This lavish costume drama follows the lives of three best friends looking for love. Centred around the aristocracy of the 1930's Love In A Cold Climate is based on the books by Nancy Mitford.
In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders (Mark Wahlberg) joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the bombers before they strike again.
THE COMPLETE EPIC SAGA DRAGONHEART 1 Long ago, when majestic firebreathers soared through the skies, there lived a knight who would come face-to-face and heart-to-heart with the most remarkable creature that ever existed. Dennis Quaid stars with the voice of Academy Award® winner Sean Connery* in director Rob Cohen's heroic adventure that blazes with fantasy & humour. Co-starring David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Julie Christie and Dina Meyer, this epic adventure will move and thrill the entire family. DRAGONHEART 2 When an ambitious stable boy named Geoff stumbles upon a young sheltered dragon named Drake, a deep friendship is forged. But in Geoff's quest to become a knight, he soon finds himself having to defend the life of his friend from the King's illwilled advisor; who seeks to use the dragon's heart to become invincible. DRAGONHEART 3 When aspiring knight Gareth goes in search of a fallen comet rumoured to contain gold, he is shocked to instead find the dragon Drago (voiced by Academy-Award® winner** Ben Kingsley). After Drago saves Gareth's life the two become intricately bonded and must work together to defeat an evil sorcerer and stop his reign of terror. Along the way, Gareth learns the true meaning of being a knight in this fantasy actionadventure for all ages! DRAGONHEART 4 Drago the dragon must find an heir to the throne when the king, who shares Drago's heart, dies. The king's potential heirs, twin grandchildren who possess the dragon's unique strengths, use their inherited powers against each other to vie for the throne. When Drago's source of power known as the Heartfire is stolen, more than the throne is at stake; the whole country may fall if the siblings' rivalry with swords and sorcery doesn't end.
Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the movie's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well-conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker
When British jocky Bob Champion is struck down with cancer in the prime of his career his desire to live is determined by a single promise; on successful recovery he will ride jump prospect Aldaniti in the 1981 Grand National... John Hurt gives a truly stunning performance as Bob Champion in this true story of courage dedication and the strength of the human spirit.
A BBC dramatisation of Francis Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story about an orphaned little girl who goes to live with her gloomy and secretive old uncle. The girl soon makes friends with a young boy and together they play behind the locked gates of the secret walled garden, with unexpected consequences - but never-the-less a happy outcome. Set in Victorian Yorkshire.
One of the most gripping horror films of all time is now available in a new 2 disc DVD Special Edition! When two American students touring the English countryside are attacked by a vicious wolf during a full moon their lives are suddenly transformed forever. Featuring ground-breaking Academy Award''-winning make-up by Rick Baker this cult favourite is directed by John Landis (National Lampoon's Animal House) and perfectly blends the macabre with a touch of humour. Digitally remastered and loaded with bonus features including an all-new feature-length retrospective documentary An American Werewolf in London Special Edition is a timeless story that has never looked better!
