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List Price: £12.99
Our Price: £2.14
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter
Director:
Ang Lee
Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with Sense and Sensibility, a marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister, Marianne (the one with "sensibility"). Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. All of this is doled out with the usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. The director, an inspired choice, is Taiwan-born Ang Lee, here making his first English-language film. He brings the same exquisite taste and discreet touch he displayed in his previous Asian films (such as Eat Drink Man Woman). Thompson's script won an Oscar. --R...
 Thompson, Winslet, Rickman & Grant what a joy to watch, 2010-02-27
Wonderful wide screen copy in in terrific condition.
Absolute breath taking photography & a tremendous Patrick Doyle score.
Story similar to other Austin books, ladies must look for husbands but get mislead by love & mix feelings. Shows how the aristocratic attitude of the time often destroyed true feelings.
a wonderful movie with some intresting extras.
List Price: £24.99
Our Price: £2.75
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Peter O'Toole, Claude Rains, Norman Rossington, Donald Wolfit, Fernando Sancho
Director:
David Lean
In 1962 Lawrence of Arabia scooped another seven Oscars for David Lean and crew after his previous epic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, had performed exactly the same feat a few years earlier. Supported in this Great War desert adventure by a superb cast including Alex Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole gives a complex, star-making performance as the enigmatic TE Lawrence. The magnificent action and vast desert panoramas were captured in luminous 70mm by Cinematographer Freddie Young, here beginning a partnership with Lean that continued through Dr Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970). Yet what made the film truly outstanding was Robert (A Man For All Seasons) Bolt's literate screenplay, marking the beginning of yet another ongoing collaboration with Lean. The final partnership established was between director and French composer Maurice Jarre, who won one of the Oscars and scored all Lean's remaining films, up to and including A Passage to India in 1984. Fully restored in 1989, this complete version of Lean's masterpiece remains one of cinema's all-time classic visions. --Gary S Dalkin On the DVD: ...
Well worth watching, 2010-02-28
For fans of Lawrence of Arabia this is a must. Well filmed and very enjoyable. Only downside was the long music introduction but that can be skipped.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £3.97
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Ioan Gruffudd, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Albert Finney, Youssou N'Dour
Director:
Michael Apted
In this inspirational costume drama, Michael Apted (49 Up) recounts a important period in British history. Unsurprisingly, however, his eye-opening biography of 18th century abolitionist William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) is likely to come as a revelation to many Britons. After all, despite the presence of his wife, Barbara (Romola Garai), this isn't a particularly "sexy" story, but it is a powerful one. The title comes from John Newton's hymn "Amazing Grace" ("I once was lost but now am found"). Newton (Albert Finney) was a former slaveholder, who became a clergyman and spent his days repenting. While America had John Brown, England had Wilberforce, and Newton is one of many who helped the MP to abolish slavery in the UK. The story begins towards the end of Wilberforce's mission when he's sick with colitis and addicted to laudanum. Apted continues to alternate between 1797 and 1789, when Wilberforce was fitter and more idealistic, and ends in 1807 as his efforts come to fruition. Apted and writer Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things) do right by their hero. Unlike Amistad, however, slaves are largely off-screen, with the exception of author Equiano (S...
Very moving, very good, 2010-03-08
I have caught this film several times on television and decided in the end to buy the DVD and enjoyed it again. I like the additional features that tell you more facts on the great William Wilberforce. Fascinating and admiral chap all round. They don't make them like that any more.... men nor films (well actually perhaps the films they do!)
All the characters seem to be to be exactly as I would imagine them to be and what information and pictures I've seen all very appropriate. Of course some of the facts have to be massaged a little for this format/purpose, but all things being equal, as historical adaptations go, they don't come much better than this and as for the subject matter - what can you say. Wonderful stuff that makes you feel proud to be British.
List Price: £19.99
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride
Director:
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth remains one of the most infamous for a number of reasons: the copious amounts of bloody gore, its expert use of location settings (filmed in North Wales) and Lady Macbeth's nude sleepwalking scene. Despite its notoriety, though, this does remain one of the more compelling film adaptations of the Scottish tragedy, if one of the more pessimistic takes on the story of Macbeth and his overreaching ambition. If you think the play is normally a bit of a downer, you haven't seen Polanski's bleak version of it, made in reaction to the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, by the Manson "family". Jon Finch (Hitchcock's Frenzy) is a forceful Macbeth, bringing out the Scot's warrior instincts, and Francesca Annis is a memorable Lady Macbeth but the main thrust of the film belongs to Polanski's and noted British playwright and critic Kenneth Tynan's take on the play: extremely violent, nihilistic and visceral; this is down-in-the-dirt, no-holds-barred Shakespeare, not fussy costume drama. Pay close attention to the end, a silent coda that puts a chilling twist on all the action that has come beforehand and foreshadows mo...
