No children. No future. No hope. In the year 2027, eighteen years since the last baby was born, disillusioned Theo (Clive Owen) becomes an unlikely champion of the human race when he is asked by his former lover (Julianne Moore) to escort a young pregnant woman out of the country as quickly as possible. In a thrilling race against time, Theo will risk everything to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for. Co-starring Michael Caine, filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's highly acclaimed Children of Men received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Based on the novel by P.D. James.
Jack loses his fortune in the Wall Street crash. He returns to Liverpool illegally with gangsters pursuing him across the Atlantic. He becomes involved in the Spanish Civil War and agrees to run arms for an ex-Sergeant Major. Episodes include: 'Action! Comrades In Arms!' and 'Roll Of Honour'.
Action and romance follow Sharpe as he and his chosen men once again risk their lives on a dangerous and heroic mission.In Sharpe's enemy Sharpe first has to do battle with a gang of deserters led by the evil renegade Sergeant Hakeswill (Pete Postlethwaite).Hakeswill uses hostages including Sharpe's old flame the beautiful Isabella as innocent pawns in his wicked game to win a ransom. This is only the beginning of the problems facing Sharpe. A far greater threat is on the horizon. One where failure would mean the end of the war for the allied armies ....
Benjamin Britten's opera 'Billy Budd' in two acts tells of the sadism and injustice abroad a British man-of-war.
Presented by John Inverdale Jonathan Davies and ex-Lions selector and Welsh coach Clive Rowlands this officially licensed programme reveals the Greatest British & Irish Lions XV! Position by position they discuss the merits of each player vying for selection; and what a choice! Willie John or Martin Johnson; Keith Wood or Peter Wheeler; is there a place for our modern day heroes Brian O'Driscoll Jonny Wilkinson or Jason Robinson; how many of the Welsh team of the 70's will feature
GP Arthur Gilder has lived in the Lancashire village of Ormston all of his life. His son Tom who is also a doctor lives in Manchester. Arthur misses his family and is determined to hand the practice over to Tom. However following in his father's footsteps is the last thing on Tom's mind - until he retraces his steps to the picturesque home where he grew up. Series 1: 1. The Best Man 2. Nothing Like The Son 3. The Inspector Calls 4. Buried Treasure 5. Brother In Arms 6. Judgment Day Series 2: 1. Lost Souls 2. Home To Roost 3. Blood Relations 4. Fertility Rites 5. His Brother's Keeper 6. Old Flames 7. The Miracle Of Ormston 8. The Magnificent Colin 9. The Last Hurrah (Part 1) 10. The Last Hurrah (Part 2) Series 3: 1. A Very Ormston Christmas 2. A Little Touch Of Harry 3. No Regrets 4. A Small Flourish 5. Thick As Thieves 6. The Doctor Is Now Departing 7. And Is There Honey Still For Tea? 8. More Than You Know 9. A House Divded 10. Something Old Series 4: 1. The Great Leap Forward 2. Flying Home 3. Community Spirits 4. Never Seek To Tell 5. Apple Day 6. The Milk Of Human Kindness 7. Love Is Where It Falls 8. The Element Of Surprise 9. A Wrathful God 10. Someone To Watch Over Me
Travelling the dirt roads of Wessex in search of work Michael Henchard (Ciaran Hinds) a farm worker auctions his wife Susan (Juliet Aubrey) and baby daughter in a moment of drunken madness at a country fair. Years later Susan and her daughter return seeking Michael in Casterbridge where he has become a rich and respected member of Wessex society.... Based on the novel by Thomas Hardy.
Sin City (2005): Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything... Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough the corrupt the brokenhearted. Some call it dark. Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home. Crooked cops. Sexy dames. Desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge. Others lust after redemption. And then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care. Three stories - shocking suspenseful and searing - come to the fore in a new motion picture from co-directors Frank Miller (comics idol and author of the Sin City comics) and Robert Rodriguez - with special guest director Quentin Tarantino! Sin City was one of several films around the world to be shot on a completely digital backlot; with all the acting shot in front of a green screen and the backgrounds added during post-production). While the other movies Immortel (ad vitam) (2004) Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) and Casshern (2004) were shot first Rodriguez's use of High-Definition digital cameras (like 'Sky Captain') in addition to the 'backlot' method makes Sin City one of the world's first 'fully-digital' live action motion pictures. Desperate to create Sin Cityas a translation rather than a 'Hollywood' adaptation Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller actually used the panels from the original comic books as storyboards for the movie. The visual style strongly echoes the comics throughout with the black and white footage broken up momentarily by splashes of colour in certain scenes - a similar effect was used in Pleasantville. Needless to say this all contributes to make - possibly - the greatest most authentic comic book 'translation' yet... Kill Bill (2004): Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! In part 1 of Quentin Tarantino's delirious revenge movie Uma Thurman plays 'The Bride' a woman seeking vengeance on those who massacred her wedding party... Inspired by countless Japanese swordplay actionfests (the classic Lady Snowblood among them) yakuza gangster thrillers (offering a cameo opportunity to genre icon Sonny Chiba) and Chinese martial arts movies (hence the knowing appearance of Jackie Chan contemporary Gordon Liu) Quentin Tarantino borrows from the best in order to shape his deliciously over the top cinematographic style into a simple but effective plot. Look out too for Battle Royale alumni Chiaki Kuriyama as Lucy Lui's weapon-wielding schoolgirl bodyguard and the gravel-voiced Shun Sugata (he of Ichi The Killer fame who also appeared alongside Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai). Homage? Pastiche? Kill Bill is not just for movie anoraks complete with all the super-smooth tunes that you'd expect from a Tarantino soundtrack it's definitely the most outrageously entertaining film yet from cinema's king of cool! Kill Bill 2 (2004): The second part of Quentin Tarantino's deliriously stylish movie as The Bride (Thurman) continues her typically blood-soaked revenge quest... Having killed two of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad The Bride continues her mission to avenge the three remaining names on her death list that turned her El Paso wedding party into bloody carnage and left her for dead. Her attention turns to Budd (Michael Madson) Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) and finally the corpse littered path leads to Bill (David Carradine). However an unexpected survivor complicates matters...
