Matyelok Gibbs

Miss Potter -- Written by Richard Maltby, Jr., 'Miss Potter' explores the life of Potter (Renee Zellweger), the author of beloved and best-selling children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, her struggle to overcome a domineering and unsupportive mother and the chauvinism of Victorian England to become a published author.

Babel -- Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving six different families.

From Polish director Agnieszka Holland comes the suspenseful and politically charged drama To Kill a Priest. Based on the 1984 murder of priest and Solidarity supporter Jerzy Popieluszko, who was beaten and drowned by Polish security police. This compelling film stars Ed Harris and Christopher Lambert.

Beatrix Potter was a literary phenomenon of the early 20th Century. At a time when most young women of her class aimed only to make a good marriage, Beatrix became an iconic figure, swimming quietly, but with great fortitude, against the tide. She created a series of books and characters that are as beloved today as they were a hundred years ago, and since their publication they have never been out of print. She was also a distinguished painter and – had she been a man – her botanical drawings would have been snapped up by the Royal Horticultural Society at Kew Gardens. In addition, by the time she died in 1943, Beatrix Potter had purchased vast swathes of the Lake District that she left to the then fledgling British conservation trust, the National Trust. That so much of this glorious countryside that inspired her, remains as it was in Beatrix Potter’s day for others to enjoy, is her bequest to the nation. This is her story…