When Mary-Kate and Ashley visit France they pack their bags for fun... and plot a rendezvous with adventure. Sent to Paris to visit their grandfather the girls fall in love with the city and fall head-over-heels for two French boys. Sightseeing on mopeds they race around Paris on a mission to see the city make new friends and stay one step ahead of their uptight chaperone! From shopping at the stylish French boutiques to exploring the sights and delicious dinner dates at the E
Directed by acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson, That Summer centres on the film project artist Peter Beard initiated together with the incandescent Lee Radziwill about her relatives: the Beales of Grey Gardens. Lost for decades, this extraordinary footage re-emerges in Olsson s documentary, which focuses on Peter Beard and his family of friends, who formed a vibrant and profoundly influential creative community in Montauk (Long Island) in the 1970s. Featuring Peter Beard, Lee Radziwill, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Edie and Big Edie) and Andy Warhol.
Oh just one more thing... Peter Falk returns as Lt. Columbo for the complete second season which includes guest stars Robert Culp Valerie Harper Dean Stockwell Leonard Nimoy Martin Landau and Marc Singer and two episodes written by Stephen Boccho (Murder One). Expect plenty of cigar-chewing slouching and suspects being questioned about their shoes! Episodes comprise: 1. ''‰tude in Black 2. The Greenhouse Jungle 3. The Most Crucial Game 4. Dagger of the Mind 5. Requiem for a Falling Star 6. A Stitch in Crime 7. The Most Dangerous Match 8. Double Shock
Two teenage dancers - easily distracted Sam (Shiri Appleby) and driven Jules (Larisa Oleynik) - must examine their lives and take a closer look at their futures when Jules is diagnosed with cancer. Based on the popular book by Davida Wills Hurwin and directed by Hoop Dreams producer Peter Gilbert.
The True Glory is widely regarded as one of the greatest war documentaries ever made. Co-directed by the legendary Carol Reed this feature length film was produced by the Allied military during 1944 and 1945 as a permanent visual record of the campaign in Europe and covers all the major engagements. Compiled from the pick of over six and a half million feet of film it includes some of the most devastating and memorable images of war ever captured on camera - and it won a well-deserved Oscar for Best Documentary. In addition to The True Glory the DVD also includes four further full-length wartime documentaries covering the campaign in Europe - From Italy To D-Day From D-Day To Paris From Paris To The Rhine and From The Rhine To Victory - all of which were produced by British Paramount News for the Ministry of Information - and the never before seen alternative ending to The True Glory taking the story up to VJ Day.
Young mother Renee (Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Prometheus) has her life thrown into chaos when she is randomly abducted, drugged and taken to a secret lab facility. As her captors traumatically experiment on her, Renee must discover why she was chosen and fight to escape her prison.
A star-studded cast heads this Agatha Christie story about the efforts of Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) to fathom the mysterious death of a capricious star in a Mediterranean resort hotel...
Along with co-stars David Niven Robert Wagner and Capucine comedy genius Peter Sellers first introduced the world to the hilarious bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau in this 'delightful caper' (Leonard Maltin). When a suave jewel thief (Niven) sets out to rob a princess of both her heart and her priceless diamond The Pink Panther Clouseau falls all over himself - literally - to try to stop the crime.
A typically bored affluent Californian housewife's world of domestic oblivion careers off its axis when she develops a mystery illness that puts her at odds with every aspect of the world around her - cars dry cleaners hair perms and even the new couch! Gradually she develops nosebleeds vomiting and breathing problems and finally collapses. In a desperate search for what is 'safe' she opts for virtual isolation in a porcelain igloo in the Texas desert where the inhabitants drag round oxygen cylinders and the therapists act like evangelical preachers. Injected with horror comic touches and psychological suspense Safe is a visionary tale of the future. Has Carol brought her sickness upon herself or is she made vulnerable by a world that is more dangerous than we or she understands?
During a high-stakes east-west karate tournament coach Chuck suspects the match is rigged against him. When looking around the other team's locker room gets him shot he calls in Cal and J his partners from California. After exercising a little persuasion and a lot of brute force they discover who's behind it all. Now the only problem is getting back the money Chuck is owed.
Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) is searching for a wife. Because of a complicated situation he needs a mate so he can qualify as king of the land. The 3-foot-tall despot has already banished all the fairy tale characters from his land resulting in a diaspora of familiar bedtime figures. Shrek (Mike Myers) and the obnoxious Donkey (Eddie Murphy) factor in when Farquaad concludes that he needs dragon-slaying assistance. The woman he wants is the beautiful Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) who's imprisoned in a castle by said dragon. To cut a deal to keep his house the antisocial Shrek accepts the mission except he falls in love with the princess he's been ordered to find!
Geoffrey Rush plays the famous actor and founding member of The Goons in this brave and unusual biopic.
