British horror director Pete Walker gives Jack Jones a starring role as crooner Nick Cooper who has returned to England, after a move to L.A and a failed marriage to record his comeback album. Little does Nick know that his ex-wife Gail has been butchered by a figure in an old lady mask wielding an axe. Her body now lies rotting in the apartment they used to share.The divorce had been bitter and Nick can't face Gail or the apartment, so his manager, Webster Jones, (David Doyle) arranged for Nick to stay at a remote house being looked after by an old couple. The couple, who say they're fans, are simply called Mr. B (Bill Owen) and Mrs. B (Sheila Keith). Webster Jones has his assistant Linda (Pamela Stephenson) look after Nick and soon an attraction grows between the two.But strange things are afoot at the house, and at night, Nick hears mysterious crying and moaning. Disturbed, he is assured by the old couple and his manager that he must be imagining it. But when he opens a door and comes face to face with a skeletal corpse, and discovers a rotted head that looks like Gail, it seems he's either going mad or something sinister and frighteningly real is going on. Then the masked killer strikes again… Extras include: 4 page booklet notes commentary by Peter Walker and Jonathan Rigby Theatrical Trailer Subtitles Stills Gallery
Leslie Nielson once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix. When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the United States is being held captive on a secret international moon base called Vegan and that he has been replaced on Earth by a clone the US Marshall Service immediately send in their 'best' man Dix on the mission. Dix travels to Vegan to rescue the Preside
Sometimes dismissed as a pale descendant of a great original, The New Avengers deserves a second look and is perhaps best considered as a largely successful attempt to re-imagine its predecessor for 1970s audiences. Patrick McNee was never the most convincing of action heroes, and the decision to make his John Steed the supervisor and mentor of two younger agents was a sensible one--Steed's virtues are style, wisdom and fortitude rather than physical prowess. Gareth Hunt's Gambit has an unattractively smug side, but has also a louche charm. Joanna Lumley's Purdey is one of the most attractive heroines of genre television, astonishingly leggy and beautiful. Those who only know her later incarnation as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous will understand now why such a fuss is made over her. The script team overlaps heavily with that of the original series; the new show has the same quirkiness, only occasionally varying it with a rather darker leCarrésque complexity or sudden outbreaks of Hammer Horror. If it lacks some of the sheer style of the original, that is a reflection of its period--the 1970s were less visually imaginative than the 60s. Tightly plotted, imaginatively cast with interesting guest stars, it is only with The Avengers that The New Avengers suffers by comparison. --Roz Kaveney
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France but his plane disappears en-route. Famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery...
Crimes Of The Heart tells the story of three eccentric southern sisters - Lenny (Diane Keaton) Meg (Jessica Lange)and Babe (Sissy Spacek) whose lives reunite after a long separation. Lenny the eldest has never married and cares for her ailing grandfather. Meg has had a string of boyfriends and an underwhelming singing career. Babe the youngest is fresh out of jail having shot her husband. Given the family's long history of adultery scandal and tragedy including their mothe
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The Dark Crystal (1982): The Dark Crystal is a remarkable fantasy adventure starring some of Jim Henson's most imaginative creatures ever. Five years in the making this magical tale of good and evil is directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz and Produced by Gary Kurtz. You can also discover some of the secrets behind the making of the first ever all-puppet film in a special 60 minute Featurette. In another time The Dark Crystal - a source of Balance and truth in the Universe - was shattered dividing the world into two factions : the wicked Skekis and the peaceful Mystics. Now as the convergence of the three suns approaches the Crystal must be healed or darkness will reign forever! It's up to Jen - the last of his race - to fulfil the prophecy that a Gelfling will return the missing shard to the Crystal and destroy the Skekis' evil Empire. But will young Jen's courage be any match for the unknown dangers that await him? Labyrinth (1986):
Caroline Quentin stars as DCI Janine Lewis the hit police drama Blue Murder. Starring along side her are Ian Kelsey ( Casualty ) David Schofield ( Our Friends in the North ) and Nick Murchie.
