A romantic comedy drama Summer Rain follows three girls living together through their last summer in Brighton: Britain's sexy funky coastal capital. On her 21st birthday Michelle (Clea Smith) decides that it is time to ""grow up"" and dump her long-term boyfriend Gary (Paul Vaughan Evans) but he will do anything to win her back! Vicky (Lara Clancy) and Becky (Cath Sampson) try to help Michelle face the future only to question theirs - just how do you move on and ""grow up""? Winner of Best Film at the Director's View and Reel To Reel film festivals.
Help! I Shrunk the family! is a family film in the tradition of The Borrows and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids . Mr. Blom, the father of this single-parent family, pays little attention to his children; Johannes is a shy nine year-old boy and Nella Della is his twelve year old daughter. When Johannes finds the 10cm high wizard Wiplala accidentally in the kitchen behind a jar of peanut butter, he is happy to have a friend for himself. But it does not take long before the rest of his family finds out about his secret.
Are you old enough to remember 1947 and one of the harshest winters on record? Are you too young to remember the glorious summer of 1976? Are you still drying out from the floods of 2000?Experts say that the fluctuations in our weather will become even more dramatic as the years go by. But people who've already lived through extreme weather have vivid memories and fascinating stories to tell.Popular television forecaster Paul Hudson hears their first hand accounts and
FROM HELL referring to the return address on a letter penned by the Ripper is about people who are in hell trying to survive the grimmest circumstances. At the core are five impoverished prostitutes who share a desperate friendship drawn tighter as their ranks are terrorized by a gruesome murderer. Mary Kelly Kate Eddowes Liz Stride Dark Annie Chapman and Polly exist on the brink earning a meagre living with their bodies in a society that concurrently dishonours and feeds upon them. Owning virtually nothing of value they are threatened by a monster that would steal from them their only possession: existence.
Serena Stalin (Albright) wanted to learn from the best. So she tracked down Butch Harlow (Edwards) one of the wold's most notorious serial killers and blackmailed him into teaching her the fine art of murder. As the lessons begin teacher and student leaving a trail of horribly mutilated victims in their wake the couple are about to uncover the terible secrets that bind them together the unspeakable passion that compells them to kill again and again...
Virgil is an eccentric freak a brilliant billionaire with a head the size of an avocado. He finds amusement in his personal 'house band': four beautiful rock and roll girls-in-a-cage who play on command... He's also a 'biological inventor'. His latest creations Blood Dolls are obedient little creatures with deadly features. About to be betrayed by those he most closely trusts Virgil and his 'family' of freaks are about to exact the ultimate revenge.
Laura (Uma Thurman) is a young femme fatale who dressed to kill hangs out in bars allowing all sorts of men to pick her up but little do they know that their date is about to drug and rob them. Operating exclusively in New York's seedy nightlife her's is a life of trouble exploitation and seduction - a predator with no morals until two men enter her life and change everything. The tables are turned as the hunter becomes the hunted and Laura is thrust into a murderous mnage tro
Rock's premier metalmen Led Zeppelin whose blend of gutsy blue and scathing rock catapulted them into the music world's pantheon take you on a spellbinding journey of song and imagination. This high-impact movie captures the group's legendary 1973 Madison Square Garden concert and uncorks a freewheeling mix of scenes showing group members at home and in elaborate fantasy settings. Robert Plant's raw lead vocals Jimmy Page's explosive riffery and the sonic-boom rhythm wall of bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham all swirl clash and collide - on classic tunes like Stairway to Heaven Dazed and Confused Whole Lotta Love and many others. No one goes down heavier than Zep!
Episodes are: 'Exodus' and 'The History Lesson'.
After bumping into a college girl one day a young man suddenly finds himself falling hopelessly in love with her. The only problem is that clad as she is in traditional burkha he has only seen her hands. How will he ever find her again? Over-discreet questioning and misunderstandings lead to a series of mistaken identities and misdirected romances.
When James Cagney starred in the movie adaptation of The Time of Your Life in 1948, it was hotly been debated whether William Saroyans stage play was really filmable at all. Because of its small cast, because all the action takes place on a single claustrophobic set, because the "plot" consists entirely of sub-plots, and because Saroyans "dirty sentimentality" isnt to everyones taste, such doubts are still understandable today. However, accept the movie for what it is--a play in a box--and youll be captivated. The story revolves around a slightly down-at-heel bar-restaurant, where a group of disparate characters come and go as their stories gradually unfold. They include an ex-prostitute desperately seeking a new life, a dancer looking for a break into showbusiness, a down-and-out who discovers a vocation as a pianist, a beer-sodden cowboy and a villainous "stoolie" who, needless to say, gets his comeuppance. This gaggle of misfits is presided over by an enigmatic, champagne-drinking philanthropist (brilliantly played by Cagney) who gently nudges them towards their goals while indulging his own fascination with the minutiae of daily life. Throughout this quietly delightful picture the audience are not told why hes this way, but it is possible to make an educated guess. On the DVD: The Time of Your Life might be a classic, but it apparently warrants no extra features. The black and white picture is 4:3. --Roger Thomas
Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear, Academy Award winner Alan Arkin, and Billy Crudup lead a celebrated cast in the most critically acclaimed caper of the year. An insurance agent (Greg Kinnear) is looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife (Lea Thompson), and escape the dismal midwestern weather. This self-proclaimed master of duplicity believes that salesmanship is all about selling a story-all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer (Alan Arkin), who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission: a rare violin collecting dust in the corner of the farmhouse. His attempt to con the old man spins out of control, however, trapping him in a web of deceit and moral ambiguity.
