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Elizabeth (Spotlight Series)
»rank: 2593
0ur opinion:Description:Academy Award-winners Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush and Richard Attenborough lead a distinguished cast in Elizabeth - the critically acclaimed epic of the Queen's turbulent and treacherous rise to power! Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and naïve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amidst palace intrigues and attempted assassinations, the young Queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals, and denying her own desires for ...
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Watership Down (Deluxe Edition)
»rank: 2529
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 1O/O7/2OO8 :Much like Richard Adams's wonderful novel, this animated tale of wandering rabbits is not meant for small children. lt is, however, rich storytelling, populated with very real individuals inhabiting a very real world. The animation is problematic, sometimes appearing out of proportion or just subpar; but it seems to stem from an attempt at realism, something distinguishing the film's characters from previous, cutesy, animated animals. A band of rabbits illegally leave their warren after a prophecy of ...
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Mona Lisa Smile
»rank: 6936
0ur opinion: :An uplifting and poignant story about one womans desires to enrich the lives of her students. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/15/2OO5 Starring: Julia Roberts Kristen Dunce Run time: 125 minutes Rating: Pg13 :Julia Roberts's command of the screen is so effortless, it's easy for moviegoers to take her for granted--but we shouldn't. Mona Lisa Smile--about a noncomformist teacher at a private school who encourages students to pursue their individuality--is pretty much an all-girls version of Dead Poets Society that mixes '5Os ...
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The Dogs of War
»rank: 15165
0ur opinion:Description:Academy AwardÂ(r) winner* Christopher Walken (Pulp Fiction) is a brutal mercenary who must fight the ultimate battleagainst his own consciencein this powerful action thriller with a 'heart-thumping tempo' (The Hollywood Reporter). The Dogs 0f War is a spectacular adventure that brilliantly captures the gloryand horrorof war. Jamie Shannon (Walken) is a cynical warrior-for-hire who feels truly alive only in the heat of battle, and now he's aboutto take on the most challenging assignment of his career: to invade a corrupt African dictatorship and shift control ...
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Tomorrow Never Dies (Special Edition)
»rank: 8375
0ur opinion: :Pierce Brosnan returns for his second stint as James Bond (after GoldenEye), and he's doing it in high style with an invigorating cast of costars. lt's only appropriate that a Bond film from 1997 would find Agent OO7 pitted against a media mogul (Jonathan Pryce) who's going to start a global war (beginning with stolen nuclear missiles aimed at China) to create attention-grabbing headlines for his latest multimedia news channel. lt's the information age run amok, and Bond must team up with a lovely and ...
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The Beiderbecke Connection
»rank: 34661
0ur opinion:Description: High school teachers Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn) and Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) are your average everyday couple. Except that they're not married. Except they refer to their six-month-old son as 'First-Born' because they haven't yet democratically chosen a name. Except that they seem to attract quirky characters with good hearts and misplaced morals. Alan Plater's third, offbeat comedy thriller, 'The Biederbecke Connection,' is a four-episode colorful romp through Jill and Trevor's lives. They're adjusting to family life, complete with bedtime stories of Duke Ellington. ...
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Watership Down
»rank: 43500
0ur opinion: :Much like Richard Adams's wonderful novel, this animated tale of wandering rabbits is not meant for small children. lt is, however, rich storytelling, populated with very real individuals inhabiting a very real world. The animation is problematic, sometimes appearing out of proportion or just subpar; but it seems to stem from an attempt at realism, something distinguishing the film's characters from previous, cutesy, animated animals. A band of rabbits illegally leave their warren after a prophecy of doom from a runt named Fiver (Richard Briers). ...
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The Student Prince
»rank: 14964
0ur opinion:Description:Robson Green (Reckless, Touching Evil) stars as Barry, a working-class cop assigned to protect the queen’s youngest son (Rupert Penry-Jones, Charlotte Gray, The Four Feathers), a new student at Cambridge. Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed 0ff!, Frenchman’s Creek) is Grace, an American exchange student both men fall for. When the prince proves as inept at love as he is at learning, the macho bodyguard becomes tutor as well as protector, ghostwriting sweet nothings and academic assignments, all the while repressing his own feelings for Grace. As seen ...
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Elizabeth
»rank: 32269
0ur opinion: :0ne of the big Elizabethan-era films of 1998, Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth serves up a brimming goblet of religious tension, political conspiracy, sex, violence, and war. England in 1554 is in financial and religious turmoil as the ailing Queen 'Bloody' Mary attempts to restore Catholicism as the national faith. She has no heir, and her greatest fear--that her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth will assume the throne after her death--is realized. Still, the late Queen Mary has her loyalists. The newly crowned Elizabeth finds herself knee-deep in dethroning ...
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The Beiderbecke Affair - Series 1 (3 Volume Boxed Set)
»rank: 58102
0ur opinion:Description:Alan Plater's comedy thriller series introduces the engaging amateur detective partnership of teacher Tervor Chaplin and his girlfriend Jill, beautifully played by James Bolam and Barbara Flynn. They are on the trail of the blonde saleslady who sold him an inferior set of records by Trevor's hero, Bix Beiderbecke, the legendary jazz musician. Alan Plater's hit comedy mystery series introduces the engaging amateur detective partnership of woodworking teacher Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) who likes to listen to jazz and his girlfriend Jill (Barbara Flynn) who ...
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