"Actor: Phyllida Law"

• Much Ado About Nothing | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £6.89   |  Saving you £9.10 (132.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Kenneth Branagh's 1993 production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a vigorous and imaginative work, cheerful and accessible for everyone. Largely the story of Benedick (Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson)--adversaries who come to believe each is trying to woo the other--the film veers from arched wit to ironic romps, and the two leads don't mind looking a little silly at times. But the plot is also layered with darker matters that concern the ease with which men and women fall into mutual distrust. Branagh has rounded up a mixed cast of stage vets and Hollywood stars, among the latter Denzel Washington and Michael Keaton, the latter playing a rather seedy, Beetlejuice-like version of Dogberry, king of malapropisms.--Tom Keogh

• Saving Grace | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £8.25   |  Saving you £9.74 (118.06%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This heart warming comedy stars Brenda Blethyn (Little Voice, Secrets & Lies) as Grace Trevethan whose idyllic life on the Cornish coast is turning upside down.

• Emma | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Most people didn't mind Gwyneth Paltrow's English accent in this charming, 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel (which also inspired Clueless). But even if it doesn't sound quite right to you, there are plenty of authentic and wonderful Brit thespians in this film by screenwriter-turned-director Douglas McGrath (co-author of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway), including Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply), Alan Cumming (Buddy), Phyllida Law (Much Ado About Nothing), Ewan McGregor (the Scots star of Trainspotting), and Sophie Thompson, outstanding and finally heartbreaking as the chattering Miss Bates. Paltrow plays Austen's benign busybody, Emma Woodhouse--so busy trying to arrange the lives of others that she is sidestepping her own. McGrath brings a kind of pretty and light touch to the production, his best move the wise delegation of creative authority to the actors themselves. --Tom Keogh

• Stig of the Dump (2002) - BBC | DVD | (04/08/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bafta-winning TV adaptation of the classic children's novel by Clive King. Barney (Thomas Sangster) is a shy ten-year-old who's spending the summer holidays with his grandparents. One day, while out walking, he is chased by the village bullies and tumbles down an overgrown quarry. There, on the quarry floor, he encounters an apparently humanoid figure with thick shaggy hair and two bright eyes. This creature turns out to be Stig (Robert Tannion), a caveman who is hundreds of thousands of years old. Gradually he and Barney learn to communicate with other. Together they forage through the rubbish dump at the bottom of the quarry, using the things the villagers throw away to improve Stig's cave. So begins a very special friendship, and a tale which has charmed children and adults alike ever since it was first published in 1963.

• Clarence - Series 1 | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £5.89   |  Saving you £7.10 (120.54%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This comedy series written by Ronnie Barker and set in 1937 is something of a lost classic. Barker plays Clarence Sale short-sighted removals man and suitor of Jane a ladies' maid. Ostensibly a comedy of manners with moments of slapstick mayhem (he's as blind as a bat!) Clarence resurrects the title character from an episode of the 1971 ITV series Six Date With Barker and was Barker's final TV project before retiring. Featuring all 6 episodes.

• Peter's Friends | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ten years after leaving university Peter and his best friends reunite for a New Year's party to end all parties. Having weathered most of life's triumphs and disasters there doesn't seem to be much left to shock them - but Peter has a special surprise that will test their friendship to the utmost. A wonderfully wicked comedy about life love and other natural disasters.

• The Time Machine | Blu Ray | (05/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Time Machine | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Based on the classic science fiction novel by H G Wells this is the story of a scientist and inventor who travels 800,000 years into the future where he discovers mankind has been divided into two races: the hunter and the hunted.

• Rosamunde Pilcher: The Collection | DVD | (18/05/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This fabulous collection inspired by the works of Rosamunde Pilcher includes three gripping adaptations: The Other Wife Unknown Heart and Valentine’s Kiss.

• Unleashed | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £5.03   |  Saving you £10.96 (217.89%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jet Li stars as Danny, a slave who has lived his whole life learning just one lesson: how to fight.

• Winter Guest | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £4.43   |  Saving you £11.56 (260.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set upon the shores of a picturesque Scottish seaside town in the icy depths of winter The Winter Guest is moving funny and tender story about life love and the need to feel wanted. Oscar winner Emma Thompson and her real life mother Phyllida Law bring extraordinary emotional depth to this sometimes comic often poignant story of four sets of odd couples each representing a different generation from childhood to old age. Frances (Emma Thompson) is trying to overcome the recent loss of her husband: while Elspeth her Mother (Phyllida Law) is attempting to rekindle the relationship between herself and her daughter. As their lives intertwine with those of two young boys (playing truant) a teenage couple (on the brink of sexual awakening) and two elderly ladies (who spend their time choosing which funeral to attend) their affections for each other begin to thaw while all around them is cold frosty and snow covered...

