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MR MALCOLM’S LIST, 8PM, SKY PREMIERE

WHEN Julia Thistlewaite (Wanderlust’s Zawe Ashton) is rejected as a potential wife by the dashing Mr Malcolm because she doesn’t meet his list of requirements for a good bride, she hits upon an ingenious revenge plan. She’ll get her best friend Selina up from the country to 19th-century London and coach her to seem like she checks every box on Mr Malcolm’s list. Then, when ‘the biggest catch of the season’ asks Selina to marry him, she’ll refuse him and Julia’s revenge will be complete. Except . . . well, what if Selina and Malcolm (Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto and Gangs Of London’s Sope Dirisu, pictured near right with Ashton and Theo James) really do fall in love? With equal dollops of Jane Austen, Bridgerton and Bridget Jones in its make-up, this delightful film is a perfect slice of period romcom silliness, adapted from her own novel by the author Suzanne Allain.