WE are back to normal after the problems we have been having affecting the presentations – turned out to be a new piece of equipment that was incompatible with the other. It is now sorted.

Next weekend, the Milton Rooms, in Malton, has an arts and crafts fair on Saturday and Sherlock Holmes: A Working Hypothesis on the Sunday.

We watched two quality films this week – A Little Chaos and Woman in Gold.

Both films are sumptuously filmed and have all-star casts. I really enjoyed the way A Little Chaos (12A) was filmed and the costumes were nothing if not authentic – no family connection with this one though.

A fictionalised account of the building of the gardens of Versailles. This is Alan Rickman’s second film as director, as well as taking a lead role as the King of France – Louis XIV (14th so you don’t have to work out the Roman numerals).

The story is about the Gardens at Versailles and the way that Madame Sabine De Barra, played by Kate Winslet, gets to be part of the layout of the fountains. She has personal issues that are explored in the story.

Controller-General of the Royal Buildings, André Le Nôtre, is to design and build a rockwork grove in the gardens at Versailles, which will be an outdoor ballroom as well as impressive water feature.

Sabine De Barra favours the more naturalistic style of garden design, in opposition to Le Nôtre’s heavily ordered and symmetrical style. But as the garden grows, so does their mutual attraction. A little slow in places, but well filmed – and it kept me interested.

Woman in Gold (12A) is the true story of Klimt’s painting of Adele Bloch Bauer, the way the painting was possessed by the Germans during the Second World War – and the way it came to be in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, which is in Vienna.

The battle that Maria Altmann had against the Austrian authorities and the American government to recover the painting, by a very famous artist, of her aunt – Adele Bloch Bauer.

The Austrians blocked her at every point in the battle to recover and offered nothing at any time; then when the boot was on the other foot asked for consideration. Even knowing the outcome it is a really emotional story and Helen Mirren is superb at all times in the film.

The stirred-up emotions of wartime, when all was against the Jewish people in a country overtaken by the Germans, and the harsh reality of life at that time for the Jewish community was aptly portrayed. Then the real people pop up at the end and what they did afterwards is a real delight to see.

Films from Friday: Cinderella (U) this lovely film is with us for one show a day.

Home (U) is with us for one show only on Saturday and Sunday.

A Little Chaos (12A) continues for another week for two shows on the weekdays and one at weekends.

Woman in Gold (12A) will be staying for another week, for three shows a day in the weekdays and for two at weekends.

The big one this week is The Avengers: Age of Ultron (12A). There are loads of great names in this film – Idris Elba, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Chris (nice costumes) Evans, Robert Downey Junior (of course), Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson – they are the names I recognised. It promises much and I have to say it looks brilliant from the trailer. Looking forward to it.

Coming soon: Dark Horse (PG) is a film we are looking at as a possibility in our racing community. Dark Horse is an inspirational true story of a group of friends from a Welsh working men’s club who decide to take on the elite “sport of kings” and breed themselves a racehorse.

Filmed as a documentary in a good-humoured, no-frills manner, showing how they ended up with the winner of the Welsh Grand National. We are watching requests and may fit it in in a few week’s time.

Live stage productions: La Fille mal gardee is on Tuesday, May 5, and is really well booked up – only one seat at the moment so there is little point talking about that and causing even more disappointment.

NT Live: Man and Superman (12A) Thursday, May 14, at 6.45pm.

This production is about Jack Tanner, a celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor who seems a rather unlikely choice as guardian to Ann the alluring heiress. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this revolutionary.

Tanner, appalled by domesticity, is tipped off by his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil.

An extraordinary dream-debate of heaven versus hell ensues. Ann follows in hot pursuit and is there when Jack awakes; she is as fierce in her certainty as he is in his. Ralph Fiennes takes the role of Tanner in this reinvention of George Bernard Shaw’s provocative classic.