The split-second moments that can take a life down one path instead of another form the tantalising 'what if?' in this delightful romantic comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow plays London publicist Helen effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a morning train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth overlap then surprisingly converge in the most romantic comedy in years. Don't miss it - romance was never this much fun!
Three convicts - Joseph (Bogart) Albert (Aldo Ray) and Jules (Peter Ustinov) - are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly but inept Felix (Leo G. Carrol) and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre (Basil Rathbone) who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet a poisonous snake. After resolving Felix's problems the convicts return to prison convinced that the world is much too wicked!
The toys celebrate their 10th birthday with this amazing double pack set.
A young English football player is transferred to a top Spanish team and finds that life there is not as easy as he expected.
Shot in Bulgaria and Canada, with a "Wes Craven Presents" caption--that doubtless has something to do with the producer being Craven's son--Mind Ripper started out as The Hills Have Eyes, Part 3 but turned into yet another re-run of the plot about the genetically-engineered super-being-cum-brain-eating-monster who gets loose in an underground research station and slaughters scientists one by one in grisly fashion. After most of the original cast members are killed, craggy Lance Henriksen turns up with his family to provide a fresh set of characters to be chased, menaced, jumped on, cranially sucked and splattered. The monster, acronymed THOR (Dan Blom), is a would-be suicide volunteered for a new serum created by the sinister GenTec Corporation. He turns into a bald steroid case with yellow contact lenses and a Cronenbergian brain-leeching tentacle tongue, and meagre attempts are made at wringing pathos out of his plight (uniquely, the monster has an irrelevant dream sequence in which he is killed by the heroine). It's competent but formulaic stuff, with reliable Henriksen carrying more than his weight at the head of a cast of then-unknowns, some of whom (Giovanni Ribisi, Natasha Gregson Wagner) have gone on to improve their careers. On the DVD: there are frame captures passed off as a photo gallery and the trailer; and the picture is fullscreen. But what else can you expect?--Kim Newman
How do you turn an innocent person into a murderer? That's the diabolical game that Tom Ripley plays on an unassuming Englishman in his fourth outing on film.
Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck caused a sensation with 'the most spellbinding story ever put on celluloid' (Hollywood Reporter), recipient of three Academy Awards� including Best Picture. One of the first films to directly tackle racial prejudice, this acclaimed adaptation of Laura Z. Hobson's bestseller stars Gregory Peck as a journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism. Searching for an angle, he finally decides to pose as a Jew - and soon discove...
Best friends. Bitter rivals. Sisters. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-selling novel A Thousand Acres (penned by Jane Smiley) follows the saga of the Cook family headed by the indomitable patriarch Larry Cook (Jason Robards). Cook's kingdom is a fertile farm that spans 1 000 acres but the seeds of its destruction are sown when he impulsively decides to distribute it among his three daughters Ginny (Jessica Lange) Rose (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Caroline (Jenn
Jim has managed to get a job in one of the top universities but all he has to do to cement a future is survive a terrible weekend at his fellow professors deliver a lecture on 'Merry England' and resist the temptations of Christine...
Episodes Comprise: 1. But Is It Art? 2. The Lonely Herdsman 3. If You Go Down to the Woods 4. Sweet Sorrow 5. Fifteen Minutes 6. The Final Curtain 7. Lust in Translation 8. The Special Relationship
When long-term congressman Cam Brady commits a major public gaffe before an upcoming election, some ultra-wealthy CEOs plot to put up a rival candidate and gain influence over their North Carolina district. Their man: naive Marty Huggins.
The long-awaited re-release of the original animated horror classic is finally here on DVD! In the year 12 090 A.D. the Earth has fallen into the clutches of ruthless Vampires. Humans are enslaved by a corrupted feudal system prey to the whims of Vampiric aristocrats. Only one being has dared to challenge the cruel authority of these arrogant immortals -- the mysterious Vampire Hunter called ""D"". Cult classic by any standard the sophisticated blend of horror and futuristic science fiction distinguishes Vampire Hunter D as a strikingly original gothic thriller. The darkly fantastic imagery and exotic characters help to fully realize the potency of the film confirming its status as an exceptional accomplishment in animation. Warning: Contains Extreme Violence And Nudity.
A group of terrorists take control of a commercial airline demanding the safe release of their leader Carlos. The President meanwhile despatches a former Navy SEAL to transport Carlos to his 'final' destination...
The groundbreaking detective series that defined a decade is compiled in one giant box set! In this electrifying Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning series, Vice cops Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) pound the streets in their sleek Ferrari pursuing every ruthless criminal under the relentless Miami sun. The pulse and the rhythm of a glamorous resort is juxtaposed against the steamy haunts of the drug underworld. Two cops from different backgrounds - street-smart New Yorker ‘Rico Tubbs’ (Thomas) and stubble-faced southerner ‘Sonny Crockett’ (Johnson) - team up to take on Miami’s underworld. See every episode of every series in this cult collection, and a very pretty box it is too.
