Originally produced as a three-part miniseries for New Zealand television, this extraordinary film is based on the life of Janet Frame, an introverted, sensitive girl who was later misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and spent eight years in a psychiatric hospital. She would later become one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets and novelists, publishing her first books while she was still confined to a mental ward. She had endured over 200 electroshock treatments and had almost been lobotomized by careless physicians who took no time to understand that she was merely awkward and shy and suffered from little more than routine depression. From a solid screenplayby Laura Jones, director Jane Campion (The Piano) tells this story without soapy melodrama but rather as anexploration of a challenged creative spirit--a journey into a writer's mind, exploring the power of imagination as a mechanism of survival and self-defense. Three talented actors play Janet Frame at different ages throughout the film, with Kerry Fox giving a powerful performance as the young-adult Janet, whose own skill and creative tenacity would prove to be her salvation. Frightening, harrowing and ultimately a source of humanistic enlightenment, An Angel at My Table (titled after Frame's autobiography) is a film you won't soon forget.--Jeff Shannon
Many years they came forever altering the future of humanity. Science fiction adventure from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. An androgynous alien species called the Taelons arrive on earth claiming to be companions of humanity putting an end to crime illness and famine. Some are suspicious of the Taleons and form a resistance movement. The resistance soon learned that the force that sustains the Taelons are breaking down and they are using humans as test su
East Is EastFor the seven kids of George Khan life is one long compromise. Tomboy Meenah prefers playing footie to wearing a sari hippie Saleem pretends to be studying engineering when he's really at art school heart throb Tariq has got a reputation as a local Casanova and Sajid hasn't even been circumcised yet! Brassed OffIt's 1992 and the miners of Grimley Colliery are facing uncertainty. Not only is their pit under threat but the Grimley Colliery Band is on the verge of breaking up - that is until Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) arrives. As the only female member of the band she somehow manages to rekindle their enthusiam for the forthcoming National Championships as well as rekindling a childhood romance with Andy (Ewan McGregor). Purely BelterAt the centre of this heart warming comedy are two young boys who won't give up on the pursuit of their dreams. Gerry and Sewell are broke. Owning season tickets to their beloved football club is their biggest dream of all. The tickets cost ''1000: they''re ''1000 short...
This offbeat Australian comedy is based on the real life events of 1969, when a huge satellite dish in the middle of a sheep paddock in Australia was used to pick up the TV signals from the first moon landing!
She was one of the century's most extraordinary talents, a 15-time Grammy nominee and Grammy Hall of Fame Recipient; her mesmerizing songs and passionate politics combined to make her the unforgettable Nina Simone (Zoe Saldana). But fame and fortune came with a price, and her later years were riddled with depression, alcohol abuse and isolation. Rediscovering the meaning of her life and work took courage, strength and one true friend: Clifton Henderson (David Oyelowo), the man who started out as her assistant and eventually became her loyal manager. With Clifton's encouragement, the high priestess of soul began a courageous journey back to her music and, eventually, herself. Click Images to Enlarge
Meet Jill the unhinged owner of a small town beauty salon and enter her dysfunctional world. Pretending that her hospitalised husband is dying Jill is on a mission to find a man. She joins the ""Lassoo the Moon"" Dating Agency but when her dates don't come up to scratch she sets her sights on her neighbour Don a doctor and develops a very unhealthy obsession about him. Moving in to 'nurse' his terminally ill wife she is determined to seduce him and bring their marriage to a gr
An investigation is called for when a mysterious visitor is crushed to death at Plummer And Sons.
The Complete Collection Tremors Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live below the ground! Tremors 2: Aftershocks The giant underground creatures are terrorizing their way through Mexican oil fields, gobbling up everything and everyone -and only one man can stop them! In the style of its predecessor, this comedy sci-fi creature feature reunites two desert desperados who take on the task of destroying the monsters Tremors 3: Back to Perfection Those morphing, man-eating monsters are shaking things up again in the little town of Perfection, and survivalist Burt Gummer s the only solution to the latest in evolution! Tremors 4: The Legend Begins This prequel to the original phenomenon will thrill you with incredible action sequences and earth-shaking special effects created by the award-winning team behind the first box-office hit! Tremors 5: Bloodlines The stakes are raised for survivalist Burt Gummer in his most dangerous monster hunt yet. When Gummer's hired to capture a deadly Ass Blaster terrorizing South Africa, he and his new sidekick, Travis Welker engage in a battle of survival against the fiercely aggressive ass-blasters and Graboids. Tremors 6: A Cold Day in Hell Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) and his son Travis Welker (Jamie Kennedy) are called to a research facility in the frozen tundra of the Canadian Arctic. They find themselves up to their ears in Graboids and Ass-Blasters investigating a series of deadly giant-worm attacks. Burt begins to suspect that Graboids are secretly being weaponized, but before he can prove his theory, he is sidelined by Graboid venom. With just 48 hours to live, the only hope is to create an antidote from fresh venom but to do that, someone will have to figure out how to milk a Graboid!
The Underwoods continue their ruthless rise to power. New alliances form while old ones succumb to deception and betrayal. Francis and Claire must battle threats past and present to avoid losing everything.
Set in the year 2022 where Marine Captain John Robbins is convicted of murder and sent to a ruthless prison where he must escape... or die.
