Alice Through the Looking Glass 1998  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: John Henderson
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Michael Medwin, Geoffrey Palmer, Steve Coogan, Gary Olsen, Ian Richardson, Marc Warren, Sian Phillips, Rebecca R. Palmer, Greg Wise, Louise J. Taylor
In this TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic, grown-up Alice (Kate Beckinsale) is transported through the looking glass while reading to her daughter. Her adventures are enhanced by a combination of live action, animation, and special effects.
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Blame It on the Bellboy 1992  PG-13, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mark Herman
Cast: Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Andreas Katsulas, Patsy Kensit, Alison Steadman, Penelope Wilton, Bronson Pinchot, Jim Carter, Alex Norton, John Grillo, Andrew Bailey
Three men with similar-sounding last names check into a Venice hotel. Melvyn Orton (Dudley Moore) is a real estate agent with a deal to be made; Mike Lawton (Bryan Brown) is a hit man with a job to perform; and Maurice Horton (Richard Griffiths) has a rendezvous set up by a dating service. Their missions get swapped due to a bellboy (Bronson Pinchot) who has poor English language skills. Weak farce.
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 Calendar Girls 2003  PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Nigel Cole
Cast: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Philip Glenister, Ciaran Hinds, Celia Imrie, Geraldine James, Penelope Wilton, George Costigan, Graham Crowden
Middle-aged friends Angela (Julie Walters) and Tricia (Helen Mirren) set off a media frenzy after convincing fellow members of the Ryletone Women's Institute in North Yorkshire to pose nude for the group's annual calendar. Proceeds will go to leukemia research honoring Angela's recently deceased husband (John Alderton), but the attention tests more than one long-time friendship.
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Carrington 1995   R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Christopher Hampton
Cast: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Rufus Sewell, Samuel West, Penelope Wilton, Janet McTeer, Jeremy Northam, Peter Blythe
Dora Carrington was a British painter in the early 20th century who discovered her platonic soul mate in a homosexual male, Lytton Strachey. Over her lifetime, Carrington married and had affairs, but she always managed to come back to Strachey during a time when their lifestyles, as members of England's Bloomsbury Group, were not condoned by society.
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Clockwise 1986 PG, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Christopher Morahan
Cast: John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Stephen Moore, Joan Hickson, Sharon Maiden, Penny Leatherbarrow, Tony Haygarth, Peter Cellier
John Cleese plays a school headmaster who is obsessed with time. He becomes completely terrified when he realizes he has missed the train to an important conference and seeks other means of getting to the conference on time. Cleese, as often happens, is excellent.
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Cry Freedom 1987 PG, 157 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Denzel Washington, John Thaw, Sophie Mgcina, Joseph Marcell, Zakes Mokae, John Hargreaves, Alec McCowen, Ian Richardson
Steve Biko (Denzel Washington), a South Afrrican activist, fights to stop the inhumane treatment of blacks. After he dies while in police custody, his white newspaper-editor friend (Kevin Kline) attempts to escape the country to write Biko's story. Generally a well-told tale. Washington received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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 Iris 2001 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Eleanor Bron, Angela Morant, Penelope Wilton, Sioban Hayes, Juliet Aubrey, Joan Bakewell
After 40 years of marriage, playwright/novelist/philosopher Iris Murdoch (Judi Dench) is the subject of husband John Bayley's Jim Broadbent) memoirs. The story skips back and forth from young, sexually adventurous, Oxford student Iris (Kate Winslet) to Alzheimer-ridden Iris in this profile of an amazing woman's life. Jim Broadbent received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor; Judi Dench and Kate Winslet were nominated for Best Actress and Supporting Actress.
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 Match Point 2005 R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton, Ewen Bremmer, James Nesbitt, Rupert Penry-Jones, Margaret Tyzack, Colin Salmon, Zoe Telford, Alexander Armstrong, Paul Kaye, Simon Kunz
Tennis pro Chris Wilton's (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) career is going nowhere, but when he marries Chloe Hewett (Emily Mortimer), whose family represents upper-class wealth, the union provides his entry into the corporate world. Chris is doing very well in his new profession, but will his attraction to sexy Nola (Scarlett Johansson) cause him to lose everything he has gained as a member of London society?
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Shaun of the Dead 2004 R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror / Romance
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy, Nicola Cunningham, Keir Mills, Matt Jaynes, Penelope Wilton, Jessica Hynes, Peter Serafinowicz, Gavin Ferguson, Peter Serafinowicz, Horton Jupiter
Zombies have risen from the dead and are feasting on London's citizens. Loser Shaun (Simon Pegg) is determined to keep cool and sets out with his roommate Ed (Nick Frost) and only a cricket bat as a weapon to rescue his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) and his mother Barbara (Penelope Wilton). His plan is to bring them back to the only place he feels safe: the pub.
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| 1. Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)
2. Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
3. Calendar Girls (2003)
4. Carrington (1995)
5. Clockwise (1986)
6. Cry Freedom (1987)
7. Iris (2001)
8. Match Point (2005)
9. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
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