In an endearing and funny coming-of-age story Dennis can't quite decide if his friends are a blessing or a curse. Benji is a punkish youth whose obsession with gym bods gets him into trouble. Howie is an annoyingly overanalysing psychology grad student who can't let go of his ex-boyfriend. Cole is a ""pretty boy"" actor who goes through guys like clean underwear. Patrick is a painfully ordinary ""average Joe"" whose insecurity has turned him bitter. Taylor is the resident drama queen who prides himself on his LTR (long-term relationship) only to find himself sleeping single in a double bed. Jack is the group's wizened patriarch whose restaurant is a haven for them all. And then there's Kevin the nave ""newbie"" and most recent addition to the club. To an outsider it may seem like the only thing these friends have in common is that they play on the same team but when times get tough these friends are more like family.
A group of teenagers go camping for the weekend and fall victim to a serial killer known only as 'The Shaman'.
Alex Cox's Three Businessman is an existentialist fable for the independent businessman. Two travelling art dealers staying in a labyrinthine Liverpool hotel, Frank King (Alex Cox) and Bennie Reyes (Miguel Sandoval of Clear and Present Danger), sit down for dinner only to find that the hotel staff have deserted them. They begin to walk the Mersey streets in search of sustenance, talking about dogs, dinner, the "Plutonium" credit card and the state of the world. But lost without a map, they inadvertently wander half way across the world on public transport in search of their hotel, touching down in Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Japan and Spain. In a desert, they come across a third businessman, Leroy Jasper (Robert Wisdom), clutching a replica of the Mir space station. Soon after, they stumble across a food stand outside a small abode that holds within it the true object of their quest. It is a destination that they have found without looking for. This small, mannered movie grows in stature as it progresses. Sandoval and Cox are amiably crotchety travelling companions. Aided and abetted by jump cuts, the surrealist conceit that allows the businessman to roam across the world without ever realising they have left Liverpool is distinctly Bunuelian (cf. the name of Cox's production company Exterminating Angel Films). On the DVD: An amusing commentary by Alex Cox and writing partner and producer Tod Davies has the added bonus of Cox acting out deleted scenes. The feature appears in widescreen format with an excellent sound and picture transfer, enhanced by Pray for Rain's melancholic soundtrack. But the Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop promo video promised on the sleeve and liner notes does not appear anywhere on the disc. --Chris Campion
Star Hill Ponies is a delightful stop-frame animated TV series focusing on the adventures of a young girl and her encounters with her three pony friends. Featuring the voices of popular British comedians Josie Lawrence and Andrew Sachs. Episodes Comprise: 1. Scruffy Helps Out 2. Art For Scruffy's Sake 3. The Outing 4. Birthday Tea 5. Circus Tricks 6. Scruffy Pays The Price 7. High Tea High-Jinks 8. Nicked Knickers
Teenager Johnny Dingle will do anything to keep his date with the hottest girl in school -- even come back from the grave! You see, Johnny had the perfect scheme to win the heart of Missy McCloud, the town beauty. Unfortunately, Johnny's scam goes sour and he winds up dead! Even so, Johnny's determined to keep his date -- unaware of the hilarity waiting for him upon his return! See for yourself why everyone's dying to see this outlandishly funny comedy!
One of the most highly anticipated mountain bike video releases of the year Roam is the second film from the critically acclaimed group of filmmakers lnown as The Collective. Shot on gloriously detailed 16mm film Roam really pushed the boundaries as much in terms of cutting edge riding as breath taking cinematography. Shot in eight primary locations including the North Shore Moab Prague Morocco Whistler Bike Park British Columbia and producing 100 hours of raw footage. Roam promises to be everything a mountain biker could wish for in a DVD.
Recognised as the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Boys of Company C is a high-end member of the cannon of classic battle-field movies and a frighteningly realistic critique of the pointlessness and corruption universally associated with the US/Vietnam war.Boys of Company C follows the lives of five nave young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp through a tour in Vietnam that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. But as they might have predicted, nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems.
