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List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £2.94
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Freddie Highmore, Abbie Cornish
Director:
Ridley Scott
A feel-good movie that highlights the beauty of France as much as it does its stars, A Good Year provides a languid, gorgeous viewing experience. Director Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe--who first worked together on the Academy Award-winning Gladiator--are reunited in this romantic film, which is based on Peter Mayle's book A Year in Provence. Crowe plays Max, a workaholic London bonds trader who doesn't know the meaning of vacation. When his uncle dies, leaving him a picturesque estate in the south of France, Max views it as an opportunity to cash in the vinery and pocket the profits. The film is reminiscent of Diane Lane's Under the Tuscan Sun in the way the scenery plays as much of a role in the film as its characters. The lush village and streaming sunlight portray Provence as an idyllic, magical place. Even Max falls under its spell. While not a particularly likeable character, especially in the early part of the film, Max also isn't a bad guy. When he gets the chance to live life at a less manic pace than which he is used to, he finds that a good year isn't dependant on a financial windfall. Though Scott tries to drum up some suspense in the film ...
 Top Film, 2010-08-13
This film is fantastic, great script, funny, very well acted and above all puts life in perspective.
List Price: £13.99
Our Price: £3.13
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache, Lena Headey
Director:
Richard Loncraine
The Gathering Storm is a fictionalised portrayal of Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine during their wilderness years of the 1930s. It deservedly won numerous awards, including an Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe in recognition of Albert Finney's wonderful central performance. Equally deserving were those for all aspects of the production design: period wardrobe, set dressing and use of location are equally impressive, apparently ensuring that this production has everything going for it in its depiction of pre-War Britain. The snag is that its restriction to TV movie format, a mere 90 minutes, excludes a lot of historical context that ought not to have been left out. Seeing Churchill's adoration of his wife (Vanessa Redgrave) or the family woes troubling Ralph Wigram (Linus Roache) is all very emotionally dramatic, but it uses precious screen time that might have been better devoted to highlighting the political situation abroad, or indeed the monarchy's situation at home. The enterprise smacks a little too much of sentimental contrivance, lionising Churchill in rose-tinted retrospect. True, some attempt is made to acknowledge the personality traits that excluded him b...
Gathering Storm, 2010-05-31
Well acted historical drama with a good sense of humour. Accurate location filming adds to the enjoyment. A film that can be watched more than once.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £3.63
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...
nice biography of a very exceptional person, 2010-08-17
This was a man that changed the world. Bought the film to share with my kids good Christian values.
List Price: £18.99
Our Price: £2.94
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson, Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant
Director:
Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Who else but Tim Burton could make Corpse Bride, a necrophiliac's delight that's fun for the whole family? Returning to the richly imaginative realm of stop-motion animation--after previous successes with The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, Burton, with codirector Mike Johnson, invites us to visit the dour, ashen, and drearily Victorian mansions of the living, where young Victor Van Dort, voiced by Johnny Depp, is bequeathed to wed the lovely Victoria. But the wedding rehearsal goes sour and, in the kind of Goth-eerie forest that only exists in Burton-land, Victor suddenly finds himself accidentally married to the Corpse Bride, voiced by Helena Bonham Carter, a blue-tinted, half-skeletal beauty with a loquacious maggot installed behind one prone-to-popping eyeball. This being a Burton creation, the underworld of the dead is a lively and colorful place indeed, and Danny Elfman's songs and score make it even livelier, presenting Victor with quite a dilemma: Should he return above-ground to Victoria, or remain devoted to his corpse bride? At a brisk 76 minutes, Burton's graveyard whimsy never wears out its welcome, and the voic...
Good film, imaginatve and classic tim burton, 2010-08-27
A really good film, which i enjoyed a lot. Obviously some people dont like Tim Burton as a director, but i personally love all of his stuff.
List Price: £44.99
Our Price: £16.99
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Matt Damon, Édgar Ramírez, Joan Allen, Franka Potente, Brian Cox
Director:
Doug Liman, Paul Greengrass
Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Julia StilesDirectors: Doug Liman & Paul Greengrass
True HD sound is the icing on the cake, 2010-09-08
If you have the audio capability to enjoy True-HD (not just compressed audio via coaxial or optical links), you'll find how this extra output can add to the excitement, tension and overall enjoyment of these films. Not all Bluray productions have their True-HD so well optimised for the visual content, so it is particularly pleasing when the whole package is so well balanced.
The three films have just been on TV, so you'll probably know what they're all about. If you like them, this package is worth the heavily discounted cost for the sound alone.
List Price: £17.99
Our Price: £10.95
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Hylda Baker, Rachel Roberts, Bryan Pringle
Director:
Karel Reisz
Albert finney at his best, 2010-09-07
Dont let black and white films put you off,my wife would never watch black and white films and i sat her down and made her watch this,she loved it.Typical 60s film but the humour and northern banter is great.The film centres on Arthur seaton an obnoctious git who works hard and drinks hard.Arthur is knocking off a married woman which comes to no good.One of the best bits in the film is where he shoots a nosey neighbour up the arse with his air rifle,classic.
List Price: £12.99
Our Price: £2.97
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry
Director:
John Huston
Though it's not in the same league as the classic screen musicals, Annie's heartwarming rags-to-riches storyline, social comment (shallow as it may be) and catchy songs make for an entertaining and unpretentious 90 minutes' viewing. Aileen Quinn is the irrepressible titular orphan, by no means as irritating as she looks in the cover picture; Albert Finney is Oliver Warbucks, the tyrannical tycoon (with a hidden heart of gold, of course) who adopts her for a week in the interests of good PR. The real show-stopper, though, is Carol Burnett as the gin-soaked harpy Miss Hannigan, ruling with an iron fist over an orphanage full of unruly girls, flirting with every man in sight and eventually scheming with her unscrupulous brother (Tim Curry) to kidnap Annie and reap a fat Warbucks reward cheque. While the songs--including "Tomorrow", "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile" and "It's a Hard Knock Life"--are excellent, the kids' voices are shrill and the production pretty low-rent: Annie is very obviously a stage show brought to screen on a low budget. But while it lacks the polish that make the Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe musicals so special, it's funn...
Annie, 2010-08-28
my grand daughters Charlotte 3 and Agatha 1 love this video and Charlotte sings with it
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £1.66
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick, Valente Rodriguez
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
A lone woman, armed only with indomitable sass and her native wit, goes up against the corporate big boys and beats the bejesus out of them. As a story line it's hardly new, but Steven Soderbergh's film keeps it exhilaratingly fresh and lively--thanks not least to his lead actress. Seizing the role of the smart, mouthy, aggressively working-class Erin Brockovich with both hands, Julia Roberts gives it everything she's got and then some. She's well matched by Albert Finney as her grouchy but good-hearted boss and Aaron Eckhart as a sympathetic biker. The story's based--by all accounts fairly closely--on actual events, when the real Erin (who appears briefly in the film as a kindly waitress) brought a massive lawsuit against utilities giant Pacific Gas and Electric for spreading toxic pollution. Rather than confine the action to courtroom shenanigans, Soderbergh takes us out under Southern California's pitiless skies and along the dirt-poor roads where most of PG&E's blue-collar victims live, letting us feel the ground-down exhaustion of their lives. But though it's rooted in reality, the film's anything but solemn. The script's sharp and funny, full of unexpected twists; and Roberts...
Real Life, 2010-03-20
This is used in the classroom to show
1.how one person with determination can get things done
2. that a pretty women can also be intelligent
3. that some industries are destroying parts of the planet and they don't care as long as they don't get caught.
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