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List Price: £17.99
Our Price: £4.49
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Cara Horgan, Jack Scanlon, Asa Butterfield, Sheila Hancock, David Heyman
Director:
Mark Herman
Based on the book by John Boyne, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas didn’t really get the box office recognition it deserves on its theatrical release, struggling to find a foothold amidst a stampede of blockbusters. But this is a film that, surely, is ripe for discovery on DVD. Directed with care and diligence by Mark Herman, whose CV includes the excellent Brassed Off! and Little Voice, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas is set during the Second World War, in and around a Nazi concentration camp. It tells its tale through the eyes of two young boys. One is the son of the camp’s commandant, while the other is wearing the striped pyjamas of the title. The two boys meet and ultimately befriend one another, and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas tells the difficult story of their companionship. It does it extremely well, too, careful to understate proceedings and demonstrate a restraint that serves the subject matter well. It’s also quite a lean film, and one boasting excellent performances, including David Thewlis as the aforementioned commandant. If The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas has a problem or two, they pale in com...
 Happy Boy, 2010-03-03
value,delivery and service excellent ps will never buy from High St now I have found you
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £6.08
Rated: Exempt
Staring:
Stephen Fry, Julian Clary, Jane Horrocks, Gurinder Chadha, Jeremy Paxman
Highs and lows but definitely worth buying, 2009-08-30
This series contains probably the best ever episode of 'Who do you think you are?' but also arguably the worst.
The best is the episode with Stephen Fry. Fry is one of those people who just knows how to make things seem interesting. And his story is also inherently moving. Most of it concerns his mother's family, the Neumanns. His grandfather, a larger than life character with looks and personality similar to Fry's, helped set up a sugar beet factory in Bury St Edmonds. Neumann had fought in the First World War before travelling to England just before Hitler's arrival in power. The Jewish family he left behind were left to try as best they could to organise their survival. When touching on Fry's father's family we get an insight into the ravages brought by TB in late 19th century England. Fry's driving around London at the wheel of a taxi cab undoubtedly inspired a later series where he does likewise across the USA.
The worst episode is undoubtedly the one with Julian Clary. The series is at its best where the celebrities ditch their stage persona and really engage with the journey. Clary does neither. It has long been known that he has no sense of humour but how does he also manage to be so devoid of personal charisma? The best thing about the episode is when Julian and his mother's xenophobia comes back to haunt them. The story of German immigrants in wartime Britain would have been interesting if tackled by another celebrity (cf David Baddiel in first series) but Clary is always so obviously putting on an act that it detracts from the story. I wonder whether Clary's performance here had any bearing on the fact that he doesn't seem to have worked again since.
The Jeremy Paxman episode also rates as one of the best ever and gained the series the reputation as the `show that made Paxman cry on tv'. As he traces his family first to the Glasgow slums and then to the slums of Bradford it is indeed moving. The banter between Paxman and the `specialist on the Paxmans of Norfolk' is quite amusing. Paxman's aunt really does look like Shirley Williams. Some interesting footage on the history of the Salvation Army.
Sheila Hancock takes us to Milan, giving us an insight into Thomas Cook travel guides. She also follows the strong personality of an enterprising ancestor, Louisa Zurhorst, to the Channel Islands. Sheila's story of her two grandmothers sharing a bedroom in the family home is interesting because of how socially different they were. One a down-to-earth cockney, the other a woman of pretensions. As always the series sets out to see the reasons behind such pretensions.
Gurinder Chadha follows her family to India, via Kenya, whilst self-confessed `ball-breaker' Jane Horrocks traces hers back via the cotton famine of 1840s Lancashire. Her confrontation with a distant relative, the descendant of the mill owner John Horrocks, is a firm reminder that class war is not dead. The discomfort both clearly feels in presence of the other is a reminder of how how easily divergent paths are followed within the same family.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £4.99
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Sheila Hancock
Director:
Sally Potter
Beautifully acted and photographed, 2007-01-30
Slow but compelling love story that reverses conventions and expectations. Excellent music soundtrack that complements the film perfectly. Poetic sensual and lovely to watch . . .
