Choreographer-turned-director Bob Fosse turns the camera on himself in All That Jazz, a nervy, sometimes unnerving 1979 feature, a nakedly autobiographical piece that veers from gritty drama to razzle-dazzle musical, allegory to satire. It's an indication of his bravura, and possibly his self-absorption, that Fosse (who also co-wrote the script) literally opens alter ego Joe Gideon's heart in a key scene--an unflinching glimpse of cardiac surgery, shot during an actual open-heart procedure. Roy Scheider makes a brave and largely successful leap out of his usual romantic lead roles to step into Gideon's dancing pumps and supplies a plausible sketch of an extravagant, self-destructive, self-loathing creative dynamo, while Jessica Lange serves as a largely allegorical Muse, one of the various women that the philandering Gideon pursues (and usually abandons). Gideon's other romantic partners include Fosse's own protégé (and a major keeper of his choreographic style since his death) Ann Reinking, whose leggy grace is seductive both "onstage" and off. Fosse/Gideon's collision course with mortality, as well as his priapic obsession with the opposite sex, may offer insights into the libidinal core of the choreographer's dynamic, sexualised style of dance, but musical aficionados will be forgiven for fast-forwarding to cut out the self-analysis and focus on the music, period. At its best--as in the knockout opening, scored to George Benson's strutting version of "On Broadway", which fuses music, dance and dazzling camera work into a paean to Fosse's hoofer nation--All That Jazz offers a sequence of classic Fosse numbers--hard-edged, caustic and joyously physical. --Sam Sutherland
Wrestlemania XII: 1.Owen Hart British Bulldog & Vader vs Yokozuna Jake ""The Snake"" Roberts & Ahmed Johnson 2.Hollywood Backlot Brawl - ""Rowdy"" Roddy Piper vs Goldust 3.The Ringmaster vs Savio Vega 4.Ultimate Warrior vs Hunter Hearst Helmsley 5.Undertaker vs Diesel 6.WWE Iron Man Match for WWE Championship - Shawn Michaels vs Bret ""Hit Man"" Hart Wrestlemania XIII: 1.No. 1 Contenders Tag Team Fatal Four Way Elimination Match - The Headbangers vs The Godwinns vs Th
Footage of the 14th annual WrestleMania event from World Wrestling Entertainment, held at the FleetCenter in Boston, Massachusetts in March 1998. The featured matches include Triple H Vs. Owen Hart, The Rock Vs. Ken Shamrock, The Undertaker Vs. Kane and in the main event Shawn Michaels defended his WWE Championship Vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin.
A coming-of-age tale following the comedic adventures of an introverted 14-year-old packed off to spend the summer with a pair of cranky, eccentric great-uncles.
From the golden age of the miniseries comes Shogun, the 10-hour, Golden Globe-winning saga based on James Clavell's bestselling epic novel. In his award-winning performance, Richard Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, the 17th-century English navigator on a Dutch trading ship. A storm runs the ship aground off the coast of Japan, a "torn and cruelly divided country" locked in a power struggle between Toranaga (the venerable Toshiro Mifune) and Ishido, two warlords who would be Shogun. Blackthorne gets over his initial culture shock ("I piss on you and your country", he defiantly proclaims to his samurai captors, which to his humiliation turns out to be an unfortunate choice of words) to become a trusted ally of Toranaga and the lover of the beautiful interpreter Lady Mariko (Yoko Shimada). Their forbidden, ill-fated romance--and Blackthorne's total assimilation into Japanese culture--is set against political intrigue as Toranaga prepares for the inevitable showdown with Ishido, and Blackthorne's growing influence threatens the local Jesuits who had built up a lucrative trade monopoly. Shogun was a production blessed with good karma, and it remains an awesome achievement from a bygone era when the miniseries was king. --Donald Liebenson
Shameless proudly presents the 1st ever Cinema-of-Death anthology of Ruggero Deodato, Mr Cannibal himself, the director of possibly the nastiest Video Nasties which have since become cult must-see and now subject of top academic research, public debates and high-brow critical acclaim. Cannibal HolocaustCannibal Holocaust on its 1st release, director Deodato was charged with killing his own cast - and jailed! In UK, it incarnated THE Video Nasty. Banned and then cut by several minutes, it took a full 30 years for the censors to relax their grip! We present two versions of this, the most controversial film ever made: A unique Director's re-edit (shown 1st in London's West-End) which tones down the animal cruelty (to fit better with 21st Century sensibilities) without shortening the film. The other is the full strength 80s dish! Very strong stuff - especially because of its unsurpassed, documentary-like, extremely realistic depiction of gory violence. With this landmark film Deodato single-handedly invented the 'found-footage' genre (imitated by Blair Witch et al). Often imitated, this is The Original and unequaled best. House On The Edge Of The ParkThe House On The Edge Of The Park also a Video Nasty, this claustrophobic staging of a vicious home-invasion scenario explodes into slasher torture hell, with star David Hess giving one of the strongest performances of his career and Deodato a master-class in directing, proving again that under the blood and guts there is a brilliant film maker formed by Neo-realism. Special Features: Deodato and star Giovanni Lombardo Radice in a public debate with senior BBFC examiner. In-depth interview with the late David Hess. The Phantom of DeathIn The Phantom of Death Deodato's unwavering directing meets a barnstorming performance from Michael York (Cabaret, Austin Powers) as the pianist virtuoso who suddenly starts aging at alarming speed - progeria, a devastating real-life affliction. With death closing in fast, the pianist loses his mind in a murderous frenzy of brutal hackings... Edwige Fenech and Donald Pleasence co-star.
