Mike O'Donnell threw away the chance of a college basketball scholarship for a marriage to his high school sweetheart, Scarlett, based on love and teen pregnancy. Stereotypically, upon reaching his mid-life crisis, Mike finds himself pretty much alone and miserable, passed over for the big job promotion, kicked out by his wife, for moaning their lives away, and his prospects look bleak. That is until one night when a little reminiscing and a mysterious janitor lead to a magical transformation re find out more...

Tom falls in love with 'manic pixie dream girl' Summer, but she suddenly calls a halt to the affair and announces she just wants to be good friends. Tom is torn asunder by her decision, but as we wander back through their relationship it becomes clear Tom may have presumed more than Summer ever actually offered. '500 Days of Summer' is a clever, original, witty and perceptive indie flick about the painful vagaries of love and our eternal, most likely pointless, struggle to understand it. find out more...

Adam is a young man with the Asperger Syndrome form of autism - difficulties in non-verbal communication - living in a Manhattan flat. Into his life, as his new neighbour, comes little Miss Rich Kid primary school teacher Beth. An unlikely couple? An unlikely couple! Award winning schmaltz. find out more...

Possibly Allen's best picture, this won 4 Oscars when it was released and follows the "nervous" romance of Alvy, a comedian, and Annie, a singer. Reputedly based on Allen and Keaton's real-life romantic-comedy it is a satire of social mores from LA to California, and discusses a bit of life, the universe, et al. find out more...

Based on the novel by Truman Capote. A brilliant romantic comedy about a young girl, Holly Golightly, who is determined to marry into money, but discovers that her next door neighbour has more important qualities! find out more...

Gloria is a 'hot mess' who just can't get her s**t together. Kicked out by her boyfriend and without a dime to get by, she heads back to the small town she came from. Landing on one bad idea after another - she's an alcoholic and she gets a job in a bar - Gloria soon discovers that she is causing pain and destruction to lots of others, not just herself. A literal monster manifests and the result is somewhere between comedy and action. Unfortunately, watching it makes find out more...

Dan is a widower with three girls to take care of and, despite his job as an advice columnist, Dan's life is in something of a rut. That is until, at a family gathering, he meets the woman of his dreams, who, unfortunately, turns out to also be the woman of his brother's dreams… and he got there first. "Dan In Real Life" stars the excellent Steve Carrell and, while likeable, is ultimately a slightly wishy-washy, rather twee, if amiable, romantic comedy drama. find out more...

A separated couple are both witnesses to a murder and, in order to evade the predations of a professional hit man, are relocated to Wyoming - some out of the way place where everyone speaks with a rural burr - but guess what... the hit man's gonna track them down. Vapid. find out more...

Slacker composer Peter has been basking in the slightly demeaning light of his celebrity girlfriend, Sarah, for five good time years, so when she finally, and let's be frank inevitably, dumps him, Peter goes into free fall. Will Sarah ever take him back? Will he find new love? And what chance does he stand against his ex's new rock star boyfriend anyway. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" is a good natured and likeable comedy, though the only real flashes of ‘nailed it' wit come almost exclusively from find out more...

Slapstick comedy involving a free living, family shy couple being forced to visit all four of their divorced parents, and associated sociopathic siblings, during one nightmarish Christmas day. Moments of sniggeringly ribald wit, but it's all a bit hit and miss. Think 'Meet the Parents', but without the same clever level of humour. find out more...