Although the superhero comic book has been a duopoly since the early 1960s, only DC's flagship characters, Superman and Batman (who originated in the late 1930s) have established themselves as big-screen franchises. Until now--this is the first runaway hit film version of the alternative superhero X-Men universe created for Marvel Comics by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and others. It's a rare comic-book movie that doesn't fall over its cape introducing all the characters, and this is the exception. X-Men drops us into a world that is closer to our own than Batman's Gotham City, but it's still home to super-powered goodies and baddies. Opening in high seriousness with paranormal activity in a WW2 concentration camp and a senatorial inquiry into the growing "mutant problem", Bryan Singer's film sets up a complex background with economy and establishes vivid, strange characters well before we get to the fun. There's Halle Berry flying and summoning snowstorms, James Marsden zapping people with his "optic beams", Rebecca Romijn-Stamos shape-shifting her blue naked form, and Ray Park lashing out with his Toad-tongue. The big conflict is between Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Ian McKellen's Magneto, super-powerful mutants who disagree about their relationship with ordinary humans, but the characters we're meant to identify with are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine (who has retractable claws and amnesia), and Anna Paquin's Rogue (who sucks the life and superpowers out of anyone she touches). The plot has to do with a big gizmo that will wreak havoc at a gathering of world leaders, but the film is more interested in setting up a tangle of bizarre relationships between even more bizarre people, with solid pros such as Stewart and McKellen relishing their sly dialogue and the newcomers strutting their stuff in cool leather outfits. There are in-jokes enough to keep comics' fans engaged, but it feels more like a science fiction movie than a superhero picture. --Kim Newman
Welcome to Camp Bottomout where boys will be boys and girls will be chased in the craziest ways possible! Not even the prim Miss Kitten can curb the instincts of these teenagers on the rampage who are after anything they can get their hands on in or around! Take a chunk of 'Porkys' add a touch of 'Bachelor Party' and sprinkle liberally with 'Screwballs' and the result is this very funny and outrageous movie: 'Oddballs'!
The UV copy is only available in the UK and Ireland. From the producer of Whiplash and The Purge, Jason Blum, comes a chilling, psychological thriller-horror that marks the feature directorial debut of acclaimed actor and writer Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty, Warrior). Simon (Jason Bateman; Horrible Bosses, Arrested Development) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall; Transcendence, Iron Man 3) are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon's high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn't recognize Gordo (Joel Edgerton) at first, but after a series of uninvited encounters and mysterious gifts prove troubling, a horrifying secret from the past is uncovered after more than 20 years. As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, she starts to question: how well do we really know the people closest to us, and are past bygones ever really bygones?
Respect Is Something You Earn. Turn It Up is an explosive contemporary drama about a gifted musician's struggle to rise above the crime-plagued urban streets and realize his dream. Diamond (""Pras"" of the Fugees and Mystery Men) is unwittingly drawn into the world of drug-running by his childhood friend Gage (rapper Ja Rule Backstage). The sudden death of Diamond's mother and the untimely pregnancy of his girlfriend force Diamond to make hard choices about his life and the people
Carol Rivers is on the road to recovery following a serious breakdown when she inherits a nightclub from her uncle. But her plans to revive it are being thwarted. For Carol doesn't know her uncle's secret and finding out will be an experience more terrifying than her worst nightmares...
The Borneo jungle 1945: during the last days of the war an isolated Australian soldier and his Japanese enemy face a psychological battle to survive...
12 astronauts volunteer to pioneer a colony on a newly discovered planet. They awake from their frozen 15 year sleep to discover that the ship has crashed and that they're trapped in their cryo-tubes. To make matters worse an alien beast breaks in and begins devouring them one by one.
Michael Sheen stars in the role that began his glittering film career as one of two brothers on a stag night in Donegal where they last spent a holiday 16 years ago. Here old passions and love are reignited amidst the unlikely mix of an ex- local gun runner a suspicious Garda and the British Army. This begins a sequence of misunderstandings and mishaps with hilarious consequences. With breathtaking scenery Dead Long Enough is in the very best tradition of Irish comedy film making.
This mammoth of a box set is a dream come true for any fan of Trotter's Independent Traders PLC. Featuring all the episodes from series 1-7 and the following specials: 1. The Story Of Only Fools And Horses 2. Time On Our Hands 3. Sleepless In Peckham 4. Dates 5. Fatal Extraction 6. Frog's Legacy 7. Heroes & Villains 8. Modern Men 9. If They Could See Us Now 10. Jolly Boy's Outing 11. Miami Twice 12. Mother Nature's Son 13. Rodney Come Home 14. Royal Flush 15. To Hull & Back 16. Strangers On The Shore
Young Sam Callahan (Bug Hall) is reaching an age where his curiosity about the opposite sex and his possible interactions with it is reaching a boiling point. As an aspiring writer he needs this information to give his stories realism. With the help of his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and equally interested classmate Maurey (Mischa Barton) Sam begins his coming of age with a voyage of discovery into the world of sex. Soon he leaves behind his image of a perfect woman (Drew Barrymo
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When Night Falls The Adventure Begins! Based on the classic story ""A Thousand and One Nights "" this lavish production brings to life some of the most timeless fables to come down through the ages. A legendary heroine Scheherazade (Mili Avital) saves her kingdom and her own life by seducing her husband Schahriar's (Dougray Scott) imagination with the fantastical tales of Aladdin Ali Baba and other larger-than-life heroes warriors and djinns. Mind-blowing adventure and extraordinary special effects set against the backdrop of mysteries Arabia make this an exhilarating trip through the grandest adventures of all time.
Voted Britain's best ever sitcom in millennium polls, Only Fools and Horses has a muddled history on video. This release should make things clearer, containing for the first time the complete fifth series on a double-video. Dating from 1986, the episodes have previously appeared on the compilations Tea for Three and Watching the Girls Go By.Like so much great comedy, pathos lies behind these cleverly scripted, deceptively straightforward tales, continuing the tradition of lovable rogues in BBC sitcoms from Steptoe and Son and Porridge. David Jason's Del Boy dreams of becoming a millionaire, "this time next year", but we know life isn't like that. In "From Prussia with Love", Del, kid-brother Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield) replay Three Men and a Baby , while "The Miracle of Peckham" raises the church roof. "The Longest Night" has our trio as prisoners of the world's most useless criminal, while Rodney has an unhappy encounter with a sunbed in "Tea For Three". The gormless one turns unlikely film-maker, resulting in a "Video Nasty", before the series ends with "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", testing family loyalties when Del is offered the chance of a lifetime. Essentially British and very re-watchable, Only Fools and Horses deserves the description classic comedy. --Gary S. Dalkin
The Lat Bullet is a 1995 Australian film about a Japanese soldier and Australian soldier who fight in World War Two.
A teenager investigates her Uncle's laboratory and discovers something alive and made from the dead... Another teenager experiences a cold welcome from the locals when she visits her cousin's village...
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