All the action from the 20th annual wrestling extravaganza. Disc 1 - Wrestlemania XX feature program Disc 2 - Wrestlemania XX feature program Disc 3 - WWE Film Presents ""The Mania of Wrestlemania"" - Top 10 Matches of Wrestlemania special Wrestlemania Matches: Goldberg vs. Brock Lesnar Special referee: Stone Cold Steve Austin Word Heavyweight Championship Triple H vs. Chris Benoit vs. Shawn Michaels Undertaker vs. Kane WWE Championship Kurt Angle vs. Eddie Gu
A family torn apart. A public filled with outrage. A woman accused of murder. Based on true events Fred Schepisi's film stars Sam Neill and Meryl Streep as an Australian couple who are accused of murder when their claims that their baby was taken by a dingo in the outback fall under suspicion...
All the action from the WWE's 2005 Survivor Series wrestling extravaganza! Featured Bouts: 1. RAW vs. Smackdown! Elimination Match - Shawn Michaels Kane Big Show Chris Masters & Carlito vs Batista Rey Mysterio Bobby Lashley JBL & Randy Orton 2. Eric Bischoff vs Theodore Long 3. WWE Championship - John Cena vs Kurt Angle 4. Last Man Standing Match - Ric Flair vs Triple H 5. Women's Championship - Trish Stratus vs Melina 6. Best of Seven Matches for the US Title - Match 1
Featuring ultra-rare concert performances television appearances and interviews including never before seen footage - this DVD is a must have for everyone from the most devoted fan to anyone who has ever had the slightest curiosity about one of rock's most electrifying and entertaining performers.
Wishmaster: Magically powerful. Supernaturally evil. The ancient entity known in human legend as the Djinn can grant a person's wildest dreams. And in the process it unleashes your darkest nightmares. The moral of this explosively terrifying special-effects-powered horror-fantasy spectacular: be careful what you wish for! Wishmaster 2 - Evil Never Dies:When a small-time thief Morgana Kuleshov is pinned down by gunfire during a botched heist her life is saved when the huge opal she's clutching deflects a bullet. Unknown to her this jewel imprisons a legendary monster known as the Djinn. The Djinn has the power to grant wishes and twist them into a person's worst nightmare capturing their soul. As the Djinn invades Morgana's nightmares she calls upon brother Gregory a priest for help. In a fight for humanity's future only Morgana and Gregory stand between the Djinn and an eternal dark age of horror and chaos. Wishmaster 3 - Devil Stone:The Djinn that evil genie is back and eager to grant you three wishes... Diana Collins (Cook) is a teaching assistant at a prestigious college where she studies comparative religion and mythology under Professor Barash (Connery). She inadvertently solves a mysterious puzzle left for one of Barash's colleagues unknowingly unleashing the evil Djinn a malicious genie who is eager to grant his waker three wishes in order to free his race and destroy mankind. The Djinn assumes Barash's body and begins his search for the person who woke him. He stops short of nothing in his pursuit systematically killing Diana's friends. In desperation Diana invokes the archangel warrior St. Michael as one of her three wishes. St. Michael's spirit possesses the body of her boyfriend Greg (Mehler) and a bloody battle ensues between the archangel Michael and the Djinn... Wishmaster 4 - The Prophecy Fulfilled: Perversity depravity and fear are at an all time high as the hell-raising Wishmaster unleashes his undying love and three wishes on a beautiful new victim. A victim whose crucial third wish is one that the Wishmaster cannot fulfill without leaving a trail of terror devastation and blood in his wake. Wishmaster 4 is a film that fulfills your deepest desire for a highly seductive thriller filled with unspeakable horror titillating forbidden passion and riveting suspense from beginning to nail-biting end!
