'Witty, insightful, beautifully observed and heartbreakingly accurate' Time Out Newly restored from the original camera negative the BFI are excited to announce a new Blu-ray release of Bill Forsyth's much-loved coming-of-age comedy Gregory's Girl. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) and his friends are starting to notice girls particularly Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), not least because she's on the football team and is a better player than all the boys. With counselling from his younger sister, Gregory finally asks Dorothy out, but turns up to the date only to discover that the girls at school have other plans for him. A huge breakout hit on its original release in 1981, Gregory's Girl was nominated for four Bafta's, winning for Best Original Screenplay. Bill Forsyth's classic comedy remains to this day the ultimate depiction of coming-of-age awkwardness and an enduring favourite of Scottish cinema. Product Features Newly restored by the BFI and presented in High Definition Limited edition with slipcase Newly recorded audio commentary with Robert Buchanan, Alan Love, Douglas Sannachan and Caroline Guthrie Audio commentary with Bill Forsyth and Mark Kermode Bill Forsyth: The Early Years - an interview with the director Gregory's Girl Memories - an interview with Clare Grogan Dee Hepburn, Clare Grogan and John Gordon Sinclair in Conversation (2015, 31 mins): the stars of Gregory's Girl are interviewed on stage by Sue Harris to mark the film's 25th anniversary Isolated Score Colin Tully's never previously released score to Gregory's Girl Alternative US audio soundtrack Original trailer Illustrated booklet with new essays on the film and its director All extras are TBC and subject to change
A highly innovative crime drama, Suspects features Cold Feet star Fay Ripley as CID team leader Martha Bellamy and James Murray as DCI Daniel Drummond. This fresh, innovative police procedural tackles difficult subjects in a powerfully authentic way: shot like a fly-on-the-wall documentary, the drama is unscripted, with the cast improvising their dialogue lending the series a unique feel, as though the crew has been granted the privilege of following a real police investigation. Immersive and absorbing, this set contains the complete third, fourth and fifth series all fourteen complex and high-tension episodes. With storylines covering assault, murder, abduction, paedophilia and rape, Suspects' bold and stylish approach creates a new high watermark for television drama.
In a rapidly modernising English town, a psychopathic murderer is on the loose terrorising the young women of the local community. Fourteen year old Wynne (Jenny Agutter) begins to suspect that George (Bryan Marshall), her adoptive stepbrother who she's infatuated with, is the perpetrator. But could he really be responsible for such horrific crimes? Presented in a new 2K restoration, David Greene's much soughtafter British thriller is a gripping, cult classic of late1960s cinema and the latest addition to the BFI Flipside collection. Featuring a standout performance from Agutter and contributions from cult icons writer Richard Harris (The Avengers), production designer Brian Eatwell (Walkabout) and composer Basil Kirchin (Primitive London), I Start Counting' is a haunting comingofage tale like no other. Special Features Scanned & restored in 2k from the 35mm interpositive Audio commentary by film historian Samm Deighan A Kickstart: Jenny Agutter Remembers I Start Counting (2020, 20 mins) Loss of Innocence: A Video Essay on I Start Counting by Chris O'Neill (2020, 8 mins) Interview with Jonny Trunk (2021): the writer, broadcaster, DJ and owner of Trunk Records discusses the work of composer Basil Kirchin Original theatrical trailer Other extras TBC **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet with a new essay on the film by the BFI's Jo Botting and writing on the cast and director by Jon Dear
The fifth season of Joss Whedon's hit series started out in excellent form as slayer extraordinaire Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) did battle with the most famous of vampires (that Dracula guy) and then went on to spar with another nemesis, little sister Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg). Wait--Buffy has a teenage sister? Where has she been the past four years? And why is everyone acting like she's always been around? Turns out that young Dawn is actually "The Key," a form of pure energy that, true to its name, helps open the gates between different dimensions. To protect said key from falling into the wrong hands, a group of monks gave it human form and sent it to the fiercely protective Buffy for safekeeping, creating new memories of Dawn for everyone as if she'd existed... well, always. Why all the super secrecy? There's this very, very, very bad girl named Glory (Clare Kramer) who wants the key very badly, and will do anything to get it. Oh, and by the way, Glory isn't just a run-of-the-mill demon... she's way worse. Some fans will tell you that Buffy "jumped the shark" with the introduction of Dawn, when in actuality this season was the pinnacle of the show's achievement, as there was superb comedy to be had ("Buffy Vs. Dracula," the double-Xander episode "The Replacement," the