Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger star in the story of Depression-era U.S. fighter and folk hero Jim Braddock.
A young man travels to London to investigate his brother's mysterious death and throws himself into the hedonistic world of club culture.
Wendy Craig and Francis Matthews star as a bickering couple going through an acrimonious separation in this swinging, offbeat comedy from producer Bob Kellett and idiosyncratic writer/director Robert Fuest. Also starring John Wood, Dennis Price, Miriam Karlin, Peter Jones and Clive Dunn, Just Like a Woman is presented here as a brand-new High Definition restoration from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!
Featuring an outstanding cast of rapidly rising talent, Sorted is a hallucinogenic cocktail of thriller and insider's eye view of the London club scene. Debut director Alexander Jovy has promoted raves and is a qualified lawyer, so it's unsurprising his club scenes, filmed on real nights at the Ministry of Sound and other clubs, are completely authentic. The story has young lawyer Carl, Matthew Rhys, coming from Yorkshire to investigate the death of his high-flying (in every sense) brother. Jovy portrays the gulf between Carl's world in his relationship with classy, conventional Sunny (Sienna--Take a Girl Like You--Guillory), and the hedonistic fantasyland of the club scene represented by fallen Pre-Raphaelite angel Tiffany (Fay--Eyes Wide Shut--Masterson). Straddling the two worlds is a remarkable Jason Donovan as Martin, customs officer by day, glam transvestite by night. Unfortunately atmospheric drama soon gives way to lightweight thriller conventions while Tim Curry's camp villain (surely a parody of DeNiro's Louis Cypher from Angel Heart), creates expectations of a much darker conclusion. Sorted is ultimately old-fashioned, romantic and soft-centred where it needs far more edge, but is nevertheless so luxuriantly stylish it may mark Jovy as his generation's answer to Ridley Scott. A word of warning: several scenes feature very powerful stroboscopic lighting effects. --Gary S. Dalkin On the DVD: The expansive, beautiful colour-saturated cinematography is well captured by the 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer and the Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix is stunning. There are 10 text profiles of cast and crew, together with seven video interviews comprising over 45 minutes of footage. Also provided is a 26-page electronic press kit, the original trailer and 10 minutes of deleted scenes, with optional director's commentary. The featurette is actually a montage of behind-the-scenes shots edited to the movie's haunting love theme, while the outtakes edit assorted gaffs to the main dance anthem. The alternately informative and trivial director's commentary also features producer Mark Crowdy; together they make good company. --Gary S. Dalkin
Cinderella Man (2005): James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) dubbed 'Cinderella Man' was a once-promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand became synonymous with the Great Crash. With one good hand Braddock was forced to labour on the docks of Hoboken while only his manager (Paul Giamatti) still believed in him finding fights for Braddock to help support his wife (Renee Zellweger)and children. One of the sport's oddest couples
Scilla Andrews (Wendy Craig) is fed up her husband. His fondness of the bottle and flirtatious behavior with the stars of his numerous television productions drives her to leave him to his selfish ways. She quits her job as a singer on one of his shows and moves in with a friend planning to build herself the ideal home one designed perfectly for baths and parties. Meanwhile her husband Lewis Mckenzie (Francais Matthews) pretends not to care and goes about the process to find a replacement singer. When Scilla discovers this she does her best to stop him. Just Like a Woman captures the bright swinging sixties. It's bold colourful and sometimes surrealist design is seen through the wary eyes of the bickering couple as they try their best to be more 'kooky' and daring than the other.
Indie rock icons the Archers of Loaf reunited in 2011 and, during the course of their reunion tour, played two hometown concerts at Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC. Combining in-your-face concert footage along with rare interviews of the band, this film by director Gorman Bechard documents those concerts and captures the excitement and explosive energy of what it's like to see this extraordinary band perform live. The film features twenty songs with concert audio produced by the legendary Brian Paulson. Track Listing: Audiowhore. Harnessed in Slums. Greatest of All Time. Lowest Part is Free. Freezing Point. What Did You Expect? Worst Defense. Attack of the Killer B’s. You and Me. Might. Bacteria. Web in Front. Nostalgia. Slow Worm. Wrong. Plumb Line. Revenge. Scenic Pastures. 1985/Fabricoh. All Hail the Black Market. Dead Red Eyes. Strangled by the Stereo Wire. Form and File. Let the Loser Melt. Step Into the Light. Smoking Pot in the City.
Karate tournaments had long been considered rather old-fashioned good for those competing but baffling to an audience reared on televised boxing. With International success as fighters and Karate in their blood Joe Long & Paul Alderson (Fighters Inc) modernised Karate tournaments for a mainstream audience and TV through a ground-breaking initiative known as 'The 3on3'. This electrifying team challenge took the hottest teams gave them only three men per team and made Karate fast thrilling and exciting right to the last second as the total points accumulated were all that counted. It was soon followed by the headline grabbing 10K Karate Clash due to the fact that the winner of the 32 man tournament walked away with a cool ''10 000 a prize unheard of in Traditional circles. Fighters Inc Karate now sell out high profile venues and fighter's queue up to be on the roster. Featuring the cream of Karate's elite the 10K was an instant winner and the event perceived as one of the highlights of the International calendar.
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