films
The Ides of March
I can probably count the number of visits I’ve made to the cinema since I became a mother on the fingers of one hand – and that was seven years ago. It’s not that I can’t go; it’s just that …
A Separation
If you want a pretty reliable guide to the best films over the past few years, then there are worst places to start than with the winners of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. In fact, you could do …
Inheritance
The question I probably get asked most about hush: What’s it like working with your husband? It’s a source of fascination to many other couples that we sit opposite each other all day and then go home together in the …
Our choice of gift set DVD’s this Christmas…
Here is our guide to this year’s pick of gift set films; whether they’re to go with PJ’s or pyjama bottoms they’re sure to make that Christmas gift extra special. 12 AND HOLDING (2005) A film about children and what we as …
Engrenages (Spiral)
I don’t know whether the French have an expression for boxset. They probably do – but it’s probably about five words long, and so everyone says le boxset instead. Well, as we’ve started with a French lesson, I can tell …
Country Strong
I once spent a blissful weekend pre-kids at Babington House in Somerset, nearly ruined by my then boyfriend/now husband who decided not to mention that we were sitting at lunch right next to Gwyneth Paltrow. He had clocked her and …
Biutiful
When I started writing book and film recommendations back when we started out in 2003, the idea was that they should help promote the ‘feel good’ factor that I always wanted hush to promote – a kind of complement to …
Silk
All my barrister friends are phenomenally sniffy about Silk, the recent six-part BBC legal drama that is now available on DVD. Despite the fact that the show was written by a barrister, they complain that it is unrealistic, legally inaccurate, …
The Page Turner
I think when as a teenager I laid down my flute for the last time, it was something of a relief to all concerned. I don’t remember the musical world mourning the loss of one of its brightest prospects nor …
The Grocer’s Son
We used to learn French at school in Australia, but I don’t think anyone paid much attention. It all seemed a long way away and pretty irrelevant to the daily life of a 15-year-old in Melbourne. If I’d known then …
