Mickey King (Caine) is a writer of cheap paperback detective novels living in Rome churning out one noir book after another. When is offered an abnormally large sum to ghost write the autobiography of a mystery celebrity the intrigued author agrees and is transported to a remote island. The subject is none other than Preston Gilbert (Rooney) a one-time movie star known for playing gangsters notoriously hanging out with real-life mobsters off the set. Now dying of cancer Gilbert
Filmed entirely on location in Hawaii Hawaii Five-O followed Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord) head of an elite state police unit investigating ""organized crime murder assassination attempts foreign agents felonies of every type."" James MacArthur played his second-in-command Danny (""Danno"") Williams. McGarrett's nemesis is the evil Wo Fat - ""a Red Chinese agent in charge of the entire Pacific Asiatic theatre.
A tribute concert celebration of the life and music of the incomparable blues/R&B pianist and singer Ray Charles. Presented by Quincy Jones Morgan Freeman Regina King and Jamie Foxx this extravaganza honours a true genius with real soul. Set List: 1. Elton John (with Mary J. Blige) - Right Time Is The Right Time 2. Usher - Georgia On My Mind 3. Stevie Wonder - I've Got A Woman 4. Norah Jones - Drown In My Own Tears 5. Jamie Cullum - Hallelujah I Love Her So 6. Reba McEntir
Chasing their dream of a better life Harry (Fonda) and his good friend Arch (Oates) have drifted across the plains of America together. However Harry has grown tired of his transient life and decides to return to the wife and child that he left years before. At first refusing to accept him Harry's wife orders that he sleep in the barn and work the farm strictly as a hired hand. However soon their romance is rekindled and they rediscover the happiness they once shared. Yet as
BEING TERRIFIED IS JUST THE BEGINNING... Initially reviled in its native land (some critics took exception to the fact the film was largely funded by the Canadian taxpayer), Shivers is an intensely claustrophobic, subversive masterpiece and an essential entry in the oeuvre of one of the horror genre s most gifted auteurs. Some 40 years after its release, it still retains its power to shock. Starliner Island is an idyllic community. Cut off from the rest of the world, the luxury apartment block affords its occupants the chance to escape from the hustle and bustle of the big city. But this isolation is to prove fatal when a new breed of parasite a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease which arouses sexual aggression in its hosts is let loose in the building, resulting in an orgy terror and mayhem. Known under a host of alternate titles such as The Parasite Murdersand They Came From Within!, Shivers is the startling debut full-length feature from director David Cronenberg which anticipates the body-horror concerns of his later films such as The Fly and Videodrome.
This inspirational Hip Hop dance drama follows Carmen, a young woman living in Chicago, who struggles to overcome her fears and follow her dream to be a dancer.
Bringing Billy Corben's remarkable documentaries together for the first time in the UK, this incredible double-film set shows the true stories of the gangster-fuelled drug business that swept the USA in the 80s and 90s: Cocaine CowboysIn the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. Cocaine Cowboys is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen. Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin' with the GodmotherSet in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the Cocaine Godmother Griselda Blanco. Six months later, Cosby is a multi-millionaire, Blanco's lover, the head of her $40 million a year cocaine business, and in way over his head... Special Features: Hustlin' with the Godmother Featurette Behind the Scenes of Cocaine Cowboys 2
This re-make of the 1932 Howard Hawks classic has up-and-coming gangster Tony Montana (Al Pacino) arriving in Miami as a Cuban refugee. With his friend Manny (Stephen Bauer), Tony carries out a hit on a politician, earning him the gratitude of drug dealer Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia). Tony rises rapidly in the 'organization', but courts disaster when he becomes involved with Lopez' cocaine-addicted wife, Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer). Special Features: Exclusive Artwork and Artcards
Narc Jason Patric and Ray Liotta deliver edgy driven performances in this compelling crime drama. Nick Tellis (Patric) is a suspended narcotics officer recruited to investigate the murder of Michael Calvess a rookie cop killed under mysterious circumstances. Tellis is teamed with Calvess's partner Henry Oak (Liotta) a hot-tempered renegade who'll stop at nothing to avenge his friend's death. As Tellis and Oak follow a shadowy trail through the seamy drug underworld the lin
Cerro Torre in Argentina is the greatest alpine challenge on Earth and Roccia and Martin are two of the world's best climbers. When the death of a mutual friend and a love rivalry divides them it results in a bitter climbing duel. Like two soulless machines they climb in blind rage throwing their lives into the battle to be the first to reach the summit.
