Focused lightning bolts, stigmata, possession, and ancient curses become secondary in Season 3 of The X-Files as more episodes are devoted to pursuing the increasingly complex story threads. "The Blessing Way" is an explosive start, introducing the Syndicate's well-manicured man (John Neville), while Scully's sister Melissa is shot and Mulder experiences Twin Peaks-like prophetic visions. We learn of medical records of millions, including Scully, who have been experimented upon ("Paper Clip"): the fast-paced train-bound two-parter "Nisei" and "731" suggests the experiments are about alien hybridisation. Krycek turns out to be hosting an alien in the next double-act, "Piper Maru" and "Apocrypha", in which Skinner is shot by Melissa's killer. Two great one-offs outside the arc are "Clyde Bruckman's "Final Repose", a bittersweet tale of foreseeing death (featuring an Emmy-winning performance from Peter Boyle) and Jose Chung's "From Outer Space", a spoof of alien conspiracy theories through an author's investigations into abductees. --Paul Tonks
A gritty, uplifting drama of love and illness. Construction worker and keen amateur footballer Nick Cameron (Robert Carlyle) has the best of everything when he meets and moves in with soulmate Karen (Juliet Aubrey). But complications arise when symptoms of a mysterious illness including numbness and double vision begin to sap his energy. As MS sets in, his physical powers quickly diminish and he loses his job, his sport and his sexual drive. Eroded by frustration, anger and self-pity, Nick lashes out at Karen, even accusing her of sleeping with her boss. At his lowest ebb, summoning vestiges of pride and self-sacrifice, Nick urges Karen to leave him. Will she accept an easy escape from his despondency and rancour, or stand by this frail shell of the man she fell in love with? Heart-wrenching, intense and unforgettable, the raw emotion is cut with laddish dark humour, and the electrifying central performances are supported by engaging early screen appearances by James Nesbitt and Sophie Okonedo. First shown as part of BBC Two's Love Bites' season of dramas in 1995, and now released on DVD, writers Jimmy McGovern and Paul Henry Powell who drew on his own experiences battling MS shared the Royal Television Society's Best Writer award the following year. £1 from every copy sold donated to MS Society UK by Simply Media Winner of the 1996 BAFTA for Best Editing and Royal Television Society Award for Best Writer (Jimmy McGovern and Paul Henry Powell) Directed by acclaimed BAFTA winner Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) and written by Emmy and multi-BAFTA winner Jimmy McGovern (The Street) Stars Primetime Emmy nominee and BAFTA winner Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting / The Full Monty) and BAFTA winner Juliet Aubrey (Middlemarch) Also features Golden Globe nominee James Nesbitt (Cold Feet/ The Missing) and Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) Includes exclusive interview with Danny Wallace on football and MS
After a nine year hiatus, iconic comedy series Still Game is back for a hilarious new six-part series revisiting life-long friends Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade as they embrace the spirit of growing old disgracefully. Created, written by and starring Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, Still Game visits the fictional area of Craiglang as Jack, Victor and the rest of the residents cope with everything modern life throws at them.
Told with the help of some of Everett's most famous comic characters, including Cupid Stunt and Sid Snot, Best Possible Taste is the story of pioneering radio DJ and television star Kenny Everett's against-the-odds struggle to achieve both personal and professional fulfilment, as seen through the decade-and-a-half prism of his marriage to Lee Middleton.
Director Nicholas Meyer's concept for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was to make it "Captain Horatio Hornblower in space". Equipped with a budget a fraction the size of that accorded the first movie, and bolstered by James Horner's swashbuckling score, Meyer accordingly delivered the most exciting of all the Trek big-screen outings, referencing both CS Forester's Hornblower and classic submarine dramas, as well as adding some literary flourishes and ground-breaking CGI work for good measure (the Genesis device sequence is a computer-animation landmark). Resurrected from the "Space Seed" episode of the TV series, Ricardo Montalban's Khan is the hammiest, most passionately alive Trek villain, infused with Captain Ahab's self-destructive single-mindedness and quoting Moby Dick and Shakespeare in his furious pursuit of Kirk. Given permission to be melodramatic, William Shatner has never been stronger, or made Kirk seem more vulnerable. And even after seeing all the later movies, no self-respecting Trekker can sit through Spock's ultimate illogical sacrifice with a dry eye. Unlike the major revisions made to The Motion Picture, this new Director's Edition of Wrath of Khan is only a very slightly extended version of the original, with some fairly minor additions--most notably scenes that establish Midshipman Peter Preston as Scotty's nephew, thereby explaining Scotty's grief at the young man's death. Some other scenes--such as Kirk and Spock discussing the Genesis Device--have also been expanded. On the DVD: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is now presented in a lovely 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen print with Dolby 5.1 sound. The first disc has an audio commentary from Nicholas Meyer, plus another fascinating all-you-ever-needed-to-know text commentary from Trek expert Michael Okuda (he did the same for The Motion Picture's DVD release). The second disc has a series of informative documentaries, the most substantial being a lengthy retrospective "Captain's Log", featuring contributions from Producer Harve Bennett, Meyer, Shatner, Nimoy and Montalban. Other featurettes focus on the production design ("Designing Khan"), "Visual Effects", and the writers of Star Trek novel spin-offs about Khan and the Kobayashi Maru ("The Star Trek Universe"). It's a shame that James Horner's major contribution goes unnoticed though. To round things off there are some promotional interviews from 1982, storyboards and the original trailer. --Mark Walker
Kimberly, a regular teenage girl, ends up escaping the clutches of death, and saves others, as well. But soon the survivors start dropping dead and Kimberly realizes you can't cheat Death.
