IT'S always nice to see a foppish British actor playing against type, think Colin Firth in the first ‘Kingsman’ film.

Hugh Bonneville of ‘Downton Abbey’ has a go in ‘I Came By’, streaming on Netflix. He plays retired High Court Judge Hector Blake, living a life of wealth and pottery in his lovely big London house. Pottery? Well, he’s apparently a fan, why else would he have a kiln in his cellar?

One day a graffiti artist breaks in to paint his logo on the reception room wall, only to hear strange sounds from the basement. Turns out Hector may not be a fine upstanding member of the community after all. Cue an unexpectedly dark thriller as the graffiti artist disappears and his ex-partner in crime tries to find him.

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George MacKay and Kelly MacDonald also star in a film that sadly feels a bit underwhelming, though Hugh is great and should turn his hand to villainous roles more often. Interestingly enough the ‘seemingly upstanding person with something sinister in the cellar’ genre has exploded in recent years with David Tennant’s ‘Bad Samaritan’ and films like ‘Don’t Breathe’ making me immediately suspicious of anyone with a basement.

I’ll now go against type myself and recommend a Mark Wahlberg film, comedy drama, ‘Instant Family’, streaming on All4. I find him insufferable but he hits the mark in this warm-hearted film about adoption that delivers some decent laughs.

Wahlberg plays everyman builder, Pete, along with his wife Ellie they decide to adopt and wouldn’t you know the three children placed with them are quite troublesome. Eventually hearts are thawed and a new family is born. Helped enormously by the comic skills of Rose Byrne (‘Bridesmaids’) as Ellie, this film turns out to be surprisingly lovely in the end.