Prick Up Your Ears | DVD | (10/10/2005)
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| RRP Based on John Lahr's biography of the same name and co-written by Alan Bennett, Prick Up Your Ears charts the 16-year relationship between the monstrously talented but deeply selfish playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman), author of West End farces such as Loot and What the Butler Saw, and his neurotic but nevertheless wronged lover and collaborator Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina). Halliwell introduced Orton to art, literature and gay sex only to see his protégeacute; outstrip his mentor with innate and rampant talent for sexual conquest. By turns hilarious and excoriatingly painful, it's as much a tribute to an anti-hero of our times-Orton's ruthless frankness and anarchic mindset helped form the basis of what's called the "queer" sensibility today--as it is a portrait of the Swinging 60s just after the reform of anti-homosexuality laws irrevocably changed society. The modern-day framing device has Lahr (Wallace Shawn) researching his book through interviews with Peggy Ramsay (Vanessa Redgrave), Orton's agent and the diary he wrote, a nimble device which ends up drawing a provocative parallel between Orton and Halliwell's relationship and that of Lahr and his wife (Lindsay Duncan). Director Stephen Frears, fresh off the back of the also-gay-themed My Beautiful Laundrette, nimbly balances our sympathies for both the protagonists while the leads give what may in retrospect look like the standout performances of their careers: Oldman was never more feral and charming, while Molina, foppishingly fretting over his wig and decrying that his lover "even sleeps better than I do" is simply heartbreaking. --Leslie Felperin
A Prairie Home Companion | DVD | (04/04/2011)
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| RRP Director Robert Altman's final film looks at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show.
My Scene: Goes Hollywood | DVD | (05/09/2005)
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| RRP It's 'Lights! Camera! Action!' for the My Scene girls when Barbie Madison Chelsea Nolee and Delancey get a taste of the glamorous life in their first-ever feature film! Conversations about shopping fashion and cute boys are briefly interrupted when the gang stumble upon a big Hollywood production in New York City - and get cast as extras in the film! Sure they look totally amazing in the cool costumes but things really heat up when Madison gets picked from the crowd to fill
The Rector's Wife | DVD | (05/07/2010)
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| RRP Based on the bestselling novel by Joanna Trollope this is the four-part adaptation by Hugh Whitemore (A Dance to the Music of Time). Anna Bouverie (Lindsay Duncan) chafes at her limited life as a vicar's wife in a small English town. When her husband Peter (Jonathan Coy) is passed over for a promotion and her daughter is bullied at school Anna gets a job at a supermarket in another town - a small act of independence that sets off gossip domestic fights and worse. When Anna meets another man who seems to understand her frustrations she is soon tempted into an affair. Also featuring Prunella Scales and Pam Ferriss this is a rich and dramatic portrait of a woman trapped by the way the world sees her and her struggle to find some kind of freedom.
A Prairie Home Companion | DVD | (25/06/2007)
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| RRP Director Robert Altman's final film looks at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show.
