Country Classics: Volumes 1 & 2
No brain no pain. A 60's leftover creates his own world called 'Hippyland'. His life gets turned upside down when he accidentally enters the real world.
Yet another serial killer drama, Knight Moves is perhaps a little too in love with its own ingenuity. Chess Grand Master Peter Sanderson (Christopher Lambert) finds himself, in the middle of a crucial tournament, challenged to a game whose rules he does not know, by a killer who will murder women until Sanderson stops him. The local police, headed by Sedman (Tom Skerrit), suspect this is actually a game Sanderson is playing with them; while Kathy, a woman profiler brought in on the case, finds herself falling in love with Sanderson but still suspecting him. None of the performances are more than competent and Lambert's aloof neurotic is perhaps less likable than was intended. Director Carl Schenkel is too fond of odd camera angles and garish lighting, but the end result is a moderately successful detective story for those who are fond of puzzles. On the DVD: Knight Moves is ungenerous with special features, providing a bare minimum of filmographies, photo gallery and trailer. It has a visual aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and Dolby Digital sound. --Roz Kaveney
A pre-code film that sneaked onto screens just as the censorious Hays Office began cracking down on Hollywood's racier propositions, Cleopatra is a libertine paean to decadence and depravity that can still send a viewer's mind reeling and pulse thumping - all courtesy of the Golden Age's swampiest psychosexual auteur, Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments; The Greatest Show on Earth; The King of Kings).Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night; The Palm Beach Story; Drums Along the Mohawk) presides over the most outrageous spectacle this side of The Scarlet Empress as the eponymous pharaoh queen who speeds from Julius Caesar (Warren William) to Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon), from Egypt to Rome, from war-room to bedroom... The whiff of incense permeates every scene, with each connected to the next in a veritable matrix of whips, blindfolds, and bindings - the crazed arrangement laying bare all the fetish inklings of the moving-picture dream.Lavishly produced with some of the most inspired waxing-moon photography and unwholesome set-design to come out of the studio system, DeMille's film is an erotic tour-de-force that obliges us to re-examine the appeal of this most popular of Hollywood directors. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Cleopatra on DVD.
There Are Three Sides To Every Story...Ours Theirs And The Truth An unconventional war story The Fallen explores the soldier's experience on the battlefield at the end of World War II - from three different points of view. Set in Northern Italy this film humanizes the everyday gritty lives of German Italian and American troops simultaneously.
Tipped by The Guardian Guide as The future of comedy Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim star in this weird absurd and hilariously surreal sketch comedy show inspired by Saturday Night Live's Mr. Show and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Tim & Eric has a public access TV feel combined with cheesy 80s graphics laced with spoof ads and comedy songs in the same vein as Flight of the Conchords. Tim & Eric is packed with A-list cameos including Michael Cera (Superbad) and Jeff Goldblum (The Fly). The show features several recurring sketches such as Uncle Muscles Hour a cable access variety program hosted by a gravelly-voiced Weird Al Yankovic and a News respondent on the Anchorman styles Channel 5 Married News Team'' starring John C. Reilly (Stepbrothers) as reporter Dr. Steve Brule.
The complete second series of perhaps the funniest sketch show to air during the 1980s on British TV!
2000 Acres Of Sky continues with eight more episodes from this very popular Drama Series. Can a beautiful friendship turn to romance? In series two the charade is over between Abby and Kenny who posed as husband and wife for a new life on the beautiful scottish island of Ronansay. When Abby's releationship with the local fish farmer intensifies Kenny watches the woman he has spent a lifetime waiting for give her heart to someone else. However the friendship that has already s
As twenty-four hour darkness descends upon the small town of Revelstoke Alaska local barber Dexter Miles knows all too well the signs of an approaching winter. But it's while cutting Sheriff Corgan's hair that he is surprised to overhear that the body of Lucy Walters has been found a woman he murdered days prior and hoped no one would find until the spring. When FBI Agent Crawley arrives in Dexter's sleepy town the barber finds an excitement and resolve he hasn't experienced in
When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, 17-year-old Joshua J Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty is J's manipulative grandmother, Janine Smurf Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons: adopted right-hand man Barry Baz; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive Craig; and troubled baby, Deran. As J copes with losing his mom, aggressive rivalry between his uncles, and a helpful high school teacher, his new family incites more danger, excitement and trouble than he's ever known. Emmy® Award winner* Ellen Barkin rules over a fiercely talented ensemble cast in all 10 episodes of this edgy, crime-fueled series based on the award-winning Australian film of the same name.
