Ever After - A Cinderella Story (PG)

Draped in the lavish scenery of 17th century France, Drew Barrymore stars in this innovative re-telling of a much-loved fairytale. Keen to focus on a Cinderella with a post-feminist twist, director Andy Tennant dispenses with the familiar supernatural exploits here - that means no fairy godmother - and instead empowers our heroine with forthright independence and noble ambition.

With a prince bowled over by her charitable charm, the village looks set to receive a loving royal couple and a grand library to boot. A pair of meddling step-sisters ensure a climatic tussle to sabotage a particularly sentimental happy ever after

Everyone Says I Love You (12)

Woody Allen is best known for New York-set comedies like Annie Hall and Manhattan Murder Mystery - but here the writer/director takes his usual subject matter and filters it through the style of an old Hollywood musical.

A wealthy extended family of New Yorkers, each with their own problems and love interests, burst into song when the mood takes them. With its use of old songs to illustrate modern situations, and a cast who sing with passion (if not always great skill!), this is a warm and joyful mix of comedy, romance and music.

Key Largo (PG)

Sometimes all you need to generate nerve-shredding tension is a group of people in a small space. Until right before it ends, that's exactly how Key Largo works - and the result is a near-perfect crime drama. We're in a remote Florida hotel, a hurricane is closing in, and a big-time gangster has the people who run the place trapped. Will a tough but disillusioned former soldier work up the guts to take on the bad guys - and will it do anyone any good if he does?

The Wedding Singer (12)

How bad was fashion in the 1980s? Actually, no worse than in any other decade since formal dress codes started to crumble in the late 1950s, but for the sake of this sweet, 80s-set romantic comedy, terrible perms and coloured leather jackets are everywhere.

The wedding singer is Robbie, who eventually works out that he is in love with waitress Julia, but then has to find a way of gently letting her known that her fiancé Glenn is a creep. Good jokes, great songs, terrible fashion.

Whip It! (12)

17-year-old Bliss finds life boring and oppressive - like a lot of people, she feels like she doesn’t really fit in where she is from. What she’s certain of is that she hates the beauty pageants her mother forces her to compete in.

Then she stumbles across roller derbies, and despite the fact she can’t really skate and she’s pretty small, Bliss suddenly feels like everything makes a lot more sense. Whip It is a hugely enjoyable comedy that shows girls can enjoy playing tough, bruising sports every bit as much as boys do.

You Can't Take It With You (U)

Based on a hit stage play, this Oscar-winning comedy classic explores the fireworks that occur when two mismatched families are thrown together. On the one side are good-natured eccentrics the Sycamores - on the other, the stuffy, self-important Kirbys.

The two clans meet for dinner when humble secretary Alice Sycamore insists her wealthy fiancé Tony's folks get to know her own relatives. Personalities, culture and class collide - but what Kirby Snr doesn't realise is that Alice's grandfather is the person standing in the way of his latest business project....

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