A comedy where old school ...meets middle school In this irresistible family comedy hothead college basketball coach Roy McCormick (Martin Lawrence) is more interested in endorsement deals than in winning games. And after an on-court meltdown Roy is about to lose everything unless he can prove he can win games without losing his cool. Enter the Smelters: a wise-cracking junior high squad that's never won a game. Reluctantly taking on the team of hapless hoopsters Roy uses
""I am Gareth Blackstock. I am seriously unpleasant. My bark is worse than my bite and my bark is atrocious!"" Introducing Gareth ""I don't do reasonable"" Blackstock (Lenny Henry) the 2 Michellin starred chef/slavedriver of 'Le Chateau Anglais'. Woe betide anyone who gets in the way of his pursuit of gastronomic perfection... This release contains all the deliciously funny episodes from the first series of the smash hit TV sitcom! Episodes comprise: 1. Personnel 2. Bey
A story about loss love forgiveness and moving on. Lori is deeply affected by the loss of her father in a plane crash and she struggles to come to terms with her mother's decision to marry again.
Film-maker Jim Jarmusch makes his feature debut with this early 1980s drama. The story follows Allie (Chris Parker), a twenty-something layabout, as he wanders aimlessly around the streets of New York City meeting a host of unusual characters and looking for some meaning in life.
"Octane" is the story of Senga, a woman plunged into a dark, deranged world when her teenage daughter Nat is lured away by a blood-obssessed cult.
Drunks dramatizes an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting from beginning to end as characters discuss their bout with the bottle. The attendees include Jim who falls off the wagon during the meeting; Louis who is obviously still in denial about his addiction; and Joseph whose drinking caused a drunk-driving death. Others at the meeting from a twenty-something slacker to a well-to-do doctor illustrate the wide range of people affected -- and sometimes destroyed -- by alcoholism.
Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness) works quietly at Michael Corland's (Michael Gough) textile mill until his mysterious costly lab experiment is discovered. Fired by Corland Stratton takes a menial job at Alan Birnley's (Cecil Parker) mill in order to continue his work on the sly. When Daphne (Joan Greenwood) Corland's fiance and Birnley's daughter discovers his secret she threatens to expose Stratton. The desperate scientist reveals to Daphne that he has invented an indestructible cloth that never gets dirty. Close to realizing his vision Stratton celebrates by having a white suit made of the fabric (because it repels dye). The trouble however is just beginning. The lowly mill workers (who spout market economics in rough accents) fear for their jobs while the mill owners led by the decrepit Godfather-esque Sir John Kierlaw (Ernest Thesiger) worry about their profits.
People always ask us What's your favourite episode? And we'd say It's so hard. It's like choosing between your children. But we'd have no problem choosing between our children. That tall smart good-looking one - that's our favourite child. - Matt Stone & Trey Parker Episodes Comprise: Make Love Not Warcraft Guitar Queer-O Night Of The Living Homeless The China Probrem Major Boobage The List Elementary School Musical
Mercury Rising: (1998) Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis) a renegade FBI Agent combats ruthless Federal agents to protect Simon a nine-year old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new ""unbreakable"" code. He can read Mercury the most advanced encryption code as easily as other kids read English. This ability renders the new billion dollar secret code vulnerable especially if enemies of the United States should learn of Simons's abilities and capture him. Program Chief Nick Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) orders the ""security threat"" eliminated but Kudrow hasn't counted on Jeffries getting involved. As deadly assassins trail them Jeffries quickly realises that no one can be trusted. Now time is running out and he discovers his only hope of survival is using Simon's special ability to bring their adversaries to justice. The Jackal: (1997) Bruce Willis is The Jackal - the greatest assassin in history - out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen an imprisoned underground operative is the only man who can stop him. Now the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all... he's releasing one criminal to stop another in this terrifically explosive totally intrigueing suspense thriller. Striking Distance: (1993) Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) is a fifth generation Pittsburgh cop. Formerly a homicide detective he publicly challenged the police department including several of his family members about the identity of the serial killer who took his father's life. Convinced that a newly active serial killer is the same gunman who murdered his father - despite the fact that another man is already behind bars for that crime - Hardy is working out of his jurisdiction to catch the killer. The maverick cop finds himself at odds with his new partner (Sarah Jessica Parker) as he skirts around the system and defies his uncle (Dennis Farina) his father's successor as the Chief of Homicide.
