Capitol Policeman John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx). Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news he takes her on a tour of the White House during which the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out it's up to Cale to save the president his daughter and the country. Co-starring Maggie Gyllenhaal Jason Clarke Richard Jenkins and James Woods.
Shirley Valentine: Shirley Bradshaw has always been able to see the funny side of any situation. She was a high-school rebel and now she's a housewife and mother who one day looks back at her life and realises that she has lost touch with her dreams. When her best friend wins a magazine contest and asks Shirley to accompany her on a fortnight's holiday in Greece Shirley begins a voyage of self-discovery. On the island of Mykonos as Shirley luxuriates among sun sand and taramasalata she encounters islander Costas Caldes and falls in love...with life! The First Wives Club: Marriage has turned into a crash dive for Brenda Cushman Elise Atchison and Annie Paradise. These three well-heeled Manhattan women chums during their college days all took different paths. Now they're reunited by catastrophe--each has just been callously dumped by her husband for a younger sexier trophy wife. Smarting from the pain Brenda Elise and Annie join forces and concoct a plan to exact the most exquisitely bitter vengeance upon their exes. War has been declared.
The second series of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin's relentlessly erudite drama about life behind the scenes at the White House, continues here with the emphasis on President Bartlet's multiple sclerosis, a condition that he has hitherto concealed from the American electorate and most of his staff. Tensions grow between himself and the First Lady (Stockard Channing) as she realises, in the episode "Third State of the Union" that he intends to run for a second term in office. It becomes clear to Bartlet (Martin Sheen) that he must go public with his MS, and his staff are forced to come to terms with this, as well as deal with the usual plethora of domestic and international incidents, which apparently preclude any of them from having any sort of private lives, least of all love lives. These include crises in Haiti and Columbia, an obstinate filibuster and a Surgeon General's excessively frank remarks about the drugs situation. Thankfully, the splendid Lord John Marbury (Roger Rees) is on hand to make chief of staff Leo McGarry's life more of a misery in "The Drop-In". These episodes, though occasionally marred by a sentimental soundtrack and an earnest and wishfully high regard for the Presidential office, are masterclasses in drama and dialogue, ranging from the wittily staccato to the magnificently grave, capturing authentically the hectic pace of political intrigue and the often vain efforts of decent, brilliant people to do the right thing. "Two Cathedrals", which features flashbacks to Bartlet's schooldays and his thunderous denunciation of God following a funeral, is perhaps the greatest West Wing episode of all. On the DVD: The West Wing, Series 2 Part 2 features no extras, though the transfer is immaculate. --David Stubbs
High flying corporate climber Julie Styron has to perform well at her next presentation to clinch the deal of a lifetime. When her new assistant Paula arrives late with her presentation materials Julie promptly fires her. However when the two meet by chance later in a hotel bar Julie attempts a reconciliation but Paula swiftly turns the tables on her. As the night progresses things take a dark turn as a complex battle of power authority and wits emerges.
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania a case that lasted seven years.
Part of a new collection of DVDs charting the outstanding range of Frank Sinatra's live performances. A man who put a unique stamp on the music of the 20th Century. Featuring many classic songs. Tracklist: Instrumental Medley of It Was A Very Good Year All The Way & My Kind Of Town The Lady Is A Tramp I Get A Kick Out Of You Let Me Try Again Autumn In New York I've Got You Under My Skin (Bad Bad) Leroy Brown Angel Eyes You Are The Sunshine Of My Life The House I L
Vince Vaughn and Kevin James headline an all-star comedy from director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer about a man who finds out that what you don't say to a friend is just as important as what you do.
Kirstie Alley the award-winning star of TV's Cheers plays a sassy outspoken single mother whose life is dominated by her brain-damaged son in this superb drama. Sally Goodman has spent 16 years caring for David. Previously believing that she would never be of use to anyone she now feels that he gives her life purpose. She meets his every need and has persuraded herself that she is the only one who can look after him an attitude that has driven away her husband and daughter and threatens her relationship with her sister and her new lover. Just as she attracts people with her vibrant wisecracking personality she also repels them with her outspokenness. But as time goes on can Sally really continue to live a life based more on her needs than on David's needs for the future?
Includes the tracks: 1. Grease 2. Summer Nights 3. Hopelessly Devoted To You 4. You're The One That I Want 5. Beauty School Drop Out 6. Stayin' Alive 7. How Deep Is Your Love 8. More Than A Woman 9. Jive Talkin' 10. Boogie Shoes
Sally Goodman (Kirstie Alley) wages a battle against the system when her disabled son David is offered the chance to live an independent life. Sally's devotion to her son has driven away both her husband and her daughter and has consumed all of her time. When a social worker (Phylicia Rashad) approaches her with the idea of sending David to a special school Sally can't bring herself to let her son go. Faced with the most difficult decision yet Sally must choose between a life she has built around her son and giving him his freedom.
