Disney cartoon, nominated for an Oscar. An Ugly Duckling variant about a lion cub raised by a flock of sheep.

If you love the sumptuous-yet-creepy over the top visual style of Terry Gilliam, then this is the film for you.If you like the witty banter of films like Pirates of the Caribbean and The Princess Bride, then this is the film for you.

The historical Grimm brothers were scholars of folktales who compiled the collection of many of the fairytales we know today. In this highly fictionalised account, they have put aside the scholarship in order to make money ridding villages of witches' and 'ghosts' for a reasonable fee. This is going well, until they are called to a village where children have been disappearing, and they discover that the surrounding woods have been enchanted by the Mirror Queen.

Written by Ehren Kruger, and produced by Miramax, The Brothers Grimm is probably the most accessible of Terry Gilliam's films. Yet this should not put his fans off, as it offers much in the way of fantasy visions and nightmarish undertones, just as it offers much in the way of comic relief. While this is not Gilliam at his darkest, it is still quite far from the Hallmark and Disney retellings of classic fairytales.

The Ealing Studio was famous for producing a number of droll, tightly-paced comedies during the late 40s and 50s (such as The Ladykillers, which was screened by the ANU Film Group last year). The Lavender Hill Mob was one of the very best and funniest. Alec Guinness plays a timid, insignificant bank clerk who hopes to finance his lavish retirement as recompense for a career in which he has been taken for granted. He concocts an ingenious plan to steal a million pounds worth of gold bullion from his own bank, melt it down, and smuggle it out of the country in the form of miniature Eiffel Towers. He enlists the support of two small-time crooks (James and Bass) and a sculptor (Holloway). Of course, every brilliant plan has to be implemented by fallible human beings. The film won an Oscar for best story and screenplay. Director Charles Crichton, who later directed A Fish Called Wanda, provides the comedy with a fast pace and expert timing. A young Audrey Hepburn has a brief appearance during the opening sequence in Rio.