There is one or more in nearly every family - the eccentric. Most of the time they are pretty harmless and sometimes they are even charming and funny. Not all families are blessed with a batty auntie or odd uncle, whilst others are cursed with an overabundance of oddballs and lunatics. The problems arise when you meet a new partner and their family is not like yours. How do you introduce your sensible partner to the Grandfather who liked to collect fossilised dinosaur poop? Just remember as bad as things get at least they don't go around killing people ... Ladies man Mortimer Brewster has finally settled down with neighbourhood sweetheart Priscilla and on ...  Read the complete review

A cinematic gem, directed by Frank Capra in 1944 and adapted from the play by Joseph Kesselring, 'Arsenic & Old Lace' should undoubtedly be on the 'must see' list for anyone vaguely interested in films. The main character is a mysoginistic theatre critic by the name of Mortimer Brewster, played to absolute perfection by Cary Grant, who marries the priest's daughter and goes back to tell his two maiden aunts that he has done the deed and got married. The two aunts are a pair of delightfully batty old ladies who invite homeless men into their house on the pretext that they have a room to let. Out of a kind of mercy they proceed to ...  Read the complete review

This film is a classic. Black and white with quite a young Cary Crant it must surely rate as one of the funniest films ever made. A young man and his new bride travel home to tell her father and his two dear aunts of their betrothal. While she is at her father's home he discovers a body in the window seat at his aunts house and, worse, that more have been buried in the cellar. The sweet dithery old ladies have been finishing off lonely old men for their own good. The aunts have a brother who thinks he is Teddy Rousevelt and keeps blowing a trumpet whilst dressed in safari gear and a pith helmet, a brother of Grant's ...  Read the complete review

This has to be my favourite film of all time! Starring Cary Grant as a hapless drama critic, who discovers a streak of insanity in his family the day he gets engaged, everyone should watch this classic farce at least once, so they can die laughing. Imagine trying to impress your new fiancé, whilst finding out those two sweet wouldn’t-hurt-a-fly aunts you so adore have taken to murdering lonely gentlemen and hiding their corpses in the cellar. What’s more, they think it is a perfectly normal way to behave and can’t see what all the fuss is about. At the same time, your murderous brother is on the loose, hunted by the police, and is prowling ...  Read the complete review

This is one of my favourite films of all time, a real unknown gem that doesn't quite get the credit or plaudits it deserves. It stars Cary Grant (Bringing up baby, Father Goose ,North By North west) in a comedy role whereby he is the straight man reacting to all the madness going on around him. The most hilarious scenes in the film involve this process and the facial expressions and noises he makes are comedy gold. I have watched this film over and over again and never tire of it, It still makes me laugh in all the right places, and even though it is in Black and white it completly stands up today - its timeless. I mean doesn't everyone have 1 or 2 people who ...  Read the complete review