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Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Honor Blackman, Embeth Davidtz, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
Directed By: Sharon Maguire

The BBC's lavish, glowingly designed adapation of Mervyn Peake's eccentrically brilliant novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast is a triumph of casting. Ian Richardson's Lear-like depiction of the mad earl of a remote, vast, ritual-obsessed building is matched by the brutal pragmatism of Celia Imrie as his wife, the synchronised madness of Zoe Wanamaker and Lynsey Baxter as his twin ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Celia Imrie, John Sessions, Warren Mitchell, George Yiasoumi, Ian Richardson
Directed By: Andy Wilson

Although it's been three years since we last saw Bridget (Renée Zellweger), only a few weeks have passed in her world. She is, as you'll remember, no longer a "singleton," having snagged stuffy but gallant Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at the end of the 2001 film. Now she's fallen deeply in love and out of her neurotic mind with paranoia: Is Mark cheating on her with that slim, bright young thing from ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent
Directed By: Beeban Kidron

In the sensible yet elegant hands of actresses Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, Calendar Girls walks a fine line between sappiness and snickering and ends up both wonderfully funny and gently touching. When her best friend Annie (Walters) loses her husband, Chris (Mirren) cooks up a scheme to commemorate him: they and their friends--all fiftysomething women--will make a nude calendar to ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie
Directed By: Nigel Cole

With hairy warts, a stern-looking unibrow and one extremely protruding buck-tooth, Nanny McPhee is a wonderfully comedic substitute for Mary Poppins in this entertaining family fantasy. By loosely adapting Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda children's books of the 1960s, Oscar-winning screenwriter Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) has also given herself the plum role of ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald, Derek Jacobi, Angela Lansbury
Directed By: Kirk Jones

Let's be honest: this should be titled Wretched Excess' Frankenstein. Swooping, wild, bloody, and energetic, this is bad moviemaking from the best, which makes it all the more loveable. Kenneth Branagh plays Victor Frankenstein, a man so obsessed with conquering death that he decides to create life. What he gets, after a protoplasmic mud wrestle, is a Mean Streets monster (Robert De Niro) ...

Manufacturer: Uca
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, Aidan Quinn
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Sam Neill, Chris Marshall, Hans Matheson, Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie
Directed By: Giacomo Campiotti

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Sean Connery, Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, Billy Hartman
Directed By: Russell Mulcahy

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Celia Imrie, Dani Harmer

The mini-series treatment suits Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak's sprawling novel of a Russian physician-poet whose comfortable life is upended by the revolution. And this near-four-hour Granada TV production lucidly demonstrates that Pasternak was one heck of a storyteller: the torment of Zhivago (Hans Matheson) as he must choose between his well-bred childhood sweetheart (Alexandra Maria ...

Manufacturer: Cinema Club
Starring: Keira Knightley, Sam Neill, Hans Matheson, Sam MacLintock, Bill Paterson
Directed By: Giacomo Campiotti