George, Max and Ricky work in the kitchen of a high security asylum. One night, just before dinner time, a big storm shuts down the security system, the doors open and the lunatics break loose. Help is on its way and should soon arrive. They just have to wait for it and survive until then...
This action-packed adventure is set during the Second World War, when a soviet aircraft crashes in Nazi-occupied territory. Miraculously, the pilot and his radio operator & flight navigator survive the crash. It is now up to each of them to put their military training into action to escape the enemy forces.In the terrifying fight to get back to their own troops, they uncover an act of sabotage by a commanding officer, and are branded as traitors. Alone, and with no allies, the fight is now for their lives.
The complete first series of the superb sketch show! Sending up British culture Asian culture and everything in between is the team of Meera Syal Sanjeev Bhaskar Nina Wadia and Kulvinder Ghir bringing together a series of unforgettable characters in an irreverent look at our multi-cultural society. Among the many characters featured in the first series are the determinedly English Cooper family (spelt Kapoor) the streetwise Bhangramuffins Asian superhero Sanjeev Austin -
Season 1Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists the kind of beautiful minds that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon Leonard's roommate is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends fellow Caltech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. However Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities... including love. Season 2The science of funny is back! At work physicists Leonard and Sheldon and their geek pals conquer the cosmos. At home real life from dating to driving conquers them. This season Leonard gets a girl. So does Sheldon. (Sheldon?!) Howard drives the Mars Rover into a ditch. Raj woos a terminator. Gorgeous girl-next-door Penny falls under the spell of Age of Conan. And super-smart überconfident Leslie Winkle reduces mere men to spineless jellyfish. Twenty-three laugh-filled episodes from series creators Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men) and Bill Prady (Dharma and Greg) and a talented cast with astronomical comedy I.Q.s show why Big Bang is such a big hit. Season 3Worlds collide in Season 3! A love affair with Penny has opened a big wide wonderful world of romance for Leonard. But Sheldon likes the world just the way it was thank you. All of which makes for a zany comic triangle with brainy clueless Sheldon and practical grounded Penny hilariously vying for the role of hypotenuse. This complete 3-Disc 23-Episode Season 3 Set also features Raj Howard tattoos football awkward dates jail time Stan Lee a The Lord of the Rings ring and all the fun of a series that only gets better. The Big Bang Theory has transformed from a cute comedy about eggheads and their hottie neighbor into an addictive ensemble piece that could be this decade's answer to Friends (Lynette Rice Entertainment Weekly). Season 4This season the Big Bang gang's romantic universe expands. On the rebound from Penny Leonard falls into the arms of Raj's sister Priya. Sheldon gets a girlfriend or rather a friend who is a girl: Amy a dour neurobiologist who declares herself besties with Penny. Howard and Bernadette heat up. And so do Raj and Bernadette (at least in Raj's Bollywood daydream). All in the furtherance of award-winning genius comedy. Season 5Regarding the opposite sex they're on a steep learning curve. In every other sense they're geniuses. Join physicists Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) as they ponder black holes chemical deviations girls and other mysteries of the universe in all 24 phenomenally funny episodes of Season Five. With Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Leonard's relationship in uncharted terrain Sheldon Howard (Simon Helberg) and Raj (Kunal Nayyar) discover that the feminine mystique is something that cannot be easily graphed or calculated. As they muddle through relationship bugs and romance re-launches they also discover it's nothing a good roll of the D and D dice or a paintball tournament can't solve. Season 6Whether on or above Earth hilarity is outrageously universal in TV's most popular comedy featuring four forward-thinking but socially backward geniuses. Fun discoveries multiply: Leonard learns jealousy is bad for a relationship (with Penny) but science is good for seduction (of Penny). Howard finds life in the International Space Station life is no escape from terrestrial turmoil between his mom and his new wife Bernadette. Raj meets someone special who may be a good match if he can keep her from fleeing mid-date. And then there's Sheldon. He learns what not to say after facing harassment charges or competing for tenure at work and how Dungeons and Dragons can be the icebreaker his relationship with Amy needs. For those who need laughter with scientific regularity this 24-episode Season Six set of The Big Bang Theory will rock your cosmos. Season 7Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists - wizards in the laboratory but socially challenged outside of it. Enter beautiful street-smart neighbour Penny who aims to teach them a thing or two about life.Despite their on-again off-again relationship in the past Leonard believes he's found true love with Penny. Even Sheldon has found a female companion - entering into a Relationship Agreement with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler. In their free time Leonard and Sheldon continue to enjoy frequent trips to the comic book store and fantasy role-playing games with their ever-expanding universe of friends including fellow scientists Raj and Howard and Howard's adorable microbiologist wife Bernadette.
