Jean-Luc Godard's Sympathy For The Devil is an exhilarating provocative pastiche of a motion picture. While the focus of the film is on The Rolling Stones song after which the film is titled a series of abstract fictional vignettes in the second half of the film allows Godard to probe topics as diverse as Black Power pornography and the irony of interviewing celebrities. These extended sequences elevate the film above a simple portrait of the English rockers constructing a
'Children Of The Bride' weds comedy with heartfelt drama in a story of love relationships and frayed family ties. It's not easy to get married - it's nearly impossible when grown children are called home to attend their mother's wedding. In this romantic comedy Margaret Becker learns that starting over is a process filed with potholes pathos and the promise that life not only goes on.... but it also gets better.
From Italian director Pupi Avati (The House With Laughing Windows) Zeder combines the aesthetics and atmospherics of the Giallo feature with those of the zombie movie in a slickly presented horror thriller. When Stefano, a young novelist is given a vintage typewriter as a birthday present, he discovers that the machine's ribbon contains the writings of a scientist proposing the existence of K-Zones', places where the dead can actually rise from their graves. Stylish, creepy and downright chilling, Zeder is the perfect movie for lovers of 80s Italian exploitation Product Features Audio Commentary by Kim Newman Audio Commentary by Barry Forshaw and Eugenio Ercolani Eugenio Ercolani Featurettes
Anne Baxter plays a manipulative young woman who moves in with the family of her betrothed - who also happens to be her psychiatrist. She gradually turns the house full of happy loving people against each other and they are powerless to stop her.
Kyle and Evie Preston had always been told stories by their grandmother about battling giants who trapped the last of the world's fairies underground many thousands of years ago. When their grandmother dies they inherit a family house overseas and discover an old gold mine in the grounds. The children soon realise that the old lady's fairy tales weren't stories after all and that if not freed from the gloomy mine the fairies will be lost from the world forever! When their father (Corbin Bersen) is taken seriously ill a frantic struggle ensues to free the fairies and try to cure him with their magic. Unfortunately the children are hampered by the fears of their mother (Glynis Barber) about the mine and by the hostility of the local community particularly Ian the caretaker (Malcolm McDowell). The Fairy King Of Ar is a magical story of fairies goblins and two children who dare to believe the unbelievable...
Jimmy Dworski is a happy-go-lucky convict who breaks out of prison and finally gets a life - somebody else's! When Dworski finds the daily planner that literally runs the life of ultra-organized executive Spencer Barnes (Charles Grodin) all hell breaks loose! With newfound cash credit cards and the keys to a Malibu mansion the imposter Dworski embarks on an all-expenses-paid trip to ""Easy Street"" while posing as the high-powered Barnes. Meanwhile Spencer's life is turned upside down as he hunts through the jungles of Los Angeles for his beloved book: when these oddball opposites finally meet it's a comedic collision you won't soon forget!
Cinema legend David Niven stars in this classic Ealing satire on celebrity and the Hollywood star system. Directed by multiple-award-winning director Charles Crichton and also featuring Peggy Cummins and Herbert Lom (and Humphrey Bogart!), The Love Lottery is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. When film-star heartthrob Rex Allerton jokingly suggests that he'll marry the winner of a competition to win a week as his guest, he sets in motion a train of events that threaten to turn his life upside down!
After her husband leaves her an American woman travels to London for the funeral of Victor Fox the pop star she's adored all her life. There she meets Fox's gay lover and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer...
The crushing pressures of social conformity have always been a central concern of Terence Davies' movies, so Edith Wharton's astringent novel of innocence destroyed makes an ideal choice for him. Set in the edgy, nouveau riche ambience of 1900s New York, the story traces the downfall of the lovely but imprudent Lily Bart (Gillian Anderson) in a world where hypocrisy and predatory vice lurk behind genteel facades. Wharton (whose later novel The Age of Innocence was brilliantly filmed by Martin Scorsese) has an acute feel for the subtleties of social nuance, the way insiders and outsiders are defined, and Davies skilfully renders these hints and insidious judgments in cinematic terms. Working to a tighter budget than most period dramas, he turns his limitations to advantage. The film's never in danger of being swamped by the gorgeousness of its sets and costumes, or turned into an exercise in easy nostalgia. The northern austerity of Glasgow effectively stands in for New York. Throwing off the mantle of Scully (from The X-Files), Gillian Anderson gives a powerful and wholly convincing performance as Lily, movingly despairing as her options are closed off one by one; and there's a fine portrayal of self-satisfied brutality from Dan Aykroyd as the chief agent of her downfall. --Philip Kemp
The filmed Australian stage production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera'. Set in 1907, the story follows the now world-famous soprano Christine Daaé (Anna O'Byrne) as she accepts an invitation from a mysterious impresario to perform at Phantasma, a new attraction at New York's Coney Island. After arriving in Manhattan, Christine, husband Raoul (Simon Gleeson) and son Gustave (Ky Baldwin) are lured to the resort, unaware that it is the Phantom (Ben Lewis) who has arranged her appearance.
