Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, the happily irresponsible Czech lover of Milan Kundera's novel, which is set in Prague just before and during the Soviet invasion in 1968. Lena Olin and Juliette Binoche are the two vastly different women who occupy his attention and to some extent represent different sides of his values and personality. In any case, the character's decision to flee Russian tanks with one of them--and then return--has profound consequences on his life. Directed by Philip Kaufman, this rich, erotic, fascinating character study with allegorical overtones is a touchstone for many filmgoers. Several key sequences--such as Olin wearing a bowler hat and writhing most attractively--linger in the memory, while Kaufman's assured sense of the story inspires superb performances all around. --Tom Keogh
Hayley Atwell stars as an obsessive police officer in this TV miniseries. Set across three episodes in 1985, 1997 and 2013, rookie WPC Denise Woods (Atwell) hunts for the killer of 15-year-old schoolgirl Amy Reid Eloise Smith. As she navigates the law enforcement ranks from constable to superintendent, Denise must fulfil her own personal desire to resolve her first case while acting against the strict instruction of her superiors at Brixton police station. As her work threatens to consume her, Denise struggles to achieve balance in her home life with husband Ray Richard Coyle and daughter Charlotte Ruby Thomas.
Jennifer Lopez marries her dream man, but soon discovers he isn't the man she thought he was. For her own safety - and that of her daughter - she decides to take drastic action...
Michael J. Fox and James Woods team up for hilarious action-adventure from director John Badham. Nick Lang (Fox) is a popular actor who seeks out obsessive detective Moss (Woods) in order to research a new part and break out of his 'nice guy' screen image. On the trail of a ruthless serial killer the last thing Moss needs is a pampered Hollywood sidekick...
Savage Garden, Australia's hottest export of recent years, are captured here in all their live glory as they hit their hometown of Brisbane in a triumphant sell-out homecoming gig. There is a fair amount of behind-the-scenes footage which serves to back up the roles that the two members of the band have adopted: singer Darren is the outgoing excitable one, attracted like a moth to a flame by the trappings of celebrity, whereas guitarist Daniel is the private and shy one, preferring to stay out of the limelight and just write songs. But with millions of records sold all around the world, sell-out tours, hysterical fans and a string of chart-topping singles, this unlikely pairing proves the old adage that opposites attract. All the hits are here--"To the Moon and Back", "Affirmation", "Truly, Madly Deeply", "The Animal Song" and others--but after a while the visuals do become very samey: with only two of them to look at, and one of them tending to stray away from the spotlight at every available opportunity, the poor cameramen don't have many options. The backdrop to the concert is a huge wall of multi-coloured blocks of lights, apparently based on memories of a trip to Blackpool (but without the rain, chip wrappers and drunken brawls, sadly). It's all very polished, and just a little bit sterile as it fails to recreate the atmosphere of the live experience. However, for those who were there it's a great lasting reminder. The DVD menu allows the viewer to choose multiple camera angles on a select number of tracks. --Helen Marquis
Award-winning actress Eve Myles (Torchwood, Broadchurch) stars in this BBC thriller as Faith Howells, a fun-loving lawyer with a happy marriage and three children. Then one day her husband Evan (Bradley Freegard, Doctors) leaves for work but never arrives. Forced to cut short her extended maternity leave to keep the family law firm afloat and rapidly becoming the police's prime suspect, Faith is determined to discover the truth behind her husband's disappearance.Her search leads her to places she never thought she would go and has her questioning whether she ever really knew her husband? A gripping, heart wrenching tale of family, secrets, lies and grit, Keeping Faith also stars Mark Lewis Jones (Chernobyl), Rhashan Stone (Finding Alice), Aneirin Hughes (Hinterland) and Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel).
Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Based on author Philip Pullman's beloved trilogy, Season two of His Dark Materials begins as Lyra embarks upon a journey in a strange and mysterious abandoned city. There she meets Will, a boy from our world who is also running from a troubled past. Lyra and Will learn their destinies are tied to reuniting Will with his father but find their path is constantly thwarted as a war begins to brew around them. Meanwhile, Mrs. Coulter searches for Lyra, determined to bring her home by any means necessary. Includes 4 Double-Sided Art Cards Starring: Dafne Keen Ruth Wilson Lin-Manuel Miranda James McAvoy Andrew Scott Amir Wilson
Fresh from Hammer's Taste of Fear, Ronald Lewis teamed up with William Castle for what the famed horror producer considered one his favourite films. Lewis plays Sir Robert Cargrave, a British doctor who receives a letter from an ex-lover about an intriguing case. Her husband, the titular Mr Sardonicus (Guy Rolfe, Yesterday's Enemy), requires medical attention for his horribly deformed face Once seen, you'll never be able to forget it. Extras High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger Gothic Castle (2018, 28 mins): critical analysis by Jonathan Rigby, author of American Gothic: Six Decades of Classic Horror Cinema The Punishment Poll (2018, 6 mins): interview with publicist Richard Kahn Taking the Punishment Poll (2002, 8 mins): archivist Bob Burns and filmmakers David Del Valle, Michael Schlesinger and Fred Olen Ray discuss the film Isolated music & effects track Original theatrical trailer Stuart Gordon trailer commentary (2013, 3 mins): short critical appreciation Image gallery: promotional and on-set photography, poster art and archive materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
For the NASA-funded research team stationed at the most desolate reaches of Antarctica it's another routine day - until the communications satellite picks up a mysterious signal coming from a strange object lodged several meters beneath the ice. Suspecting it may not be from Earth the lead scientist immediately places a call to Julian Rome (James Spader) an old friend formerly employed as a cryptologist for the U.S. government's SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) progr
One of the key films of the 1970s, John Boorman's Deliverance is a nightmarish adaptation of poet-novelist James Dickey's book about various kinds of survival in modern America. The story concerns four Atlanta businessmen of various male stripe: Jon Voight's character is a reflective, civilized fellow; Burt Reynolds plays a strapping hunter-gatherer in urban clothes; Ned Beatty is a sweaty, weak-willed boy-man, and Ronny Cox essays a spirited, neighbourly type. Together they decide to answer the ancient call of men testing themselves against the elements and set out on a treacherous ride on the rapids of an Appalachian river. What they don't understand until it is too late is that they have ventured into Dickey's variation on the American underbelly, a wild, lawless, dangerous (and dangerously inbred) place isolated from the gloss of the late 20th century. In short order, the four men dig deep into their own suppressed primitiveness, defending themselves against armed cretins, facing the shock of real death on their carefully planned, death-defying adventure and then squarely facing the suspicions of authority over their concealed actions. Boorman, a master teller of stories about individuals on peculiarly mythical journeys, does a terrifying and beautiful job of revealing the complexity of private and collective character--the way one can never be the same after glimpsing the sharp-clawed survivor in one's soul. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
A great value triple film collection of great British horror films that includes Blue Blood, Neither The Sea Nor The Sand & The Legacy. Starring Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis, Anna Gaël and Susan Hampshire. Blueblood - An unusually nasty butler takes over the possessions of his degenerate master by means of witchcraft. Neither the Sea Nor the Sand - Susan Hampshire and Frank Finlay star in this distinctly unsettling British supernatural thriller based on a book by newsreader Gordon Honeycombe. The Legacy - This 1978 British chiller sees a young couple trapped in a mansion. An occult ceremony is in progress - and all Hell is about to break loose. Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott & Roger Daltrey star.
Long-awaited, long-overdue: The Professionals as you have never seen them before. Bodie and Doyle need little by way of introduction, but if the series had at all escaped you since its debut in 1977 their boss George Cowley, head of CI5, couldn't put it more succinctly than his opening gambit: anarchy, acts of terror, crimes against the public. To combat it I've got special men experts from the army, the police, from every service. These are The Professionals . Featuring the perfect ensemble cast of Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson (completely against type here) and the much-missed Lewis Collins, the series ran for 57 action-packed episodes and made an immediate impact on British and then international audiences which has sustained 35 years. But the series has never looked this good. Painstakingly restored from the camera-original negatives the series could have been made yesterday. No matter how many times you have seen The Professionals, this is a new experience, like seeing it for the first time. FEATURES ON THIS EDITION: Restorations of all 57 episodes from the camera-original negatives Brand-new 5.1 tracks from original sound elements Remastered original as-broadcast mono tracks Remastered music-only tracks featuring Laurie Johnson's original scores All series one episodes feature original Assault Course titles Without Walls: 1996 Channel 4 documentary on The Professionals Additional footage from Everest Was Also Conquered and Look After Annie Raw title sequence Original ad bumpers Outtakes and Behind the Scenes footage US Sales Trailer Photo galleries featuring hundreds of rare and previously unseen images ATV Today: two newsclips featuring Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins The Professionals Serving the Professionals: outtakes from a 1982 NAAFI promo Then and Now The Location Files PDF Restoration featurette PDF material featuring scripts and memorabilia All episodes are presented in their original production order English HOH subtitlesb
From the team behind the Carry On films Twice Around The Daffodils focuses on the nurses and patients of a British TB ward.
