One interesting thing about Cleopatra 2525 is that it works far better on video or DVD than as a weekly television show, because the action in the tightly packed half-hour episodes is so fast and furious that you can miss crucial developments in the admittedly simple plots just by nipping into the kitchen to put the kettle on. Furthermore, despite appearances, the scripts do allow for character development, but this has to be delivered in snippets rather than dollops. Far better, then, to settle down with a large pizza and watch several episodes back to back. There's no shortage of humour in this camp post-apocalypse shoot-em-up-fest. Cleopatra is a dippy exotic dancer who suffers complications during surgery for a boob job! Placed in cryogenic suspension until such time as medical science can help her, she wakes up in the year 2525 to find a world seemingly dominated by plot ideas stolen from classic sci-fi movies such as The Terminator--humanity has been driven underground in a world ruled by machines, morphing androids are used as spies etc. etc. etc.--where she's "adopted" by a couple of firm-midriffed female resistance fighters who take their orders from a mysterious voice (called Voice). It's all great fun and the action and effects are excellent (especially the airborne robot thingies). --Roger Thomas
Snow White and the Huntsman In this epic action-adventure Kristen Stewart (Twilight) plays the only person in the land fairer than the Evil Queen (Oscar® winner Charlize Theron*) who is out to destroy her. But the one girl threatening the wicked ruler’s reign has been training in the art of war with the very Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth - Thor) dispatched to kill her. Evil now fights destiny. Robin Hood Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe reunites with legendary Gladiator director RIDLEY SCOTT for epic action adventure in Robin Hood. Discover the untold story of the man behind the legend as Robin a heroic warrior turns outlaw when he assembles a band of skilled marauders to confront injustice and lead an uprising against a weak and corrupt English King. When the rebellious hero falls for the spirited Lady Marion (Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett) he must first save her village and then confront a growing storm of threats from near and afar if he is to win her heart. As Robin and his men answer a call to ever-greater adventure these unlikely heroes set off to battle for their country and return England to glory ... and ride into Legend. Snow White and the Huntsman In this epic action-adventure Kristen Stewart (Twilight) plays the only person in the land fairer than the Evil Queen (Oscar® winner Charlize Theron*) who is out to destroy her. But the one girl threatening the wicked ruler’s reign has been training in the art of war with the very Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth - Thor) dispatched to kill her. Evil now fights destiny. Robin Hood Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe reunites with legendary Gladiator director RIDLEY SCOTT for epic action adventure in Robin Hood. Discover the untold story of the man behind the legend as Robin a heroic warrior turns outlaw when he assembles a band of skilled marauders to confront injustice and lead an uprising against a weak and corrupt English King. When the rebellious hero falls for the spirited Lady Marion (Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett) he must first save her village and then confront a growing storm of threats from near and afar if he is to win her heart. As Robin and his men answer a call to ever-greater adventure these unlikely heroes set off to battle for their country and return England to glory ... and ride into Legend. Snow White & The Huntsman Bonus Features: Snow White & The Huntsman: Extended Feature Commentary Theatrical Feature Commentary with Director Rupert Sanders Visual Effects Supervisor Cedric Nicolas-Troyan and Co-Editor Neil Smith A New Legend is Born Citizens of the Kingdom - Fairest of Them All: Snow White Citizens of the Kingdom - Deliciously Evil: Queen Ravenna Citizens of the Kingdom - The Huntsman Citizens of the Kingdom - Motley Crew: The Dwarves 360 Degree Set Views; U-control Picture In Picture - Theatrical Commentary Reinventing the Fairytale The Magic of 'Snow White and the Huntsman' Robin Hood Bonus Features: Robin Hood: Theatrical Feature Director's Notebook Picture In Picture The Art of Nottingham
Billy Byrne (Max Beesley) wants to be famous. He thinks he'll get eveything he wants when he's famous. He has a talent for selling himself for making people think he should be famous and he gets an agent who promises him the world. And then it all goes wrong. The world is indifferent to his talent. Billy's world is shattered and and he descends into a hostile 21st century version of a Victorian underworld squirming with all manner of thieves beggars and low lifes rejected by society...