Tom Hanks won rave reviews for his Oscar nominated performance (1988 Best Actor) as a twelve-year old boy trapped inside a thirty-year-old body in director Penny Marshall's winning comedy. At a carnival young Josh Baskin wishes he was big - only to awake the next morning and discover he is! With the help of his friend Billy (Jared Rushton) Josh lands a job at a toy company. There his inner wisdom enables him to successfully predict what children want to buy making the awestruck
Inspector Jean Darblay (Stephanie Turner) faces a third series of challenging events in the town of Hartley... Episodes comprise: 1. Betrayals 2. Heat 3. Amenities 4. Amateur Night 5. A Breach Of The Peace 6. Family Ties 7. Nothing To Report 8. You Can Go Home Again 9. Past Lives 10. Cause For Complaint 11. Hartley's Midnight Cowboy 12. The Intruder 13. Misunderstandings 14. Where There's Muck...
Episode titles: Notes From The Underground Parts One Two and Three The King Shredder Strikes Back Parts One and Two Tales of Leo.
A terrifying movie from notorious shock horror director Joe Castro... After brutally killing his mother and seriously injuring his father Gilbert is sent to a maximum security sanitarium for the rest of his days. The neighbourhood begins to get back to normal but not for long.... Brutally killing three orderlies Gilbert escapes and return with revenge on his mind. It's a race against time... the only person that can get through to Gilbert is his sister Janet. Will she be able to stop him or will she just become another of his victims?
Wesley Snipes and Dean Cain star in the turbo charged sci-fi thrill ride where the only game is war... The year is 2025 and global tension is rapidly growing between the Hawaiian Liberation Organisation and the North American Alliance. On the brink of war superstar athlete Tre Ramsey (Cain) must fight with all his powers to save himself his team and the fate of his country. The question of the territory is set to be solved by holding a game of futuresport - a violent basketball and skateboarding which requires the utmost skill and agility - hold on to the ball for more than five seconds and electricity shoots through your body. Obike Fixx (Snipes) the creator of the game is coaching the HLO team - who seem willing to play by ""Street Rules"" thus increasing the danger level in the high-stakes game.
A group of teenagers go camping for the weekend and fall victim to a serial killer known only as 'The Shaman'.
Van Helsing (Dir. Stephen Sommers 2004): Hunted as a murderer by those who do not understand his calling Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) travels the globe as a fugitive. Accompanied only by Carl (David Wenham) a friar entrusted with providing Van Helsing's safety and a weapons arsenal to rival James Bond Van Helsing is despatched to the shadowy world of Transylvania. Home to the ravishing Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) one of the last remaining descendents of a powerful royal family Van Helsing has been sent to terminate the evil and undefeatable Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) and his alluring bloodthirsty vampire brides. Herself a fearless hunter Anna joins forces with Van Helsing to confront her family's life long adversary and avenge the deaths of her predecessors. In a stunning showdown Van Helsing comes face to face with his mortal enemy but is also forced to confront his past... Bram Stoker's Dracula (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola 1992): Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula to create a modern masterpiece. It follows the tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince (Gary Oldman) as he moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London in search of his long lost Elisabeta who is reincarnated as the beautiful Mina (Winona Ryder)... Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Dir. Kenneth Branagh 1994): It is the late 18th Century. After the death of his beloved mother young Victor Frankenstein leaves his father and Elizabeth the adopted sister he passionately loves to attend university. Here he becomes obsessed with the teachings of Professor Walman who believes that living creatures can actually be created from dead matter. One electrifying night Frankenstein's efforts are rewarded as his Creature struggles to life. Alone despised and driven by a rage of emotional agony it sets off to find its maker. And so begins the nightmare that will engulf Victor Frankenstein...
