6.9

Huge

2010, UK

• Actors: Noel Clarke, Johnny Harris, Ralph Brown, Thandie Newton, Tamsin Egerton, Michelle Ryan, Paul Adams, Stephen K. Amos, Ronni Ancona, David Baddiel, John Banks, Ninia Benjamin, Matt Berry, Kevin Bishop, Jo Brand, Gregg Chillin, Oliver Chris, Steven Cree, Alan Davies, Simon Day, Jack Dee, Davie Fairbanks, Peter Joseph Flannery, Miriam Fox, Simon Godley, Ricky Grover, Muhith Hakim, Rasmus Hardiker, Hattie Hayridge, Pippa Haywood
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Ben Miller
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.

  7.0

Penelope

2005, UK, USA

• Actors: Richard E. Grant, Catherine O'Hara, Nick Prideaux, Michael Feast, Christina Ricci, Ronni Ancona, Simon Woods, Paul Herbert, Simon Chandler, Peter Dinklage, Andi-Marie Townsend, John Voce, Burn Gorman, Andrew Bailey, James McAvoy, Nick Frost, Eve Pearce, Rob Rouse, William Willoughby, Rubria Negrao, Ross Boatman, Nigel Havers, Richard James, Lenny Henry, Tallulah Evans, Pam Phillips, Richard Leaf, Reese Witherspoon, Russell Brand, Martin McDougall
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
• Director(s): Mark Palansky
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In this modern day romantic tale, Penelope is about a young girl's inspiring journey, a mysterious family secret and the power of love. With all odds against her, in order for Penelope to break the family curse, she must find true love with "one of her own kind" and realize the most important life lesson, "I like myself the way I am." Penelope Wilhern, born to wealthy socialites, is afflicted by the Wilhern spell that can only be broken when she finds love. Hidden away in her family's estate, the lonely girl meets a string of suitors in her parent's futile attempt to break the curse. Each eligible bachelor is enamored with Penelope and her sizable dowry; until her curse is revealed. Lemon, a mischievous and eager tabloid reporter wants a photograph of the mysterious Penelope and hires Max to pose as a prospective suitor to get the shot. The handsome down-on-his luck gambler finds himself falling for Penelope, but not wanting to disappoint her or to expose his surreptitious ways, he decides to disappear. Fed up by his latest betrayal and determined to live life on her own terms, Penelope breaks free from her family and ventures into the world alone. She finds adventure and Annie, her first friend and becomes the person she was meant to be.

  6.8

A Cock and Bull Story

2005, UK

• Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Conal Murphy, Joe Williams, Paul Kynman, Mark Tandy, Mary Healey, Dylan Moran, Jack Shepherd, David Walliams, Jeremy Northam, Benedict Wong, Naomie Harris, Claire Keelan, Kelly Macdonald, Mark Hadfield, Elizabeth Berrington, Mark Williams, Jenny Ogilvie, Tony Wilson, Justine Mitchell, Kieran O'Brien, Roger Allam, Ashley Jensen, James Fleet, Ian Hart, Ronni Ancona
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.