Director Don Sharp appears in a rare acting role alongside Interpol Calling's Edwin Richfield and Welsh actress Gwyneth Vaughan in this heart-warming film charting the endeavours of two friends who are determined to restore the fortunes of a war-weary coastal village. Filmed in and around the picturesque boating haven of Pin Mill in Suffolk, Ha'penny Breeze is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.At the end of the Second World War, David and his Australian friend Johnny return to David's Suffolk village to find the community spent and demoralised. Gradually, however, they gather support for David's scheme to enter a yachting race with a converted fishing smack. Winning it could prove to be a lifeline for the village...
The American Wild West provides a rugged backdrop for this hilarious story of one community's struggle to keep its land and with it a quiet simple life. A comic tribute to all those classic westerns where a mysterious stranger arrives to save the day the tale is rich with intrigue and ripe with passion. Capturing the strength of the pioneer spirit the story takes us to the frontiers of insanity with some of the most dim-witted characters imaginable. The citizens of Marble Hat Co
The murder of his brother has left Jake moody and frustrated. The killer was a martial arts champion who is now asking for volunteers to star in his new kickboxing movie. Jake decides to take him up on his invitation....
Dive into the House of Lies: a scathing Corporate America-skewering comedy that examines the life of a self-loathing management consultant played by Academy Award and Emmy nominee Don Cheadle. While best known for taking down the competition with sex and a smile, he's capable of using any means (or anyone) to get what he wants. Kristen Bell co-stars as the foxy, sharp-tongued team leader juggling her career and personal life. Catch all the sex, lies, and corruption in 12 shocking first season episodes. Special Features: Hanging with Don Cheadle Hanging with Kristen Bell Who is Marty Kaan? Management Consulting 101 The Rainmaker Dress for Success Commentary: Episode 101 Commentary: Episode 102 Commentary: Episode 105 Commentary: Episode 111 Commentary: Episode 112
George Kitchener Bulman, TV's scruffiest, quirkiest cop, has retired from police work. But old habits die hard, and the plan to spend his days mending clocks in his South London antiques-cum-junk shop went out of the window when he found himself partnering with Lucy McGinty, a university drop-out with a passion for criminology, in a private detective agency. The classics-quoting detective is now back on the street, tackling murder plots, terrorism and international espionage, and even dodging the attentions of a contract killer. But the old skills which turned Bulman into a cult figure in Granada's classic police series Strangers are ever present - along with the tatty string gloves and plastic carrier-bag "briefcase" - and this time around, old "GBH" is free of the police code... Don Henderson stars opposite BAFTA nominee Siobhan Redmond in this second series, scripted by Strangers stalwart Murray Smith and featuring appearances by Iain Cuthbertson, Robert Hardy, Ingrid Pitt, Thorley Walters, Jack Shepherd and Graham Crowden.
Tom and Jerry chase each other in an series of hilarious cartoons. With their endless rivalry and slapstick gags this classic cat-and-mouse comedy team scrambles slides and slams onto the screen.
The free world's secret weapon dormant for 20 years has been called up for active duty. He's the bumbling addle brained master spy extrodinaire Maxwell Smart aka Agent 86. Smart is primed again to do battle against the sinister forces of KAOS. His wife 99 wants to get involved too however she's already more involved than she thinks...
The power of evil no longer rests in the hands of a child... Damien Thorn (Sam Neill) has helped rescue the world from a recession appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S Ambassador to England Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ. Determined to thwart his holy arch-nemesis as well as a group of priests intent on killing him Damien begins his most destructive rampage yet...
