Alfred Hitchcock's final film Family Plot is understated comic fun that mixes suspense with deft humour, thanks to a solid cast. The plot centres on the kidnapping of an heir and a diamond theft by a pair of bad guys led by Karen Black and William Devane. The cops seem befuddled, but that doesn't stop a questionable psychic (Barbara Harris) and her not overly bright boyfriend (Bruce Dern, in a rare good-guy role) from picking up the trail and actually solving the crime. Did she do it with actual psychic powers? That's part of the fun of Harris's enjoyably ditsy performance. --Marshall Fine
Young boy Griffin witnesses the slaughter of his parents at the hands of a serial killer dubbed 'The Sandman'. Years later Griffin is now a young man at peace knowing that the murderer who has spent the last years languishing on death row and is about to die. At the very moment of the Sandman's execution evil is reborn as he becomes the malevolent 'Sleep Stalker'. Freed from mortal chains and capable of unimaginable powers he sets off to finish the job he started years ago - to kill Griffin.
A young man finds no luck in the Australian gold rush and drifts into petty crime. His life changes when he gets twelve years in an infamous prison.
Based on the novel 'Goosefoot' by Patrick McGinley which tells of a fresh naive and idealistic Irish woman who moves to Dublin yearning for a more exciting life. On her arrival she is plunged into a world of fear when a multiple killer starts to call her.
Something of a precursor to its contemporary ancestors in Bad Girls this gritty LWT-produced drama series is set in a fictional women's prison HMP Stonepark. However rather than focus on the inmates Within These Walls centres on the staff; exploring both their work and personal lives. Episodes Comprise: 1. Cause for Concern 2. Lesson Number One 3. The Walls Came Tumbling Down 4. In Her Own Right 5. Prisoner by Marriage 6. The Group 7. One Step Forward Two
United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( DTS 5.1 ), English ( DTS-HD Master Audio ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Short Film, SYNOPSIS: Writer/director Guy Myhill makes his feature debut with this British drama. After leaving school 16-year-old Goob Taylor (Liam Walpole) goes to spend the summer with his mum Janet (Sienna Guillory), working in her cafe and pumpkin fields. He has to face challenges of the adult world as his relationship with his mother becomes strained due to the presence of her new boyfriend Gene Womack (Sean Harris), a cruel, womanising stock-car racer. Meanwhile, Goob falls for Eva (Marama Corlett), a foreign field worker who helps him to imagine a better life. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: British Independent Film Awards, Stockholm Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, ...The Goob (2014) (Blu-Ray)
A biopic directed by Karel Reisz, Sweet Dreams charts how country music star Patsy Cline came by the torchy emotions in her songs honestly; rising from poor surroundings, literally forcing her talent on the Nashville establishment, all the while trying to survive an abusive marriage to a drinker. Though the script by Robert Getchell is standard Hollywood biography, the movie is more than watchable, thanks to a bone-deep performance by the always astonishing Jessica Lange and the counterpoint by Ed Harris as her loving but unreliable husband. The soundtrack features a basketful of Cline's hits, which Lange convincingly lip-synchs. --Marshall Fine
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
Focusing on the disappearance of a young girl within a crime-saturated neighbourhood Gone Baby Gone is an urban mystery of failure that mixes high-wire suspense with vivid characters and provocative themes. This dark hard-bitten and powerful adaptation of Dennis Lehane's haunting and emotional crime novel Gone Baby Gone sees Ben Affleck in his debut directorial role produce an intense crime thriller that is constantly surprising and deeply compelling. Dorchester a tough district of Boston where the gritty working class streets are lined with the wreckage of broken families and dreams is home to private investigator Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck). With professional partner and girlfriend Angela (Michelle Monaghan) Patrick investigates minor criminal cases. Their approachable tone and familiarity with the neighbourhood enables them to talk to people the police cannot. When four-year-old Amanda McCready (Madeline O'Brien) is abducted from her bedroom after her drug addicted mother Helene (Amy Ryan) leaves her alone the local police unit led by Capt. Jack Doyle (Morgan Freeman) and his ace detective Remy Bressant (Ed Harris) use all their resources to try and track the little girl down. With the police making no headway Patrick and Angela are bought in by Amanda's proud and virtuous aunt Bea to start their own investigation. As Patrick and Angela delve further down a path in to the dark heart of the neighbourhood they uncover an intensifying web of sordid lies and a labyrinthine maze of class corruption evil and innocence. With every clue or fact that is revealed tension mounts and much like Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Lehane's Mystic River Gone Baby Gone packs an emotionally powerful punch that keeps you ultimately involved and unaware of what is around the corner. By opting for a cast that consists of established and confident actors like Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris paired with real-life toughened Bostonians straight out of local pool-halls and clubs Ben Affleck has managed to portray the tough real feel of the streets of South Boston with natural grit and charm and has adapted Dennis Lehane's best-selling novel Gone Baby Gone in to a terrifying and intellectually engaging feature.
