Michael Kitchen stars as the thoughtful and enigmatic Chief Superintendent Foyle. England is in the grip of the Second World War and Foyle is anxious to join the war effort. However his applications have been repeatedly turned down and he returns home to the South Coast feeling frustrated and guilty. It soon becomes apparent that his detective skills are vitally needed on the home front. Fifty Ships: September 1940. An American millionaire a German spy an old flame and a bo
Barnaby and Troy are sent to investigate the death of William Carter found dead at the bottom of the stairs at his commune.
Directed by Austrian �migr� Paul L. Stein, Red Wagon features the screen debut of the sixteen-year-old Jimmy Hanley, the Rank Organisation star who would become British cinemagoers' favourite 'boy next door', with American character actor Charles Bickford, silent-era star Greta Nissen, and Hanley's future Huggetts co-star Amy Veness. Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith's novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves h...
The seventh and final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer begins with a mystery: someone is murdering teenage girls all over the world and something is trying hard to drive Spike mad. Buffy is considerably more cheerful in these episodes than we have seen her during the previous year as she trains Dawn and gets a job as student counselor at the newly rebuilt Sunnydale High. Willow is recovering from the magical addiction which almost led her to destroy the world, but all is not yet well with her, or with Anya, who has returned to being a Vengeance demon in "Same Time, Same Place" and "Selfless," and both women are haunted by their decisions. Haunting of a different kind comes in the excellent "Conversations with Dead People" (one of the show's most terrifying episodes ever), in which a mysterious song is making Spike kill again in spite of his soul and his chip. Giles turns up in "Bring on the Night" and Buffy has to fight one of the deadliest vampires of her career in "Showtime". In "Potential" Dawn faces a fundamental reassessment of her purpose in life. Buffy was always a show about female empowerment, but it was also a show about how ordinary people can decide to make a difference alongside people who are special. And it was also a show about people making up for past errors and crimes. So, for example, we have the excellent episodes "Storyteller", in which the former geek/supervillain Andrew sorts out his redemption while making a video diary about life with Buffy; and "Lies My Parents Told Me," in which we find out why a particular folk song sends Spike crazy. Redemption abounds as Faith returns to Sunnydale and the friends she once betrayed, and Willow finds herself turning into the man she flayed. Above all, this was always Buffy's show: Sarah Michelle Gellar does extraordinary work here both as Buffy and as her ultimate shadow, the First Evil, who takes her face to mock her. This is a fine ending to one of television's most remarkable shows. --Roz Kaveney
Sex lies and murder. Welcome to the world of Katrina Skinner a 19-year-old single mum who's planning to do just that. Katrina lives in a world of petty crime fast cars manicures and sex. A master manipulator of men living at home with her father in suburban Golden Grove Katrina will stop at nothing to get what she wants even murder. When her father threatens to contact social services and take away her child Katrina sets in motion a plan to wreak suburban mayhem that will leave a community in shock and Katrina infamous in a way even she never dreamed of.
The body of criminal Ronnie Stokes is found in the middle of a crop circle in Midsomer Parva with his hands burnt puncture wounds in his back and a chunk of his hair missing. Lloyd Kirby the local UFOlogist believes that it is the work of aliens however Barnaby and Troy are not convinced by his theory. John Nettles and Daniel Casey star in another installment of this rural detective series based on the novels by Caroline Graham.
On the verge of the breakthrough of his career an ambitious young journalist learns that his mother is dying. The discovery forces him to re-evaluate his life and responsibilities; particularly when he inherits he care of his younger sister Roberta who has Down's Syndrome and has always lived at home. At first he protests but gradually these mismatched siblings achieve a hard-won kind of rapprochement one which transforms all of their lives in unexpected ways...
