4 Action Adventures (4 Disc)
A crazy bunch of family members must spend the weekend together when their dear old dad suddenly passes away. Dealing with the grief is easy... dealing with each other isn't...
From the makers of the hit series The Take the latest tale of crime and corruption from best-selling crime writer Martina Cole follows the lives of two childhood sweethearts. Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are brought up together in the East End. As the daughter of a prostitute Madge Cathy's life is difficult especially when everyone assumes that she will be following in her mother's footsteps. But when Cathy is forced to protect Madge from a violent attack by a punter it changes her life forever. Cathy is taken into care but she suffers institutional abuse which leaves her with no choice but to run away. She ends up destitute on the streets of Soho when Desrae a transvestite unexpectedly comes to her rescue. Meanwhile Eamonn is rising up the ranks of the East End criminal underworld.
Three fantasitc family favourites on this great boxed set. Looney Tunes Back In Action: David verses Goliath Ali versus Frazier Britney versus Justin all pale in comparison to the earth rending bone-crushing carrot-chomping anvil-dropping tail-feather-scorching gleefully epic smack down that is Rabbit verses Duck or more specifically Bugs Bunny verses Daffy. Set in a live-action world Warner Bros. animated superstars interact with human characters for maximum comic eff
Promises And Lies
""What if you could find brand new worlds right here on Earth where anything is possible? Same planet different dimension. My friends and I found the gateway. Now the problem is...finding a way back home!"" While working in his basement Quinn Mallory opens the gateway to parallel worlds. For a test run Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Arturo along. Upon opening the vortex Quinn uses too much power which causes the vortex to suck them in along with Rembrandt 'Crying Man' Brown who happened to be driving by Quinn's house. The four are stuck in a parallel world and must find their way back to the gateway for the next 'slide' hoping each time that the next one will take them home...
Famous movie-star Robert Shaw stars as the fondly remembered 1950's swashbuckler series - The Buccaneers. Set in the early 1600's on the exotic Caribbean island of New Providence Captain Dan Tempest is a reformed pirate who rallies to the flag to serve his King defending the island against the enemy in the war with Spain. Presented here is the entire series of 39 action packed episodes of this top rated show.
See! Female hellcats ruling their men with tire-irons as their instruments of passion. See! The authentic initiation ritual never before dared on film. The Man-Eaters an all-girl motorcycle gang spend their time terrorizing a local community race each other for first pick of their male groupie stud line and throw raucous orgies in their clubhouse. Led by sexy but tough-as-nails Queen and big brutal Whitey the girls initiate cute little Honeypot into the gang then start a turf war with Joe-Boy and his group of hot rodders. But when Joe-Boy abducts Honeypot the Man-Eaters get even by going after Joe-Boy's head. Literally…Outrageous sex and violence courtesy of director Herschell Gordon Lewis and a biker drive-in classick unlike any other. To quote Queen We don't owe nobody nothin' and we don't make no deals! We're swinging chicks on motors and Man-Eaters on wheels!
Tom Cruise is Jerry Maguire. He's popular he's a top notch sports agent and he's at the top of his game. He's unstoppable but driven by his conscience he writes a 'mission statement' of a new belief that is quality not quantity the people not the money that really counts. Fired as soon as his boss reads the statement Jerry is soon stripped of his friends fianc''e and self-respect and is forced to start from scratch. The only two people who stand by him are his sole remaining client Rod Tidwell a second-rate football player (Cuba Gooding Jnr) and Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) a single mother inspired by his statement and zest for life. Only through his shared journey to success with Rod and his relationship with Dorothy and her son does he begin to understand the values that really matter. Jerry Maguire was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including: Best Picture with Cuba Gooding Jnr winning Best Supporting Actor award. Tom Cruise also earned a Golden Globe for his acclaimed performance as Jerry.
Smoke (Dir. Wayne Wang 1995): 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 and tries to start over after accidentally killing his wife. These characters amongst others making their way through the lonely urban landscape might seem to have little in common. But in the couse of this motion picture they cross paths by chance and end up changing each other's lives in indelible ways. Blue in the Face (Dir. Wayne Wang & Paul Auster 1995): The companion film to Smoke Blue In The Face is about a motley crew of characters whose lives intersect and collide at a corner cigar shop in Brooklyn managed by Augie Wren (Harvey Keitel). More of a neighbourhood institution then a money-making proposition the shop may soon be a memory as the owner is thinking of selling it to a health food chain. The neighbourhood is on hand to give their say - in a series of hilarious situations they talk until they are blue in the face in this movie about relationships the city and sex.
