The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed with abandon by Danny Boyle, Trainspotting conspires to be at once a hip youth flick and a grim cautionary fable. Released on an unsuspecting public in 1996, the picture struck a chord with audiences worldwide and became adopted as an instant symbol of a booming British rave culture (an irony, given the characters' main drug of choice is heroin not ecstasy).McGregor, Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner play a slouching trio of Scottish junkies; Carlyle their narcotic-eschewing but hard-drinking and generally psychotic mate Begbie. In Boyle's hands, their lives unfold in a rush of euphoric highs, blow-out overdoses and agonising withdrawals (all cued to a vogueish pop soundtrack). Throughout it all, John Hodge's screenplay strikes a delicate balance between acknowledging the inherent pleasures of drug use and spotlighting its eventual consequences. In Trainspotting's world view, it all comes down to a question of choices--between the dangerous Day-Glo highs of the addict and the grey, grinding consumerism of the everyday Joe. "Choose life", quips the film's narrator (McGregor) in a monologue that was to become a mantra. "Choose a job, choose a starter home... But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?" Ultimately, Trainspotting's wised-up, dead-beat inhabitants reject mainstream society in favour of a headlong rush to destruction. It makes for an exhilarating, energised and frequently terrifying trip that blazes with more energy and passion than a thousand more ostensibly life-embracing movies. --Xan Brooks
From Mike Judge (King of the Hill, Beavis and Butt-Head) comes a new season of the Golden Globe and Emmy®-nominated comedy that takes viewers inside Silicon Valley's high-tech gold rush: a land of big ideas and bigger egos. After last season's shocking ending, which found Pied Piper celebrating legal victory just as Richard (Thomas Middleditch) was unexpectedly ousted as CEO, Season 3 picks up where we left off, with Richard offered the diminished role of CTO and the rest of his team Erlich (T.J. Miller), Jared (Zach Woods), Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) facing the question of just how far their loyalty extends. With a new no-nonsense CEO hellbent on transforming everything from Pied Piper's offices to its business agenda, the guys must find a way to triumph in the war of Art vs. Commerce, maneuvering the many competing interests along the way. Meanwhile, as Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) works to rehabilitate Hooli's image following his blunders, Big Head (Josh Brener) finds himself in a new partnership, while at Raviga, Laurie (Suzanne Cryer) holds her cards close to the vest, as Monica (Amanda Crew) tries to look out for Pied Piper's best interests. With its patented brand of silly and satirical humor, this season of Silicon Valley continues to probe the ripe-for-comedy world of tech, as our heroes grow bolder, if not always wiser. Episodes: 1. Flounder Friendly 2. Two in the Box 3. Meinsertzhagen's Haversack 4. Maleant Data Systems Solutions 5. The Empty Chair 6. Bachmanity Insanity 7. To Build A Better Beta 8. Bachman's Earning's Over-Ride 9. Daily Active Users 10. The Uptick Extra: Deleted Scenes
Abraham Van Helsing, a London antiques dealer, travels to America to find his daughter and save her from his longtime nemesis, Dracula.
When strange anomalies in time start to appear all over England Professor Cutter and his team have to help track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past.
Originally broadcast as part of the BBC's 'Play for Today' series in 1979 this gritty tale of life in depressed Greenock has since been hailed as a cult classic. Jake (Frankie Miller) lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather (Hector Nicol) who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day Jake's life o...f drifting drinking and fighting leads to a bleak realisation. The play also features appearances by Ken Hutchison and Gregor Fisher.
A hilarious and outrageous story of 3 geeky scouts and one hot sassy cocktail waitress, who discover the true meaning of unlikely friendships when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak. Click Images to Enlarge
One's a top dog bounty hunter; the other a two-bit hustler. Add to the mix a botched diamond heist a lost wallet with a winning lottery ticket and one thing becomes clear: it's 'All About The Benjamins'...
A troop of Boy Scouts on a weekend camping trip must protect an island town from a zombie outbreak and save the local girl scout troop.
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by v enturing into the magical realm. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy graphic novel.
David Lynch's acclaimed tale of murder and amnesia in Los Angeles. Having narrowly survived a murder attempt and a car crash, a shocked and wounded woman (Laura Elena Harring) takes refuge in a nearby apartment. When she is discovered the next morning by the apartment's official resident, aspiring actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), she confesses that she neither knows who she is nor what happened to her. The two women then begin to investigate, and it gradually becomes clear that they have kno...
