Roald Dahl's chillingly brilliant anthology series Tales of the Unexpected makes an expected return to DVD. Although widely-regarded as one of the greatest children's authors of all-time Roald Dahl also wrote chilling adult fiction taking the twisted ideas used to entertain children and thrilling adults with similar themes. Much-gossiped about in its day the surprising stories - usually with a sting in the tale - enthralled a nation the moment the iconic titles started. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Flypaper 2. A Picture Of A Place 3. Proof Of Guilt 4. Vengeance Is Mine Inc. 5. A Girl Can't Always Have Everything 6. Parson's Pleasure 7. The Stinker 8. I'll Be Seeing You 9. The Party
In the original Predator, Rambo meets Alien in a terrific science fiction thriller directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood's most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of US Army commandos to a remote region of South American jungle, where they've been assigned to search for South American officials who've been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a load of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realise that they're now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that's heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it all in describing the relentless, escalating action that follows, maintained by McTiernan with an abundance of visual flair. The film's special effects are still impressive, and stunning locations in the Mexican jungles create a combined atmosphere of verdant beauty and imminent danger. The sequel, Predator 2, suffers from the lack of both original star Schwarzenegger and director McTiernan. Danny Glover does serviceable work as the hard-bitten city cop tracking the near-invisible Predator, who this time has chosen to do a bit of hunting on the streets of LA instead of the jungle. Look out for an Alien skull in the creature's trophy room --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite as sci-fi geeks taking a pilgrimage to America’s UFO heartland. There they mess a smart-ass alien, Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen), who takes them on an insane road trip. As they struggle to return Paul home, the little green man might just take the outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes. From the director of Superbad, Greg Mottolla, and with a stellar supporting cast including Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Joe Lo Trugllio and Sigourney Weaver, Paul is a must-own comedy adventure not to be missed! Special Features: Extended Version Original Theatrical Feature The Evolution of Paul Bloopers Who the Hell is Adam Shadowchild? Simon's Silly Faces Feature Commentary
Randolph Scott and Bill Williams star in this classic Western from 1950, directed by Edwin L. Marin. Jim Redfern (Randolph Scott) dreams of owning his own cattle ranch. With partner Mike Evans (Bill Williams), he heads into British Columbia, on the Cariboo Trail. There's a gold rush on and they're joined along the way by old-timer Grizzly Winters, a prospector who hasn't had much luck. Powerful local boss, and villain, Frank Walsh (Victor Jory) and his henchmen stampede Jim's cattle, causi...
This ITV drama series follows the working and personal lives of British Customs and Excise officers as they track down national and international criminals. From drug dealers to dubious chefs it's a race against crime to prevent the trade of illegal goods to Britain
In Unhinged three college girls in a hard-driving rain storm crash their car. They stumble upon a creepy mansion and come across a strange family with a dark secret. Previously banned in the UK.
James Woods doesn't get to play many romantic leads--and he certainly doesn't get the girl in this handsome, if occasionally hollow, remake of Out of the Past. As the mover-and-shaker lover of Rachel Ward, he loses her--if only temporarily--to ex-football star Jeff Bridges. Woods captures the insecurity behind a man of power who understands that the women in his life love his money first. But he also shows us the real tenderness that kept Ward close when money lost its glitter. Bridges is at his best, playing the should-have-been trying to keep his future from repeating his dead-end past. Look for actress Jane Greer (who played the Ward role in the 1947 original opposite Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas) in a small role. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
When Emma returns to her childhood home deep in the Arkansas mountains she’s in need of rest relaxation and some deep soul searching. What she finds is dark wooded slaughter fear and the foul pestilence that comes with a full moon. A bloodthirsty werewolf is tearing through the township ripping and ravaging all who cross its path revealing a sinister underlife to the town that few knew existed. Suddenly Emma finds herself plunged into a fight for her life and more – a fight to the finish for her soul.
Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Polygamy Loves Company. Think having three wives is a dream come true? Think again. HBO presents the new contemporary drama series that tells the story of Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) a practicing polygamist who lives in suburban Salt Lake City with his three wives and seven children. An independent businessman who runs a growing chain of hardware stores Bill faces a myriad of challenges in meeting the emotional romantic and financial needs of his wives...Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn) Nicki (Chloe Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin) while dealing with their kids three adjoined houses an ever-mounting avalanche of bills and the opening of his newest hardware store.
