Below are the most recently aquired films I have.
As of November 2011 this is a newly designed list.
Other films not yet added below can be found on the old design list here.

It's like a female comedy version of Gladiator.

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David and Richard are magicians that had in the past been part of a double act but separated because of a personal conflict only to come back together to win a competion and a lot of prize money.

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A surreal film from Paul King featuring the Boosh guys and a stella cast - great Boosh-like story, but doesn't feature them much. It's mainly about another character who goes on a road trip around Europe having lots of new experiences with lots of starange people.

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This film charts the story of how 22 year old writer Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street.

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A biopic about John Lennon. Some factual, some fiction. All very entertaining.

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The Execution of
Gary Glitter

Starring :
Hilton McRae

Set in an imaginary Britain in which the death penalty has been re-introduced, this feature-length drama confronts viewers with the possible consequences of capital punishment in the UK.

Through the compelling narrative by writer Rob Coldstream and Hilton McRae's superb performance as Paul Gadd, The Execution of Gary Glitter explores how society deals with its most reviled offenders, and whether capital punishment has a place in modern society.

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The film follows three social outcasts (two nerds and a cynic) as they attempt to navigate a time travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.

The film begins with Ray (Chris O'Dowd) being fired from his job at a local theme park. His two friends Pete (Dean Lennox Kelly) and Toby (Marc Wootton) dress in brightly coloured fluffy dinosaur costumes to promote "Dinoburgers" at the theme park restaurant. Pete has a side bet with Toby that Ray will not be able to go five minutes without mentioning time travel, which Pete wins...

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22-08-10

When a meteorite from outer space hits a young California woman named Susan Murphy and turns her into a giant monster, she is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years. As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger, on a desperate order from The President, the motley crew of Monsters is called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction! Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

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A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a Lost Land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died.

Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then, when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is forced to go to a retirement home. But before they can take him, he and his house fly away.

However he has a stowaway aboard. An 8 year old boy named Russell, whose trying to get an assisting the elderly badge. Together, they embark in an adventure, where they encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird named Kevin.

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Starring...[voices]
John Leguizamo
Denis Leary
Queen Latifah

After the events of Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte.

Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives.

Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back.

I don't want to spoil the whole story for you though...

Also available - Ice Age 1 and Ice Age 2.

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Kung Fu Panda

Starring...[voices]
Jack Black
Dustin Hoffman
Angelina Jolie
Ian McShane
Jackie Chan
...more.

Great story and superb modern animation with plenty Chinese elements.

A CG-animated comedy about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, Po, who must somehow become a Kung Fu Master in order to save the Valley of Peace from a villainous snow leopard, Tai Lung. Set in the legendary world of ancient China, this is the story of Po, our unlikely hero, who enters the rigid world of Kung Fu and turning it upside down. Po ultimately becomes a Kung Fu hero by learning that if he believes in himself, he can do anything.

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Slumdog Millionaire

Starring...
Dev Patel
Anil Kapoor
Saurabh Shukla
Freida Pinto
Mahesh Manjrekar
...more.

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life.

With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much?

Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost.

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A romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible man who has to shape up in order to win back his wife.

I think the title is a pun on the film name 'Braveheart' as the characters in this film are part of a battle re-enactment group.

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10-04-10

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully both worked at the FBI as partners, a bond between them that led to their becoming lovers. But now they're out of the FBI and have gone their separate ways. Scully works as a staff physician at a Catholic hospital. Her focus these days is on a young boy with an incurable brain disease. Administration wants to give up on him. Scully, who feels a special bond with the boy, does not. Meanwhile, Mulder's focus is on clipping newspaper articles about the paranormal and throwing pencils into his ceiling. Scully and Mulder are brought together again when a special case requires Mulder's expertise, and Scully is prevailed upon to find him. The case involves a pedophile priest who claims he is having psychic visions regarding the whereabouts of a missing FBI agent.

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Run Fat Boy Run

Starring...
Simon Pegg
Dylan Moran

Dennis is a clueless and slightly overweight guy, who left his pregnant fiancée five years earlier. Every day, Dennis tries to persuade the woman he loves to accept him back into his life, but everyday he fails. When he discovers that Libby has found a partner in the form of American Whit, frustration grows, and Dennis vows, that for once in his life, he will finish something. This something ends up being a Nike River-run in London. With his friends Gordon and Mr. Ghoshdashtidar by his side, Dennis begins training for the marathon he must finish.

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Empathy

Starring...
Stephen Moyer
Mark Womack
Heather Peace
Amanda Douge

On his release from prison, Jimmy Collins suddenly starts to experience visions when he touches people, seeing what they see. As he struggles to rationalise this unnerving ability, he attempts to forge a relationship with his daughter Amy. When the life he is trying to build is threatened by a vision of a schoolgirl's murder, Jimmy tries to convince the police that he is the key to solving the crime.

