A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The show's Canadian creators, "Supreme Beans" Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff, and Jeffrey Hirschfield--partnered with German money and studio facilities--intended every episode to be, in their words, "a nasty adventure". With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000 years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (19-year-old Eva Habermann). It's with the last of these characters that the show generated its main audience and proved itself totally indifferent to regular boundaries of TV formatting. A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: The first films's disc features a behind-the-scenes documentary with the show's creators talking generally about the intent of the films, a text interview with Jeffrey Hirschfield on his dual role as writer and voicing robot head 790, plus a hilarious "Purity Test" quiz to see how much of a fan you are. The second film's disc features a gallery of 12 stills, a Sci-fi Channel featurette and another documentary containing a very frank interview with director Robert Sigl and hilarious outtakes from Malcolm McDowell. --Paul Tonks
Nick Halloway (Chase) is a sophisticated stock analyst until a freak accident at an industrial plant renders him invisible! Yet being invisible is not as easy as it sounds as he finds himself the object of a frenzied manhunt by a corrupt government official (Neill) who wants him to become an assassin...
Braver Than Most - Smarter Than The Rest When all else fails...call in MacGyver to save the day. Richard Dean Anderson stars as TV's most uniquely likeable hero. He can improvise his way out of any trap and outthink any enemy. And in the sixth season he faces his toughest obstacles. How will MacGyver outwit a serial killer an unstoppable assassin and an enemy agent who endangers a friend's life? In every exciting episode the problems are deadly...but the solutions are pure adventure.
More episodes from the cult television series starring Lewis Collins Martin Shaw and Gordon Jackson. Episodes include: 'The Acorn Syndrome' 'Wild' 'Need to Know' 'Takeaway' 'Blackout' 'Blood Sports' 'Slush Fund' 'The Gun' 'Hijack' 'Mixed Doubles' 'Weekend in the Country' 'Kickback' and 'It's Only a Beautiful Picture'.
Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards in this comedy remake.
Hit the streets again with Don Johnson as James Sonny Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Tubbs, two of the world's slickest undercover cops, in Season Four of Miami Vice! Oscar-nominated director Michael Mann and Primetime Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf bring you all 22 heart-pounding, episodes in this must-own 6-disc set. Joining the iconic detective duo in Miami's steamy underworld is a powerful roster of guest stars, including James Brown, Julia Roberts and Chris Rock.
British Secret Service agent John Rennie becomes a liability to the Agency after a harrowing mission in Argentina. His ex-wife and children receive death threats and marked for murder he returns to Argentina with a plan that will either protect his family and the woman he loves or destroy them.
A compilation of 6 brand new stories featuring Thomas and friends.
A fourth volume of adventures with those heroes in a half-shell! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Shredder Strikes (Part One) 2. The Shredder Strikes (Part Two) 3. The Unconvincing Turtle Titan
Director John Singleton's Higher Learning follows three very different freshman students in their first term of university who find themselves having to reassess their lives and confront such thought-provoking issues as prejudice racism and sexism... Former high school track star Malik Williams finds that instead of cruising through his first year of an athletic scholarship he's actually going to have to run faster and harder in order to make the grade. Naive Kirstin Conne is ill prepared for a completely different aspect of college life - not only does she discover that male students don't always accept ""no"" for an answer but she also starts to reassess her own sexual leanings. Finally there's Remy the sad quiet kid from Idaho who nobody wants to befriend. Ultimately he turns to the only group that will have him - the trouble-making neo-Nazi skinheads. Among the characters that act as forces in the lives of these three students are Professor Phillips and long-term student Fudge who serve as positive role models as this provocative portrait of modern life builds to its searing and shocking climax.
Add The Man from Elysian Fields to the list of essential movies about the pains of writing. This wry comedy-drama charts the frustrations of a financially strapped novelist (Andy Garcia) as he desperately and secretly agrees to be an "escort" for ladies who need, err, escorting. This leads him into a Faustian bargain to help a beautiful client (Olivia Williams) whose husband, a once-great, now-dying writer (a mighty James Coburn), is struggling with a final work. Of course the fact that the men are sharing a project and a woman complicates matters--and Garcia's loyal wife (Julianna Margulies) is curious about all these nights spent away. The movie explores different levels of compromise and betrayal, yet it remains tartly amusing throughout. And it has a glorious casting inspiration: the director of the mysterious escort service is played by Mick Jagger, looking decadently elegant and purring like a vaguely satanic Siamese cat. --Robert Horton
Frankenstein (1931): Henry Frankenstein is a brilliant scientist who has been conducting experiments on the re-animation of lifeless bodies. He has conducted experiments on small animals and is now ready to create life in a man he has assembled from body parts he has been collecting from various sites such as graveyards or the gallows. His fianc�e Elizabeth and friend Victor Moritz are worried about his health as he spends far too many hours in his laboratory on his experiments. He's ...
