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List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £1.98
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum
Director:
Brenda Chapman, Simon Wells, Steve Hickner
Nearly every biblical film is ambitious, creating pictures to go with some of the most famous and sacred stories in the Western world. DreamWorks' first animated film, The Prince of Egypt was the vision of executive producer Jeffrey Katzenberg after his ugly split from Disney, where he had been acknowledged as a key architect in that studio's rebirth (The Little Mermaid, etc.). His first film for the company he helped create was a huge, challenging project without a single toy or merchandising tie-in, the backbone du jour of family entertainment in the 1990s. Three directors and 16 writers succeed in carrying out much of Katzenberg's vision. The linear story of Moses is crisply told, and the look of the film is stunning; indeed, no animated film has looked so ready to be placed in the Louvre since Fantasia. Here is an Egypt alive with energetic bustle and pristine buildings. Born a slave and set adrift in the river, Moses (voiced by Val Kilmer) is raised as the son of Pharaoh Seti (Patrick Stewart) and is a fitting rival for his stepbrother Rameses (Ralph Fiennes). When he learns of his roots--in a knockout sequence in which hieroglyphics come alive--he fle...
 <3, 2010-02-07
love it!!
no more. no less.
actually maybe a little bit more :P
List Price: £22.99
Our Price: £3.47
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Ralph Fiennes, Julian Wadham, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas
Director:
Anthony Minghella
Winner of nine Academy Awards and almost every critic's heart, The English Patient (based on Michael Ondaatje's prizewinning novel of love and loss during World War II) is one of the most acclaimed films of modern times. Hana, a nurse (Juliette Binoche), tends to an archaeologist (Ralph Fiennes) who has been burnt to a crisp in a plane crash. As their relationship intensifies, he flashes back to his overwhelming passion for a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas). Meanwhile, Hana begins a new romance with a man who defuses bombs (Naveen Andrews) and Willem Dafoe almost steals the show as the thumbless thief Caravaggio. The intricately layered flashback narrative, sounding the depths of the lovers' hearts, improves with repeated viewings. --Geoff Riley
Lashings of praise for The English Patient!, 2010-01-17
Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize winner is a treasure of film and should be seen and owned by anyone remotely interested in good cinema. The film won 9 Academy Awards, and while recognition at the Oscars alone is not a stamp of greatness it is indicative of the impact the film had at the time.
Working closely with the author, Minghella has crafted a beautiful, intelligent story of love, betrayal, war, peace, national identity, land and borders (human and physical). The English Patient will endure as a classic, spoken of in the same breath with films such as Casablanca, Dr Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia and so on.
One of my personal favourite touches in the film is the way in which the director uses various devices to link the shift from Italy to Egypt and back again. These devices are at first fairly obvious, audio or visual, but as the film progresses they become more thematic and abstract. Just a nice touch to keep you on your toes as the story moves from one location of time and place to another.
This DVD package is probably the best there is. The feature disc is superb and the special features include interviews with all the key people involved and a documentary on the making of the film.
List Price: £24.99
Our Price: £6.76
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz, Ben Kingsley
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg had a banner year in 1993. He scored one of his biggest commercial hits that summer with the mega-hit Jurassic Park, but it was the artistic and critical triumph of Schindler's List that Spielberg called "the most satisfying experience of my career". Adapted from the best-selling book by Thomas Keneally and filmed in Poland with an emphasis on absolute authenticity, Spielberg's masterpiece ranks among the greatest films ever made about the Holocaust during World War II. It's a film about heroism with an unlikely hero at its center--Catholic war profiteer Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who risked his life and went bankrupt to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. By employing Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army, Schindler ensures their survival against terrifying odds. At the same time, he must remain solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant (Ben Kingsley) and negotiate business with a vicious, obstinate Nazi commandant (Ralph Fiennes) who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony of his villa overlooking a prison camp. Schindler's List gains much of its power ...
Schindler's List, 2010-03-09
It's been several years since I last saw this film and I'd forgotten just how moving it was. Highly recommended............
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £2.98
Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes, Brendan Gleeson
Director:
Martin McDonagh
The considerable pleasures of In Bruges begin with its title, which suggests a glumly self-important art film but actually fits a rattling-good tale of two Irish gangsters "keepin' a low profile" after a murder gone messily wrong. Bruges, the best-preserved medieval town in Belgium, is where the bearlike veteran Ken (Brendan Gleeson) and newbie triggerman Ray (Colin Farrell) have been ordered by their London boss to hole up for two weeks. As the sly narrative unfolds like a paper flower in water, "in Bruges" also becomes a state of mind, a suspended moment amid centuries-old towers and bridges and canals when even thuggish lives might experience a change in direction. And throughout, the viewer has ample opportunity to consider whose pronunciation of "Bruges" is more endearing, Gleeson's or Farrell's. The movie marks the feature writing-directing debut of playwright Martin McDonagh, whose droll meditation on sudden mortality, Six Shooter, copped the 2005 Oscar for best live-action short. Although McDonagh clearly relishes the musicality of his boyos' brogue and has written them plenty of entertaining dialogue, In Bruges is no stageplay disguised as a film. The ...