The sunny streets of Brooklyn, just after World War II. A young would-be writer named Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a boarding house with beautiful Polish immigrant Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline); their friendship changes his life. This adaptation of the bestselling novel by William Styron is faithful to the point of being reverential, which is not always the right way to make a film come to life. But director Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men) provides a steady, intelligent path into the harrowing story of Sophie, whose flashback memories of the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp form the backbone of the movie. Streep's exceptional performance--flawless Polish accent and all--won her an Oscar, and effectively raised the standard for American actresses of her generation. No less impressive is Kevin Kline, in his movie debut, capturing the mercurial moods of the dangerously attractive Nathan. The two worlds of Sophie's Choice, nostalgic Brooklyn and monstrous Europe, are beautifully captured by the gifted cinematographer Néstor Almendros, whose work was Oscar-nominated but didn't win. It should have. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com
In the 1970's 'Love Thy Neighbour' was one of the most highly rated programs on television it was always a top ten show and it reached an audience in excess of 16 million viewers. Many a British family laughed when they watched Bill (Black) and Eddie (white) trying to get on and live and work together with hilarious results as their backgrounds and way of lives clashed. 'Love Thy Neighbour' proved to be a very clever comedy every episode showed the wrongs of prejudice as Eddy was shown to be on the majority of occasions out of order and in the minority. The show probably went a long way towards getting the British public to accept and get on with their ethnic colleagues in all aspects of every day life as at the end of the day 'Love Thy Neighbour' was just a white guy and a black guy being damn stupid!
Based on the true life story and international best-selling book, A STREET CAT NAMED BOB is a moving and uplifting film that will touch the heart of everyone. When London busker and recovering drug addict James Bowen finds injured ginger street cat Bob in his sheltered accommodation, he has no idea just how much his life is about to change.Click Images to Enlarge
Carl Dreyer's last film neatly crowns his career: a meditation on tragedy individual will and the refusal to compromise. A woman leaves her unfulfilling marriage and embarks on a search for ideal love - but neither a passionate affair with a younger man nor the return of an old romance can provide the answer she seeks. Always the stylistic innovator Dreyer employs long takes and theatrical staging to concentrate on Nina Pens Rode's sublime portrayal of the proud and courageous Ge
Sometimes a show cancelled prematurely can still put its competitors to shame. Boomtown was a radical and inventive approach to the ensemble cop show that added up to so much more than just its central gimmick of telling different stories from different perspectives. In fact, after the first few episodes in which the breakneck jumps of viewpoint and the time-frame demanded real attention, it de-emphasised them, while still forcing us to pay attention, making the viewer guess which story we were being told. Devised by award-winning screenwriter Graham Yost and director Jon Avnet, the first series of Boomtown covered a wide variety of cases: everything from baby-stealing to run-ins with the Russian Mafia, from hostage situations in suburban sports stores to rich kids having justice bought for them whether they wanted it or not. It was also the story of its seven central characters: Deputy DA David (Neil McDonough), for example, failing to cope with his growing alcoholism and sense of disillusion, and detective Joel Stevens (Donnie Wahlberg) endlessly reliving the cot-death of his daughter and his wife's attempted suicide. If the show had flaws, they were the slight marginalisation of the central female characters--a crime reporter and a paramedic--and the presence of too many storylines that were as much about teaching the characters a Valuable Lesson as credible crime stories. Nonetheless, it was a stunning show, which deserved a longer life. This complete Series 1 box set at least offers a readily available record of it for those of us who liked it too late. On the DVD: Boomtown, Series 1 DVD box set presents all 18 episodes (a further six were made for Series 2 before the show's cancellation) presented in widescreen 16:9 with the choice of Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0 Pro Logic. The only special features are a trailer and the original series pitch video. --Roz Kaveney
Filmed in 1984 for the BBC, the feature-length documentary Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side Story follows the composer through one week as he records the first-ever complete album of his musical theatre masterpiece. (The previous Broadway cast and original soundtrack albums had both been cut down to single LP length.) Virtually the entire documentary takes place in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra, session singers and headliners Kiri Te Kanawa (Maria), José Carreras (Tony), Tatiana Troyanos (Anita) and Kurt Ollmann (Riff). The 89-minute programme alternates rehearsal footage with complete final takes of the main numbers--including "Tonight", "America", and "Maria"--with a limited amount of comment from the principal players. Te Kanawa explains how much the music means to her, Troyanos notes how she grew-up in