Brock Lesnar returns from suspension to reclaim the championship he never lost. Will Seth Rollins get taken to Suplex City or will “The Undisputed Future” get the best of “The Beast Incarnate” and continue his reign as WWE World Heavyweight Champion? Plus, the rivalry between Kevin Owens and John Cena comes to its epic conclusion in their rubber match for the United States Championship. Roman Reigns finally gets his chance to exact revenge on “The New Face of Fear” Bray Wyatt. Which WWE Superstars will be left standing at the conclusion of Battleground?
Det. Superintendent Jane Tennison's (Helen Mirren) relationship with psychologist Patrick Schofield (Stuart Wilson) has developed into a promisingly happy affair. When a series of murders take place which resemble those investigated in the first Prime Suspect she is faced with a possible miscarriage of justice and promptly suspended. Are they copy-cat crimes or is George Marlow (Tim Woodward) innocent as he always insisted? Prevented from working possibly betrayed by her lover and haunted by the past Tennison is forced to re-examine her most fundamental beliefs about her life and work.
A series that's as much about one as the other, the wonderfully funny, touching and utterly genuine Sex and the City dares to portray real adults in a thoroughly realistic environment. Filmed in and around the streets of Manhattan, the show brings New York life--and specifically singles life--alive as no other has done before. Like its HBO stablemate The Sopranos, this is TV for grown-ups: frank and non-patronising, dizzyingly well written and devastatingly accurate in its characterisations. Sarah Jessica Parker plays Carrie Bradshaw, Manhattan's "sexual anthropologist" whose weekly newspaper column gives the series its title. Kristen Davis, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon are her acerbic, cynical, thirtysomething singleton pals: gossip, sex, men, shoes, shopping, sex, designer clothes, fashion and sex dominate their affluent yet incomprehensibly empty lifestyles as they move from swanky restaurant opening to night club to art exhibition in the relentless pursuit of fulfilment and validation. Conspicuously, the men in their lives--from "toxic bachelors" to "modelisers" and beyond--fail to provide either, leaving the women to pick up the pieces after each shattered relationship. Adapted from Candace Bushnell's bestseller, in the first season Carrie embarks on her long and tortuous liaison with "Mr Big" and watches wryly as her pals seek solace with various members of the male sex, electric appliances and even, disastrously yet briefly, celibacy. On the DVD: Fortunately, 12 outstanding episodes are their own selling point here, since the presentation of these two discs leaves something to be desired. Although Region 2 encoded, inexcusably the broadcast format is American NTSC not PAL, so if you don't have a reasonably modern TV you'll have trouble playing the discs in the first place; there's a tiny promo feature and teaser trailers, plus cast biographies and synopses that pop up at the beginning of every episode. The interface lacks a "Play All" facility, forcing you to skip back and forth from the main menu after each episode. Add to that some pretty nasty packaging and this set won't win any prizes for presentation. But the shows themselves are a constant delight: anyone who's ever dated or been dumped should own this set. --Mark Walker
Frank Jones (Michael Caine) is an ordinary law abiding businessman. He served his country during the war and he is very proud of his son Bob (Nigel Havers) a Russian linguist and translator. Frank's world is shattered by the arrival of the police to tell him his son is dead. The plot thickens when the inquest verdict is 'Accidental Death'. Frank embarks on his own investigation into his son's death and discovers that there are no limits to what the government will do to protec
The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. A pure master of the political stage, Richard deploys a barrage of odious, unscrupulous traps in an attempt to exercise complete control over his rivals. As the personification of evil impudence, Olivier portrays the Duke of Gloucester with such aplomb that he even lures the audience on to his side. This is true even as Richard engineers plots to murder his brother Clarence (John Gielgud), betray his cousin Buckingham (Ralph Richardson) and seduce his niece Lady Anne (Claire Bloom). From the play's famous opening lines ("Now is the winter of our discontent"), Olivier delivers every speech with truly Machiavellian splendour. As usual, his voice is a force of nature--a full-bodied coloratura at one moment, an earthy baritone cello a few beats later. As a director, Olivier fully realises but underplays the corners of the script that most directors would hinge their dramatisation on. But he can also play it large: Olivier's superb staging of the climactic battle rivals his work on Henry V. Though Richard is finally brought down by the whispered curses of Queen Margaret, the audience exits feeling that the journey has been both entertaining and complete. Regrettably, this would be Olivier's last Shakespeare film, as a planned adaptation of Macbeth was abandoned for financial reasons. Olivier justly received an Oscar nomination for his performance; and believe it or not, this film was the inspiration for the original Blackadder! --Kevin Mulhall
Tough yet emotionally vulnerable the newly-promoted Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) returns to old territory at London's Southampton Row to work on a case involving the disappearance of a young child. The investigation leads her to Chris Hughes (Robert Glenister) a serial child sex offender who has recently been released from a custodial treatment centre. As the investigation reaches its climax a badly bungled arrest attempt results in a tense siege situation. With police marksmen in a position and concern mounting for the safety of the three hostages D.S. Tennsion moves in to take control.
