See and hear The Sound of Music in a whole new way! A timeless cinematic treasure soars to new heights in this 45th anniversary edition. Digitally remastered for spectacular sound and pristine picture quality you've never seen or heard The Sound Of Music like this before! Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria a spirited young woman who leaves the convent to bring love and music to the home of Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) and his seven children.
A girl finds she is forced to educate herself on the etiquette of wooing the opposite sex when she finally meets Mr. Right.
Titles comprise: Best In Show: The tension is unmistakable the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air at the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show. Director Christopher Guest takes a hilarious look at dog show participants (and the pooches who love them). Meet the contestants - a fly-fishing bloodhound owner (Guest) Shih-Tzu-doting partners squabbling yuppie lawyers a bimbo trophy wife and her poodle handler and a married couple who dream up little ditties about terriers - all fighting for the 'Best in Show' prize. From the creators of 'This Is Spinal Tap' director Christopher Guest presents Golden Globe Nominee Best Picture 'Best In Show' a barking mad mockumentary! The Big Tease: If you've got it flaunt it. Or in the case of Scottish hairdresser Crawford Mackenzie snip curl tint shape and blow-dry it. Mackenzie's come from Glasgow to Los Angeles - with a documentary filmmaker in tow recording his journey - to compete in a stylists' competition for the prestigious Platinum Scissors Award. But the best-laid schemes of mousse and men go wrong. Mackenzie's invitation to the event is in error. 'The Big Tease' is big fun a fish-out-of-water tale teeming with charm and a hilariously satiric view of life in L.A. Craig Ferguson (The Drew Carey Show) heads a vibrant cast as Mackenzie the licensed-to-style hero determined to enter the contest and create a hairdo to claim those coveted shears. Mars Attacks!: Stars that shine across the galaxy. Jack Nicholson (in a dual role) Glenn Close Annette Bening Pierce Brosnan Danny DeVito and a dozen more. And mean green invaders from the angry red planet! Armed with insta-fry ray guns endowed with slimy humungous brains - and enlivened with out-of-this-world but state-of-the-art special effects. As the U.S. legislature is overwhelmed. (Don't fear we still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for us and that ain't bad!). As Earth fights back with an unexpected weapon. Take that Martians! Spies Like Us: They're double agents without a sneaking suspicion of their assignment. But if it has anything to do with comedy it's sure to be mission accomplished for Saturday Night Live alumni Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd romping through their first movie together. As two government desk jockeys who cheat their way through a civil-service entry exam and (incredibly) become globetrotting undercover operatives Aykroyd and Chase generate the verve and spontaneity of a Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road movie. (Indeed Hope turns up in a cameo golf club in hand.)
A triple bill from actor/writer/director Christopher Guest: Waiting For Guffman (1996): The sometimes dry sometimes bubbling satire of Middle America which chronicles Corky Corkoran's efforts to put on a spectacle commemorating the town of Blain's 150th anniversary. A mockumentary style film Corky drafts an odd assortment of local talent to bring his historical revue to life including the local dentist and a travel agent couple. The film spoofs the 'artistic' pretensions of
He's got ice in his veins and he's cold blooded: his name is Jack Frost. After five years of terror and 38 bodies in five states serial killer Jack is on his way to execution. But a freak accident with a truckload of genetic material in the middle of a snowstorm mutates Jack into a killer snowman. Now only an army can stop the 'slayride' of terror from this frosty monster with icicle fangs. Hell has just frozen over...