Taking its title from a teenage disco, this eagerly anticipated first feature from British artist Tracey Emin marks a new chapter in her body of autobiographical work...Drawing on her experiences growing up in Margate, the film features six teenage girls - Frances, Helen, Katie, Kieri, Laura and Lizzie - who all have a tale to tell. One moment filled with bravado, the next awkward and insecure. In a series of interviews to camera, the Margate girls tell their individual stories. We learn about Helen and her love of the Sphinx, a ride at the Dreamland funfair, where she snogged a lad who she is convinced has joined the foreign legion. Katie was raped at the end of her Christmas holiday - he broke me in, she says of the abuser. Kieri has a lovebite as a result of a strange sex game involving an older woman. And Lizzie takes the stories to a harrowing and dramatic culmination, involving a miscarriage and suicide.The film is hard-edged and disturbing, but it's also Emin's poem to Margate, mixing DV footage Super 8 film into lyrical montage. The natural beauty of the sea and the sunsets is linked with Margate's more manmade pleasures, underscored with a selection of 70s songs that formed the soundtrack to the artist's own adolescence.
Only Kathryn Stillman has the courage to testify against Brian Kaleen a cop who breaks every law and uses violence and cruelty to get his own way. With the FBI and Internal Affairs unable to help Kathryn knows that only she can bring this nightmare to an end. Based on a true story.
A group of wild teens break into a luxurious house in an upper class suburb for a night of partying, destruction and mayhem that will change them all forever. The new feature film from director Kirsten Sheridan.
First aired in 1995 Xena: Warrior Princess now boasts a huge cult following. Xena is a charismatic and highly-skilled warrior from ancient times. This DVD box set contains half of the first season of this action-packed series. Episodes Comprise: 1. Ties That Bind 2. The Greater Good 3. Callisto 4. Death Mask 5. Is There A Doctor In The House? 6. Dreamworker 7. Cradle Of Hope 8. The Path Not Taken 9. The Reckoning 10. The Titans 11. Prometheus 12. Death In Chains Please note that the episodes on the discs are not in the chronological order of the series.
It Began With One Man. A virus with no cure. A threat with no borders. A nation with no chance of escaping H5N1 the Avian Flu. When a mutation of the virus is discovered in a local marketplace China sends an emergency summons to Dr. Iris Varnack (Joely Richardson) of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. When she arrives she discovers her efforts may be too late - an American businessman has become the first victim of a strain that is passed from human to human. As the flu begins its insidious spread Secretary of Health and Human Services Collin Reed (Stacy Keach) races to combat the ensuing chaos. The victim's wife Denise Connelly (Ann Cusack) does what she can to help other infected people. It wasn't supposed to happen this way - until it did.
Travel back four thousand years and experience the beauty and majesty of the ancient kingdom of the Pharoahs.
The secrets of ancient Egypt are revealed in this IMAX production, which explores the region's mysterious monuments and forbidding but beautiful terrain. Hosts Omar Sharif and Kate Maberly present the history of Egypt's remarkable civilization and visit wonders like the Great Pyramids and King Tut's tomb.
Join Bob The Builder and his brilliant machine team - Scoop the digger Lofty the crane Dizzy the cement mixer Muck the digger/dumper and Roley the steam roller! Episodes Comprise: 1. Mucky Muck 2. Tea Set Travis 3. Clocktower Bob 4. Dizzy's Birdwatch 5. Wendy's Tennis Court
Undaunted by ridicule from fellow scientists Professor Challenger leads an expedition to investigate rumoured sightings of prehistoric life in the African Jungle.Accompanied by a sceptical rival; Professor Summerlee a thrill seeking journalist a wealthy lady photographer a boy stowaway and exotic native girl the group find to their amazement that Challenger's claims are true. A land of dinosaurs pterodactyls and primitive people. After a perilous trek rich with danger and deception they now have to struggle to survive ... The Lost World.
Once upon a time Jill Sabrina and Kelly were police officers whose skills were being wasted in menial duties. A mysterious millionaire named Charles Townsend took them away from all that by opening his own private investigation agency and hiring these gorgeous ladies as his operatives with John Bosley acting as their assistant and liaison. Charlie's Angels star in these two action-packed episodes from the first series of the original '70s hit TV show! To Kill an Angel: A t
She spent years getting into the mind of a monster. Now he is getting into hers... Harlan Pyne a violent sexual offender is convinced that psychiatrist Samantha Goodman conducted unethical experiments on him while she was his doctor. With the assistance of his troubled yet eager protege Harlan forces Samantha and her family to participate in a series of nightmarish games. On this night of terror escape is not an option truth guarantees nothing and revenge will not necessarily b
Five best friends from college (Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer and Zoë Kravitz) reunite 10 years later for a wild weekend getaway in Miami. Their outrageous antics and hard partying result in hilarious unexpected consequences which land them in a seemingly impossible situation to escape. Special Features: Gag Reel Deleted Scenes Naughty Neighbour Diaries Improv-O-Rama Scandalous Sing-Along Killer Cast Featurette The Dynamic Duo: Lucia and Paul And More!
