Spanning a career of over 20 years They Might Be Giants are considered pioneers of independent rock music and have a notoriously dedicated fan-base around the world. 'Gigantic' is a comprehensive chronicle of the band's history told through performance animation videos and hilarious commentaries from friends and fans. Featuring the following live performances: 'Birdhouse In Your Soul' From the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; 'Boat Of Car' and 'Meet James Ensor' In-store p
The robbery should have taken ten minutes. Eight hours later it was the hottest thing on live TV. And it's all true. On a hot Brooklyn afternoon two optimistic losers set out to rob a bank. Sonny (Al Pacino) is the mastermind Sal (John Cazale) is the follower and disaster is the result. Because the cops crowds TV cameras and even the pizza man have arrived. The ""well-planned"" heist is now a circus. Based on a true incident this thriller earned six Academy Award nominations.
Computer expert Hiller (Bernard Hill) is an alcoholic a failed husband and a failed father-figure. In a short space of time he has lost his job his wife and has become financially in debt to a vicious gang of mobsters. So when the gangsters agree to write off the debt if Hiller will supply them with the security details of a newly-constructed bank it's an offer he can't refuse. Having handed over the information Hiller believes he has seen the last of the gang and is in the clear. But when his young stepson is kidnapped and taken hostage Hiller finds himself being blackmailed into taking part in the actual raid on the bank. A loser by nature as events spiral out of control around him he soon discovers in himself a hidden capacity for parental love ingenuity and above all courage. With his and his stepson's lives under threat Hiller decides it's time to fight back.
The emotional film of a wise woman learned in life loss and love who shows a despondent young man the beauty of being alive. Embittered and alone after nursing his late mother through a prolonged illness Michael Keddington takes a job working as an orderly in a hospice. Admired by both the staff and his patients he eventually meets Esther Huish an elderly resident clinging to memories of her past and the choice she made that changed it. Because Esther sees in Michael a younge
The reward could save them if the mission doesn't kill them first. When estranged brothers Sam (WWE Superstar John Cena) Leo (Ethan Embry Eagle Eye) and Douglas (Boyd Holbrook Milk) reluctantly reunite after the death of their father they learn that their promised inheritance has a catch - they must start a family business first. Desperate for cash the trio crosses the border for a quick score that turns into a dangerous search for a kidnapped billionaire - a journey that could turn deadly if they don't figure out a way to work together as a family. Amy Smart (Crank) and Michael Rispoli (Taking of Pelham 123) co-star in a story that proves some bonds are worth fighting for. Special Features: The Three Amigos Saddle Up 'n Giddy Up Rough Take Off Photo Gallery
Martin is a modern sort of vampire. He gains his victims cooperation with the use of a hypodermic needle instead of hypnotism and uses razors in the place of fangs. Martin claims to be 84 years old and certainly drinks human blood. The boy arrives in Pittsburgh to stay with his uncle who promises to save Martin's soul and destroy him once he is finished but Martin's loneliness finds other means of release.
Crockett and Tubbs tackle Miami's crime scene in three more exciting episodes: Florence Italy Return of Calderon Part 1 and Return of Calderon Part 2.
Conspiracy of Silence
The connection between National Geographic and The Lord of the Rings may seem tentative, but the illuminating TV special Beyond the Movie proves otherwise. While incorporating cast and crew interviews and film clips from director Peter Jackson's 2001 blockbuster The Fellowship of the Ring, this hour-long documentary transcends timely opportunism to explore the myriad inspirations for JRR Tolkien's Middle-Earth fantasy classic, beginning with the influence of Tolkien's idyllic childhood in rural England, which served as the model for his threatened Hobbit paradise. Equally fascinating are the influences of Tolkien's experience in World War I and the "evil" of industrial development on his work, and more directly those of Anglo-Saxon poetry (notably Beowulf) and the mythology of the Finnish Kalevala, which formed the basis of Tolkien's elvish culture. The author's passion for nature conservancy and cultural preservation are what ultimately serve the National Geographic agenda, but eloquent testimonials by archaeologists, anthropologists, and filmmakers make this a most agreeable hour of justified propaganda. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Various Artists - Music For Montserrat
A wiser and sober Danny Quinn returns home after three years to attend the wedding of a good friend Martin Powers heir to the Irish Mafia throne. Facing a vengeful rival a bitter ex-girlfriend and a family caught in the self destructive pattern of gambling excessive behaviour and despair he battles the insidious influence of Southie's white ghetto mob culture that threatens to see him revert back to his brutal ways.
Life for Richard Forbush brilliant biologist and conceited philanderer is one long round of eat drink and be merry. His enthusiasm for birds is more for the feather-cut kind than the feathered but when his tutor urges him to go in for research study of a penguin rookery in the Atlantic Forbush sees a chance to impress one ‘bird’ who so far hasn’t fallen for his charms. However on reaching the ice and Shackleton’s derelict hut Forbush is desperately alone w
Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni star in this remake of the 1977 comedy.
The John Barrymore Collection (3 Discs)
BAsed on a novel by Morris West this is a classic American cowboy tale set in Australia's exotic outback with the aborigines pitted against a rancher Lance Dillon because he is on their land. After a renegade Aborigine Mundara kills one of Lance's Brahma bull's and a ranch hand who gets involved Mundara spears the fleeing Lance in the shoulder but does not catch up with him to finish the job. The story of Lance's survival is the focus of the film along with a parallel story of his wife Mary temporarily falling for Lance's opposite Sgt Neil Adams. The characters of the two men and Mundara arew contrasted against a setting of conflict that escalates out of control.
Avenging betrayal and murder fighting for good in a world steeped in evil. Award-winning llustrator of Spiderman Todd McFarlane brings a life's work to the screen in this dark stylish and brutal animated incarnation of his Spawn anti-hero. Double-crossed and murdered Al Simmon's is sent to the fires of Hell. He makes an ill-fated deal with the Devil to return to see his wife again. Disfigured and trapped in the body of a hell-spawn caught between life and death he roams New York looking for trouble. The cloak and chains of Spawn explode from the comic-book page onto the screen in a deadly tornado of untapped unwrapped merciless power! Episodes titles: Home Bitter Home Access Denied Colours Of Blood.
Regan is classic TV drama that will have you saying, "they don't make 'em like that any more". This is the feature-length pilot to what became the long-running TV series The Sweeney, starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman as the hard-as-nails Flying Squad double act. The story opens in a south London pub decorated in shades of brown so manifold that it forms a patina on the screen more normally associated with a painterly artist. It's the early 1970s, and Thaw's Inspector Regan is a lone ranger fighting on several fronts including the imminent modernisation of the police force, which he describes as a vision of "hundreds of little grey men working on top of each other, pots of tea and committees". The dialogue is clever, rich and funny. When Regan tries to persuade Carter to work with him on the case he growls: "Mary darling, I'm not trying to start an affair with you." The heroes have thinning hair and bad habits: Regan drinks whiskey in the middle of the day and constantly smokes, he's lost his wife, let down his daughter, and then loses his girlfriend (Maureen Lipman). The filming is wonderfully crafted--shots taken from odd angles, action that surprises and gritty London locations. "You're a copper. You belong like me out in the cold," Regan says to Carter in the last scene as they go off to get a drink out of licensed hours. Not the end, but the start of a beautiful relationship. --Joan Byrne
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