Fantastic Four is a light-hearted and funny take on Marvel Comics' first family of superheroes. It begins when down-on-his-luck genius Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) has to enlist the financial and intellectual help of former schoolmate and rival Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon) in order to pursue outer-space research involving human DNA. Also on the trip are Reed's best friend, Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis); his former lover, Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), who's now Doom's employee and love interest; and her hotshot-pilot brother, Johnny Storm (Chris Evans). Things don't go as planned, of course, and the quartet becomes blessed--or is it cursed--with superhuman powers: flexibility, brute strength, invisibility and projecting force fields, and bursting into flame. Meanwhile, Doom himself is undergoing a transformation. Among the many entries in the comic-book-movie frenzy, Fantastic Four is refreshing because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Characterisation isn't too deep, and the action is a bit sparse until the final reel (like most "first" superhero movies, it has to go through the "how did we get these powers and what we will do with them?" churn). But it's a good-looking cast, and original comic-book co-creator Stan Lee makes his most significant Marvel-movie cameo yet, in a speaking role as the FF's steadfast postal carrier, Willie Lumpkin. Newcomers to superhero movies might find the idea of a family with flexibility, strength, invisibility, and force fields a retread of The Incredibles, but Pixar's animated film was very much a tribute to the FF and other heroes of the last 40 years. The irony is that while Fantastic Four is an enjoyable B-grade movie, it's the tribute, The Incredibles, that turned out to be a film for the ages. --David Horiuchi
Strictly Come Dancing: Live Box Set 2008 & 2009
Following the success of Karel Reisz's 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' Alan Sillitoe adapted another of his works for the screen this time a short story of a disillusioned teenager rebelling against the system to make Tony Richardson's 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' one of the great British films of the 1960s. Newcomer Tom Courtenay is compelling as the sullen defiant Colin refusing to follow his dying father into a factory job railing against the capitalist bosses and preferring to make a living from petty thieving. Arrested for burglary and sent to borstal Colin discovers a talent for cross-country running earning him special treatment from the governor (Michael Redgrave) and the chance to redeem himself from anti-social tearaway to sports day hero. With Colin a favourite to win against a local public school tensions build as the day approaches...
Great Expectations (1946) - David Lean directed this stylish film presentation of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his unknown benefactor and of the consequences for the young man as he establishes himself in the world. A Tale Of Two Cities - Dickens' epic tale set during the French Revolution follows the fortunes of a disillusioned English lawyer Sidney Carton (Dirk Bogarde) whose solace is drink and wh
James Gandolfini and Kate Winslet star in this acclaimed musical comedy drama from director John Turturro.
The Definitive Dance Collection! 4 Discs of pure dancing magic... Footloose: Teenager Ren MacCormack sends ripples through Bomont a small Midwestern town that could stand some shaking up when he arrives from Chicago with his mother Ethel to settle with her relatives. The adults tend to view him with suspicion as a possible contaminant from the outer world. Some of his male peers eye him as a threat and most of the girls just plain eye him. It's a tough time for Ren
Film-maker Jim Jarmusch makes his feature debut with this early 1980s drama. The story follows Allie (Chris Parker), a twenty-something layabout, as he wanders aimlessly around the streets of New York City meeting a host of unusual characters and looking for some meaning in life.
The truth will test his faith to the limit... Worldly priest Daniel Clemens (Slater) is forced to challenge his comfortable existence as an ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes to believe in the innocence of a young priest accused of murder...
Behind the sparkle of the big top lies a terrifying truth of murder and corruption... When a robbery near London's tower bridge turns sour and one of the bandits ends up dead in Barberini's Circus it's only a matter of time before the stolen money is traced to thew big top. When another body turns up this time the knife throwers glamorous assistant Gina (Margaret Lee) Scotland Yard soon puts Inspector Elliot (Leo Genn) on the case. Suddenly panic spreads through the circus
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on the lives of the Von Trapp Family singers will inspire and entertain young and old alike. When postulate Maria (Julie Andrews) proves a bit too high-spirited for Mother Abbess and the other nuns Mother Abbess arranges for Maria to become governess to the seven unruly Von Trapp children before joining the order. Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) a widowed naval officer who educates his children with military discipline prescribes stern child-raising but Maria wins the children over with her natural warmth and kindness and teaches them to sing. Only one thing threatens the happiness and laughter that Maria has brought into the Von Trapp household: the threat of Nazi occupation in Austria.
Based on the novel by Forrest Carter 'The Education Of Little Tree' is a simple and touching tale set in the deep-south during the Depression. It tells the story of a young boy Little Tree who is sent to live in the Tennessee Mountains with his grandparents. On his arrival Little Tree discovers he is half Cherokee and begins to learn the wisdom and way of life of the Cherokee but the government places him in an Indian school where he is abused physically and psychologically...
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