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List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £2.75
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...
 Brilliant service, arrived on time!, 2010-07-05
This DVD came very quickly, and was in a very good new condition. The disc all works fine + its such a great girly film so I rate this with 5 stars, make sure you all watch it girls! Hehe
List Price: £12.99
Our Price: £2.80
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...
An intelligent screenplay, 2010-07-15
I find Emma Thompson's screenplay condenses the story without losing any of the spirit of the book. While she is, perhaps, a little older than Jane Austen intended, she plays the sensible Elinor to perfection. My only criticism is that perhaps Lucy's awareness of Edward's partiality for Emma and her jealous reaction could have been more pointed. Alan Rickman smoulders to great effect.
List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £2.81
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 dvd film, 2010-07-11
a gripping spy story about station x as it was then known only fiction ,but could watch it over and over ,a good price
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £3.94
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...
class A very good, 2010-07-04
This isd got to be one of the best kids movies i have seen. It keeps my daughter me and even my girlfriend amused for hours. She waches it about 3 times a day and it still dosent get boring.
If you are looking for a kids movie that has got a lot of funny humor and action in it flushed away is your movie. it is well worth the price and you can see it again and again.
List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £3.58
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood
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
Fantastic DVD, 2010-05-03
This DVD came earlier than I expected and is in brand new condition. I saw thumbs up to seller for great value DVD of a GREAT movie.
List Price: £17.99
Our Price: £3.88
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...
A total Tour De Force, 2010-09-02
A great film that reminds everyone never to lose their childhood whatever the provocation! Supurb acting from all concerned and, as they say, not a dry eye in the house! Once again works on all levels and can be watched time and time again without becoming boring. Highly recommended.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £3.37
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...
Amazingly brilliant, 2010-05-03
This film is not dull and the title is spot on. This is a lovely film but if your looking for something light hearted or easy going then this is not for you. It's thought provocking, moving and heavy going at times but then if you have a brain that won't be a problem. This is what I would call a reall film for reall people who want to be given a story and who can go with and understand the emotions that the two main charecters exsperiance. It's not a romance it's a film about life, it's up's it's downs and how living in the 50's with it's culture and exspectations effect all these things. It's a film with a roller coaster of emotion and story. An amazing film that most people with a brain will enjoy, however i suspect most teenagers will find it to be rather dullas it is a film for us boaring adults.
List Price: £39.99
Our Price: £13.51
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Ricky Gervais, Robert De Niro, Orlando Bloom, Chris Martin, David Bowie
Director:
Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Great show and very good box set, 2010-08-03
For anyone as of yet unfamiliar with "Extras" I can't recommend it highly enough! This box set is very good with loads of extras, including behind the scenes footage, entertaining commentary and the usual outtakes and deleted scene. The Christmas special is a definite must and provides, in my opinion, the perfect end to the show. If you are considering buying another box set that doesn't include the special I'd advise against it.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £4.85
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain, David Kross
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...
Kate Winslet At Her Finest, 2010-08-31
This film brought together two of my favourite subjects, Kate Winslet and World War II. This is a haunting film that is split into three separate periods of time. I won't go into the storyline, that is easy enough to find out about, but Kate Winslet's performance is truly worthy of the Oscar she received for it.
During the early part of the film, Winslet has a love affair with a teenage boy, the awkwardness in their relationship is excellently portrayed and you feel uncomfortable watching this young man fall head over heels for a distant older woman. The horrors of Winslet's past comes into the open and the depiction of a woman performing inhumane acts in the genuine belief that she was only following orders is unnerving. The final part of the film shows Winslet, in her old age, childishly excited as she is contacted once again by the now older teenage boy.
David Cross and Ralph Fiennes provide excellent support and this film leaves you with a small but very real sense of what things were like during the war. There are a million war films out there but few are this thought provoking.
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