Titles Comprise: Jackass - The Movie: All the jackasses you love from the MTV series are back performing stunts no one would let them pull on television. Johnny Knoxville and his insane crew take the concept of the MTV show Jackass - a bunch of guys doing dangerous and disturbing stunts just to see what happens - to the extreme. This time it's not edited for television! Jackass - The Movie - Number Two: Twice as fearless twice as hilarious and twice as curious. Laugh yourself silly and gasp in disbelief as the guys launch their battered bodies into the an onslaught of absurd situations and hopeful outcomes whether it's Pontius laying his manhood on the line for a puppet show Bam taking one for the team as he faces off butt-first against a hot branding iron or Knoxville's undercover and over-the-top pranks as a 90-year-old man these guys know what it takes to lower the bar and up the ante in their quest for nonsensical fun. Jackass 2.5: The Movie with all the stuff we couldn't show in theaters. As if going number two wasn't enough Johnny Knoxville and the entire crew from Jackass return in yet another insane foray into stupidity Jackass 2.5! Featuring all the stuff they couldn't show you before the boys take their stunts to all-new heights that'll leave you laughing squirming and begging for more. Jackass 3: Celebrating all forms of madness and mayhem the entire Jackass crew - including Johnny Knoxville Bam Margera Steve-O Chris Pontius Preston Lacy and Jason Wee Man Acuna - returns for more side-splitting lunacy and cringe-inducing stunts. From wild animal face-offs with a crazed bull to pitiless practical jokes - high-five anyone? - you can guarantee logic-defying acts pain and suffering as Jackass 3 reaches new heights in the pursuit of the inventively insane.
Created by Armando Iannucci (Oscar® nominee for co-writing In the Loop), Veep takes a sharp, satirical look at the insular world of Washington politics, following the whirlwind day-to-day existence of the onetime VP and now-President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus in her Emmy®-winning role). Picking up where S4 left off, Season 5 finds Selina in the midst of a virtually unprecedented Electoral College tie with her future as President coming down to only a few hundred votes. With Amy and Dan on the ground in Nevada working on a recount, Selina finds herself spinning her wheels in D.C., as her staff continues their mission to make her seem presidential (even though she is the President) while fending off the ambitions of her charismatic Vice Presidential running mate Tom James, who in a twist of obscure constitutional procedure could end up becoming President. Over the course of this season's 10 episodes, with the stakes for Selina higher than ever before, Veep continues to prove that in Washington, even the most banal decisions can have ripple effects with unexpected and often hilarious consequences. Episodes: 1. Morning After 2.Nev-AD-a 3.The Eagle 4.Mother 5.Thanksgiving 6. C**tgate 7. Congressional Ball 8. Camp David 9. Kissing Your Sister 10. Inauguration Extras: Deleted Scenes 6 Episode Commentaries
Dominic 'Nicky' Cole has a reputation as an ambitious and diligent detective constable. But when he reports on a fellow officer he's promptly transferred to a new station - effectively in disgrace. Nicky takes his uncle and his abandoned nephew with him but finds himself working on the difficult night duty stretch. Often he finds himself looking after cases that his day colleagues have left unsolved - and that in itself brings risk dilemma and danger. The complete Series 1 and
Politics is about people, former Sen. Selina Meyer is fond of saying. Unfortunately, the people Meyer, a charismatic leader and rising star in her party, meets after becoming vice president are nothing like she expected, but everything she was warned about. Veep follows the VP as she puts out political fires, juggles her public schedule and private life, and does everything within her limited powers to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the chief executive. Meyer's trusted, and some not-so-trusted, sidekicks include chief of staff Amy, one-time spokesperson Mike, and right-hand man Gary.
