Murray Lewis is down on his luck as he heads to Mexico to attend his long lost father's funeral where he meets Nieves Blanco and his luck begins to change.
The first 10% of this show sums up what we don't get on TV anymore. Technical difficulties. TV Party was live and improvised and this meant casual disaster. This early episode gets off to an artistically agonizing start - the sound person is late overdosing on drugs or both. Or it was the broken down equipment. Once the sound kicks in the show gets lively. Compton Maddux a droll singer songwriter is backed up by Debbie Harry and Glenn; the unique futurist soprano Klaus Nomi does one of his post-modern arias; Adny Shernoff of the Dictators plays the Beach Boys' Be True to Your School backed up by pom pom girls Tish and Snooky the Manic Panic designers. Downtown legend director Eric Mitchell announces the opening of the now famous New Cinema theater and shows a clip from his film Kidnapped with Arto Lindsay Duncan Smith and Anya Phillips. Brit director David Silver and photographer Kate Simon do the white people talk about reggae segment. Blondie's Chris Stein and Debbie Harry and the Patti Smith Group's Richard Sohl drop in to smoke a reefer and take calls from all the crazies in cable land. Chris explains all this isn't chaos it's art. Tracklist: 1.Glenn on Mardigras 2.'Lil Rico' Amos Poe 3.Nile Rodgers Call In 4.Luigi Ciccolini Intellectual Talk
Vincent (Liam O Mochain) has written what he thinks is the best post modern novel ever. His novel 'The Daughter of Conn' is a Celtic quest saga set somewhere in Ireland 200 years ago. When he overhears literary agents ridiculing his masterpiece he vows to prove them wrong. He hires an aspiring filmmaker to document his novel onto video. The novel takes on a life of its own as she is more interested in making a documentary about him. Vincent decides that he has created the protenti
From director Steven Spielberg comes War Horse, an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meet...
WC is set in and around the male and female toilets of a Dublin jazz bar. A drama concerning the trials and tribulations of two lowly paid toilet attendants and the people they serve.
Todd is a troubled teen whose only escape is the thrilling sport of paintball. Even then rival players are gunning for Todd and are hell-bent on making his life a misery. But Todd sees a chance for revenge when a paintball tournament is held in town.
A sinister psychiatrist experiments with LSD on 4 swinger volunteers who enter the strange nightmarish world of a claw handed entity known as Coffin Joe with each experiencing a different reaction involving sex perversion and sadism...
TV The Movie is a celebration of the ever-increasing ridiculousness of society as reflected through the televisions in your living room...Who are we trying to kid? We just want to break a lot of shit throw Steve-O off a building and get some chicks naked. Combining 'jackassian' stunts with fast action and sketch comedy this is a demented channel-changing adventure for the unfocused youth of the world. This brilliantly funny spoof comedy stars pop culture icons from the past three decades and the cast of JACKASS!
This BAFTA nominated series follows the fortunes and feuds of old Billy Fox (Peter Vaughan) and his family in South London. With a superb cast including Ray Winstone and Bernard Hill and shot entirely on location in pubs clubs and streets 'Fox' evokes a strong London atmosphere through a wonderfully tense and involving story. Episodes include: Just An Iron Monkey Just Another Villain In A Cheap Suit Oh Dear - Oh Dear - Oh Dear! The Family... And The Future.
Journey with the physician Luke (Dean Jones) as he tells the enthralling story of danger, struggles, and triumph that marks the birth of the Christian church. Share the time of mystery and wonder that follow the resurrection of Jesus. Walk with the risen Lord. Watch as He is taken up into heaven. Experience the transforming power of Pentecost and catch the fire as God uses the passion of Peter (James Brolin) and Jon (Andre Jacobs) to send the flame of faith racing throughout Jerusalem and ar...
A plastic nightmare... Pin (short for Pinocchio) is an anatomical instruction dummy. Dr Linden (Terry O'Quinn) uses the dummy to explain difficult questions to his children Leon and Ursula. When Dr Linden and his wife die suddenly Leon projects a personality to Pin to replace his father. When Ursula starts hanging around with new boyfriend Stan Leon and Pin take action!