No-one Gets Out Alive! Based on the true story of the Texas ""slave ranch"" a war veteran drifts through Texas on collision course with a nightmare. Still haunted by the evils of war Trevor is confronted with the brutal homegrown evil of the Broderick family at Hoboken Hollow a remote Hill Country ranch that many visit but few ever leave.
In a mountain town dominated by a huge dam, several people of different ages and backgrounds, all disoriented, are trying to back home. They do not yet know they have been dead for several years, they have not aged and that no one expected them. Determined to regain a place that no longer exists, they gradually discover that they are not the only ghosts and that their return is linked to growing disturbances. And if it was only the beginning of a major upheaval over yet?
Featuring a full review of the 2006 - 2007 Season
In 1936 'The Garden Of Allah' was billed as Selznick's showcase for Technicolour. It turned out to be a visually stunning film with vibrant colour realism seldom seen in pictures. Bizarrely the film was not nominated for Best Picture Oscar as the Academy felt that 'its natural beauty would outpoint conventional product'. Now fully restored and digitally re-mastered it still looks wonderful even by today's standards Marlene Dietrich is Domini a young heiress who journeys to t
Taped as a lavish cable television special in 1997, One Night Only trades on the Bee Gees' shape-shifting career as pop survivors. Over the course of 111 minutes, this straightforward concert, produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and groomed for both video and CD posterity, sprints through 31 songs from their past three decades. Even after the inevitable disco jokes are expended, and the jaundiced viewer contemplates the role hats, hairspray, and comb-overs now play in dressing the once stylishly long-haired troika, the Gibb brothers' signature vocal harmonies and hook-laden song craft beg respect.Casual listeners can't be blamed for equating the Bee Gees with the dance floor bonanza they reaped through 1978's Saturday Night Fever, yet that commercial zenith was actually the culmination of a comeback for a group that had seemed washed up by the early 1970s. One Night Only thankfully takes an even-handed view of both their original late 1960s hits ("Massachusetts", "To Love Somebody", "Lonely Days"), building from a cannily Beatle-browed vocal sound, and the 1970s blue-eyed soul ("Jive Talkin'", "Nights on Broadway") that led them naturally into disco. The Fever hits are here, as are Gibb originals that clicked for other acts; the family circle also widens for a posthumous duet with their late brother, Andy Gibb, while Celine Dion gets star billing in the collaborative "Immortality". --Sam Sutherland
When the FBI unwittingly kill the wrong brother 'Scarface' Al Capone (Abraham) tracks down the real John Dillinger (Sheen) in hiding and forces him to plan one final bank heist. With his wife and son held by the Mob John must make a success of his biggest bank job to date...
When Willy Fog accepts a wager from four fellow members of the Reform Club to travel around the world in 80 days he cannot have forseen what lies in store for him. Travelling with his valet Rigodon and the tiny Tico Fog believes that his journey against the clock is possible using only scheduled train and shipping services. But two unknown enemies are determined to stop him. One enemy is the disguise artist Transfer who has been hired by Sullivan - one of the club members who bet
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Husband and wife doctors Paul and Kim Jordan need a drastic change. Distraught by the inexplicable death of their baby, Paul (C. Thomas Howell) convinces Kim to abandon their American lives and join a medical mission in Thailand. It seems to be just the distraction they need, until the day Paul is kidnapped by human traffickers who need a surgeon to operate on their wounded leader. Kim is left alone in a strange country, trying desperately to find her husband with no proof of what happened. While captive on the gang's secluded island, Paul is caged with Malcolm Andrews (John Rhys-Davies), an Englishman being held for ransom. With nothing to do but talk, the two men quickly clash over philosophy, as Malcolm relies on a bold faith in God and Paul believes no god would allow these evils to happen in the world. Paul takes another hit when he finds his patient's condition much worse than he can handle on his own in such primitive conditions...
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