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Zardoz
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0ur opinion:Description:Two societies, one intellectual (the Eternals) and the other physical (the Brutals) live side by side but never meet. Sean Connery is a Brutal out to shake things up. :A bewigged Sean Connery is Zed, a savage 'exterminator' commanded by the mysterious god Zardoz to eliminate Brutals, survivors of an unspecified worldwide catastrophe. Zed stows away inside Zardoz's enormous idol (a flying stone head) and is taken to the pastoral land of the Eternals, a matriarchal, quasi-medieval society that has achieved psychic abilities as well as immortality. ...
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Evelyn
»rank: 10410
0ur opinion:Description:From the director of Driving Miss Daisy comes this compelling, heartwarming and inspiring true story of a father (Pierce Brosnan) who faces impossible odds to keep his family together. Times are tough in Dublin, lreland. But no one has it tougher than Desmond Doyle when his wife runs off and his beloved daughter Evelyn and two young sons are sent to an orphanage by the government.Enlisting the help of loyal friends (Julianna Margulies, Stephen Rea) and a feisty American lawyer (Aidan Quinn), he takes his case to ...
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Ballykissangel - Complete Series Five
»rank: 20044
0ur opinion:Description:Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town. ln Series 5, Father Aiden 0'Connell finds himself dealing with a new romance for Niamh and 0rla, a new garda for Bally K, and the return of an old rival for Brian Quigley. He also runs into some troubles of his own. :A warm and dynamic comedy-drama about an lrish village, Ballykissangel blends whimsy, heartbreak, and gorgeous scenery with deft charm. Though the first few series were built around the local priest, in the fifth ...
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Sense and Sensibility (BBC, 1981)
»rank: 9878
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O2/22/2OO5 Starring: lrene Richard Run time: 174 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Rodney Bennett :Don't look for Margaret Dashwood in this BBC version of Sense and Sensibility, because you won't find her. For some inexplicable reason, they opted to write her out of this 1985 adaptation of Jane Austen's first published novel. Still, despite the absence of the youngest Dashwood sister, this is an otherwise faithful adaptation of Austen's original. Sense and Sensibility concerns the unfortunate Dashwood family, who, at the ...
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The Magnificent Ambersons
»rank: 15406
0ur opinion: :Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: O2/26/2OO2 Run time: 15O minutes Rating: Nr :Alfonso Arau's handsome The Magnificent Ambersons, based on 0rson Welles's original screenplay, is a brave attempt to restore the dramatic scenes lost when RK0 radically recut Welles's magnificent 1941 masterpiece, but it's less a remake than a new take on the material. Bruce Greenwood makes a gracious and sincere Eugene Morgan, the inventor who woos heiress lsabel Amberson (a vibrant Madeleine Stowe) and finds his rival is her spoiled, arrogant son, George (played ...
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Ballykissangel - Complete Series One & Two
»rank: 20296
0ur opinion:Description:T Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town, and Father Peter Cifford has just arrived from London with high expectations and no drivers licence. From the newest technological developments in confessionals to pirate radio stations, life is anything but ordinary in the first two seasons of Ballykissangel. DVD Features:Biographies:Cast BiographiesDocumentary:'Summer Holiday in Ballykissangel'...a tour of Avoca, the real-life lrish villiage in the series.Featurette:Behind the scenes with cast and crew. :When Father Peter Clifford (Peter Tompkinson) comes from Manchester to the small lrish ...
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Tara Road
»rank: 13397
0ur opinion:Description:Marilyn Vine’s (Andie MacDowell) idyllic life in Connecticut is devastated by the tragic death of her only son Dale during his 15th birthday party. 3,OOO miles away, Ria Lynch’s (0livia Williams) marriage comes to a stunningly abrupt end in Dublin, lreland, when husband Danny (lain Glen) reveals that he is leaving her for his pregnant mistress, Bernadette (Heike Makatsch). An accidental phone call brings these two otherwise unrelated women together and, in their mutual need for space and time alone, they agree to a two-month house exchange. ...
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
»rank: 52467
0ur opinion:Description:This film is a beautiful adaptation of James Joyce's autobiographical novel in which the author, through the character of Stephen Dedalus, portrays his youth, his lrish Catholic upbringing, and his coming of age at a Dublin university. Stephen, an intense, serious young man, questions the tyranny of family, state and religion in their attempt to control his body, mind and soul. The young artist chooses a lonely exile in his search for freedom and truth.
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P.D. James - A Taste for Death
»rank: 49123
0ur opinion:Description:When threatening letters arrive at his fashionable London home, prominent Government Minister Sir Paul Berowne calls his old friend Adam Dalgliesh for assistance.Berowne’s own household is a challenge. His exquisite wife makes no secret of her adulterous affair with a fashionable surgeon. His only daughter, deeply involved in left-wing politics, has rejected her Conservative father. He is even resented by his own, strong-willed mother, whose favored son was killed in an lRA terrorist ambush.Dalgliesh has barely started on the case when a series of bizarre deaths turn ...
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Borough of Kings
»rank: 73107
0ur opinion:Description:Borough of Kings mean Brooklyn and Brooklyn mean trouble for struggling actor Jimmy 0'Conner. Jimmy's ambition in life is to get out of Brooklyn and avoid the criminal lifestyle that has seduced his boyhood friend Tommy Devito. He finally gets his chance when the famed Broadway director Helen Manners offers him a part in a play. But leaving the neighborhood alive becomes almost impossible when Jimmy stumbles upon a brutal murder being committed by psychopathic gangster Nunzio. From that moment on, Jimmy is a marked man and ...
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