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £12.15
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Reg Varney, Sheila Hancock, Esma Cannon
Director:
Dennis Main Wilson
 Slight Flaw, 2005-11-03
Wonderful to see this series released on DVD. The only problem is the transfer quality (picture and sound). Can appreciate this is old footage, but for the selling price one expects better quality. Technology is there to improve the said quality, but the makers haven't bothered on this occasion.
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed, Sheila Hancock, Noel Harrison, John Bird
Director:
Jonathan Miller
Hayley Mills and Oliver Reed star in Kinglsy Amis' sophisticated sex comedy, directed by Jonathan Miller.
Pretty young teacher Jenny Bunn (Hayley Mills) moves down south in the swinging sixties. Jenny's hardly had time to settle into her digs before local lothario Patrick (Oliver Reed) spots her, wines and dines her and sweeps her back to his place for a night of (in his mind) meaningless sex. It's then that Patrick makes a truly shocking discovery: Jenny is a virgin - and intends to stay that way.
Patrick hasn't met a virgin before, so he's totally confused - and a bit scared. Can he persuade the virtuous Jenny to join the permissive society or should he just give up and settle for the easy charms of randy TV show girl Wendy (Aimi McDonald)?
Whatever he's going to do, he'd better do it fast - because Jenny's grubby old landlord Dick (John Bird) and super-rich socialist Julian (Noel Harrison) are also sniffing around her...
With a great supporting cast that includes Sheila Hancock, Ronald Lacey John Fortune and Penelope Keith, and a witty script from George Melly, Take A Girl Like You is a saucy British classic available on DVD for the very first time.
Wonderful Hayley Mills in a wonderful little movie!, 2009-01-04
The lovely and wonderful Hayley Mills made this movie magic! It captures the moment of the 70's and how the boys were, and how the girls tried to be. It's witty, funny, and has it's moments. Oliver Reed is good, as well as a surprise performance from Noel Harrison. The whole cast makes this a cinematic treasure. This film was by far underrated, and everyone should experience this wonderful movie. The score and title song is fantastic...should be released on cd! I don't think this film would have worked without Hayley Mills. It just proves what a beautiful and multi-talented actress she is. This film is one of my top ten favorites, and it gets better each time I see it. It should have a major release just to show movie audiences how great those films from the 70's were. Treat yourself to this movie. It moves fast, and has so many memorable and enjoyable moments. I just wish the studios today released more enjoyable films like this!
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £12.35
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Keeley Hawes, Ben Miles, Sheila Hancock, Andrew Byrne, Lorraine Pilkington
Director:
Simon Shore
After Thomas, 2010-01-19
Truly wonderful. A must read for all who have a family member with autism. I did not fully understand what my son and his wife went through, on a daily basis,until I watched this. I cried from begining to end.
List Price: £39.99
Our Price: £13.00
Rated: Exempt
Staring:
Jeremy Paxman, Stephen Fry, Sheila Hancock, Bill Oddie, Amanda Redman
Review from Across the Pond, 2010-01-31
Although I live in the United States I thoroughly enjoyed this series that follows well known Britains through their quest for their "roots" as we say it here. It was a refreshing look at the process of researching your family with a slight twist from the standpoint of Americans. Most of the British do not decend from immigrants to the new world and each researcher was able to go back many generations and not leave their own country. Although some people did report living elsewhere in the world - they often found relatives that they didn't know they had in their own backyards! Really enjoyed it even without knowing the "celebrities" first hand.
List Price: £14.99
Our Price: £3.58
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Robin Weisman
Director:
Emile Ardolino
Three Men And A Little Lady, 2009-07-22
I bought this DVD for my wife to replace a worn out video and she enjoyed the much superior DVD quality. his is a very funny story with some great stars interplaying throughout. Well worth a look.
List Price: £12.99
Our Price: £3.39
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Jack MacGowran
Director:
Richard Lester
Classic anti-war screwball comedy, 2009-02-20
This is a classic 1966 subversive anti-war drama from Richard Lester the director of the previous two Beatles films 'A Hard Day's Night' and 'Help'. The satire is akin to Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove' although a lot more abstact and even surreal! Michael Crawford shines in his role while John Lennon is good in his supporting role.
I highly recommend this film to anyone who is a fan of The Beatles or Lennon or just classic filmmaking.
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