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List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £2.90
Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Ewan McGregor, Noah Bean, Michael Devine, Michael Gaston, Michael Gray
Director:
Marc Forster
 Superb challenging hallucinatory psychodrama, 2007-01-26
This is a film that bends the mind like "Mulholland Drive" and like that film the clue lies in the opening sequence, in this case with the burning car on Brooklyn Bridge, if you understand this you will understand what is happening in the film.
"Stay" is an awesome achievement, delving into real life in an hallucinatory drama centred on a superb performance by Ryan Gosling as the psychologically unstable student Henry Letham. Psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) becomes involved in the life of his perplexing patient whose behaviour resonates with his partners problems, Lila Culpepper (Naomi Watts).
This is one helluva complex, multifaceted, multilayered drama that stretches the mind and demands undivided attention from start to finish.
List Price: £33.99
Our Price: £24.94
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton
Director:
Marc Forster
Daniel Craig hasn't lost a step since Casino Royale--this James Bond remains dangerous, a man who could earn that license to kill in brutal hand-to-hand combat… but still look sharp in a tailored suit. And Quantum of Solance itself carries on from the previous film like no other 007 movie, with Bond nursing his anger from the Casino Royale storyline and vowing blood revenge on those responsible. For the new plot, we have villain Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), intent on controlling the water rights in impoverished Third World nations and happy to overthrow a dictator or two to get his way. Olga Kurylenko is very much in the "Bond girl" tradition, but in the Ursula Andress way, not the Denise Richards way. And Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, and Giancarlo Giannini are welcome holdovers. If director Marc Forster and the longtime Bond production team seem a little too eager to embrace the continuity-shredding style of the Bourne pictures (especially in a nearly incomprehensible opening car chase), they nevertheless quiet down and get into a dark, concentrated groove soon enough. And the theme song, "Another Way to Die," penned by Jack White and ...
Jamez Bond, 2010-06-24
The second in the series of the ever so cool Daniel Craig as 007. Not as good as Casino Royale but still a real good romp and all the typical ingredients in the new era.
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: £3.00
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Khalid Abdalla, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub
Director:
Marc Forster
Like the bestselling book upon which it's based, The Kite Runner will haunt the viewer long after the film is over. A tale of childhood betrayal, innocence, harsh reality, and dreamy memory, The Kite Runner faces good and evil--and the path between them, though often blurry and sorrowfully relative. Director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) presents a painterly vision of Afghanistan before the Soviet tanks, before the Taliban--lush, verdant, fertile--in its landscape and in its people and their history and hopes. The story follows two young boys' friendship, tested beyond endurance, and the haunting of their adult selves by what happened in their youth--and what horrors befall their country in the meantime. The performances of the two boys--Zekeria Ebrahimi (Amir) and Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada (Hassan)--are the film's strongest, unforced and gently evocative. The penance paid by their adult selves is foreshadowed, but never predictable--and the metaphor of innocence lost, a common theme in Forster's work, keeps the film, like the title kites, truly aloft. --A.T. Hurley
10 out of 10, 2010-08-27
it would be a shame for anybody to miss this film. they dont come any better
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £8.89
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Shaun Toub, Homayon Ershadi, Khalid Abdalla, Said Tashimaoui, Atossa Leoni
Director:
Marc Forster
Like the bestselling book upon which it's based, The Kite Runner will haunt the viewer long after the film is over. A tale of childhood betrayal, innocence, harsh reality, and dreamy memory, The Kite Runner faces good and evil--and the path between them, though often blurry and sorrowfully relative. Director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) presents a painterly vision of Afghanistan before the Soviet tanks, before the Taliban--lush, verdant, fertile--in its landscape and in its people and their history and hopes. The story follows two young boys' friendship, tested beyond endurance, and the haunting of their adult selves by what happened in their youth--and what horrors befall their country in the meantime. The performances of the two boys--Zekeria Ebrahimi (Amir) and Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada (Hassan)--are the film's strongest, unforced and gently evocative. The penance paid by their adult selves is foreshadowed, but never predictable--and the metaphor of innocence lost, a common theme in Forster's work, keeps the film, like the title kites, truly aloft. --A.T. Hurley
