The UV copy is only available in the UK and Ireland. Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Damien Chazelle, LA LA LAND tells the story of Mia [Emma Stone], an aspiring actress, and Sebastian [Ryan Gosling], a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams.
Classic sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginal Perrin gets the remake treatment with actor Martin Clunes in the title role. Cold Feet actress Fay Ripley and Wendy Craig have also been cast in the show which will be screened later this year. Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye has collaborated with the original show's creator David Nobbs for the new series. The 1970s comedy which told the story of a businessman driven to the edge by his monotonous life starred Leonard Rossiter in the main role.
Watch the nation's favourite couples in the BAFTA award winning drama series as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.
A highly innovative crime drama, Suspects features Cold Feet star Fay Ripley as CID team leader Martha Bellamy and James Murray as DCI Daniel Drummond. This fresh, innovative police procedural tackles difficult subjects in a powerfully authentic way: shot like a fly-on-the-wall documentary, the drama is unscripted, with the cast improvising their dialogue lending the series a unique feel, as though the crew has been granted the privilege of following a real police investigation. Immersive and absorbing, this set contains the complete third, fourth and fifth series all fourteen complex and high-tension episodes. With storylines covering assault, murder, abduction, paedophilia and rape, Suspects' bold and stylish approach creates a new high watermark for television drama.
In this live action/animated adaptation of the Raymond Briggs book a young girl gets trapped in 'Bogeydom' with Fungus and his family! Repulsive yet compulsive for a whole new generation of nose-picking boil scratching zit squeezing watchers. You will be highly entertained by Fungus and a whole host of wonderful Bogeyman characters brought to life by the voice of Martin Clunes. Fungus The Bogeyman's job is to venture 'up top' above Bogeydom to scare 'Drycleaners' (a Bogey's name
Volume 1 of a collection of classic Marilyn Monroe movies including: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1956) Gentlemen may prefer blondes but this blonde bombshell prefers diamonds and lots of them! Glamorous showgirl Marilyn sets sail for France intent on marrying a rich yet boring beau. But anything can - and does - happen with the beautiful and fun-loving Jane Russell acting as chaperone. From celebrated director Howard Hawks this musical comedy classic features Marilyn's s
Visually beautiful, Stanley Kubrick's last completed film Eyes Wide Shut blends the sinister, the sensual and the clinical in a combination that is rather too personal and idiosyncratic to be entirely successful as the final statement about gender and sexuality he intended it to be. Adapted by Frederick Raphael from the Dream Story of Freud's friend Schnitzler, it shows a young successful couple confront the dangers that lurk beyond monogamy; Nicole Kidman's Alice does little more than fantasise, flirt and dream, but even this causes guilt and pain. Doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) does rather more--he visits a whore, crashes an orgy and continues to ask questions when warned off; if no disaster ensues, and it is possible that two people die as a result, it is only luck that averts it. Much of the best of what is here is to be found in occasional moments of stillness--Cruise walking through a morgue--or wild comedy--Cruise's attempt to hire a costume in the middle of the night interrupts major shenanigans at the fancy-dress shop. Cruise and Kidman do what they can with material that never means as much as it aspires to, and the standout performance is Sydney Pollack's, as a worldly wise client. On the DVD: Eyes Wide Shut on DVD is presented in lavish Dolby Sound that makes the most of the obsessive Ligeti piano piece and Shostakovich waltz that dominate the score, and in the 1.33:1 ratio that was Kubrick's considered choice. It has subtitles in English, Arabic, Bulgarian and Rumanian, two TV spots and informative interviews with Kidman and Cruise, as well as with Steven Spielberg, to whom Kubrick had talked at length about his artistic intentions. --Roz Kaveney
In this rousing celebration of love and laughter in America's heartland each member of the Frake family is up for a different prize when they attend their state fair: Father wants a blue ribbon for his favorite pig first prize (and only first prize) will do for Mom's entry in the pie-baking contest and for their son and daughter the hunt is on for true love...
Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Damien Chazelle, LA LA LAND tells the story of Mia [Emma Stone], an aspiring actress, and Sebastian [Ryan Gosling], a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams.