LOVE-IT!, 2010-02-22
Amazing black comedy! Colin Farrell is simply amazing in it! Comedy suits him so much! The whole cast is just perfect! Loved all of it! A must see!
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £7.00
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Christopher Sayegh, Nabil Koni, Sam Spruell
Director:
Kathryn Bigelow
Rightly attracting major awards attention, The Hurt Locker is a supreme, tense and gripping piece of drama. And it grabs your attention from the stunning opening scene, which perfectly gets across the dangers faced by the specialist bomb disposal squad that we spend the rest of the film following. Chief among them is Jeremy Renner’s Sergeant William James, who is the focal point for much of The Hurt Locker. The film spends some time digging into his head and why he does what he does, and his approach doesn’t always leave him eye-to-eye with the rest of his squad. Renner, in surely a star-making performance, delivers a rounded, three-dimensional portrayal of a man you could easily write off as a maverick, and the film is significantly enriched as a result. But then with director Kathryn Bigelow behind the camera delivering her best film to date, The Hurt Locker excels still further. Her gritty, haunting visuals look superb in high definition too, evoking the down-to-earth shooting style Bigelow employs, and making the most of the assorted set-pieces she puts on film. It’s the sound that really gets you too, cleverly eating up the full breadth of a ...
Not just another war film, 2010-03-10
This is much more than a simple war story about a bomb disposal unit in Iraq. It goes to our deepest fear;death and giving our lives a real meaning. Here we have a man who faces death on a level unknown to most of us. All soldiers who go into combat face death but men who deactivate bombs face death on another plane, and on an almost daily basis as we see in The Hurt Locker.They face death; to save what? It would be facile to say to save themselves and their buddies; not the case. In The Hurt Locker, the "hero" Jenner, saves people who are possibly his enemies. The scene where he tries to save an Iraqui wired with more than just one bomb(against his will) brings that out very clearly.Is he mad or is he a man on a mission? Whatever he may be, he shows us that it is better to be true to yourself than to live a life of utter meaningless(Observe the supermarket scene)He certainly does more good trying to save lives than walking around a supermarket filling up his trolley.
List Price: £24.99
Our Price: £11.49
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes
Director:
Kathryn Bigelow
Evangeline Lilly, Christopher Sayegh, Nabil Koni, Sam Spruell, Sam RedfordDirector: Kathryn Bigelow
Not just another war film, 2010-03-10
This is much more than a simple war story about a bomb disposal unit in Iraq. It goes to our deepest fear;death and giving our lives a real meaning. Here we have a man who faces death on a level unknown to most of us. All soldiers who go into combat face death but men who deactivate bombs face death on another plane, and on an almost daily basis as we see in The Hurt Locker.They face death; to save what? It would be facile to say to save themselves and their buddies; not the case. In The Hurt Locker, the "hero" Jenner, saves people who are possibly his enemies. The scene where he tries to save an Iraqui wired with more than just one bomb(against his will) brings that out very clearly.Is he mad or is he a man on a mission? Whatever he may be, he shows us that it is better to be true to yourself than to live a life of utter meaningless(Observe the supermarket scene)He certainly does more good trying to save lives than walking around a supermarket filling up his trolley.
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: £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: £12.99
Our Price: £3.97
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Ralph Fiennes, Michael Bryant, Julie Christie, Rebecca Callard, James Frain
Director:
Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov
This animated feature-length life of Jesus boasts a stellar pedigree. Originally a BBC Wales production, it showcases the voices of some of Britain's finest actors in any medium: Ralph Fiennes as a brooding and humble Jesus, Miranda Richardson as Mary Magdalene, Richard E. Grant as John the Baptist and David Thewlis as Judas. The lovely, flute-heavy score is by Oscar-winner Anne Dudley (The Full Monty). And clearly a lot of expense has gone into the Claymation-like animation. But while it's hard to find fault with the rendering of this familiar story--it is respectful and definitely done, you might say, by the Book--it would have been nice if there had been a tad more joy, if it walked a bit lighter in its sandals. As it is, all the characters seem consistently subdued, whether they are expressing angst, rage, terror or bliss--none of which is helped by the figures' blank-eyed stares (if animators are becoming ever more sophisticated, why can't they get rid of those creepy blank gazes once and for all?). Still, the weight of having such formidable actors play these familiar roles lends the production a certain credibility, and parents looking for good religious videos that w...
Excellent!, 2010-02-20
This DVD is amazing! It is a very well made account of the story of Jesus and kids love it. I use it for some of my Year 7 RE lessons at school and the kids love watching clips from the film to aid their learning. I would also recommend it for families, Sunday School and even adults! Its very well animated, easy to follow and gives an accurate account of the Bible and the teachings of Christ. This is by far my favourite DVD of this nature!
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