Clint Eastwood gritty Academy Award-winning drama, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, turns 20 years old. Set in the Irish community of Boston, it tells the story of three childhood friends who have drifted apart over the years owing to a violent and disturbing experience they shared as children, and are forcibly reunited many years later following another tragic event. When ex-con Jimmy Markum's (Sean Penn) 19-year-old daughter Katie is murdered, the homicide detectives assigned to the case are Whitney Powers (Laurence Fishburne) and Jimmy's old friend Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon). Behind the scenes, Jimmy asks two of his relatives, the Savage brothers, to mount their own investigation, and the finger of suspicion begins to point to the final person in the childhood trio, Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins), who is now a broken man. Product Features Commentary by Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon Dennis Lehane Tours the Boston Neighbourhood Setting of His Novel in Mystic River: Beneath the Surface Featurette Mystic River: From Page to Screen The Charlie Rose Show Interviews with Clint Eastwood, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon Theatrical Trailers
The first showdown pairs Green Lantern and The Flash against Gorilla Grodd an evil genius primate with a mind-controlling device and a vendetta against humankind. Only the Justice League can save us from gorilla domination! Then Lex Luthor's reputation as a devious mastermind is finally exposed or is it? Luthor assembles a mighty evildoer team - Ultra-Humanite Cheetah Copperhead Solomon Grundy Star Sapphire The Shade and The Joker - to destroy the Justice League. This is the on
Combing his characteristic savage humor with hard-talking drama Irvine Welsh has adapted three of his short stories into one powerful explicit and savagely funny film. The Acid House reaches into the hearts and minds of the 'chemical generation' and delves into the dark hidden corners of the human psyche. Get ready to take the trip. The Granton Star Cause: Boab Coyle is on a cushy number. He lives at home with his parents. He has a place in this beloved Granton Star football team and he's got a gorgeous girlfriend. But a chance meeting with God changes all that - for good! A Soft Touch: Meet Johnny - he's a soft touch who is all too easily manipulated by those around him. So what will he do when he comes up against his totally psychotic neighbor Larry who takes everything including his wife! The Acid House: Coco Bryce is a 'Hibs Boy' with passion for raves and chemical excess. But one night he takes one tab too many and an electrical storm trips his mind into that of middle-class couple Rory and Jenny's newly born baby. But what of the old Coco and how do you deal with a drunken foul-mouthed baby?
On Sunday 16th May 2010 the English Cricket team made history by winning the ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies. Led by captain Paul Collingwood England beat their arch rivals Australia to win England's first ever ICC trophy. This two disc DVD set contains the complete England and Australia final plus extended highlights of the complete tournament including the Pakistan vs Australia semifinal. Watch again the big hits and the amazing catches. Get swept away with the fanfare and the excitement that is Twenty20 cricket set against the backdrop of the stunning surroundings of the Caribbean. This packed 2 disc set features: Full coverage of the Twenty20 World Cup Final The Road to the Final - highlights from the complete tournament Interviews with the England players including Man of the Tournament Kevin Pietersen and Paul Collingwood Best of the Sixes Tournament Stats
First broadcast in 1983 with its second series airing in 1986, Auf Wiedersehen Pet was an unlikely comedy hit about a group of British labourers forced to work in Germany during the recession. Scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, (previously responsible for Porridge and The Likely Lads) its main players are likeable stereotypes from all over England: Barry (Timothy Spall), the bumbling, haplessly pretentious Brummie; gentle West Country giant Bomber (Pat Roach); amiable Scouse Moxey (Christopher Fairbank); and the three Geordies, nervous Neville (Kevin Whately), loudmouth xenophobic lummox Oz (Jimmy Nail) and put-upon Dennis (Tim Healy), the reluctant gaffer of the mob. The second series saw the lads reunited to work for a dubious entrepreneur called Ally Fraser to whom Dennis owes money, and the location varying from Spain to Derbyshire. Gary Holton (cheeky cockney Wayne) died during the making of the series and Clement and La Frenais farmed out several episodes to other writers like Stan Hey, but the characters were well established by this point and the comedy held up. An episode in which the gang upset the locals of a stuffy country pub with their very presence is particularly memorable. A belated third series followed in 2002.--David Stubbs
This high budget movie is based on the novel by Stevie Davies and written by Bafta award-winner Alan Plater whose previous television credits include A Very British Coup and The Last of the Blonde Bomb Shells. From Bafta award winner The Producers (The Politicians Wife Seeing Red) and directed by Christopher Menaul (Wall of Silence State of Mind) Belonging is a bittersweet drama set in the picturesque market town of Shrewsbury. At first glance it's just a domestic tale about marital breakdown but a closer inspection reveals a tender perceptive and at times deeply funny story. The range of rich and diverse characters and the closely observed trivia of family life are what transform this simple story into a glorious depiction of human endurance. Jess (Brenda Blethyn - Saving Grace Secrets And Lies) and Jacob Copplestone (Kevin Whately - Inspector Morse Auf Wiedersehein Pet Lewis The Children) have been happily married for twenty years and now live with Jacob's cantankerous and demanding mother May (Rosemary Harris - Spider-Man) his sweet and good natured aunt Brenda (Anna Massey - Pinochet In Suburbia) and his devout and elderly cousin Nathan (Peter Sallis - Last Of The Summer Wine Wallace & Grommitt). With selfless dedication Jess has given up her job as a librarian to care for the oldies. But when her husband disappears Jess's world starts to fall apart. She now has to question the entire basis on which her life has been built and come to terms with her new found freedom while contending with her exasperating relations.
