Following The Exorcist, Oscar-winner director Willaim Friedkin returned with another classic tale of supernatural horror in The Guardian.Phil and Kate are a young couple living an idyllic life in their LA home. When Kate become pregnant with their first child they begin the search for a nanny to care for their new born. The lovely young Camilla seems like the perfect candidate for the live-in role. She's a beautiful woman who devotes herself to looking after the baby, but it soon becomes apparent the nanny is not all she seems... Bonus Features: Return to the Genre: An interview with director William Friedkin The Nanny: An interview with star Jenny Seagrove Don't go in the Woods: An interview with Co-Writer Stephan Volk
The Suicide Squad is sent on a mission to retrieve a mystical object so powerful, they're willing to risk their own lives to steal it for themselves.
A big Oscar winner in 1975, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest still holds up remarkably well. Ken Kesey's novel, an allegory of repression and rebellion set in a mental hospital in the early 1960s, is cannily adapted by Czech director Milos Forman into a comedy drama with a cool, unassuming, near-documentary look. Jack Nicholson has his most jacknicholsonian role as Randle P McMurphy, a livewire troublemaker who unwisely cons his way out of prison and into a mental institution without realising he has switched from serving a sentence with a release date to being committed until adjudged sane by the same people he is winding up on a daily basis. Louise Fletcher, in a career-defining turn, is Nurse Ratched, the soft-spoken sadist who represents the worst type of matronly authoritarianism and clashes with Randle all down the line. Taking another look at the picture after all these years, it's a surprise that all the unknown actors who seemed like real mental patients have graduated to becoming prolific character actor stars: Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, Brad Dourif, the late Will Sampson, Sidney Lassick, Michael Berryman. Unlike many Best Picture Oscar winners, this deals with profound subject matter without seeming self-important: Forman's approach and all-round great acting make it play as a small character story as well as a Big Statement about the human condition. Full marks also for Jack Nitzsche's musical saw-based score. On the DVD: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes to DVD in a two-disc special edition with a great-looking anamorphic 1.85:1 print and 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack, plus tracks in French and Italian and optional subtitles in half a dozen languages. Disc 2 has the trailer, about 13 minutes of deleted scenes (mostly from the first third of the film, and all pretty good) and a making-of retrospective documentary with interesting material from producers Michael Douglas (who inherited the rights from Kirk) and Saul Zaentz, Forman, screenwriter Bo Goldman and many cast-members (though not Nicholson). There's also a commentary track by Forman, Douglas and others which repeats a few things from the documentary but also goes into more scene-specific detail about the development and shooting. --Kim Newman
From executive producer Michael Mann (Heat Collateral) comes the first season of the explosive groundbreaking detective show that redefined the word ""cool."" Set against the seamy and steamy Miami underworld ride shotgun with suave Vice cops Sonny Crockett (Golden Globe winner Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (Phillip Michael Thomas) as they battle a never-ending gallery of criminals drug dealers and lowlifes. Episodes comprise: 1. Brother's Keeper (Parts 1 & 2) 2. Heart of Darkness 3. Cool Runnin' 4. The Hit List 5. Calderone's Demise 6. One-Eyed Jack 7. No Exit (a.k.a. Three-Eyed Turtle) 8. The Great McCarthy 9. Glades 10. Give a Little Take a Little 11. Little Prince 12. The Milk Run 13. Golden Triangle (Part 1) (a.k.a. Score) 14. Golden Triangle (Part 2) 15. Smuggler's Blues 16. Rites of Passage 17. The Maze 18. Made for Each Other 19. The Home Invaders 20. Nobody Lives Forever 21. Evan 22. Lombard 23. The Prodigal Son (1 & 2) 24. Whatever Works 25. Out Where The Buses Don't Run 26. The Dutch Oven 27. Buddies 28. Junk Love 29. Tale of the Goat 30. Bushido 31. Bought and Paid For 32. Back in the World 33. Phil the Shill 34. Definitely Miami 35. Yankee Dollar 36. One Way Ticket 37. Little Miss Dangerous 38. Florence Italy 39. French Twist 40. The Fix 41. Payback 42. Free Verse 43. Trust Fund Pirates 44. Son and Lovers 45. When Irish Eyes Are Crying 46. Stone's War 47. Kill Shot 48. Walk-Alone 49. The Good Collar 50. Shadow in the Dark 51. El Viejo 52. Better Living Through Chemistry 53. Baby Blues 54. Streetwise 55. Forgive Us Our Debts 56. Down for the Count: Part 1 57. Down for the Count: Part 2 58. Cuba Libre 59. Savage 60. Theresa 61. The Afternoon Plane 62. Lend Me an Ear 63. Red Tape 64. By Hooker by Crook 65. Knock Knock Who's There? 66. Viking Bikers from Hell 67. Everybody's in Showbiz... 68. Heroes of the Revolution 69. Contempt of Court 70. Amen...Send Money 71. Death and the Lady 72. The Big Thaw 73. Child's Play 74. God's Work 75. Missing Hours 76. Like a Hurricane 77. The Rising Sun of Death 78. Love at First Sight 79. A Rock and a Hard Place 80. The Cows of October 81. Vote of Confidence 82. Baseballs of Death 83. Indian Wars 84. Honor Among Thieves? 85. Hell Hath No Fury 86. Badge of Dishonor 87. Blood & Roses 88. A Bullet for Crockett 89. Deliver Us from Evil 90. Mirror Image 91. Hostile Takeover (3) 92. Redemption in Blood (4) 93. Heart of Night 94. Bad Timing 95. Borrasca 96. Line of Fire 97. Asian Cut 98. Hard Knocks 99. Fruit of the Poison Tree 100. To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance) 101. Miami Squeeze 102. Jack of All Trades 103. The Cell Within 104. The Lost Madonna 105. Over the Line 106. Victim of Circumstance 107. Freefall (1 & 2) 108. World of Trouble 109. Miracle Man 110. Leap of Faith 111. Too Much Too Late
