Simon Callow

This insightful documentary explores the enigma and polymath that was Orson Welles. Directed by critically-acclaimed documentary maker, Chuck Workman, Magician divides Welles’ life into four chapters, with Workman portraying him as an artist who never stopped working throughout his career, but whose unconventional approach ensured he was much misunderstood by Hollywood. Magician is a montage, featuring scenes from almost every existing Welles film - from Hearts of Age to rarely-seen clips from his final unfinished films such as Don Quixote - as well as his television and commercial work. This is an essential film not just for fans of the great Orson Welles, but anyone interested in the magic of cinema.

Veteran radio presenter Aubrey Judd soon realizes that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.

Join renowned actor Simon Callow as he uncovers the moving origins of the song "Silent Night," which has been two hundred years in the making.

An animated re-telling of the Charles Dickens' classic. This new version not only preserves the original story everyone is familiar with, but also develops the relationship between Dickens' wonderful characters.

A rock band steals a dead singer's song to jump-start their career, but their rise to fame is filled with betrayal and bloody consequences.

First performed as a play in 1747, MISS IN HER TEENS is the story of a wealthy young heiress who Sir Simon Loveit, a widower, wishes to marry. His son, Captain Bob, however has already won her heart before he went to war in Flanders. On his return, Captain Bob discovers, courtesy of his manservant Puff, that Miss has two other suitors, Captain Flash and Mr. Fribble.

This collection of stories about the American experience explores the rise of Orson Welles alongside WWII, Japanese internment, and segregation.

Pet detective Jim Carrey pursues a kidnapped bat through the African jungle. Madcap comedy sequel of rhinos and witch doctors, from the writer of Bruce Almighty. (1995)(89 mins)

After arriving in Oxford, an American student's singular focus on earning her PhD is disrupted by a turbulent friendship with a charming young man.

After being unfairly fired, a broke and frustrated IT tech decides to plot a one-woman heist to steal data worth millions on the black market.

A woman makes a deceptive, well-intentioned plan to bring her dysfunctional family together for Christmas.

For this film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Broadway hit, director Milos Forman returned to the city of Prague that he'd left behind during the Czech political crises of 1968, bringing along his usual cinematographer and fellow Czech expatriate, Miroslav Ondricek. Amadeus is an expansion of a Viennese urban legend concerning the death of 18th-century musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From...

Set in the UK, this is the tale of eight friends, five priests, 11 wedding dresses, 16 parents-in-law, 2000 champagne glasses and two people who belong together but insist on staying apart.

This is the story of James Henry Trotter, a lonely orphan sent to live with his horribly wicked and greedy Aunts Spiker and Sponge. when James meets a strange old man who promises that marvellous things will happen, indeed they do. Escaping his aunts by climbing inside a giant peach that mysteriously and suddenly grows on their barren tree, he meets some very unusual new friends.

Lucy Honeychurch is, like all proper young British ladies, compelled to tour Europe in the company of an older chaperone -- in this instance, her spinster cousin Charlotte Bartlett.

This sparklingly witty, London-set romance is based on the inspiring true story of a man's against-all-odds fight to save his home.

Bullets and sparks fly when two petty crooks get hired by a cute London lawyer to steal a rare gem that a mullet-haired gangster wants for himself.

Chronicles the time that Thomas Jefferson spent as the American Ambassador to France (1784-1789). These were significant years for him in his public and personal life, and fateful ones for France, where the revolution was about to break out.

Based on August Strindberg's 1888 play, this film is a modern retelling of his story of love, betrayal, revenge, and psychological manipulation.

Directed and written by legendary rock promoter Simon Napier-Bell, manager of The Yardbirds, T Rex and George Michael, and created to coincide with the 50 anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, this is an engaging journey through the subsequent years of how those changes affected LGBT lives. It features interview with leading activists and cultural commentators including Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Elton John, Matt Lucas, Sir Derek Jacobi and Simon Callow.