Hailed as a masterpiece by critics and audiences alike Lonesome Dove brings to life all the magnificent drama and romance of the West. Winner of seven Emmy Awards and one of the highest rated miniseries in television history this exciting re-creation of Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel captured the American pioneer spirit with its sweeping story and inspired performances. Robert Duvall Tommy Lee Jones and Anjelica Huston star in the tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. Already a collectible classic Lonesome Dove is based on Brokeback Mountain the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Larry McMurtry. This edition has been completely digitally re-mastered.
For many fans, the Superman revisionist series Smallville truly hit its stride in its second series, when it shifted focus from traditional comic book conflicts to one of self-discovery for its hero, a teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling). Fans and first-timers can judge for themselves with this six-disc set, which collects all 23 episodes and a decent selection of supplemental features. Whereas series 1 focused on Clark using his powers to combat a host of menaces as in the WB's other big fantasy hit, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, series 2 delved into Clark's past and the extent of his super powers, most notably in the back-to-back "Heat", in which he discovers his heat vision, and "Red," in which red kryptonite uncorks Clark's less-than-upstanding side. Other plot developments that pull the series in interesting directions include the arrival of Dr Helen Bryce (Emanuelle Vaugier), who becomes involved with Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), but the series' most significant moment comes during episode 17, "Rosetta", in which Clark learns of his Kryptonian origins courtesy of a scientist, who, in an effective bit of casting, is played by Superman star Christopher Reeve. The complexity of the writing and the issues dealt with in series 2 marked Smallville as a series with depth and drama worthy of its considerable fan following as well as a second boxed set; fittingly, the supplements in this set are more expansive than on the first one. Producers Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Greg Beeman and cast members Welling, Rosenbaum and Kristen Kreuk weigh in on commentary tracks for two episodes ("Red" and "Rosetta"), while a trio of short featurettes explore Christopher Reeves' appearance in "Rosetta", the show's visual effects and the amusing "Wall of Weird" web page maintained by Chloe (Allison Mack). The extras are rounded out by a handful of deleted scenes and a gag reel. --Paul Gaita
A 14-year-old orphan becomes an NBA superstar after trying on a pair of sneakers with the faded initials "M.J." inside.
Dubbed 'the world's only stand-up chameleon', impressionist extraordinaire Phil Cool was first seen by viewers of the BBC's Pebble Mill at One in the mid-eighties, an appearance leading on to three phenomenally successful series for the BBC and international fame for Cool. In the early nineties, his success was further established with these brilliantly surreal series for Central Television. Both Cool Head and Phil Cool showcase his unique talents to the full, with a mix of stand-up comedy, sketches and astonishing rubber-faced metamorphoses; from Rolf Harris to Mick Jagger, Keith Joseph to the Pope, the Prince of Wales to ET, no-one and nothing is off-limits for Phil Cool! On-screen participants include the real Rolf Harris, Dillie Keane (Fascinating Aida), Jon Glover (Spitting Image, Harry Enfield's Television Programme), and Sophie Thompson (EastEnders).
In a remote lab outside of Dallas, Texas, a medical experiment goes horribly wrong. The subject experiences a psychotic break after being administered a text vaccine and ends up deceased. The board of directors of the pharmaceutical company plans to shut the facility down in the wake of the disaster, but the lead scientist (Danny Glover), convinces them to give him one more week to test the vaccine on a subject who they are monitoring at a nearby residence. Meanwhile, upon arriving from a tour of duty in the Middle East, Dean Pierce (Taylor Handley) and his girlfriend Mandy (Margo Harsham) and his friends set out on a road trip to Mentryville to clean up his hoarding and ageing grandmother's remote home and save her from eviction. The lab learns that Dean and his friends have compromised their subject who may possess the DNA for the successful vaccine discovery, so they send in a private armed guard (Vinnie Jones) to keep the group from leaving the property alive. One by one, the virus infects Dean's friends as they are trapped inside the house. Dean and his friends find themselves fighting for their lives.
