Exploring a diverse heritage spanning more than a century while celebrating the sheer joy of motoring, this tremendously popular series sees an array of celebrities sharing their memories of classic British cars and revealing their driving passions. Dom Joly, Quentin Wilson, Jodie Kidd, Jools Holland, John Prescott, Jon Culshaw, Phil Tufnell and Benjamin Zephaniah are among the many guests enthusing and swooning over a range of cars from affordable bestsellers such as the Mini, the Hillman Imp and the Ford Cortina to unattainable objects of desire such as the Austin Healey 3000 and the Lotus Esprit. From the iconic Triumph Spitfire to timeless classics such as the E-Type Jaguar and the futuristic Aston Martin Lagonda, this series features some of the jewels in the crown of the British automobile industry... along with a handful of unlamented entries to the motoring Hall of Shame!
A typically bored affluent Californian housewife's world of domestic oblivion careers off its axis when she develops a mystery illness that puts her at odds with every aspect of the world around her - cars dry cleaners hair perms and even the new couch! Gradually she develops nosebleeds vomiting and breathing problems and finally collapses. In a desperate search for what is 'safe' she opts for virtual isolation in a porcelain igloo in the Texas desert where the inhabitants drag round oxygen cylinders and the therapists act like evangelical preachers. Injected with horror comic touches and psychological suspense Safe is a visionary tale of the future. Has Carol brought her sickness upon herself or is she made vulnerable by a world that is more dangerous than we or she understands?
Previous UK releases of Catchfire have listed the pseudonymous Allan Smithee as director, but this version proudly opens with "a Dennis Hopper film". Also known as Backtrack, it offers a plot that advances by illogical leaps and bounds while whole scenes seem to go astray. With prominently billed actors getting almost nothing to do while major players go un-credited, a bland music score that might have been laid in from another film entirely and an ending that makes a lot of noise without actually resolving much, the film certainly has its bad points. However, it's also one of Hopper's more eccentric films, and more fun than Colors or The Hot Spot (which he had no trouble owning up to), partly because the director also takes a quirky lead role and his own personal interests are stirred by the modern art frills of the chase plot. The film opens with LA-based conceptual artist Jodie Foster, looking chunkily terrific just before her adult career took off, suffering a minor breakdown on the freeway and happening on a gangland execution. Pint-sized mob boss Joe Pesci sets his killers on her but the crooks ineptly murder Foster's boyfriend (Charlie Sheen, taking a very early bath). Pesci calls in Hopper, a professional hitman who immerses himself in Foster's life and art in order to track her down only to develop an obsessive crush on the woman. When he finds her, he gives her the choice between getting rubbed out or becoming his property. Hopper retains the knack for finding odd-looking byways of rural America, but is uncomfortable with helicopter chases and shoot-outs. The leads, despite great chunks of missing story, are both interesting--Foster sexily vulnerable and Hopper doing a wry New York drawl as the sax-playing hit man. Catchfire also offers an amazing supporting cast of the director's friends, including Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Tony Sirico (The Sopranos), Bob Dylan (with a chainsaw), Helena Kallianotes (Five Easy Pieces), Julia Adams (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), and John Turturro.On the DVD: the film itself comes in a good-looking widescreen transfer, but the lack of special features let the disc down, with only feeble notes for three cast members (and no Smithee filmography). --Kim Newman
Eager to shift thoughts away from those of the Troubles during the 1970s music fanatic Terri Hooley (Richard Dormer TV's Game of Thrones) opens a record store 'Good Vibrations' in the heart of one of Belfast's roughest districts. As the shop gains a loyal following Terri decides to start a small record label with the aim of launching some of the local bands he's discovered including The Undertones whose first single 'Teenage Kicks' is soon championed by legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel... A heart-warming and hilarious true story Good Vibrations is not a feel-good film - it's a feel-great film! Special Features: Interview with Terri Hooley Interviews with Cast and Crew
A fascinating 5 disc set of half hour profiles spotlighting the personal lives and extraordinary careers of fifty legendary Hollywood leading ladies. Exotic Greta Garbo! Feisty Bette Davis! Sultry Marilyn Monroe! Brilliant Jodie Foster! Just a few of the great movie actresses featured in this definitive collection. From the early classic era of Gloria Swanson Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford to more contemporary cinema queens such as Faye Dunaway Jane Fonda and Kim Basinger 'Hollywood Biographies: The Leading Ladies' tells their amazing stories through rare film clips television appearances photographs and interviews.
Jodie Foster stars as a woman forced to hide with her daughter in a vault-like hidden room in her New York brownstone townhouse when three burglars invade their home in search of a hidden fortune.
Attack the Block is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters.
