IT has been a delight to have some exciting things to do in the last few weeks, including a trip to the O2 to see my all-time favourite band, The Who, which was poignant when the words, “I hope I die before I get old” were sung by a 71-year-old Roger Daltry.

However, it is really nice to get back to some normality. I have projects to complete that have been on hold for various reasons. I always like to make the improvements that mean the cinema can run more smoothly.

We have watched some films as well this week – The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water and Suite Française.

We watched The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water first, which was just a romp of good family fun with pantomime proportions of humour woven in.

One joke which I really liked was that the pirate ship had auto pirate instead of auto pilot. The voices in the film were comfortably known and memorable and yet not who I thought they were in most cases as I had thought that Alan Carr was one of the seagulls, but he is not listed anywhere that I could see.

Antonio Banderas was the pirate animated in a real Jack Sparrow-style of operation as he sailed solo other than the company of the seagulls to whom he explained the stories and sang merrily.

The story was contrived, but then what else can you expect in an underwater world where sponges, squid and plankton talk, the main thrust of the story is about the secret of the make-up of the Crabby Patty. All-in-all an enjoyable escape for a while.

Suite Francaise was right at the other end of the scale, a sensitively filmed difficult story of love across the divide in France between the occupied and the occupiers.

The story started in something of an unthreatening way with the occupied ignoring the occupiers and the occupiers not really feeling the war.

This changes pretty quickly when one of the occupiers tries to win the wife of one of the natives.

Tension developed and I was on the edge of my seat as various searches were carried out. There is room for respect, but the regime won’t allow it. Jealousies are shown to backfire – sadly literally.

The story develops into the means by which two of the participants end up in the fight against the occupation. An extremely moving story at which the way the book came to light and the tragic circumstances of the author explained at the end of the film.

Kristin Scott Thomas was superb, as all of the performances were beautifully portraying the characters.

At the end of the film I didn’t feel like jumping up and leaving while the futility of the circumstances and the war on the civilians sank in.

Films from Friday: Still with Easter holidays at the forefront of our schedule Cinderella (U) joins us from Friday.

Fast and Furious 7 (12A) also joins us on its release on Friday.

Home (U and number two in the top 10) continues for another week with only one show a day.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water (U and number three in the top 10) also continues for another week.

Suite Française (15) stays with us for another week in screen three so booking advised.

Coming soon: A Little Chaos (12A) unusually sees a female landscape-gardener awarded the esteemed assignment to construct the grand gardens at Versailles, a gilt-edged position which thrusts her to the very centre of the court of King Louis XIV.

Directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Stanley Tucci.

With much more action there is Avengers Age of Ultron (not classified yet, but expected 12A) which has some amazing costumes in it, of course, released on April 24.

This is the second of the Marvel films where the whole of the characters (owned by Disney) get together to prevent the Ultron system carrying out its terrible plans. Live stage productions: ROH Live Opera: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (12A) is live tonight at 7pm.

NT Live: The Hard Problem (12A) is on April 16 and there are still some excellent seats for these productions, as well as for ENCORE: Maxine Peake as Hamlet (12A) on Sunday, April 19, at 4.15pm.