One of the cinema's great disappearing acts came to a close with the release of The Thin Red Line in late 1998. Terrence Malick, the cryptic recluse who withdrew from Hollywood visibility after the release of his visually enthralling masterpiece Days of Heaven (1978), returned to the director's chair after a 20-year coffee break. Malick's comeback vehicle is a fascinating choice: a wide-ranging adaptation of a World War II novel (filmed once before, in 1964) by James Jones. The battle for Guadalcanal Island gives Malick an opportunity to explore nothing less than the nature of life, death, God, and courage. Let that be a warning to anyone expecting a conventional war flick; Malick proves himself quite capable of mounting an exciting action sequence, but he's just as likely to meander into pure philosophical noodling--or simply let the camera contemplate the first steps of a newly born tropical bird or the sinister skulk of a crocodile. This is not especially an actors' movie--some faces go by so quickly they barely register--but the standouts are bold: Nick Nolte as a career-minded colonel, Elias Koteas as a deeply spiritual captain who tries to protect his men, Ben Chaplin as a G.I. haunted by lyrical memories of his wife. The backbone of the film is the ongoing discussion between a wry sergeant (Sean Penn) and an ethereal, almost holy private newcomer (Jim Caviezel). The picture's sprawl may be a result of Malick's method of "finding" a film during shooting and editing, and in some ways The Thin Red Line seems vaguely, intriguingly incomplete. Yet it casts a spell like almost nothing else of its time, and Malick's visionary images are a challenge and a signpost to the rest of his filmmaking generation. --Robert Horton
Otto Preminger's 1960 adaptation of Leon Uris's novel Exodus is a sprawling tale of the founding of modern Israel, starring Paul Newman as a resistance leader. The film works best as an example of Preminger's estimable skill with all levels of drama and action, but as a reflection upon history it is compromised by stereotypes, unpersuasive relationships and a certain moral ambivalence about issues related to the subject. There are good and exciting sequences, however, particularly one involving an effort to break through a British blockade and get to the homeland. --Tom Keogh
Season 1 From David Simon creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series The Corner this unvarnished highly realistic series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance where easy distinctions between good and evil and crime and punishment are challenged at every turn. Season one introduces two major groups of characters—the Baltimore police department and a drug dealing organization run by the Barksdale family. Season 2 In this season McNulty (Dominic West) has been demoted to harbour patrol Daniels (Lance Reddick) is in the police archive dungeon Prez (Jim True-Frost) is chafing in the suburbs and Greggs (Sonja Sohn) is stuck behind a desk. Meanwhile on the docks of the Baltimore harbour the rank and file scrounge for work and the union bosses take illegitimate measures to reinvigorate business but a horrific discovery is about to blow the whole port inside out. While the detail is on ice a new case begins. Season 3 Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets The Wire captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance where easy distinctions between good and evil and crime and punishment are challenged at every turn. Season 3 introduces Baltimore's local politicians and the upstart drug dealing Stanfield organization while continuing to examine the Barksdale Organization and the Baltimore Police Department. Season 4 With the fall of Barksdale and the ascent of young Marlo Stanfield as West Baltimore's drug king The Wire's fourth season continues to follow the money up the political ladder in the midst of a mayoral election that pits the black incumbent Clarence Royce against an ambitious white councilman Tommy Carcetti. Season 5 The Wire Season 5 concludes the award-winning TV series with a bang. The bodies are piling up in Homicide but funds for police work have been diverted to the schools. Meanwhile business is booming on the streets as the war between East and West Baltimore’s drug kings reaches a new intensity. McNulty is drinking again. Bubs is clean again. Omar is back with a vengeance and Carcetti is struggling to make a difference as Mayor. After taking us through the streets the docks the corridors of power and the schools The Wire brings us to the Baltimore media where the successes and tragedies of all of our favourite characters become ammunition in the battle for circulation figures. Bonus Features: Season 1 Audio Commentary on Episode 1 with David Simon Audio Commentary on Episode 2 with Clark Johnson Audio Commentary on Episode 12 with David Simon and George P. Pelecanos Season 2 Audio Commentary on Episode 6 with Michael K. Williams & Domenic West Audio Commentary on Episode 12 with Producer Karen Thorson and Editor Thom Zimny Season 3 Audio Commentary on Episode 1 with David Simon and Nina Noble Audio Commentary on Episode 2 with Richard Price Audio Commentary on Episode 3 with David Simon Audio Commentary on Episode 11 with George Pelecanos and Joe Chappelle Audio Commentary on Episode 12 with David Simon