Extreme Measures loses credibility near the climax when it sacrifices its hold on reality, but this entertaining, intelligent thriller effectively applies a formulaic plot to the complicated ethics of medical research. It also gives Hugh Grant an opportunity to break free from lightweight comedy by playing an emergency room surgeon who discovers that a renowned neurologist (Gene Hackman) has been conducting secret experiments on patients. When Grant fails to save a patient whose body later mysteriously disappears from the morgue, his investigation leads to an underground community of healthy homeless people, some of whom have been test subjects in Hackman's revolutionary, but criminal research toward a cure for paralysis. Co-produced by actor-model Elizabeth Hurley and capably directed by Michael Apted, this otherwise conventional thriller rises above its limitations by asking morally complex questions that give its far-fetched plot an extra kick of dramatic impact. --Jeff Shannon
Part man. Part machine. All cop. The future of law enforcement. Robocop (Dir. Paul Verhoeven 1987): He's RoboCop. And in the near future he's law enforcement's only hope. A sadistic crime wave is sweeping across America. In Old Detroit the situation is so bad a private corporation Security Concepts Inc. has assumed control of the police force. The executives at the company think they have the answer - until the enforcement droid they create kills one of their own. Then an ambitious young executive seizes the opportunity. He and his research team create a law enforcement cyborg from the body of a slain officer. All goes well at first. Robocop stops every sleazeball he encounters with deadly piercing and sometimes gruesome accuracy. But there are forces on the street and within Security Concepts itself that will stop at nothing to see this super cyborg violently eliminated. Prepare yourself for non-stop action and adventure in one of the most explosive sci-fi stories you'll ever witness: Robocop. Robocop 2 (Dir. Irvin Kerschner 1990): The sizzling sequel to 1987's sci-fi blockbuster brings back The Future of Law Enforcement RoboCop to face his greatest challenge ever! Peter Weller returns as the half man/half machine police officer this time to rid the lawless streets of Detroit of the deadly new designer drug Nuke. Unknown to RoboCop the evil corporate empire which created him wants to take the city private and develop RoboCop 2 a newer bigger and more powerful version to replace the original. The script was - in part - written by comic-book genius Frank Miller (Ronin The Dark Knight Returns). Robocop 3 (Dir. Fred Dekker 1993): Omni Consumer Products (OCP) the conglomerate that designed RoboCop now owns Detroit. The company plans to demolish one of the city's largest neighborhoods to build a gleaming city of the future-after an army of ruthless mercenaries finishes throwing everyone out of their homes. But RoboCop sworn to protect the public joins forces with a band of urban freedom fighters battling to save their neighborhood. After battling a lethally efficient ninja android and equipped with a new arsenal of hi-tech weaponry RoboCop and the courageous residents take on OCP's private army. It's all-out war an explosive street fight that could destroy either the entire city or the evil powers behind the brutal corporate raid.
Edward Forester a genetic researcher of considerable talent becomes obsessed with creating a human/ape hybrid species. However when he succeeds in his aim he is ordered to destroy the result. Unable to kill the baby he hides Gor passing him off as his adopted son whilst going to painstaking lengths to teach him to walk and talk. Eventually under Forester's tutelage Gor is able to blend into society and communicate as humans do. However it's only a matter of time before the g
One the great British Sci-Fi thrillers of the 1960s! When the inhabitants of Petrie’s island succumb to a mysterious disease doctors Brian Stanley (Peter Cushing) and David West (Edward Judd) are asked to investigate. Puncture marks on the corpses reveal the horrifying truth: the islanders and their animals are being killed not by a disease but by a strange type of silicate organism that sucks the bone from their bodies...
This fresh 10-part adaptation of Dumas' masterpiece tells the story of an elite group of soldiers who protect their Royal Masters at any cost. Starring Luke Pasqualino (Skins The Borgias) as D'Artagnan Tom Burke (Great Expectations The Hour) as Athos Santiago Cabrera (Merlin Heroes) as Aramis and Howard Charles (Black Forest) as Porthos the brothers in arms fight for what is just tackling the evil machinations of Cardinal Richelieu - played by Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who The Thick Of It). As they are propelled across seas and battlefields from masquerade balls to a remote convent the Musketeers defend the honour of the Queen and the life of Constance Bonacieux d'Artagnan's true love - played by Tamla Kari (The Inbetweeners Movie).
A fast moving star studded roller coaster ride of violence madness and mayhem in this gritty British crime film. Bulla is the 'Big Fat Gypsy Gangster 'labeled 'the most dangerous man in Britain'. After serving sixteen years at her majesty's pleasure Bulla is out on the streets again but things start to go wrong from the moment he steps out when he finds out he's lost everything on the outside world. Fleeced by the same corrupt copper that put him behind bars even his favorite 'Aunt Queenie' is about to lose the roof from over her head; in Bulla's world family is everything. It's time for Bulla to fight back Get ready for a white knuckle ride into London's underworld as the most dangerous man in Britain sets about reclaiming his crime empire.