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The Yellow House

Starring...
John Simm
Kevin Eldon
John Lynch
Simon Farnaby
Deborah Findlay

About the relationship between Van Gogh & Gaugain

Very well written, acted and filmed. The research that has gone into it seems considerable, and then used in an intelligent way to produce a superb piece of drama.

The film reminds us of just how much work Van Gogh produced in such a short space of time before his untimely death (aged 37) - what we now we regard as some of his best.

I'd suggest that some of the films finest moments pass almost without us realising the true meaning of the very carefully chosen dialogue.

In particular the line "It was you - you made me do it" after a scene of destruction will resonate with anyone who has ever worked with anyone with mental health problems, and contains enough different meanings to write a book about.

This work is a valient attempt to explain the unexplainable, whilst at the same time holding it's audience.

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Death At A Funeral

Starring...
Steve Coogan
Rob Brydon

Daniel is a decent young man, married to Jane, still living at his father's home. When his father dies, it is up to him to organize his funeral and is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives.

But... the undertaker botches his work, someone has accidentally ingested drugs, a wheelerchair-bound relative uncle needs assistance going to the toilet and then there's a mysterious dwarf at the sad event that noone knows until he reveals his identity.

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Random Quest

Starring...
Samuel West
Kate Ashfield
David Burke

Following a scientific experiment, a man wakes up in a parallel universe and begins living a life similar to, but different from, his own.

Colin is a research scientist who is working at a nuclear reactor as part of a team trying to simulate a black hole. The experiment goes wrong and the next thing he knows, Colin wakes up in bed in a white room in a strange house. Next thing he knows his "wife" has come home and he is dealing with calls from people he does not know.

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Confetti

Starring...
Martin Freeman
Jessica Hyndes
Marc Wooton
Stephen Mangan
Julia Davis
Robert Webb
Jimmy Carr

Confetti - a mockumentary which follows three couples, competing for the title of Most Original Wedding of the Year: The Musical Wedding, The Tennis Wedding and the Naturist Wedding.

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Keeping Mum

Starring...
Rowan Atkinson Maggie Smith
Patrick Swayze
Liz Smith

Walter Goodfellow, the vicar for the small English country parish of Little Wallop, has allowed his marriage to Gloria go stale and he is so detached from his family that he has not taken notice that his 17-year-old daughter Holly is going through a succession of inappropriate relationships with unsuitable boyfriends and his son Petey fears going to school due to being bullied. Out of desperation for affection, Gloria begins to fall for the advances of Lance, the American golf pro that is giving her "private" lessons. The problems upsetting the family start to fade away after Grace Hawkins, the new housekeeper, arrives and starts tending to matters as an older, and rather darkly mysterious version of Mary Poppins

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A Cock & Bull Story

Starring...
Steve Coogan
Rob Brydon

Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes

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Jerry Springer The Opera

Starring...
David Soul
David Bedella
Leon Craig
Carry Ellis
Alison Jiear

Jerry has to sort out a number of guests problems; including a man who wants to dress up as a baby, a man with 3 lovers (one of them a transexual) and a fat woman who wants to be a pole dancer. However, on this particular day, something out of the ordinary will happen...

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The Libertine

Starring...
Johnny Depp
John Malkovich
Johnny Vegas

Story of the Earl of Rochester, friend of Charles II and a Restoration era pornographer and poet. He was an anti-monarchist Royalist and an atheist who converted to Christianity.

The story is about how the Earl's cynicism is thrown for a loop when he falls in love with a struggling young actress.

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Shrek 2

Voices of....
Mike Myers
Eddie Murphey
Cameron Diaz
More...

Shrek has rescued Princess Fiona, got married, and now is time to meet the parents. Shrek, Fiona and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father. But not everyone is happy. Shrek and the King find it hard to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. It's not just the family who are unhappy. Prince Charming returns from a failed attempt at rescuing Fiona, and works alongside his mother, the Fairy Godmother, to try and find a way to get Shrek away from Fiona.

Want Shrek The Halls (Xmas Special) on the same disk? Just ask - it's only 20 minutes long.

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Millions

Starring...
Alex Etel
Lewis McGibbon
James Nesbitt
Daisy Donvam
Pearce Quigley
Leslie Philips

The UK is about to switch its currency from Pounds to Euros, giving a gang a chance to rob the poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration.

During the robbery, one of the big bags falls literally from the sky on Damian's playhouse, a 5-year old given to talking to saints.

The boy then starts seeing what the world and the people around him are made of. Ethics, being human and the soul all come to the forefront in this film.

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Amelie

Starring...
Audrey Tatou
Mathew Kassovitz

A slice of heaven right here on earth, "Amelie" is a joy to behold, and has some of the most gorgeous cinematography I've ever seen in a movie.

