"Director: David Attwood"

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  • Stuart A Life BackwardsStuart A Life Backwards | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £6.59   |  Saving you £9.40 (142.64%)   |  RRP £15.99

    The award-winning drama Stuart A Life Backwards details the friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator (Alexander) and a chaotic homeless man (Stuart) whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.As Alexander learns more about Stuart's complicated life and traumatic childhood he asks if he can write his story and Stuart advises him to write the story backwards so that it's ""more exciting - like a Tom Clancy murder-mystery"". As their remarkable alliance develops Stuart gradually recounts his life story in reverse his resilient personality and dry sense of humour giving the story an almost tragi-comic edge.

  • Moll FlandersMoll Flanders | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £6.94   |  Saving you £12.31 (216.73%)   |  RRP £17.99

    Based on the 18th century novel by Daniel Defoe award winning writer Andrew Davis tells the story of the notorious Moll Flanders who survives on seduction cunning and wit. Five times married once to her own brother Moll has had more than her fair share of sexual adventures but when the stock of husbands runs out she turns to a dangerous life of crime! Moll soon becomes Britain's most wanted criminal. Starring Alex Kingston Daniel Craig and Diana Rigg.

  • Hound of the BaskervillesHound of the Baskervilles | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

    With 17 previous screen adaptations behind it, this 2002 BBC version of The Hound of the Baskervilles might have been inhibited by the sheer weight of expectation. But in this production--marking the centenary of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel--director David Attwood rings the changes subtly and strikingly, helped by Allan Cubitt's tautly argued script and Christopher Hall's vivid production: the viewer feels the "presence" of the moors as never before. Richard Roxburgh is a thoughtful, understated Sherlock Holmes--self-absorbed yet observant of life around him. There's nothing bumbling or ineffectual about Ian Hart's Dr Watson--a resourceful thinker who, often sceptical of Holmes, complements him in human awareness. Richard E Grant dons a plausibly sociopathic manner as Stapleton, and there's a touching portrayal of his put-upon sister from Neve McIntosh. John Nettles and Geraldine James contribute sterling character parts as Dr and Mrs Mortimer, and Matt Day is a suave, not too sophisticated Sir Henry Baskerville. It adds up to a convincing rethink of a hallowed tale. On the DVD: The Hound of the Baskervilles on disc comes with a 16:9 picture that reproduces the sombre atmosphere of Baskerville Hall--shot at a variety of English locations--with real immediacy, and the Dolby Digital sound has 5.1 surround enhancement. Subtitles are in 11 languages, with 10 scene selections--framed in a stylishly- presented main menu. Special Features include a 12-minute making of documentary and interviews with the cast members, as well as a running commentary from Attwood and Hall. --Richard Whitehouse

  • Rockliffe's Babies: The Complete Series [DVD]Rockliffe's Babies: The Complete Series | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £29.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    A controversial police procedural from the late 1980s, this ratings-winning drama charts the progress of seven trainee CID officers learning the ropes in some of London's toughest areas. Ian Hogg gives a career best performance as the tough, irascible Alan Rockliffe an old-school supervisor whose job it is to sort the wheat from the chaff. Featuring guest appearances from Lonnie Donegan, Norman Beaton, Pauline Quirke, Kevin Lloyd, John Michie and John Woodvine, this set contains both hard-hitting series of Rockliffe's Babies, complete and uncut. It's a busy week for the young plain-clothes Crime Squad PCs. A mixed bunch, with decidedly mixed abilities, they're thrown in at the deep end with a hooded prowler, an armed robbery and a mugging on the notorious Dragon Estate. They need to think fast, but if anyone can sharpen their instincts it's surely the quick-tempered DS Rockliffe.

  • The BBC Sherlock Holmes CollectionThe BBC Sherlock Holmes Collection | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £34.88   |  Saving you £5.11 (14.65%)   |  RRP £39.99

    A collection of BBC adaptations featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated super-sleuth. A Study In Scarlet: Peter Cushing stars as the intrepid private eye Sherlock Holmes and has to perform a little forensic investigation. The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Peter Cushing stars as Sherlock Holmes in another unfathomable mystery story with Nigel Stock as his faithful sidekick. The Hound Of The Baskervilles: Classic two-part story starring Peter Cushing and Nigel Sto

  • Classic Period Drama Collection - Wuthering Heights/Moll Flanders/Dr. Zhivago [DVD]Classic Period Drama Collection - Wuthering Heights/Moll Flanders/Dr. Zhivago | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £12.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (92.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

    Titles Comprise: 1. Wuthering Heights 2. Moll Flanders 3. Dr Zhivago

  • To The Ends Of The EarthTo The Ends Of The Earth | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £21.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    Based on the novels by William Golding 'To The Ends Of The Earth' is a three part miniseries in which young seaman Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch) sets sail on a dazzling and dangerous sea journey from England to Australia...

  • Fidel and Che GuevaraFidel and Che Guevara | DVD | (29/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

    An Epic 3 And A Half Hour TV Film Featuring Gael Garcia Bernal As Che Guevara The Actor Who Played Che In 'The Motorcycle Diaries' In 1959 Fidel Castro's small band of rebels assisted by Che Guevara's guerrilla fi ghters toppled the corrupt Cuban dictatorship of General Baptista. Castro then remained as Cuba's president for almost 50 years before stepping down due to ill health in 2008. This remarkable man survived a CIA led invasion of his county a missile crisis eight assassination attempts nine US presidents and the fall of his Soviet allies. 'FIDEL' is a riveting hard-edged and intensely emotional fi lm spanning 60 years in the life of one of history's most intriguing and controversial figures. From a guerrilla outpost to the presidential palace it chronicles the rise of a major world political leader through bloody revolution alongside the iconic Che Guevara public & private tragedy economic sanctions and political upheaval presenting a rare personal portrait of a man driven relentlessly by his convictions his pride and his passions.

  • Wild West [1992]Wild West | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

    The story of a struggling rock band, 1992's Wild West suffered comparisons with The Commitments, which was released the year before. There similarities end, however, since the Honky Tonk Cowboys are made up of four Pakistani brothers from the West London suburb of Southall. There's tumbleweed in the street, saloon doors at home and barroom brawls at the Asian Rising Stars Talent Contest. Eldest brother Zaf (Naveen Andrews) looks the part in a ten-gallon hat and fringe jacket, but the mongrel neighbourhood is a long way from the Nashville the brother's dream about. Dogged by gangland thugs and the well-meant pursuit of traditional values from their poor mother (Lalita Ahmed), they stumble from one danger to another. The worst comes in the form of the beautiful Rifat (Sarita Choudhury), who steals Zaf's heart and the band's hopes of stardom with "Wild West Records". The film was written by then 29-year-old Harwant Bains, who grew up in Southall in a family of Punjabi background. It's clearly a flight of personal fancy rooted in an environment harshly observed. If the petty crime sits uncomfortably with the love story there's always the considerately compiled soundtrack to smooth away the suburb's rough edges. --Paul Tonks

  • Blood And Oil [DVD]Blood And Oil | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    Blood & Oil

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