George and Mildred was a spin-off from Johnny Mortimer and Brian Cookes successful 1970s sitcom Man About the House, and ran from 1976 to 1980. This release features the first six episodes. Starring the late, great Yootha Joyce as Mildred Roper, a sex-starved cockney housewife with pretensions to the middle classes, and Brian Murphy as George, her hopeless and incorrigible husband, this series sees them make the upward move to posh Middlesex suburbia, despite George being on supplementary benefit--mortgage conditions were evidently easier in 70s sitcomland. Their neighbours are snooty estate agent Jeffrey Fourmile, his wife Ann and son Tristram. Jeffrey is perturbed that the Ropers arrival will lower the tone of the neighbourhood ("Tristram will get nits!") as they stink up the street with their three-wheel car and cheap wartime furniture. Much mildly amusing comedy at the expense of the working/middle class divide ensues, with no double-entendre left unturned and some period gags to match the Ropers interior decor. Situations involving a local MP, Mildreds even snobbier sister and an unsightly caravan brought out the best in Joyce and Murphys excellent characters, while Nicholas Owen as Tristram was among the least annoying of child sitcom stars. --David Stubbs
Phoebe MacNamara one of the best hostage negotiators in the business meets Duncan Swift when she has to talk a suicidal jumper off a building ledge. Hesitant to enter a relationship due to the demands of single motherhood and her job Phoebe ultimately allows herself to fall in love with him. A psychopathic killer however threatens her new found happiness and she must face him in a final showdown.
Directed by Chuck Parello, who had previously worked on Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer, Ed Gein is an in-depth psychological profile of the figure who served as inspiration for "Psycho", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Silence of the Lambs."
Dante and Randal return in this sequel to Kevin Smith's seminal slacker classic.
Their first mistake was stealing a corpse... Their second was waking him up. Meet Bud The CHUD a Cannabilistic Humanoid Undeground Dweller. He has all the charm of Cary Grant the searing sexuality of James Dean the greatest talent discovery since Patrick Swayze. It's Hallowe'en and this CHUD's for you!
Lavish all-action dramatic spectacles based on the lives of six men who shaped the world around them either by sheer force of will genius courage or even greed. Powerful magnetic personalities who have earned their place in the world's imagination all prepared to die for what they believed in - whether it was God or gold the pursuit of power and glory or a magnificent ideal. From Spartacus the gladiator who brought Rome to its knees to the audacious military genius Napoleon this series combines absorbing drama with CGI to ask what were the motives the strengths and even the weaknesses that drove these men to achieve what no one else had dared. The amazing stories of Hernan Cortez Attila the Hun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Richard the Lionheart are also included.
Aaron a young misfit in a remote Scottish community is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition the village blames him for this tragedy making him an outcast amongst his own people. Steadfastly refusing to believe his brother is dead and possessed by grief madness and magic Aaron sets out to recover him.
""The Killer"" captured live at London's Hammersmith Odeon at the height of his powers. Includes all his classics and features special guest appearances by Van Morrison Dave Edmunds Brian May (Queen) John Lodge (Moody Blues) Dave Davies (Kinks) and Stuart Adamson (Big Country). Tracklist 01: I Am What I Am 02: Don't Want To Be Lonely Tonight 03: You Win Again 04: I've Got A Woman 05: Goodnight Irene 06: What I'd Say 07: High School Confidential 08: Rockin' My Life Away 09: Johnny B Goode 10: Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On 11: Great Balls Of Fire 12: Good Golly Miss Molly / Tutti Frutt... 13: Mexicali Rose 14: Wild One
Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater star in the new film from action supremo John Woo as two U.S. Marines in WWII assigned to protect Navajo Marines who know a secret radio code.
This John Irvin film is a small, hard-edged little gem, full of crisp action and tough-minded codes of honour. Harvey Keitel stars as a retired professional criminal whose younger brother (Timothy Hutton) lures him to Los Angeles for a can't-miss heist in Palm Springs. But Hutton hasn't picked his other partners very well, particularly wheelman Stephen Dorff: when it's time to divvy up the spoils, Dorff kills Hutton and a fourth partner and tries to rub out Keitel. Keitel escapes, however, and trails Dorff back to L.A., where he also figures out which Chinese mob he's tied in with. It's strictly revenge time from there on out, with Keitel as the one-man wrecking crew cutting a bloody swathe through the L.A. underworld. Keitel is grittily good, a man of few words and many bullets, while Dorff is an enjoyably sleazy psychopath. A violently propulsive little film noir. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
A likeable drifter whose talents lie just outside the law heads to Hawaii for a change of scenery but soon discovers that whether he is looking for a new con or a little romance, temptation is everywhere.