The ultimate small-screen representation of Loaded-era lad culture--albeit a culture constantly being undermined by its usually sharper female counterpart--there seems little argument that Men Behaving Badly was one of 1990s' definitive sitcoms. Certainly the booze-oriented, birds-obsessed antics of Martin Clunes' Gary and Neil Morrissey's Tony have become every bit as connected to Britain's collective funny bone as Basil Fawlty's inept hostelry or Ernie Wise's short, hairy legs. Yet, the series could easily have been cancelled when ITV viewers failed to respond to the original version, which featured Clunes sharing his flat with someone named Dermot, played by Harry Enfield. Indeed, it was only when the third series moved to the BBC and was then broadcast in a post-watershed slot--allowing writer Simon Nye greater freedom to explore his characters' saucier ruminations--that the show began to gain a significant audience. By then, of course, Morrissey had become firmly ensconced on the collective pizza-stained sofa, while more screen time was allocated to the boys' respective foils, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash. Often glibly dismissed as a lame-brained succession of gags about sex and flatulence, the later series not only featured great performances and sharp-as-nails writing but also sported a contemporary attitude that dared to go where angels, and certainly most other sitcoms, feared to tread. Or, as Gary was once moved to comment about soft-porn lesbian epic Love in a Women's Prison: "It's a serious study of repressed sexuality in a pressure-cooker environment." Series 6 includes: "Stag Night" in which Gary agrees with Dorothy's suggestion they get married ("We've tried everything else.") provoking potentially disastrous stag-night shenanigans; "Wedding" in which Gary and Dorothy's wedding day fails to run smoothly. ("I don't want to get married--I haven't slept with enough women," he complains. "Do you want to squeeze one in?"); "Jealousy" in which the quartet make the grave error of going away for a weekend in the country; "Watching TV" concerns a quiet night in with Captain Kirk & Co ("On the Starship Enterprise, when no one's looking, do you think they all swivel round in their chairs really fast?"); "Ten" in which the communal boat is rocked by the simultaneous arrival of Dorothy's nephew and Deborah's mother; and "Sofa" in which Tony buys a snake. --Clark Collis The DVD version also features a quiz.
Written by Roy Russell and starring Jenny Agutter A House In Regent Place is set in a Brighton house and spans four different time periods - 1914 1938 1958 and 1974.
A section of a super volcano under Yellowstone erupts after thousands of years, putting millions at risk. Now it's up to Yellowstone's top geologist (Juliet Aubrey) and a park ranger (Richard Burgi) to battle mankind's greatest threat... Earth itself.
Based on the bestselling fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, this sprawling new HBO drama is set in a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime. From the scheming south and the savage easternlands, to the frozen north and ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious darkness beyond, the powerful families of the Seven Kingdoms are locked in battle for the Iron Throne. This is a story of duplicity and treachery, nobility and honour, conquest and triumph. In the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die. Features: Making of Game of Thrones, Character Profiles Creating the Dothraki Language Inside the Night's Watch From the Book to the Screen Histories Creating the Show Open Cast Audition Dragon Eggs Anatomy of Episode 6 A Golden Crown Commentaries
The 1960 children's feature The Three Worlds of Gulliver brings to life the first two sections of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in a version which, while sanitised for youngsters, retains some of the satire and intelligence of the original. It also boasts excellent-for-the-time special effects by Ray Harryhausen, though the effects wizard keeps his trademark stop-motion animation to a minimum, featuring it only when Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews from 1958's The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad), has problems with an outsized crocodile and a foraging squirrel. Instead, Harryhausen concentrates on portraying the miniature Lilliputians and the giant Brobdingnagians, and the results still impress over 40 years on. This is a colourful, witty, charming film, though it is also heavily Americanised, the dialogue anachronistic and some of the accents decidedly trans-Atlantic. Mathews is a little stiff in the role of a British doctor, but English actress June Thorburn makes a spirited and beautiful Elizabeth, Gulliver's fiancée who in this version comes along for the journey. While the 1996 TV mini-series Gulliver's Travels comes much closer to Swift's intentions Harryhausen's version will delight younger viewers and has the advantage of a beguiling score from the great Bernard Herrmann. Some viewers may be startled to learn that in the 17th century there were Spanish mountains just outside London, and that Wapping was just a minute's walk from the beach. On the DVD: The Three Worlds of Gulliver on disc has good mono sound while the picture, which is anamorphically enhanced and presented at 1.77:1, is of variable quality. There are very distracting fleck marks where the emulsion has been damaged on the print in many shots featuring Gulliver against a bright blue sky. These really should have been restored before transfer to DVD. Although the packaging refers to "The Ray Harryhausen Chronicles" featurette, this is actually the same superb 57-minute TV documentary which has appeared on other Harryhausen titles. Everyone should have it in their collection once. "This is Dynamation" is a three-minute special effects promo for The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Also included is a five-minute original "making of" featurette and trailers for The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1.70:1 letterboxed), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (4:3) and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1.77:1 anamorphic), as well as basic filmographies of Jack Sher, Arthur Ross, Ray Harryhausen and Kerwin Mathews. --Gary S Dalkin
When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency reluctantly recruit his streetwise twin brother to take his place.
Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair was criticised when it was first released for it's humourous take on Nazi war guilt bombed-out Berlin and the post-war European black market. However Wilder has managed to create a very funny take on the bleak outlook of life in Europe after World War II. John Lund and Marlene Dietrich play a couple embarking on an affair and Jean Arthur is the American congresswoman sent to Berlin who while being initailly shocked by the levels of corruption surrounding her soon falls for Lund's charms much to Dietrich's annoyance.
On June 10th 1904, James Joyce, one of this century's greatest modern writers, was a young man grasping for funds and desperate to make his mark as a writer.
When 19-year-old Adam (Jack O Connell Harry Brown, This Is England) agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's dodgy boyfriend Peter (Peter Mullan Trainspotting, Tyrannosaur), it takes him on a journey into a world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge in the company of aging hit man Roy (Tim Roth Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction). Stalking their prey through the forests of Northumberland they carry out the job, but there is one big problem: there's a witness (Tallulah Riley St. Trinians) to th...
Own all of the epic action with the Spartacus Complete Collection! Blood and Sand Betrayed by his country. Beaten into slavery. Reborn as a warrior. Spartacus: Blood and Sand' is a graphic and visceral account of Rome's most famous gladiator. When he's separated from the love of his life, Spartacus is forced into the gruesome and bloodthirsty arena, where a grisly death is primetime entertainment. Gods of the Arena The House of Batiatus is on the rise, basking in the glow of its infamous champion Gannicus, whose skill with a sword is matched only by his thirst for wine and women. These are the times a young Batiatus has been waiting for. Poised to overthrow his father and take control, he'll freely betray anyone to ensure his gladiators are in the highest demand. And he'll have his loyal and calculating wife Lucretia by his side for every underhanded scheme. Vengeance On the heels of the bloody escape from the House of Batiatus that concluded 'Spartacus: Blood and Sand', the gladiator rebellion continues and begins to strike fear into the heart of the Roman Republic. Containing all of the blood-soaked action, exotic sexuality, villainy and heroism that has come to distinguish the series, the tale of Spartacus resumes in epic fashion. War of the Damned Gaius Claudius Glaber is dead. The rebellion has swelled to thousands of freed slaves, and Spartacus, alongside his generals Crixus, Gannicus and Agron, prepares for war with Rome. The epic conclusion of a legendary journey, Spartacus: War of the Damned unleashes a battle unlike anything ever seen before.
Titles Comprise: Saints And Soldiers: December 1944. The German army rampages trough the frozen wastes of Belgium's Ardennes Forest. Among the many Allied prisoners taken en route a small band of American soldiers manages to escape. Without weapons and without food ravaged by the cold the men are determined to make it back to their own frontline... but as their perilous journey takes its toll loyalties become divided and lives hang in the balance. A mesmerising hallucinatory journey through the hellish landscape of war ravaged Europe based on real life events Saints And Soldiers tells the story of ordinary men and the mission that made them heroes. Days Of Glory: 1943. The young North Africans had never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war Sa''d Abdelkader Messaoud and Yassir enlisted in the French Army along with 130 000 other indigenous soldiers to liberate the fatherland from the Nazi enemy. These heroes that history forgot won battles in Italy Provence and the Vosges before finding themselves alone to defend an Alsatian village against a German battalion.
This is the riveting and twisted story of an 18-year-old on the brink of manhood. Against the stark backdrop of small-town life Harry Odum (Norman Reedus) lives with his housebound mother Kate (Debbie Harry) a former lounge singer who lives on memories and a strong unhealthy attachment to her only son. Prone to vicious bursts of aggression Harry Odum catches the eye of the local crime bosses and with the help of his 'homeboy' pal Arnie (Adrien Brody) he slides easily into the ranks of the organisation. As Harry delves deeper and deeper into the cold brutality of organised crime with its emphasis on loyalty his own violent and illicit actions fierce consequences. As events spin around him the same dark urges that made Harry a first-rate hitman threaten to sweep him away in an undertow of twisted sexuality betrayal and self-destruction...
Four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide in this multi-stranded drama.
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