Two young protestors on the run from the police become friends lovers and try to lose their past...
The first four episodes of the BBC drama series set in 1920's London. When the philandering Eliott dies penniless there is no inheritance for his daughters Beatrice and Evangeline to survive on. Forced to go into business their London dressmakiing enterprise grows into an industrial force to be reckoned with...
Originally released in 1969 Easy Rider is widely regarded as the original road movie and based on the cult following it developed it was soon copied by other Hollywood studios. Written by Dennis Hopper Peter Fonda and Terry Southern (Dr Strangelove) Fonda produced the low-budget production whilst Hopper took on directing duties receiving an award at Cannes for his first work. Since its release Easy Rider has been regarded as a symbol of free-spirited reaction against society and even for those too young to remember its original release it maintains its status as a classic film which characterises the attitude of a decade. Now after 30 years Easy Rider has been remastered and is presented here in High Definition with both clearer picture and sound quality.
The immortal Peter Sellers is hilarious as a pompous retired general who still has a taste for the ladies in French playwright Jean Anouilh's philosophical farce. A lusty comedy of manners 'Waltz of the Toreadors' tempers its treatment of an old rake's delusions with generous dollops of wit and compassion.
Peter Lorre's Mr. Moto sets sail for an explosive high-seas adventure in his sixth spine-tingling detective mystery!The world teeters on the brink of war when a nefarious band of foreign saboteurs hatches a devastating plot to blow upthe French fleet and blame it on the British! But when Mr. Moto sets out to trap the conspirators - only to find himselfcaptured instead - the world's greatest detective must use all of his wits to diffuse a ticking time bomb of globaldestruction...before world peace is doomed to a watery grave!
Jody Drew (Ann-Margret) is a sweet, sexy, psycho-babe on the run from the law. She's escaped from a detention centre, stabbed a guard and burned the place to the ground. David Patton (John Forsythe) doesn't know all this. He's just a Senatorial candidate trying to do all the right things. However, Jody makes sure that all the wrong things happen.
Peter Davison stars as gentleman detective Albert Campion with Brian Glover as his trusty manservant Magersfontein Lugg in the 'Look to the Lady' and 'Police at the Funeral' stories adapted from the best selling Margery Allingham novels.
The Case Of The Late Pig: Campion receives an anonymous invitation to an old school friend's funeral. Then rather strangely the same friend is murdered at another friend's house three months later. Campion investigates... Death Of A Ghost: While Campion is enjoying a private view of an artist's work with his friends one of the guests is murdered. Campion sets out to unravel the mystery and discovers more intrigue along the way...
Swedish director Bjrne Runge directs a splendid cast in this dark drama about the destructive nature of dishonesty and betrayal. Over a fateful 24-hour period in a dreary Swedish town three separate storylines unwind united at times by loose connections among characters and at other times only by theme. Anita has been consumed by bitter rage ever since her husband left her three years earlier for a younger woman. A toxic presence to all those around her Anita decides to take mat
The Sporting Life: The sports master has resigned and guess who they get to replace him! Unfortunately Bernard's swimming classes descend into chaos as Duffy's terrified of water and Dunstable just can't seem to keep those unusual swimming trunks on. Norman's Conquest: 5c decide to adopt an animal after watching a wildlife preservation programme. The adopted pet is named after Norman but what exactly is it and will it survive 5c? X Certificate: Determined that 5c will not just be the tea boys this Open Day Bernard and the class make a film about the school. It impresses no-one until a second interpretation catches the attention of a passing journalist...
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto of the International Police is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr Moto is already in Port Said investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments. The dead man was his colleague impersonating him to throw the conspirators off his scent. Mr Moto recognises one of the conspirators as a British Secret Service agent and together they discover that the gang have mined the
Out Of The Frying Pan: Mrs. Savage has a rather unorthodox attitude towards lunchtime as she forces all of the school to eat in the local pub then resigns much to the confusion of Cromwell - but then he's never tried her cooking! Mixed Doubles: Abbott narrowly avoids a fight with a local yob but still manages to land a brick through a shop window. Maureen confesses her role to Bernard but will he do the right thing and tell the shopkeepers?
Following a failed robbery a young hot-headed gunslinger by the name of Whitey finds himself the guest of Marshal Jim Crown in the Cimarron jail. Keen to locate the rest of the gang Crown tricks Whitey into revealing the outlaws' next target. When the Tinker Gang pull a no-show and Crown confronts him Whitey realises he has been duped by both the Marshal and his former employer. Set on revenge Whitey escapes with the beautiful young Dulcey as his prisoner and begins to hunt down those who have double-crossed him. When he helps capture gang leader Arn Tinker Whitey sets Crown an ultimatum - he'll return Dulcey unharmed... but only after Tinker is hanged!