Polanski Macbeth, 2010-01-07
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's greatest plays and Polanski does it justice. From the opening scene with the witches burying a severed arm on the beach to the death of Macbeth this is a riveting interpretation of the play. The acting is superb and is matched by Polanski's direction. I have seen many Macbeths on DVD and this is the best.
List Price: £13.99
Our Price: £1.64
Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Virginia McCollam, John McConnell, Tom Cruise
Director:
Neil Jordan
When it was announced that Tom Cruise would play the vampire Lestat in this adaptation of Anne Rice's bestselling novel, even Rice chimed in with a highly publicised objection. The author wisely and justifiably recanted her negative opinion when she saw Cruise's excellent performance, which perceptively addresses the pain and chronic melancholy that plagues anyone cursed with immortal bloodlust. Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst are equally good at maintaining the dark and brooding tone of Rice's novel. And in this rare mainstream project for a major studio, director Neil Jordan compensates for a lumbering plot by honouring the literate, Romantic qualities of Rice's screenplay. Considered a disappointment while being embraced by Rice's loyal followers, Interview with the Vampire is too slow to be a satisfying thriller, but it is definitely one of the most lavish, intelligent horror films ever made. --Jeff Shannon
It wont disappoint., 2010-02-08
Poetic, elegant, sensual, mysterious, beautifully written and superbly casted.
A film that will not disappoint.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £1.14
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Natalie Portman, Ana Torrent, David Morrissey, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana
Director:
Justin Chadwick
A tale of two sisters competing for the same king, The Other Boleyn Girl uses historical facts as window dressing for this work of fiction that is entertaining, if not wholly believable. Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) is the doe-eyed vixen ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII (Eric Bana). Her shy sister Mary (Scarlett Johansson) has always been in Anne's shadow; Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary--the "other Boleyn girl"--as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. With a pair of American actresses in the lead roles and an Aussie portraying their hunky object of desire, the English accents are all over the place in this period piece with a modern feel. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her "daughters are being traded like cattle for the advancement of men," it is Anne who ultimately throws her slight weight around to bully Henry into doing her bidding. When he begs her to give herself to him, Anne--wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque "B" pendant on her neck--counters, "Make me your Queen." Is the audience really suppos...
Thoroughly entertaining, 2009-11-20
I absolutely loved this film. I have read many of the unfavourable reviews and can see how the historical inaccuracies and the anachronisms would be really irritating to some people but I took it as a bit of entertaining fiction based loosely on fact. I therefore, was not disappointed as I didn't expect it to be totally true to history. The book, after all, was fiction.
I agree it was a bit twee and did seem to be anachronistic but I loved it. I thought it was highly entertaining and escapist; a real pleasure for me.
List Price: £5.99
Our Price: £3.09
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher
Director:
James Cameron
When the theatrical release of James Cameron's Titanic was delayed from July to December of 1997, media pundits speculated that Cameron's $200 million disaster epic would cause the director's downfall, signal the end of the blockbuster era and sink Paramount Studios as quickly as the ill-fated luxury liner had sunk on that fateful night of April 14, 1912. Some studio executives were confident, others horrified, but the clarity of hindsight turned Cameron into an Oscar-winning genius, a shrewd businessman and one of the most successful directors in the history of motion pictures. Titanic would surpass the $1 billion mark in global box-office receipts (largely due to multiple viewings, the majority by teenage girls), win 11 Academy Awards including best picture and director, produce the bestselling movie soundtrack of all time and make a global superstar of Leonardo DiCaprio. A bona fide pop-cultural phenomenon, the film has all the ingredients of a blockbuster (romance, passion, luxury, grand scale, a snidely villain and an epic, life-threatening crisis), but Cameron's alchemy of these ingredients proved more popular than anyone could have predicted. His stroke of g...
Genius!, 2010-02-18
I love this film and would recommend it to anyone!