This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well) but it retains its original power, sense of daring and epochal impact. -- Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
The classic 8-part BBC series from 1980 arrives on DVD for the very first time. God's Wonderful Railway follows three generations of the Grant family working on the Great Western branch line. Split into three different stories : 'The Permanent Way' is told during the construction of the line in the reign of Queen Victoria, 'Clear Ahead' shows us the line operating during Edwardian times. The final part, 'Fire on the Line' shows us the Second World War and how the Grant family and the line fair in that troubled time. Features subtitles for the Hard of Hearing. Cast includes: June Brown (Eastenders), Gordon Kaye ('Allo 'Allo) and Gerard Kelly. Extras: On location with God's Wonderful Railway (24 minutes) - The Making of the Series. Blue Peter feature looking at the engines used in the filming of the series. (14mins)
Australia, 1942, World War II. Kathy (Debbie Byrne) is a performer in a Quonset hut saloon where she entertains the troops. One night after a performance, Kathy throws a party and meets Marine Sergeant Rebel (Matt Dillon).Injured in battle and recuperating in Australia, Rebel has gone AWOL, determined to leave the war far behind and escape via a cargo ship. Yet as he waits for the boat that will take him to freedom, the two begin to fall in love.A classic World War II heart-warming musical.
Charlie And Lola: I Can't Stop Hiccupping! And Other Stories
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Henry Cavill and special guest Joely Richardson star in the thrilling final season of The Tudors the epic drama about the life loves and lusts of England's most notorious King. King Henry VIII marries his fifth wife seventeen-year-old Catherine Howard a mischievous beauty who ignites the passion of both the King and his chamber groom setting up a deadly love triangle. Spun into a midlife crisis Henry remarries and embarks on a war with France to capture Boulogne and symbolically recapture his youth. At home the battle between Catholics and Protestants escalates when Henry's beloved sixth wife is charged with heresy. Now Henry in his growing madness must determine her fate while securing the legacy of his magnificent reign.
The Malay Peninsula, 1945- The prisoner-of-war camp on Blood Island is commanded by the brutal Colonel Yamamitsu (Ronald Radd) and his sadistic henchman, Captain Sakamura (Marne Maitland). Aware that his war crimes will condemn him, Yamamitsu has vowed to slaughter all his prisoners if Japan surrenders. Inmates Colonel Lambert (Andre Morell) and Piet Van Elst (Carl Mohner) discover that the war is over. They desperately try to keep the fact secret from their captors in the hope that the camp will be liberated. Lambert struggles to maintain discipline while his men, and the women held captive in a neighbouring compound, fight for their lives... Special Features: Picture Gallery 24-page illustrated booklet by Hammer Films This Official UK DVD is Region 2,4,5
One interesting thing about Cleopatra 2525 is that it works far better on video or DVD than as a weekly television show, because the action in the tightly packed half-hour episodes is so fast and furious that you can miss crucial developments in the admittedly simple plots just by nipping into the kitchen to put the kettle on. Furthermore, despite appearances, the scripts do allow for character development, but this has to be delivered in snippets rather than dollops. Far better, then, to settle down with a large pizza and watch the several episodes back to back like this. There's no shortage of humour in this camp post-apocalypse shoot-em-up-fest. Cleopatra is a dippy exotic dancer who suffers complications during surgery for a boob job! Placed in cryogenic suspension until such time as medical science can help her, she wakes up in the year 2525 to find a world seemingly dominated by plot ideas stolen from classic sci-fi movies such as The Terminator--humanity has been driven underground in a world ruled by machines, morphing androids are used as spies etc. etc. etc.--where she's "adopted" by a couple of firm-midriffed female resistance fighters who take their orders from a mysterious voice (called Voice). It's all great fun and the action and effects are excellent (especially the airborne robot thingies). --Roger Thomas
More outrageously bonkers animated adventures with Spongebob! Episodes: 1. Sponge Guard on Duty 2. Naughty Nautical Neighbours 3. Walking Small 4. Pressure 5. Jellyfish Hunter 6. Nasty Patty 7. Doing Time 8. Clams