The Good Life - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (28/01/2002)
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| RRP The Good Life has proved an enduring jewel in the BBC's mainstream comedy archive. More than 25 years after it first appeared in our living rooms, nostalgia must be a major reason for its appeal. A whole generation of young men--and their fathers--found the weekly sight of Felicity Kendal as Barbara Good, pert in denim dungarees, irresistible. But it's the quality of the playing that has really stood the test of time and triumphs over a premise--self-sufficiency in Surbiton--that now seems naïve. Even in 1975, a Tom Good (a masterpiece of comic eccentricity from Richard Briers) quitting the rat race would probably have sold up his semi and chanced his luck as a small holder somewhere more remote than suburban Surrey. Comic tensions arise not just from the Goods' daily struggle to beat the system on their own terms, but also from the relationship with their incredulous, often horrified, but usually supportive neighbours. Penelope Keith's Margo Leadbetter remains one of the great comic creations in British sitcom history--a simmering volcano of conservatism waging her own battle against creeping mediocrity in all aspects of life, whose human frailty somehow keeps her loveable. Paul Eddington as Jerry, her long-suffering husband, spars splendidly. These are happy memories indeed. --Piers Ford
Men Behaving Badly: Series One | DVD | (01/05/2000)
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| RRP The pageant of boorishness and slobbery known as Men Behaving Badly launched itself upon an unsuspecting audience in 1992. Over the course of six episodes, Gary (Martin Clunes), the disgruntled manager of a security alarm company, struggles to break up with his long-suffering girlfriend Dorothy (Caroline Quentin) while competing with his aimless flatmate Dermot (Harry Enfield) for the attentions of their fetching new upstairs neighbour Deborah (Leslie Ash). The plots are built on contrivances like a chess match over opera tickets or an attempt at seduction via a synthesized flamenco guitar, but the humor always springs from the petty, careless, and generally inane behavior of Dermot and Gary. Gary persuades Dorothy to accept an open relationship, then becomes consumed with jealousy when she sees another man; Dermot tries to persuade Deborah to relieve their basic needs while her boyfriend is in Singapore. It could be tiresome squalor--and according to reviews, the American remake of the show (featuring Rob Schneider and Ron Eldard) was just that--but Clunes and Enfield invest this pair of clods with enough humanity to make their mishaps both excruciating and funny. Enfield left after this first sextet of episodes; Clunes and Enfield's replacement Neil Morrissey took the show to five more series, but Enfield's charming dimness makes this first series worth a look. --Bret Fetzer
Night Gallery - Series 1 | DVD | (16/10/2006)
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| RRP Prepare for the chill of a lifetime as the master of suspense Rod Serling hosts this classic series featuring every spine-tingling episode from the complete first season of Night Gallery. Thrill to stories adapted from short stories by such legendary writers as H.P. Lovecraft and Conrad Aiken starring Hollywood greats including Diane Keaton Joan Crawford and Roddy McDowall and directed by cinematic masters like Steven Spielberg in this unforgettable series - now available on DVD for the first time! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Cemetery 2. Eyes 3. The Escape Route 4. The Dead Man 5. The Housekeeper 6. Room with a View 7. The Little Black Bag 8. The Nature of the Enemy 9. The House 10. Certain Shadows on the Wall 11. Make Me Laugh 12. Clean Kills and Other Trophies 13. Pamela's Voice 14. Lone Survivor 15. The Doll 16. The Last Laurel 17. They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar
Dead Heat | Blu Ray | (22/02/2022)
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Sex Doll | DVD | (14/08/2017)
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| RRP Thriller directed by Sylvie Verheyde and starring Hafsia Herzi and Ash Stymest. Virginie (Herzi) is a sex worker in the underground sex trade of London. Despite being highly-priced and thus avoiding many of the dangers sex workers normally face on the street Virginie takes little joy in her position, almost sleepwalking through her life. She is awoken however by the appearance of a man who seems to follow her wherever she goes.
Barbara Taylor Bradford: Act of Will | DVD | (08/09/2008)
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| RRP Anthony Hopkins heads the star-studded cast of the trilogies gripping conclusion. As the powerful and beautiful Paula O'Neill finds her empire under attack it seems that only one man has the expertise and connections to save her.
Danielle Steel's Once In A Lifetime | DVD | (17/04/2006)
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| RRP An endearing and tragic love story that follows the life of a popular American novelist Daphne Fields struggling to come to terms with bringing up her deaf son alone after the heartbreak of losing her husband and daughter in a house-fire. As the only reminder of the family she once had she devotes her life to her son's upbringing with outstanding courage forever putting his happiness before her own. She finds strength in Dr. Matt Dane who is dedicated to the care and attention of
The Arrival | DVD | (29/10/2001)
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| RRP Radio astronomer Zane Ziminski becomes intrigued by some strange wavelengths and noises he picks up over his transmitter. But when Zane alerts his boss to his findings he's fired. So Zane conducts an investigation on his own tracing the sound waves to a Mexican village. After more sleuthing (and some odd occurrences) Zane discovers a power plant -- that turns out to be the headquarters of some very deadly extraterrestrials.
