This faithful adaptation of Anna Sewells childrens classic tells the adventures of a young boy and a spirited horse. Beginning life on a country estate the young colt Beauty is given away to cruel squire Sam Greene when he takes possession of the farm on which he lived.The horse then starts on an adventurous journey where he experiences the best and worst in human nature before finally being reunited with the boy who was his first friend. This is a classic and beautiful adaptation which the whole family will enjoy.
One interesting thing about Cleopatra 2525 is that it works far better on video or DVD than as a weekly television show, because the action in the tightly packed half-hour episodes is so fast and furious that you can miss crucial developments in the admittedly simple plots just by nipping into the kitchen to put the kettle on. Furthermore, despite appearances, the scripts do allow for character development, but this has to be delivered in snippets rather than dollops. Far better, then, to settle down with a large pizza and watch several episodes back to back. There's no shortage of humour in this camp post-apocalypse shoot-em-up-fest. Cleopatra is a dippy exotic dancer who suffers complications during surgery for a boob job! Placed in cryogenic suspension until such time as medical science can help her, she wakes up in the year 2525 to find a world seemingly dominated by plot ideas stolen from classic sci-fi movies such as The Terminator--humanity has been driven underground in a world ruled by machines, morphing androids are used as spies etc. etc. etc.--where she's "adopted" by a couple of firm-midriffed female resistance fighters who take their orders from a mysterious voice (called Voice). It's all great fun and the action and effects are excellent (especially the airborne robot thingies). --Roger Thomas
Emily Bronte's classic tale of all-consuming love in a new adaptation and a new production of Thomas Hardy's classic novel.
X-Men 2 picks up almost directly where X-Men left off: misguided super-villain Magneto (Ian McKellen) is still a prisoner of the US government, heroic bad-boy Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is up in Canada investigating his mysterious origin, and the events at Liberty Island (which occurred at the conclusion of X-Men) have prompted a rethink in official policy towards mutants--the proposed Mutant Registration Act has been shelved by US Congress. Into this scenario pops wealthy former army commander William Stryker, a man with the President's ear and a personal vendetta against all mutant-kind in general, and the X-Men's leader Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in particular. Once he sets his plans in motion, the X-Men must team-up with their former enemies Magneto and Mystique (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos), as well as some new allies (including Alan Cumming's gregarious, blue-skinned German mutant, Nightcrawler). The phenomenal global success of X-Men meant that director Bryan Singer had even more money to spend on its sequel, and it shows. Not only is the script better (there's significantly less cheesy dialogue than the original), but the action and effects are also even more stupendous--from Nightcrawler's teleportation sequence through the White House to a thrilling aerial dogfight featuring mutants-vs-missiles to a military assault on the X-Men's school/headquarters to the final showdown at Stryker's sub-Arctic headquarters. Yet at no point do the effects overtake the film or the characters. Moreso than the original, this is an ensemble piece, allowing each character in its even-bigger cast at least one moment in the spotlight (in fact, the cast credits don't even run until the end of the film). And that, perhaps, is part of its problem (though it's a slight one): with so much going on, and nary a recap of what's come before, it's a film that could prove baffling to anyone who missed the first instalment. But that's just a minor quibble--X-Men 2 is that rare thing, a sequel that's actually superior to its predecessor. --Robert Burrow
The first five episodes of the lavish ITV costume drama series set in the late 1920s as Lydia Aspen a provincial heiress who develops from an awkward teenager into a wild flapper toys with the affections of the men around her...
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.
Set in the late 1920's Lydia Aspen is a provincial heiress who develops from a bashful teenager to a wild flapper while toying with the affections of the men who are around her. Originally broadcast on ITV this double DVD presents the final four episodes of the lavish costume drama.
