Police detective Tom Canboro (Gary Busey) led a normal happy life surrounded by his wife and family. But one night all that changed. Tom finds himself battling with more than thieves and thugs as he becomes entangled in the activities of an underground group who possess frightening psychic powers. These powers are unleashed and directed at his family. Before he can reach them a mysterious force takes control of his car and thrusts it headlong into an oncoming truck. Years later Tom wakes up from a deep coma in a hospital bed. As he returns to consciousness he finds himself in a new world unlike anything he could have imagined...
From a novel by John Irving comes this darkly comic tale of an eccentric New England family. As the father moves them from one place to the next setting up a new hotel each time the assortment of oddball characters seem to become involved in ever more bizarre situations. Frannie becomes obsessed with the boy that attacks her John becomes obsessed with Frannie his sister and both of them fall for a girl who is so insecure she hides in a bear outfit. Frank is coming to terms with his homosexuality and the youngest Lily is convinced she isn't growing. The family pet is a flatulent dog that ends up stuffed and causes more trouble than when it was alive.
One interesting thing about Cleopatra 2525 is that it works far better on video or DVD than as a weekly television show, because the action in the tightly packed half-hour episodes is so fast and furious that you can miss crucial developments in the admittedly simple plots just by nipping into the kitchen to put the kettle on. Furthermore, despite appearances, the scripts do allow for character development, but this has to be delivered in snippets rather than dollops. Far better, then, to settle down with a large pizza and watch several episodes back to back. There's no shortage of humour in this camp post-apocalypse shoot-em-up-fest. Cleopatra is a dippy exotic dancer who suffers complications during surgery for a boob job! Placed in cryogenic suspension until such time as medical science can help her, she wakes up in the year 2525 to find a world seemingly dominated by plot ideas stolen from classic sci-fi movies such as The Terminator--humanity has been driven underground in a world ruled by machines, morphing androids are used as spies etc. etc. etc.--where she's "adopted" by a couple of firm-midriffed female resistance fighters who take their orders from a mysterious voice (called Voice). It's all great fun and the action and effects are excellent (especially the airborne robot thingies). --Roger Thomas
Combining elegance and wit Lubitsch's last film set in 1938 London is one of the most engaging romantic comedies. Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer are well teamed as the plumber's niece (later housemaid) and the intellectual Czech refugee who throw English society into disarray with their disregard for conventions. This charming satire aided by a wonderful script taking in snobbery upstairs downstairs and in the middle classes is given a jolly run around by a cast comprising most of Hollywood's British stalwarts from Sir C Aubrey Smith and Peter Lawford to Sara Allgood and Una O'Connor.
Set during World War II a young Scottish woman married to a rancher falls in love with a passionate Italian prisoner-of-war...
One day Hugo meets Myriam a prostitute who picks up her clients on the Paris metro. Hugo becomes obsessed with Myriam's sultry beauty and follows her to her flat owned by the mysterious 'Sara Sand' where he consumates his passion. Suddenly he finds the rules of the game have changed and Myriam is now in charge.. of his body and soul.
Bill Murray voices everyone's favourite feline who must crawl off the sofa to save a kidnapped puppy in this live-action/CGI comedy.
This anthology series follows the path of a handgun and the impact it has on the lives of those that it encounters. A rotating all-star cast is helmed by renowned directors Robert Altman Ted Demme and James Foley. Volume 1 features the following episodes: Columbus Day: When forced to work nights security guard Walter DiFideli buys a gun to protect his family. However unbeknownst to Walter the weapon once belonged to an assassin who will resort to any measure of force to re
Bill Murray voices everyone's favourite feline who must crawl off the sofa to save a kidnapped puppy in this live-action/CGI comedy.
Gioachino Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, performed by the Opera national de Paris.Recorded live, Palais Garnier, April 1998.
In 1858 Lourdes resident Bernadette Sobrirous a poverty-stricken peasant girl witness a vision of a 'beautiful lady'. However news of the 'miracle' polarises opinion in the town: adoration suspicion and greed among the simple townspeople stubborn scepticism from the local doctor and charges of insanity from the town prosecutor... Winner of four Oscars.
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