Cassandra and Rose are two young sisters living with their dysfunctional but loving family in a crumbling English castle. Little has changed since their novelist father failed to lift pen to paper over 12 years ago, but the arrival of two eligible young Americans throws not only the girls into turmoil but the very continuation of the family. I Capture The Castle is a classy adaptation of Dodie Smith's novel. find out more...

'Sex, Lies and Videotape' director Soderbergh returns with this low key and very effective portrayal of Depression hardship as seen through the eyes of an imaginative 12-year-old boy growing up fast and learning to fend for himself on the streets of St Louis. Excellent well-filmed drama. find out more...

Madrid, 1922; a young Salvador Dali arrives at university and meets the likes of Luis Bunuel and Federico Garcia Lorca, the latter of whom he has a brief affair with. Later, moving to Paris, Dali's life is altered by another affair, with married woman, Gala, to the intense heartbreak of besotted Garcia Lorca. find out more...

The definitive gangster-epic; violent? Yes, but never mindless. The Jewish Mafia's coming of age on the Lower East Side in 1923, their rise to wealth during Prohibition, and their fall in 1933, provide the background to a story of friendship and betrayal, love and death. Leone's masterful cinematography evokes both the harshness of the vice-ridden decades before and after Prohibition, but also the philosophy behind it. Splendid performances by De Niro and Woods and a stupendous score by Ennio Mo find out more...

Set during the Great Depression, Jacob Janowski finds his promising career as a vetinary student shattered by family tragedy. Bereft and confused Jacob joins the Benzini Brothers circus as the vet for their animals and in particular the company’s elephant, Rosie. But it is the ringmaster’s wife that really holds the young Jacob’s attention, and it is this mutual attraction that forms the heart of the story. Based on Sara Gruen’s best selling novel, ‘Water for Elephants’ is a sumptuous but relati find out more...