and Karen Thorson Season 4 Audio Commentary on Episode 1 with David Simon and Ed Burns Audio Commentary on Episode 4 with Karen Throrson Kate Sanford and Jim True-Frost Audio Commentary on Episode 6 with Dan Attias and William F. Zorzi Audio Commentary on Episode 11 with Robert Chew Julito McCullum Jermaine Crawford Maestro Harrell and Tristian Wilds Audio Commentary on Episode 12 with Joe Chappelle and George Pelecanos Audio Commentary on Episode 13 with David Simon and Nina K. Noble Part I: It's All Connected: The Wire (28:40) (TRT TBD) Part II: The Game is Real: The Wire (30:00) (TRT TBD) Season 5 Audio Commentary on Episode 1 w/Director Joe Chappelle and Cast Member Wendell Pierce Audio Commentary on Episode 2 w/Writer William Zorzi and Director/Cast Member Clark Johnson Audio Commentary on Episode 4 w/Writer Ed Burns and Producer Karen Thorson Audio Commentary on Episode 6 w/Producer George Pelecanos and Director Seith Mann Audio Commentary on Episode 7 w/Director/Cast Member Dominic West and Editor Kate Sanford Audio Commentary on Episode 10 w/Creator David Simon and Producer Nina Noble The Wire: The Last Word (26:33) The Wire Odyssey (28:39) The Wire Prequels (6:14) Seasons 1-5 PaleyFest NY: The Wire Reunion (85 minutes)
A chronicle of England's Golden Age during the late 16th century recounting the life and times of the remarkable Elizabeth I in a cycle of six plays. Academy Award-winning actress Glenda Jackson stars in one of the most popular and acclaimed Masterpiece Theatre presentations ever created the story of England's Queen Elizabeth I. Filled with palace intrigue royal romance and stunning historical detail it traces her reign from a young Princess through almost 50 years of rule over
"2012" is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
Saturday Night Fever: John Travolta gives a sensual and intelligent performance as the troubled Tony Manero - Brooklyn paint store clerk by day and undisputed king of the dance floor by night. Every Saturday Tony puts on his wide collared shirt flared trousers and platform shoes and heads out to the only place where he's seen as a god rather than some young punk. But in the darkness away from from the strobe lights and glitter ball is a tragic story of disillusionment violence and heartbreak. Without a doubt Travolta's performance made him a Hollywood legend but 'Saturday Night Fever' is more than just a movie that defined the music and fashion of a generation. It's a powerful and provocative urban tragedy that carries as much significance today as it did in 1977. Staying Alive: It's five years later and Tony Manero's 'Saturday Night Fever' is still burning. Now he's strutting towards his biggest challenge yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage. John Travolta ignites the screen as he recreates his legendary Oscar-nominated character. Cynthia Rhodes and Finola Hughes sizzle as the women in Tony's life. And the soundtrack pulsates with the power of five unforgettable Bee Gees songs plus Frank Stallone's chart topping hit 'Far From Over'.
After rising to stardom in the unforgettable role of Mr Humphries in the BBC's 'Are You Being Served?', John Inman starred in this ITV sitcom as Neville Sutcliffe, the owner of a Blackpool chippy who relocates to Sussex, where he has inherited his late father's seaside-rock factory, and rapidly finds he's bitten off more than he can chew! Produced by ‘Carry On veteran’ Gerald Thomas, this complete series also features sitcom favorite Josephine Tewson as Neville's less than welcoming step-sister, who has inherited the other half of the ailing business; Allan Cuthbertson, Victor Maddern and David Lodge are among the guest stars.
In the modern horror thriller A Quiet Place, a family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you.
The world's most hilariously disaster-prone detective is back on the case as Peter Sellers stars in this merry masterpiece of sheer slapstick sleuthing fun! When the priceless Pink Panther diamond is stolen yet again the inimitable Inspector Jacques Clouseau is saved from an unwilling early retirement and sent off to the country of Lugash to investigate. Certain that the heist is the work of a suave jewel thief known as The Phantom Clouseau unleashes his formidable array of outlan
Originally airing 20 years ago in 1984 this season sees Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long) face the break-up of their explosive relationship - a predicament that brings the new character of Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammar) into the show's comedic mix. Along with the usual laughs provided by the antics of Carla (Rhea Perlman) Cliff (John Ratzenberger) and Norm (George Wendt) this series also says farewell to actor Nicholas ""Coach"" Colosanto whose untimely death occurred shor
On the afternoon of Friday October 13 1972 one of the most controversial and inspirational tales of survival began when an airplane carrying a team of young rugby players from Uruguay crashed into the Andes Mountains. Several of the passengers died instantly but most survived. For eight days they sat and waited to be rescued. But help never came and they learnt from the radio that the search had been abandoned. Soon their food and drink were gone. Forced to exist in sub-zero wea
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