Three classic mysteries in one set The Complete Agatha. Agatha and The Truth of Murder: In 1926, with her personal life in tatters and her writing in crisis, a young Agatha Christie becomes involved in a notorious unsolved murder. Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar: In Bagdhad, Agatha finds a charming, naive young archaeologist who needs her help as a series of murders unfold in the faded grandeur of the villa where they are staying. Agatha and the Midnight Murdes: London 1940: As the Blitz rages and her future is threatened by fallout from the war, Agatha Christie makes the decision to kill off her most famous creation.
Journalist, screenwriter, novelist, soldier, filmmaker Samuel Fuller was one of American cinema's most prolific and multi-faceted talents. However, the films based on Fuller's early work as a screenwriter remain under appreciated. It Happened in Hollywood: Regarded by Fuller as his first real Hollywood credit', the film has a now-familiar premise: the silent film star who finds they are unable to make the transition to talkies. Blending comedy, romance, action, and a playful self-reflexive streak, the film established Fuller in Hollywood. Adventure in Sahara: Fuller takes full story credit on this rip-roaring adventure yarn inspired he claimed by Victor Hugo, Beau Geste, and Mutiny on the Bounty. Power of the Press: Drawing on Fuller's own experiences as young newspaperman and journalist, this crime drama is a passionate cry for freedom of speech and expression. The film also features Fuller's first fully formed and vital female heroine in the shape of the impassioned Edwina (Gloria Dickson). Special Features: High Definition remasters of all three films Original mono audio It Happened in Hollywood (1937, 68 mins): Richard Dix and Fay Wray star as big-screen actors adapting to the coming of sound in this witty exposé of Tinseltown, directed by Harry Lachman from a screenplay co-written by Samuel Fuller Adventure in Sahara (1938, 57 mins): action-packed drama of revenge and honour, starring Paul Kelly and Lorna Gray, directed by D Ross Lederman from a story by Fuller Power of the Press (1943, 64 mins): Lew Landers directs this hard-edged drama about corruption within the newspaper industry, based on a story by Fuller and starring Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy and Gloria Dickson All-Star Party (2018, 6 mins): who's who of the stars' and their impersonators in the climactic party scene from It Happened in Hollywood Sam Fuller's Search for Truth with Tim Robbins (2009, 7 mins): the celebrated actor explores Fuller's time as a reporter Image gallery: publicity photography and promotional material for all three films New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Make Way for Tomorrow, by LEO McCAREY (An Affair to Remember), is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. BEULAH BONDI (It's a Wonderful Life) and VICTOR MOORE (Swing Time) headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring's selfish whims. An inspiration for Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, this is among American cinema's purest tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure. Special Features High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today, an interview from 2009 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich discussing the career of director Leo McCarey and Make Way for Tomorrow Video interview from 2009 with critic Gary Giddins, in which he talks about McCarey's artistry and the political and social context of the film PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Tag Gallagher and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, and an excerpt from film scholar Robin Wood's 1998 piece Leo McCarey and Family Values
A detective drama that doesn't follow the script. Suspects is a fresh and original British procedural crime drama, set in London, that tackles difficult subjects in a gritty and real way. Shot like a fly-on-the-wall documentary, this innovative new series is unscripted with the cast devising their own dialogue, lending Suspects a unique sense of authenticity. It's as though the crew has been granted the privilege of following a real police investigation. Starring Fay Ripley as DI Martha Bellamy (Cold Feet), Damien Molony as DS Jack Weston (Being Human, Ripper Street) and Clare-Hope Ashitey as DC Charlie Steele (Children of Men, Top Boy) as East London CID officers, each episode follows a different case from the committing of the crime to its conclusion. In this 3-disc set containing all the 9 episodes of Series 1 & 2, Bellamy and her team investigate crimes that are hard-hitting and contemporary, ranging from the hunt for a serial rapist, a brutal hammer assault on a man in his own home to the abduction of a young boy by a paedophile ring. With guest stars including Charlie Brooks (EastEnders), Dominic Powers (Emmerdale), Gillian Kearney (Casualty) and Larissa Wilson (Skins), Suspects is immersive and absorbing, taking the viewer into exhilarating new territory.
In this rousing celebration of love and laughter in America's heartland each member of the Frake family is up for a different prize when they attend their state fair: Father wants a blue ribbon for his favourite pig first prize (and only first prize) will do for Mom's entry in the pie-baking contest and for their son and daughter the hunt is on for true love...
Gritty British crime drama starring Damien Molony and Clare-Hope Ashitey.
A daring expedition happens across a giant ape in this classic 1933 creature feature.
