When he travels through time which can be either backwards or forwards he leaves his clothes in a crumpled heap behind him.

That's not to say this is a film with explicit nudity, but it does provide problems for Bana's character, Henry DeTamble, who has become an expert at picking locks and stealing something, anything, to wear.

Yes, it could easily have been ridiculous but The Time

Traveller's Wife, rated M, and based on a bestselling book by Audrey Niffenegger, is a tender love story with loads of appeal.

When we first meet Henry we hear him, rather than see him he's hiding in thick bushes politely asking a little girl, Clare, to lend him her picnic blanket.

She will grow up to be the "wife'' of the title, played by Rachel McAdams.

Alastair Sim as Scrooge in the 1951 film version of A Christmas Carol stands out as one of many memorable film and television versions of the Charles Dickens literary classic.

However, there is little to recommend the animated 3D version opening in cinemas today.

In an animated process in which you are aware that it is Jim Carrey up there on the screen, you are also aware there is too much Carrey, who not only plays the miserable miser Ebenezer Scrooge but also the ghosts of Chistmases past, present and future.

The "parental guidance'' rating is a warning for parents who may find there are scenes in this film which could frighten young children.

A Christmas Carol also stars Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth and Robin Wright Penn.

Colin Firth also stars in a drama, Genova, M, a film about grief and recovery.

Firth stars as Joe, who moves from England to Italy with his two daughters, 16 and 10, after the death of his wife, their mother, in a car crash.

Both the girls were also in the crash, and in Genova, the older girl Kelly (Willa Holland) will discover boys and her sister Mary (Perla Haney-Jardine) becomes convinced she is seeing her mother's ghost.