Gabriel Garcia Marquez's dark, brooding, atmospheric, humid, immense novel finally, and inevitably, gets a big screen adaptation and, as with that other great South American period epic ‘House of Ghosts', the overwhelming feeling is…why? Don't get me wrong, this is still a gloriously visualised tale of love and obsession through the ages, but it would take a true genius to direct the novel of a true genius. If you've not read the book then there's much to enjoy, if you have…hold tight to your me find out more...

Competent period drama based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. Taking place one day in 1923 with MP's wife Mrs Dalloway taking a trip down memory lane as she prepares for a posh dinner do. Her middle-aged reflection takes her back to the summer of 1890, her old flame Peter Walsh, and a series of events that were to shape the rest of her life. Simultaneously we hear about the struggles of a troubled young war veteran. Redgrave is excellent as the soul-searching society lady working through regret a find out more...

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed; looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved moth find out more...