Now you see it. You're amazed. You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you. No escape. You're helpless, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, scream for your life!" And scream Fay Wray does most famously in this monster classic, one of the greatest adventure films of all time, which even in an era of computer-generated wizardry remains a marvel of stop-motion animation. Robert Armstrong stars as famed adventurer Carl Denham, who is leading a "crazy voyage" to a mysterious, uncharted island to photograph "something monstrous ... neither beast nor man". Also aboard is waif Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and Bruce Cabot as big lug John Driscoll, the ship's first mate. King Kong's first half-hour is steady going, with engagingly corny dialogue ("Some big, hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy") and ominous portent that sets the stage for the horror to come. Once our heroes reach Skull Island, the movie comes to roaring, chest-thumping, T-rex-slamming, snake-throttling, pterodactyl-tearing, native-stomping life. King Kong was ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 50 best films of the century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the film's most indelible and iconic images. --Donald Liebenson, Amazon.comOn the DVD: Although a little light on extras, this is happily the Director's Cut, restoring scenes that were censored after the film's original 1933 run, including Kong peeling off Fay Wray's clothes like a banana, and our hirsute hero using unfortunate natives as dental floss. The ratio of 4:3 is correct for a film of this age; the picture and (mono) sound are perfectly acceptable without being revelatory. The 25-minute "making of" documentary from 1992 is a 60th anniversary tribute to the film, which details all of Kong's many ground-breaking contributions to cinema, from Willis O'Brien's use of stop-motion and rear projection effects to Max Steiner's music score. There are contributions from film historians, modern admirers of the film including composer Jerry Goldsmith--who admits that Steiner created a template that Hollywood composers are still following--and a few surviving participants such as sound effects man Murray Spivak. Apparently, director Merian C. Cooper's original idea was to capture live gorillas, transport them to the island of Komodo and film them fighting the giant lizards! Thanks to Willis O'Brien's pioneering effects work good sense prevailed and a cinema classic was born. --Mark Walker
A detective drama that doesn’t follow the script. Suspects is a fresh and original British procedural crime drama set in London that tackles difficult subjects in a gritty and real way. Shot like a fly-on-the-wall documentary this innovative new series is unscripted with the cast devising their own dialogue lending Suspects a unique sense of authenticity. It’s like the crew has been granted the privilege of following a real police investigation. Starring Fay Ripley as D.I. Martha Bellamy (Cold Feet) Damien Molony as D.S. Jack Weston (Being Human Ripper Street) and Clare-Hope Ashitey as D.C. Charlie Steele(Children of Men Top Boy) as East London CID officers each episode follows a different case from the committing of the crime to its conclusion. In this second series of two two parters Bellamy and her team investigate crimes that are hard-hitting and contemporary – a brutal hammer assault on a man in his own home and then the abduction of a young boy by a paedophile ring. With guest stars including Charlie Brooks (Eastenders) Dominic Powers (Emmerdale) Gillian Kearney (Casualty) and Larissa Wilson (Skins). Suspects is immersive and absorbing taking the viewer into exhilarating new territory. This DVD contains all 4 episodes of Series 2.
George Bancroft (Angels with Dirty Faces) and Fay Wray (King Kong) star in the first sound film from legendary director Josef von Sternberg (Shanghai Express), made just prior to his celebrated series of collaborations with Marlene Dietrich. Murderer 'Thunderbolt' Jim Lang (Bancroft) is arrested and imprisoned with the help of his former moll, Ritzie (Wray). Whilst on death row in Sing Sing, Jim enacts his revenge by framing Ritzie's lover, Bob (Richard Arlen), for a crime he didn't commit. With a screenplay from Herman J Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane) and Joseph L Mankiewicz (Suddenly, Last Summer), adapted from a story by Jules Furthman (Blonde Venus), Thunderbolt is a classic pre-Code crime thriller. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio The Guardian Interview with Fay Wray (1990): archival audio recording of the famed actor in conversation at the National Film Theatre, London Tony Rayns on Thunderbolt (2023): extensive discussion of von Sternberg's classic by the writer and film programmer Video essay on the film by film historian Tag Gallagher (2023) Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Pamela Hutchinson, archival articles, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and full film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK All extras subject to change
Meet Meg, whose spells usually end in disaster, and Mog, her long-suffering cat in their brightly coloured world of lively adventure, crazy comedy and magical mayhem.
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