John Le Carre for the internet generation, Spooks is a smart combination of TV cop show and George Smiley-esque espionage shenanigans that pulls no punches in its depiction of an MI5 team fighting a covert war on the streets of London. This is adult, post-watershed drama clearly inspired by the hard-hitting reality style of US shows such as 24 and The Sopranos. The strong ...
Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment GroupStarring: Peter Firth, Hugh Simon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Nicola Walker, Miranda Raison
A triumphant return for DCI Gene Hunt, Ashes To Ashes takes some of the characters from the superb time-shifting police drama Life On Mars, and moves the action to the early 1980s. So it's out with the Cortina, in with the Audi Quattro, and straight down to some terrific television. Joining DCI Hunt -- again played with terrific force and stature by Philip Glenister -- is Keeley ...
Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment GroupStarring: Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes, Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster, Montserrat Lombard
A cheerful, energetic, and completely entertaining movie, The Bank Job follows some small-time hoods who think they've lucked into a big-time opportunity when they learn a bank's security system will be temporarily suspended--little suspecting that they're being manipulated by government agents for their own ends. The result is that the movie doubles its pleasures: While the robbery itself ...
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home EntertainmentStarring: Jason Statham, David Suchet, Stephen Campbell Moore, Keeley Hawes, Saffron BurrowsDirected By: Roger Donaldson
Given the great success of Pride and Prejudice (1995) and that Jane Austen wrote so little, the BBC and screenwriter Andrew Davies looked elsewhere for material of comparable quality. Wives and Daughters by Mrs (Elizabeth) Gaskell is set around 1860 and tells the story of 17-year-old Molly (Justine Waddell), beloved daughter of the widowed Dr Gibson (Bill Paterson). A mercenary ...
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson, Francesca Annis, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hollander
Dickens was the master of Victorian social satire, ruthlessly exposing the cruelty and absurdity that supported the strictly hierarchical class-structure of the day. This superb production of Our Mutual Friend does full justice to his darkest, most complex novel, fleshing out the satirical bones of the plot with performances that eschew caricature in favour of psychological depth. Anna ...
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes, David Morrissey, Peter Vaughan, Pam FerrisDirected By: Julian Farino
Screenwriter Andrew Davies describes Tipping the Velvet, his adaptation of Sarah Waters's acclaimed novel of lesbian love, betrayal and redemption in Victorian England, as "Pride and Prejudice with dirty bits". This three-part BBC production chronicles with relish the story of Nan Astley (Rachael Stirling, the ravishing image of her mother, Diana Rigg), barely 18, and certain that ...
Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment GroupStarring: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi May, Hugh BonnevilleDirected By: Geoffrey Sax
Jason Statham, Georgia Taylor, Keeley Hawes, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore
Manufacturer: LionsgateStarring: Georgia Taylor, Keeley Hawes, Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell MooreDirected By: Roger Donaldson
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Keeley Hawes, Alexander Armstrong, Marc Warren
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Andrew Byrne (VI), Duncan Preston, Keeley Hawes, Rosie Shore, Nick StilwellDirected By: Simon Shore
Michael Winterbottom is no stranger to literary adaptation. Both Jude and The Claim were drawn from works by Thomas Hardy. Nor is the versatile filmmaker a stranger to the post-modern romp, like 24 Hour Party People. In that peon to Manchester's music scene, Steve Coogan was Factory honcho Tony Wilson. In Winterbottom's take on Laurence Sterne's digressive The Life and ...
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home Ent. UK LtdStarring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Gillian AndersonDirected By: Michael Winterbottom
