The haunted pine forests of New Jersey is a wilderness area larger than the Grand Canyon. This wilderness abounds in dense forest and is the perfect refuge for a legendary creature which has been feared by the locals since the eighteenth century. Locals tell stories of a native Indian shaman who mastered the forbidden black art of 'shape shifting' a phenomenon recently verified by modern anthropologists. Legend has it that the Indian shaman transformed his thirteenth child into a creature half man and half beast in order to ward off the British army during the American Revolution. Enter a world where suspense and mystery collide generating a chilling climax of terror.
Don Giovanni - Opera in two acts. A production of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Recorded in July 2002.
Tim Allen makes an impressive screen debut in Disney's well-written holiday film, The Santa Clause. Divorced toy company executive Scott Calvin is pleased to have his son Charlie for Christmas, though the boy himself isn't happy about it. But when Santa Claus accidentally topples off the roof of the house and falls with a thud in the snow, Scott finds himself taking the merry old elf's place and earning new respect in his son's eyes. When the night ends, the reindeer take them to the North Pole, and Scott discovers that by donning the fabled red suit, he's inadvertently agreed to become the next Santa Claus. The next morning he wakes up in his own bed and thinks it's all a dream--but Charlie remembers it with crystal clarity. Scott now has to deal with his suspicious ex-wife (Wendy Crewson) and her psychiatrist boyfriend (Judge Reinhold), who both think he's playing tricks with Charlie's mind, and also with his own out-of-control body, which is putting on weight and growing a prodigious beard. The Santa Clause probably won't supplant It's a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street as anyone's favourite Christmas film, but it's an enjoyable, straightforward family film, anchored by the affable charisma of Allen. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
Dress To Kill
'The Survivor'' is a terrifying and mysterious tale that has echoes of the classic films 'The Sixth Sense'' and 'Unbreakable''. Moments after take off a passenger Jetliner plummets to the ground killing all on board except its pilot 'Keller'' (Robert Powell). After the investigation declares that no one should have survived the crash Keller finds himself tortured with guilt and sets upon a journey of discovery to find out who was responsible and how he managed to survive. The Survivor is directed by actor/director David Hemmings (Blow Up Harlequin) and is based on the best selling book by horror writing legend James Herbert.
The Problem: Trevor 26 a loner obsessed with women but so afraid of them he can barely speak if they're about. He needs a partner a lover someone to trust him someone to obey him... Lahn 22 smack addict and slacker. He loves women but not as much as heroin. He stole his dealer's stash needs a place to hide someone to conceal and protect him... The Solution: Trevor can hide Lahn lie for him protect him and provide for him...but only if Lahn becomes Dorothy Trevor's i
The memories of Scotland DVD includes the Music of Scotland 14 songs performed by Scotland's premier baritone Peter Morrison. It also includes a grand tour of Scotland from the Borders to the Highlands and historical tours of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series was the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras.Volume 4 cherry-picks four of the show's more diverse episodes. In "Mr Dingle the Strong" (episode 55) alien visitors experiment on a hapless human, but instead of sinister X Files horror, Serling plays it for laughs. Despite the sparkling presence of Burgess Meredith (the closest the series came to a regular star), this one-joke plot demonstrates why the Zone only rarely ventured into comedy. "Two" (episode 66) pits a characteristically taciturn Charles Bronson against an even more stoical Elizabeth Montgomery, two soldiers from opposing sides who must rediscover themselves as the last man and woman and play Adam and Eve in a post-holocaust world. "A Passage for Trumpet" (episode 32) casts Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy) as a downtrodden trumpeter who, in a jazz rewrite of It's a Wonderful Life, learns to value life. Nice. Finally, "The Four of Us are Dying" (episode 13) employs four different actors to play the same character, a "cheap little con-man" whose ability to change his features at will doesn't prevent his deserved comeuppance (more jazz here, this time in a wonderfully jagged underscore from Jerry Goldsmith).On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker
This DVD is part of the Britten-Pears DVD Collection. This collection features four historically and musically significant films from the BBC archives of works and performances by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears one of the greatest English tenors and Britten's long-term partner and artistic inspiration. None of these films have been available before on any home video format. This colour film recording of Mozart's Idomeneo dates from a period when Mozart's first mature masterpiece was barely known. This may indeed be the first-ever film of the opera. Conducted by Benjamin Britten using his own performing edition the opera is sung in English with Peter Pears singing Idomeneo - the only film recording with Peter Pears in the title role. The cast also includes renowned British soprano Heather Harper and a young Robert Tear. Each act begins with a spoken introduction from John Warrack revered music historian and academic.
