Mixing silent film techniques with the new element of sound - only one-fifth of the film offers dialogue - Rich And Strange tells the charming story of Fred Hill (Henry Kendall) and his wife Emily (Joan Barry) a small-town British couple who inherit some money from a rich uncle and suddenly decide to take a world cruise. Both however find themselves out of their element and their attempts at extramarital adventures fail miserably. Their newfound sophistication having backfired the couple will have to try to return to good old England but their journey will be full of mishaps and unexpected disaster. Released under the title East Of Shanghai in the United States the film was based on the novel by Dale Collins and was a departure for Hitchcock in both style and tone.
Director Tarsem Singh never, ever, shortchanges you on his visuals. Presented in razor-sharp 1080p, and in 3D too, Immortals is a busy, dramatic and sparkling home cinema demonstration. It hardly skimps on the action, either. Said action kicks off as Mickey Rourkes King Hyperion amasses an army, with the intention of waging war on humankind. This he does quite successfully, until the small matter of Henry Cavills Theseus interjects. It turns out that Theseus has been chosen by Zeus to do battle with Hyperion, and thats pretty much all you need to know, before settling down to a couple of hours of medieval fantasy battling. Anyone familiar with 300 will know the score here. Story isnt Immortals strength, instead giving way to wave after wave of blockbuster carnage. Theres some terrific CG work at play here, too, that makes good use of 3D. And rarely isnt something of note happening on the screen. The extra features are good, with the Blu-ray boasting a pair of alternative endings, along with a different opening too. The ones chosen for the final cut edge them out, but its interesting to see what else was considered. Theres some more traditional deleted material, too, and some welcome insights courtesy of the behind the scenes footage. It all rounds off a strong package, for a relentlessly entertaining film, warts and all. --Jon Foster
2000 Acres Of Sky continues with eight more episodes from this very popular Drama Series. Can a beautiful friendship turn to romance? In series two the charade is over between Abby and Kenny who posed as husband and wife for a new life on the beautiful scottish island of Ronansay. When Abby's releationship with the local fish farmer intensifies Kenny watches the woman he has spent a lifetime waiting for give her heart to someone else. However the friendship that has already s
In the violent new dark age of the year 2021 all women are helpless slaves of a brutal male-dominated society: all women that is except the deadly and gifted maidens of 'The Sisterhood'...
Morgan's Ferry - Bonnie (Kelly McGillis) is an isolated middle-aged woman who has been shunned by the locals in her town for years. When a handsome young man named Sam (Billy Zane) and his friend, Monroe (Henry Rollins), end up ransacking Bonnie's dilapidated house for a supply of food and money, they enter into a bizarre relationship with her. Upon realizing that she is not afraid of or angry about their thievery, Sam becomes fascinated, while the volatile Monroe becomes angry. The events that follow are sure to effect the threesome's lives for years to come.
The Sundance Kid is the fastest gun in the West his sidekick Butch is a dreamer always planning that bigger better bank raid. But things are getting tougher and soon the accident-prone anti-heroes decide it's time to head south and disappear into legend. Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Screenplay for William Goldman and Best Song ('Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head') and Best Score for Burt Bacharach.
In the year 225 A.B. (After the Bomb) a group of post-apocalyptic bikers discover an abandoned research laboratory filled with food water...and thousands of rats. But these are no ordinary vermin; these are super-intelligent mutant rodents with a ravenous appetite for human flesh. Can a bunch of heavily armed but not-too-bright human scavengers survive a night of terror against the most hungry and horrific predators on earth?
One of the biggest hits of Sergio Leone's career 'My Name Is Nobody' brings together two Western icons: Henry Fonda and 70s Italian superstar Terence Hill. Fonda plays ageing gunslinger Jack Beauregard and nobody is faster than Beauregard - until he meets a man called Nobody (Hill) who has been hired to kill him. However Beauregard was Nobody's childhood hero and the wily young gun starts planning a way that Jack can go down in the history books. Directed by Leone's former assi
Wrongly accused of murder a drifter finds himself given a head-start by a megalomaniacal Sheriff before the lawman and his posse hunt the man down.
In 1936 'The Garden Of Allah' was billed as Selznick's showcase for Technicolour. It turned out to be a visually stunning film with vibrant colour realism seldom seen in pictures. Bizarrely the film was not nominated for Best Picture Oscar as the Academy felt that 'its natural beauty would outpoint conventional product'. Now fully restored and digitally re-mastered it still looks wonderful even by today's standards Marlene Dietrich is Domini a young heiress who journeys to t
Max Schmeling's fights against Joe Louis are listed in the best 10 ten fights of all times.
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On a secluded country estate artist Meneer Chrome (Ewan McGregor) has come to create a masterpiece. Hired by wealthy patron Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) he plans to create an extravagant garden carved out of the wilderness. But Chrome's true aim is to bankrupt Smithers and allow evil Fitzmaurice (Richard E. Grant) control over his beautiful wife Juliana (Greta Scacchi)... before Smithers discovers Chrome's true purpose. But what Chrome didn't count on is his passion for their beautiful mysterious daughter. Now one man's passion and another's obsession are about to collide... with the force of nature!
