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  • Branagh and Ifans all at sea in DJ film - not 'arf - 19 February 2008
    Oscar-nominated actor Kenneth Branagh and Little Nicky star Rhys Ifans will team up for a new Richard Curtis-penned comedy about two 1960s pirate radio DJs on the high seas. -The Boat That Rocked will also be directed by Curtis, whose previous hits include Four Weddings

Kenneth Branagh - what members say


  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein review by A customer from CARDIFF
    Rated - 5 stars 31 October 2004
    ...A wonderful film, superbly acted and directed by Kenneth Branagh and with the best ever creature, played by Robert de Niro. This sticks closely to the novel and brings out th...  
  • Walking With Beasts - The Complete Series
  • Walking With Beasts - The Complete Series review by A customer from gwaenysgor, rhyl, flintshire
    Rated - 5 stars superb series 25 August 2005
    ...roamed the earth millions of years ago, then this is the dvd disc set for you. Kenneth Branagh is superb as the narrator. and my 4 children were so engrossed in watching thi...  
  • Dead Again
  • Dead Again review by A customer from Shropshire
    Rated - 4 stars A reasonable English thriller 2 August 2004
    ...quite put my finger on it but I suspect it lies in the casting. Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi are all strong actors, so why doesn't the mix quite gel? It c...  

Kenneth Branagh - filmography


  • Sleuth on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jude Law,  Michael Caine
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: 15
    This savvy remake promises just as many twists and pitch-perfect performances as the 1972 film. Since the original SLEUTH still shocks, some might question director Kenneth Branagh's desire to remake the classic, but Michael Caine doesn't reprise his role from the first film. Instead, he stars as ...
    Rate this: 2.5 (49%)
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  • As You Like It on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Takuya Shimada,  Brian Blessed,  Richard Clifford
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: 12
    Japan, the 1880s. Duke Senior (Blessed) is ousted by brother Frederick (Blessed) and flees into the forest. Senior’s daughter Rosalind (Dallas Howard) and Frederick’s daughter Celia (Garai) set off after him, where Rosalind meets the man she loves (Oyelowo) and befriends him in a male disguise.
    Rate this: 2.5 (51%)
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  • Rabbit Proof Fence on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Everlyn Sampi,  Tianna Sansbury,  Laura Monaghan
    Director: Phillip Noyce
    Certificate: PG
    Set in Australia in 1931, RABBIT-PROOF FENCE tells the story of a government policy that required "half-caste" children (whose mothers were Aboriginal and whose fathers were white) to be taken from their homes by the authorities to be trained to work as servants. Based on the true story of Molly ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (75%)
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  • Shackleton on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Lorcan Cranitch,  Paul McGann
    Director: Charles Sturridge
    Certificate: 15
    One of the most amazing and compelling adventure stories of all time, Ernest Shackleton's 1915 expedition to the previously unexplored, forbidding land of Antarctica has been a subject of great public fascination for decades. With 27 crew members, the intrepid man became trapped in the icey land ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (75%)
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  • Wild Wild West on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Kevin Kline,  Kenneth Branagh
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: 12
    Barry Sonnenfeld is reunited with his MEN IN BLACK star Will Smith in this gadget-soaked romp based (loosely) on the 1960s television show. WILD WILD WEST supplies many impressive visuals (thanks to brilliant production designer Bo Welch) and some hearty laughs. Will Smith is James West, a Civil ...
    Rate this: 2.5 (53%)
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  • Walking With Dinosaurs (2 discs) on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: PG
    Learn all about the dinosaurs and how they ate, fought, mated, and more. High-tech animatronics and computer graphics are used to bring the world of the dinosaurs to life, in this popular documentary series. Includes six episodes featuring the most up-to-date discoveries, narrated by Kenneth ...
    Rate this: 4.0 (76%)
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  • Celebrity on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Judy Davis,  Hank Azaria
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: 18
    Woody Allen's star-studded CELEBRITY skewers America's fascination with fame and glamour. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a travel writer who also interviews celebrities when he's not working on his novel and screenplay--or at least talking about writing them. As he hangs out more and more with ...
    Rate this: 2.5 (57%)
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  • Much Ado About Nothing on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Richard Briers,  Michael Keaton
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: PG
    When gallant Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), his nefarious brother Don John (Keanu Reeves), and close confidantes Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard) and Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) ride thunderously into the Sicilian village of Messina, romance, gaiety, and suspicion abound. The men have returned safely ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (68%)
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  • Peter's Friends on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Hugh Laurie,  Kenneth Branagh,  Stephen Fry
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: TBC
    Ten years after leaving university, Peter and his best friends reunite for a New Year's party to end all parties. Having weathered most of life's triumphs and disasters, there doesn't seem to be much left to shock them - but Peter has a special surprise that will test their friendship to the utmost....
    Rate this: 3.5 (69%)
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  • Dead Again on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Andy Garcia,  Derek Jacobi
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: 15
    In Kenneth Branagh's stylish suspense film, Branagh stars as Mike Church, a Los Angeles detective who is drawn into the life of Grace (Emma Thompson), a woman with amnesia who is plagued by disturbing nightmares. Attempts to help her regain her memory bring them to Franklyn Madson (Derek Jacobi), a ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (67%)
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  • Henry V on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Derek Jacobi,  Paul Scofield
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: PG
    Kenneth Branagh makes his directorial debut and also plays the title role in HENRY V, an ambitious film that began a resurgence of interest in films of Shakespeare's plays. Henry is a young king seeking a way to make his mark on history. He gets his chance when he learns he can make a legal claim ...
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  • Look Back In Anger on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Emma Thompson
    Director: Judi Dench
    Certificate: 12
    Adaptation of the John Osborne play, about Jimmy Porter, a selfish, very "angry young man" who feels the world is against him and takes it out on his wife, by seducing her best friend; a woman he originally despised. Starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, this Renaissance Theatre Company ...
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  • Twelfth Night on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Richard Briers,  Caroline Langrishe
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: U
    Kenneth Branagh's version of William Shakespeare's classic comedy revolves around Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. ...
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  • A Month In the Country on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Kenneth Branagh,  Natasha Richardson
    Director: Pat O'Connor
    Certificate: PG
    Two war-weary young veterans, Birkin and Moon, have come to a peaceful Yorkshire town to escape the horrors of war that haunt their dreams. But their work at the village church takes an explosive turn as one ignites long-denied passion within the pastor's young wife which forces the other veteran ...
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  • High Season on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Jacqueline Bisset,  James Fox,  Irene Papas
    Director: Clare Peploe
    Certificate: 15
    Katharine is a talented photographer living on an idyllic Greek island. Unfortunately, the only thing that's clicking is her camera, until she finds herself surrounded by crazies, spies, smugglers, love-sick tourists, a teenage daughter and an ex-husband.
    Rate this: 2.5 (46%)
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