brand use the phrase "ethnically insensitive erotica" and see him run around with his bottom on fire, which kind of sums up the film. four kids and it is now available on sky cinema. at the other end of the spectrum, this week also sees the streaming release of the whalebone box, the latest fantastically inventive art—house production from british maverick andrew kotting. i asked him where the whalebone came from and he said it came from a washed—up whale after the whale had been smashed up as a result of a storm. the box in question was made of the bones of a whale that washed up on the island of harris in the outer hebrides many years ago. kotting's film follows two journeys — one in which psychogeographer iain sinclair and photographer anonymous bosch join and