Talented young sketch artist Jerome Platz escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art college. Here his ambition is to become, like his hero Picasso, the world's greatest artist. Unfortunately the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an art class that he finds bewildering and bogus, neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers, though he does attract the attentions of his dream find out more...

"I am dying in time to the splash of their oars - if arms as steady as these had embraced me in life...". This film is Jarman's vision of the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573 - 1610). Caravaggio revisits periods of his tempestuous life in a series of deathbed flashbacks and prose-poem voice-overs, focusing particularly on the intense relationship between himself and a couple who model for him in Rome, Lena and Ranuccio. This sexual and violent love triangle eve find out more...

A visually stunning and passionate potted history of one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, the Mexican, Frida Kahlo. This film deals primarily with Frida's private life, the enduring relationship with her husband and fellow artist, Diego Rivera, and her many scandalising affairs. Frida is a dramatic and affectionate portrait of a remarkable woman. find out more...

Johnny Depp is back at it in this ridiculous yet mildly enjoyable comedy. Everything is OTT and the jokes flatline as often as they peak. There's a stolen painting caper that offers a vague narrative for the love triangle/gender stuff to circle around. Some moustache gags and a big enough budget to get Gwyneth Paltrow back on the big screen wearing a to-die-for wardrobe.

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Access to 'The Book of Secrets', which only the Presidents of America are privy to, is altruistic treasure hunter Ben Gate's latest 'mission impossible' and with it he must find/save ‘the city of lost gold' from those who would do bad. As soon as National Treasure 2 finished I had immediately forgotten what had happened; but it's sub-Indiana Jones doing the Da Vinci Code, big-of-budget, tongue-in-cheek, relentlessly paced popcorn movie-making of the highest (lowest?) order, and that PG certifica find out more...

St Trinian's school for young women is in a bit of a financial crisis, though to be honest the lack of any actual education going on makes its imminent closure something of a moot point, but with a dedication never displayed in the classroom the girls decide to save their beloved establishment by stealing, then hawking a very valuable painting from the National Gallery. Rupert Everett in drag (jez he don't make a pretty woman), Colin Firth doing his prissy, anal routine, Russell Brand playing a find out more...

A very dated but still entertaining slice of 60s kitsch. McQueen is the incredibly debonaire playboy millionaire, led to commit robbery through boredom, countered by Dunaway, the implausibly glamorous fraud investigator. Much period posing and split-screen shenanigans, with fun results. find out more...

Master director Robert Altman tackles the life of Van Gogh from taking up art full time to the death of his financier brother, and without shirking from the portrayal of his less endearing qualities. Particularly good as Altman has given Van Gogh's talents the space to speak for themselves. find out more...