In a prequel to legendary horror "The Exorcist," priest Lancaster Merrin encounters unspeakable evil in the deserts of East Africa.
In the California apple country, nine hundred migratory workers rise up in dubious battle against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own-stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism-on the courage never to submit or yield. Published in 1936, In Dubious Battle is considered the first major work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck.
Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman), 17 and very pregnant, has never been part of a real home. When her boyfriend leaves her she sets up home in a branch of Wal-Mart.
10,000 years in the making; 10,000 years of endeavor in science and the arts and humanities and within one generation man has been reduced to a feckless, bedwetting, parmesan shaving imbecile who revels in his own uselessness. Something has to be done.James May is the man to do it by exploring the world as it was, and the world as it should be, complete with its own bar, private cinema and electric train toilet-paper delivery system.On the way, he'll learn about bomb disposal, how to build a kitchen (and a rocket), duel with pistols and swords, conduct a band of long-retired Grade 1 musicians, and much, much more. Features Celebrity Man Task in which hand-picked celebrities are invited to beat their own records in such jobs as changing a tire, wall-papering a room and putting together flat-pack furniture - challenges few can resist.
The Western Desert. 1942. Rommels Afrika Korps have driven the British Army back to Cairo and are poised for a final attack. Now, all the Nazis need to know is where the 8th Army will make their last stand. Two Nazi agents are sent into Cairo to seize the plans and find themselves caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the sleazy nightclubs and back streets of the city.
Terry Collier (James Bolam) and Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) return for another series of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Episodes Comprise: 1. Absent Friends 2. Heart to Heart 3. The Ant and the Grasshopper 4. One for the Road 5. The Great Race 6. Some Day We'll Laugh About This 7. In Harms Way 8. Affairs and Relations 9. The Expert 10. Between Ourselves 11. The Go Between 12. Conduct Unbecoming 13. The Shape of Things to Come
The complete twelfth season of the popular US drama following detectives including Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) as they police the streets of the Big Apple.
One of life's greatest blessings is the birth of a child. But unfortunately for many the pleasure of becoming parents does not come without hardship. Danielle Steel brings to life three interwoven stories of couples facing the joys and challenges associated with having children. Newlyweds Andy (Bruce Greenwood) and Diana (Gabrielle Carteris) are crushed to discover they can't have children. Searching for options they discover the delight and heartaches of adoption. Brad (James Nau
Lynda La Plante's Framed makes its way to DVD for the first time. Featuring a superb turn from a Timothy Dalton clearly in his pomp this film also marks the first English language performance from a young Penelope Cruz. Meet Larry Jackson (David Morrissey) an ambitious young police officer burdened with family responsibilities. While on holiday in Spain he recognizes Eddie Myers an escaped master criminal and onetime informer who had been presumed dead. Living unde
Everyone deserves their day in court. In fact some people deserve more than one. Take the attorneys of Crane Poole & Schmidt whose unquestionable legal brilliance is matched only by the outrageous instability of their personal lives. It's a chaotic world where sexual harassment extortion kidnapping and attempted murder all come with the territory... and those are just the attorneys! Created by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal The Practice Picket Fences) and featuring an Emmy Award-winning cast including William Shatner Candice Bergen and James Spader Season Two of Boston Legal is socially relevant wickedly funny and infectiously fresh... It's an open and shut case! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Black Widow 2. Schadenfreude 3. Finding Nimmo 4. A Whiff and a Prayer 5. Men to Boys 6. Witches of Mass Destruction 7. Truly Madly Deeply 8. The Ass Fat Jungle 9. Gone 10. Legal Deficits 11. The Cancer Man Can 12. Helping Hands 13. Too Much Information 14. Breast in Show 15. Smile 16. Live Big 17. ...There's Fire! 18. Shock and Owww! 19. Stick It 20. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 21. Word Salad Days 22. Ivan the Incorrigible 23. Race Ipsa 24. Deep End of the Poole 25. Squid Pro Quo 26. Spring Fever 27. BL: Los Angeles
The complete collection of The Great Adventures in one Box Set.
A collection of classic films from famed British director David Lean. Bridge On The River Kwai (1957): When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy occupied Burma Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it in David Lean's epic World War II adventure The Bridge on the River Kwai. Spectacularly produced The Bridge on the River Kwai captured the imagination of the public and won seven 1957 Academy Awards including Best Picture Be
Nicole Kidman stars as the mother of two ailing children in this moody tale of the supernatural, set on the island of Jersey just after World War Two.
A Los Angeles District Attorney (Hackman) is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Acher) back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her they board a Vancouver-bound train only to find the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours as the train hurls through the beautiful but solated Canadian wilderness a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death...
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