IN recent years I have really gone off going to the cinema. All the kids running around, the seats designed for people under five feet tall and the crackly prints, not to mention the cost nowadays, have me longing for my comfy couch, 42” plasma and remote control complete with pause button.

And I am not the only one feeling this way – why else do you think film-makers are falling over themselves to make movies in 3D?

However I can feel my resolve beginning to weaken. The imminent arrival of this year’s Christmas blockbusters may just be enough to make me overlook the popcorn-studded seats and take off in the direction of the nearest multiplex.

Because film is about to have one of its biggest fashion moments since Sex and the City part one.

First up, this weekend we have uber-designer Tom Ford making his directorial debut with A Single Man – a film so fashion-ridden that it features Dolce and Gabbana themselves as a pair of priests!

So stylish is this movie that the premiere looked more like a runway show than a red carpet outing as the cast tried to out-fashion each other (naturally Ford won). Okay so it has Colin Firth as the romantic lead, but hey you can’t have everything.

Hot on the heels of A Single Man comes the musical Nine. The latest outing from Rob Marshall the man who single-handedly revived the song and dance genre with Chicago, Nine, which features no less than six Oscar winners, is like a casting director’s fantasy.

Based on the Broadway musical of the same name (which was itself inspired by the Federico Fellini film 8 ½) it tells the story of film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), who is struggling with a mid-life crisis and the many women in his life.

And what women they are, Marion Cotillard plays his wife, Penelope Cruz his mistress, Nicole Kidman his muse, Judi Dench his confidant and costume designer, Kate Hudson (pictured left at the premiere) a fashion journalist, Sophia Loren his mother and Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas is a prostitute from his youth.

Award-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood is responsible for the wardrobes and boy does she deliver creating some of the sexiest costumes ever seen on celluloid. Nicole Kidman’s willowy frame is squeezed into breathtaking corsets, while Kate Hudson’s character dances in specially designed Jimmy Choo boots and Penelope Cruz’s mistress is like a walking Agent Provocateur advert.

Finally, on Boxing Day as you tuck into your turkey leftovers Guy Ritchie’s all-action Sherlock Holmes film opens with costumes by…

Actually, come to think of it Sherlock Holmes has naff all to do with fashion. But it does have Robert Downey Jnr with his shirt off and surely that’s got to be worth six pounds of anyone’s money!