• Two Men Went To War | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £19.90   |  Saving you £-13.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This comedy drama is the true story of two Army dentists Sergeant Peter King (Kenneth Cranham) and Private Leslie Cuthbertson (Leo Bill) who in 1942 stole a bag of hand grenades two revolvers and a set of the best dental equipment that money could buy and went off to invade occupied France on their own - without permission! 'Two Men Went to War' tells their outrageously irresponsible yet eccentrically heroic story for the first time with an all-star cast in a sumptuous funny and moving dramatisation of one of the most bizarre events to have occurred in the Second World War.

• Mad Cows | DVD | (08/05/2000) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the best-selling novel, this adaptation about an Australian who has a baby with her aristocratic cad of a boyfriend is written and directed by newcomer Sara Suggarman, who has injected her own particular style into the film.

• The Winter Guest | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £9.73   |  Saving you £3.25 (48.22%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set during the brief hours of light one day in February when the sea has frozen, The Winter Guest is about how four pairs of people at different stages of life attempt to fill the emptiness in their hearts. While that sounds bleak--and the setting in a small town on the East coast of Scotland is certainly stark--there is considerable human warmth in Alan Rickman's directorial debut. Without a conventional story, Rickman simply cuts between four strands, spending most of the time with the difficult relationship between a mother and daughter, played by real-life parent and offspring Phyllida Law and Emma Thomson. Strong dialogue, with a dash of Samuel's Beckett's existential squabbling angst and outstanding performances make this both funny and touching. Meanwhile Thomson's teenage son begins a tentative romance with the new girl in town, two younger boys bunk off school to the icy beach and a pair of elderly ladies attends a funeral. Ultimately the ice-locked sea and Michael Kamen's crystalline piano score become additional characters, the film offering a pseudo-mysticism akin to Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) while echoing with the spare dramas of Krzysztof Kieslowski; especially Three Colours: White (1994). A beautiful drama that demands attention throughout. --Gary S Dalkin

• A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | DVD | (05/10/2015) from £12.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (92.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Katherine Mansfield was a rebel. A modernist writer known for her short stories, she counted Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence amongst her friends. Brought up in New Zealand, Mansfield left for London when she was 15 angry at her homeland for its repression of the Māori people. Settled in England, the writer recorded romantic relationships with both men and women in her journals and married John Middleton-Murray (Jeremy Brett) when she was 23, though their marriage was not without troubles… Mansfield’s life was tragically cut short when she died of tuberculosis aged just 34. This is her story. Each hour-long episode in this magnetic series features a dramatization of a moment in Mansfield’s fascinating life, and an adaptation of one of her short stories.

• Ffizz: The Complete Series | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Richard Griffiths and Benjamin Whitrow give hilarious performances as Jack and Hugo the co-directors of an upmarket wine merchants that is decidedly on its uppers! Congenitally work-shy, the two perpetual partygoers get a considerable shock when the company accountant unexpectedly dies and they discover that they're completely strapped for cash! When the bank installs a troubleshooter to save them from bankruptcy they're faced with the ghastly realisation that they may well have to stop partying and start working for a living... Written by BAFTA-nominated writing team Richard Fegen and Andrew Norris who had just finished their highly successful run on Chance in a Million and who would go on to even greater success with Woof! and The Brittas Empire this set contains all twelve episodes from both series.

• Stig Of The Dump | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Stig of the Dump is a delightful tale of a shy young boy's friendship with a caveman and based on the best selling book by Clive King. Features magical special effects from the creator of beasts in Harry Potter - The Philosopher's Stone. Winner of BAFTA Children's Film & Television Award and won it's writer Peter Tabern Best Children's Writer award.

• Mee-Shee - The Water Giant | DVD | (06/04/2010) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (62.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The World's Most Lovable Monster is About to Surface! Mac a fun loving nine-year old will have the adventure of a lifetime when he uncovers the world's biggest secret: Mee-Shee a loveable water giant. Together Mac and his enormous new friend will have to outsmart a team of evil hunters who threaten to take Mee-Shee away forever. With incredible monsters and amazing special effects from Academy Award winning Jim Henson's Creature Shop Mee-Shee the Water Giant will swim into the hearts of your whole family!

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 4 - Part 3 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jack loses his fortune in the Wall Street crash. He returns to Liverpool illegally with gangsters pursuing him across the Atlantic. He becomes involved in the Spanish Civil War and agrees to run arms for an ex-Sergeant Major. Episodes include: 'Action! Comrades In Arms!' and 'Roll Of Honour'.

• Blinded | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  While doing her rounds in the Scottish countryside Doctor Caroline Lamar comes upon a hitchhiker and offers him a lift. Young Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi explains that he is looking for work in the area and so she points him in the direction of Black's farm an isolated steading. Francis Black the owner who is blind and lives there with his ailing mother Bella and enigmatic young wife Rachel tells Mike he can work in the yard. But put off by the foreboding atmosphere Mi