The Blu-ray Mastered in 4K collection will set a new standard for Blu-ray HD picture and sound creating the ultimate 1080p home entertainment experience. Created from the highest quality 4K source materials with new expanded colour consumers can enjoy a brilliant picture with exquisite detail using their existing Blu-ray player or PlayStation 3. The Blu-ray Mastered in 4K collection is optimized so that 4K Ultra HD TV owners can take full advantage of the new 4K upscaling technology delivering an outstanding near-4K experience. Mastered in 4K Blu-rays also work with all 1080p HDTVs for spectacular high definition picture and sound. Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival (1976) and nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture (1976) Taxi Driver stars Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's classic film of a psychotic New York cabby driven to violence by loneliness and desperation. Co-starring Jodie Foster Albert Brooks Harvey Keitel Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd the film is presented on Blu-ray for the first time following an extensive 4K digital restoration and remastering under the guidance of cinematographer Michael Chapman and director Martin Scorsese.
Jodie Foster plays Rynn a reclusive fiercely self-reliant teenager who lives alone in her father's house. When visitors call Foster explains that her father is away on business. He's away... far far away. Rynn determined not to lose her independence will go to any lengths to protect her secret even if it means keeping people quiet by any means.
Eve of the Daleks On New Year's Eve, the appearance of an executioner Dalek means Sarah and Nick's countdown to midnight will be the strangest and deadliest they have ever known. Can the Doctor, Yaz and Dan save them? Legend of the Sea Devils The Doctor, Yaz and Dan come face to fin with some of the Doctor's oldest adversaries, the Sea Devils. What terrifying forces lurk beneath the oceans of the 19th century? Centenary Special Her final battle. Her deadliest enemies. The Thirteenth Doctor faces multiple threats from Daleks, Cybermen and the Master, in a fight for her very existence.
Taxi Driver: 'Taxi Driver' provoked fierce controversy when it was released running into censorship problems in America as some of the scenes of violence were described to be 'as gory as Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs' (Evening News '76). In addition there was outcry at a 13-year-old schoolgirl actress (Jodie Foster) co-starring as a prostitute. It won Best Picture at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award nominations for Best Film Best Actor (Robert De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster). Considered to be one of the most powerful films in motion picture history 'Taxi Driver' is a film which is '...a savage piece of work - and hellishly brilliant' (Evening News '76). Casino: Robert De Niro Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice... Mean Streets: 'Mean Streets' heralded Martin Scorsese's arrival as a new filmmaking force - and marked his first historic teaming with Robert De Niro. It's a story Scorsese lived a semi-autobiographical tale of first-generation sons and daughters in New York's Little Italy. Harvey Keitel plays Charlie working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Amy Robinson is Teresa the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. And in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York and National Society of Film Critics De Niro is Johnny Boy a small-time gambler in big-time debt to the loan sharks...
As Hannibal The Cannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins is the archetypical antihero--cultured quick-witted uncontainable--a portrait of the sharpest human faculties gone diabolically wrong. His performance marked him as a major star in America and the movie swept the 1991 Academy Awards--Best Picture Director (Jonathan Demme) Actor (Hopkins) Actress (Foster) and Screenplay Adaptation (Ted Tally from the novel by Thomas Harris).
One of Woody Allen's strangest films, this studio-bound fantasy turned his Kafkaesque one-act play Death (1975) into a full-blown homage to German Expressionist filmmakers like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst, brought to life by one of the starriest casts he ever assembled: Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mia Farrow, Jodie Foster, Julie Kavner, Madonna, John Malkovich, Donald Pleasence and Lily Tomlin, plus Allen himself. He plays the cowardly Kleinman, reluctantly recruited by a vigilante mob in search of a serial killer. When he finds himself involved with a troupe of circus performers whose sword-swallower Irmy (Farrow) and clown Paul (Malkovich) want to leave to start a family, Kleinman thinks that this is a welcome distraction but the killer has other ideas... Described by the New York Times as a brazen, irrepressible original, Shadows and Fog is the most visually and narratively unpredictable of Allen's films. Carlo di Palma's dazzling cinematography makes full use of the title elements, but it's the richness of the multi-layered narrative, with its Shakespearean oscillation between burlesque comedy and poignant tragedy that really sticks in the mind.
A group of four teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley cope with the problems of being a teenager together. Diedre is fascinated by sex Madge is unhappily overweight Annie is into drugs and Jeanie has to take care of them all. They think that the school is crap their boyfriends immature and the grown-ups come from another planet....
When murder is your business you'd better not fall in love with your work. Jodie Foster stars as Ann Benton a self-possessed artist who stumbles across a mob hit in progress. She manages to escape and report the crime to the police but recognizes Mafia soldier John Luponi (Dean Stockwell) at the station and takes off becoming a fugitive. Meanwhile mob boss Lino Avoca (Vincent Price) has put out a contract on the artist with hit man Milo (Dennis Hopper). While Ann does her own informal witness relocation Milo begins to research the artist's life looking for clues that might help him find her and he becomes increasingly fascinated with her. When the hit man finally runs Ann down stealing her out from under the nose of Detective Pauling (Fred Ward) he offers her a deal that anybody could refuse: Be killed or become his private chattel.
After being caught drawing an obscene comic book a group of Catholic school friends plan a prank to make them local legends...
Anything can happen on "Nim's Island", a place where everything runs wild, especially imagination.
A young psychotic man returns to his old neighbourhood after he is released from prison. He seeks the young lady he previously tried to rape and the young man who protected her.
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