Full Stretch: Series 1 (2 Discs)
Like It Is is much like watching a train wreck--the very idea of it is repellent and yet you perversely can't avert your eyes. While its urban grittiness and sooty veneer entranced some critics who mistook its violent, netherworld neorealism for art, Like It Is offers little in the way of redemption, positive gay imaging or even particularly good narrative. Paul Oremland directed this venture about a young, gay Blackpool tough named Craig (Steve Bell) who bare-knuckle boxes for money. He ultimately moves to London in search of a better life and falls in with the trendy London gay-club scene, meeting and falling for a handsome record producer named Matt (Ian Rose) and his wealthy boss (played by the Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey). The better life is quickly tainted by disillusion and misery, much as is the viewing experience. Steve Bell is, in real life, a featherweight boxing champion in Britain and therefore brings an urgent and raw vitality to the lead, but the characters as a whole are either irritating or unsympathetic, and it's ultimately difficult to find anyone to care for, or a story worth empathising with. --Paula Nechak, Amazon.com
As the last autumn leaves slowly peel away from the trees a mysterious airborne virus ravages the planet and within a few hours billions die. Victims suffer horrific deaths as their internal organs liquefy and whole towns expire within minutes. Soon cities become infested breeding grounds for the new apocalyptic virus. By the end of the first day there are only a handful of survivors. A small group of ordinary strangers are soon forced to work together to stay alive. The survivors are lead by Michael (Dexter Fletcher Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Doom) a lonely soft ware consultant and Carl (Dickon Tolson Peak Practice Eastenders) an ill-tempered mechanic. When Michael and the survivors escape from the infested city to an isolated country house they discover the real horror has only begun! When the dead start to gruesomely reanimate the group have naive hopes that the walkers or the meat suites would decompose and simply fall apart but they discover the longer the reanimated corpses are alive the more they learn the cleverer they get the more aggressive and treacherous they become - the more they became killing machines. When Phillip Evans (David Carradine Kill Bill Kung Fu) is discovered as a lone survivor in the lifeless city a new hope emerges but nothing is as it seems in a world turned upside down and hope soon turns into terror. In order to endure the winter each survivor must find the strength within themselves to fight their personal demons and find the courage to combat a war against the vicious dead. What follows is a shockingly clever adventure of survival in a thrilling desolate world. This Autumn the darkness will come!
Dead Men Walking a mysterious airborne virus ravages the planet and within a few hours billions die. Victims suffer horrific deaths as their internal organs liquefy and whole towns expire within minutes. Soon cities become infested breeding grounds for the new apocalyptic virus. By the end of the first day there are only a handful of survivors. A small group of ordinary strangers are soon forced to work together to stay alive. The survivors are led by Michael (Dexter Fletcher Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Doom) a lonely software consultant and Carl an ill-tempered mechanic. When Michael and the survivors escape from the infested city to an isolated country house they discover the real horror has only begun! When the dead start to gruesomely reanimate the group have naive hopes that the walkers or the meat suites would decompose and simply fall apart but they discover the longer the reanimated corpses are alive the more they learn the cleverer they get the more aggressive and treacherous they become the more they became killing machines. When Phillip Evans (David Carradine - Kill Bill Kung Fu) is discovered as a lone survivor in the lifeless city a new hope emerges but nothing is as it seems in a world turned upside down and hope soon turns into terror. In order to endure the winter each survivor must find the strength within themselves to fight their personal demons and find the courage to combat a war against the vicious dead. Dead Men Walking is a shockingly clever adventure of survival in a thrilling desolate world!
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