Shadow Run ought to be considerably more interesting than it is--Geoffrey Reeve is an efficient director and both Michael Caine and James Fox turn in icy performances as, respectively, an almost completely ruthless thief and the renegade intelligence man who hires him for that one last big job. Caine in particular is convincing in the half-hearted attacks of compunction that never stop him killing obstacles. Many of the bit-players--Lesley Grantham, for example--do a lot with almost nonexistent parts. The film counterpoints the planning of the heist with the social embarrassments of the fat schoolboy who becomes, by a series of coincidences, too informed about it and, ultimately, Caine's secret sharer. Reeve is rather too in love with the cathedral school background of the subplot and skimps too much on the complicated technical business of getting a computerised security van into a radio blackout zone. Still, the boy is excellent, and Caine's affair with the doomed hooker Rae Baker has some much-needed moments of wit. On the DVD: Disappointingly, the DVD, whose Dolby surround sound does miracles for the scenes of schoolboy choristers, is presented in pan and scan 1.33:1, and has no extra features except for chapter selection and trailers for other films.--Roz Kaveney
Set in the Wild West era the worms are back in this hilarious roller-coaster of a prequel! When workers in the remote mining town of Rejection Nevada fall victim to an unseen predator the mine's owner Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross) hires a mercenary to destroy the carnivorous creatures before they swallow up his profits. What follows is an all-out assault that takes the battleground from deep in the earth to a suspense-filled showdown on the streets of Rejection! 'Tremors 4: Th
Contains the complete classic television series The Red Hand Gang This short-lived 1970s American kids TV series was hugely popular in the UK and still retains a cult following today. Like an up-to-date Famous Five The Red Hand Gang was a group of five inner-city pre-teens who unwittingly found themselves foiling heists robberies and kidnaps. They were so called because they left their trademark red hand prints on fences to mark where they had been. The gang comprised of Frankie who was the oldest troublemaker JR tomboy Joanne brainy Doc Frankie's younger brother Lil' Bill and of course Boomer the dog!
Sitcom following the trials and tribulations of self-appointed Muslim community leader Mr Khan and his long-suffering family in Sparkhill, Birmingham the capital of British Pakistan. Sparkhill's favourite family is back, and whether it's getting Alia into a Catholic school, taking Amjad for a fertility check, introducing Muslim Bingo or having a close shave at a male grooming salon, Mr Khan deals with it all in his own inimitable style.
From creator Jimmy McGovern (Common, Cracker, Accused, & The Street) and the producers of Reg and Common comes five more self-contained and deeply affecting stories, each driven by the pivotal character's desire or inability to move on'. With themes ranging from addiction to lost love, from hurtful lies and painful truths, the series casts an unflinching eye on the every-day drama of modern life. Johnny Vegas and Robert Glenister make their directorial debuts as a stellar cast yet again delivers on its promise of bold, contemporary stories, well-told. Starring Rob James-Collier (Downton Abbey), Olivier award winner Matthew Kelly (Stars in Your Eyes), comedian Jason Manford (Ordinary Lies), Gillian Kearney (Casualty), and Paul McGann (Withnail & I, Luther, Doctor Who).
Sitcom following the trials and tribulations of self-appointed community leader Mr Khan (Adil Ray) and his long suffering family in Sparkhill, Birmingham - the capital of British Pakistan.
A police officer and his wife enjoy a trouble-free existence with their two children Teddy and Sandy. However their idyll is shattered when a friend of Teddy's is the apparent victim of molestation at the local day care centre...
From the novel by John Irving comes this darkly comic tale of an eccentric New England family. As the father moves them from one place to the next setting up a new hotel each time the assortment of oddball characters seem to become involved in ever more bizarre situations. Frannie becomes obsessed with the boy who attacks her John becomes obsessed with Frannie his sister and both of them fall for a girl who is so insecure she hides in a bear outfit Frank is coming to terms with his homosexuality and the youngest Lilly is convinced she isn't growing. The family pet is a flatulent dog that ends up stuffed and causes more trouble than when it was alive...
All eight episodes of the critically-acclaimed US television series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. The series follows two Louisiana homicide detectives, Rustin 'Rust' Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin 'Marty' Hart (Harrelson), as they hunt for a serial killer over a 17-year period. The episodes are: 'The Long Bright Dark', 'Seeing Things', 'The Locked Room', 'Who Goes There', 'The Secret Fate of All Life', 'Haunted Houses', 'After You've Gone' and 'Form and Void'.Technical Specs: Languages(s): EnglishInteractive Menu
Set against an immediate-future London gripped by terrorist attacks, "Incendiary" sees events on the intimate level of ordinary humans living in extraordinary times.
Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's classic tale of all-consuming love. When Mr. Earnshaw encounters Heathcliff a ragamuffin orphan he kindly brings the boy into his home and makes him part of the family. And from the start Heathcliff falls hopelessly in love with the daughter of the house the beautiful headstrong Catherine. She adores him too but when a wealthy neighbour woos her Catherine's material instincts get the better of her and she agrees to marry the man. However Catherine discovers that she cannot forget Heathcliff so easily... and that not even death can make them part...
There's no business like ghost business and when you join Mystery Inc. you get to travel!