He's the kind of cop who steals drugs off a dead man’s body, the kind of father who'd rather feed his drug habit than his family. His badge means nothing to him other than the right to act like the very criminals he’s supposed to be chasing. The fierce anger beneath his personality is only fuelled by his addiction to heroin, crack and alcohol. But when a beautiful young nun (Frankie Thorn) is raped on the altar of a local church, the Bad Lieutenant (Academy Award Nominee, Harvey Keitel) is drawn to her case and into a final desperate attempt to find the true depths of human sin and the power of mercy. Special Features: Theatrical Trailer Filmed Introduction, Audio Commentary and Interview with Director Abel Farrara Cast and Crew Biographies Stills Gallery
Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby finds himself investigating the strange goings-on in his Aunt's rest home. Aunt Alice reports a death and footsteps in the night. Now Barnaby and Troy are forced to take notice...based on the novel by Caroline Graham.
A box set of three spine tingling horror tales: Masque Of The Red Death: As a deadly plague ravages Europe sadistic Prince Prospero hosts a lavish banquet for noble devil-worshippers in the sanctuary of his castle. But in the midst of their cruelly wanton revelry there is an uninvited masked guest; Death! Night Of The Eagle: Norman Taylor is hated by other university lecturers when rumours of a major promotion circulate. Hated so much in fact that someone pervades his life with sinister occult spells... Zoltan Hound Of Dracula: In the event of a bizarre find a group of Russian soldiers bring back to life the Dog of Dracula. The evil hound then travels to Los Angeles where the last descendants of the deadly clan still survive...
A young woman (Isabelle Adjani) in Paris in the 1920s is left penniless and without means of support. A rather strange English couple (Maggie Smith Alan Bates) offer her refuge but at the price of seduction by the husband...
From internationally-acclaimed director John Huston (The African Queen The Misfits The Night of the Iguana) this 'lost' cult classic stars the director's daughter Angelica Huston as one half of the youthful couple who try against all odds to make their love and idealism endure against the backdrop of a brutal and bloody Medieval France.
Det. Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) finds herself investigating a bizarre death in a very different part of London an affluent commuter suburb. When the manager of the local country club is found dead in his home neighbours are quick to blame youngsters from the rundown housing estate nearby and the local police are happy to go along with that view. With her personnel resources at full stretch D.S. Tennison is forced to engage in political games with the community while pulling together a difficult team and leading a problematic investigation.
A foursome of female agents are out to stop a vicious evil mastermind from unleashing the bubonic plague in this action packed thriller which is rumoured to have inspired Charlie's Angels!
A year before the outbreak of the First World War Charlie MacFell returns from university to Northumberland to visit the farm where he spent an unhappy childhood and where his brutal father would subject young farm hands to vicious beatings on the hot cinder path. Marriage to the beautiful but adulterous Victoria Chapman turns out to be a further humiliation for Charlie but when he joins the army he discovers amongst the horrors of the Western Front a strength he never knew existed. Respected by his family and by his men on the battlefield he finally finds true love with his wife's younger sister. Just as lasting happiness is within his grasp fate seems poised to snatch it all away...
Two more investigations for Foyle set on the southern coast of England during World War II who is assisted by Milner and his driver Sam.
By this third episode of Foyle's War, series creator Anthony Horowitz has his characters' fundamentals and the wartime milieu well in hand; he rewards himself by taking this remarkable programme to a new high. "A Lesson in Murder" concerns a cluster of terrible deaths--a jailhouse suicide provoked by abusive police, the monstrous killing of a child, the murder of a judge--directly or indirectly tied to a military draft board tainted by scandal. As Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) investigates the linkages, his two prized assistants, driver Sam (Honeysuckle Weeks) and Detective Milner (Anthony Howell), become personally involved with a pair of naive wartime casualties. Intensifying gloom over Germany's imminent declaration of war hovers over everything and a home-front crisis makes heroes of some and scoundrels of others. Fortunately, steadfast Foyle is there to separate one from the other. --Tom Keogh
Three fantasitc family favourites on this great boxed set. Looney Tunes Back In Action: David verses Goliath Ali versus Frazier Britney versus Justin all pale in comparison to the earth rending bone-crushing carrot-chomping anvil-dropping tail-feather-scorching gleefully epic smack down that is Rabbit verses Duck or more specifically Bugs Bunny verses Daffy. Set in a live-action world Warner Bros. animated superstars interact with human characters for maximum comic eff
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