Vintage comedy by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. As Walmington-on-Sea trembles at the thought of a mighty Nazi invasion the indefatigable Captain Mainwaring and his eager Home Guard are ready and waiting - regardless that some of them are so old they can hardly stand up... Episodes Comprise: 1. Ring Dem Bells 2. When You've Got To Go 3. Is There Still Honey For Tea? 4. Come In Your Time Is Up 5. High Finance 6. The Face On The Poster 7. My Brother And I 8. The Love Of Three Oranges
Joe Young is a devout Mormon visiting Hollywood to convert the unenlightened. One afternoon when Joe is preaching from door to door he accidentally stumbles onto the set of an adult movie. The director – evil Maxx Orbison – offers Joe $20 000 to star in his next porno as “Captain Orgazmo”. Mindful of the financial burdens of his upcoming wedding Joe reluctantly accepts the role. When the film becomes a worldwide success Joe’s fiancée discovers just what he’s been up to and insists that he quit the world of adult films. However Maxxx recognises Joe’s star quality and will do almost anything to ensure that ‘Captain Orgazmo’ will return in a sequel. Extras: Extras/Episodes. Behind the scenes featurette: 18mins Outtakes : 40mins Cut scenes: 28mins Orgazmo the book: 39mins Cast & crew interviews: 8mins Interview with Trey Parker at Dragon Con: 34mins hidden easter egg: 4mins
If the mark of a successful TV comedy is that repeat showings attract new viewers, then Dad's Army must be one of the best. The Very Best of Dad's Army includes five episodes almost covering its whole time span--from 1969's "Sons of the Sea", an entertaining caper when lost at home, to 1977's final episode "Never Too Old", in which sparky Corporal Jones marries his longtime sweetheart, and the ageing Second World War platoon drinks a toast to Britain's Home Guard. Along with these is 1973's "The Deadly Attachment", where a captive U-boat crew falls prey to dummy hand-grenades; 1972's "Keep Young and Beautiful", a touching tale of looking younger and sticking together; and the same year's "Asleep in the Deep", where the platoon uses its skill and judgement, plus a little luck, to escape a life-threatening situation. Fans and newcomers will enjoy the priceless interplay of Arthur Lowe and John le Mesurier, along with the contributions of Clive Dunn, John Laurie, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender and James Beck, in this nostalgic depiction of Britain as it once was. On the DVD: The 4:3 picture reproduction has come up well and the dual mono sound is more than adequate. Each episode features six scene selections, while the artist profiles provide brief but relevant biographical details. The half-hour Selection Box gives celebrities past and present a chance to pick their favourite extracts and explain just why they're hooked. Chances are you will be too.--Richard Whitehouse
A truly joyous tale starring Doris Day as the union leader in a clothing factory. From the novel 'Seven And A Half Cents' by Richard Bissell and adapted into a successful musical which the french director Jean Luc Goddard called the first left wing operetta!
Breathless, Jim McBride's 1983 remake of Au Bout de Souffle rewrites Godard's existential hipster as a vain, style-obsessed hood and in the process loses some of the point. Godard's hero was a translation and productive misunderstanding of a quintessentially American sort of delinquent; because it is a retranslation, Gere's intelligent, nervy performance as Jesse Lujack suffers by comparison, however admirable it is taken in itself. McBride's direction strokes Gere's face and body lovingly--his every foxy smile, or glance at himself in a mirror, is played for passionate significance. This is also a good-looking film: the back alleys of LA and sunset over the Mojave desert have rarely looked as good. Valerie Kaprisky's Monica is inevitably given secondary importance; the decision to make the woman who goes along with Jesse's wild final ride on a whim an exchange student makes her at once more and less like her equivalent in the Godard--she has a touching exoticism that is at the same time somehow beside the point. The DVD includes the original theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney
Get ready for the Intergalactic Games, a friendly competition that aims to bring peace throughout the galaxy. With these teams competing, though, it may get a little fierce! Facing off against Korugar Academy, and the Female Furies, can the Super Hero High team bring home the championship? Team up with Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Batgirl as they uncover an even greater challenge off the field, as one of the teams has a much more sinister motive for joining the competition. Let the games begin! It's time for a new DC SuperHero Girls animated movie.
Five fine episodes of the evergreen Home Guard sitcom here. Dad's Army endures because it combines a healthy dollop of self-mockery with a sense of pride in Britain's lonely defiance against Hitler's might in 1940, encapsulated in the pompous and incompetent yet courageous Captain Mainwaring. Arthur Lowe is sublime in this role. Though he generally acts as a foil to his flippant platoon of funny stereotypes (Walker, Frazier, Godfrey, etc.), his subtle double-takes and apoplectic facial expressions of exasperation are endlessly hilarious. Corporal Jones' doddery recklessness can generally be relied upon to culminate in a finale involving trousers, cries of "Don't panic!" and chases across country but the masterstroke of this series was the casting against type of John Le Mesurier as the vague, aristocratic Sergeant and Lowe as his military but not social superior. These episodes include "The Day The Balloon Went Up" (a typically frantic caper involving a stray barrage balloon), "The Two And A Half Feathers" (including a wonderful Jonesy flashback to his days in the Sudan) and "The Deadly Attachment", in which Pike cheeks the captain of a captive U-Boat crew, who demands his name to add to his "list" of insolent Englanders. "Don't tell him, Pike!" urges Mainwaring. --David Stubbs
Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) is a best-selling author with hundreds of fans. But one of his stories holds a secret that comes to life; a secret that even he can't imagine.