introduction of the "Buffybot" in "Intervention") as well as some of television's best drama. The Whedon-scripted and -directed "The Body" remains one of Buffy's best episodes, when the young woman who faces down supernatural death on a daily basis finds herself powerless in the wake of her mother's sudden passing. The first third or so of the season was a bit choppy, but once the evil Glory came into her own, Buffy was a television force to be reckoned with. Kramer was the show's best villain (after the evil Angel, natch), and the supporting cast was never better. But as always, it was the superb Gellar who was the powerful centre of the show, sparking opposite lovelorn vampire Spike (James Marsters) and wrestling with moral dilemmas rarely seen on television. With this season, Buffy Summers became, like Tony Soprano, one of television's true greats. --Mark Englehart
In this live action/animated adaptation of the Raymond Briggs book a young girl gets trapped in 'Bogeydom' with Fungus and his family! Repulsive yet compulsive for a whole new generation of nose-picking boil scratching zit squeezing watchers. You will be highly entertained by Fungus and a whole host of wonderful Bogeyman characters brought to life by the voice of Martin Clunes. Fungus The Bogeyman's job is to venture 'up top' above Bogeydom to scare 'Drycleaners' (a Bogey's name
On the heels of the bloody escape from the House of Batiatus that concluded Spartacus: Blood and Sand, the gladiator rebellion continues and begins to strike fear into the heart of the Roman Republic in Spartacus: Vengeance. Gaius Claudius Glaber and his Roman troops are sent to Capua to crush the growing band of freed slaves that Spartacus leads before it can inflict further damage. Spartacus is presented the choice of satisfying his personal need for vengeance against the man that condemned his wife to slavery and eventual death or making the larger sacrifices necessary to keep his budding army from breaking apart. Containing all of the blood-soaked action, exotic sexuality, and villainy and heroism that has come to distinguish the series, the tale of Spartacus resumes in epic fashion.
Ex-GMTV weather girl Clare Nasir is the celebrity slimmer of the year! I've dropped FIVE dress sizes with this DVD! says Clare. So if you want to lose weight - this is the DVD for you!! Seeing pictures of yourself looking like a lime green blob is a pretty good incentive to lose weight. I wanted to lose it quickly - as well as safely - and after four months and lots of sweat I've lost nearly 3 stone in weight and an amazing 12 inches off my belly alone! So welcome to Boot Camp! This DVD will show you how I did it and will help YOU to shift the fat fast. Boxers in training burn around 8 000 calories a day and with this combat style workout we calculate you'll burn up to 1 000 calories every time you do it. That combined with our amazing 5-meals-a-day diet will help you drop weight fast. If you follow the routine 3-4 times a week with the diet you could lose up 4lbs a week which is incredible! There's 4 x 20 minute workouts - all geared to burn fat: Punch: Smacks away the fat with punches kicks and sprints. Kick: Puts the boot into blubber with kicks squats and skipping. Tone: Uses weights to increase fat-burning and define muscles. Crunch & Cool: Adds weights to your sit-ups for a slimmer waist. So try it - you've got nothing to lose but your flab!
Kevin Whately (The English Patient; Auf Wiedersehen Pet) returns as much-loved detective Inspector Robbie Lewis in four new episodes of this ratings winning drama set in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside. The series also stars Laurence Fox (Gosford Park; Elizabeth: The Golden Age) as Lewis'' younger sidekick Hathaway.
Eureka Entertainment to release WOLF CREEK, the complete first series of the slick and tense psychological drama as seen on Fox UK, on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the UK on 6 October 2016. Murderous psychopath Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) returns in Wolf Creek, an epic 6-part continuation of the international horror film sensation of the same name. Mick still prowls the Australian Outback, brutally murdering any tourists unfortunate enough to cross his path, and having a ripper of a time doing it. It's business as usual for Mick when he comes across the Thorogood family, on holiday to experience the outdoors, enjoy the open road, and help their 19-year-old daughter Eve (Lucy Fry) overcome her addiction to painkillers. Mick targets the family and a bloody massacre ensues, but this time, things are different. Eve survives (barely) and manages to escape. After recovering from her injuries, Eve sets out on a cross country mission of vengeance, determined to hunt down Mick Taylor and end his killing spree once and for all. The hunter has become the hunted. Highly cinematic in style and filled with all the bloody violence and dark humour that made the original film a sensation, Wolf Creek is a horror series like no other, and is not to be missed. First shown on Fox UK in August / September 2016, the 6-part mini-series will be available to purchase on Blu-ray and DVD as a 2-disc Blu-ray set and a 2-disc DVD set, two days after the series finale has aired on Fox UK.