EATEN BY LIONS tells the heart-warming story of half-brothers Omar (Antonio Aakeel) and Pete (Jack Carroll), who were raised by their Grandma after their parents were tragically killed by lions in a bizarre accident. When their beloved Gran passes away, they embark on a life-changing journey to find Omar's birth father. What follows is a funny and touching journey of self-discovery for both boys...in Blackpool. The Choudray family represent a truly contemporary example of modern multicultural Britain, but what will the brothers make of their eccentric newfound family?
Inspired by NetherRealm Studios, creators of the Injustice: Gods Among Us video game, and the best-selling DC graphic novel based on the video game, Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year One by Tom Taylor, the animated film Injustice finds an alternate world gone mad - where The Joker has duped Superman into killing Lois Lane, sending the Man of Steel on a deadly rampage. Unhinged, Supermandecides to take control of the Earth for humanity's own good. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of like-minded, freedom-fighting heroes. But when Super Heroes go to war, can the world survive? Bonus Features A Preview of Reign of the Supermen. A Preview of the Death of Superman.
Unlike another certain celebrated HBO series, Rome's end will satisfy those swept up in its lavishly mounted spectacle and invested in the human dramas of the historical figures and fictional characters. Series 2 begins in the wake of Julius Caesar's assassination, and charts the power struggle to fill his sandals between "vulgar beast" Mark Antony (James Purefoy) and "clever boy" Octavian (Simon Woods), who is surprisingly named Caesar's sole heir. The series' most compelling relationship is between fellow soldiers and unlikely friends, the honorable Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and Titus "Violence is the only trade I know" Pullo (Ray Stevenson), who somewhat reverse roles when Vorenus is overcome with grief in the wake of his wife's suicide. Series 2 considerably ups the ante in the rivalry between Atia (an Emmy-worthy Polly Walker), who is Antony's mistress, and Servilia (Lindsay Duncan) with attempted poisonings and sickening torture. Another gripping sub plot is Vorenus's estrangement from his children, who, at the climax of the season opener are presumed slaughtered, but whose true fate may be even more devastating to the father who cursed them. Rome's second season does not scrimp on the series' sex and violence, in both cases exceedingly brutal. But in this cauldron of treachery and betrayal, words, too, are vicious, as when a defiant Atia ominously tells Octavian's new wife, Livia, "Far better women that you have sworn to [destroy me]. Go look for them now." In writing Rome's epitaph, we come to praise this series, not to bury it. Although two seasons was not enough to establish a Rome empire, it stands as one of HBO's crowning achievements. --Donald Liebenson
It was a time of tyrants: the only way to uphold the truth was to break the law. He fought for the good of all men and for the love of just one woman. Kevin Costner brings the epic hero Robin Hood to life in a film filled with pageantry intrigue action and romance. With an outstanding cast record-breaking theme song and film production on a sweeping scale Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has become a legend in its own right.
Although the superhero comic book has been a duopoly since the early 1960s, only DC's flagship characters, Superman and Batman (who originated in the late 1930s) have established themselves as big-screen franchises. Until now--this is the first runaway hit film version of the alternative superhero X-Men universe created for Marvel Comics by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and others. It's a rare comic-book movie that doesn't fall over its cape introducing all the characters, and this is the exception. X-Men drops us into a world that is closer to our own than Batman's Gotham City, but it's still home to super-powered goodies and baddies. Opening in high seriousness with paranormal activity in a WW2 concentration camp and a senatorial inquiry into the growing "mutant problem", Bryan Singer's film sets up a complex background with economy and establishes vivid, strange characters well before we get to the fun. There's Halle Berry flying and summoning snowstorms, James Marsden zapping people with his "optic beams", Rebecca Romijn-Stamos shape-shifting her blue naked form, and Ray Park lashing out with his Toad-tongue. The big conflict is between Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Ian McKellen's Magneto, super-powerful mutants who disagree about their relationship with ordinary humans, but the characters we're meant to identify with are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine (who has retractable claws and amnesia), and Anna Paquin's Rogue (who sucks the life and superpowers out of anyone she touches). The plot has to do with a big gizmo that will wreak havoc at a gathering of world leaders, but the film is more interested in setting up a tangle of bizarre relationships between even more bizarre people, with solid pros such as Stewart and McKellen relishing their sly dialogue and the newcomers strutting their stuff in cool leather outfits. There are in-jokes enough to keep comics' fans engaged, but it feels more like a science fiction movie than a superhero picture. --Kim Newman
Kevin Bridges: The Full Story Boxset featuring The Story So Far and The Story Continues.