All the episodes from the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh series of the British drama which follows events at James Herriot (Christopher Timothy)'s rural veterinary practice in the Yorkshire Dales. Series 4 episodes are: 'One of Nature's Little Miracles', 'Barks and Bites', 'The Bull With the Bowler Hat', 'The Pig Man Cometh', 'Hail Caesar!', 'Only One Woof', 'Ace, King, Queen, Jack', '...The Healing Touch', 'City Slicker' and 'For Richer, for Poorer'. Season 5 episodes are: 'Against the Odds', 'Place of Honour', 'Choose a Bright Morning', 'The Playing Field', 'When Dreams Come True', 'A New Chapter', 'A Present from Dublin', 'The Salt of the Earth', 'Cheques and Balances', 'The Female of the Species', 'The Jackpot' and 'Two of a Kind'. Series 6 episodes are: 'Here and There', 'The Course of True Love', 'The Call of the Wild', 'The Nelson Touch', 'Blood and Water', 'Where Sheep May Safely Graze', 'The New World', 'Mending Fences', 'Big Fish, Little Fish', 'In Whom We Trust', 'The Rough and the Smooth' and 'The Best Time'. Season 7 episodes are: 'The Prodigal Returns', 'Knowin' How to Do It', 'If Music Be the Food of Love', 'A Friend for Life', 'Spring Fever', 'Out With the New', 'Food for Thought', 'A Cat in Hull's Chance', 'A Grand Memory for Forgetting', 'Old Dogs, New Tricks', 'Hampered', 'Promises to Keep' and 'Brotherly Love'.
In 1975's Carry On England, a mixed-sex anti-aircraft battery is set up during World War II by way of an experiment. The sex is indeed pretty mixed, although the drafting in of Patrick Mower and Judy Geeson rather demonstrates the need for at least some of the cast to be attractive in order to make this odd premise feasible. For the most part, of course, it's tits-out sex-comedy slapstick all the way, but there's a nicely ambivalent performance from Kenneth Connor, who portrays the wartime British officer class as being pretty much bonkers, a telling interpretation, which Stephen Fry was to perfect years later in Blackadder Goes Forth. The location is of course typically Carry On cheap-and-cheerful, but its inevitable drabness, together with the indistinguishable khaki uniforms, tends to put a bit of a dampener on the adult-panto atmosphere that the best Carry Ons deliver. The cast commendably manage to transcend this, though, so there's still plenty of fun to be had. --Roger Thomas
Starring Mandy Pantikin and Adam Arkin. Set in a charity hospital in the heart of Chicago, the second season of the multi-Emmy Award-winning drama, created by David E. Kelley (LA Law, Ally McBeal), continues to follow the intense and dramatic events of its staff as they cope with the pressures of both work and their personal lives.
British comedy at its best 'Please Sir' is fondly remembered by an entire generation of TV viewers. Starring John Alderton as the idealistic teacher Bernard Hedges who is put in charge of the worst class ever come back to school and relive the hilarity with 'Please Sir!'. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Welcome Mat 2. A Picture Of Innocence 3. Maureen Loves Sir 4. A Near Greek Tragedy 5. The Barbarian Librarians 6. Student Princess 7. It's The Thought That Counts
In 1953, before any American studio exec used the phrase "high concept", Henri-George Clouzot's The Wages of Fear boasted a premise so literally explosive that audiences were excited before they got into the theatres. With an oil-fire burning out of control deep in the South American jungle, two lorryloads of highly unstable nitro-glycerin have to be driven through miles of unstable terrain littered with dangerous turns, crumbling planks, falling rocks and mediocre hardtop. One good jolt will vaporise truck, nitro, drivers and a substantial swathe of the countryside, so the company recruits desperate souls among the loser tramps who loiter around the nowhere town of Las Piedras, begging for any kind of work. On the road, Clouzot stages a string of unforgettable sequences: one stretch of badly paved track can only be crossed by driving at under six miles an hour or over 40; a mountain turn requires that the trucks back out onto a rickety, rotten wooden structure; a 50-ton boulder has fallen into the road, and one of the drivers calmly drains a litre of nitro into his thermos to blow it up, only remembering when the fuse is lit that this will rain pebbles all over the countryside and a few good hits on the cargo will set it off. This is perhaps as great a mix of action-adventure and contest as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and still a textbook example of sustained suspense. On the DVD: The print is in great shape, though the image is a little soft; the menu has a clever explosive aspect and uses the same vintage artwork as the sleeve cannily combined with a snippet. There are trailers for both Wages and Clozuot's other masterpiece, Les Diaboliques, as well as biographies of the principal cast, eight stills and three posters.--Kim Newman
Caligula may very well be the most controversial film in history. Only one movie dares to show the perversion behind Imperial Rome and that movie is Caligula the epic story of Rome's mad emperor. All the details of his cruel bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would opposse him and more. The combined talents of cinematic giants Malcom McDowell Peter O'Toole John Gielgud and shakespearean actress Helen Mirren along with an acclaimed international cast and a bevy of beautiful Penthouse Pets make this unique historical drama a masterwork of the screen. Not for the squeamish not for the prudish Caligula will shock and arouse you as it reveals the deviance and decadence beneath the surface of the grandeur that once was Rome.
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