A sweet, silly and sincere comedy, Saving Grace resembles a Cheech and Chong pothead comedy, only instead of two scruffy lowlifes the film is about an aimless Scottish gardener and a middle-aged widow with a green thumb. Grace (Brenda Blethyn of Secrets and Lies and Little Voice) has just discovered that her recently deceased husband has left her with an enormous debt when her ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tchéky Karyo, Jamie ForemanDirected By: Nigel Cole
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: Danny Dyer, Frank Harper, Tamer Hassan, Roland Manookian, Neil MaskellDirected By: Nick Love
As its title suggests, Layer Cake is a crime thriller that cuts into several levels of its treacherous criminal underworld. The title is actually one character's definition of the drug-trade hierarchy, but it's also an apt metaphor for the separate layers of deception, death, and betrayal experienced by the film's unnamed protagonist, a cocaine traffic middle-man played with smooth appeal ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Dexter Fletcher, Jamie Foreman, Michael GambonDirected By: Matthew Vaughn
Gary Oldman took a break from acting to write and direct this unflinching family drama out of the kitchen-sink British school. Oldman doesn't appear in the film, instead handing the heavy lifting to the remarkable Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast, Cold Mountain) and Kathy Burke, who won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her work. The scummy drug trade of lower-class London is Oldman's ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles, Laila Morse, Edna DoréDirected By: Gary Oldman
As its title suggests, Layer Cake is a crime-thriller that cuts into several levels of its treacherous criminal underworld. The title is actually one character's definition of the drug-trade hierarchy, but it's also an apt metaphor for the separate layers of deception, death and betrayal experienced by the film's unnamed protagonist, a cocaine traffic middle-man played with smooth appeal by ...
If Charles Dickens were alive to see Roman Polanski's faithful adaptation of Oliver Twist, he'd probably give it his stamp of approval. David Lean's celebrated 1948 version of the Dickens classic and Carol Reed's Oscar-winning 1968 musical are more entertaining in some ways, but Polanski's rendition is both painstakingly authentic (with superb cinematography and production design) and ...
Manufacturer: Pathe DistributionStarring: Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Barney Clark, Harry Eden, Leanne RoweDirected By: Roman Polanski
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Brian McCardie, Nadia Boussetta, Jamie Foreman, Kevin Eldon, Nicholas BoultanDirected By: Andrew Grieve, Nick Murphy, Nick Green, Tim Dunn, Gareth Edwards
Manufacturer: Acorn MediaStarring: Victoria Alcock, Debra Beaumont, Nicolas Chagrin, Jan Chappell, Stephen ChurchettDirected By: Alex Kirby, Jeremy Silberston, Ken Hannam, Nicholas Prosser, Richard Standeven
Manufacturer: Acorn MediaStarring: Victoria Alcock, Debra Beaumont, Nicolas Chagrin, Jan Chappell, Stephen ChurchettDirected By: Graeme Harper, Ken Hannam, Rodney Bennett
Manufacturer: 4dvdStarring: Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Kenneth Cranham, Saffron BurrowsDirected By: Paul McGuigan