Buster Keaton - A Hard Act To Follow | DVD | (27/02/2006)
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| RRP In the space of ten years Buster Keaton made his way to becoming one of the Silent Eras' most remarkarble comedians only to fall from grace when his now-acknowledged classic The General bombed at the box office and he found himself reduced to writing gags for the Marx Brothers and forcibly partnered up with lesser performers by the studios to whom he was contracted. This Emmy award-winning documentary presents Buster's remarkable story and includes rare and unpublished material th
A Message From Holly | DVD | (30/06/2003)
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| RRP A high-powered businesswoman becomes surrogate mother to a six year-old girl when her real mother dies from cancer.
The Sinking of Laconia | DVD | (14/03/2011)
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| RRP On the 12th September 1942 the Laconia - a cruise ship turned troop ship - was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-156 commanded by Werner Hartenstein. She carried a motley crew of women children wounded soldiers and Italian Prisoners of War. Having sunk the ship Hartenstein should have left them to their uncertain fate in the water but instead he made the incredible decision to save as many lives as he could. A true story of unexpected gallantry and humanity in the fog of war.
Dirty Tricks | DVD | (19/06/2006)
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| RRP 'Dirty Tricks' follows the hapless exploits of an unscrupulous English tutor at a seedy language school in Oxford. On the surface he is an eternal student: charming witty and accomplished. Beneath the facade however he displays a brilliant and ruthless talent for lying and manipulating everyone around him. Our 'hero' becomes friendly with wealthy couple Dennis and Karen Parsons but his initial feelings of bitterness regarding their success become complicated by a frenzied affair wit
Miles Davis The Definitive Miles Davis At Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991 | DVD | (24/10/2011)
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| RRP This historically important 10 DVD set captures all of Miles Davis’ performances at the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival between 1973 and 1991, the last being less than three months before his death. It is an unparalleled archive of live Miles Davis performances and is now being released on a visual format for the first time ever. Although many tracks are repeated across the years the concerts are strikingly individual with extensive improvisation and frequent rearrangements. The final concert from 1991 sees Miles Davis paying tribute to his collaborator and close find Gil Evans who had died in 1988. With Miles’ philosophy of “never look back” it was extraordinary that he would agree to perform such a show and it was a truly unique occasion captured here for posterity. Miles Davis is undeniably one of the most important and successful jazz figures of the 20th century. This unrivalled DVD box set of his live performances at Montreux is a release to be truly cherished. Bonus Features On disc one there are full interviews with Claude Nobs, Carlos Santana and Herbie Hancock plus shorter interviews about Miles Davis with Monty Alexander, Helen Merrill, Betty Carter, Charlie Haden, Gil Goldstein, Stanley Clarke, Jean Luc Ponty and Al Di Meola and Michel Petrucciani.
Danielle Steel - Complete Box Set | DVD | (09/10/2006)
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| RRP A bumper value box set featuring 19 films from the best-selling author. Films comprise: 1. Star 2. Changes 3. Daddy 4. Family Album 5. Fine Things 6. Full Circle 7. Heartbeat 8. Kaleidoscope 9. Message from `Nam 10. Mixed Blessings 11. No Greater Love 12. Once in a Lifetime 13. Palomino 14. Perfect Stranger 15. Remembrance 16. Secrets 17. The Ring 18. Vanished 19. Zoya
Mean Girls / Clueless | DVD | (18/10/2004)
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| RRP The cutting wit of Tina Fey (the first female head writer for US comedy breeding ground Saturday Night Live) brilliantly fuses pop culture and smart satire. Fey wrote Mean Girls, in which a formerly home-schooled girl named Cady (Lindsay Lohan) gets dropped into the sneaky, vicious world of the Plastics, three adolescent glamour-girls who dominate their public high school's social heirarchy. Cady first befriends a couple of art-punk outsiders who persuade her to infiltrate the Plastics and destroy them from within--but power corrupts, and Cady soon finds the glory of being a Plastic to be seductive. Mean Girls joins the ranks of Clueless, Bring It On, and Heathers, cunning movies that use the hormone-pressurized high school milieu to put the dark impulses of human nature--ambition, envy, lust, revenge--under a comic microscope. Fey manages to skewer everyone without forgetting the characters' hapless humanity; it's a dazzling and delightful balancing act. --Bret Fetzer
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