This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part industrial-age rust and rot. The play's force is turned into a synthetic high by art directors and storyboard sketchers, all of whom have a field day condensing the material into disposable pop imagery. Richard III is a fun film, more than anything, so infatuated with its own monstrous stitchery that even the most awkward casting (Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr) seems a part of the ridiculous design. McKellen is the best thing about the movie, his mesmerising portrayal of freakish despotism and poisoned desire a thing to behold. --Tom Keogh
Harrison Ford stars in this tense thriller about a security expert forced to steal to save his own family.
Fallen women? Does it mean they've hurt their knees? After a decade of soul-saving in Africa Charles Fortescue is asked to minister to the ladies of the night in 1906 London. So Fortescue feeds them shelters them and not infrequently provides them a bed: his!A naive man of the cloth becomes a man of the sheets in this playfully naughty yet always tasteful comedy that stars Monty Python's Michael Palin (who also wrote the script) as Fortescue and features a colourful array of cockeyed characters: a blissful airhead (Phoebe Nicholls) a lusty mission sponsor (Maggie Smith) a bewildered butler (Michael Hordern) an earthy bishop (Denholm Elliott) a cantankerous John Bull (Trevor Howard) and more. Jolly good fun!
This deluxe set features a brand new print of the film transferred and digitally remastered from the original negative alongside a remastered CD of the original soundtrack album, one of Slade's most accomplished and varied recordings.
A dramatisation that traces former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
My One And Only follows actor George Hamilton's teenage years. It's an appealing comedy a road movie set in the 1950s and starring Rene Zellweger as his mother the irrepressible Anne Devereaux. She's a blond Southern belle married to Dan a bandleader (Kevin Bacon) who loves her but is a compulsive womaniser. After finding him in bed with one woman too many Anne leaves him and takes her two sons: George (Logan Lerman) and Robbie (Mark Rendall) half-brothers from her two marriages. In a sky-blue Cadillac convertible they set off an odyssey to find Anne a new husband - the only way she can imagine to support them. Anne is 40-ish and attractive to men but no longer this year's model. Their journeys take them to a series of her old beaus in Boston Pittsburgh and St. Louis; these hunting expeditions are seen through George's dubious eyes. One is an ex-military sadist one a playboy all not suitable candidates. She tries actually working but being a waitress is beyond her and then she apparently strikes pay dirt with a proposal from a man whose family owns a big house-paint business.
This Grand Prize winner at the Montreal Film Festival tells the story of a strange young man who befriends a middle-aged couple and their crippled daughter. Based on the play by Denis Potter.
When Slade embarked upon their one and only movie in 1974 fans and critics alike were expecting something akin to a Glam rock update of The Beatles `A Hard Days Night released a decade earlier. After all in the dark days of a Britain beset by strikes power cuts and a collective musical identity crisis Slade were the ultimate good time band: irreverent loud and armed with a terrific set of singalong stompers.
In Dennis Potter's Brimstone And Treacle Sting delivers one of his finest performances as Martin Taylor a mysterious stranger who arrives on the doorstep of the Bates household and soon worms his way into their lives. Mr and Mrs Bates (Denholm Elliott and Joan Plowright) soon grow to trust Martin but his intentions are less than honourable when it soon becomes clear that he is lusting after their comatose daughter...
Michael Palin stars as Rev. Charles Fortesque a minister tasked with guiding London's prostitutes to salvation in this raunchy comedy classic.
She's the golden girl. He's the longshot. It's a match made in... A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young female player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon at the cost of losing hers...
Love Actually: Love actually is all around. From the new bachelor Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) instantly falling in love with a refreshingly real member of the staff (Martine McCutcheon) moments after entering 10 Downing Street... To a writer (Colin Firth) escaping to the south of France to nurse his re-broken heart who finds love in a lake... From a comfortably married woman (Emma Thompson) suspecting that her husband (Alan Rickman) is slipping away... To a new bride (Keira Knightley) mistaking the distance of her husband's best friend for something it's not... From a schoolboy seeking to win the attention of the most unattainable girl in school... To a widowed stepfather (Liam Neeson) trying to connect with a son he suddenly barely knows... From a lovelorn junior manager (Laura Linney) seizing a chance with her long-tended unspoken office crush... To an ageing ""seen it all remember very little of it"" rock star (Bill Nighy) jonesing for an end-of-career comeback in his own uncompromising way... Love the equal-opportunity mischief-maker is causing chaos for all. These London lives and loves collide mingle and climax on Christmas Eve-again and again and again-with romantic hilarious and bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love's spell. Wimbledon: Pro tennis ""hot shot"" Lizzie Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst) is a rising star who lives to win. But when she falls for long-shot contender Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) amid the glitz and glamour of Wimbledon Lizzie discovers its not if you win or lose but how you play the game...of love. A deliciously witty romantic comedy about chasing your dreams and risking your heart Wimbledon is a fun and charming story of love across the net.
