It's not often I go to the pub, but I was in one today. Five of us threading the conversation with different stories, curious anecdotes, odd facts, and bold rhetorical sweeps. Pub talk.

Female pub talk, I've been told, gets to heart of the matter more or less straight away: " Your boyfriend, how good ?...big ...?"

What did we five men spend thirty minutes chewing over ? Films that have us in tears. And don't expect there to be someone saying it's when it's the final Top Gear show the season cuts to the credits. No, we were listing serious handkerchief movies, like the Incredible Journey, Marley and Me, or Up, and in my case, the film that always has me sniffling, Rabbit Proof Fence.