A personal social commentary from internationally acclaimed director Wim Wenders investigating anxiety and disillusionment in post 9/11 America. After years of living abroad with her American missionary father Lana (Michelle Williams) returns to the United States to begin her studies. But instead of focusing on her education Lana sets out to find her only other living relative - her uncle Paul her deceased mother's brother. A Vietnam veteran Paul is a reclusive vagabond with deep emotional war wounds. A tragic event witnessed by the two unites them in a common goal to rectify a wrong and takes them on a journey of healing discovery and kinship. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2004 WINNER of the UNESCO Award Venice Film Festival 2004
THE VICTORIAN GENTLEMAN The Victorian age with its lavish architectural splendour is the era that Fred wished he had lived through. Fred greatly admires the craftsmen who made quality things to last and he heads to locations such as Tower Bridge, Eastnor Castle and Leadenhall Market to view these incredible wrought iron masterpieces. PRESERVING OUR PAST Fred was best known for felling chimneys but that was the job he liked least. His real interest was in restoration work and it was this work that had the biggest influence on him. His greatest achievement was the restoration of a steam traction engine that took him over 27 years to complete. He also shows his admiration for volunteers all around the country who help to preserve the past. ALL STEAMED UP Fred always had a passion for steam powered engines and spent a large part of his life restoring and driving them. He shows his love of the Victorian era through his appreciation of what he could see whether it was a pumping station, steam boat or steam engine. Join him as he visits steam fairs and fairgrounds looking at some of the wonderful machines that travelled the roads of Britain. RICHES BENEATH THE EARTH Fred's interest in the mining industry stemmed from his childhood and getting down to the coalface always fascinated him. This deep interest led him to start digging his own mine in his own back garden. But it was not just the extraction of coal that interested him but also tin and lead mining. Join him as he visits some of Britain's leading mining museums and discover the superb exhibits they contain. CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE As Fred was growing up, his house was surrounded by bridges, canals, railway lines and tunnels and he was captivated by such great civil engineering projects and the lives of the men who changed the landscape of Britain. But it was not just Victorian achievements that he was interested in; he was also fascinated by the ancient landscape and the equipment and tools that early man used. GREAT BRITISH BUILDERS Follow Fred as he uncovers the craftsmanship behind some of Britain's most magnificent and remarkable architectural designs in castles, cathedrals, and great houses. He was a great admirer of the working man and the skills he had and it fascinated him to discover how the builders and engineers created such masterpieces. He even has a go himself with some entertaining practical demonstrations.
No Donkey. No Fairy Tale. Just Terror. Threatened by a fatal epidemic in the 1850's the townspeople of Ellensworth give up control of their town in return for a cure. The curse is broken but as a result the town has a horrific man eating Ogre who returns annually for his human sacrifice. 150 years later a group of teenagers stumble upon Ellensworth which has changed slightly the inhabitants are immortal and nobody has aged. Unfortunately they have arrived at the time of the yearly human sacrifice with the Ogre rampaging through the town and its terrified people taking refuge. They soon realise that they have unwittingly become part of the hunt.