the very streets depicted on stage and Carreras provides a rare moment of tension when a session ends unsatisfactorily. Bernstein himself is by turns commanding, charming, enthusiastic or weary. For anyone wanting an extensive insight into what happens as a major album is recorded this is fascinating, though others who just want to enjoy the wonderful music will be better served by the resultant two-CD set. On the DVD: Though filmed for British television, Deutsche Grammophon have chosen to release a single region-free (Region 0) DVD for the entire world. Unfortunately this means the disc is in NTSC format rather than PAL, and requires an NTSC-compatible television for playback. It also means that while the sound has been effectively remastered for PCM stereo the picture shows all the signs of a bad NTSC copy--weak, washed-out colours and poor definition with a serious lack of detail. Most videos are far better. The DVD has subtitles in German, French, Spanish and Chinese. There are no extras, though the booklet adapts an interesting article by producer Humphrey Burton which originally appeared in Gramophone magazine in 1985.--Gary S Dalkin
Based on the true life story and international best-selling book, A STREET CAT NAMED BOB is a moving and uplifting film that will touch the heart of everyone. When London busker and recovering drug addict James Bowen finds injured ginger street cat Bob in his sheltered accommodation, he has no idea just how much his life is about to change.Click Images to Enlarge
A smoulderingly laconic Rory Calhoun stars as Cully, charismatic leader of a gang of outlaws on the run after a bank robbery. Their dash for the border is brought to an abrupt halt by a chance meeting with an old compadre and his beautiful young daughter. Taking refuge from a storm in a barn, it's lust at first sight for Cully and the luscious Lolly Bhumer (Colleen Miller) but her trigger-happy father (Walter Brennan) soon puts a stop to that. Fate soon brings them back together when Cully and his men find the father and daughter being attacked by a band of renegade apaches.Heroically, Cully sacrifices his escape from the Sheriff's posse in order to rescue them. This is former actor Richard Carlson's second film and his first Western and perhaps that's why this adaptation of Louis L'Amour's novel is so exceptionally original for its genre. With a terrific supporting cast, including Walter Brennan, John McIntire and Charles Drake, this is a thoughtful and character-driven film. It's also sumptuously shot and thanks to the powerful sexual chemistry between Cully and Lolly, it exudes a steamy sensuality you wouldn't expect to find in a fifties Western!
The complete fifth season of the cult 70's TV Comedy! One of the highest rated sitcoms of the 1970s attracting 16 million viewers at the peak of its popularity Love Thy Neighbour explores the culture clash between black and white neighbours Bill Reynolds and Eddie Booth. Contain all 7 episodes.
First performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1954 this ballet draws on the rich heritage of Russian folklore to tell the tale of the young stonemason Danila who must choose between his village sweetheart Katerina and a magical temptress. It is based on fairy tales from the Urals collected by Pavel Bazhov and set in the middle of the 19th century.In Stone Flower you can feel Prokofiev's resignation after the hard struggle with the political situation but nevertheless he hasn't lost his brilliance and the music of his last ballet still is full of catchy tunes and joyousness.However with the completion of his composition it took four years before it received its premiere in Moscow and was not a great success at all. It was only three years later with the choreography of Yuri Grigorovich that Prokofiev's Stone Flower finally come to a glorious resurrection. The young choreographer simplified the story and focussed on nothing but the dance. The ballet became his first major success. The presented version shows a reproduction of this choreography from 1957 which has become immortal.
A Kingdom Ruled By Evil. A Princess Enslaved By Passion. A Warrior Driven By Justice. Meet Talon a daring mercenary who conquers castles and dungeons alike with his lethal three-bladed sword. But when Talon learns that he is the prince of a kingdom controlled by an evil sorcerer he is thrust into the wildest fight of his life. Can Talon rescue the beautiful princess and slay the warlock or will he fall prey to the black magic of medieval mayhem? Lee Horsley Kathleen Beller Simon MacCorkindale and Richard Moll star in this action-packed adventure saga filled with brutal battles luscious maidens savage monsters and more!
Dex (Donal Logue) is a man who believes can charm any woman, with the help of quotes from his favourite philosophers. However when he meets his old college friend Syd he finds someone who doesn't respond well to his seductive techniques!
Ljubljana 2008. The time of the Slovenian presidency of the European Union.Having grown up in small-town Slovenia, 23-year-old Alexandra embraces the excitement and anonymity of big city life when she moves to the capital. She styles herself as a call girl, planning to take advantage of everything the city has to offer. But her isolated existence-English studies and mortgage payments by day, call girl lifestyle by night-is shattered when one of her clients, a visiting politician, dies of a heart attack on her watch. Alexandra must suddenly confront fear, guilt, and desperation as she finds herself pursued by a band of local pimps, as well as the cops, hot on her trail. The old village life she had escaped from might now become her only refuge.