Like Mike (Dir. John Schultz 2002): One day when a box of used clothes arrives orphanage inhabitant Calvin discovers a pair of trainers inscribed with the initials of his all time basketball hero Michael Jordan. These magical shoes transform him into a NBA superstar and with them he finds he can shoot hoops like a pro. He is quickly signed to struggling NBA team The Knights whose boss Frank Bernard believes a kid on the bench will boost much needed ticket sales. Calvin find
Robert Askew (Bruce Jones) travels to Blackpool to prepare an extraordinary end to his ordinary life. But this is no typical weekend and a succession of magical events conspire to turn a journey of despair into a voyage of discovery. One Friday evening Bob's new partner Ste (Billy Boden) goads him into a football match. The Boss (Brian Glover) catches them and Bob is dismissed on the spot. Returning home early he discovers his wife Brenda (Anna Jaskolka) is having an affair. Devastat
Deep Purple: The Video Singles featurings two acclaimed videos from their album The House Of Blue Light these include: Bad Attitude and The Call Of The Wild. Tracklisting: 1. Bad Attitude 2. Call Of The Wild 3. Perfect Strangers 4. Knockin' At Your Back Door 5. Nobody's Home
After the hugely successful 'Murder In The Library' Joan Hickson returns in a brand new Miss Marple mystery on DVD 'A Pocketful Of Rye'. Miss Marple yet again has to solve a suspicious murder with her incredible powers of perception. In this sinister tale set in the 1940's Miss Marple sets about unravelling the mysterious murder of city financier Rex Fortescue. When the cause of death is identifed as poisoning suspicion falls on the occupants of the family home Yew Tree Lodge. But the police are baffled because the only clue to the heartless murder is a handful of rye in the dead man's pocket. However when another murder shortens the list of suspects the connection with the nursey rhyme Sing a song of sixpence becomes all too clear to Miss Marple! So the unlikely sleuth sets off for Yew Tree lodge...
This layered film, a labour of love from director Jonathan Demme and star Oprah Winfrey, covers a lot of turf in its nearly three-hour running time. Part slavery fable, part mother-daughter tale, part ghost story, Beloved demands an audience's full attention from its dramatic, slightly bewildering opening, when a family dog comes down on the wrong side of some angry, unseen force. But Demme and his talented cast provide an unforgettable payoff for those who surrender. The film traces the life of Sethe (played in her middle years by Winfrey), a former slave who has rebuilt what seems to be a peaceful, productive life in Ohio. Yet through chilling, sparing use of flashback, Demme slowly unveils, as does the Toni Morrison masterpiece on which the film is based, the horrors of Sethe's former life, and the terrible event that led to the haunting of Sethe's home. While the horrors of slavery and the bloody event in Sethe's family leave undeniable impressions, the film's brilliance is also evidenced in smaller, equally satisfying ways. Rachel Portman's spiritual-influenced score is as uplifting as it is haunting, and the glimpses of the post-slavery African American world--as with a simple family outing to a local carnival, or a ladies' sewing-and-gospel circle--make this a treat for the intellect as well as the heart. The members of the cast, especially Kimberly Elise as Sethe's struggling daughter and Thandie Newton as the mysterious title character, are supremely affecting. --Anne Hurley, Amazon.com
This 3-DVD set spotlights Tom Jones' collaborations with entertainers as Sammy Davis Jr. and Liza Minnelli along with Jerry Lee Lewis! Jones shows his taste and versatility whether going down home with Johnny Cash or uptown with Tony Bennett. And when Jones grabs the mic for the show-closing 'concert ' fans will need a handkerchief to mop their brows. With the big band cookin' and the main man shakin' This Is Tom Jones: Legendary Performers is smokin'! Tracklisting: Disc One: Original Air Date: Apr. 2 1970 It's Not Unusual - Tom Im Gonna Go Fishin' - Tom For Once in My Life - Sammy Davis Jr. Medley: Thanks For the Memories - Sammy Davis Jr With a Little Help From My Friends - Tom Light My Fire - Sammy Davis Jr. A Boy Named Sue - Tom Sweet Blindness - Sammy Davis Jr and Tom My Way - Sammy Davis Jr. Mr. Bojangles - Tom and Sammy Davis Jr. The Concert: Kansas City/Danny Boy Original Air Date: Oct. 9 1969 It's Not Unusual - Tom Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) - Tony Bennett and Tom Comedy Spot - The Ace Trucking Company If I Ruled the World - Tony Bennett Any Place I Hang My Hat - Tom and Tony Bennett Comedy Spot - The Ace Trucking Company and Tom The Lady's in Love with You - Tony Bennett For Once in My Life - Tom Vikki Carr Tony Bennett The Concert: What's New Pussycat?