The eighth season of Friends picks up just moments after Monica and Chandler said "I do". But the focus of this season is firmly on Rachel's pregnancy, as the story progresses from fatherhood revelations in "The One with the Red Sweater" and "The One Where Rachel Tells..." towards complicated new feelings for Rachel, Ross and Joey, culminating in the maternity ward two-parter "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby". But it's not all Rachel's pregnancy story. Standalone highlights include "The One with the Rumour" in which the "We Hate Rachel" club started in High School by Ross and a certain Mr Jennifer Aniston (an uncredited Brad Pitt) is revealed; while "The One with Monica's Boots" has Monica and Chandler arguing over finances while Phoebe and Ross argue over the attentions of Sting's wife Trudie Styler (cameoing as herself). Relationship complications fall upon Phoebe as "The One with the Tea Leaves" hooks her up with a stellar cameo from Alec Baldwin. "The One with Joey's Interview" has Matt LeBlanc on top form preparing to be interviewed by Soap Opera Digest. But time starts to tick faster for everyone in "The One Where Rachel is Late", as Joey's WWI movie finally arrives, but is overshadowed by the wait for Rachel's overdue arrival. Naturally it's all build-up to the cliffhanger finale and a final emotional surprise. --Paul Tonks
It’s a frighteningly hilarious look at the lives of monsters-in-training at the Monster Academy under the city dump. This Collector’s Edition of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters features over 6 hours of laugh-out-loud lessons in the art of proper scare techniques. Find out what happens when you leave your monster manual in the human world check out Krumm’s giant pimple and see Ickis burping fire! Celebrate the annual shedding of skins help Oblina find her brain and be on the lookout for the Gromble's missing nephew. All this and lots more scares in this great 4 disc collection. Volume 1: Scary doesn't get any sillier than Season 1 of the hit Nickelodeon show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters! These monsters-in-training make fright a hoot as they try to learn the tricks of the scary monster trade. Check out Ickis Oblina and Krumm and their herculean efforts to master The Gromble's class on proper scare techniques. Volume 2: Ickis Oblina and Krumm are back for a second season of spine-chilling gut-busting adventures! Sit back and enjoy as these three young monsters take everything they’ve learned from The Gromble about scaring and put it to good use. That is of course unless they’re trapped by Simon the most determined monster-hunter in town! Volume 3: Your three favourite little monsters are back! And Aaahh!!! Real Monsters’ third season promises to thrill chill and tickle your spine not to mention your funny bone with more adventures! Watch as they avoid capture by the monster hunter Simon and take on the world with everything they’ve learned about scaring from their headmaster The Gromble! Volume 4: The spooky and the silly collide one last time in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: The Final Season! Ickis Oblina and Krumm are back for their fourth and final year of eerie animated adventures. Under the watchful eye of their headmaster Gromble these three young monsters are ready to show the world what they’ve learned at the Monster Academy — if they can stay out of trouble long enough!
By way of an experiment, a mixed-sex anti-aircraft battery is set up during World War II. The result is Carry On England, and the sex is indeed pretty mixed, although the drafting in of Patrick Mower and Judy Geeson rather demonstrates the need for at least some of the cast to be attractive in order to make this premise feasible. For the most part, of course, it's tits-out sex-comedy slapstick all the way, but there's a nicely ambivalent performance from Kenneth Connor, who portrays the wartime British officer class as being pretty much bonkers, a telling interpretation which Stephen Fry was to perfect years later in Blackadder Goes Forth. The location is of course typically Carry On cheap-and-cheerful, but its inevitable drabness, together with the indistinguishable khaki uniforms, tends to put a bit of a damper on the adult-panto atmosphere which the best Carry Ons deliver. The cast commendably manage to transcend this, though, so there's still plenty of fun to be had. On the DVD: The feature is presented in 1.77:1 aspect ratio, but the disc has no added features. --Roger Thomas
This is the ultimate definitive review of the music of Pink Floyd from 1967 through to 1996 album by album in concert on the record and on film. These 10 DVDs represent the most painstaking and detailed exploration of the work ever undertaken. Featuring extensive archive interviews with Syd Barrett Roger Waters Nick Mason Richard Wright and David Gilmour alongside extremely rare footage of Pink Floyd in performance from film and television archives around the globe. This authoritative independent review is essential viewing for every Pink Floyd fan. Features: Includes a review of a rare 1970 performance of Atom Heart Mother performed by the band alone Also reviewed is the famous performance broadcast across Europe from a floating stage on the lagoon at Venice during the Delicate Sound of Thunder tour. Disc 1Pink Floyd a Critical Review 1967-1974 Disc 2Pink Floyd a Critical Review 1975-1996 Disc 3Rock Milestones the Piper at the Gates of Dawn Disc 4Rock Milestones a Saucerful of Secrets Disc 5Rock Milestones Ummagumma Disc 6Rock Milestones Atom Heart Mother Disc 7Rock Milestones Meddle / Dark Side of the Moon Disc 8Wish You Were Here Disc 9The Wall / The Final Cut Disc 10A Momentary Lapse of Reason
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