Departing from the conventions of Hollywood story-telling 'Smoke' is constructed like an emotional jigsaw puzzle: pieces interweave and interconnect to form an intricate whole. Unrelated characters - a cigar store manager (Harvey Keitel) who has taken photographs in front of his store at the same hour every day for 14 years; a novelist (William Hurt) unable to go on writing after his wife is killed in a random act of street violence; a man (Forest Whitaker) who ran away from his past
Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in The White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving of recent American TV series. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable press spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lynam make up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. --David Stubbs
In this searing police thriller, Jonathan (Channing Tatum - G.I. Joe: Retaliation, 21 Jump Street) is a cop who gets in over his head when he is assigned to re-open a double homicide case in his Queens neighbourhood. An anonymous source feeds new information on the long-unsolved murders to a local reporter (Juliette Binoche). This leads to evidence suggesting a possible cover-up by the former lead detective (Al Pacino). As Jonathan digs deeper into the assignment, a dark secret about the case emerges, which threatens his life and his family. Also stars Tracy Morgan (30 Rock), Katie Holmes (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Batman Begins) and Ray Liotta.
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED Finding a girl when you re a nerdy science geek can be hard. But what happens if that special someone dies in a bizarre gardening accident and it s all your fault? Meet Jeffrey Franken. He s just killed the love of his life and now he s going to rebuild her... From the body parts of the dead streetwalkers who exploded when he introduced them to a lethal new drug Supercrack! Little does he know that a good recipe requires the correct ingredients. Jeffrey isn t putting his life back together; he s building... a FRANKENHOOKER! From the twisted imagination of Frank Henenlotter (Basketcase) and starring James Lorinz (Street Trash), comes a movie that pays a loving tribute to the worst excesses of the American Grindhouse. SPECIAL FEATURES: High definition digital transfer of the film Original mono Audio Introduction to the film by actor James Lorinz and director Frank Henenlotter Your Date s on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker: 'making of' documentary featuring director Frank Henenlotter, star James Lorinz and special effects artist Gabe Bartalos Original theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphries
A Roman epic adventure, based on the classic novel of the same name, set in the dangerous world of second-century Britain. In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Channing Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca (Jamie Bell), Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth
'Iron Maiden: The Legacy of the Beast' goes behind the music to discover what it took for this unlikely group of headbangers to remain Kings of the metal scene for over two decades (and counting!). Packed with interviews and backstage footage this documentary brings the full story of how this unlikely group became metal legends. *(Unathorised Documentary)
Robert Downey Jr stars in this coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s.
What The Universe Tells Me:Is a one-hour documentary exploring how music and philosophy combined to create an all-encompassing panoramic experience aimed at moving it audience toward personal and communal transformation.One of the largest and most ambitious symphonies ever composed. Mahler's Third requires off-stage instruments children's and women's choirs vocal soloist and a six-part scheme that incorporates folk poetry and philosophical text. The emotional charge of the work steadily mounts from the chaos of creation in the first movement to the summit the highest level from which the world can be surveyed in the last.From the volcanoes of the South Pacific to the Alpine peaks and meadows where Mahler composed dramatic images from the natural world give shape to the symphony's evolutionary saga. Performances combine with illustrative artwork computer animation historical film clips and the insights of world-renowned historians philosophers and biographers. Thinkers such as Howard Garder Stan Brakhage and Catherine Keller join Mahler experts Henry-Louis de La Grange Donald Mitchell Moten Solvik Peter Franklin and Edward Reilly to explore an artwork so rich and emotionally compelling that it mirrors the entire world!Featuring performances by Grammy nominated baritone Thomas Hampson internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Mignon Dunn and the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by Glen Cortese this double DVD set is a must for all music lovers and those new to the world of the symphony.
Anywhere But Here (Dir. Wayne Wang 2000): Adele is a flashy flirtatious dreamer. Her daughter Ann is a quiet no-nonsense realist. On the surface they're like oil and water but deep down they're two of a kind. ""Susan Sarandon makes magic"" (Chicago Tribune) and ""Natalie Portman soars"" (NY-1) in this funny and touching story about a mother who knows best...and a daughter who knows better! Where The Heart Is (Dir. Matt Williams 2000): Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman
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