The hit animated TV screen about an extraordinary family that travels the world in search of the rarest animals comes to the big screen.
Nanny McPhee (Dir. Kirk Jones, 2005): In this dark and witty fable, Thompson portrays a person of unsettling appearance and magical powers who enters the household of the recently widowed Mr. Brown (Firth) and attempts to tame his seven exceedingly ill-behaved children. The children, led by the oldest boy Simon (Love Actually's Thomas Sangster), have managed to drive away 17 previous nannies and are certain that they will have no trouble with this one. But as Nanny McPhee takes control...
Bringing together two recent trends--British gangster movies and modern-dress Shakespeare--My Kingdom is King Lear in contemporary Liverpool. Richard Harris, who ought to be giving his real Lear about now, is fine in the early sections as the complacent gang boss who thinks he's above the street-level violence that sustains his empire. His downfall begins when his wife (Lynn Redgrave) dies in a random mugging and he has to divide all the assets he put in her name among his grasping family and hangers-on. Harris works less well in the mad scenes, which are staged in a motorway service-station: these really need the original language to work. At its best, the film re-imagines the familiar characters in an extraordinarily apt manner: Regan and Goneril are Louise Lombard (as a former model turned madam who oversees a pretentious but tatty brothel) and Lorraine Pilkington (a hair-extended celebrity slut who owns a football team), while Emma Catherwood does Cordelia as Michael Corleone, an ex-junkie who has become a straight student and wants to stay out of the business. Director Don Boyd can't quite wrestle Shakespeare's plot into gangland, but he manages great character bits: the nastier daughters trying to get one-up on each other with grieving speeches (Pilkington does a horrible karaoke tribute at the wake), sadistic Sikh Jimi Mistry taking off his turban before torturing minor victims and Tom Bell as the customs officer who has been on Harris's case so long that he resents anyone else bringing him down. --Kim Newman
A big time movie producer invites Eloise and Nanny to Hollywood and the Plaza Hotel's most famous six-year-old is instantly overcome by visions of overnight stardom and red-carpet premieres. When Eloise arrives in Tinseltown only to be asked to audition for a role in a major studio film she thinks her glamorous dreams may actually be coming true. It's an adventure full of famous actors crazy directors and behind the scenes fun. But Eloise soon discovers making a movie isn't always as exciting as it seems. Will she be able to pull off her secret plan to stop from becoming a huge Hollywood star and go back to being just plain fabulous Eloise?
At a luxurious lakeside resort an attractive red-headed guest (Vanessa Redgrave - THE PLEDGE; GIRL INTERRUPTED) has her eye on a handsome well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt (Uma Thurman - KILL BILL VATEL) the mischievous redhead goes to outrageous lengths - including a fling with a passionate younger man - to reel in her wealthy catch! Filled with laughs and riotous comic confusion - everyone's sure to love this delightfully sexy comedy!
The timeless 1952 version of Oscar Wilde's comedy of errors in a Special Collectors' Edition.
The documentary will uncover the ways in which we, his audiences, are still influenced and affected by Shakespeare, everyday of our lives, even when we don't know it. Starring: David Tennant, Ethan Hawkes, Derek Jacobi, Joley Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave and Jeremy Irons.
This is a spectacular retelling of a true story that shows courage at its inspiring best. Few defining moments can change the outcome of war . But when the outnumbered Royal Air Force defied unsurmountable odds in engaging the German Luftwaffe they may well have altered the course of history!
Ralph is used as the perfect scapegoat for the brutal murder of a family. His defence attorney forces him to recreate an alibi to prevent him from execution.
Julie Christie stars in this adaptation of the classic novel by L.P. Hartley. A young teenage boy, Leo (Dominic Guard), is invited to a wealthy school friend's family estate and is drawn into a love affair between his friend's twenty-something sister, Marian (Christie), and the family neighbour, even though she is engaged to be married. She uses Leo as a go-between, sending messages to her lover. Despite feeling he is betraying her fiance Hugh (Edward Fox), Leo carries on being the go-between and discovers more about the attraction between men and women along the way.
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