Clint Eastwood is Walt Coogan, a deputy sheriff from Arizona on the loose in the urban jungle of New York. Searching for a violent prisoner he has let slip ("It's got kinda personal now"), Coogan, in Stetson and cowboy boots, runs up against hippies, social workers and a bluntly hostile New York police chief played by Lee J. Cobb. It's a key film in the Eastwood oeuvre, the one in which his definitive persona first emerges, marrying the cool, laid-back westerner of the Rawhide TV series and the Italian westerns to the street-wise, kick-ass toughness which would be further developed in the Dirty Harryfilms. Directed by Eastwood's mentor, Don Siegel, Coogan's Bluff has pace, style and its share of typical Eastwood one-liners (to a hoodlum: "You better drop that blade or you won't believe what happens next"). Like all Eastwood's successful movies, it cunningly plays it both ways. Coogan represents the old-fashioned conservatism of the west in conflict with the decadence of city life. Yet he's the perennial outsider, hostile to authority, a radical loner who gets the job done where bureaucracy and legal niceties fail. The film was to be the inspiration behind the TV series McCloud, in which Dennis Weaver took the Eastwood role. --Edward Buscombe
Return of the Living Dead is a parody-cum-sequel spin-off from George Romero's superior Night of the Living Dead films. A corpse-containing canister gets breached and releases an oily, loose-limbed, brain-eating zombie tatterdemalion and a gas that revives anything dead in the vicinity, even a bisected dog preserved as a vet's teaching specimen and a case of pinned butterflies. The dim-bulb leading characters--earnest Clu Gulager, goofy James Karen and Thom Matthews--burn up a mess of surplus living body parts, but the rains wash the ashes into the earth of a nearby cemetery and a whole crowd of brain-eating zombies claw their way out to terrorise a group of teens who sport the kind of 1985 fashions, hairdos, slang preferences and musical tastes that will never feature in a TV nostalgia programme. There are plenty of in-jokes at the expense of the Living Dead films (learning that shooting 'em in the brain doesn't work, the appalled Matthews gasps, "You mean the movie lied?"), and director Dan O'Bannon, the writer of Dark Star and Alien, hurries things along through some gruesome action and terror-by-zombie bits until the surprisingly cynical anti-government conclusion. It's not as wittily outrageous as Re-Animator or Braindead, but it has an amiable, drive-in-cum-home video grunge about it. Frequently naked exploitation regular Linnea Quigley makes an impression as the punkette zombie who goes on the rampage wearing nothing but leg-warmers and body make-up. The frill-free DVD is full-screen (boo hiss!) except for the titles, offers only the trailer and inadequate cast and crew notes as extras, but it looks okay. --Kim Newman
3 classic Laurel & Hardy films from the Fox vaults featuring The Bullfighters The Dancing Masters and A-Haunting We Will Go.
Filmmaker Alan Parker reopens the case of Nancy Spungen, sometime stripper, addict and lover of the Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious, in a bid to find out what really happened that night in room 100.
Fletch (1985): Meet the only guy who changes his identity more often than his underwear. Chevy Chase is at his hilarious best in this suspense-packed comedy thriller based on Gregory McDonald's novel. Fletch is an investigative reporter who's constantly changing his identity. While working on a drug expose Fletch attracts the attention of a strange business man (Tim Matheson) who wants to be killed so his wife will inherit more insurance. The wily Fletch senses a scam and soon he's up to his byline in frame-ups murder police corruption and forbidden romance. It'll be the story of the year if he can stay alive to meet his deadline! Fletch Lives (1989): Director Michael Ritchie and Chevy Chase team up once again for Fletch Lives with Chase reprising the role of Irwin ""Fletch"" Fletcher newspaper journalist and master of disguise. When his recently deceased aunt bequeaths her decrepit manor to him Fletch travels down south to rural Louisiana. Initially things go well especially when he hooks up with a flirtatious southern belle. But when he wakes up the morning after he's shocked to find that she has been murdered. In order to catch the killers and clear himself the intrepid chameleon-like Fletch must infiltrate the congregation of Jimmy Lee Farnsworth (R. Lee Ermey) a greedy local preacher who wants to gain control of Fletch's land in order to build a Bible-themed amusement park.