Val Kilmer Stephen Dorff Harold Perrineau Jr. and Sam Shepard star in this prison drama the story of a family man who is convicted of murder for killing an intruder who enters his home threatening the lives of his wife and son. As he struggles to survive the violent penal system which includes a maximum-security state prison in which a corrupt lieutenant tries to maintain power and order even if it means crossing the line.
All 16 episodes from the first two series of the French supernatural drama, where the inhabitants of a mountain village are confronted by the reappearance of a number of dead people. In an Alpine village dominated by a huge dam, a confused group of men, women and children begin to mysteriously appear. Not realising that they are in fact dead, having met their end years earlier in a variety of ways, the group set about trying to reclaim their past lives. But their arrival throws the small community into chaos as the affected families struggle to come to terms with what is happening. To make matters worse, history seems to be repeating itself, as, several years after a serial killer terrorised the small community, there is a spate of similarly gruesome murders. Series 1 episodes are: 'Camille', 'Simon', 'Julie', 'Victor', 'Serge et Toni', 'Lucy', 'Adèle' and 'La Horde'. Series 2 episodes are: 'The Child', 'Milan', 'Morgane', 'Virgil', 'Madame Costa', 'Esther', 'Etienne' and 'The Returned'.
An act of love or an act of murder? Seductive gallery owner Rebecca Carlson (Madonna) is accused of a unique crime - using violent sex to murder a wealthy businessman. Frank Dulaney (Willem Dafoe) is the lawyer trying to defend her helpless to resist her extraordinary brand of lovemaking...
Guy Pearce stars in this innovative thriller that begins with a crime and then goes back through time to trace its origins.
A psychologist is recruited to interview a young wife found at the scene of a double murder. Through hypnosis he unravels a sinister and disturbed mind...
At first glance Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane) seems like an ordinary divorced dad who's trying to make ends meet. But Ray's got one extraordinary God-given gift - call it his winning tool - that sets him apart from other underpaid high-school teachers. With a little help from an unlikely business ally named Tanya (Jane Adams) Ray is about to hatch an inspired plan to ride his winning tool all the way to a more productive debt-free life.
Telly Addicts 2: With over 1200 new questions Noel Edmunds is back with another edition of the highly popular and entertaining Telly Addicts interactive DVD game. Beat The Intro 3: The first and the best music DVD game is back! It's the ultimate music quiz! Whether you like your 60s disco 80s rock or 00s hits you'll love Beat the Intro. Test your music knowledge against the clock it's fun for all of the family. Family Fortunes 2: Now you and your family can play Family Fortunes 'live' on your home TV all you need is the DVD remote! It's the interactive DVD game for the whole family and it's packed with actual questions from the show - play all your favourite question rounds... but can your team `steal; the dosh in a Double Money round? Will they beat the clock and the other team and guess all the top answers in a Big Money Round? Then there's always the Viewer's Question where everyone can score some extra money. Avoid the dreaded 'Uh-Uh' wrong answer sound and your team may just win the game! So sit back grab the remote and get ready with your 'top answers'.
Lee Evans stars in this television adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic in which a humble draper's assistant grows tired of his life and takes to the road
Les Visiteurs is the smash hit time-travelling romp that everyone's talking about. When knights were bold in days of old there could never have been anything quite like the wild and wacky adventures of Count Godefroy and his grotesque vassal Jacquoville who are accidentally zapped from the 12th century to the present day with hilarious consequences. Toilets telephones cars and clingfilm are just some of the new fangled inventions that baffle our olde-world heroes - not to mention pe
Supposedly based on an actual event which remains unsolved to this day 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' is suffused with menace mysticism and languorous adolescent sensuality. In the year 1900 a group of schoolgirls set out on a St. Valentine's Day picnic from which two never returned. With this hauntingly beautiful film director Peter Weir marked the dawn of a new age in Australian cinema.
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