The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for Best Picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-Semitism. There's delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams's coach) and John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies. Vangelis's soaring synthesised score, which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s, also won an Oscar. Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) and was produced by David Puttnam. --Jim Emerson
Dr Richard Clayton (Ron Livingston) has it all: a loving fiance (Neve Campbell) two wonderful supportive parents a successful career as a psychiatrist and a self-help book on anger management climbing the best seller list. Everything in his life is right on course including a wedding date only a few weeks away. Until one fateful night when his jealous brother tells him the truth about his upbringing...he was adopted. Enter Frank and Agnes Manure (Danny DeVito and Kathy Bates)
John Nettles stars as Chief Inspector Barnaby in this feature-length episode of the acclaimed crime series. When a portrait of Jonathan Lowrie a wealthy royalist who was killed by a Roundhead musketeer is slashed at the Aspern Tallow museum Barnaby and Sergeant Troy are called in to investigate. A series of strange events follows and soon the detectives are investigating much more than an act of vandalism.
Fiesty fierce fantastic. Relish more adventures with the warrior princess Xena in this DVD collection of the first half of Season 6. Episodes Included On This DVD: Coming Home The Haunting Of Amphipolis Heart Of Darkness Who's Gurkhan Legacy The Abyss The Rheingold The Ring The Return Of The Valkyrie Old Ares Had a Farm Dangerous Prey.
Small quirky comedy thrillers such as Drowning Mona are one of the things that American cinema does best and far too rarely. Peter Steinfeld's appealing script attracted a solid cast of stars under the direction of newcomer Nick Gomez (whose previous work includes episodes of The Sopranos). It seems that someone has cut Mona's brake cables and she drove to her death by drowning. Bette Midler's Mona manages to make it entirely plausible that almost everyone might have wanted to kill her: from her son's business partner Eddie (Casey Affleck) to her husband's mistress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis). The local police chief (Danny DeVito), already burdened with subordinates who refer to running away from danger as "securing the perimeter" and the impending marriage of his daughter (Neve Campbell) to the sweet but unreliable Eddie, has to make sense of the farrago of lies and half-truths which is all anyone will tell him. This is an ingenious tightly plotted film which is never too busy to scatter odd little gags at its margins; it's a tall tale, whose complicated telling is half the fun. On the DVD The DVD comes with the theatrical trailer, a director's commentary, interviews with the stars and four deleted scenes. The picture is 1.85:1 anamorphic and the sound is Dolby Surround. --Roz Kaveney
Escape Before It Rips You Apart. A terrifying new chapter in The Mangler legacy! What was designed to provide maximum security to Royal Collegiate College suddenly sets out to kill and destroy everyone in its path. Now virtual reality means virtual death!
More action/adventure from the princess who knows how to kick some butt!!!
Six college students spend a weekend at a country resort completely unaware that they are being stalked by a devil worship cult.
Sam Lester is looking for an apartment in a city where affordable accomodation is hard to find. One advert leads him to the ideal place but there is a catch; he must share with two other tenants who are already using the apartment on alternate days...
Three young urban skaters with ambitions to make it to the World Championships hear that World Champion skater Tony Hawk is scouting for new talent in Sydney. With no idea of how they are going to get there they decide to set off on the adventure of a lifetime...
Xena driven to vengeance by Ares nearly kills her friend Gabrielle but is taken to the mystical land Illusia where they are reunited. Gabrielle however is still tormented by her rift with Xena and tries to erase her memory at the Temple of Mnemosyne. After a tortuous ordeal she comes to realise that in order for good memories to exist there must also be bad memories. Enlightened by this they travel on together recovering the North Star jewel stolen from Aphrodite along the way only to discover Hope Gabrielle''s daughter in the process of being re-born into the world with the sacrifice of Gabrielle's friend Seraphin. Xena and Gabrielle realise they must stop this but are battling against their old foes Ares and Callisto again... Features the episodes: The Bitter Suite One Against an Army Forgiven King Con When in Rome Forget Me Not Fins Femmes and Gems Tsunami Vanishing Act and Sacrifice Parts One and Two.
Where is Gabrielle - is she alive or dead? Xena tracks her down to the land of the Amazons trapped along with Amazon spirits. Xena fights Alti to see her best friend one more time but is it really her? Eventually reunited they travel on but things don''t go smoothly for the adventurous duo as Xena is sent to Shark Island Prison for past crimes and even Argo switches sides and becomes a Warlord's horse! Xena breaks free to continue her fight against injustice never easy as the evil Horde returns with a vengeance! Features the episodes: Adventures In The Sin Trade: Part I Adventures In The Sin Trade: Part II A Family Affair In Sickness And In Hell A Good Day A Tale Of Two Muses Locked Up And Tied Down Crusader Past Imperfect Key To The Kingdom and Daughter Of Pomira.
First aired in 1995 Xena: Warrior Princess now boasts a huge cult following. Xena is a charismatic and highly-skilled warrior from ancient times. This DVD box set includes the first half of the second season of this action-packed series.
More adventures with the warrior princess Xena who fights for the rights of the innocent.
First aired in 1995 Xena: Warrior Princess now boasts a huge cult following. Xena is a charismatic and highly-skilled warrior from ancient times. This DVD box set includes the second half of the second season of this action-packed series.
Epsiodes include: If The Shoe Fits / Paradise Found / Devi / Between The Lines / The Way / The Plays The Thing / The Convert / Takes One To Know One / Endgame / Ides Of March / Deja Vu All Over Again
When the dead are disturbed no one will rest in peace. In the rural desert town of Tehachapi Flats the local funeral home operated by the Crain family offers all the usual funeral services required by the community: mortician funeral and burial as well as previously owned caskets and minor grave robbing... When the Crain family's extra-curricular activities disturb the grave of the late Jonathan Drue a powerful Druid priest his priestess sister uses the family powers to rais
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter who are forced to fly them to Mexico. En route a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.
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