Based on Margaret Atwood’s award-winning, best-selling novel, The Handmaid’s Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized “return to traditional values.” As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, belonging t find out more...

Three women, separated across the 20th century, held together by the trials of time, love and loss. The first, Virginia Woolf, is in the throes of her first defining novel, Mrs Dalloway, while the second is a 1950s housewife now reading Woolf's book, and drawn towards a momentous re-evaluation of her life. The most contemporary of the trio is Clarissa, a woman who to all intents and purposes is Mrs Dalloway, and it is the gradual intertwining of their stories that comprises much of the film's ch find out more...

Mismatched city girl trio Stella, Ag and Prue (one sensible, one shy, one saucy) head for Devon to be "land girls" - working the fields while the boys go off to fight WW2. Needless to say, the uncommonly attractive sophisticats cause quite a stir down on the farm, not least in wannabe pilot Steven Mackintosh's trousers. The war itself seems almost incidental in this "growing-up" movie which, though somewhat uneventful, all looks very pretty. find out more...

South Carolina, 1964; Lily Owens is a young girl haunted by the memory of her mother, who died in an accident when she was just a toddler. When Rosaleen, a woman hired by her father to look after Lily, insults a pivotal town figure, she and Lily are forced to flee and find a new home. On their journey they come across August, who takes them in on the simple proviso that they help out on her farm. It is here that Lily begins to blossom again, discovering the joys of life, family, and the wondrous find out more...

Mary Haines seems to have it all; a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable eleven-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father's venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler, leads another enviable life; happily the single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and revered arbiter of taste and style. But when Mary's husband enters into an affair the worlds of both women begin to implo find out more...