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To some extent, the team behind the revival of St. Trinian's were on a bit of a hiding to nothing. The old films, contextualised by a far different age, were knockabout, energetic, yet innocent comedies about the antics of a boisterous girls' school and its inhabitants. Surprisingly though, the remake--again inspired by the Ronald Searle cartoons--manages to sidestep the bulk of the ...

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Russell Brand, Tallulah Riley
Directed By: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson

C.S. Lewis's classic novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe makes an ambitious and long-awaited leap to the screen in this modern adaptation. It's a CGI-created world laden with all the special effects and visual wizardry modern filmmaking technology can conjure, which is fine so long as the film stays true to the story that Lewis wrote. And while this film is not a literal ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Sophie Winkleman, Liam Neeson
Directed By: Andrew Adamson

C.S. Lewis's classic novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe makes an ambitious and long-awaited leap to the screen in this modern adaptation. It's a CGI-created world laden with all the special effects and visual wizardry modern filmmaking technology can conjure, which is fine so long as the film stays true to the story that Lewis wrote. And while this film is not a literal ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Sophie Winkleman, Liam Neeson
Directed By: Andrew Adamson

By far the best thing about director Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the extraordinary all-star cast, which follows the precedent created by Kenneth Branagh's Italian-set romantic Shakespeare comedy, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), of mixing major Hollywood stars--here Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer--with top British talent, in this instance Christian Bale, Rupert ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, Calista Flockhart
Directed By: Michael Hoffman

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench
Directed By: Oliver Parker

One of the most endearing and intelligent romantic comedies of the 1990s, the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love is filled with such good will, sunny romance, snappy one-liners and devilish cleverness that it's absolutely irresistible. With tongue placed firmly in cheek, at its outset the film tracks young Will Shakespeare's overwrought battle with writer's block and the efforts of theatre ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Simon Callow
Directed By: John Madden

For truly clever dialogue and a smartly structured plot, you can't go wrong with Oscar Wilde. Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is not his best known, but this film adaptation has all the wit you could ask for and a cast with the chops to deliver it: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth, Oscar and Lucinda), Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights, Short Cuts), Minnie Driver (Grosse ...

Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
Starring: Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Jeremy Northam
Directed By: Oliver Parker

The lovably ugly green ogre returns with his green bride and furry, hooved friend in Shrek 2. The newlywed Shrek and Princess Fiona are invited to Fiona's former kingdom, Far Far Away, to have the marriage blessed by Fiona's parents--which Shrek thinks is a bad, bad idea, and he's proved right: the parents are horrified by their daughter's transformation into an ogress, a fairy godmother ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Starring: Mike Myers, Conrad Vernon, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Cleese
Directed By: Conrad Vernon, Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury

One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, My Best Friend's Wedding not only gave Julia Roberts a delightful vehicle for her crowd-pleasing comeback, but it further distinguished itself by avoiding the conventional plotting of the genre. Julia plays a prominent Chicago restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college days with whom she'd made a ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco
Directed By: P.J. Hogan

Manufacturer: Uca
Starring: Julia Roberts, Rupert Everett, Cameron Diaz, Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda
Directed By: P.J. Hogan, Andrew Bergman, Nora Ephron