/ What'd I Say Disc Two: It's Not Unusual - Tom Distractions - Bobby Darin Comedy Spot - David Steinberg Spinning Wheel - Blood Sweat & Tears Blues Pt. 2 - Blood Sweat & Tears and Tom Medley: You Keep Me Hangin On - Tom More Today Than Yesterday - Tom and Diahann Carroll The Concert: I Can't Stop Loving You/Bright Lights & You Girl Original Air Date: Dec. 18 1969 It's Not Unusual - Tom God Bless the Child - Liza Minnelli Comedy Spot - Pat Cooper Medley: Everybody's Talkin' Good Morning Starshine/ Everybody's Talkin' - Liza Minnelli Without Love (There Is Nothing) - Tom The Concert: I'm Gonna Make You Mine/Youll Never Walk Alone/ Long Tall Sally Disc Three: Original Air Date: Mar. 28 1969 It's Not Unusual - Tom Watcha Gonna Do - Tom Comedy Spot - Rich Little Funny How Time Slips Away - Tom Jerry Lee Lewis Chet Atkins To Make Love Sweeter For You - Jerry Lee Lewis Medley: Great Balls of Fire/Move / On Down the Line/Long Tall Sally/ Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis and Tom The Concert: Get Ready/It's a Man's Man's Man's World/Hound Dog Original Air Date: Nov. 20 1969 It's Not Unusual - Tom Comedy Spot - Minnie Pearl A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash I Walk the Line - Tom June Carter Johnny Cash Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash Medley: Working in the Coal Mine - Tom Dark As a Dungeon-Johnny Cash Sixteen Tons - Tom and Johnny John Henry - Johnny and Tom The Concert: Show Me
Open Season (2006): Boog (Martin Lawrence) a domesticated grizzly bear with no survival skills has his perfect world turned upside down when he meets Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) a scrawny fast-talking mule deer. They join forces to unite the woodland creatures and take the forest back into nature's control! It's a film for the whole family that Shawn Edwards (Fox-TV) calls a fun story loaded with lovable characters! Open Season 2 (2008): Boog and Elliot are back for more crazy adventures. After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners. Boog Elliot McSquizzy Buddy and the rest of the woodland creatures launch a full-scale rescue mission for their sausage-shaped friend and soon find themselves in enemy camp: the world of the pets. Led by a toy poodle named Fifi the pets do not plan to let Mr. Weenie go without a fight. Can a toy poodle REALLY bring down an 900-pound grizzly bear? Will Elliot ever marry Giselle? Find out in Open Season 2.
Lonesome Dove Disc 3
In an explosive plot against the government in this road film Rex encounters conspiracies & political paranoia.
Lonesome Dove evolves around the life and times of Newt Call the young cowhand who started out as a boy in Lonesome Dove and now goes on to make his way in the world. Episodes Comprise: 1. O Western Wind 2. Down Come Rain 3. When Wilt Though Blow
Saw (Dir. James Wan 2004): Awakening from a drugged stupor Dr Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) finds himself chained to a pipe in a dingy bathroom with another man (Leigh Whannell) in the same situation across the room. The men are the latest victims of the Jigsaw Killer a maniac who uses elaborate traps to test his victims' dedication to life. Given six hours a hacksaw and a bullet Dr. Gordon tries to figure out a way to freedom hoping his kidnapped family (including Monica Potter) can survive the nightmare as well. Hot on the Jigsaw's trail is Detective David Tapp (Danny Glover) an equally as insane cop who was once the victim of the Jigsaw's evil scheme. Dawn Of The Dead (Dir. Zack Snyder 2004): Overnight the world has become a living nightmare of surreal proportions with the planet's population hit by an inexplicable unfathomable and lethal plague - and the dead aren't dying. Corpses yearning for their next meal are now stalking the few remaining survivors driven by their insatiable hunger to feed upon the flesh of the living! After a terrifying escape from her suburban Wisconsin home on the morning after Ana Clark runs into a small group of the still-living a rag-tag group who seek refuge in a fortress of the late 20th Century - an abandoned suburban mall. As the world outside grows more hellish as the ever-increasing army of decomposing zombies tirelessly strive to infiltrate the mall the survivors battle the undead. Sealed off from the rest of what used to be the world the mall's inhabitants now one of the last bastions of humanity must learn to co-exist with each other and use every available resource in their fight to remain alive and more importantly human... The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Dir. Marcus Nispel 2003): On August 20th 1973 police were dispatched to the remote farmhouse of Thomas Hewitt a former head-skinner at a local slaughterhouse in Travis County Texas. What they found within the confines of his cryptic residence was the butchered remains of 33 victims a chilling discovery that shocked and horrified a nation in what many still call the most gruesome mass murder case of all time. Brandishing a chainsaw and wearing the grotesque flesh masks of his victims the killer became forever known as ""Leatherface"" when sensational headlines were splashed across newspapers throughout the state of Texas: ""House of Horrors Stuns Nation - Massacre in Texas."" Police and FBI eventually gunned down a man wearing a leathery mask and declared they had their killer and abruptly closed the case. However in the years that followed many close to the grisly murder case would come forward to level accusations that police had botched the investigation and knowingly killed the wrong man. Now for the first time the only known survivor of the killing spree has broken the silence and come forward to tell the real story of what happened on that deserted rural Texas highway when a group of five young kids inadvertently found themselves besieged by a chainsaw wielding madman who would leave a trail of blood and terror that would forever be known as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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