IT is with not insignificant tragedy, and unfortunate timing, that this week brings to cinemas the last screen appearance of late television star Caroline Flack. Hers is but a cameo in Michael Winterbottom’s Greed, and yet will carry more intensity than could ever have been predicted. That the film satirises wealth, fame and fortune is but salt to the wounds.

Steve Coogan is the film’s leading man, having oft worked with Winterbottom on The Trip. Here Coogan plays billionaire high street fashion mogul Sir Richard McCreadie on the eve of his 60th birthday celebrations. A none too subtle caricature of real retail mega mogul Sir Philip Green, McCreadie is big on imagine and bigger on cash in hand. This is a man for whom nothing is beyond reach.

Around Coogan, David Mitchell is entertainingly self-loathing as Nick - the journalist McCreadie hires to write his authorised biography - with Shirley Henderson, Isla Fisher and Sarah Solemani as the variously exasperated women of his life. Watch out too for The Trial of Christine Keeler’s Sophie Cookson, child star turned Netflix hit Asa Butterfield and former Doctor Who companion Pearl Mackie.

In truth, Greed offers rather too much on the ideas front for anything to truly carry a sense for great development or meaning. Strands involving refugees and the sweat shop trade are well intentioned but mismanaged. That said, with its mockumentary stylisation and breezy laughs, there’s plenty to enjoy with Greed and just about enough to recommend.

Also out this week, The Call of the Wild sees Harrison Ford embark on an adventure with St. Bernard/Scotch Collie cross Buck, as each seek their place in the new world.

Dan Stevens, Karen Gillan and Omar Sy may all feature in the film but this is one man and his dog entertainment - even if the dog is a computer generated co-star.

An adaptation of Jack London’s classic 1903,novella, The Call of the Wild comes scripted by Logan’s Michael Green and Lilo and Stitch director Chris Sanders.

It’s a winning team, then, both before and behind the camera that brings forth the film, with pedigree enough to make it worth a look in. Naturally, it helps that Buck - real or not - is adorable.