Timothy Dalton makes his debut as secret agent 007 in this action-packed Cold War thriller. James Bond is given an assignment to guard the life of a high-ranking Russian defector. The trouble is the defection is nothing but a scam to enable the pesky Russkie to perpetrate a perfidious arms deal. Along the way Bond hooks up with the delectable cellist Kara Malovy (Maryam D'Abo) who is not all that she seems to be...
Brian Henson directs his late father's creations in the Charles Dickens classic, the best known (and most oft-filmed) Christmas story of all time. Michael Caine plays the old miser Scrooge with Kermit as his long-suffering but ever-hopeful employee Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as Cratchit's wife, and a host of Muppets (including the Great Gonzo as an unlikely Charles Dickens) taking other primary roles in this bright, playful adaptation of the sombre tale. Or at least it starts brightly enough--the anarchic humour soon settles into mirthful memories and a sense of melancholy as the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future take Scrooge on a journey of his lonely, wasted life. Michael Caine makes a wonderful Scrooge, delightfully rediscovering the meaning of life as fantastic creations from Henson's Creature Shop (developed specially for this film) take the reins as the three ghosts. While the odd mix of offbeat humour and sombre drama undercuts the power of Dickens's drama, this kid-friendly retelling makes an excellent family drama that adults and children alike can enjoy. --Sean Axmaker
Sean Penn and Don Cheadle star in this drama that follows the life of a disillusioned salesman who takes extraordinary measures to make his presence felt.
Surf’s up... when three intergalactic girls take their spaceship for a spin... and splash down off the California coast! Washed up on shore, the breathtaking babes start making serious waves with a trio of buff beach boys. But before the bronzed bunch can “hang ten,” the sand hits the fan...as the Sun Bun Tanning Lotion Company tried to push the local surfing legend Bud “Big Cajones” Elrick off the beach. It’s up to the three out-of-this-world beauties to help the holistic hipster in the only way they know... by busting loose in a wet and wild bikini contest that sets the strand a-sizzle and proves for once and for all that the Pacific Coast Highway leads straight to a hard-body heaven! Special Features: All region codes. Numbered spine. Videozone behind the scenes documentary. Original trailer. Animated stills gallery. Full moon trailer park. Reversible sleeve incorporating original artwork. Red case.
The Smurfs: Complete First Season Box Set (4 Discs)
Created by Buck Henry and Mel Brooks this satirical comedy is set in 1960s Washington DC. The Cold War was made a little warmer and a lot funnier due in part to the efforts of an inept underpaid overzealous spy: Maxwell Smart Agent 86. Episodes Comprise: 1. Mr. Big 2. Diplomat's Daughter 3. School Days 4. Our Man In Toyland 5. Now You See Him... Now You Don't 6. Washington 4 Indians 3 7. KAOS In Control 8. The Day Smart Turned Chicken 9. Satan Place 10. Our Man In Leotards 11. Too Many Chiefs 12. My Nephew The Spy 13. Aboard The Orient Express 14. Weekend Vampire 15. Survival Of The Fittest 16. Double Agent 17. Kisses For KAOS 18. The Dead Spy Scrawls 19. Back To The Old Drawing Board 20. All In The Mind 21. Dear Diary 22. Smart The Assassin 23. I'm Only Human 24. Stakeout On Blue Mist Mountain 25. The Amazing Harry Hoo 26. Hubert's Unfinished Symphony 27. Ship Of Spies (I) 28. Ship Of Spies (II) 29. Shipment To Beirut 30. The Last One In Is A Rotten Spy
The fourth series of Kieran Prendiville's gentle comedy drama which became a fixture of the Sunday night schedule for BBC1. This series introduces Colin Farrell (yep the Hollywood bad-boy and the title lead in Alexander) as Danny Byrne who would go on to star in series 5 and 6. Episodes Comprise: 1. All Bar One 2. He Healeth the Sick 3. Bread and Water 4. Par for the Course 5. The Odd Couple 6. Turf 7. It's a Family Affair 8. Rock Bottom 9. As Stars Loo
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