A beautifully made costume drama set in rural Yorkshire 1920. Two returning servicemen, each in their own way shattered by their experiences, try to rebuild their lives. Intelligent, charming and a pleasure to see. find out more...

It is 1782 in Spain and through the eyes of the great painter Francisco Goya unfolds the story of a group of people caught up in the brutal later years of the Inquisition. Ines is his beautiful model, who is taken by the Inquisition, raped, tortured and left to rot in the Spanish dungeons for 15 years, Tomas is her wealthy father and Lorenzo the cruel and sadistic Inquisitor. This is their story. find out more...

Cosmopolitan and long absent son George returns, with English art-dealer wife Madeline in tow, to visit his roots, a dysfunctional conservative small-town family in bible-belt North Carolina. This is the sort of place where children grow up with 'something wrong about them', which begs a few questions about religion, education, basic medical services and inward breeding, but the director has carefully crafted a nuanced set of characters whose interactions are at the heart of the film. As a sidep find out more...

Supposedly a biography of Michelangelo, it is much more that of Pope Julius II, who, when not on the battlefield uniting Italy, nags Michelangelo, in an engaging and witty script, to speed up his painful work painting the Sistine Chapel, and wonders when he will finsh. The transformation of the chapel ceiling, which was originally dotted with stars, to an opulent statement of high renaissance is engrossing. find out more...

Helena's restless old goat of an ex-husband, Alfie, has taken up with a loud hooker who he somehow believes to be his dream girl, while she herself has drifted into the world of spiritual mumbo jumbo. Helena's daughter Sally is enduring her marriage to blocked novelist Roy while growing enchanted by her boss. Meanwhile, Roy is spending too little time writing and too much time mooning over their stunning neighbour across the street. Allen's emotional drama never really touches on believability a find out more...