Based on Jonathan Swift's literary classic this was one of the first feature films to combine live action with animation.
Dr. Peter Houseman is a brilliant geneticist who is working on a serum which will stop human aging but his colleagues don't believe in his work. When his university funding is threatened by his sceptical benefactors the doctor takes a desperate measure to justify his work. He administers the serum to himself but the results are unexpected and horrendous.
Cult director Jean Rollin's first feature mixes existentialism and vampirism with the added ingredient of chaos. Originally made as a short it was expanded to a feature length with the dead cast inexplicably returning to life half-way through (having been killed off at the end of the original). That said 'Le Viol du Vampire' is a masterpiece of the bizarre mixing blood a naked woman in a convertable coffins and some fencing semi-naked nymphs in a fragmented melee. When originally screened in Paris in 1968 the film caused a riot due to its' audacious imagery...
Ebenezer: (Fullscreen 4:3 / English - Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo / Cert. PG) In this an exhilarating Wild West version of Dickens' classic 'A Christmas Carol' Scrooge (Palance) is a miserable card-cheating miser who owns half the town until visited by the ghosts of Christmas past present and future... A Kid Called Danger: (Fullscreen 4:3 / English - Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo / Cert. PG) 13 year old Dano wants to be a cop just like hi dad. He gets just such an opportunity when he plunges head first into the case of a highly wanted jewel thief whose crimes even the police can not solve... Little Heroes: (Fullscreen 4:3 / English - Dolby (2.0) Stereo / Cert. U) When young Charlie's parents go on a long trip he and his home are protected from the intrusion of two thugs by the hilarious antics of his pet dogs Samson and Hercules... Gulliver's Travels: (Fullscreen 4:3 / English - Dolby (1.0) mono / Cert. U) Based on Jonathan Swift's literary classic the live action/animation features Richard Harris as Lemuel Gulliver who encounters a series of adventures after being shipwrecked...
The second series of the self titles sketch show from Catherine Tate. Return for another dose of the instantly recognisable characters from the Hollywood actress with an over-enthusiastic penchant for botox to the screaming housewife who hollers every time her toast jumps from the toaster. Characters from everyday life are parodied to the extreme as the talented actress morphs through ages accents and wigs.
A Highland fling on a tight little island! The Scottish islanders of Todday bypass war time rationing and delight in smuggling cases of their favourite tipple from a wrecked ship... Basil Radford stars as the teetotal English official who is totally unable to comprehend the significance of whisky to the islanders. Marvellously detailed and well played it firmly established the richest Ealing vein with the common theme of a small group triumphing over a more powerful opponent.
Versailles, 1672-1678. The Franco-Dutch war wages on, Louis XIV (George Blagden) confronts his bitter rival, Guillaume d'Orange. But danger threatens even inside the kingdom, within the court of Versailles itself with the Poison scandal. Between mysticism and obscurity, a dive into the dark side of power, with the king's downward spiral, and his return towards the light.Louis has completed the first stage of his plan: to build the most beautiful palace in Europe, far away from Paris...And to lock the nobility inside it so as to exercise absolute control over it. But his plan backfires. Louis has created a new civilisation where the courtiers are ready to do anything to get to the Sun. Behind the veneer of etiquette, they dream of money, power, and climbing the social ladder. They will do whatever they have to: morality is waning, and poison spreads...Versailles is rotting. Blinded by his affection for Madame de Montespan, Louis is deaf to the Church's injunctions. The greatest enemy standing before him is no longer the nobility, nor is it Guillaume d'Orange: the palace that he himself designed could end up becoming his worst enemy.
Chucky returns after the events of Curse of Chucky to continue terrorizing his wheelchair-prone human victim, Nica. Meanwhile, the killer doll has some scores to settle with his old enemies, with the help of his former wife.