Is it time, after the anonymous disaster of Mission to Mars, to give Brian De Palma's famously doomed film of Tom Wolfe's bulky novel Bonfire of the Vanities another chance? The uproarious ins and outs of the film's troubled production have become well-known via Julie Salamon's account of its making, The Devil's Candy, and fans of that might want to flick between page and screen to see just when Melanie Griffith caused untold continuity problems by having her breasts inflated. Techno buffs will surely appreciate the pointless but somehow wonderful trickery of an extended tracking shot at the outset that exists only to last a few seconds longer than the one in Orson Welles Touch of Evil (1958). Tom Hanks was rather better cast than was generally allowed, as "master of the universe" Sherman McCoy, who comes a cropper after a hit-and-run accident, since his nice-guy act shows intriguing cracks. And even Bruce Willis does his best on a hiding to nothing as the drunken writer. It is funny in parts, agonising in others, and misses Wolfe's tone--but somehow its failures might make it as symptomatic of the long-gone excesses of the early 90s as the novel was of the 80s. --Kim Newman
Titles Comprise: Dave: Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver star in this box office winner about an uncanny Presidential look-alike recruited as a momentary stand-in for America's Chief Executive. However things don't turn out exactly as planned and Dave finds himself continuing the masquerade indefinitely. Real life Washington politicos and pundits join the fun as Dave uses ordinary-guy savvy to deal with the extraordinary responsibilities of the Oval Office. Mickey Blue Eyes: Hugh Grant plays dapper Manhattan art auctioneer Michael Felgate in this lively fish-out-of-water comedy romp. Eager to marry Gina (Jeanne Tripplehorn) the lovely teacher he's been dating for three months Michael feels it's time he met her family. What he meets is the family. Gina's father Frank (James Caan) is a gangster a 'juicer' who extracts money for the mob. Now the squeeze is on Michael to use the auction house as a money laundering scam for dubious artwork plunging fumbling bumbling Michael into a world where he must pose as a notorious wise guy called Mickey Blue Eyes. You'll call him hilarious. Sandra Bullock stars as a bumbling female FBI agent assigned to go undercover as a participant in the Miss United States beauty pageant when it is discovered that one of the contestants is being targeted for murder. Benjamin Bratt leads the undercover team while also playing the reluctant love interest. Candice Bergen and William Shatner manage the pageant and hire Michael Caine to turn Bullock from rough and tumble agent to stunning beauty queen. The physical transformation is impressive although the klutzy personality remains. Everything seems to be fine once the killer is suddenly caught but Bullock suspects there is more to this story and the truth eventually unfolds with an unexpected twist. Doc Hollywood: A brash young medical resident is driving across the country to begin a career in Beverly Hills as a cosmetic surgeon to the stars. But an accident of fate strands him in a small southern town. There his outlook on life - and love - gets a down-home twist that changes him forever.
In the steamy jungles of the South Pacific an enormous creature is created by nuclear fallout. Lost for decades the power and the fury of the world's largest monster are about to be unleashed. He's the most spectacular creature in cinematic history with a foot the size of a bus a body as tall as London's Big Ben and strength and agility the likes of which the world has never seen.
Oscar-winner Denzel Washington and Star Trek's Chris Pine team with action maestro Tony Scott in this non-stop action thriller.
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS stars as former VP and onetime President Selina Meyer, now out of office for the first time in years after her loss in a Senate vote to resolve an Electoral College tie last season. Forging ahead to secure her legacy and find her place in the world, while much of her staff pursues endeavors of their own, Season 6 finds Selina and her band of fellow misfits hilariously attempting to make their mark while navigating the political landscape in Washington and beyond. Episodes: Episode 1: Omaha Episode 2: Library Episode 3: Georgia Episode 4: Justice Episode 5: Chicklet Episode 6: Qatar Episode 7: Blurb Episode 8: Judge Episode 9: A Woman First Episode 10: Groundbreaking Extra: Audio Commentaries Deleted Scenes
Clive Dunn (Dad's Army) is Sam Cobbett, the geriatric hero of this hilarious sitcom which takes a look at the generation gap in particular, what happens when a wily, outspoken old curmudgeon ends up living under the same roof as his daughter and son-in-law. This second series also stars Priscilla Morgan, Edward Hardwicke and Jon Laurimore.Having been prised from his terraced house in Ironmonger Row by the crowbars of the demolition men, retired engine driver Sam Cobbett now lives with his daughter Doris and her husband, Arthur. A veteran of both world wars, Sam is all things considered a reasonable man. But he has rather firm ideas about Life and How to Live It; whether it's lowering the tone in the local pub or embarking on disastrous fishing trips, Sam's escapades cause consternation for most of the people around him, and none more so than his socially ambitious son-in-law...
Here's the pitch for Small Soldiers: "It's like Toy Story but these toys that come to life really kick butt!" That's essentially it for this breezy popcorn flick. In a very smart first 10 minutes, new toy-company owner Denis Leary tells his crew he wants toys "that play back". Hence the small soldiers land in Anytown, USA and the loner kid Alan (Gregory Smith) opens them up before they are supposed to be on the shelves. Those military-grade chips sure make them smart and give the toys plenty of pithy retorts to boot. There's plenty of violence and action, most of it fun enough. The vocal talents, including Tommy Lee Jones, Frank Langella and cast members of The Dirty Dozen are inspired characters, the humans less so. With Gremlins director Joe Dante at the helm, it plays like a sequel to that 80s fantasy. Amazing visual effects, of course. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com
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