Written by David Leland and directed by Alan Clarke, Made in Britain is a slice of horrible but not inaccurate life from 1982. It holds a terrific early performance from Tim Roth as a skinhead with a swastika caste-mark tattoo, who constantly bares shark-like teeth as he spits embittered, articulate defiance at caring social workers and truncheon-wielding policemen alike. Sixteen-year-old Trevor (Roth) is remanded to an assessment centre before sentencing, but remains determined to disobey the rules imposed on him by any authority figures and spends the whole 73-minute play challenging the system to smack him back down, by vandalising the Job Centre, using his case-file as a toilet, stealing cars, victimising members of the "immigrant community" and shouting bile at people. The cycle that will lead him to an adult life in prison is explained to him with blackboard diagrams, but he believes he's better off keeping his hatred burning than toeing the line to end up as a no-hoper in a society that prizes obedience over conscience. It was originally televised as one of four Leland-filmed dramas about different aspects of the British education system, which made it seem less monomaniacal in its focus on an extreme case. There's no denying that it's an honest portrait of a monster calculated to terrify even the most concerned liberals which still manages to celebrate his self-destructive defiance. A film for television rather than a TV play, it has very strong language but the violence is all in Roth's face.On the DVD: No extra features here, but it does come with optional English sub-titles, and the theme song by the Exploited over the menu. --Kim Newman
INCLUDES: Halfway House: A young man is found shot in a public park and the only clue to his identity is a library ticket from a local college. Burke Ross and Reid set about tracing the young man which leads them to a halfway house boasting a familiar list of numerous ex-cons. An Eye For An Eye: A doctor at a women's health clinic is murdered and an anti-abortion group become the prime suspects. Burke and his team investigate whether the protesters have been framed. Penthouse & Pavement: A famous horror novelist Jason Randell is found murdered in an alley the morning after a book launch and police discover the victim enjoyed a secret life amid Glasgow's sleazy underworld. Atonement: When Billy McCree is found dead in his workshop recently-released prisoner Jim Naysmith is the prime suspect for his murder - as the dead man's testimony had put Naysmith behind bars twenty years before. Forensic evidence places the victim's mistress at the crime scene but she denies killing him and Ross is inclined to believe her. Compensation: Reid and the team leave their urban patch and head for the countryside of Fenmore to investigate a farmer's suspicious death in a blaze - but instead of discovering a rural idyll they find themselves in the middle of a private war. DCI Burke's private life comes to the fore as inquiries proceed and a second fire gives the case an added urgency.
John C. Reilly and Sean William Scott star in The Promotion - a comedy about two mid-level Chicago supermarket employees, Doug and Richard, who compete ruthlessly for the managerial position at a brand new store!The Promotion is the directorial debut of Steve Conrad, the writer of The Pursuit Of Happyness.
Milagro New Mexico. Population 426. Nothing had changed here for 300 years. But there's something about this day... In Milagro a small town in the American Southwest Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by constructio
From acclaimed director Frank Launder The Happiest Days Of Your Life is a precursor to the hugely successful St. Trinian's series. Nutbourn College the most established and respectable of boys' schools is run by unyielding Headmaster Wetherby Pond [Alastair Sim.] When a military mistake billets a girls' school to share the college's premises due to wartime restrictions he is outraged. However he soon discovers he has met his match when he encounters the Headmistress of the girls' school in question the formidable Muriel Whitchurch [Margaret Rutherford]. Initially the two are hostile to one another but with a staff of dazed eccentric teachers and a student body whose mischief knows no bounds they are forced to pull together. Then just when they thought the situation couldn't get any more complicated they discover they are faced with two troublesome visits on the same day; one from a group of parents who must believe the school is only for girls and one from the Ministry who must be presented with an all boys establishment! Unmissable and hilarious this is classic British comedy at its best.
The Mummy (Dir. Stephen Sommers) (1999): Deep in the Egyptian desert a handful of people searching for a long-lost treasure have just unearthed a 3 000 year old legacy of terror. Combining the thrills of a rousing adventure with the suspense of Universal's legendary 1932 horror classic The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser is a true nonstop action epic filled with dazzling visual effects top-notch talent and superb storytelling. The Mummy Returns (Dir. Stephen Sommers) (2001): Set in 1933 ten years after the events in the first film Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) is married to Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) and the couple has settled in London raising their 9-year-old son Alex (Freddie Boath). When a chain of events finds the corpse of Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) resurrected in the British Museum Imhotep walks the earth determined to fulfill his quest for immortality. But another force has also been set loose one born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism and even more powerful than Imhotep. When these forces clash the fate of the world will hang in the balance sending the O'Connell's on a mission to save the world and their son before it is too late... The Mummy 3 - Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (Dir. Rob Cohen) (2008): Doomed by a double-crossing sorceress (Michelle Yeoh) to spend eternity in suspended animation China's ruthless Dragon Emperor (Jet Li) and his 10 000 warriors have laid forgotten for eons entombed in clay as a vast silent terra cotta army. But when dashing adventurer Alex O'Connell (Luke Ford) is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents - Rick and Evelyn O'Connor (Brendan Frase and Maria Bello).
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