The Concert for New York City took place at New York's Madison Square Gardens six weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As presented here, with about five hours of musical performances and celebrity cameos, it was a frequently awkward affair: the traditional fatuous jollity of American show business ceremonies is not, perhaps, the ideal medium for articulating the feelings engendered by the kind of tragedy America had just suffered. It is often evident--and actually quite endearingly so--that the film and television stars who appear here feel somewhat foolish accepting applause while standing alongside the members of New York's Police and Fire departments who take the stage to offer brief tributes to fallen comrades (it would be nice, but naïve, to believe that September 11 caused our celebrity-obsessed culture to redraft its parameters of heroism). The performances captured here are mostly pretty good, though David Bowie's opening, with an eerie and affecting take on Paul Simon's "America", followed by a rumbustious "Heroes", sets a standard not subsequently matched. The short films by New York directors are also worth seeing, especially Kevin Smith's daringly funny New Jersey perspective (the concert's only other overt attempts at humour misfire woefully--especially the toe-curling George W Bush impersonator). However, the concert is principally of interest as a document of a moment in history, rather than as a musical artefact. All of what America felt, for better and for worse, in the immediate wake of September 11, is on view here: sorrow, defiance, pride and, as Richard Gere famously discovered when he suggested that perhaps there were more constructive responses than carpet-bombing Third World basket-cases, anger. On the DVD: The Concert for New York Cityhas a viewing option which screens out everything except the musical performances. Sound is available in Dolby 5.1 Surround and PCM Stereo. --Andrew Mueller
A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in the English countryside two of the crew members have disappeared. The third who is barely alive undergoes a quite terrifying transformation which threatens Earth...
On 20 August 2005 on what would have been his 56th birthday a statue of Phil Lynott was unveiled in Dublin's Grafton Street by his mother. There to witness the event were members of Thin Lizzy from throughout the band's career. Later that evening they joined forces under the leadership of Gary Moore for a concert that paid tribute to Phil Lynott's memory. The core band of Moore Jethro Tull bass player Jonathan Noyce and Thin Lizzy's one and only drummer Brian Downey were joined by the stellar guitar talents of Brian Robertson Scott Gorham and Eric Bell for a set of Lizzy and Gary Moore classics. Tracklisting: 1. Walking By Myself 2. Jailbreak 3. Don't Believe A Word 4. Emerald (with Brian Robertson) 5. Still In Love With You (with Brian Robertson) 6. Black Rose (with Scott Gorham) 7. Cowboy Song (with Scott Gorham) 8. The Boys Are Back In Town (with Scott Gorham) 9. Whiskey In The Jar (with Eric Bell) 10. Old Town / Parisienne Walkways
In the fight for freedom you have to break the rules. When anti-apartheid activist Shack Twala (Poitier) is freed from prison he quickly runs into trouble with the police. British engineer Keogh (Caine) helps Twala elude a sadistic government official (Nicol Williamson) but as both men now fugitives race 900 miles to cross the border to safety they are drawn into a conspiracy much bigger and deadlier than they realize. Poitier and Caine make a wonderful 'buddy' act in t
Featuring the Legendary One-On-One Nunchaku Battle between Bruce Lee and Top Jeet Kune Do Instructor Dan Inosanto. Directed by Enter the Dragon's Robert Clouse the full uncut 1978 version features Bruce Lee as Billy Lo a martial arts master on the run from a vicious crime syndicate who will stop at nothing to secure his formidable talents. In addition is an incredible 40 minute edit of the amazing pagoda fight sequence in accordance with Bruce Lee's original script notes from 1972. Much of the footage featured was lost for over two decades. Special Features: Feature-length audio-commentary with Bey Logan Animated Biography Deleted Scenes
With 128 million worldwide album sales already under their collective belts, two OBE awards, a million neon lit 'Sold Out' signs, a record 108 appearances on Top of the Pops, this will never be beaten or even equalled! You'd think that HRH Prince Charles favourite band had nothing more to prove in the field of entertainment... But, they've never in all their long and glorious history been seen on a cinema screen...
Animated antics with Dennis the Menace. Episodes comprise: So Long Old Paint Trembly Assembly Private I A Visitor From Outer Space Train That Boy Genie Madness Cheer Up Ghostblusters The Life You Save Shark Treatment Jungle Bungle Racetrack Menace All The President's Menace The Love Rowboat Wilson The Menace. Everybody's favourite human tornado Dennis Mitchell does not walk - he either runs or rides his bike. Dennis is on the go so much that he needs a new pair of sneakers every other week and his bicycle tyres need replacing monthly. His boundless energy enthusiasm and most of all curiosity are sometimes more than most people can take. But his heart is certainly in the right place...
Centuries in the future in the year After Colony 195 orbiting space colonies surrounds Earth. The colonists are cruelly oppressed by the Earth Alliance which deploys huge humanoid fighting machines called Mobile Suits to control the populace. Behind the tyranny is the secret society called 'Oz' which has infiltrated the Alliance military and steered it towards its repressive course. Now the space colonies are ready to strike back. Five young pilots equipped with advanced mobile suits called Gundams are sent to Earth to wage guerrilla war against Oz and its Alliance puppets. The war to decide humanity's destiny begins! Episodes include: The Whereabouts Of Happiness Bewildered Soldiers Catherine's Tears The Order To Destroy 01 To The Battlground - Antartica
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