10 out of 10, 2010-08-27
it would be a shame for anybody to miss this film. they dont come any better
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: £3.67
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini
Director:
Marc Forster
Daniel Craig hasn't lost a step since Casino Royale--this James Bond remains dangerous, a man who could earn that license to kill in brutal hand-to-hand combat… but still look sharp in a tailored suit. And Quantum of Solance itself carries on from the previous film like no other 007 movie, with Bond nursing his anger from the Casino Royale storyline and vowing blood revenge on those responsible. For the new plot, we have villain Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), intent on controlling the water rights in impoverished Third World nations and happy to overthrow a dictator or two to get his way. Olga Kurylenko is very much in the "Bond girl" tradition, but in the Ursula Andress way, not the Denise Richards way. And Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, and Giancarlo Giannini are welcome holdovers. If director Marc Forster and the longtime Bond production team seem a little too eager to embrace the continuity-shredding style of the Bourne pictures (especially in a nearly incomprehensible opening car chase), they nevertheless quiet down and get into a dark, concentrated groove soon enough. And the theme song, "Another Way to Die," penned by Jack White and ...
Jamez Bond, 2010-06-24
The second in the series of the ever so cool Daniel Craig as 007. Not as good as Casino Royale but still a real good romp and all the typical ingredients in the new era.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £2.90
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Halle Berry|Billy Bob Thornton|Heath Ledger|Sean Combs
Director:
Marc Forster
A harrowing portrayal of Deep South life in the 21st century, Monster's Ball hits you where it hurts most, in the complex realm of extreme human emotions. This is not a movie to pass the time on a Sunday afternoon. With intriguing juxtapositions and some of the best editing of recent times it has all the makings of a modern film noir, yet it's not only the men that end up on the wrong side of the track: pride and ill-fortune are the real femme fatales here. Billy Bob Thornton is a death row officer whose redneck father has taught him that emotions make you weak, leading to an inability to love his son (Heath Ledger) and feel any compassion for the convicts in his care. When he loses a "loved one", he embarks on a relationship with the widow (Halle Berry) of a man whom he strapped in the electric chair, and the two of them search for comfort in sex, alcohol and chocolate ice-cream. The movie features fine turns from all actors involved, with Berry deservedly winning an Oscar for best actress and Ledger proving he is more than eye candy. Far from concluding the suffering, the ending leaves the viewer in an emotional void in which you will find yourself analysi...
 Thought Provoking Subject, 2009-09-13
I enjoyed this film and chose it because I like Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton who both played their parts well. It was a fairly slow moving film and many parts were of a disturbing nature and quite implicit and at times very sad but the ending brought together all the pieces well to leave one realising that events can change people for the better and that must surely be a good thing.
List Price: £17.99
Our Price: £2.72
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Will Ferrell, Queen Latifah
Director:
Marc Forster
Much was written about Will Ferrell's first "dramatic role" as Harold Crick, an IRS auditor who begins hearing a voice narrating his life. But Stranger Than Fiction is hardly a drama. However, what Ferrell does--like Jim Carrey before him in The Truman Show--is handle a toned-down character with genuineness and affection: you believe he is this guy. Crick leads a lonely life filled with numbers and routines. While at first he considers the voice a nuisance, Crick decides more action is needed when it speaks of "his demise." Enter Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), who takes on the absurd notion with revelry, trying to find out what kind of book Crick's life is leading. It turns out that the voice Crick is hearing belongs to Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), a very real--and troubled--author who is writing a book in which Crick is a fictional character. As usual with these things, the stuffed shirt learns to live a better life--Crick even falls for one of his audits, a brash baker named Ana (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Marc Foster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) has the right tone for the film, using great urban scenes (the unnamed city is Chicago) with interesting...
