Madonna doesn't try to steal the show and consequently this turns out to be an excellent film. In 1943, with the males away fighting, The All American Girls' Professional Baseball League was formed to keep the National Baseball League running. Hanks is the real star as the cynical manager/coach who learns to love his team. A comic and touching story highlighting many of the contradictions that working women face. High slush factor. find out more...

Jess is a Sikh teenager with a passion for football, something that her traditionalist parents, who want her to grow up as a nice Asian girl with an arranged marriage and cooking Aloo Gobi, are horrified by. After making friends with white girl Jules she is introduced to the local womens' team, for whom she must play without her parents' knowiledge, and where she develops a forbidden love interest with the coach. Poor girl, her parents find out everything she does, and imagine worse. A witty find out more...

Well directed comic drama that follows an impromptu day trip to Blackpool by a group of Asian women. Their day out becomes an exploration of the problems and prejudices facing them in every day life, as well as an examination of conflicting cultures and generations. Touching, warm and funny. find out more...

Six women seek love marriage and companionship in this sweet-natured tale set round a beauty salon in Beirut. Beautiful young Nisrine is engaged to headstrong Bassam, but is worried about not being the virgin she's supposed to be. Divorced, middle-aged, part-time model Jamale fears the process of ageing. Quiet Rima seems more attracted by other girls, particularly Siham, a client who flirts with her. Thirtysomething Layale is having an affair with a married man, but has caught the eye of the goo find out more...

Woody Allen is at his most self-indulgent here as Harry Block, professional neurotic and novellist. Having exhausted three wives and six shrinks, Harry has taken to infuriating friends and family by basing his books on their real-life traumas. But fact and fiction get confused when Harry's literary characters begin, through a series of dream sequences, to interact with their worldly counterparts, providing a fascinatingly vicious insight into the friendless philanderer's inner self. Surreal i find out more...

A screwed-up runaway teenage girl accepts a lift from a Mr Nice Guy, but soon realises he's a notorious serial killer. Having left him for dead she is soon arrested and facing a lifetime in prison, escapes, only to meet the killer again. A high quality, brutally comic, thriller with attitude. Very dark and very good.

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How annoying can the permanently happy, loud, vivacious, forever joking, single 30-year-old London primary school teacher Poppy be? Surely there must be something wrong with somebody so sunnily optimistic? She likes her dope, she likes to party, she's learning to drive and to dance flamenco, she happily shares a flat with her best friend, Zoe, and she's always pulling the rug from under the feet of more serious and more pompous people. We learn about her through her relationships with people, sh find out more...