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Firewall (Dir. Richard Loncraine 2006): Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) is an average family man in Seattle who heads up the hi-tech security team at his local bank. But following a seemingly trivial case of identity theft Jack's life is turned upside-down when he discovers that his wife (Virginia Madsen) and two kids have been kidnapped. The ransom? A mere $100 million which the kidnappers led by Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) want Jack to obtain for them via his expert computer skills. Initially compliant Jack is soon irked by Cox and his cronies to the point where he decides to risk everything to get his family back and bring the bad guys to justice... The Fugitive (Dir. Andrew Davis 1993): Catch him if you can. The Fugitive if on the run! Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through the breathless manhunt movie based on the classic TV series. Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. Jones is Sam Gerard an unrelenting bloodhound of an U.S. Marshal. They are hunted and hunter. The non-stop chase has one exhilarating speed: all out.
My One And Only follows actor George Hamilton's teenage years. It's an appealing comedy a road movie set in the 1950s and starring Rene Zellweger as his mother the irrepressible Anne Devereaux. She's a blond Southern belle married to Dan a bandleader (Kevin Bacon) who loves her but is a compulsive womaniser. After finding him in bed with one woman too many Anne leaves him and takes her two sons: George (Logan Lerman) and Robbie (Mark Rendall) half-brothers from her two marriages. In a sky-blue Cadillac convertible they set off an odyssey to find Anne a new husband - the only way she can imagine to support them. Anne is 40-ish and attractive to men but no longer this year's model. Their journeys take them to a series of her old beaus in Boston Pittsburgh and St. Louis; these hunting expeditions are seen through George's dubious eyes. One is an ex-military sadist one a playboy all not suitable candidates. She tries actually working but being a waitress is beyond her and then she apparently strikes pay dirt with a proposal from a man whose family owns a big house-paint business.
Dennis Potter has long been acknowledged as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Though he had considerable successes with the series format (such as The Singing Detective and Casanova) it is generally accepted that his strongest work is the single play of which he did many for both the BBC and ITV. In celebration of both Potter's body of work and the fiftieth anniversary of ITV this collection celebrates three of his most signif
Computer expert Hiller (Bernard Hill) is an alcoholic a failed husband and a failed father-figure. In a short space of time he has lost his job his wife and has become financially in debt to a vicious gang of mobsters. So when the gangsters agree to write off the debt if Hiller will supply them with the security details of a newly-constructed bank it's an offer he can't refuse. Having handed over the information Hiller believes he has seen the last of the gang and is in the clear. But when his young stepson is kidnapped and taken hostage Hiller finds himself being blackmailed into taking part in the actual raid on the bank. A loser by nature as events spiral out of control around him he soon discovers in himself a hidden capacity for parental love ingenuity and above all courage. With his and his stepson's lives under threat Hiller decides it's time to fight back.
Love Actually (Dir. Richard Curtis 2003): From the new bachelor Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) instantly falling in love with a refreshingly real member of the staff (Martine McCutcheon) moments after entering 10 Downing Street... To a writer (Colin Firth) escaping to the south of France to nurse his re-broken heart who finds love in a lake... From a comfortably married woman (Emma Thompson) suspecting that her husband (Alan Rickman) is slipping away... To a new bride (Keira Knightly) mistaking the distance of her husband's best friend for something it's not... From a schoolboy seeking to win the attention of the most unattainable girl in school... To a widowed stepfather (Liam Nesson) trying to connect with a son he suddenly barely knows... From a lovelorn junior manager seizing a chance with her long-tended unspoken office crush... To an ageing ""seen it all remember very little of it"" rock star (Bill Nighy) jonesing for an end-of-career comeback in his own uncompromising way... Love the equal-opportunity mischief-maker is causing chaos for all. These London lives and loves collide mingle and climax on Christmas Eve-again and again and again-with romantic hilarious and bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love's spell. Wimbledon (Dir. Richard Loncraine 2004): She's the golden girl. He's the longshot. It's a match made in... A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him he meets a young female player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon at the cost of losing hers...
A computer expert is forced to take part in a daring bank robbery after his son is taken hostage.
Bewitched: Be warned. Be ready. A producer remaking the classic sitcom ""Bewitched"" unknowingly casts an actual witch for the lead role! Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell headline this hilarious romantic comedy based on the beloved sitcom starring Elizabeth Montgomery. (Dir. Nora Ephron 2005) Wimbledon: She's the golden girl. He's the longshot. It's a match made in... A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him he meets a young female player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon at the cost of losing hers... (Dir. Richard Loncraine 2004) The Perfect Man: Is it all too good to be true? Teenager Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) is fed up of moving every time her single-parent mother Jean (Heather Locklear) breaks-up with another dead-beat boyfriend. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man - an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her self-esteem. When the virtual relationship takes off Holly finds herself having to produce a suitor from somewhere; borrowing her friend's charming and handsome uncle Ben (Chris Noth) as the face behind the emails notes and gifts! Holly must resort to increasingly desperate measures to keep the ruse alive and protect her Mother's newfound happiness... Almost missing the real perfect man when he does come along. (Dir. Mark Rosman 2005)
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