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List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £2.63
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Director:
Michael Apted
Codebreaking is an inherently fascinating but not especially cinematic endeavour, which is why Enigma spices up the true story of Bletchley Park and its eclectic group of Nazi code-cracking geniuses with some fictional romance and intrigue. Dougray Scott plays gaunt mathematician Tom Jericho, haunted by the spectre of his missing girlfriend Claire (self-consciously gorgeous Saffron Burrows). Tom turns to Claire's frumpy housemate Hester Wallace (dressed-down Kate Winslet) to help him find her, but their search unexpectedly reveals the presence of a spy at Bletchley Park. Matters are further complicated by an investigating secret service agent (imperturbable Jeremy Northam) and the hostility of Jericho's superiors. Based on the novel by Robert Harris and adapted for the screen by Tom Stoppard, Enigma is unsurprisingly a literate and accomplished piece, unfussily directed by Michael Apted who keeps the various current and flashback story threads moving neatly in parallel, helped along by a languid score from veteran John Barry and a vividly realised wartime setting ("Have you heard the latest? Utility knickers--one yank and they're off!"). The contrived plot, however...
 Enigma - the film, 2010-01-07
Having visited Bletchey Park where the code breakers did their work I watched "Enigma" after receiving the DVD as a Christmas gift. The story tells how the Code Breakers managed to break the code used by the Germans to pass on their strategic messages. In a sub-plot, the hero, apparently jilted by his lover, falls for another girl working at Bletchley Park, and together they try to discover how the former girl-friend managed to steal some secret data, and why. The story is gripping, and all the more so if the viewer knows something of the background of Bletchley Park. The ending has a twist which leaves a satisfying feel to the story. Much to be recommended!! David J Downham MBE
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: £39.99
Our Price: £13.36
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Ricky Gervais, Robert De Niro, Orlando Bloom, Chris Martin, David Bowie
Director:
Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Extraa - The Collection, 2010-03-06
This is great comedy - not only from the incomparable Ricky Gervais but also from Stephen Merchant, Ashley Jensen and Shaun Williamson. And then there are the amazing, self=deprecating performances from the guest stars. This will become a British classic, the Fawlty Towers of its time.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £4.49
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates, Kate Winslet, John Behlmann
Director:
Sam Mendes
In Revolutionary Road, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio reunite for the first time since their careers exploded with Titanic--and it's almost as if they're playing the same characters, only married and faced with the hollowness of a 1950s suburban existence. Frank and April Wheeler (DiCaprio and Winslet) always thought of themselves as special, but they settled in a conventional Connecticut suburb when they had children. Hungry for a less constricted life, April persuades Frank to move to Paris--but slowly their plans unravel and their marriage unravels along with it. While Revolutionary Road may be a bit too glib about suburban emptiness--the lives Frank and April lead don't seem so stifled--the portrait of a mismatched marriage is vivid and devastating. The ways that Frank and April misinterpret each other, and the subtle yet unbearable dissatisfaction they feel, is rendered with remarkable and unsettling acuteness. Winslet and DiCaprio's natural chemistry tells us what drew these two together, making the way they tear each other apart all the more shocking. The excellent supporting cast includes Kathy Bates (Misery), Dylan Baker (Happine...
 Domestic trouble?, 2010-02-28
Firstly I have to admit that I am not a big fan of Leonardo diCaprio, although he shows an unquestionable talent in performing very diverse roles. Perhaps I am just bored with the fact that he is the bosom child of the Hollywood film industry and everything with him is going to sell. Apart from that, Revolutionary Road is a strong depiction of domestic drama, broken (somewhat unrealistic) dreams and so on. If the young couple had actually moved to Paris instead of just dreaming about it - unsimultaneously for the most part - they really would have made justice to their "revolutionary" address. But very much like in real life they got cold feet and things went from bad to worse. So, I liked the drama, in spite of the actors. Kathy Bates, although in a minor role here, always enlivens things up.
List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £2.48
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood, Thomas Jay Ryan
Director:
Michel Gondry
Screenwriters rarely develop a distinctive voice that can be recognized from movie to movie, but the ornate imagination of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) has made him a unique and much-needed cinematic presence. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a guy decides to have the memories of his ex-girlfriend erased after she's had him erased from her own memory--but midway through the procedure, he changes his mind and struggles to hang on to their experiences together. In other hands, the premise of memory-erasing would become a trashy science-fiction thriller; Kaufman, along with director Michel Gondry, spins this idea into a funny, sad, structurally complex, and simply enthralling love story that juggles morality, identity, and heartbreak with confident skill. The entire cast--Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson, and more--give superb performances, carefully pitched so that cleverness never trumps feeling. A great movie. --Bret Fetzer
The best film of the decade, 2009-12-09
Anyone who has ever loved and lost, and grappled with the torture of memory, happiness, and running on the beach before hearts were broken and memories became a poison, will know this film isn't just a film, but an essay in the meaning of life itself and that you cannot love without being hurt. As true and as obscure and as passionate as a heart on a screen.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £4.09
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara
Director:
Stephen Daldry
What is the nature of guilt--and how can the human spirit survive when confronted with deep and horrifying truths? The Reader, a hushed and haunting meditation on these knotty questions, is sorrowful and shocking, yet leavened by a deep love story that is its heart. In postwar Germany, young schoolboy Michael (German actor David Cross) meets and begins a tender romance with the older, mysterious Hanna (Kate Winslet, whose performance is a revelation). The two make love hungrily in Hanna's shabby apartment, yet their true intimacy comes as Michael reads aloud to Hanna in bed, from his school assignments, textbooks, even comic books. Hanna delights in the readings, and Michael delights in Hanna. Years later, the two cross paths again, and Michael (played as an adult by Ralph Fiennes) learns, slowly, horrifyingly, of acts that Hanna may have been involved in during the war. There is a war crimes trial, and the accused at one point asks the panel of prosecutors: "Well, what would you have done?" It is that question--as one German professor says later: "How can the next generation of Germans come to terms with the Holocaust?"--that is both heartbreaking and unanswerable. Winsle...