Love-hate at it's best, 2010-03-24
I'll try and not spoil it for you by being specific, but what I love most about this movie is that I hate its ending.
It's a movie that sets out to tell the story about the book about Harold Crick (Farrel's character) and ends up becoming that book itself, with everything that that means.
I've heard people complain about the ending, that it's not right or that it irks them and that it stops the movie from being great... but people who think that have missed the whole point of the movie or its ending.
I really do feel that the film makers have done something clever and original here.
Now, I realise I've already said too much and the more clever of you will have figured out the ending by the middle of the movie after reading this review, but I really hope that you can still, like me, appreciate the movie for what it is.
It's a clever and well written movie with real laugh out loud moments and heart wringing ones as well.
It's a movie that will cure you of any ill feelings about Will Farrel's choice of roles.
It's a movie worth watching again and again :)
List Price: £24.99
Our Price: £4.93
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini
Director:
Marc Forster
Daniel Craig hasn't lost a step since Casino Royale--this James Bond remains dangerous, a man who could earn that license to kill in brutal hand-to-hand combat… but still look sharp in a tailored suit. And Quantum of Solance itself carries on from the previous film like no other 007 movie, with Bond nursing his anger from the Casino Royale storyline and vowing blood revenge on those responsible. For the new plot, we have villain Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), intent on controlling the water rights in impoverished Third World nations and happy to overthrow a dictator or two to get his way. Olga Kurylenko is very much in the "Bond girl" tradition, but in the Ursula Andress way, not the Denise Richards way. And Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, and Giancarlo Giannini are welcome holdovers. If director Marc Forster and the longtime Bond production team seem a little too eager to embrace the continuity-shredding style of the Bourne pictures (especially in a nearly incomprehensible opening car chase), they nevertheless quiet down and get into a dark, concentrated groove soon enough. And the theme song, "Another Way to Die," penned by Jack White and ...
Jamez Bond, 2010-06-24
The second in the series of the ever so cool Daniel Craig as 007. Not as good as Casino Royale but still a real good romp and all the typical ingredients in the new era.
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: £3.00
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Will Ferrell, Queen Latifah
Director:
Marc Forster
Much was written about Will Ferrell's first "dramatic role" as Harold Crick, an IRS auditor who begins hearing a voice narrating his life. But Stranger Than Fiction is hardly a drama. However, what Ferrell does--like Jim Carrey before him in The Truman Show--is handle a toned-down character with genuineness and affection: you believe he is this guy. Crick leads a lonely life filled with numbers and routines. While at first he considers the voice a nuisance, Crick decides more action is needed when it speaks of "his demise." Enter Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), who takes on the absurd notion with revelry, trying to find out what kind of book Crick's life is leading. It turns out that the voice Crick is hearing belongs to Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), a very real--and troubled--author who is writing a book in which Crick is a fictional character. As usual with these things, the stuffed shirt learns to live a better life--Crick even falls for one of his audits, a brash baker named Ana (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Marc Foster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) has the right tone for the film, using great urban scenes (the unnamed city is Chicago) with interesting...
Love-hate at it's best, 2010-03-24
I'll try and not spoil it for you by being specific, but what I love most about this movie is that I hate its ending.
It's a movie that sets out to tell the story about the book about Harold Crick (Farrel's character) and ends up becoming that book itself, with everything that that means.
I've heard people complain about the ending, that it's not right or that it irks them and that it stops the movie from being great... but people who think that have missed the whole point of the movie or its ending.
I really do feel that the film makers have done something clever and original here.
Now, I realise I've already said too much and the more clever of you will have figured out the ending by the middle of the movie after reading this review, but I really hope that you can still, like me, appreciate the movie for what it is.
It's a clever and well written movie with real laugh out loud moments and heart wringing ones as well.
It's a movie that will cure you of any ill feelings about Will Farrel's choice of roles.
It's a movie worth watching again and again :)
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