Worshipped By His People - Feared By His Enemies - Betrayed By His Friends Julius Caesar is the epic story of the legendary leader who single handedly changed the course of Greco-Roman history and earned his place in history as one of the greatest politicians generals and orators to have ever lived. From his early years in Rome through his assent to power and prominence this lavish international production reveals the conspiracy and intrigue lurking behind the Emperor's mas
In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean neighbourhood. It's politics as usual in the image-conscious organization, so the superintendent adds to the team black Detective Robert Oswalde (Colin Salma), a sharp but hot-headed investigator who has just broken off an affair with Tennyson. Now Tennyson grapples with her own conflicted feelings while fighting political and public-relations battles both in the media and within the police system itself in the midst of investigating the labyrinthine case. Between the scant clues left to sift, a prime suspect on the verge of death himself and divisions in her own team that result in a devastating death, Tennyson soon begins to suspect she's been hung out to dry by the department. Screenwriter Allan Cubitt dives into the murky waters of volatile racial and social relations to create an even more complex and compelling mystery in Tennyson's second appearance and Mirren rises to the challenge to explore the contradictions of an uncompromising cop in a compromising position. --Sean Axmaker
Brian Wilson On Tour is a documentary film celebrating the music of Beach Boy legend Brian Wilson. Following Brian through the U.S. and Japan on his first-ever solo tour this is an intimate portrait not of Brian ""the genius"" but of Brian ""the working musician "" choosing songs teaching them to his 10-piece band and ultimately performing them live for the first time ever in front of electrified audiences. Includes 24 live performances interviews and guest musicians like Neil Youn
In this adaptation of the Greek myth, Hercules (Lou Ferrigno) - a semi-divine being - squares off against King Minos (William Berger), who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe (Mirella D'Angelo), Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia (Ingrid Anderson) from being sacrificed by Minos and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress (Sybil Danning).
James Cameron's 1989 aquatic epic The Abyss was, quite literally, a watershed in the annals of filmmaking: not only was it the first (and only) movie to be shot almost entirely underwater, in the largest tank ever used for a movie set, and to use live dialogue from specially designed headsets, it also pushed forward the boundaries of computer animation in one gigantic leap. The famous water tentacle sequence is now regarded as the defining moment when CGI came of age; ironically perhaps, its very success has ensured that the punishing realism of the setting, which is the best thing about the movie, is likely never to be attempted again.
Shipwrecked and cast adrift Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput an island inhabited by little people whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters give Gulliver new bitter insights into human behaviour... A combination of live action and animation in a version of Jonathan Swift's satire.
Spy satellite code name Iris One has been launched by the U.S. in a desperate attempt to curb the ruthless drug cartels and Delta Force is back in action attacking and destroying the stockpiles of illegal drugs wherever in the world they may be hidden. But when the Delta team wipes out a billion-dollar stash of cocaine belonging to Colombian drug lord Umberto Salvatore they've taken on more than they bargained for. At a gathering of crime lords in Italy Salvatore unveils a daring plot to bring the United States to its knees and he enlists the aid of the world's gangster elite to pull it off. Meanwhile Salvatore's men hijack the most sophisticated stealth submarine in the U.S. fleet the USS Roosevelt and rig the on-board missiles to fire if the sub is attacked. Delta Force is reassembled to take out Salvaltore and at all costs stop the submarine with its chemical weapons payload aimed at the United Nations building and an unsuspecting New York City. The clock is ticking the action is getting hotter and millions of lives are in the hands of a vicious madman...Delta Force is the only answer!
Fat Actress a hybrid new comedy/reality series stars Emmy-Award winning actress Kirstie Alley who plays a fictional version of herself: a successful television and movie star whose weight gain has become the subject of every tabloid imaginable as well as the blight of her existence as she tries to find work and true love in an unforgiving Hollywood... Episodes Comprise: 1. Big Butts 2. Charlie's Angels 3. Holy Lesbo Batman 4. The Koi Effect 5. Crack For Good 6. Cry Ba
This second star-studded special edition DVD gift set of the award winning Bible series comprises of 7 discs and 14 hours of epic biblical adventure. Consisting of stories of Solomon Jacob St. Paul Jeremiah Esther Apocalypse Revelation plus a seventh bonus title: Genesis: The Creation and the Flood available exclusively with this collection. Presented in a compact and durable gift pack this set offers outstanding star studded entertainment.
A spine-chilling compendium of creepy horror movies comprising: Creep (Dir. Christopher Smith 2004): Trapped in a London subway station a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets. 28 Days Later (Dir. Danny Boyle 2002): Four weeks after a mysterious incurable virus spreads throughout the UK a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. Blair Witch Project (Dir. Daniel Myrick & Eduar
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