This is a stunning cinematic interpretation of the classic story of the big-nosed bard and his unrequited love for Roxanne. A riveting and powerful performance from Gerard Depardieu with such superb rhyming subtitles, by Anthony Burgess, one almost forgets the movie was made in French. The action is enthralling, the cinematography fantastic, the movie entertaining; a must see film if you enjoy poetry, romance, humor, action, suspense, period pieces, aesthetically pleasing images, theatre, Fre find out more...

Moliere has yet to write his masterpiece 'Tartuffe', but looking back to his days as a destitue actor we see the origins of the plot; a socially ambitious nouveau riche, M Jourdain, wishes to learn to act in order to impress a certain young lady of high rank, so Moliere is rescued from debtors' prison, and, as Jourdain is married, given a job in his household disguised as a priest. So begins this clever and witty populist satire on period manners, court flummery, romantic entanglement, mimicry, find out more...

A truly magnificent adaptation of Shakespeare's tender and intriguing period comedy. A plethora of top actors, sumptuous Tuscany locations and the matchmaking that turns bickering to love between Beatrice and Benedick (Thompson and Branagh). Hey nonny nonny! find out more...

In the theatres of England during the middle of the seventeenth century it was still forbidden for women to play women upon the stage, a dubious decision that had enabled actors such as Ned Kynaston to make all the greatest female roles his own. Arrogant, fickle and self-obsessed Ned's world collapsed when Charles II reversed the ruling and re-introduced women to the theatre. Now it is Ned's former dresser, Maria, who is the toast of the town, and the once furtive love that she now openly offers find out more...

John Wilmot, otherwise know as the 2nd Earl of Rochester, was a 17th Century libertine who made Casanova look like a puritanical zealot, but unlike his more famous brother in arms, John was a poet of considerable talent, a genius that his consumptively nihilistic behaviour kept well hidden from most of those who knew him during his hedonistically short life. The Libertine does well to capture the seedy affluence of 17th century high society and this an often enjoyable tale of a gifted, wilfully find out more...