Detective story featuring Father Brown a Roman Catholic priest who must recover paintings stolen by a master thief.
Linda Blair plays virginal heroine Marti Gaines who together with fellow teens Seth Jeff and Denise takes up a challenge made by party animal Peter Bennett to spend a night at Garth Manor as part of a fraternity-sorority pledge. Garth has a notorious history: twelve years ago the owner massacred his wife and kids and then hanged himself in the house. To liven things up a bit a pack of drunken frat-boys descends on Garth Manor to scare Marti and her pals out of their wits. But something even more horrible has beaten them to it and begins to pick off the pledgers one-by-one through methods ranging from impalement to decapitation. As Garth Manor gives out its darkest secret will anyone come out alive?
In 1945 during the final death throes of the Third Reich a crack division of SS Shock Troops went down aboard their ship. They had supposedly drowned beneath several fathoms of ocean. Yet there was one thing about them the world didn't know: they couldn't die as they had never been alive in the first place. Genetically engineered and adaptable to battle conditions anywhere (even under water) these were the Gestapo outfits known as the Death Corps pathological murderers and criminals with an innate desire for violence...
The Cult Action Extravaganza three-disc set offers three very different movies that have nothing in common bar residency in Siren's film archive. They are: The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) and Get Christie Love! (1974). The Most Dangerous Game is a classic, one of the first talkies to get pictures moving after five very static years following the birth of sound. The plot finds resourceful hero Joel McCrea and heroine Fay Wray being hunted on the island of the insane Zaroff (Leslie Banks). One of the grandfathers of the summer blockbuster, the film's setup has been reworked many times since, notably in John Woo's Hard Target (1993). By modern standards it's technically primitive, though still gripping stuff, complete with the jungle set built as a test run for King Kong (1933) and graced by Max Steiner's prototype of all Hollywood action scores. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is another landmark or rather watermark. The third-ever CinemaScope production, this was a prestige release with Technicolor location filming at Key West, Florida of never-before-achieved underwater cinematography and four-channel stereo recording of a superlative Bernard Herrmann score. Even a still-impressive underwater battle with an octopus pre-dates the more famous giant squid of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). The humans aren't bad either, with a young Robert Wagner making a charismatic if ethnically unconvincing Greek lead as sponge fisherman Tony and Terry Moore playing Juliet to his Romeo with real vivacity. Starring Theresa Graves, Get Christie Love! is a tame TV movie imitation of early 1970s female blaxploitation films such Pam Grier's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). Running a standard TVM 73 minutes and with a low budget and content sanitised to US network standards, this is lightweight stuff about an undercover cop determined to smash a drugs ring. Nevertheless the movie was popular enough to spawn a short-lived TV show and is significant for being the first time a black woman took the title role in any American network production. Tarantino completists may be interested, as before he paid homage to Christie Love in the dialogue of Reservoir Dogs (1991). On the DVD: Cult Action Extravaganza presents the films in their original aspect ratio and sound format; The Most Dangerous Game and Get Christie Love! are 4:3, mono. The former is faded b/w with reasonably sturdy sound, though the transfer suffers from compression artefacting. No one would expect great quality from a 1974 TV movie, but Get Christie Love! suffers from both a poor print and a mediocre DVD transfer. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is presented in the extra wide 2.55:1 of early CinemaScope and though sadly not anamorphic both the seascapes and underwater cinematography are still impressive. The four-channel stereo sound is revelatory, clear, detailed and years ahead of what we have come to expect early 1950s films to sound like. --Gary S Dalkin