Russell Crowe stars as "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, who pits his crew of the HMS Surprise against a much better armed and ruthless enemy in a chase that takes him all the way to the far side of the world.
DVD is supplied in a special Fathers Day packaging. An ideal gift for Fathers Day. One of the most popular screen westerns ever made, this Academy Award winning classic blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the true story of the West's most likeable outlaws. No one is quicker than Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) when it comes to get rich quick schemes, and his sidekick Sundance (Robert Redford) is a wizard with a gun. When these two bungling bank and train robbers tire of running from the law, they set out for Bolivia with Sundance's girlfriend (Katharine Ross). Though they can barely speak enough Spanish to communicate 'This is a stick-up', that's only a minor detail to the two nicest 'bad-guys' who ever rode the West.
Before he arrived in Hollywood to leave his indelible (and inimitable) mark on timeless comedies like Trouble in Paradise and The Shop Around the Corner Ernst Lubitsch created an expansive body of work in Germany that proved to be as varied in its tone as it was sophisticated in its measure of man and woman. This box set collects six recently restored works from the silent phase of Lubitsch's career and casts new light on the director both as a fully-formed comic master and as a virtuoso of cinematographic technique. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present these six works by Ernst Lubitsch for the first time on DVD in the UK. ICH M''–CHTE KEIN MANN SEIN (1918) One of the first collaborations between Lubitsch and the exuberant Ossi Oswalda Ich m''chte kein Mann sein [I Wouldn't Like to Be a Man] is a concise sketch of society life in three acts. When Ossi's uncle goes away on a business trip a new guardian steps in to tame the distractable niece. But Ossi finds a way out of the house and into a grand ball... by way of a brazen cross-dressing scheme -- and triggers what is perhaps Lubitsch's most twisted finale. DIE PUPPE (1919) Four amusing acts from a toy-chest - so reads the opening title of the comic masterpiece Die Puppe. [The Doll.] adapted by Lubitsch and co-scenarist Hanns Kr''ly from a libretto by A. M. Wilner (based in turn on a tale from E. T. A. Hoffmann). Ossi Oswalda stars in a double-role as both the mischievous daughter and automatonic creation of a wildly coiffed dollmaker. When a wealthy baron decides the time has come for his prudish nephew to take a wife an uproariously ribald plot unwinds into what is perhaps the world's first-ever sex-doll comedy. DIE AUSTERNPRINZESSIN (1919) As Die Austernprinzessin. [The Oyster Princess.] Ossi Oswalda makes another turn as a plutocrat's rambunctious daughter - now the heiress of a global oyster empire devoting her wiles once again to the service of man-ipulation. A comic high-point in the master's oeuvre Die Austernprinzessin. showcases the trademarks of the Lubitsch Touch and its ten-fingered dexterity resulting in a film that is simultaneously clever concise and risqu''. SUMURUN (1920) By turns melodramatic and grotesquely comic Sumurun brings together performances by star-players Paul Wegener (Der Golem.) Pola Negri Harry Liedtke and Ernst Lubitsch himself (in the role of an ultra-pathetic hunchbacked minstrel) for this ensemble tale pulled from the milieu of The Arabian Nights. Featuring hundreds of extras milling through open-air set-pieces and dusky harem-chambers alike Sumurun demonstrates Lubitsch's ability to transfigure rote romance into vibrant pageant. ANNA BOLEYN (1920) Emil Jannings plays King Henry VIII in the story of Anne Boleyn's movement from the outskirts of the court to the royal boudoir and off to the chopping-block. Suffused with an atmosphere of entrapment that would not be out of place in later films by Fritz Lang and prefiguring the stately contretemps in John Ford's Mary of Scotland Anna Boleyn proceeds with a deathward momentum unique in Lubitsch's oeuvre. DIE BERGKATZE (1921) Set in one of Lubitsch's hallmark mythical kingdoms Die Bergkatze [The Mountain-Lion / The Wildcat] finds Lubitsch in exuberantly expressionistic mode employing a host of optical masks to create perhaps the most visually audacious comic spectacle of his career. Pola Negri plays the daughter of a band of thieves; seduction of army commander (and audience) ensues. Lubitsch's personal favourite work of all his German films Die Bergkatze represents a peak in both Lubitsch's silent oeuvre and the silent cinema as a whole.
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war warlord rule criminality and anarchy No End In Sight is a jaw-dropping insider's tale of wholesale incompetence recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage Ambassador Barbara Bodine Lawrence Wilkerson former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell and General Jay Garner as well as Iraqi civilians American soldiers and prominent analysts. No End In Sight examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy - the use of insufficient troop levels allowing the looting of Baghdad the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government and the disbanding of the Iraqi military - largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? No End In Sight dissects the people issues and facts behind the Bush Administration's decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.
Ray Bradstone (Paul Triple H Levesque) is the best wheel man in the business– the bank robbery business that is. Just out of prison he is determined to gostraight and be the best parent he can be to his daughter Sally (Ariel Winter) andmake amends with his ex-wife Lynne (Annabeth Gish). After trying everything hecan do to re-connect with his family and struggling in vain to find honest work his oldbank-robbing crew led by Phillip Larue (Kevin Corrigan) offers him one last job. Hesigns on as their getaway driver – only to change his mind at the last second. Whatprompts this change of heart is an opportunity: Sally is going on a class field trip tothe New Orleans Natural History Museum and Ray has been asked to be thechaperone. It’s his last chance to be the father he always wanted to be. Sally and her class are in for one of the craziest field trips ever.
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