SHOWING this week at Malvern Cinema is The Luzhin Defence (12), a film revolving around chess and romance, based on a Vladimir Nabokov novel.

John Turturro is Alexander Luzhin, an introverted chess grandmaster from a loveless background. Sparks fly when he attends a chess tournament in an Italian resort and meets Natalia (Emily Watson). It's on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7.30pm, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 8pm, with 3pm matinees on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday,

On Wednesday at 7.30pm is a single showing of The Virgin Suicides (15), the critically-acclaimed directorial debut of Sofia Coppola.

Starring Kirsten Dunst, James Woods and Kathleen Turner, it tells the story of five sisters growing up in a repressed family in the 70s, and their reactions to the onset of adolescence.