They're Off: Bernard's class is taking his teaching methods a little too seriously when they place a bet based on what he told them in class. Appalled Bernard has to cancel the bet or the school will cancel him! Common Law: Bernard plays detective after Sharon is molested in the park on the way home from school. Prepared to be surprised because you'll be shocked at the identity of the culprit! Panalal Passes: By The first Parent Teacher Association meeting is a failure when only the parents of the new boy Panalal turn up. But when Bernard organises a second PTA meeting it's not the parents who are too lazy to turn up it's the teachers!
Nicholas Winding Refn's searing pair of Danish underworld thrillers are provacative mesmerising and blisteringly fast-paced cinema. Pusher: A frenzied week in the life of Frank a Danish drug dealer fighting for his livelihood and his life when a deal goes tragically wrong. Bleeder: Malice and misfortune plague the relationship of Leo and Louise. When jealousy leads to an act of violence the retribution is swift and savage for the couple and their circle of friends.
To deal or not to deal: that is the question. Pusher is the story of Frank a small time drug pusher playing with the big boys. He loves the job the life and most of all the money. When a deal goes wrong Frank has 18 hours to come up with the cash or go on the run in fear of his life.
A low-rent horror flick from the early 1980s, Of Unknown Origin completely misses the mark in the scare stakes and instead comes across like a grisly, live-action version of Tom and Jerry. Our inept hero is the ambitious, house-proud executive Bart Hughes (Peter Weller), who is left alone by his wife and son to complete a business proposal only to discover that he is sharing his apartment with a mischievous giant rat. Unable to trap or poison his foe, Hughes quickly descends into nightmare-haunted madness and thus the stage is set for a suspenseless battle of wits that is less cat-and-mouse and more idiot-versus-rat. Finding an angry rodent swimming in your toilet might be a pretty unpleasant prospect, but cinematically speaking it's far from terrifying. Created using jerky point-of-view shots and creature effects that range from incongruous real-life footage to button-eyed glove puppets, the rat is an unthreatening villain, despite Weller's best efforts to react in abject horror when he finds the corners of his mail nibbled or his dry groceries spoiled. There are some unsuccessful attempts to make Hughes' plight more immediate to the audience by references to real-life rat problems--he visits a library to research his enemy and finds some disturbing photographs of rat-attack victims and subsequently ruins a dinner party with a genuinely unsettling rant about infestation and plagues--but it's difficult to feel sorry for him when he can't even muster the tenacity to track down a professional exterminator. By the time Weller gets caught in one of his own traps, you will probably be rooting for the rat anyway, and might take some pleasure from a ridiculous denouement in which, dressed in full battle-gear, he completely destroys his beloved apartment by clumsily chasing the elusive vermin with a nail-studded baseball bat. Gore Verbinski's genuinely hilarious Mousehunt did it with a lot more charm. On the DVD: Of Unknown Origin comes to DVD with a basic selection of extras. An entertaining commentary from Peter Weller and the likeable George P Cosmatos III does the film a lot of favours, even if their efforts to talk up its importance as an allegory for man's struggle against nature using comparisons with The Old Man and the Sea, Moby Dick, Alien and Jaws fail to convince. Added to this is the theatrical trailer ("If it doesn't scare you to death, it WILL find another way!"), a choice of languages and scene selection. --Paul Philpott
The Decent Thing: When Bernard spends a night with Sharon's mother he doesn't bargain on the consequences such as Sharon telling people that her mother is in the club again. Is Bernard about to have his first nervous breakdown? The Generation Gap: Class 5c becomes socially aware and take to promoting care in the community amongst the older residents. Unfortunately it's not necessarily the students who have to be co-operative as Potter finds out with Mr. De'Ath. The School Captain: The newly founded House system at Fenn Street runs into a few teething problems with election rigging and uncooperative students all whilst Bernard is trying to maintain his own reputation as Housemaster.
Naked Campus is a contemporary story concerning three young men pursuing their goals after college. It deals with their struggles in the working world their relationships with the women in their lives and the complexities of their changing attitudes towards each other. At times it is funny and prankish; at other times it is rough and tumble; and on occasion it is sad and heart warming. In short it deals with all those aspects that are of great interest to the thousands of people i
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