A 4 disc box set featuring a quartet of the finest films starring motormouth funnyman Richard Pryor! R.I.P Ritchie... Car Wash ((Dir. Michael Schultz 1976): An earthy irreverent but affectionate look at a typical day in Los Angeles car wash! An ensemble piece which interweaves the lives of employees customers and passers-by Car Wash stars a galaxy of gifted actors most of whom are relatively unknown to movie goers and spotlights an array of guest stars in vivid cameo rol
Set in Edwardian England, Horatio Fisk has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric professor, they start an extraordinary journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
An Evening of Wonders: Recorded at the Garrick Theatre in London at the end of his sold-out nationwide tour and West End run Derren's last televised show saw him walk on glass and this one promises to be even more thrilling. The internationally acclaimed psychological illusionist takes the theatre audience and viewers on a jaw-dropping laugh-out-loud journey to a climax of the most astonishing mind-reading. This is Derren at his best: funny energised and a master of audience control. The show features plenty of audience participation shocking stunts and mind games as Derren demonstrates why he is one of the country's most exciting live performers. Something Wicked This Way Comes: As a live performer his shows have played to sell-out audiences across the UK and in 2006 Something Wicked This Way Comes won the Olivier Award in the Best Entertainment category. At the end of its second and final year of touring around the UK this one-man Stage Show was specially re-staged at The Old Vic in London. This DVD features that special performance and captures Derren at his hilarious dramatic and spell-binding best. Derren takes the live theatre audience on a journey of psychological persuasion lie-detection scepticism sumliminal imagery and Victorian-style pain control. The finale of the show is a tour-de-force of prediction influence and showmanship that leaves the audience begging for more. Enigma: Beeprepared for a once-in-a-lifetime theatrical experience when the master of psychological illusion returns to the stage with Derren Brown: Enigma. Derren will once again bewilder baffle and bewitch and show why he is one of the country's most revered live performers; a master of magic mind control and psychological illusion.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD in order to play.
Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander star in this one-hour action thriller from Berlanti Productions (The Flash, Arrow) and writer/executive producer Martin Gero. Stapleton stars as hardened FBI agent Kurt Weller, who is drawn into a complex conspiracy when a mysterious woman, with no memories of her past, is found in Times Square her body completely covered in intricate cryptic tattoos. As Weller and his teammates at the FBI -- Edgar Reade, Tasha Zapata and the tech-savvy Patterson -- begin to investigate the veritable road map of Jane Doe's tattoos, they are drawn into a high-stakes underworld that twists and turns through a labyrinth of secrets and revelations -- with the information exposing a larger conspiracy of crime, while bringing her closer to discovering the truth about her identity.
Very few films achieve subliminal greatness with cross-cultural impact, but Walkabout is one of those films--a visual tone poem that functions more as an allegory than a conventionally plotted adventure. Considered a cult favourite for years, Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film centres upon two British children who are rescued in the Australian outback by a young aborigine. Through exquisite cinematography and a story of subtle human complexity, the film continues to resonate on many thematic and artistic levels. Just as Roeg intended, it is a cautionary morality tale in which the limitations and restrictions of civilisation become painfully clear when the two children (played by Jenny Agutter and Roeg's young son, Lucien John) cannot survive without the aborigine's assistance. They become primitives themselves, if only temporarily, while the young aborigine proves ultimately and tragically unable to join the "family" of civilisation. With its story of two worlds colliding, Walkabout now seems like a film for the ages, hypnotic and open to several compelling levels of interpretation. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Welcome to the schol of hard knocks. Ben a struggling teacher in his 30s is desperately trying to get his life back in order to win back his ex-wife. After abundant struggle and a haunting past an old friend gets him a teaching position at Riker's Island Prison. Meanwhile Gabriel a 17-year-old drug-dealer is arrested and sent to the same prison. Ben is having terrible luck with his teaching program and is given an ultimatum that he must have more students or the program w
Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Ewan McGregor star in this British drama set in Cornwall. As he approaches his thirties skilled surfer JC (Pertwee) considers settling down with his girlfriend, Chloe (Zeta-Jones), who has ambitions to own a cafe. However, the arrival of his friends from London prompt him to take on more surfing challenges and relive his hedonistic days of youth. But will his relationship with Chloe survive if this behaviour continues?
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