In 1984 and 1985, The Tripods was the show that the BBC used to fill its traditional Saturday teatime Doctor Who slot. Adapted from the first two books in John Christopher's "Tripods" trilogy, the show frustratingly failed to deliver the final story that winds everything up. This release collects the first series of 13 episodes, which covers the first book (The White Mountains). In 2089, the human race lives a peaceful, agrarian existence in post-technological communities under the rule of the Tripods, vast alien machines that look like the Martians from War of the Worlds. In a small English village, teenage cousins Will (John Shackley) and Henry (Will Baker) are troubled as they near the age at which they will be "capped", fitted by the local Tripod with a metallic hairnet which will turn them into docile, uncreative, happy servants of the invaders. A wily vagrant tells the boys that far to the south, a community of uncapped freemen resists the Tripods, and they set off on a 13-episode journey that takes them to the coast, across the English Channel and down through France, with stop-offs in the impressive ruins of Paris, at a medieval-style chateau and on a vineyard in the Jura. Along the way, the lads fall in with "Bean Pole" (Ceri Seel), a gangling, bespectacled French rebel who is fascinated with the lost arts of machine-making, but at each of their stopovers there are temptations, mostly in the forms of appealing French girls, to settle down and become happy conformists, but in the end they do join up with the rebels, ready for a mission to the city of the Tripods that comes in Series Two. With production values significantly higher than Doctor Who at that time, the show conserves its effects and makes them count, with the Tripods only rarely intervening directly. Watched at a sitting, it seems padded and the three lead actors are variable, but taken in single-episode chunks it works quite well, with a subtly unsettling depiction of a backward world where everyone seems happy but actually isn't and actual villainy comes as a relief amidst the overwhelming niceness. The English and French locations are very well used, and the production design and costuming (lots of hats to cover the "caps") is imaginative without being panto-like. --Kim Newman
John Travolta Collection
In 'Lawless Range' a cowboy anxious to win a rodeo becomes involved in a saloon robbery. In 'Lawless Frontier' a man pursues his parents' killers but finds himself framed for a crime.
This is the powerful story of the creation and deployment of the Panzer Divisions the chief cog in Hitler's war machine. Featuring rare archivefilm stunning new 3D graphics new footage of the surviving machines and unique insights from Dr Niall Barr of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and Professor John Ericksom from the University of Edinburgh leading authorities on armoured warfare.
In a remote little town in turn of the century Russia three sisters - Olga (Jeanne Watts) Irina (Louise Purnell) and Masha (Joan Plowight) - and their brother Andrei (Derek Jacobi) fantasise about their return to their former home in Moscow. For them Moscow is a city of dreams magnetism and inspiration - a far cry from their current life - an oppressive and overbearing existence devoid of hope. As they muddle through life they hold on to the memory of a place they once knew and
A winner always knows where he is going. A champion never forgets. Emmy Award-winning screen and stage star John Leguizamo stars and makes his directorial debut in this hard-hitting story of a talented young boxer who must navigate the path between his newfound fame with all its seductive trappings and his humble yet proud roots as a Latin growing up in Jackson Heights Queens. Surrounded by his childhood friends and an old school trainer Lex Vargas endures a devastating personal loss before turning professional eventually signing with a high-profile promoter in order to accelerate his career and get a title shot. The move brings Lex fame fortune a new house and a sexy girlfriend - but threatens to undermine the longtime bonds and proud heritage he shares with his old friends from Queens.
John Cena and Alberto Del Rio battle for the WWE Championship in a brutal Last Man Standing Match that will test their will, determination and resolve. Plus will the World's Largest Athlete finally avenge the career-threatening injury he suffered at the hands of the World's Strongest Man? Find out when Big Show challenges Mark Henry for the World Heavyweight Title. Mortal foes untie as CM Punk and Triple H try to put their differences aside to take on their common enemies, The Miz and R-Truth in an explosive tag team match. The Superstars of Raw and SmackDown look to settle scores in WWE Vengeance.
The Rottentrolls are a group of crazy three-foot-high trolls who live in a strange Yorkshire valley called Troller's Ghyll. When young Roger Becket crashes his bike into the valley he doesn't suspect that he is about to be crowned King of the Rottentrolls and set out on a series of amazing adventures. Episode titles: The Civil War The Miner's Strike Dirty Tricks The First Rottentroll Revolution plus a special episode The Rottentroll Files.
Brennan and Dale are live-at-home grown-ups who become step-brothers overnight and struggle to deal with their parents wish for them to leave home and get lives of their own.
The body of criminal Ronnie Stokes is found in the middle of a crop circle in Midsomer Parva with his hands burnt puncture wounds in his back and a chunk of his hair missing. Lloyd Kirby the local UFOlogist believes that it is the work of aliens however Barnaby and Troy are not convinced by his theory. John Nettles and Daniel Casey star in another installment of this rural detective series based on the novels by Caroline Graham.
A mysterious event from Earth's past threatens to ignite a war so big that the TRANSFORMERS alone will not be able to save the planet. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the AUTOBOTS⢠must fight against the darkness to defend our world from the DECEPTICONS'⢠all-consuming evil in the smash hit from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg.
Please wait. Loading...
This site uses cookies.
More details in our privacy policy