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It's no disparagement to describe Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's zombie-rom-com Shaun of the Dead as playing like an extended episode of Spaced. Not only does the movie have the rather modest scope of a TV production, it also boasts the snappy editing, smart camera moves, and deliciously post-modern dialogue familiar from the sitcom, as well as using many of the same cast: Pegg's ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Simon Pegg, Rob Brydon, Dylan Moran, Martin Freeman, Lucy Davis
Directed By: Edgar Wright

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Paul McGann, Cherie Lunghi, Jerome Flynn, Timothy West, Philip McGough
Directed By: Jim O'Brien, Alan Bleasdale

In the sensible yet elegant hands of actresses Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, Calendar Girls walks a fine line between sappiness and snickering and ends up both wonderfully funny and gently touching. When her best friend Annie (Walters) loses her husband, Chris (Mirren) cooks up a scheme to commemorate him: they and their friends--all fiftysomething women--will make a nude calendar to ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie
Directed By: Nigel Cole

Manufacturer: Metrodome Distribution
Starring: Edward Woodward, Hugh Bonneville, Patrick Malahide, Penelope Wilton, Sarah Smart

Manufacturer: Cinema Club
Starring: Peter Egan, Penelope Wilton, Richard Briers

A literary academic whose novels met with widespread commercial acclaim, the work of Iris Murdoch has a depth and elusiveness difficult to capture on screen. So for Iris, his first film as a director, Richard Eyre avoids the problematic novels and instead alternates the two phases of Murdoch's life as related by her widower John Bayley in his books Iris: A Memoir and Elegy for ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Eleanor Bron
Directed By: Richard Eyre

And so Woody Allen picks up his camera and moves the location of his latest film across the channel to London. In the process? Match Point becomes one of his finer efforts of recent times. Jonathan Rhys Meyers leads the cast as Chris Wilton, a former professional tennis player, who quickly lands himself a job as a coach. As he goes about his business, he meets Chloe (Emily Mortimer), ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video (Icon)
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Alexander Armstrong
Directed By: Woody Allen

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: James Nesbitt, Paul Nicholls, Penelope Wilton, Mark Lewis Jones, Laura Fraser
Directed By: Nigel Stafford-Clark

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Stephen Moore, Sharon Maiden
Directed By: Christopher Morahan

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Samuel West, Rufus Sewell
Directed By: Christopher Hampton