As the weather cools down this month grab your entire family, head inside and turn on Steel Magnolias on Showtime Greats, a romantic comedy that will have you embracing your loved ones and reaching for the phone to get in touch with old friends. For family fun and big laughs there is Look Who’s Talking starring John Travolta, Kirstie Allie and Bruce Willis as the voice of a baby who attempts to find himself a dad and a suitable love interest for his mother.

To enjoy some family dysfunction that is not your own tune into Running with Scissors on showcase and follow the bizarre adolescence of a boy who is given up by his unstable mother and sent to live with her eccentric psychiatrist and his family. Thrill seekers can follow the demise of the Mayan Empire in Apocalypto directed by Mel Gibson, and for modern day action/drama lovers the series The Black Donnellys explores the lives of four brothers in New York’s organized crime scene.

The thrills continue on SHOWTIME in Ghost Rider starring Nicholas Cage as a stunt motorcyclist who sells his soul to the devil in an attempt to save the world. The power of the human spirit is depicted in Reign Over Me as a man who lost everything on September 11th attempts to overcome his grief and Catch and Release where Jennifer Garner depicts a grieving widow who attempts to rebuild her life and find love again in this dark comedy.

Not sure what to get your own mother for Mother’s Day? Just enter SHOWTIME's Mother’s Day giveaway and win for your mum a DVD Pack including movies that she is sure to love like Grease, Ghost and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Have a great May and Happy Mother’s Day!

When journeyman actor Jon Favreau wrote and directed his first movie, Made, a disorganized crime caper, in 2001, with himself and his buddy Vince Vaughn in the lead roles, you can bet he never dreamed he’d graduate to calling the shots on a $US165 million superhero movie.

I doubt he ever had such grandiose notions either when he subsequently directed the unsubtle Will Ferrell comedy Elf or the fantasy adventure Zathura. So how in the world did he end up at the helm of Iron Man, the first movie produced and self-financed by Marvel Studios, which, judging by the initial reviews, looks set to be a massive hit when it opens worldwide on May 2 (May 1 in Oz)?

Simple really. Marvel’s faith in Favreau is yet another sign that comic book-based movies have progressed into a whole new realm, creatively and financially, far beyond their cheesy origins as low-budget affairs such as 1989’s The Punisher with Dolph Lundgren; 1994’s The Fantastic Four, executive produced by Roger Corman; and 1996’s The Phantom, which Catherine Zeta-Jones, who co-starred with Billy Zane, would probably wish to forget.

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