Roald Dahl's modern classic for children becomes a delightful combination of live action and stop-motion animation by the team that made The Nightmare Before Christmas: director Henry Selick and producers Tim Burton (Batman) and Denise Di Novi. The story concerns young James (played for real and through voice-overs by Paul Terry), who is orphaned and left in the charge of two cruel aunts (Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley). Rescued by a mysterious fellow (Pete Postlethwaite), James ends up inside a giant peach, drifting over the Atlantic Ocean in the company of a gentleman grasshopper (voiced by Simon Callow), a fast-talking centipede (Richard Dreyfuss), an anxious earthworm (David Thewlis), a matronly ladybug (Jane Leeves), and a sexy spider (Susan Sarandon). The collection... Learn More
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One of the oddest shows ever mounted for mainstream British television, Sapphire & Steel was one of ITV's many short-lived attempts at grabbing the sci-fi cult status of the BBC's Doctor Who. Ex-Man from U.N.C.L.E. David McCallum and ex-Avenger Joanna Lumley play human-looking incarnations of the eponymous substances, mysterious investigators working at the behest of an apparent God of Order and zipping about TARDIS-like to cope with anomalies in the time-stream that manifest as apparent supernatural forces in remote English locales like an isolated farmhouse (Adventure One), a deserted rural railway station (Adventure Two) and a high-rise block of flats (Adventure Three).
McCallum and Lumley play their "medium atomic weights" with blank style and a few touches of... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Joanna Lumley DVD Release Date: Released the 28 December 2004 Usually ships in 6 to 7 days
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Fairy tales and contemporary satire collide in Ella Enchanted, based upon the enormously popular young adult novel by Gail Carson Levine. Ella (Anne Hathaway, The Princess Diaries) received an unfortunate fairy gift in her cradle: No matter what anyone tells her to do, she's compelled to obey. Despite this, Ella grows up to be a headstrong young woman who refuses to swoon at the sight of a charming young prince (Hugh Dancy). To get her gift removed, Ella braves a forest packed with ogres, elves, and giants to find her fairy godmother (Vivica A. Fox, Kill Bill, Vol. 1). Much like Shrek, Ella Enchanted is sprinkled with comic modern references; for some, this will make the whimsy too cute, while others will appreciate the snarky jabs. Also featuring Cary... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Anne Hathaway - Hugh Dancy - Cary Elwes - Joanna Lumley Director(s): Tommy O'Haver DVD Release Date: Released the 24 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Few things are as addictive as the addictive personalities of Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley), two middle-aged hipsters wallowing in clothes, booze, pills, glamour, celebrity, and anything else their excessive appetites demand. The fifth series of Absolutely Fabulous finds Edina coping with the unexpected pregnancy of her long-suffering daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalha) and the departure of all of her PR clients except for Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton (playing herself with good humor). Every episode chronicles some ridiculous new obsession--Edina gets a panic room (and promptly traps herself inside of it); Patsy rediscovers a bunch of tawdry stag films she starred in and proclaims them works of high camp; the two kidnap Saffron's baby for a... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Jennifer Saunders - Joanna Lumley Director(s): Dewi Humphreys - Bob Spiers - Tristram Shapeero DVD Release Date: Released the 16 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Special edition episodes of Ab Fab DVD containing "The Last Shout", and "In New York".
"The Last Shout" is my favorite Ab Fab episode. I love the breezy, sunny, renewed expression of the opening shots, with light commercial music filling the air, playing on radios in at least three seperate locations, that never would have sounded as good anywhere else, accompanying a cocaine fueled Patsy preparing for a job interview, a vacation planning Edina listening to upbeat, watered down hit music in therapeutic headphones, (she listens to "Good Morning, Starshine", and repeats phrases aloud like, "think happy thoughts."), and a starry-eyed Safron about to accept a marriage proposal. Reality busts through this complacency as Edina is devestated by news of her daughter's marriage, Patsy... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Jennifer Saunders - Joanna Lumley Director(s): Dewi Humphreys - Bob Spiers - Tristram Shapeero DVD Release Date: Released the 30 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Sometimes dismissed as a pale descendant of a great original, The New Avengers deserves a second look and is perhaps best considered as a largely successful attempt to re-imagine its predecessor for 1970s audiences. Patrick Macnee was never the most convincing of action heroes, and the decision to make his John Steed the supervisor and mentor of two younger agents was a sensible one--Steed's virtues are style, wisdom, and fortitude rather than physical prowess. Gareth Hunt's Gambit has an unattractively smug side, but also has charm. Joanna Lumley's Purdey is one of the most attractive heroines of genre television, astonishingly leggy and beautiful. Those who only know her later incarnation as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous will now understand why such a fuss is made over her.... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Joanna Lumley DVD Release Date: Released the 29 July 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A lovely introduction to a 40-plus-years-old television tradition, This Is Coronation Street includes a highly entertaining, 75-minute documentary about Coronation Street, the long-running British drama, followed by the series' first five, black-and-white episodes out of 1960. The former gathers the show's creators, original stars, and other luminaries to discuss Coronation Street's deep and sustained impact on pop culture, its early and realistic reflections of northern English society, and the ways in which the series' penetration of class barriers set the stage for so-called kitchen sink dramas (e.g., Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) in British cinema. All very interesting, but seeing the first live-broadcast shows themselves is a real eye-opener. Written... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Joanna Lumley DVD Release Date: Released the 10 June 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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