Kevin Bacon stars as a man who'll do anything to protect his family in this shocking thriller from "Saw" director James Wan.
Shackleton is not a biopic of the great Anglo-Irish explorer but a dramatisation of the failed trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-16. As written and directed by Charles (Longtitude) Sturridge the production, filmed on real ice floes in Greenland, stays remarkably close to the facts, capturing the look of the surviving expedition photos of Frank Hurley (collected in the book South With Endurance) with great fidelity. Kenneth Branagh makes no attempt at an authentic accent but otherwise gives a powerful impression of a most commanding personality. When the expedition ship Endurance became locked in the Antarctic ice Shackleton vowed to bring every man home alive, and against virtually impossible odds, including a 700-mile journey in an open boat through some of the worst seas in the world, he did just that. This superlative mini-series realises the story with production values and cinematography which would not disgrace a big-budget feature (Hurley's own 1919 documentary film can be seen on video in South). Intense physical drama, strong performances and Adrian Johnston's fine score combine here to deeply moving effect, marred only a little by a rushed conclusion. With Roland Huntford, author of the definitive Shackleton biography, as production advisor, this easily stands as the benchmark for all future comparable films. --Gary S Dalkin
Kevin Whately stars as Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis, ably assisted by Laurence Fox as his partner D.S. James Hathaway. Together they investigate murder mysteries against the glorious backdrop of Oxford and its historic colleges. With Clare Holman as Dr. Laura Hobson, Rebecca Front as Chief Superintendent Innocent and introducing Angela Griffin as D.S. Lizzie Maddox. Episodes: Series One: Whom The Gods Would Destroy; Old School Ties; Expiation Series Two: And The Moonbeams Kiss The Sea.
Robert Carlyle stars as James I, who battles with the Catholic conspiracy against him and eventually foils a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The Gunpowder Plot was masterminded by the influential Catholic Robert Catesby (Richard Coyle) and planned by Guy Fawkes (Michael Fassbender), who wanted to rid the nation of an oppressive Protestant monarch. Clémence Poésy plays James I's mother, Mary Queen of Scots, who spends most of her short reign locked in a battle with both her Protestant subjects and the English Queen, Elizabeth I (Catherine McCormack), before conspiring with the Earl of Bothwell (Kevin McKidd) to assassinate her miscreant husband Lord Darnley (Paul Nicholls).
Kevin Whately is Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis ably assisted by his young sidekick D.S. Hathaway (Laurence Fox) in this hit detective drama full of intriguing murder mystery. Set in the idyllic surroundings of Oxford and its university campus murder has never been so appealing... Titles Comprise: Series 1: Lewis Pilot Whom the Gods Would Destroy Old School Ties Expiation Behind The Scenes Extras Series 2: And The Moonbeams Kissed The Sea Music To Die For Life Born of Fire The Great And The Good Series 3: Allegory Of Love The Quality Of Mercy The Point Of Vanishing Counter Culture Blues Series 4: The Dead of Winter Dark Matter Your Sudden Death Question Falling Darkness Cast Interviews & Behind The Scenes Series 5: The Mind Has Mountains Wild Justice The Gift of Promise Old Unhappy Far-Off Things
This comedy sketch show features parodies of the home lives of famous Hollywood couples. Stars lampooned include David and Victoria Beckham George Michael Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas Jude Law and Sadie Frost and many more.
When little Jaclyn Dowaliby falls victim to a sinister abduction from her Chicago home the press wants a story and the police want a quick solution to an emotionally charged crime. They seize on Jaclyn's devastated parents as the most likely suspects using brutal tactics to trick them into a 'confession'. Worse is to come: when Jaclyn's body is found the Dowalibys stand accused of not only of her murder but also of sexually and physically abusing their young son Davey. Saddled with
Captain Dylan Hunt and his crew return to our screens in the second season of Gene Roddenberry's brilliant sci-fi adventure series, Andromeda. In a dramatic start to the season, some the crew are abducted and Dylan and Rommie must find a way to rescue them, battling the deadliest of enemies along the way but as Andromeda is critically damaged, it's not clear whether their mission will succeed. With a spate of intense attacks and pursuits along the way, the fast moving adventure series...
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