a shameless blending of Pride and Prejudice with Life on Mars - The Telegraph. find out more...

Episode 3; Amanda's hostility to Darcy wanes as she begins to feel that, in Elizabeth's absence, she must 'understudy' for her. She learns that Darcy's sister Georgiana was in love with Wickham, and in response to his rejection of her advances, told Darcy that Wickham had "ravished her". Wickham maintains this falsehood to spare Georgiana's honour, which softens Amanda's hostility towards him. Meanwhile, Bingley is so heartbroken by Jane's marriage to Mr Collins that he has taken to drinking hea find out more...

It's 1950s America and recent graduate Katherine Watson has been employed by a prestigious, but archaic, girls' school as their new art history teacher. Katherine however is keen to teach way beyond the set curriculum, she feels it her duty to expand the minds of her repressed pupils and drag a reluctant social strata into the modern world. 'Mona Lisa Smile' is not unlike 'Dead Poets' Society', ruthlessly adept with the emotional manipulation, intense and earnest but head crunchingly shallow; yo find out more...

Holly and Gerry have the perfect life, the perfect love, the perfect friendship and, obviously, the perfect marriage, but, after brain cancer strikes, Holly finds herself alone and bereft, so grief stricken that even her friends can provide no consolation; that is until she receives a note from Gerry. The sly selfless love of Holly's life has left a series of notes, one per month, to help her rebuild her life, each ending with ‘PS I Love You'. Adapted from Cecelia Ahern's best selling novel of t find out more...

A superior brat pack romance about an unconventional independent minded cutie from the wrong side of the tracks who falls for a hunky rich kid. This teen weepy is the third of John Hughes trilogy, following 'The Breakfast Club' and 'Sixteen Candles', and oozes style, energy and great performances. find out more...

This year's heart-throb, R-Patz, plays a misunderstood rich kid while cute 'Lost' petite Emilie de Ravin plays an overprotected copper's daughter. The two meet, the two fall in love...
This movie hits all the right knobs when it comes to working on the slush side of the female psyche. find out more...

For all romantics this is essential viewing. Hepburn as the princess going awol is simply stunning, Peck smoulders to perfection, Rome is beautiful and all is right with the world. Ah, they don't make them like that any more.Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! find out more...

The affable Hanks is perfectly cast as a man quietly devastated by his wife's death. His young son tricks him into opening up about himself on a radio phone-in, and he strikes a chord in the heart of the listening Meg Ryan. Events conspire to bring them together in a touching and witty fairytale. find out more...

Set in a small town in the Deep South, the Steel Magnolias of the title are six very different women who have a special friendship which spans age, status and social differences. Fine performances all round from the star-studded cast in this touching and witty human drama. find out more...

All-American kids, terminal illness, Julia Roberts and the director of Home Alone - what more could you want in a Tinseltown tear-jerker? (A decent script would have helped, but that's probably just my horrid British cynicism.) Ed Harris cures his male menopause by dumping weary-looking wife Susan Sarandon and taking up with fit young filly Julia Roberts, and, naturally, a mutual loathing develops between the two women. But when Sarandon is diagnosed with cancer, the adults are forced to put asi find out more...