Los Angeles, 1928; Saturday morning in a working-class suburb, Christine Collins says goodbye to her son Walter and leaves for work. When she comes home she discovers he has vanished. A fruitless search ensues, and months later, a boy claiming to be her nine-year-old lad is returned. Dazed by the swirl of police, reporters and her conflicting emotions, Christine allows him to stay overnight, but in her heart she knows he is not Walter. As Christine pushes the authorities to keep looking, she swi find out more...

An imaginative attempt to combine historical speculation, conspiracy thriller, and the world of Conan Doyle. Adapted largely from Stephen Knight's book The Final Solution, it has Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigating the Jack the Ripper murders, and coming up with an answer that involves royalty, Parliament and the Masons! find out more...

Born in 18th Century France Jean Baptiste Grenouille is blessed with the gift of an extraordinary sense of smell and is the absolute master of his craft, perfumery, but his obsessive search for perfection, discovering the ultimate scent, reveals him to be a psychopath unfettered by moral shackles. Dark, lush and rich in visual atmosphere, this beautifully rendered, if shortened, adaptation of Patrick Suskind's novel is an eerie psychological thriller. find out more...

Prior to his execution the evil occultist and serial killer Lord Blackwood warns Holmes of further deaths...
This is a crackingly entertaining detective adventure though the real star has to be a CG enhanced Victorian London, especially the finale on a half-built Tower Bridge. find out more...

Tim Burton brings Stephen Sondheim's musical prodigy to the big screen and as you'd expect he does a beautiful and atmospheric job of it. Both Depp and Carter revel in the opportunity given to them and the tale has a gloriously dark, gruesomely humourous tone, which brings me on to my own personal issues… the modern musical; much of the the of dialogue in Sweeney Todd is sung and there is just so much lilting 'mockney' cockney I can take. I can accept this is hugely entertaining film, it's just find out more...