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...

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

Anya Taylor-Joy gives a wonderful performance in the title role of this Jane Austen adaptation as a well-meaning but proud young woman who enjoys playing match-maker without proper concern for the feelings of those involved. Bill Nighy plays Emma's father to perfection. Fans of the book will be pleased.

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Juno Macguff is sixteen years old and already hard at war with the world she's on the cusp of entering; but though bright, vivacious, cynical and fiercely individual, one thing she has not prepared herself for is pregnancy. When Juno finds herself with child from her sweet natured, geeky and adoring best mate she decides the only sensible thing to do is find a good home for the baby and in the small ads finds a young, affluent couple desperate to adopt. Sadly life is rarely that simple, thoug find out more...

A nutty mother of two girls (Cher) is so paranoid of emotional commitments that she packs her bags whenever she feels threatened. Her teenage daughter's desire to become a nun, although she is Jewish, now seems less attractive than their new neighbour, a hunky handyman. Humorous well acted drama. find out more...

Three years have passed, it's the summer after freshman year, and the film starts by recapping the key events of the missing years. As before we follow the adventures of the four young girls as they keep in touch after going their separate ways. Passable chick flick stuff, though not as good as the first one, and still, culturally, very much from a land a very big ocean away. find out more...

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Four 16-year-old girls spend their first summer apart from each other, but stay in contact sharing their troubles, experiences, etc. Lena visits her grandparents in Greece and meets Kostos, Tibby stays at home, makes a movie, and befriends a young girl named Bailey, Bridget goes to soccer camp in Mexico and gets a crush on one of the coaches, and Carmen visits her dad in South Carolina and discovers a shocking secret. Chick flick stuff, if somewhat American in its cultural context. find out more...

"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...

Anne is large, awkward and childish, Floriane good-looking, flirtatious and outwardly confident and Marie, the one we follow, quiet, watchful, small and pretty. These three 15-year-old French girls hang out, talk about boys and sex, feel insecure, go to a swimming pool, where they practice synchronised swimming, meet boys and each other, flirt, fall in love and gradually grow up. A sensitive, fascinating and provocative view of female teenagedom. find out more...