South Park co-creator Trey Parker goes straight for the gross-out humour in this live-action farce set in the adult-movie industry. Parker stars as an innocent Mormon kid who gets sucked into the world of pornographic film-making and becomes an international sensation as the stud superhero Orgazmo, all the while hiding his secret life from his milk-fed fiancée. It's practically a one-man show for Parker, who directs, writes, stars, and even performs the self-penned theme song as frontman for his rock band, and perhaps he should have spread the responsibilities a little. As an actor he's surprisingly appealing--his dazed grin and bleached white surfer-dude hair give him an engaging air of innocence. Paired with long-time crony Dian Bachar, the diminutive actor who plays his superhero sidekick Chodo Boy, they bring a Hardy Boys naiveté to the rude world of mobbed-up producers and jaded adult film stars. But the film is only fitfully funny, with vulgar jokes that are often more disgusting than humorous and clumsy comic timing sabotaging promising scenes. Only rarely does it reach the heights of his hilarious cut-out cartoon series South Park, but when he delivers he does so with the carefully cultivated tasteless excess his fans have come to know and love. Matt Stone co-stars as a clueless photographer while the real-life adult film star Ron Jeremy appears as a gross gangster henchman. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
You've Got Mail: A modern to modem romance in which superstore book chain magnate Hanks and cozy children's bookshop owner Ryan are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love unaware they are combative business rivals! City Of Angels: Nicolas Cage is Seth an angel who must decide if he'll forsake his immortality and become human - on the chance that the woman of his dreams might love him. That woman is Maggie (Meg Ryan) a pragmatic heart surgeon who doesn't believe in angels. Until she meets Seth. Will love be their mutual destiny? Will they take that shape that destiny? The choice is theirs to make... Addicted To Love: What would you do if that special someone dumped you? After seeing the delightful 'Addicted to Love' the better question is what wouldn't you do? Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick take a funny look at love's obsessive side as Maggie and Sam teaming for revenge when their former flames (Kelly Preston and Tcheky Karyo) team for romance.
In this light-hearted wartime comedy three WWII Navy men orchestrate a 4-day leave for themselves in San Francisco. Once ashore they immediately set out to make it a swinging celebration - to last as long as possible! Chief among the party-bound is Commander Andy Crewson (Cary Grant). Desperate to keep the men on the straight and narrow Lieutenant (Werner Klemperer) commits the trio to becoming spokesmen at a shipyard that's owned by a local tycoon. But before long the rowdy Cre
One of the most radical films of its time. Brian De Palma takes a preverse look at what goes on behind closed doors in post-Vietnam New York City.
When novelist Joe (Alan Cumming) and his actress wife Sally (Jennifer Jason Leigh) throw themselves a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage both the hosts and the guests start telling each other the one thing they never hear in Hollywood - the truth! This scathingly funny drama takes an unflinching look at new friends old lovers annoying neighbours marriage and the movie business...
Carry On Jack was the 1963 offering from a team which had, by then, become a repertory company with special guests dropping in for a dose of innuendo. "What's all this jigging in the rigging?" demands Kenneth Williams, this time playing a ship's captain, and the scene is set for 90 minutes of ribaldry involving cross-dressing, press-ganging and plank walking. The plot scarcely matters. It's set after the Battle of Trafalgar and the sea is awash with Spanish galleons and pirates as the British navy sets about defending its shores with as much incompetence as possible. Sally, a barmaid at the Dirty Duck (Juliet Mills in feisty principal boy mode), knocks Bernard Cribbins on the head and steals his uniform so that she can go in search of her childhood sweetheart. He is promptly press-ganged and they end up on the same ship. Williams, on the brink of his ascendancy as a star turn, just about keeps the mannerisms under control enough to build the character of the naïve and neurotic captain. Familiar Carry On faces on top form include Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale, while Peter Gilmore--in his pre-Onedin Line days--appears as a pirate. Peter Rodgers' script is not quite vintage Carry On but the jokes keep coming and it's all good, clean fun. On the DVD: This was one of the first Carry On films to be made in colour. The print is in reasonable condition. The picture quality, apart from a couple of scratchy scenes of sailing ships that were probably drafted in from stock footage, is fair, as is the sound. But apart from the scene index there are no extras on the disc. Given the cult status of the Carry On films, and the wealth of documentary material which has been made about them and their stars, you'd think something extra could have been offered with the DVD releases to make them a more worthwhile alternative to the video. --Piers Ford
Sons Of The Sea
The team that parodied the teen-horror genre in "Scary Movie", cliched romantic comedies in "Date Movie" and the ultra-macho "300" in "Meet The Spartans" are now putting their stamp on one of the biggest and most bloated movie genres of all time.
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