Audrey Tatou is perfection as the title character. A combination of Audrey Hepburn, Dolly Levi and Roger Rabbit, she involves herself in the world surrounding her as a means of really enjoying living. There are moments when she finds complete and total joy just walking down the street.

Some of it is hilarious, too..like when her pet goldfish habitually tries to commit suicide, or when she is on the telephone with the man at the porno shop, or when a character is asked "Are you a congenital shmuck"?

But for the most part, its a human comedy, about love, of course.

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The Martins

Starring...
Lee Evans
Kathy Burke

Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs.

The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!

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Dirty Tricks

Starring...
Martin Clunes
Julie Graham
Neil Dugeon
James Bolam
Lyndsey Duncan

Dirty Tricks stars Martin Clunes, who plays an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Although Edward can be charming and thoughtful, this camouflages an underlying calculating liar and manipulator.

And although things are going great financially for Edward at the moment, he is under suspicion by a local CID inspector after a couple of murders in the area. An innocent dinner invitation by his friend and his wife triggers a series of events which lead our hero Edward down a very precarious and hilarious path.

Can supply this with or without Dutch subtitles. By default it will be without.

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Hunting Venus
Starring...
Martin Clunes
Neil Morrisey
Jane Horrocks
Danny Web
Mark Williams
Tony Hadley
Jools Holland
Gary Numan
Phil Oakey
Midge Ure

Hunting Venus
Unreleased on VHS / DVD

Former pop-star turned con artist Simon Delancey is kidnapped by two fans of his eighties band the - Venus Hunters, and are blackmailed to re-form the band for one final show.

The show is stolen by Neil Morrissey's performance as Charlie/Charlotte, but the rest of the Hunters (and the rest of the cast; Jane Horrocks' versatility shines through yet again, with the whole idea of her being a lesbian landlady in a seaside resort b&b verging on the ridiculous) add in some vital and amazingly funny elements.

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Still Crazy

Starring...
Billy Connolly
Bill Nighy
Jimmy Nail
Bruce Robinson
Timothy Spall

Still Crazy

Aging rock band (Strange Fruit) go back on the road around Europe and act disgracefully.

Bruce Robinson who plays the character of Brian is the writer of the cult classic film Withnail & I.

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Killer Net

Starring...
Paul Bettany
Tam Williams
Emily Woof
Kathy Brolly

Upon being dumped by his dominant girlfriend Charlie, psychology student Scott Miller finds solace in an intriguingly addictive computer game called 'Killer Net'. Shortly after he's committed his first virtual murder, Charlie is found dead, slain and disposed of in exactly the same way...

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Sex & Chocolate

Starring...
Dawn French
Phil Daniels
Julia Carling
Jasper Conran

Bev Bodger is a married teacher tempted by an old school boyfriend to enjoy a little sex and chocolate in Paris.

For the full list of Dawn French (and Jennifer Saunders), look  here.

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Gattaca

Starring...
Eathan Hawke
Uma Thurman
Gore Vidal
Xander Berkeley

In the not-too-distant future, a less than perfect man wants to travel to the stars. Society has categorized Vincent Freeman as less than suitable given his genetic make-up and he has become one of the underclass of humans that are only useful for menial jobs. To move ahead, he assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a perfect genetic specimen who is a paraplegic as a result of a fall.

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Breaking The Code

Starring...
Derek Jacobi
Alun Armstrong
Blake Ritson
William Mannering

A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II.

Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk..

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Crumb

Starring...
Robert Crumb
Aline Kominsky
Charles Crumb
Max Crumb
Robert Hughes

Crumb takes a deeply personal look at 60's counterculture artist Robert Crumb. The film focuses upon three decades of Crumb's artwork to reconstruct his unhappy childhood, days with Zap Comix in the late 60's, `dark side' period and recent life. Interviews with him, his wife Aline, family and friends reveal the motives behind his astounding creativity. Crumb is sometimes hilarious, often depressing and always entertaining – a rare combination in a documentary film.

After a few years of fame, he retired from Zap to express the darker side of his nature. His later work frequently contained sadistic and violent themes and was sometimes labeled as pornography by friends and critics alike. Even Crumb isn't sure of his intent: `Maybe I should be locked up and my pencils taken away from me'.

Critic Robert Hughes says that in Crumb's world there are no heroes and `even the victims are comic' – ideas that don't jive with traditional American culture. But Crumb has always considered himself to be an outsider and enjoys the feeling of `being very removed or extremely separated from the rest of humanity and the world in general'. `Words fail me, pictures aren't much better' to describe his disgust with American consumerism. He now lives in France because its culture is `slightly less evil than the United States'.

The film is embarrassingly candid about unhappy details of Crumb's life, such as his brothers' mental illness, experiments with drugs and ambivalent attitudes towards women. Yet it is apparent that there is no misery or violence in this man – it's all on paper.

