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Seriously insightful, if saucy, romantic comedy from director Kevin Smith, the genius behind Clerks and Mallrats. Cult comic strip creators Holden (Ben Affleck) and Banky (Jason Lee) have an unshakeable 20 year friendship, until a spanner's thrown into the works in the shapely form of Alyssa, with whom Holden falls immediately and hopelessly in love. That Alyssa is a confirmed lesbian does little to deter the lovestruck Holden, who continues his relentless pursuit with a vigour matched only b find out more...

When the patriarch of the Collins family buys the farm this classically dysfunctional family are brought together to celebrate his life...and death. His favourite grand-daughter Kate is asked to write the eulogy. Zooey Deschanel tackles the role with aplomb as she meanders around the family which includes her father, a former child star famous for a peanut butter ad (Azaria) and her control freak aunt (Winger) and nearly mute husband. In this stellar ensemble cast great credit must go to Ray Rom find out more...

Nick Porter sells salesmanship for a living, but the days of being on top of his game are long gone, thanks in no part to his ever losing battle with alcohol. Finally fired and discovering his wife has also decided it’s all over on the same day, Nick finds himself on his front lawn with all that is left of is worldly belongings. An adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story, don’t expect an archetypal Will Ferrell movie, this a bitter sweet drama...with some humour. A low key, thoughtful and tou find out more...

A group of Smith College alumnae get together to celebrate the birth of the son of a pair of their friends. Katie and Victoria are trying to reconcile their former radical politics with their new bourgeois lifestyle, Luce, a buff stunt actress, brings along her girl-toy, Josie and Maria haven't seen each other since Maria went straight and Gina's making the money but not the ladies. This is a well-written, honestly acted movie making it a refreshing change and a joy for the cadre of female actor find out more...

Brilliant, moving, funny and beautiful, a truly wonderful film. Bates is superb as the frustrated Alabama housewife, liberated by Tandy's tales of her childhood memories of the irrepressible Idgie and the demure Ruth. Their adventures will enchant and delight you. WATCH THIS FILM. Best of the year!! find out more...

Hwei-Lan Gao, a 48 year old widow, is rudely ejected from the family home when her father discovers she's pregnant. In desperation Hwei-Lan seeks refuge with her grown up daughter, Wil; but Wil is less than keen to have her pregnant mum kipping in her one bedroom flat, particularly when she's just met the beautiful Viv. Saving Face is a good natured comedy drama that gently subverts the mother daughter relationship in the worthy cause of love. find out more...

Roxy Carmichael is THE town celeb in Clyde, Ohio. When she's rumoured to be returning, 15 years after leaving Clyde for Hollywood, there is great anticipation. However, the skeletons in her closet rattle their bones in the shape of ex-lover (Daniels), best friend (Manoff) and the town outcast Dinky Bossetti (Ryder), who stakes her claim as Roxy's daughter. Engaging. find out more...

Four culturally diverse families prepare for thanksgiving somewhere in the leafy suburbs of LA, one Vietnamese, one Jewish, one African American and one Hispanic. What's Cooking has a witty and touching script that concerns itself as much with the generational divide as it does the specifics of race, culture or sexual orientation but it is the shimmeringly liberal attitude displayed by all the characters in reference to race and culture that deprives the story of any real bite, perceptive and en find out more...

Well, if your friends and neighbours are anything like this lot, Heaven help you. It's rare for a film to have not one single sympathetic character, but that's exactly what you get in this bleak, black comedy peopled with self-serving scumbags. A tale of sexual frustration, marital disillusionment and unhealthy carnal obsession, it centres on two miserably married couples and their involvement with a couple of dysfunctional singles (unbalanced lesbian Nastassja Kinski and loathesome misogynist J find out more...