Used Cars, the 1980 film by director Robert Zemeckis, gives no indication of things to come in his career (Back to the Future, Contact, Forrest Gump), but it is representative of a certain cynical humour he shared early on with writer-partner Bob Gale. Kurt Russell and Jack Warden star in a sketchy comedy about competing used-car salesmen who resort to outrageous tactics to lure customers away from each other. The jokes, like the characters, are intentionally recycled, self-conscious comic fodder from a baby-boomer's lifetime (such as Gale's or Zemeckis') of immersion in pop culture. That makes Used Cars more pastiche than original (the film's title itself suggests that), but as such it has some good, if vaguely familiar, laughs in it. Russell, particularly, is very funny as a practiced con man. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Al Pacino plays a Maryland lawyer who takes on a judicial system rife with deal making in And Justice for All, an awkward blend of satire and sentimentality. Topical director Norman Jewison can't seem to help Pacino get comfortable with the mismatched material, which pushes the film into outrageousness at some turns and mawkishness at others. The script by Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin is more an accumulation of random ideas and moments than a congruent story. However, it's interesting to see the large cast of good actors, most of whom were unknowns at the time including Christine Lahti who made her film debut here. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
In the spring of 1980, the port of Mariel Harbour was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami...wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name. Scarface!
'Weird Al' Yankovic has established himself as one of the biggest selling musical-parody acts in the world. No one is safe from Al's cutting wit and there is always a highly humorous video to back up his hilarious songs which mostly centre around food religion disease and more food! This collection of his videos (presented for the first time in 5.1 Surround sound) offers a glimpse at the Weird Al career to date including promo's for 'Fat' 'Eat It' 'Like A Surgeon' 'Amish Paradise' 'Smells Like Nirvana' and more! Track Listing: 1. Fat 2. Amish Paradise 3. It's All about the Pentiums 4. Smells Like Nirvana 5. You Don't Love Me Anymore 6. Bedrock Anthem 7. Gump 8. Jurassic Park 9. Headline News 10. Dare To Be Stupid 11. Eat It 12. Like a Surgeon 13. UHF 14. Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies 15. One More Minute 16. I Lost on Jeopardy 17. This Is the Life 18. Living with a Hernia 19. Spy Hard 20. Ricky 21. Christmas at Ground Zero 22. I Love Rocky Road 23. Bob 24. The Saga Begins
This original version of The Getaway better than the 1994 remake starring Kim Basinger and husband Alec Baldwin, but this 1972 thriller relies too heavily on the low-key star power of Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, and the stylish violence of director Sam Peckinpah, reduced here to a mechanical echo of his former glory. McQueen plays a bank robber whose wife (MacGraw) makes a deal with a Texas politician to have her husband released from prison in return for a percentage from their next big heist. But when the plan goes sour, the couple must flee to Mexico as fast as they can, with a variety of gun-wielding thugs on their trail. MacGraw was duly skewered at the time for her dubious acting ability, but the film still has a raw, unglamorous quality that lends a timeless spin to the familiar crooks-on-the-lam scenario. As always, Peckinpah rises to the occasion with some audacious scenes of action and suspense, including a memorable chase on a train that still grabs the viewer's attention. --Jeff Shannon
Al Reed was a hugely popular British Radio comedian throughout the 1950's 60's and 70s. 'The Al Read Show' was one of the most popular radio comedy shows in the UK in the 50's and 60s with up to 35 million people tuning in each week. His catchphrases Right Monkey and You'll be lucky I say you'll be lucky! were incredibly well known. He fronted several TV shows of which 'It's All in Life' was his greatest and seven of the classics episodes are showcased in this DVD.
Hotshot attorney Kevin Lomax’s 64-0 case record has brought him a tempting offer from an elite New York firm. But the job Lomax accepts isn’t what it seems. The Devil is in the details. In this gleeful modern gothic fable Keanu Reeves plays eager Lomax and Al Pacino is the charismatic fi rm founder who knows there are cases to be won… and souls to be lost. From Lomax’s court triumphs and skyrocket rise to its double-twist ending The Devil’s Advocate is red-hot entertainment. Lomax’s life wife (Charlize Theron) and soul are on the line.
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