Our Mutual Friend ( DVD ) By Paul McGann Buy new : $8.49 35 used and new from $7.24 Customer Rating: Customer tags: period romance (66), 19th century britlit classics (57), period movie (52), charles dickens (40), bbc (39), romance (21), classic movie (18), classics (17), dvds with passion (11), dickens (10), dead souls and dark alleys (3), dvd (2) Review & Description Critically acclaimed as Dickens' crowning achievement, this sweeping tale of two turbulent love affairs plays out amidst a... Read Full Story
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Things are going to be a little different around here… without Don.
– Brian Clough
The Damned United was not on my radar whatsoever. I never heard of the film until Mike from Big Mike’s Movie Blog reviewed it. I heard that people were digging this movie. Typically, I don’t like sports films, especially soccer. This movie tries to delve into the genius of England’s greatest soccer coach, Brian Clough, but it barely scratches the surface.
In July 1974, Leeds United fail to make the... Read Full Story
Timothy Spall and Michael Sheen in The Damned United
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics
After seeing the trailer I thought The Damned United looked like the British version of some crappy American sports drama. How wrong I was. After making known my initial read of the film to others that had seen it I was set straight and urged to give it a shot, and I'm glad I did. This hardly qualifies as a sports movie as much as it is a personal drama about a cocky man whose ego got the best of him... Read Full Story
The Damned United
Starring Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, and Jim Broadbent
Directed by Tom Hooper
Rated R
By and large, the sport we call soccer has never fully caught on in the United States. It's football
everywhere else in the world, and we know why we don't call it the same thing here. And as much as we love
American football, we simply can't compare to the rabid loyalty international football enjoys among its
native fans.
Perhaps nowhere is the love of the... Read Full Story
New Hollywood Movie The Damned United - Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall Starring : Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall Story: A look at Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds United. Run Time: 1 hr. 38 min. Directed by : Tom Hooper Release Date: October 9, 2009 New Hollywood Movie The Damned United Read Full Story
Timothy Spall might not be a household name here in the US but he is most certainly recognizable as Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter. .
Spall's career spans a number of dramas on tv, film and stage in Europe and he's terrific in Harry Potter, but now he's got a major part opposite Daniel Radcliffe (again) in Oliver Twist for Masterpiece Theater Classics.
What's really interesting is that Spall plays Fagin in Oliver Twist and his work is impeccable and so deep in the character. He's... Read Full Story