New York 1863. Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio), a young Irish-American immigrant, returns after fifteen years to seek revenge against William Cutting (Daniel Day Lewis) the powerful anti-immigrant gang leader who killed Amsterdam's father.
An elaborate game of mind control begins when the son of government agent Peter (Douglas) is kidnapped for his psychokinetic powers. Desperate to find him the father hires a girl (Irving) with similar psychic abilities. She soon reveals that his son is a prisoner at a secret U.S. agency where he's being used for dangerous mind experiments - and programmed for elimination...
A forgotten gem of British Comedy Chelmsford 123 was the first ever production from Hat Trick (Outnumbered Have I Got News For You). In 123 AD a young Roman general Aulus Paulinus (Jimmy Mulville) is found guilty of a most terrible crime - failing to grovel sufficiently to the Emperor. His punishment is the worst job in the Empire - governing Britannia. It's hard to believe but in those days Britain was a cold miserable dump populated by beer-swilling hooligans... Based in Chelmsford Aulus knows little - and understands less - of the peoples he has been sent to control and so regularly finds himself at odds with and more often than not outwitted by the local Celtic tribal leader Badvoc (Rory McGrath). This two disc set contains all 13 episodes from both series.
Marked for death by a biker gang ex-Marine convict Tim Kearney (Paul Walker) just got one last chance to walk out of jail alive. A scheming DEA agent (Laurence Fishburne) needs somebody to impersonate recently deceased drug-lord Bobby Z... and Tim happens to be a dead ringer. It's a risky proposition but if Tim plays his part right he may be able to claim Bobby Z's smoking hot exgirlfriend (Olivia Wilde) and a cool fortune in illegal profits. Unfortunately taking on Bobby Z's name
Titles Comprise:The Boxer: When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighbourhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realise cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.In The Name Of The Father: Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis gives an impassioned performance in this riveting drama that mirrors one man's 15 year struggle and ultimate triumph over a terrible injustice. Oscar winner Emma Thompson co-stars in this gripping and highly emotive film. In The Name Of The Father tells the true-life saga of Gerry Conlon. A petty thief in strife torn '70s Belfast, Gerry's main interests are getting drunk and partying, much to the dismay of his quiet, frail father, Giuseppe (Pete Postlethwaite). When Gerry angers the IRA, his father sends him to England, where his antics put him in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Innocent, but forced to confess to an act of savage terrorism, he is sentenced to life imprisonment as one of the 'Guildford Four'. An innocent Giuseppe is also arrested, and while behind bars, Gerry learns that his father's seeming frailty masks an unmatched inner strength and wisdom. Working with a fiercely dedicated lawyer, Gerry determines to prove his innocence, clear his father's name and expose the truth behind one of the most shameful legal events in recent history.
Jaguar Lives featuring Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings) and scenery chewing master class in screen villainy from Donald Pleasence (Halloween) is a James Bond-riffing action classic from the Halcyon days of the back street video shop. 1979 World Karate Champion Joe Lewis is the Jaguar; a man betrayed who is drawn back into the shady world of international crime fighting when a Heroin cartel sweeps to power across the Middle East and threatens to unbalance world peace. Only one man can infiltrate the borderless gang of criminal masterminds and that man is... The Jaguar. He will stop at nothing and he's ready to kill to bring down the pushers and keep the streets clean. The Jaguar - Man of Action Master of Martial Arts Lady Killer - is here to save the world again in a 70s B-Movie classic that'll blow your mind. Packed with fast cars big fights and bigger explosions Jaguar Lives is a square jawed Rollercoaster ride to wall-to-wall Kung Fu and white hot action!
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