Roberto Martinez is a fan of football analytics, the science of compiling and analysing the rapidly increasing plethora of data on every aspect of the game. He subscribes to a sophisticated software package, yet one is entitled to ask just how much use this is, given that under the Spaniard's charge Wigan have just been relegated.

Television

I admired rather than enjoyed Paul Thomas Anderson's demanding drama on first viewing, but in the four months since then it's refused to leave my head.

Paul Thomas Anderson DVD/Blu-ray (144mins)

Sunday

From biopics of Paul Raymond and Jeff Buckley to a Nick Hornby rom-com, Imogen Poots has a busy 2013 ahead, she tells Kaleem Aftab

Matthew McConaughey, after his louche turn in Killer Joe, once again excels as an ageing, preening stripper in Steven Soderbergh's lightweight drama.

The religion L. Ron Hubbard founded in 1952 is the toast of Hollywood and the butt of everyone else's jokes, but we should be grateful to Scientology for the deeper understanding of religion it affords us.

Anderson's latest film is a puzzling, slippery, and brilliantly acted portrait of post-war American damage and disintegration

There will be a cult following: Phoenix rises in 'The Master'

Hatty japes

Hollywood is making its annual trip to Venice, with the world's oldest film festival kicking off yesterday.

James Corden has been nominated for a prestigious Tony Award for the Broadway production of his hit show One Man, Two Guvnors.

In this Oscar-nominated true story, a baseball coach (Brad Pitt) develops a statistics-based method of assembling a top-flight team for a bargain-basement price.