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Fire In The Sky

Starring...
D.B. Sweeney
Robert Patrick
Craig Sheffer
Peter Berg

This film recreates the strange events which happened November 5, 1975 in the town Snowflake, Arizona. Travis Walton works as a logger in the woods. When he and his colleagues drive home after work, they encounter an UFO.

For the next five days Travis disappears and his colleagues are accused of murder. When he reappears, first he didn't remember that he was gone, but in time the terrible memories come back...

Many say this is superior to the more famous Close Encounters Of the Third Kind as it's less Hollywood and more believable.

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Killing Dad

Starring...
Richard E.Grant
Julie Walters
Denholme Elliot
Justin Case
Pierce Quigley

Richard E as Mr Greb and Julie Walters - together. Dream combination. A bit of Withnail and I plus Personal Services (1987) blended by experts.

Set in part in Southend, Essex, a look at mummy's boy Mr Greb being "seduced" by boozy Julie Walters as he searches for his long lost Dad. Denholm Elliot plays Julie's boyfriend.

Lovely one-liners such as the bit where Denholm returns drunk to the Hotel they are staying at (long-term) and Julie is annoyed, so shouts "Matty, you will not treat my home like a hotel". Marvellous.

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Withnail & I

Starring...
Richard E.Grant
Paul Mcgann
Ralph Brown
Richard Griffiths
Michael Elphick

Directed by Bruce Robinson

London 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage.

But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood...

DVD version Also Includes...
   Original Trailer
   Withnail & Us (documentary)
   Photo album
   Audio commentary for film - a must for any fan.

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What The Butler Saw

Starring...
Prunella Scales
Timothy West
Tyler Butterworth
Dinsdale Landen
Tessa Peake-Jones

Written By
JOE ORTON

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this trouser-soilingly funny BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary (Tessa Peake-Jones in sexy underwear is a treat) from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

Originally What The Butler Saw starring Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers) / Tessa Peake-Jones (Only Fools & Horses) was a play from 1969, it was later adapter for TV in 1987 and never been released on VHS / DVD, although you can buy the paperback from Amazon.

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Tampopo
(Dandelion
English name).

Starring...
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Nobuko Miyamoto
Ken Watanabe
Kôji Yakusho
Rikiya Yasuoka

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect fast-food noodle restaurant.

Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food to an old lady terrorizing a shopkeeper by compulsive squeezing of his wares.

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Where the Buffalo Roam

Starring...
Bill Murray
Peter Lazo

The deranged adventures of Gonzo journalist Hunter S.Thompson and his attorney Oscar Acosta, referred to in the movie as "Laslo". Thompson attempts to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 Presidential election in his typical drug-crazed state, but it continually and comically sidetracked by his even more twisted friend Laslow. Allegedly based on actual events

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The Wickerman

Starring...
Edward Woodward
Brit Ekland
Christopher Lee

Directors cut of the original masterpiece

Sergeant Neil Howie arrives on a Scottish island looking for a missing teenager girl, Rowan Morrison. The place belongs to Lord Summerisle and is famous because of their plantation of apples and other fruits and their harvest. Sgt. Howie realizes that the locals are pagans, practicing old rituals, and Rowan is probably alive and being prepared to be sacrificed. The end of the story is a tragic surprise.

Original Soundtrack Album [CD]:
2002 release. 16 tracks.
11 of these 16 tracks are re-recorded versions of those used in the film with 5 being incidental pieces from the actual film.

Culture Show documentary - 2007
A Culture Show film special where Mark Kermode visits the sets of various British films. In this 5 minute clip he visits the filming locations in Scotland of the film with Edward Woodward.

International movie star Alan Cumming presents Scotland On Screen looking at some classic movies and how their Scottish locations contributed to their iconic status – ranging from The Wicker Man in Dumfries and Galloway...

Contributors include this 13 minute segment with Edward Woodward, star of The Wicker Man...

I have a copy of the abismal remake (with Nicholas Cage) and can provide both films (on the same DVD) for your comparison, but the remake is a travesty with way too many changes and a bad musical score.

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The Devils

Starring...
Oliver Reed
Vanessa Redgrave
Dudley Sutton
Max Adrian
Gemma Jones
Murray Melvin

Also known as Ken Russel's The Devils

Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control.

So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready for the big trial.

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On The Buses

Starring...
Reg Varney
Bob Grant
Doris Hare
Micheal Robbins
Stepehen Lewis
Anna Karen

  The Films...
   On the Buses [1971]
   Mutiny On The Buses [1972]
   Holiday On The Buses [1974]

Click the links to open a new window and read about these classic films...

On the Buses at www.imdb.com

Mutiny On the Buses at www.imdb.com

Holiday On the Buses at www.imdb.com

All 3 films For £6 [UK] or  8 [non-UK].

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As of September 2009 this is a new design for the film list and other films can be found here.