A young woman receives an eye transplant that inadvertently allows her to see into the supernatural world.
Ealing Comedy--cosy, gentle and whimsical, right? In this case, think again. Alexander Mackendrick was always the most politically aware of the Ealing directors, and in The Man in the White Suit he takes the studio's favourite theme of the little man up against the system and gives it a sharp satirical twist. Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness at his most unworldly), a maverick scientist working in a Northern textile mill, invents a fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out. He's hailed as a genius--until management and unions alike realise what his brainwave implies. Mackendrick's humour is exact and pointed, and the satire turns savage as a lynch mob of bosses and workers hunt Sidney down through dark narrow streets. Mackendrick's disenchanted view of hidebound, class-ridden British society still rings horribly true, and he draws note-perfect performances from the cream of British character actors: Cecil Parker as the liberal mill-owner (based it's said, on Ealing boss Michael Balcon); Ernest Thesiger as the evil old godfather of the industry; and, wittily sensual as Sidney's confidante, the ever-wonderful Joan Greenwood. Plus, listen out for the "voice" of Sidney's bizarre apparatus, the funniest and most unforgettable sound effect ever devised. --Philip Kemp
All fourteen uncensored episodes from South Park's thirteenth season are now available in this exclusive three-disc set. Roll with the boys as they save the economy, the whales, and a bunch of dead celebrities, all while discovering the joys of fishsticks. For them, it's all part of growing up in South Park!
Sarah Alexander stars as Gemma Jones - a divorced mother of 3 who leads a hectic life juggling working from home with looking after her twin girls and dealing with her child like ex-husband Jason and his demanding Swedish girlfriend Inca. When handsome dad Tom asks her out on a date, Gemma is the envy of all the other mums in the playground but then her grown up son Alfie returns home from travelling abroad with his charming 24 year old friend Billy and Gemma finds herself, for the first time ever, with more than one possible love interest.
Set against the antebellum South, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows the story of Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher (Nate Parker), who leads a fierce rebellion against slavery.
Revel in all seventeen classic episodes from South Park’s fourth season, available in this 3-disc set. This season introduced one of South Park’s favourite characters, Timmy!Season Four also marks the boys’ passage into fourth grade and the launch of their boy band, Fingerbang. Oh, and did we mention that this season is the first time Timmy appears? So join Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and Timmy for Season Four as they take on the Tooth Fairy, NAMBLA, Satan and Janet Reno. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park. Episodes Comprise: The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000 Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000 Timmy 2000 Quintuplets 2000 Cartman Joins NAMBLA Cherokee Hair Tampons Chef Goes Nanners Something You Can Do with Your Finger Do the Handicapped Go to Hell? (Part 1) Probably (Part 2) 4th Grade Trapper Keeper Helen Keller! The Musical Pip Fat Camp The Wacky Molestation Adventure A Very Crappy Christmas
This sprawling family saga follows a Hungarian-Jewish family across three generations, and stars Ralph Fiennes as the father, the son, and the grandson in three distinctly different roles. As a Europudding vehicle for Fiennes and a top-drawer cast (including Jennifer Ehle, Rachel Weisz, Deborah Unger, Miriam Margolyes and William Hurt), Sunshine delivers on all fronts: there's glossy melodrama, high-moral seriousness as history wears the family down like the wind, and leitmotifs--the family elixir called "Sunshine" that founds their fortune, semi-incestuous adulterous liaisons, photographs and faces--that thread the epic three-hour narrative together. Fiennes begins as a stiff Budapest lawyer-cum-officer and judge during the First World War, torn when anti-Semitism raises its head. His son is a champion fencer who denounces the family faith to attain advancement but ends up in the Nazi-run labour camps all the same. The last in the line, a policeman this time, must navigate the Stalinist forces of repression and endures through the 1956 uprising to take back the family name and faith. And yet as a film by director István Szabó (Colonel Redl, Mephisto), it's a bit of a soggy disappointment lacking the bile and spit and visual inventiveness that makes the best of his other works so outstanding. Perhaps the fact that Szabó is directing an all-English speaking cast is the problem, leaving the film feeling strangely old-fashioned and paradoxically lacking a sense of place (despite much of it being filmed in Hungary itself). Although there are some charged emotional beats throughout, pretty costumes, and lots of entertainingly tasteful bonking sequences, the fencing sequences in particular become tooth-pullingly tedious and the whole thing seems to drag, especially as it takes itself so seriously. --Leslie Felperin
The quiet little mountain town of South Park, Colorado enters its sixth season as Americas weirdest and most dysfunctional town, and if you thought that title was already claimed by Springfield, I have one word for you: Lemmiwinks. If you thought it couldnt get any weirder, this season will prove you wrong. But the good news is that South Park has always been able to maintain a mathematical-like balance of proportionality so impressive it could be charted on a graph: as South Park gets weirder, so it gets funnier (usually). Which makes sense because one of South Parks greatest strengths has always been to reflect the strangest elements of society, which, lets face it, are pretty strange. Targets this season include exploitive daytime TV shows ("Freak Strike"), celebrities gone wild (Russell Crowe fightin round the world), the Catholic priest sexual-abuse scandals ("Red Hot Catholic Love"), and the meat industry ("Fun With Veal"). Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker even parody the reality of competing with The Simpsonss longevity in "The Simpsons Already Did It," where Butters, gone out of his mind and in his Professor Chaos persona, cant even come up with an original evil scheme to unleash on the citizens of South Park. Fortunately for fans, the quality of the writing is as strong this season as it has been at any point in the shows run and its not like the shows going to back off from its trademark gross-out factor at this point. Proof of that can be found in "The Death Camp of Tolerance." In an extreme satire of sex education class, Mr. Slave and Lemmiwinks, the heroic and intensely unfortunate gerbil, make their, umm, debuts. In South Park, this is what qualifies as a normal school day. Taken as a whole, Season Six is one of the show's strongest punches yet to the face of a society that had it coming. --Daniel Vancini
When a pair of mismatched, high-powered New York divorce attorneys wake up as man and wife after a particularly drunken night out, sparks start to fly - and not only in the court room.
Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as these four animated tykes take on the supernatural, the extraordinary and the insane. For them, it's all a part of growing up in South Park.Episodes Comprise: Cartman Gets an Anal Probe Volcano Weight Gain 4000 Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig Death Pink Eye Starvin' Marvin Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo Damien Tom's Rhinoplasty Mecha-Streisand Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut (1)
See and hear The Sound of Music in a whole new way! A timeless cinematic treasure soars to new heights in this 45th anniversary edition. Digitally remastered for spectacular sound and pristine picture quality you've never seen or heard The Sound Of Music like this before! Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria a spirited young woman who leaves the convent to bring love and music to the home of Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) and his seven children.
What began as a construction-paper film short evolved into a veritable pop-culture phenomenon for Trey Parker and Matt Stone's outrageous animated comedy series SOUTH PARK. Centered around the hilarious misadventures of four potty-mouthed grade-schoolers in the perpetually wintry environs of South Park Colorado the series skewers the vagaries of the modern American cultural landscape with politically-incorrect humor and satirical plotlines ranging from homophobia and terrorism to boy bands and talking poo. This collection presents every episode from the series' sixth season including ""Jared has Aides "" ""Fun with Veal "" ""Red Hot Catholic Love "" ""Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society "" ""The Biggest Douche in the Universe "" and more.
Tremors didn't actually break any new ground (even though its tunnelling worm monsters certainly did), but it revved up the classic monster-movie formulas of the 1950s with such energetic enthusiasm and humour that it made everything old seem new again. It also has a cast full of enjoyable actors who clearly had a lot of fun making the film, and director Ron Underwood strikes just the right balance of comedy and terror as a band of small-town rednecks battle a lot of really nasty-looking giant worms. The special effects are great, the one-liners fly fast and furious between heroes Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward (and yes, that's country star Reba McEntire packin' awesome firepower), and it's all done with the kind of flair one rarely associates with goofy monster flicks like this. --Jeff Shannon
Many years they came forever altering the future of humanity. Science fiction adventure from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. An androgynous alien species called the Taelons arrive on earth claiming to be companions of humanity putting an end to crime illness and famine. Some are suspicious of the Taleons and form a resistance movement. The resistance soon learned that the force that sustains the Taelons are breaking down and they are using humans as test su
Fess Parker captured the hearts of millions with his strong confident portrayal of the legendary king of the wild frontier. There's never been a folk hero quite like Davy Crockett and you'll see why when you watch him 'grin' down a bear battle an Indian chief in a tomahawk duel and fight for freedom at the Alamo. Disney's popular action-adventure inspired millions of children to sport coonskin caps and sing 'The Ballad Of Davy Crockett' which topped the nation's hit list for 13
With the last of Earth s natural resources dwindling and the human race under threat, Dr. Eve Carter makes a huge breakthrough in her Promethean Kinetics research by creating Helios: a revolutionary energy source so powerful it rivals the sun. So strong that governments struggle to control it; the highly-explosive Helios product begins to seep deep into the Earth's core, inducing giant blasts of fire and violent earthquakes which send shudders around the globe. As cities shake and oceans boil, Dr. Carter rushes to investigate the subterranean phenomenon. With the realisation that she alone can save mankind from eternal destruction, the most deadly race against time begins...
This classic movie directed by John Guillerman has been beautifully restored as part of the Vintage Classics Collection. It is based on the true story of one of the best intelligence operations of World War II. An actor, trained by Major Harvey (John Mills), is seconded to impersonate General Montgomery on a tour of North Africa. The plan is to divert the Germans' attentions away from the real Monty and his plans for D-Day. Starring the real life actor and lookalike M.E. Clifton James and a formidable supporting cast including Cecil Parker, Leslie Phillips, Bryan Forbes and John Le Mesurier, this is a gripping retelling of those fateful few weeks before the Normandy campaign. The Vintage Classics collection from Studiocanal celebrate the most iconic and beloved films in British cinematic history by giving these masterpieces of yesteryear stunning restorations fit for the 21st Century. Extras: New interview with author/historian Terry Crowdy John Mills Home Movie footage Monty's Double (1947) Behind the Scenes stills gallery
Nicole Kidman is Isabel Archer a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her headstrong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey in an Oscar-nominated performance) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich). Adapted from the novel by Henry James.
Maggie is an uptight, single mother and college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, she decides to embark on a journey to a Tuscan village where she frequented in her younger days. Upon arrival, Maggie runs into Luca, a handsome former lover who is still a bachelor and lives with his eighty-year-old mother, Carmen. Summer (missing her bad boy boyfriend in NYC) and Carmen (secretly planning a wedding against Luca's wishes to Marcelino, her one true love in Rome) impulsively steal Luca's car and race off to Rome. Maggie and Luca quickly pursue allowing the two mismatched couples to spend some time together and develop a new understanding of each other.
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