Evil awakens. Edward Carnby (Christian Slater) is a private investigator specializing in unexplainable supernatural phenomena. His cases delve into the dark corners of the world searching for truth in the occult remnants of ancient civilizations. Now the greatest mystery of his past is about to become the most dangerous case he has ever faced. With the help of his ex-girlfriend archaeologist Aline Cedrac (Tara Reid) and his bitter rival government agent Richard Burke (Ste
This superb nine-disc Stanley Kubrick Box Set contains all the late director's work from 1962's Lolita to Kubrick's final film, the highly controversial Eyes Wide Shut (1999). There's also the excellent and highly informative two-hour documentary: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, narrated (a little drably) by Tom Cruise. It isn't exactly a warts-and-all portrait of Stan the Man, which is not surprising, really, given that it's directed and produced by Kubrick's brother-in-law Jan Harlan, and that Kubrick's widow Christine was closely involved in the making of it. But it does give a detailed and revealing portrait of a brilliant, demanding and often infuriating man, airing rare footage that goes right back to his earliest years as a brash youngster in the Bronx, already playing to camera with a frightening degree of self-awareness. Six of the eight movies (all but Dr Strangelove and Eyes Wide Shut) have been digitally restored and remastered, and almost all (barring Strangelove again and Lolita) now boast Dolby Digital 5.1 stereo sound remixes. For some bizarre reason, Kubrick insisted on mono sound for the 1999 set, which he approved shortly before his death. Visually the improvement over the often grainy, scratchy prints previously on offer--The Shining (1980) was notoriously messy--is immense. All the features are presented in their original ratios, which in the case of Strangelove means the changing ratios in which it was originally shot, and for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) the full glorious 2.21:1 expanse of the Cinerama screen.So what don't you get? Essentially, the early Kubrick--the work of the young, hungry director before he moved to England and started to gather all the controlling strings into his own hand: most notably the tough, taut thriller The Killing (1956) and the icily furious war film Paths of Glory (1957). Too bad Warners couldn't have negotiated the rights for those too. But what we have here is the culminating phase of Kubrick's filmmaking career--the final 27 years of one of the great masters of cinema. On the DVDs: Besides the visual and sonic improvements mentioned above, each of the eight features includes the original theatrical trailer and multiple-language subtitles. The DVD of Dr Strangelove also gives us filmographies of the principal players, plus theatrical posters and a photo gallery, while Eyes Wide Shut includes interviews (taped after Kubrick's death) with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg, plus a couple of 30-second TV spots. And with The Shining we get a fascinating 34-minute documentary made by Kubrick's then 17-year-old daughter Vivian, plus--just to add a further layer--Vivian's present-day voice-over commentary on her film. --Philip Kemp
The third entry of 1998-99's cinematic TV trilogy kind of got lost in the shuffle following The Truman Show, an art film masquerading as a blockbuster, and Pleasantville, a heartfelt feel-good movie masquerading as a special-effects extravaganza. Edtv is nothing more than it appears: a scruffy comedy about fame and its discontents. Matthew McConaughey stars as Ed, a white-trash rube who gets his own dawn-to-midnight TV series in which every aspect of his life, no matter how sordid or dull or embarrassing, becomes mass entertainment (it inverts Truman by having the protagonist invite the pervasive cameras). Predictably, fame makes him miserable and, unsurprisingly, he finds a way out of his predicament. Albert Brooks covered this same territory in the funnier Real Life, and it's probably not the best idea for a load of comfy celebs to preach to us about how difficult fame is. But the film is cannily cast, including a number of performers who themselves have fallen victim to stupid media tricks (McConaughey, Ellen DeGeneres as the network executive, Elizabeth Hurley as a vamp hitching her star to Ed's and Woody Harrelson as Ed's even dumber brother). Structurally, the movie is a mess. It looks as if the filmmakers had the choice between making a fully realised, two-and-a-half-hour-long movie that no one would sit through or one that clocks in under two hours but has a lot of plot holes; they opted for the latter (Hurley's character disappears, practically without comment). Still, there are enough laughs to keep things moving and as a shaggy dog tale it's decent fun. --David Kronke, Amazon.com --This text refers to another version of this video.
Actor-director Griffin Dunne made his filmmaking debut with this ethically ambiguous and not-very-funny movie about a pair of jilted lovers (Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick) who conspire to break up a relationship between their ex-sweethearts (Tchéky Karyo and Kelly Preston). Part classic screwball comedy, part nightmare along the lines of Martin Scorsese's After Hours (in which Dunne starred), part tribute to Hitchcock's Rear Window, Addicted to Love is all over the map and seriously hampered by the sheer, unwarranted nastiness aimed at the innocent characters played by Karyo and Preston. The DVD release includes production notes, original theatrical trailer, optional widescreen and standard formats, and optional French and Spanish soundtracks. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Nicolas Cage and Russell Brand star in this comedy directed by Larry Charles. The film follows 50-year-old ex-construction worker Gary Faulkner (Cage) as he travels to Pakistan on a mission to kill Osama bin Laden (Amer Chadha-Patel). After experiencing a number of vivid hallucinations as a result of an ongoing kidney disease, Faulkner becomes increasingly frustrated with the US government's attempts to capture the wanted terrorist and takes matters into his own hands. Initially attempting to sail to Pakistan from San Diego, the determined Faulkner eventually finds his way to Islamabad where he is guided by his visions of God (Brand) as he sets out to complete his quest. The cast also includes Wendi McLendon-Covey and Rainn Wilson/
Collection of three films starring Matthew McConaughey. Dallas Buyers ClubThe inspirational story of Ron Woodroof who defied the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he himself is diagnosed. Killer JoeWhen a debt puts a young man's life in danger he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance. MudTwo young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.
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