Paul Schrader's Forever Mine tells a not-very-compelling, still-less-credible story of love, betrayal and retribution. A cabana boy (Joseph Fiennes) at a Florida beach resort falls hard for a gorgeous guest (Gretchen Mol) neglected by her wheeler-dealer husband (Ray Liotta). After a steamy nude scene and a sweet, barefoot date, Fiennes follows her home to New York and declares undying love. Mol--a good Catholic girl who reads Madame Bovary--confesses the affair to Liotta. Being shadier than she realises, he arranges to have nasty things befall his rival. Cut to 14 years later (though in fact the movie has been shuffling time periods since the beginning) Fiennes, long presumed dead, resurfaces to lend his talents (he's become a master criminal) to the now thoroughly corrupt Liotta and sees what his beloved is up to. Fiennes has a new name and a scar on one side of his face, so neither recognises him. You don't have a problem with that, do you? Non-recognition is always a tricky proposition in movies, but Forever Mine's problems don't end there. Fiennes, sans Shakespeare in Love beard and Bardlike charisma, doesn't begin to suggest a guy who'd inspire obsession. His costar's attempt at creating a soul sister to Emma Bovary is as under-acted as it is underwritten, and Liotta's husband is just a lout, despite a desperate stab at giving him a virtually literary sensitivity regarding his romantic one-upping. If you want a spellbinding Schrader movie about outré passion and literary mystery, look up The Comfort of Strangers instead. --Richard T Jameson
James Cameron served as Production Manager in this classic 80's sci-fi slasher film featuring a pre-Freddy Robert Englund. The planet Morganthus graveyard for many stricken spacecraft is dominated by an evil force field emanating from an awesome pyramid. Horrific deaths follow one-by-one as a rescue team is drawn to the pyramid.
Tom Cruise is Jerry Maguire. He's popular he's a top notch sports agent and he's at the top of his game. He's unstoppable but driven by his conscience he writes a 'mission statement' of a new belief that is quality not quantity the people not the money that really counts. Fired as soon as his boss reads the statement Jerry is soon stripped of his friends fiance and self-respect and is forced to start from scratch. The only two people who stand by him are his sole remaining client Rod Tidwell a second-rate football player (Cuba Gooding Jnr) and Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) a single mother inspired by his statement and zest for life. Only through his shared journey to success with Rod and his relationship with Dorothy and her son does he begin to understand the values that really matter. Jerry Maguire was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture with Cuba Gooding Jnr winning Best Supporting Actor award. Tom Cruise also earned a Golden Globe for his acclaimed performance as Jerry.
A double bill of vintage horrors from Hammer Studio: Val Guest directs Nigel Kneale's script of The Abominable Snowman (1957) while Leslie Norman directs Jimmy Sangster's Quatermass-inspired X The Unknown (1956).
Based on a play by Miguel Pinero Short Eyes is made up of a series of appalling episodes in prison in which inmate Bruce Davison is depraved by fellow inmates. Their reason for this is that he is a short eyes the prison slang for a man who sodomizes little boys. Despite their own notorious past they believe Bruce to be the scum of the earth and proceed to treat him accordingly.
After the death of her lover Wilma takes over his bootlegging business but without much success. She soon meets up with bank robber Fred who convinces her and her daughters to join him for his next big heist. In the meantime Wilma also kidnaps the daughter of a millionaire in the hopes of getting rich off the ransom. Will Wilma and Fred be able to retire with their ill-gotten gains or will the law eventually catch up with them?
A traditional Irish Christmas gathering featuring music stories and dancing starring Roma Downey Moya Brennan (Clannad) Brian Kennedy The Celtic Tenors Frank McCourt and Phil Coulter. Tracklist: 1. The Holly She Bears A Berry - The Voice Squad 2. An Irish Blessing - Roma Downey 3. The Parting Glass - The Voice Squad 4. Away In A Manager - Slane National School 5. The Dromcolliher Set - Anom feat Derbhla Lennon 6. Flower Of Maherally - Brian Kennedy 7. Oh Holy Night - Phil Coulter 8. Come All Ye Faithfull - The Celtic Tenors 9. Silent Night - Slane National School 10. My Irish Molly-O - Maura O'Connell 11. Sleep O' Child - Moya Brennan 12. Felim's Little Boat - Moya Brennan 13. Be Thou My Vision - Roma Downey 14. Remember Me - Brian Kennedy 15. 'The Pig's Head' from Angela's Ashes - read by Frank McCourt 16. Danny Boy - The Celtic Tenors 17. The Man From God Knows Where - told by Phil Coulter 18. Steal Away - Phil Coulter
The Sixties
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