The House of Batiatus is on the rise, basking in the glow of its infamous champion Gannicus, whose skill with a sword is matched only by his thirst for wine and women. These are the times a young Batiatus has been waiting for. Poised to overthrow his father and take control, he’ll freely betray anyone to ensure his gladiators are in the highest demand. And he’ll have his loyal and calculating wife Lucretia by his side for every underhanded scheme, drawing on the brazen talents of her seductive friend Gaia when it counts. Together, they will stop at nothing to deceive the masses, seize power, and bleed Capua dry in this audacious prequel to “Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and storylines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep down, sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whately's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter said he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford
All the episodes from the television drama set in the 1970s and based on the novel by John le Carré in which a talented young actress is given a role like never before when she is used as a pawn in a political minefield. During a holiday in Greece, Charlie (Florence Pugh) is offered an opportunity to help put right a complex situation involving Israeli-Palestine conflict, yet matters are soon complicated further when she begins to question to which side she belongs.
It's 1990 a new era for Martin Moone (David Rawle) and his imaginary friend Sean Murphy (Chris O'Dowd). It's the year of Ireland's historic victories and draw-ings at the Italia '90 World Cup - which to Liam's delight and the rest of the family's dismay has clashed with their annual pilgrimage to damp Donegal. It's a year when Martin starts secondary school and promptly develops a crush on his 'beautiful mental' art teacher Miss Tivnan (Amy Huberman) who he tries to impress with his slick moves at the school dance. It's a year with a Halloween raft adventure where Martin and Padraic meet the mysterious 'Island Joe' (Pat Shortt) a religious-themed stag party an epic golf battle an even more epic St. Patrick's Day parade and when a family of Travellers move into the field next to the Moone home it becomes the year that Martin Moone finds his first true love.
The original series of the The Lakes brought writer Jimmy McGovern and actor John Simm a great deal of critical praise in 1997. Following a particularly dry period for British TV drama, the show's realistic characterisations and their painfully honest decisions hit audiences hard. Simm is a twentysomething trapped in a life of compulsive gambling, theft and being on the dole in Liverpool. On a whim he heads north to the Lake District. He expects to find the countryside quietude where his hidden poetical leanings might find a home, but instead gets caught up in a community like any other. Lies, temptation and tragedy beset every household just as much as the big city. In the second series, far longer than the first, an exploration of Danny's tortured soul might have been the obvious continuation to the story; instead an almost Hitchcockian murder scenario occupies far more screen time. But by stretching things out, this second series does not have the same self-contained impact of the original. Additional writers only served to drag out Danny's boy-to-man journey. Ultimately, lessons are learned, including the realistic conclusion that life is without a poetical status quo. Despite the tail-off in overall quality, you'd be hard pressed to identify a better British drama in the years since. --Paul Tonks
When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford
It’s 1990 a new era for Martin Moone (David Rawle) and his imaginary friend Sean Murphy (Chris O’Dowd).;It’s the year of Ireland’s historic victories and draw-ings at the Italia ’90 World Cup - which to Liam’s delight and the rest of the family’s dismay has clashed with their annual pilgrimage to damp Donegal. It’s a year when Martin starts secondary school and promptly develops a crush on his “beautiful mental” art teacher Miss Tivnan (Amy Huberman) who he tries to impress with his slick moves at the school dance.;It’s a year with a Halloween raft adventure where Martin and Padraic meet the mysterious ‘Island Joe’ (Pat Shortt) a religious-themed stag party an epic golf battle an even more epic St. Patrick’s Day parade and when a family of Travellers move into the field next to the Moone home it becomes the year that Martin Moone finds his first true love.
Mildred Hubble is back for a second series of The Worst Witch. That's right! Mildred Hubble is back and ready for another term at Cackle's Academy - that's if she can manage to stay out of trouble. Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing
Forensic pathologist Dr Sam Ryan (Amanda Burton) has an all-embracing passionate notion of justice. Driven almost obsessional her crusade and tenacity sometimes leads her to conduct her own enquires outside the laboratory uncovering new evidence that dramatically alters the course of police investigations. This can lead to trouble - both in her personal and professional lives but to Sam each dead body deserves nothing but the truth.... Episodes Comprise: 1. Blood Sweat and Tears 2. Cease Upon The Midnight 3. Only The Lonely 4. Friends Like These
Kevin Whately returns as Lewis in the second series of the hit detective drama - always sure to deliver plenty of intriguing murder mystery. Partnering once more with his trusty sidekick D.S. Hathway expect absorbing plots intelligently built tension and a fine performance by Whately all set in the idyllic surroundings of Oxford and its University campus.
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