Based on the series of novels written by Dorothy L Sayers in the 1920s and 30s, Lord Peter Wimsey was dramatised for TV by the BBC between 1972-5. Ian Carmichael, veteran of British film comedy, played the genial, aristocratic sleuth; Glyn Houston was his manservant Bunter. The pair are similar to PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Bertie Wooster (whom Carmichael played in an earlier TV adaptation) though here the duo are equal in intelligence, breezing about the country together in Wimsey's Bentley and stumbling with morbid regularity upon baffling murder mysteries to test their wits. Those for whom this series forms hazy memories of childhood might be surprised at its somewhat stagy, lingering interior shots, the spartan paucity of music, the miserly attitude towards locations, especially foreign ones, and the rather genteel, leisurely pace of these programmes, besides which Inspector Morse seems like Quentin Tarantino in comparison. It seems that initially the BBC was reluctant to commission the series and ventured on production with a wary eye on the budget. The Britain depicted by Sayers is, by and large, populated by either the upper classes or heavily accented, rum-do-and-no-mistake lower orders, which some might find consoling. However, the acting is generally excellent and the murder mysteries are sophisticated parlour games, the televisual equivalent of a good, absorbing jigsaw puzzle. There were five feature-length adaptations in all. "Five Red Herrings" is the last and perhaps the least of the series, involving a trout fishing holiday interrupted by the death of a local artist. --David Stubbs
Nothing is as it seems behind the well-trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English county of Midsomer. Beneath the tranquil surface of sleepy village life exist dark secrets. Joyce Barnaby has enrolled in an art class that takes her to the village green in Midsomer Florey. The village is also under surveillance by Barnaby and Troy who are busy with 'Operation Pondlife' an initiative designed to combat street crime. When Joyce finds the body of one of her fellow
Haunting dark and disturbing 'Mr In-Between' is a genuinely unsettling drama set against the backdrop of London's underwold with an original twist on a love triangle story of divided loyalties the perils of love and ultimate death... 'Delivers shocks and gruesome thrills ... darkly memorable' - Film Review
A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator.
40 films over 4 DVDs. Extensive collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. These films many of which are made available here for the first time since their original release - capture the spirit and strength concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before during and after the Second World War. These diverse and compelling films are fascinating historical documents bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of the rapidly changing world. Yet they are also striking in their different approach to the form. Using poetry dramatic reconstruction modernist techniques and explicit propaganda the film-makers found fresh new ways to get their message across.
2004 was one of Emmerdale's most successful years ever with events that had us on the edge of our seats throughout the year. Emmerdale 2004 takes us behind the scenes to see everything that goes into making one of Britain's most popular soaps. With exclusive cast and crew interviews we get the opportunity to see how Emmerdale is such an enjoyable production to work on.
The Man With The Twisted Lip: The mysterious disappearance of Neville St. Clair one Monday draws Sherlock Holmes into a tale of intrigue amongst the opium dens of Victorian England. If he died on that Monday as Holmes believes how is it that his wife received a letter from him on the following Friday? The Six Napoleans: A batch of six busts of Napoleon Bonaparte which have been sold and spread throughout London are being systematically destroyed. When Horace Harker hears his bust being smashed in his home he pursues the perpetrator. In the pursuit he stumbles over a dead body and the case becomes the concern of the greatest detective in London.
A 8 disc box set of all 26 episodes of the hit sword and sorcery drama. Episode titles: 1. Robin Hood and the Sorcerer (Part 1) 2. Robin Hood and the Sorcerer (Part 2) 3. The Witch of Elsdon 4. Seven Poor Knights From Acre 5. Alan A Dale 6. The King's Fool 7. The Prophecy 8. The Children of Israel 9. Lord of the Trees 10. The Enchantment 11. The Swords of Wayland (Part 1) 12. The Swords of Wayland (Part 2) 13. The Greatest Enemy 14. Herne's Son (Part 1) 15. Herne's Son (Part 2) 16. The Power of Albion 17. The Inheritance 18. The Sheriff of Nottingham 19. The Cross of St Ciricus 20. Cromm Cruac 21. The Betrayal 22. Adam Bell 23. The Pretender 24. Rutterkin 25. The Time of the Wolf (Part 1) 26. The Time of the Wolf (Part 2)
Closer (Dir. Mike Nichols 2004): Writer Patrick Marber adapted the screenplay from his own scathing stageplay in which a chance meeting between Englishman Dan (Jude Law) and American visitor Alice blossoms into a troubled relationship bringing together and then affecting a second couple involving Larry (Clive Owen) and Anna (Julia Roberts). Sex and love are explored capturing all the vulnerability and brutality of people falling in and out of love... Erin Brockovich (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 2000): A research assistant (Roberts) helps an attorney (Finney) in a lawsuit against a large utility company blamed for causing an outbreak of cancer and other illnesses in a small community.
Take a trip aboard the Jacobite steam train leaving Fort William for Mallaig....
In 1978 his horrific rampage through Haddenfield changed movie history. His name was Micheal Myers and the night was Halloween... 25 years later discover the triumphs controversies and groundbreaking influence of the series with the most comprehensive Halloween documentary ever produced featuring rare behind the scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew including John Carpenter Debra Hill Jamie Lee Curtis Moustapha Akkad plus fans like Rob Zombie Clive Barker Kim Newman and Edgar Wright.
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