Titles Comprise: Horton Hears A Who: This adaption of Dr. Seuss' 1954 children's book Horton Hears A Who features Jim Carrey and Steve Carrel in this timeless classic tale! One day Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck he decides to help it. As it turns out the speck of dust is home to the Whos who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home but this gives him nothing but torment from his neighbors who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck. Still Horton stands by the motto that After all a person is a person no matter how small. Alvin And The Chipmunks: Based on the classic cartoon series Alvin Simon and Theodore come to the big screen with their mischievous musical mayhem. When struggling songwriter Dave Seville (Jason Lee) opens his home to a talented trio of chipmunks named Alvin Simon and Theodore they become overnight music sensations. But a greedy record producer (David Cross) intends to exploit the 'boys' and send them on a grueling concert tour just to line his own pockets. Now Dave must use a little human ingenuity-and a lot of munk mischief-to get his family back before it's too late! Garfield 2: A Tail Of Two Kitties: Garfield America's favourite cat is going continental. He's travelling across the pond (with canine sidekick Odie) to surprise his master Jon Arbuckle (Meyer) who is in London to propose to his girlfriend veterinarian Liz Wilson (Hewitt). In the land of Big Ben Buckingham Palace Scotland Yard and fish and chips Garfield's British invasion takes on a Prince and the Paw-per dimension. He inadvertently switches places with the Prince a royal cat (and by luck his exact look-a-like) who has just inherited Castle Carlyle from his deceased owner Lady Eleanor this is a huge disappointment to her dastardly nephew Lord Dargis (Billy Connelly). Now living it up as the Cat of Carlyle Garfield has a butler and an international array of servants and subjects including Winston a very English bulldog; McBunny a Scottish hare; Nigel a Punjab ferret; Bolere a Spanish bull; I Claudius a Shakepeare-quoting mouse and Christophe a French goose. Meanwhile Prince is living the simple life of a commoner hitting the pubs with Jon and Oldie getting his first taste of lasagne...and loving all of it! Uneasy is the head however that wears the crown. Lord Bargis who is next in line to the estate wants Prince/Garfield out of the picture. Garfield's bigger better more pur-fect world is soon turned upside down in the tale of two kitties!
Referred to as the most important filmmaker of the current era by The Guardian, David Lynch has carved out a stunning portfolio of work investigating the dark and seedy side of human nature with a delicious sense of black humour. Bringing together six of his most well-known films on Blu-ray for the very first time, this boxset also includes several of Lunch's most famous short films, experimental films, rare interviews, documentaries, outtakes and more.Eraserhead (1977)Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.Dune (1984)In the distant future, a man appears who may be the prophet that a long-suffering galaxy has been waiting for.Blue Velvet (1986)After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.Wild At Heart (1990)Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled.Lost Highway (1997)After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey set off on a LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World's Fair. He was joined by The Merry Band of Pranksters, a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac's On the Road, and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16MM, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen...until now.
Al Pacino stars as a seasoned New York publicist experiencing a day from hell in this fiendishly clever thriller.
Aliens In this action-packed sequel to 'Alien' Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the monstrous extra-terrestrial. Her account of the alien and the fate of her crew are received with skepticism until the mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 lead her to join a team of high-tech colonial marines sent in to investigate... Resident Evil Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus killing all of its employees. To contain the leak the governing supercomputer Red Queen has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain Alice and Matt must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so they must get past the Red Queen's deadly defenses face the flesh-eating undead employees fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims... The Fly David Cronenberg's 'The Fly' is a remake of the 1958 horror classic about a brilliant scientist (Goldblum) who develops a machine that molecularly transports objects in seconds but inadvertently turns him into a fly; incredibly agile super-strong and driven to insanity by appetites he cannot control...
In the mid-70s, at the suggestion of John Lennon, the celebrated journalist and film director Tony Palmer decided to document the 'Story of Popular Music' and set about interviewing and filming all the major players in the industry at that time, past and present. Even in the mid-70s this was seen as a monumental task, but despite the scale of the undertaking, Tony Palmer made a series of films that set the standard to which all subsequent biographers and documentary makers aspired to.
Shown at the 1984 Cannes Film festival and BAFTA nominated for best original screenplay 'Comfort and Joy' is 'a war about wafers'! Alan 'Dicky' Bird thinks he has a pretty good life. He's Glasgow's top DJ with a nice apartment and girlfriend Maddy. However when Maddy decides to leave him Alan suddenly realises how much she was a part of his life. On a friend's advice he decides to start afresh and try to find another girlfriend. After following a beautiful girl into the suburb
Barkos, Wagos, and their fearless leader, Dogtanion embark on a dangerous journey to save Christmas after their presents and tree are stolen by a sinister pair of burglars. With the help of a man they believe to be Santa Claus, the Dogateers must travel across the city to try and reclaim their presents in time for Christmas Eve!
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