It would be easy to pass by this movie, based on Anna Sewell's famous novel Black Beauty, on the assumption that it's dated and twee. Well, perhaps it is a little, but the sheer quality of the whole enterprise places it in the front rank of children's cinema classics. Screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz's ability to harness both literary and popular techniques in the same work (also true of his written fiction) remains unsurpassed in this captivating tale of Beauty's eventful life, from being raised as a foal by the devoted Joe (Lester), then passing through the hands of various owners before being purchased by, supposedly, Miss Sewell herself, to be once more cared for by a now-adult Joe who is in her employ. Along the way, Beauty passes through the hands of gypsies, a circus owner, a family of aristocrats and is even ridden into war, with each episode being expertly cast (Mower is in particularly fine form as a mad, bad and dangerous army officer) and produced to the highest cinematic standards--even the exterior lighting is perfect. Absolutely recommended. The 4:3 DVD is a transfer of exceptionally high quality and includes the cinema trailer, an image gallery of stills and collector-enthusing promotional ephemera (presented in a thumb-saving slideshow format) and, rather incongruously, a trailer for Help! I'm a Fish!--Roger Thomas
'The British Are Coming!' Britain's finest athletes have begun their quest for glory in the 1924 Olympic Games. Success brings honour to their nation. For two runners, the honour at stake is personal... and their challenge one from within. Winner of four 1981 Academy Awards including Best Picture, 'Chariots Of Fire' is the inspiring, true story of Harold Abrahams, Eric Liddell and the team that brought Britain one of its greatest sports victories. Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel...
Gerry Anderson's classic sci-fi series. The operatives of the secret Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation (S.H.A.D.O.) defend the earth from extra-terrestrials who are abducting humans to obtain their organs which can be transplanted into their own bodies... Episodes include: A Question Of Priorities Ordeal The Responsibility Seat
A Fascinating Insight Into The Personal And Public Life Of A Great Australian Icon And International Star.The Boy From Oz tells the dazzling funny and heartbreaking story of the great entertainer Peter Allen from his humble beginnings growing up in the Australian Outback through a meteoric rise to fame as an international star who would go on to sell out week-long shows at Radio City Music Hall.Singing in pubs at age 11 Peter Allen survived family tragedy to become a local TV star at 16. Discovered by Judy Garland he married her daughter Liza Minnelli and went on to become a beloved performer and an Oscar winning songwriter.Narrated by Jack Thompson The Boy From Oz features rare footage of Peter's family including a family appearance on This Is Your Life.
Their names are John Stephen Carol and Kenny... they seem to be just ordinary kids perhaps a bit quieter than most but they are The Tomorrow People forerunners of a new race... the homo superior. Gifted with superhuman powers they are nature's response to man's aggression: a new species wiser and more peace loving than homo sapiens and until more of their race evolve these four have intergalactic responsibility for the future of Planet Earth. The Tomorrow People receive a
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call...The Twilight Zone! Episodes comprise: 1. Two 2. The Arrival 3. The Shelter 4. The Passerby 5. A Game of Pool 6. The Mirror 7. The Grave 8. It's a Good Life 9. Death's Head Revisited 10. The Midnight Sun 11. Still Valley 12. The Jungle 13. Once Upon a Time 14. Five Characters in Search of an Exit 15. A Quality of Mercy 16. Nothing in the Dark 17. One More Pallbearer 18. Dead Man's Shoes 19. The Hunt 20. Showdown with Rance McGrew 21. Kick the Can 22. A Piano in the House 23. The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank 24. To Serve Man 25. The Fugitive 26. Little Girl Lost 27. Person or Persons Unknown 28. The Little People 29. Four O'Clock 30. Hocus-Pocus and Frisby 31. The Trade-ins 32. The Gift 33. The Dummy 34. Young Man's Fancy 35. I Sing the Body Electric 36. Cavender Is Coming 37. The Changing of the Guard.
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