24Seven: Video.Charlotte Gray Cert: 15 Type: Drama CATE Blanchett Catherine Élise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969), better known as Cate Blanchett, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. She has also won various awards, most notably including two SAGs and two BAFTAs, making her one of a few actors who won all is luminous as Scottish heroine Charlotte Gray, who falls in love with a young RAF pilot (Rupert Penry-Jones) during World War II. When his plane is shot down over France, she joins the French Resistance to rescue him and parachutes behind enemy lines - only to become attracted to resistance fighter Julien Levade (Billy Crudup). As the war rages on, Charlotte finds her emotions torn between her wayward airman lover and Julien. Director Gillian Armstrong is poorly served by the screenplay and fails to arouse interest in the central menage a trois. Rent it if: you fell in love with Sebastian Faulks's novelRating: 3/10 Women Talking DirtySHY cartoonist Ellen (Gina McKee, pictured) falls in love with dashing rogue Daniel (James Purefoy), who gambles all of her money away. Always on the lookout for in search of; looking for. See also: Lookout the next best thing, Daniel sleeps with impressionable Cora (Helena Bonham Carter), then bolts to escape the clutches of a loan shark. Ignorant of their connection, Cora and Ellen become friends, and bond together when Cora discovers she is pregnant. There are plenty of tears and laughter in Coky Giedroyc's drama, not to mention drunken female bonding, but the film and its emotions ring hollow. Rent it if: all this talk of the World Cup has you craving a night in with a chick flick. Cert: 15 Type: DramaRating: 5/10 And to buy ... Sylvester Stallone hunts a devious serial killer at an alcohol dependency unit in D-TOX (Universal Pictures Video, pounds 12.99) l Buxom protector Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as the fictional character Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. ) kicks more vampire/werewolf/evil demon butt in BUFFY - SEASON SIX BOX SET PART 1 (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, pounds 34.99 l Buffy's long-lost soulmate soulmate n → compañero/a del alma Angel (David Boreanaz) continues his crusade against the forces of evil in Los Angeles in ANGEL - SEASON THREE BOX SET PART 1 (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, pounds 34.99) l A 19-year-old rebel (Cillian Murphy) discovers love and self-worth in a psychiatric hospital psychiatric hospital n. A hospital for the care and treatment of patients affected with acute or chronic mental illness. Also called mental hospital. in ON THE EDGE (Universal Pictures, pounds 9.99) |
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