WHAT can be said about a good novel: It delights, can be thought provoking, bring a smile to your face and reduce the best of us to tears. And luckily for us, they can be transformed into the most incredible films, as seen in this week’s films for Ilkley Cinema.

From June 9 to 15, Daphne du Maurier’s haunting classic My Cousin Rachel is retold with Sam Claflin and Rachel Weisz as the coincidentally named eponymous leading lady. Young Philip (Claflin) suspects that his mysterious and beautiful cousin is the reason for his guardian’s death. His plot for revenge is set in motion, until he falls under her beguiling spell of her charms. Will Philip suffer the same fate under the care of his cousin Rachel?

Stephen Fry is undoubtedly a national treasure with his famous witty comedy and as it turns out, his wonderful novel writing including The Hippopotamus, about to make its debut on the big screen. Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friends Lord and Lady Logan’s country manor, to investigate a series of unexplained miracle healings.

We also have a duo of exceptional Live Arts shows for you to feast your eyes upon. All children grow up, except one and it is time to see this wondrously inventive production of Peter Pan, at the Bristol Old Vic theatre. We also bring you the Berlin Philharmonic: Gustavo Dudamel. The conclusion of the orchestra’s cinema season offers a both exciting and diverse programme under the baton of charismatic conductor Gustavo Dudamel. Following a rendition of City Noir, John Adams’s homage to the great age of bebop, Dudamel will perform Dvo?ák’s symphony From the New World.

Finally, the most dapperly dressed, spy infant returns in The Boss Baby for Kids’ Club this Saturday morning. So prepare yourselves for the most ultimate battle in history: babies vs. puppies.

Evie Myers