Jackanory: Alice Through The Looking Glass
Grace Guthrie has devoted her life's work as editor and chief of the prestigious magazine 'Grace' and is horrified when returning from vacation to find the business subject to a $21 million hostile take over by a publisher of pornographic magazines. Faced with the realization that the new publisher would probably destroy the quality of the magazine and her life's work Grace is given 30 days to match the purchase price. As one potential investor after another falls through Grace s
4 girls. Thousands of men. 100 days. Can they make it without making it? In Tallahassee Florida four sexy party girls - billed by the locals as the ""House Of Babes"" - are struggling to pay back a $20 000 loan for their post-feminist magazine 'Biotch'. Their grad-student neighbour desperate for a thesis project for her masters in Women's Studies persuades the household to fast off men for 100 days. In exchange they'll receive $25 000 in grant money in order to save their magazine.
If you liked Sister Act you'll just love Brother White. In this family musical comedy starring David R. White (Jerusalem Countdown, Me Again), Victoria Jackson (Saturday Night Live), Jackee (Sister Sister & 227), Ray Wise (Twin Peaks) and academy Award Nominee Bruce Davidson and Reginald Vel-Johnson (Family Matters, Die Hard), James White & his wife Lily are sent, well demoted, from their rich-white middle-class church in Southern California to an impoverished black church in Atlanta, where Pastor White and his family must fight to save the little faith church from a corrupt banker anxious to foreclose. This delightfully divine comedy also features a stunning musical cast including BeBe Winans, playing himself, who pull together to create a hilarious musical miracle to save the church.
It has been called disturbing (Los Angeles Times), nerve-shattering (Chicago Reader) and Rob Zombie's masterpiece (Loudwire.com). From the nightmare mind of writer/director Rob Zombie comes the terrifying story of Salem, Massachusetts radio DJ Heidi LaRoc (Sheri Moon Zombie of THE DEVIL'S REJECTS) who receives a mysterious record labeled a gift from The Lords. But when Heidi plays the disc, its bizarre sounds will trigger visions of the town's depraved past, release the darkness within her own damaged soul, and unleash the long-awaited vengeance of Satan himself. Bruce Davison (WILLARD) and a coven of genre legends co-star in this stunning witchcraft shocker that Beyond Hollywood calls a full-on piece of satanic madness... THE LORDS OF SALEM is light years away from 99% of modern commercial horror cinema!
Share in the adventure of seeing the world for the first time and fall in love with life all over again. Val Kilmer and Oscar winner Mira Sorvino have a sweet and sexy chemistry in this moving film based on a true story from the writer of Awakenings. When stresses-out Amy seeks relaxation at a spa she falls madly in love with Virgil a handsome masseur . Compassionate and Insightful Virgil has a unique way of seeing the world...he's blind. When a miraculous operation promises to restore his sight both Amy and Virgil discover that even the most wonderful of life's gifts can come at a price.
Hidden In America
Features eight movies. In 'Take Out The Beast' two men returning home in a cosmic station are ordered to kill the biorobot that is accompanying them. Unfortunately for them the robot is more human than they think... Also features: 'Under The Car' 'On Hope' 'Override' 'Present Tense Past Perfect' 'Evening Class' 'Peacock Blues' and 'Partners'.
Someone is taking the Dr's past selves out of time and space placing them in a vast wilderness - a battle arena with a sinister tower at its centre. As the various incarnations of the doctor join forces they learn they are in the Death Zone on their home world of Gallifrey fighting Daleks Cybermen Yeti...and a devious Time Lord traitor who is using the Doctor and his companions to discover the ancient secrets of Rassilon the first and most powerful ruler of Gallifrey. The Five
The Taming of The Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies lively and full of wonderful characters. It is a play within a play presented as a practical joke to Christopher Sly a town drunk who is duped into believing his is a Lord. The players enact the story of the courtship of Bianca and her strong-willed sister Kate (the Shrew). Kate's temper and forthright views frightens off would-be suitors much to her younger sisters fustrations as she cannot wed until after h
Holly G. (Victoria Foyt) is a successful clothing designer with her own boutique who in the course of a tumultuous Mother's Day weekend is confronted with deceit elation desperation kleptomania rebellion addiction and passion while under pressure to pull off the biggest sale of the year. Henry Jaglom's new movie looks at the unique role that clothing and shopping plays in the lives of women. A sister film to his earlier Eating it co-stars Lee Grant Rob Morrow Bruce Davison Mae Whitman and Jennifer Grant.
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