Film: Word on the street

By Unknown Author

Far be it for the OxStu to tell you what you can and can't see, we're not in a totalitarian state, yet, but here's a few helpful pointers of what's tipped and what's topped.

You'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to have seen Shakespeare in Love this month, but if you haven't, then seven Oscars say you're missing out. If it's cartoon action you're after, and we guess you have your reasons, then see box-office leader The Rugrat's Movie or catch Disney's A Bug's Life while it's still showing. Waking Ned provides Brit comedy of the usual excellence, and is the Tip of the Week as everone needs a good laugh and collections aren't that funny. Plunkett & Macleane is eminently avoidable despite Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle, but Elizebeth cleaned up at the BAFTAs if you're in that period-costume-drama mood. True culture can be found with newly-opened An Ideal Husband, as in Oscar Wilde, or with Ian McKellen in the award-winning Gods and Monsters at the Phoenix.

At the end of the day, the choice is yours.

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