The visual counterpart to the novel - REQUIRED TO WATCH, 2010-03-08
An immensely beautiful and throught-provoking movie that very much encapsules not only the story, but the subtext and atmosphere of the novel by the same name.
I was taken by the acting feats of Kate Winslet and David Kross who play Hannah and young Michael respectively. Less so by Ralph Fiennes.
"The Reader" is a story of guilt and inherited guilt, knowledge, justice, morals - and so much more shown in the relationship between Hannah and Michael. First, they meet when Michael is but a teenager and have a passionate affair. Then, they meet when Michael is in law school and Hannah is on trial for murders committed during WW2. Finally, they meet towards the end of Hannah's life, after Michael has sent cassette tapes of novels to her in prison.
Reading plays a beautiful role in the movie (and the novel) as a passionate gesture, knowledge or lack thereof, and as a penance.
In the special features, it is mentioned that "The Reader" is required reading in German schools. It should be international required reading - or at least watching. The movie is the visual counterpart of the novel and an accurate one at that.
Louise.
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: £19.99
Our Price: £2.65
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, Kate Winslet, Jude Law
Director:
Nancy Meyers
As a pleasant dose of holiday cheer, The Holiday is a lovable love story with all the Christmas trimmings. In the capable hands of writer-director Nancy Meyers (making her first romantic comedy since Something's Gotta Give), it all begins when two successful yet unhappy women connect through a home-swapping website, and decide to trade houses for the Christmas holiday in a mutual effort to forget their man troubles. Iris (Kate Winslet) is a London-based journalist who lives in a picture-postcard cottage in Surrey, and Amanda (Cameron Diaz) owns a movie-trailer production company (leading her to cutely imagine most of her life as a "coming attraction") and lives in a posh mansion in Beverly Hills. Iris is heartbroken from unrequited love with a cad of a colleague (Rufus Sewell), and Amanda has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend (Edward Burns), so their home-swapping offers mutual downtime to reassess their love lives. This being a Nancy Meyers movie (where everything is fabulously decorated and romantic wish-fulfillment is virtually guaranteed), Amanda hooks up with Iris's charming brother Graham (Jude Law), and Iris is unexpectedly smitten with Miles (Jack Bla...
such a good girly film, 2010-03-11
I love this film...it makes me happy!! love the cottage, love some of the quotes, really nice....i have lost track of how many times i've seen it
List Price: £17.99
Our Price: £3.24
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie
Director:
Marc Forster
Sweetness that doesn't turn saccharine is hard to find these days; Finding Neverland hits the mark. Much credit is due to the actors: Johnny Depp applies his genius for sly whimsy in his portrayal of playwright J. M. Barrie, who finds inspiration for his greatest creation from four lively boys, the sons of widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet, who miraculously fuses romantic yearning with common sense). Though the friendship threatens his already dwindling marriage, Barrie spends endless hours with the boys, pretending to be pirates or Indians--and gradually the elements of Peter Pan take shape in his mind. The relationship between Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies family sparks both an imagined world and a quiet rebellion against the stuffy forces of respectability, given physical form by Barrie's resentful wife (Radha Mitchell, High Art) and Sylvia's mother (Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller). This gentle silliness could have turned to treacle, but Depp and Winslet--along with newcomer Freddie Highmore as one of the boys--keep their feet on the earth while their eyes gaze into their dreams. Also featuring a comically crusty turn from Dustin Hof...
One of the best films ever, 2009-08-02
Peter Pan the film is one of my favourite films ! So i badly wanted to se the Finding Neverland to see how JM Barrie thought up all these ideas. It also has Johnny Depp in it so thats anougher great thing lol. It was a great film and one of the best. I love the part in Finding Neverland where Johnny (acting as JM Barrier) imagins the kids bouncing of there beds and flying out the window!!!
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £2.99
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy
Director:
David Bowers, Sam Fell
Flushed Away is a rip-roaring nautical adventure with a twist: The heroes are a pair of rodents braving the sewers underneath London. Roddy (voiced by Hugh Jackman) is an upper-crust house-mouse who finds himself flushed into the subterranean sewers. Eager to return to his posh home, he enlists the help of a boat-captain rat named Rita (Kate Winslet), who has troubles of her own; namely the kingpin of the underworld, the Toad (Ian McKellen), and his henchmen including the French mercenary Le Frog (Jean Reno). While technically Flushed Away could be considered part of the wave of celebrity-voiced, anthropomorphic-animal movies that hit in 2005-2006 (Madagascar, Over the Hedge, The Wild, etc.), it doesn't inspire the same sense of déjà vu. For one thing, its voice actors are less recognizable than the likes of Bruce Willis and Chris Rock. For another, its look is very distinctive. Like Nick Park's Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, it's a joint production of DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features, and although Park isn't involved, it retains his trademark blocky look of clay animation. But animati...
great stuff, 2010-03-11
i bought this for my 4 year old daughter and she loves it and so do i. we watch it every day. even my 1 year old dances along to the songs in it. great dvd
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