Twenty years ago Alex Grant witnessed the brutal murder of her mother. Ever since she has been haunted by hallucinations and nightmares of the horrible crime and the killer Louis Seagram. Now her vividly surreal visions become terrifyingly and unmistakably real as Louis is back in her life and out for revenge. Dressed as the carnival clown Alex once knew him to be Louis slowly torments her by playing a diabolical game. It's a game of life or death; a game Louis intends to win!
A music teacher battles the system in underprivileged Harlem... The uplifting true story of violin teacher Roberta Guaspari (Streep) a woman who battled insurmountable odds to teach underprivileged children in East Harlem the gift of music. As Roberta struggles to convince a sceptical school board--as well as sceptical parents--that this music will help the children immensely she must conquer seemingly insurmountable odds to do just that. Eventually she does. Based on the document
The Lion finds himself in the enchanted Land Of Oz after a storm and encounters the Wicked Witch of the East. She forces the Lion on a mysterious journey in her quest for control.
Ten years into his small-town romance with Abby (Brea Grant, A Ghost Story), bartender Hank (Jeremy Gardner, Bliss) wakes up alone in an empty home with nothing but a cryptic parting note for company. As Hank drinks himself into heartbreak and depression, Abby's sudden departure soon becomes the least of his concerns as a mysterious monster starts clawing at his door on a nightly basis. As the threat outside his door intensifies, Hank calls on Abby's police officer brother Shane (Justin Benson, Synchronic) and best friend Wade (Henry Zebrowski, The Wolf of Wall Street) for help, but with no trace of the monster and his behaviour becoming more erratic his friends remain unconvinced of the creature lurking outside and Hank slips further into his own paranoia and loneliness. Expertly directed by Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella (Tex Montana Will Survive!) and co-produced by the team behind Spring and The Endless, After Midnight is a twisted genre-bending gem with mesmerising performances and sublime cinematography about breaking up, moving on and facing your monsters both real and imaginary. Special Features High Definition Blu-ray⢠(1080p) presentation Original 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo PCM Uncompressed audio soundtracks Audio commentary with directors Christian Stella and Jeremy Gardner Lakeland Florida Q&A, featuring Stella, Gardner, actors Ashley Song, Nicola Masciotra and Taylor Zaudtke, script supervisor Elise Stella and 2nd assistant director Juan Ortiz Pitching Something Else', Stella and Gardner pitch the character of Wade to Henry Zebrowski. Featuring an intro by producer Aaron Moorhead Self-interview while self-quarantined during the coronavirus outbreak. Brand new interview with actor and producer Justin Benson Brea and Barak find Fantastic Fest Scooters. Actors Brea Grant and Barak Hardley hunt down scooters following the Fantastic Fest screening of After Midnight Behind-the-scenes Featurette Outtakes Behind-the-scenes image gallery Official international and UK trailers Reversible sleeve with a choice of artwork designs
This exciting non-fiction film shot in and off the coast of Norway tells the story of world superstar Katie Melua rising to a challenge. Invited by Statoil the gas drilling company to celebrate their 10th anniversary on the biggest man-made structure ever moved on Earth. Katie (after checking their environmental record) agreed to perform on the North Sea floor at the foot of a leg of the enormous drilling platform thereby setting the Guinness World record for the lowest underwater
There have been many film and TV adaptations of Oliver Twist but this 1948 production from director David Lean remains the definitive screen interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. From the ominous symbolism of its opening storm sequence (in which Oliver's pregnant, ill-fated mother struggles to reach shelter before childbirth) to the mob-scene climax that provokes Bill Sikes's dreadful comeuppance, this breathtaking black-and-white film remains loyal to Dickens while distilling the story into its purest cinematic essence.Every detail is perfect--Lean even includes a coffin-shaped snuffbox for the cruel Mr. Sowerberry--and as young Oliver, eight-year-old John Howard Davies (who would later produce Monty Python's Flying Circus for the BBC) perfectly expresses the orphan's boyish wonderment, stern determination and waifish vulnerability. Best of all is Alec Guinness as Fagin, so devious and yet so delightfully appealing under his beak-nosed (and, at the time, highly controversial) make-up. (Many complained that Fagin's huge nose and greedy demeanour presented an anti-Semitic stereotype, even though Lean never identifies Fagin as Jewish; for this reason, the film wasn't shown in the US until three years after its British release.) Likewise, young Anthony Newley is artfully dodgy as Fagin's loyal accomplice, the Artful Dodger. Guinness's performance would later provide strong inspiration for Ron Moody's equally splendid portrayal of Fagin in the Oscar-winning Oliver! and while that 1968 musical remains wonderfully entertaining, it is Lean's film that hews closest to Dickens' vision. The authentic recreation of 19th-century London is marvellous to behold; Guy Green's cinematography is so shadowy and stylised that it almost qualifies as Dickensian film noir. Lean is surprisingly blunt in conveying Dickens's theme of cruelty but his film never loses sight of the warmth and humanity that Oliver embodies. --Jeff Shannon
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