Kline and Judd combine well in this delightful homage to the life and times of Cole and Linda Porter, man and wife, composer and muse, a couple who led a life of glamour and indulged eccentricity. There's no shortage of the man's music, which is unfortunately sometimes murdered by using a series of unsuitable singers; "It's De-Lovely" by Robbie Williams, "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" by Alanis Morissette, "Begin The Beguine" by Sheryl Crow, "Let's Misbehave" by Elvis Costello, "Be a Clown" find out more...

Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius As I Knew Him', we follow the last five years of the composer, by now blind, paralysed, embittered and at war with the world, as Fenby helps him formulate into music the compositions he still has whirling around his mind. 'Delius - Song of Summer' is a powerful and moving story. find out more...

A flight surgeon and a navy pilot overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of dive bombers blacking out and dying. Another adrenalin fuelled collaboration between Flynn and Curtiz, based on a true story, but more interested in the suicidal/heroic white knuckle world in which so many early experimental pilots seemed to live. find out more...

A biotechnology executive and his wife attempt to save the lives of their 2 children who suffer from a genetic condition, Pompe disease. After contacting a relevant scientific researcher they raise wads of cash to fund the development of a drug. Based on a true story "Extraordinary Measures" effectively portrays the conflicts of interest between the profit motives of the drug companies and the needs of patients. It avoids degenerating into slush and the star cast raises it above your average T find out more...

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A BBC dramatisation of the life and work of reknowned physicist Stephen Hawking. A young theoretical physicist is diagnosed with motor neurone disease shortly before commencing his PhD in Cosmology at Oxford. Having been advised that he has less than two years to live, Stephen doesn't give much thought as to what his thesis might be on... But the two years pass and he finds himself alive, engaged to be married and in need of a qualification in order to get a job. His thesis changes the way the e find out more...

Bobby Sands was the IRA member who led the 1981 Long Kesh hunger strike as part of a campaign to achieve the status of political prisoners and not that of criminals. The first section of film deals with daily prison life, the 'dirty' protest and the violence, the second is a long discussion on the meaning of life with a sympathetic priest and the third depicts the last weeks and death of a man voluntarily dying of starvation. find out more...

Tearjerking drama based on the young Ernest Hemingway's real life romance, the inspiration for his classic "A Farewell To Arms". As an 18-year-old soldier in WW1, love is the last thing on his mind, until a near-fatal injury puts his life in the hands of a beautiful, older nurse. Superb performances. find out more...

A remarkably moving drama that avoids being over-sugary. Nolte and Sarandon play a couple whose son devolps ALD, a rare and incurable nerve disease. Leaving behind the medical establishment they race against time searching for a cure. A powerful tale of a successful struggle against the odds. find out more...

 

Damine was a Belgian priest who offered to go and live on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai, a dumping ground for all who were suffering from Leprosy. He knew that it was unlikely he would be allowed to ever leave the island once there.
The film tells the story of his battles to bring order and care out of chaos, and how his e find out more...