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The Damned United [Blu-ray] ( Blu-ray ) By Michael Sheen Buy new : $24.99 20 used and new from $22.29 Customer Rating: First tagged by Flying Scotsman NJ Customer tags: soccer , drama Review & Description From the Academy Award-nominated writer of The Queen and Frost/Nixon , The Damned United is based on the incredible true story of Brian Clough, one of England’s greatest soccer managers and his 44 controversial days at the helm of reigning champs Leeds United. Michael Sheen ( Frost/Nixon...Read Full Story

The Damned United [Blu-ray] Overview From the Academy Award-nominated writer of The Queen and Frost/Nixon , The Damned United is based on the incredible true story of Brian Clough, one of England’s greatest soccer managers and his 44 controversial days at the helm of reigning champs Leeds United. Michael Sheen ( Frost/Nixon , Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and Twilight Saga: New Moon ) triumphs as Clough starring alongside a winning ensemble cast that includes Timothy Spall ( Harry Potter...Read Full Story

The Damned United ( DVD ) By Michael Sheen Buy new : $22.49 48 used and new from $9.27 Customer Rating: First tagged by Compay Customer tags: sports (4), soccer coaching (3), drama films (2), football (2), england (2), britain , epic , finance , ball , derby , comedy , brain clough Review & Description From the Academy Award-nominated writer of The Queen and Frost/Nixon , The Damned United is based on the incredible true story of Brian Clough, one of England’s greatest soccer managers and his...Read Full Story

Oliver Twist ( Audio CD ) By Charles Dickens Buy new : $19.77 38 used and new from $18.49 Customer Rating: Customer tags: classics (3), bbc (2), charles dickens (2), classic literature (2), audiobooks (2), unabridged (2), bbc audiobooks america (2), literature , dickens , martin jarvis Review & Description Born and raised in the appalling deprivation of the workhouse, orphan Oliver escapes the drudgery of apprenticeship and heads for London, only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin...Read Full Story

Oliver Twist ( Audio CD ) By Charles Dickens Buy new : $22.19 29 used and new from $15.00 Customer Rating: First tagged by Amy Ciesielski Customer tags: classics (2), bbc (2), charles dickens (2), bbc audiobooks america (2), literature , martin jarvis , dickens , audiobooks , unabridged , classic literature Review & Description Born and raised in the appalling deprivation of the workhouse, orphan Oliver escapes the drudgery of apprenticeship and heads for London, only to fall into the hands...Read Full Story

Top 5 Underappreciated Potter Actors #5: Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew “It doesn’t bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not—well let’s say that people wouldn’t aspire to be like them.”Read Full Story

Despite taking the top awards at the 2011 Oscar Ceremony, or perhaps because of that, I was in no hurry to see director Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech , although I had thoroughly enjoyed his previous film The Damned United written by Peter Morgan and starring Michael Sheen as the renowned bombastic soccer manager Brian Clough. For some reason I had supposed that it would be a typically turgid period piece but after watching the Blu-ray release I was pleasantly surprised to find it terribly...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 and...Read Full Story

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

Last season Masterpiece Classic gave us The Complete Jane Austen and our world was all propriety, parlor room drama and romance. Life was good. Our happily-ever-after was complete. That was before the economic downfall. How appropriate that PBS has turned its tenor to the darker side of life with The Tale of Charles Dickens , four new adaptations of the Victorian author's famous works. Beginning the season will be a new production of Oliver Twist , a bleak look at the economic woes of late...Read Full Story