It's 1939, Max and Leon are inseparable friends and both utterly immature and foolish. Thrown into the middle of WWII, their sole objective quickly becomes to desert their platoon and return home to their home town, their old simple life and their wine-drinking ways. But the harder they attempt to escape, the more they find themselves drawn into history in the making, all the way to the beaches of Normandy.
While researching an urban legend on feral children, three friends find themselves trapped in an abandoned high school, where they are confronted with an evil more sinister than the legend itself.
Stunningly restored for the 50th anniversary, BELLE DE JOUR is an elegant and erotic masterpiece and undoubtedly Luis Buñuel's most accessible film. Screen icon Catherine Deneuve plays Séverine, the glacially beautiful, sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon, whose blood runs icy with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Clémenti), and ignites an obsession that will court peril. Buñuel uses diffused lighting, dark colours, and shadows throughout the film to temper the gravity and emotional impact of each uncomfortable scene. Left to our own imaginative devices, the result is a film that is highly unsettling, perverse, and inevitably tragic. SPECIAL FEATURES: The Last Script A Story of Perversion or Emancipation? Interview with Dr Sylvain Mimoun Commentary by Professor Peter W. Evans NEW Interview with Jean-Claude Carrière NEW Masterclass with Diego Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carrière NEW Trailer INCLUDES 6 ARTCARDS
With a title like Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, you'd be excused from any great expectations here--but you'd also be missing out on one of trash-cinema's great pleasures: catching one of Hollywoood's A-list in their pre-fame days. In this case, the catch is Billy Bob Thornton, in a brief appearance as one of the Chopper Chicks' ex-husbands. It may be a guilty pleasure, but seeing this good 'ol boy playing dumb-as-a-doorknob long before Sling Blade (or A Simple Plan) and paying his dues is still, however strangely, gratifying. As for the film itself, Chopper Chicks is no Hell Comes to Frogtown, but it comes with all of the Troma hallmarks. The requisite beheadings and low-grade effects are all present and correct, along with the so-bad-it's-really-bad dialogue (except for the occasional so-bad-it's-good one-liner). The acting is wooden, the story negligible (cycle sluts come to town, kill zombies, save a schoolbus full of blind kids), and even the appearances by Thornton and original MTV (US) VJ Martha Quinn provide only occasional relief. The DVD extras include a photo gallery of screen-stills and the original trailer. --Randy Silver
Performed by Kings College Choir Cambridge and the The Brandeburg Consort (leader Roy Goodman). Conducted by Stephen Cleobury and filmed at King's College Chapel.
Breaching Navy orders, the submarine USS Ulysses rescues five survivors of a shipwreck hundreds of miles from land. Once on board they become ruthless terrorists and hold the world hostage by threatening to unleash the sub's thermonuclear arsenal. Only one man can save the world from a nuclear holocaust!
Danielle is a malicious and mischievous old lady who mistreats her housekeeper to an early grave. So when she moves in with her nephew and his wife the fun really starts! With the family close to insanity they take off for a holiday leaving Danielle in the care of a cantankerous au pair in whom Danielle may just have met her match! Etienne Chatiliez's jet-black comedy nominated for three Cesar awards in France.
Winner of 6 Oscars, including Best Picture, and based on the hit Broadway musical, CHICAGO is a dazzling spectacle cheered by audiences and critics alike. At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and spotlight seeking Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) both find themselves sharing space on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. But in Chicago, there's only room for one legend!
Against a backdrop of ever-shifting loyalties, uneasy alliances and ancient hostilities, the conflict between the Republic and the Separatists ramps up, setting the stage for Darth Sidious' ultimate act of treachery against the Jedi. In these uncertain times, some of the deepest mysteries of the light and dark sides of the Force are revealed as an intrepid clone trooper uncovers a shocking conspiracy, Anakin Skywalker's closest relationship is tested to its limits, and Master Yoda makes a discovery that could forever change the balance of power in the galaxy. Complete your collction and experience all the wonder, intrigue, action and suspenseas this thrilling chapter of the Star Wars sage comes home on DVD for the first time! Special Features The Clone Wars Declassified
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