Little Children There is something of Desperate Housewives about Little Children, but the story is well-told and Kate Winslet is great - as ever.
			Valentin You would have thought that I'd be nearly fluent in Spanish, given the amount of Spanish and Latin American films I end up recommending - and Valentin is another that had me transfixed.
			Mad Men Say what you like about its foreign policy and its attitude to climate change, but the US has given the world some great TV and Mad Men is the latest in the tradition that produced The West Wing etc.
			A Mighty Heart I watched the first two-thirds of A Mighty Heart convinced that there would be a happy ending, which only made the realisation that this wasn't going to be the case all the more shocking.
			The Night Of The Sunflowers A Spanish movie, The Night Of The Sunflowers is the complete antithesis of most Hollywood thrillers - subtle, ambiguous and without the neat ending that the big US studios seem to require.
			The Lives Of Others I have to confess that for the first few minutes of The Lives Of Others I was blaming my father-in-law for giving me a real duff steer.
			The Painted Veil It is 10 years since I left Australia and moved to Hong Kong and thankfully I didn't go as the reluctant wife of a man I didn't love like the heroine of The Painted Veil.
			Hors de Prix (Priceless) The real reason you need to see Priceless is for the clothes Audrey Tautou wears. They are truly unbelievable. I could have watched the film in French (or without headphones) just to drool over the clothes.
			Little Miss Sunshine These days, I have to wait until the DVD release (or a long flight to Australia) before I catch up on my film watching - but I thought Little Miss Sunshine was well worth the wait.
			Walk On Water Our local video shop is closing down and so they have been selling off ex-rental DVDs for next to nothing - which is how I came across Walk On Water.
			Paradise Now I have Mariella Frostrup to thank for putting me onto Paradise Now as the first I heard of it was when she metioned it in an article in the same breath as The Kite Runner.
			Grey's Anatomy I try not to watch too much TV, but there are a couple of nights a week when I make sure I'm at home, snuggled up on the sofa in my hush pyjamas.
			The Sea Inside If I told you that The Sea Inside was a Spanish film about a 55-year-old quadriplegic's real-life battle to be allowed to die, you would probably opt to do likewise rather than make it your choice of evening viewing.
			Go Everyone now knows Katie Holmes as Mrs Tom Cruise, the woman who caused the world's most famous movie star to dance around like a lovestruck teenager on Oprah while she had his baby in Scientology-induced silence...
			Mystery, Alaska When Russell Crowe wins an Oscar, we Aussies are very proud to claim him as one of us. When he’s pinning a BBC producer to the wall because he’s not allowed to read a poem at the Baftas, we make sure...
			Nine Queens Why is it that all Hollywood remakes of foreign language films are so much worse than the original?
			Walk The Line I don’t think I could have named a single Johnny Cash song before I watched Walk The Line – and I’m not sure I could name any now apart from the track that gives this film its name.
			Bleak House I have to admit that, unlike my husband, I haven’t got the patience to read a Charles Dickens book from cover to cover, but I normally really enjoy the film and TV adaptations.