All 13 episodes from the first season.Meet the Famous Five: Julian (Marcus Harris), Dick (Gary Russell), Anne (Jennifer Thanisch), their cousin George (Michelle Gallagher) and her dog Timmy.Ruined castles and rolling moors; mysterious islands and hidden caves: the five can find adventure wherever they are. Join them at Kirrin Cottage, or away on their holidays as they encounter smugglers, scoundrels and spies. Thankfully, Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny are always around to offer lashings of ginger beer.Based on the best-selling Enid Blyton series of books, this classic '70s TV series also features the talent of classic British actors, including; Patrick Troughton, Ronald Fraser, Brian Glover, David Rappaport and an early appearance from Rupert Graves.
A triple bill of Hong Kong action classics from director Andrew Lau (Wai Keung Lau). The Stormriders: The most eagerly awaited Hong Kong movie event boasting Hong Kong's highest ever production budget and box office take. It is a visually stunning epic blend of swordplay explosive martial arts and breathtaking special effects to create the ultimate final fantasy. A Man Called Hero: Based on the comic book series by Ma Wing Shing 'A Man Called Hero' is a spectacular
Just as silly as it sounds but twice as funny! This refreshingly effective British horror spoof throws caution to the wind and entrails to the floor when biker Noddy (Morrissey) buys a classic Norton with a dark history. Garage bound by day at night the satanic cycle fuels up on the blood of Hell's Angels traffic wardens and street walkers. What follows provides the hilariously imaginative re-working of every scene you'd expect from any self-respecting vamp flick but set on two wh
Stylish and sexy Fatal Attraction took audiences to terrifying new heights with its thrilling story of a casual encounter gone terribly awry. Michael Douglas plays Dan Gallagher a New York attorney who has a tryst with seductive Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) while his wife (Anne Archer) is away. Dan later shrugs off the affair as a mistake and considers it over. But Alex won't be ignored. Not now not tomorrow not ever; even if it means destroying Dan's family to keep him...
When two dancers mysteriously disappear from outside his London club Terence (Michael Madsen) a notorious diamond smuggler; needs to find some replacements fast. His old colleague and former diamond man Jack Varga (Vinnie Jones) offers up his own recruits but Varga has ulterior motives. Varga has kidnapped Terence's courier Cherry and threatens to kill her unless she provides him with information on Terence's diamond smuggling operation. Cherry strikes a deal with Varga for him to let her go. All the complex pieces fall into place at Terence's birthday however Cherry has a plan of her own and has brought them all together to avenge the death of her father himself a diamond merchant who was killed by a vicious competitor. “No one does a London bad boy like Jones….” – Filmschoolrejects.com
Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime... Death Of A President is a controversial fictional drama with a unique premise told in the style of a retrospective documentary which offers a critique of the contemporary US political landscape. Winner of The Critics' best film prize at the Toronto Film Festival.
A lost world that time forgot populated by prehistoric creatures not seen on this earth for 50 million years - that is the astonishing possibility presented by Professor George Edward Challenger (Patrick Bergin) to the Royal Geographic Society of London England. A gruff impossible man Challenger calls for an expedition to prove - or disprove - this incredible claim first presented by Professor White who died on a prior expedition to this supposed lost world. Joined by the effervescent reporter Edward D. Malon the dashing big game hunter Peter Roxton Challenger's nemesis and Professor White's vivacious daughter Amanda (Jayne Heitmeyer) Challenger sets off on a journey to the edge of the earth. The explorers find a land-locked island that time and evolution forgot. By creating a primitive hot-air balloon the hardy adventurers manage to enter this dark cauldron of humanity's infancy venturing on to explore a world of stegosaurs and t-rex brontosaurs and raptors and finally make contact with a race of humanity's ancestors who make human sacrifices to their dinosaur gods. Beaten battered but triumphant Challenger and Amanda White return to England - but report their expedition as a failure. Humanity they have decided is not yet ready for the wonders they have seen.
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