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. The show charts the rising fortunes of Richard an introverted computer programmer who lives in a “Hacker Hostel” start-up incubator along with his friends Big Head Gilfoyle and Dinesh. These social misfits live under the watch of Erlich a dotcom millionaire who lets them stay in his house for free – as long as he gets a 10% stake in their projects. Stuck working part-time at a large tech company called Hooli Richard’s obscure website Pied Piper is going nowhere fast. But when a mid-level Hooli executive is apprised of the value of the site’s novel compression algorithm Richard finds himself caught in the middle of an extreme bidding war between Hooli founder Gavin Belson and independent billionaire venture capitalist Peter Gregory. Episode List: Minimum Viable Product The Cap Table Articles of Incorporation Fiduciary Duties Signaling Risk Third Party Insourcing Proof of Concept Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency Bonus Features: Hacker Hostel Tour Tech Crunch: Disrupt The Making of Silicon Valley Audio Commentaries Episodes 1-8
Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer star in this hilarious murder mystery comedy.
In the third century of the second calendar after the chaos of the intergalactic wars a powerful dictatorship has risen to dynamic proportions and engulfed most of the populated worlds. Liberty has become a crime punishable by death and the majority of the population lives in a drug-induced state of docility. This tyrannical authority fulfils George Orwell's prophecy of 1984 to its most terrifying extremes. This government is known as the Federation. Each world has its share of rebe
Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez, The Stanford Prison Experiment recounts the true story of a notorious 1971 psychological test at Stanford University, in which 24 students played the role of prisoners and prison guards, conducted by Professor of Psychology Philip Zimbardo. Starring Billy Crudup as Philip Zimbardo, plus Michael Angarano, Ezra Miller and Tye Sheridan. The Stanford Prison Experiment is already a double award winner at the 31st Sundance Film Festival, including the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for writer Tim Talbott. Click Images to Enlarge
Escape Room: Tournament of champions is the sequel to the box office hit psychological thriller that terrified audiences around the world. In this instalment, six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive and discovering they've all played the game before.
Here's the pitch for Small Soldiers: "It's like Toy Story but these toys that come to life really kick butt!" That's essentially it for this breezy popcorn flick. In a very smart first 10 minutes, new toy-company owner Denis Leary tells his crew he wants toys "that play back". Hence the small soldiers land in Anytown, USA and the loner kid Alan (Gregory Smith) opens them up before they are supposed to be on the shelves. Those military-grade chips sure make them smart and give the toys plenty of pithy retorts to boot. There's plenty of violence and action, most of it fun enough. The vocal talents, including Tommy Lee Jones, Frank Langella and cast members of The Dirty Dozen are inspired characters, the humans less so. With Gremlins director Joe Dante at the helm, it plays like a sequel to that 80s fantasy. Amazing visual effects, of course. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com
TV's funniest mum (and the cul-de-sac crew) return for more laughs in their not-so-quiet Florida neighbourhood. Courteney Cox leads an all-star cast in the hilarious second season of ABC's hot hit comedy, Cougar Town.It's a new year of uproarious changes as Travis prepares to leave for college, Jules and Grayson's relationship reaches another level and Bobby tries to stand on his own. Meanwhile, Andy and Ellie fi nd clever new ways to keep their marriage lively, and Laurie ramps up her search for love - in her own unique way. Relive all 22 episodes and every laugh-out-loud moment of ABC's Cougar Town: Season 2 Box Set, with never-before-seen bonus features, in this sensational 4-disc box set.
From Brian De Palma, the director of Scarface, comes the critically acclaimed crime-thriller Carlito's Way. Al Pacino gives an electrifying performance as former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante, who is sprung from prison by his high-powered attorney (Sean Penn). He stuns the New York underworld by vowing to go straight from a history of violence, but his plans are undermined by misguided loyalties and an outmoded code of honour. In a life-or-death battle, Carlito takes on the relentless forces that refuse to let him go. Special Features Deleted Scenes The Making of Carlito's Way Brian De Palma on Carlito's Way Original Promotional Featurette Theatrical Trailer
Ten-year-old Arthur in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys a tiny people living in harmony with nature.
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