Oakie Doke is an energetic friendly little fellow made of oak leaves twigs and acorns. Always smiling and having fun Oakie enjoys his role as mr.Fix-it and problem solver for all his friends. Join Oakie and his friends in their fun-filled adventures in Oakie Hollows...
A romantic drama about the universal complexity of modern relationships and follows three women aged 20 (Lee); 30 (Liu); and 40 (Chang) at different stages of life and love. Set in Taipei Taiwan against the background of minor earthquakes that the city is experiencing the women's love lives are as unpredictable and turbulent as the tremors they endure. Xiao Jie (Lee) innocent and impressionable escapes her overbearing parents for the first time to leave home and follow her dream o
Like a roller coaster ready to fly off its rails, Van Helsing rockets to maximum velocity and never slows down. Having earned blockbuster clout with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer-director Stephen Sommers once again plunders Universal's monster vault and pulls out all the stops for this mammoth $148-million action-adventure-horror-comedy, which opens (sans credits) with a terrific black-and-white prologue that pays homage to the Universal horror classics that inspired it. The plot pits legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) against Dracula (the deliciously campy Richard Roxburgh), his deadly blood-sucking brides, and the Wolfman (Will Kemp) in a two-hour parade of outstanding special effects (980 in all) that turn Sommers' juvenile plot into a triple-overtime bonus for CGI animators. In alliance with a Transylvanian princess (Kate Beckinsale) and the Frankenstein monster (Shuler Hensley), Van Helsing must prevent Dracula from hatching his bat-winged progeny, and there's so much good-humored action that you're guaranteed to be thrilled and exhausted by the time the 10-minute end-credits roll. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with revisionist horror folklore, and aimed at addicted gamers and eight-year-olds, but this colossal monster mash (including Mr. Hyde, just for kicks) will never, ever bore you. --Jeff Shannon
The Notebook (Dir. Nick Cassavetes) (2004): A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook (James Garner) to a woman in a nursing home (Gena Rowlands - real-life mother of Nick Cassavetes). 'The Notebook' follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams). Though her upbringing takes place in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians strum on the porch that doesn't stop Noah and Allie from spending one incredible summer together before they are separated first by her parents and then by WWII. After the war is over everything is different. Allie is engaged to a successful businessman and Noah lives alone with his 200-year-old house that he lovingly restores. But when Allie reads a newspaper article about Noah's handiwork. She knows that she's got to find him and make a decision once and for all about the path her life - and her love - must take... Peter's Friends (Dir. Kenneth Branagh) (1992): Ten years after leaving university Peter and his best friends reunite for a New Year's party to end all parties. Having weathered most of life's triumphs and disasters there doesn't seem to be much left to shock them - but Peter has a special surprise that will test their friendship to the utmost. A wonderfully wicked comedy about life love and other natural disasters. Much Ado About Nothing (Dir. Kenneth Branagh) (1993): Much Ado About Nothing is a fast moving yet intricate tale of love and romantic combat a 'Merry War' of trust and treachery social graces and sheer physical attraction chastity under suspicion and marriage in jeopardy'.
Bee Movie (2007): Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) a bee who has just graduated from college is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive Barry's life is saved by Vanessa (Renee Zellweger) a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms he discovers humans actually eat honey and subsequently decides to sue us. Antz (1998): With a superstar cast and breakthrough visual effects DreamWorks' spectacular comedy adventure ANTZ became 'king of the hill' with audiences and movie critics alike. Everyone digz ANTZ! Life is no picnic for Z a small worker with some very big ideas whose chances of landing the beautiful Princess Bala are literally one in a billion. But when Z convinces his soldier ant buddy Weaver to switch places with him his simple life takes a wild turn. From his battles in the termite war to his search for 'Insectopia' Z's adventures land him in a final confrontation with the ruthless General Mandible who has planned to liquidate the colony. Once the most insignificant of workers Z may just turn out to be the biggest hero of them all. Flushed Away (2006): Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust ""society mouse"" who lives the life of a beloved pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides he's hit the jackpot Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the ""whirlpool."" Sid may be an ignorant slob but he's no fool so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out or rather up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and speaking of trouble the villainous Toad - who royally despises all rodents equally making no distinction between mice and rats - wants them iced...literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats Spike and Whitey to get the job done. When they fail the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin - that dreaded mercenary Le Frog.
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