The classic Musketeers tale is given a bang up-to-date treatment in this relentlessly exciting action movie.
David Schwimmer plays a drifting twentysomething who receives a telephone call out of the blue to be a pallbearer at the funeral of someone he supposedly knew in school. Trouble is, the caller has mistaken Schwimmer's character for someone else, but our hapless hero--who still lives with his mother at home--doesn't know how to say no. An encounter with the dead man's mother (Barbara Hershey) leads to a sexual relationship, while an old flame (Gwyneth Paltrow) from high school is suddenly on the horizon if only Schwimmer's loser character can quickly get his act together. The Pallbearer is the umpteenth variation on the Oedipal conflicts made famous in Mike Nichols's The Graduate, but it doesn't have the imagination, vitality, or authority to take classic themes about growing up all the way to the finish line. But in its brooding, comic way, The Pallbearer is honest about the difficulties of crossing the line into adulthood when one doesn't know how. --Tom Keogh
Michael Kitchen (Alibi) returns as Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the fourth chapter of this hugely popular series.
Matt Cole and Dutch Everett are a hard working family struggling to make an honest living during tough times in the Old West. Deke Turner is the reason for the trouble a ruthless landowner determined to have the Everetts' ranch by whatever means necessary. When the youngest member of the family Matt kills one of Deke's men in self-defence Turner seizes the opportunity to frame him for murder. Dubbed the Kansas Kid Matt is rescued from custody by Cole and Dutch but now all three are wanted men each with a price on their head.
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? sees a change of direction for Robert Aldrich's unofficial trilogy which all involve "ageing actresses" in macabre thrillers (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte). The busy Aldrich only produced What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, calling in TV director Lee H Katzin (a Mission: Impossible regular) to handle the megaphone. Aldrich also opted to shoot the film in pastel colours appropriate to the unusual Arizona desert setting rather than the gothic black and white of the earlier films. The film cast the less iconic Geraldine Page as the genteelly unpleasant Mrs Clare Marrable. Left apparently penniless by her departed husband, Mrs M opts to keep up appearances by hiring a succession of timid elderly housekeepers, bossing them around with well-spoken nastiness, duping them out of their life savings and, on the pretence of getting help with a midnight tree-planting program, lures them into their own graves, batters them to death and plants lovely pines over them. Page gets her own way with the meek likes of Mildred Dunnock, until the feistier, red-wigged R!uth Gordon applies for the job and gets down to amateur sleuthing. While Bette Davis and her partners went wildly over the top in previous films, Page and Gordon play more subtly, finding odd pathetic moments in between the monstrous, irony-laced horror stuff. The supporting cast of pretty or handsome young things, mostly putty in the hands of the manipulative Page, contribute striking little cameos (Rosemary Forsyth sports a pleasing 1969 hairdo as the kindly but intimidated neighbour), but the film belongs to its leading ladies, delivering a fine line in twist-packed cat-and-mouse theatrics. The video is handsomely letterboxed, as befits a film made before widescreen films were shot with all the action in the middle of the frame to facilitate television sales. --Kim Newman
David Schwimmer makes a hilarious big-screen debut in this outrageous comedy hit! As Tom Thompson, the popular star plays a befuddled college grad whose social life is practically D.O.A... that is, until he's asked to be a pallbearer at the funeral of a classmate he can't remember! Comic chaos follows as Tom fends off the seductive advances of the grieving mother (Barbara Hershey), and tries desperately to find the nerve to ask out the beautiful girl of his dreams (Gwyneth Paltrow) - who can't remember him!
With it's outrageous characters over the top spectacular hard hitting and mat slapping action it is the world's favourite guilty pleasure. This programme examines the world's sweatiest showdowns between the good the bad and the downright ugly. Learn the sensational secrets the gimmicks the rules (if there are any) of one of the most enthralling and captivating professions in the world. This programme also includes action and interviews with some of the best and beefiest legend
A rogue cop unleashes a storm of retribution on the violent and corrupt men who run human trafficking drug cartels and illegal organ harvesting in this SIN CITY style horror film. He reaps brutal justice against those responsible for murdering his daughter and kidnapping his wife amongst the underground world of psychos and perverts in his twisted city. "An intense cinematic experience" - Worchester Herald "one of the most eccentric unhinged portrayals of the justice-seeking vigilante ever put to film" - Screen-Space.com
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