The emotional film of a wise woman learned in life loss and love who shows a despondent young man the beauty of being alive. Embittered and alone after nursing his late mother through a prolonged illness Michael Keddington takes a job working as an orderly in a hospice. Admired by both the staff and his patients he eventually meets Esther Huish an elderly resident clinging to memories of her past and the choice she made that changed it. Because Esther sees in Michael a younger version of herself she fears that his hopelessness will result in him losing the one woman who truly loves him for who he is - a wealthy beauty who is bound for law school. Esther vows to make Michael appreciate what he has...
Governments multinational corporations and religious organisations have secretly wielded tremendous power by holding back critical data or spreading misinformation to further their own aims. This programme exposes the almost inconceivable stories of deceit conspiracy sanctioned piracy and scientific knowledge hidden from the world for far too long. Up for Sale On October 4 1957 the Soviets launch the legendary orbiter Sputnik ushering in the Space Age. In 1998 the Russian Federation launches the first stage of the space station Freedom. While at first glance it seems that little has changed closer scrutiny reveals that billions of American dollars are being funnelled to Russia to secure its participation in the space station partnership. Described by the elite of NASA as a foreign aid project for the Russians the principal purpose of the program may be to abate the mass exodus of Russian rocket scientists to unfriendly nations interested in developing weapons of mass destruction. Heavy Watergate: the War Against Cold Fusion On March 23 1989 respected chemists Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleishman make an announcement that rocks the world of science. Heavy water readily available in the ocean is used in tabletop experiments that yield enormous amounts of heat energy. Appropriately named cold fusion this purported breakthrough challenges many basic scientific concepts. In response a group of powerful physicists heavily reliant upon government funding for their hot fusion research level an unprecedented smear campaign against Pons Fleishman and the entire field of cold fusion science. Was their discovery of fire from water too good to be true? Or was it the discovery of the millennium?
A live dose of comedy from Paul O'Grady's incarnation as the outrageous and un-imitable Lily Savage.
Snap: Beaver Bras hand a young executive a cheque for 100 000 dollars to sign up five famous and well-endowed women to model their lingerie... This raunchy adult comedy follows the adventures of this lucky young man as he peruses five very different but similarly endowed beautiful young ladies around the world to get them to sign on the dotted line. R.S.P.V. An expose book launch turns into a wild Hollywood party where the hosts attempt to conceal the death of a guest whose untimely end is caused by a popular erotic stimulus... Nice Girls Don't Explode: Take the psychotic mother-daughter team from 'Carrie'. Add the 'fire girl' premise of 'Firestarter'. Mix in a generous helping of racy irreverent comedy and you get a towering inferno of fun called 'Nice Girls Don't Explode'. Barbara Harris plays Mom a domestic tyrant who makes Joan Crawford seem rather permissive. After seeing an ad for a movie called 'Fire Girl' Mom devises an elaborate scheme to shield daughter April from men and sex. She decides to fight fire with fire. April's date with Ken is an utter disaster. His advances cause April's heartbeat to rise resulting in several spontaneous combustions. Even a simple good night kiss leaves Ken's Corvette a charred wreck. Enter Andy April's old flame. He's eighteen and still has the hots for his childhood playmate. Naturally April avoids him not wanting to cause a meltdown. Over the remains of Andy's Buick April explains her unique condition. Andy is understandbly sceptical and after hearing Mom's explanation - that April has a split personality - he takes April to a mental hospital. But that isn't the real problem...
Joshua Taylor and Christopher Bauman are two young boys from separate worlds whose lives are thrust together and forever altered in an unexpected tragedy. As Lucille Bauman raises the boys, major problems arise in the family. A devastating decision is made that changes the course of the family forever. Years later, torn apart by anger, bitterness and resentment, Joshua and Christopher begin seeking to fill the empty, fatherless voids in their unfulfilled lives. Can reconciliation restore this family now? Or will it be too late?
David O. Selznick’s production of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winner Gone With The Wind is “the pinnacle of Hollywood moviemaking ”( Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight) . And in Maltin’s view “it looks better than it has in years.” This sweeping Civil War-era romance won an impressive 10 Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and its immortal characters Scarlett (Vivian Leigh) Rhett (Clark Gable) Ashley (Leslie Howard) Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen) populate as epic story of enduring appeal across generations. Judged by many to be the greatest movie of all time Gone With The Wind is an extremely exciting DVD release!
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