I've just watched a crap one - 'Tristan and Isolde'. It was set in "Dark Age Britain" (as imagined by some crass tw*t from Beverley Hills). In an opening scene a character gives a 'presentation' involving a sort of 'flip-chart' made of deer skin (yes, really!). Everyone in the film seems to be able to read and write and frequently sign treaties and read books (small, neat portable ones). In spite of its dramatic theme the film is fairly boring and packed full of Hollywood cliches.

My favourite film of all time is 'Last of the Mohicans' - the Michael Mann one with Daniel Day Lewis playing Hawkeye. An astonishing recreation of the wars between the British and French in Eighteenth Century North America. It also unfolds at break-neck speed and had me on the edge of my seat all the way through. Why can't all films be like that?