The CW's number-one series continues for another season of epic romance, suspense and a bloody good thrill ride. Based on the best-selling book series, The Vampire Diaries is the story of two vampire brothers, obsessed with the same gorgeous girl, who are battling to control the fate of an entire town. Last season, the appearance of the vengeful Katherine Pierce threw a wrench into the love triangle between Stefan, Elena and Damon, and the other residents of Mystic Falls were forced to choose sides as they fell victim to a new breed of danger. Stefan and Damon were later met with their greatest challenge yet - the arrivals of Elijah and Klaus, two of the Original vampires. As Klaus went head to head with Damon and took a special interest in Stefan, he also seemingly focused on breaking the Sun and Moon curse by sacrificing Elena; never swaying from his mission, no matter the action the brothers took, he proved to be the most powerful vampire in existence. Season three opens the door to learn more about Klaus and the Original Family as his motives for wanting Stefan on his side are finally revealed. As Stefan sinks deeper into the dark side, Damon and Elena struggle with the guilt of their growing bond, even as they work together to bring Stefan back from the edge. Plus, the ghosts from Jeremy's past have a powerful message they're trying to deliver to him, not to mention the impact they're having on his relationship with Bonnie. And, as Caroline and Tyler grow closer, a war erupts between their families.
The complete second series of the superb sketch show! Sending up British culture Asian culture and everything in between is the team of Meera Syal Sanjeev Bhaskar Nina Wadia and Kulvinder Ghir bringing together a series of unforgettable characters in an irreverent look at our multi-cultural society.
Set Comprises: Annie Get Your Gun (1950): Betty Hutton and Howard Keel star in this sharpshootin' funfest based on the 1 147-performance Broadway smash boasting Irving Berlin's beloved score including Doin' What Comes Natur'lly I Got the Sun in the Morning and the anthemic There's No Business like Show Business. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954): When rugged frontiersman Adam sweeps local beauty Milly off her feet the whole town is turned upside-down. But no one's more shocked than Milly who discovers that she's now expected to cook and clean not only for Adam but for his six rowdy brothers too! Well Milly's no pushover and soon she has those boisterous boys whipped into groomhood and dancing for joy over six brides of their own! Singin' In The Rain (1952): Starring Gene Kelly Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and featuring unforgettable song and dance classics like 'Singin' in the Rain' 'Make 'Em Laugh' and 'All I Do Is Dream of You' it has just about everything you could ask for in a movie musical Sunday Review. Gigi (1958): A scruffy tomboy is transformed into a radiant high society beauty in this glorious musical from MGM. Scored by the talented team of Lerner and Lowe the movie features splendid musical numbers like Thank Heaven for Little Girls and I Remember It Well. The Wizard Of Oz (1939) We click our heels in anticipation. There's no place like home and no movie like this one. From generation to generation The Wizard Of Oz brings us together - kids grown-ups families friends. The dazzling land of Oz a dream-come--true world of enchanted forests dancing scarecrows and singing lions wraps us in its magic with one great song-filled adventure after another. Calamity Jane (1953): The Deadwood Stage is comin' to town bringing Doris Day and Howard Keel to fuss feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this entertainment from the golden age of movie musicals. At first curvaceous Calamity is too durned busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay much mind to such girlie what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse to give a hoot about a hotheaded tomboy. But things change in a rootin' tootin' big way with love and romance just down the trail. High Society (1956): Beautiful aloof Newport heiress Tracy Lord is about to marry bland businessman George Kittredge but matters become complicated when her ex-husband C K Dexter-Haven moves to her neighbourhood determined to win back her hand. Things go from bad to worse for Tracy when journalist Mike Connor arrives to cover the wedding for Spy Magazine. When Tracy is forced to choose between her suitors will she realise that safe doesn't always mean the best bet? Meet Me In St Louis (1944): The wonderful Judy Garland stars in this charming musical as Esther Smith whose father comes home and announces he is going to uproot his whole family to New York on the very eve of the 1903 St. Louis World Fair. Brilliantly directed by Vincente Minnelli and full of wonderful songs - 'Trolley Song' 'Have yourself A Merry Little Christmas'. An American in Paris (1951): Jerry Mulligan is an American G.I. who decides to stay in Paris after the Second World War. Keen to sample some of the city's legendary romantic lifestyle he becomes an art student and joins a colony of painters living in a Montmartre garret. Penniless and starving his pursuit of the experience of the great artists is fast becoming a little too realistic when he is discovered by wealthy heiress Milo Roberts...
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