Young Humphrey Craggyford is a ghost with a big problem - he and his family have been ousted from their home and left without a place to haunt. As they search for new haunting grounds they soon discover that they are not alone. Ghosts from all over the world have been exorcised from their dwellings with dark castles and ancient buildings being destroyed by the living and turned into shopping centres. With time running out Humphrey digs deep inside and decides to help save his family and the rest of the haunting community by scaring his way to victory in this FRIGHTfully charming family adventure.
In this explosive action-packed thriller rookie cop Nick Styles (Denzel Washington) has come a long way from the tough city streets of his childhood. Nick escaped to become a cop while his good friend Odessa (Ice T) became a street hustler dealing drugs and stealing cars. Then Nick's life changes forever the night his arrest of a ruthless psychotic killer Blake (John Lithgow) is captured on video by a bystander and picked up by the TV news. Nick becomes a media sensation and his career takes off leaving Blake to seethe in prison obsessed with hatred and revenge. But Blake escapes from jail faking his own death and starts an intricate brutal plan of intimidation public humiliation and murder while Nick is left helpless accusing a man everyone believes is dead. To defeat Blake Nick must return to the streets calling on his old friend Odessa. Together they set a trap that pits Nick against the killer in a terrifying confrontation that will leave one man victorious - and only one man left alive.
Baby (ANSEL ELGORT) a talented, young getaway driver relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams (LILY JAMES), Baby sees a chance to ditch his criminal life and make a clean getaway. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss (KEVIN SPACEY), he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom. Blu-ray Disc Special Features: Over 20 Minutes of Extended & Deleted Scenes Mozart In A Go-Kart: Ansel Drives Animatics That's My Baby: Edgar Wright Find Something Funky on There: The Choreography I Need A Killer Track: The Music And much more!
A prime example of 1990s independent film-making, Buffalo 66 is a little-known gem of a film which, once found, will be cherished. Vincent Gallo--the New York Bohemian extraordinaire--co-wrote the semi-autobiographical script. He also directed and starred in this dark comedy and, as if that wasn't enough, contributed to the mind-blowing soundtrack. By employing alternative filming techniques for what is, in essence, a traditional boy-meets-girl story, Gallo has created an indie movie with genuine mainstream appeal. A handheld camera and the flashback sequences use beautiful grainy cine film and 70s Polaroids, while as a whole the tone of the piece shifts between lavish theatrical images and reality TV. However, out of the many mesmerising scenes within the film, it is the isolated performances that offer the most heartfelt beauty, notably Cristina Ricci's solo light tap dance and Gazzara's mime to a song actually performed by Gallo's father in the distant past. An all-star cast also includes Angelica Huston, Ben Gazzara and Mickey Rourke. Buffalo 66 is an overlooked modern classic just waiting to be discovered. --Nikki Disney
Inspired by George A. Romero's 1985 masterpiece and one of the most popular horror franchises of all time, Day of the Dead is the intense story of six strangers trying to survive the first 24 hours of an undead invasion. Romero's famous flesh-eaters reminds us that sometimes all it takes to bring people together is a horde of hungry zombies trying to rip them apart. But unlike most zombie tales, Day of the Dead isn't the story of a crisis bringing out the worst in people. Instead, it's an ass-kicking adventure about how our differences become strengths and how we band together when the world goes crazy around us.
Dr Dolittle (Dir. Betty Thomas 1998): Treat yourself to a healthy dose of Eddie Murphy's untamed animal magnetism in the smash hit comedy that'll make you roar howl and hoot with laughter! A successful physician and devoted family man John Dolittle (Murphy) seems to have the world by the tail until a long-suppressed talent he possessed as a child - the ability to communicate with animals - is suddenly reawakened... with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distanc
As a producer, Roger Corman has always loved to make low-budget rip-offs of hit movies, and Piranha is his typically cheeky take on Jaws--and, as so often with Corman, in many ways it's funnier and more entertaining than the original. Directed with gusto by schlock-horror specialist Joe Dante and sharply scripted by John Sayles, it replaces one huge underwater toothy monster with dozens of little ones and ups the body count by a factor of 10 or so. Two hapless teenagers, hiking in a remote mountain region, stumble on a secret US military research lab. They don't last long, but their intrusion leads to the release into the local river system of a huge shoal of super-intelligent piranha, originally specially bred for use in Vietnam. Downstream from the virulent little munchers lie a kiddies' holiday camp and a tacky new waterfront theme park. Lunch time, fellas! Sayles, with his staunch left-wing credentials, slips in some mordant political satire at the expense of the military-industrial complex, and authority figures of any kind come off pretty badly, but the satire never gets in the way of the gleeful black humour. The two leads, Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies, are fairly pallid, but there are ripe cameos from such cult horror-movie icons as Kevin McCarthy, Dick Miller and Barbara Steele. Pino Donaggio's score impudently borrows aspects of John Williams' famous Jaws theme while never quite infringing copyright. The movie was successful enough to spawn a much-inferior sequel, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), which marked the inauspicious directing debut of one James Cameron. On the DVD: Piranha on disc comes with just the theatrical trailer as an extra. The transfer is a respectable job, reproducing the original's full-screen ratio. --Philip Kemp
Episodes include: 'Private Lives' 'The Fugitive' and 'The Alien'.
Adam Sandler and Kevin James team as two straight guys who stumble down the aisle in this new comedy.
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