The characters in this delightful series live on the shelves of a kitchen dresser. Late at night while the 'Big Ones' are sleeping The Gingerbread Man and his friends 'Salt' and 'Pepper' and 'Herr Von Cuckoo' come alive and create much mischief! 'The Old Bag' a long forgotten teabag living in the teapot on the top shelf and 'Sleek the mouse' do their best to spoil the adventures of the four friends. Episodes: 1. A Pinch of Salt 2. Locked Clock 3. Weekend Break 4. Old Bag in Danger 5. While the Cat's Away 6. It's Not Fair 7. The Gingerbread Ghost
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Based freely on the classic novels by CS Forester, Hornblower is a series of TV films following the progress of a young officer through the ranks of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series' greatest asset is the handsome and charismatic Ioan Gruffudd in the lead role, surely a major star in the making. For television films the production values are very good, though as Titanic, Waterworld and The Perfect Storm demonstrated, filming an aquatic adventure is a very expensive business, and it is clear that the Hornblower dramas simply make the best of comparatively small budgets. No more faithful to Forester's books than the 1951 Gregory Peck classic Captain Horatio Hornblower, the real inspiration seems to have come from the success of Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, which likewise featured a British hero in the Napoleonic Wars. Nevertheless, while rather more easygoing than the real British navy of the time, the Hornblower saga delivers an entertaining adventure, greatly enhanced by the presence of such guest stars as Denis Lawson, Cheri Lunghi, Ronald Pickup and Anthony Sher. --Gary S Dalkin
Rossini's rarely performed 'opera series' Ermione was a surprise hit when it was first performed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995. Set in Troy after the fall of the city to the Greeks this tragedy of great histrionic force concentrates on the bitter struggle for the love of Pyrrhus between Hector's widow Andromache and the jealous Ermione sister of Helen of Troy. Graham Vick sets this highly effective production in the classically-inspired auditorium of an
Enter the dark world of sythentic humanoids where ruthless recyclers scavenge cyborg parts and sell them to the highest bidder.
An inspirational love story about the power of forgiveness and faith in the beauty of life. This Christmas will change the Austin family for ever. With a successful career two fantastic children and the love of his life at his side Andrew Austin had everything. But an unseen diagnosis and unresolved regrets bring change and in an instant life no longer has the order and expectations it once held. As Suzie falls further into illness Andrew and family quietly search for meaning and hope. Facing a hectic Christmas in the city the family retreats to a beloved lake house to share possibly their final Christmas. Away from the distractions their world opens up to an unforgettable moment in time. As the small community as the Lake brings them its own wonderments hearts open in unseen ways. This Christmas they will lean to love and forgive renewing their faith in the beauty of life.
A documentary style dramatisation of real events that occured shortly after the Battle of Haditha in the Iraq War in 2005.
Astoundingly silly but incredibly popular, Police Academy is the first film in a seemingly endless franchise that takes aim at the men in blue. After a police academy drops all of its entrance requirements, all manner of misfits flood in, hoping to make it onto the force. One of these misfits, a lazy, aimless cadet played by Steve Guttenberg (Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby), was forced to enlist and tries whatever he can to get kicked out. But once he decides to stay, he tries anything and everything to finish his training, even as his drill instructor tries to shove him out. Featuring a wild bunch of strange supporting characters, from a female trainee who speaks below a whisper to a dominatrix instructor to a human sound-effects machine, Police Academy is mindless but fun. --Robert Lane, Amazon.com
Voluptuous nymphets young studs the last virgin in school a bald nutcase and an obsessed detective are all plagued by the return of the infamous 'Lawnmower Killer' in this comedy that satirises scenes from such films as 'Alien' 'Saturday Night Fever' 'Grease' and 'The Exorcist'!
Nothing is as it seems behind the well-trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English county of Midsomer. Beneath the tranquil surface of sleepy village life exist dark secrets. Joyce Barnaby has enrolled in an art class that takes her to the village green in Midsomer Florey. The village is also under surveillance by Barnaby and Troy who are busy with 'Operation Pondlife' an initiative designed to combat street crime. When Joyce finds the body of one of her fellow
Horror legend Tod Slaughter on a maniacal murder spree in this sinister thriller from 1946. Tod Slaughter gives his most maniacal performance ever in this adaptation of Maurice Sandoz's famous stage play Spring-Heeled Jack. Philip Wraydon (Tod Slaughter), a murderous Napoleonic spy previously exiled in France, returns to England and becomes a crazed inventor with a hatred of all things British. He embarks on a killing spree, seeking revenge on his brother's family. His nephew, young captai...
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