The plot:
First class beauty, Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and poor third class Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) meet while boarding the great RMS Titanic. Rose feels trapped in her life of constant first class 'parties' and stuck up businessmen while being engaged to rich suitor Caledon Hockley (Billy Zane). Rose has been forced to marry this man by her mother, who, since Rose's father died, has tried everything to keep them in the first class 'gang' and the engagement is their last hope. Rose and her family, including Cal, are boarding the ship to go back to their home in America. Elsewhere, Jack is an artist trying everything he can to make ends meat with his Italian friend Fabrizio. Having no where proper to live, Jack wins tickets aboard Titanic through a Poker game, and he and Fabrizio board heading for America. Jack spots Rose as she attempts to jump from the bowl of the ship in order to end her life. He saves her, and, after originally being accused of raping her, is eventually declared a hero and is invited to join the first class passengers for a dinner for just the one night. After the dinner, Jack takes Rose to a party with the lower class passengers, un beknown to her fiance, who later finds out. Determined to break free from her first class life, Rose continues to meet with Jack. The pair enjoy their first kiss on the bowl of the great ship. Jack, being an artist, later draws Rose completely naked, by her own request. They later sleep together, just before the ship hits an iceberg which then starts to flood the ship. Cal, enraged by Rose spending so much time with Jack, later plants a very expensive necklace that he gave Rose (the Heart of the Ocean), in Jack's pocket and frames him for theft. Jack's later taken below deck and chained to the ship, which is gradually sinking. Passengers are starting to abort the plane wearing life jackets on other boats as the crew members desperately try to save as many people as they can. After finding out the ship will take just an hour to completely sink, and with lifeboats that will only get half the passengers to safety, they know most people will die, but make sure to try and keep everyone as calm as possible. Meanwhile, while about to board a life boat with her mother and other first class women (at first the crew insist only women and children can board the lifeboats), Rose changes her mind and leaves in order to find and save Jack. After finding him trapped in a room, handcuffed to the boat, Rose desperately seeks help after being unable to find the key to unlock the handcuffs. Eventually, with nothing left to do, she grabs an axe and successfully breaks the chains. The pair then try all they can to flee the boat. After finally reaching the boat deck, able to board a lifeboat, Rose insists she won't go without Jack who is unable to leave the boat yet, giving only men and women are allowed to leave. However, Jack and Cal manage to convince Rose to get on the lifeboat, before she jumps back onto the ship in order to be back with Jack. Enraged, Cal chases after the reunited couple and shoots at them numerous times with a gun. After escaping him, Jack and Rose are now near the bottom of the ship where the water is quickly filling up. After finding a young boy crying near the bottom the pair attempt to save him before his father snatches him away. Jack and Rose are now nearly trapped, waters pouring in from every direction. As they escape to a floor just above they're trapped. The gates locked. A crew member eventually comes to let them out, but after many failed attempts to open, he flees terrified for his own life. Jack then retrieves the key and tries to unlock the gate from under water. The gate luckily opens and the pair can escape, but by now the waters flooded the boat too much - there isn't any lifeboats left. Many people are still aboard the ship. The pair try to stay on the ship as long as possible as it eventually floods underwater. Them, and many others are left in the middle of the freezing North Atlantic water and everyone's desperately calling out for help from the lifeboats nearby. Eventually, one boat comes back to rescue any survivors. But their are only six survivors out of hundreds of people. This includes Rose, but not Jack.
This film is amazing! You have to see it! Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are amazing!
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £6.50
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Colin Firth, Benjamin Whitrow, Jennifer Ehle, David Bamber, Crispin Bonham-Carter
Director:
Simon Langton
I thought the U.S. version was terrific, then I got this....., 2010-03-04
When I read that the BBC original version of P&P was about 30 minutes longer I just had to buy it. Not that it made much difference, but a 'real' fan can spot the additions. The thing I was amazed at is that this blu ray makes my other version look a little dim. The colors & patterns are much sharper while surroundings seem to have muted a bit; for instance, that green wall in the assembly room doesn't look vile any more.
I watched them side-by-side when I thought I was just reading into the experience. Nope, it is true, quality is improved in this version. It will be well used.
List Price: £22.99
Our Price: £3.44
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling
Swaddled in whalebone and wigs, Keira Knightley steps into the restricted world of the Duchess of Devonshire, a royal lady popular with her subjects but stuck in an unhappy marriage. If this situation recalls Princess Diana (a descendent of the Duchess's family), so much the better for the purposes of director Saul Dibb and company; this film is eager to draw parallels with the unfortunate Lady Di, as Knightley's unsuspecting girl is married off to the Duke (Ralph Fiennes), a distracted man who craves male sons, and obviously has never thought of women as anything other than a means to achieve an heir. When the Duchess launches her procreative career with a couple of daughters, well, the Duke begins to get nervous--and partners outside the marriage become increasingly appealing. The Duchess serves up lavish portions of Brit-movie staples: costumes (which, in Knightley's case, are nothing short of spectacular), landscapes and gorgeous music (by Rachel Portman). If it falls short in some vague way, perhaps it's because the film is a mostly one-note affair, meaning exactly what it seems to mean at every moment. Charlotte Rampling appears too briefly as Knightley's mother, and Dominic ...
The Duchess, 2010-01-04
A brilliant film - at times emotionally gruelling - a film that really holds your attention and explores the duties and of a class held society. A good period piece filmed in fabulous locations.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £4.50
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany
Director:
Jean-Marc Vallée
film young victoria, 2010-02-23
I have purchased this as a Mothers Day present, it came very quickly and looks well presented, obviously I have yet to ensure it is a good DVD and watchable.
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