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• Jude | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £4.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (55.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This curiously dry adaptation of Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude is a good example of Michael Winterbottom's inability to make a particularly good film until Welcome to Sarajevo. Christopher Eccleston plays Jude Fawley, a self-educated stonemason who holds the dream of attending university but identifies with the working class. Kate Winslet is enlisted to play his cousin Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings and a position as a teacher's assistant. When the two enter into an illicit union, they are condemned to the margins of society, ultimately resulting in a horrifying tragedy. Winterbottom takes an oddly lean approach to Hardy's deterministic story, which leaves a viewer feeling short on emotion just when one needs it for the from-bad-to-worse third act. Welcome to Sarajevo proved that Winterbottom needs a whole other level of personal involvement to make a film that inspires him. Jude isn't one of those lucky films. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Byron | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The young poet Lord Byron had everything. He was beautiful aristocratic talented - and sexually irresistable. By his mid-twenties he was the most famous man in England - the world's first celebrity. Women flung themmselves at him. Men wanted to be like him. He lived for sensation and sexual excess indulging his darkest cravings and scandalising the nation until he could only be satiated by a passionate affair with his own half-sister. Too late he discovered that even a celebrity can go too far... Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting) stars as Byron in this erotic and compelling new BBC drama which co-stars Vanessa Redgrave (The Gathering Storm) Natasha Little (This Life) Julie Cox (The Scarelet Pimpernel) and Camilla Power as Lady Caroline Lamb.