DVD. region 2. 1hrs 35mins. UK PAL. 5.1 ENGLISH + ENGLISH FOR HARD OF HEARING.
An IT company hires an actor (Jens Albinus) to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson).
YPF is a scathingly honest and hilarious portrayal of four couples one threesome and a crazy night of sex. The Couple Abby and Andrew try to spice up their stale love life only to discover that things are worse than they thought. Matt and Kris are The Friends lifelong buddies one lovesick and the other sick of love. Their plan to sleep together goes off the rails when romance rears its ugly head. The Exes Mia and Eric hook up again for old time's sake while trying to hide the feelings they still have for each other. In The First Date world-class playboy Ken comes clean about his history to his naive young date Jamie learning some of her secrets in the process. The Roomates Dave and Gord are normally at each other's throats but set aside their differences for a threesome with Gord's girlfriend Inez. In each case the couples (and trio) discover that sex isn't always simple.
The greatest stories of the Old Testament are brought to the screen with astounding scope and power in this international film which depicts the first 22 chapters of Genesis. This is the spectacular story of man's creation his fall his survival and his indomitable faith in the future. Matching the epic scale of the production are performances by George C. Scott as Abraham Ava Gardner as Sarah and Peter O'Toole as the haunting presence of the Angel of God. The legendary John Huston directs and delivers a commanding performance as Noah. From the film's opening amidst cosmic chaos to its lingering message of hope and salvation The Bible stands as a monumental motion picture achievement.
BFI Video continues its successful strand of Archive Television releases with Ken Russell' s classic documentary Elgar first shown in 1962 as the 100th programme in the BBC's Monitor series. This partly dramatised account of the life of composer Sir Edward Elgar also includes footage of Elgar at the Three Choirs Festival and a recording of the opening of Abbey Road Studios when 'Land Of Hope And Glory' was played.
TYRANNOSAUR is a powerful and affecting drama from feature writer / director Paddy Considine. It follows the story of two lonely, damaged people brought together by circumstance.
Award winning black comedy with Edie Falco (The Sopranos), Eve Best (The King's Speech), Peter Facinelli (Twilight) and Paul Schulze (The Sopranos).Jackie Peyton is an ER Nurse with a difference. She's an angel of the wards with flaws; bending the rules to ensure justice is done for the patients that go through her care. But she's also juggling a serious drug addiction and a complicated family life. Season 3 sees her carefully separated worlds come crashing together.
Peter Mullan stars as Brighton crime boss turned entrepreneur Richie Beckett in Richard Cottan's powerful drama that chronicles the disintegration of a criminal mind. Starring Peter Mullan, Harry Lloyd, Paul Nicholls and Anastasia Hille.
In My Favorite Brunette we witness Bob Hope's own unique brand of film comedy as he teams up with the great screen beauty Dorothy Lamour (who later co-starred with him in many of the classic Road To... movies along with Bing Crosby). Co-starring Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney Jr. Hope romps through this yarn playing a bumbling photographer turned private eye and finds himself involved with a spy caper the mob and a dangerous brunette.
Although it was only made in 1987, Predator is already the kind of film that has action fans sighing, "They don't make 'em like that any more". Few later films can equal its testosterone-fuelled scenario, its graphic violence or its genuinely unnerving sense of danger. An alien big-game hunter comes to Earth to hunt the meanest, most dangerous creatures on the planet. Naturally, Arnold Schwarzenegger and his astonishingly muscle-bound team of marines are prime targets. The premise has a compelling Zen-like simplicity and the correspondingly minimalist script consists, for the most part, of the statuesque soldiers snarling one-liners at each other ("I ain't got time to bleed", "If it bleeds we can kill it") in between firing unfeasibly large weapons. Director John McTiernan emphasises the claustrophobic confines of the jungle setting, allowing tension to build for the film's first two thirds by keeping the titular hunter concealed from both its prey and the audience. Composer Alan Silvestri's nerve-jangling percussive score racks up the tension yet further. When the creature does show its handiwork the results are horrifically gory, and, thanks to the film's insistently realistic tone, all the more terrifying. By the final act, a memorably mud-caked Arnie must discard all his high-tech weaponry and fight hand-to-hand against creature effects wizard Stan Winston's classic monster; McTiernan's action choreography ensures that the outcome of this hard-fought duel is never a foregone conclusion. On the DVD: Predator at last gets the DVD release it deserves. Its previous incarnations used the bowdlerised TV edit; but this two-disc set restores the full theatrical cut, with skinned corpses aplenty and Carl Weathers' lopped-off arm among other messy delights. Not only that, but the sound options are now ultra-vivid Dolby 5.1 or DTS 5.1, though the anamorphic picture is still grainy in some of the darker scenes. John McTiernan provides a decent director's commentary, but much more fascinating information can be had from a text commentary option. On the generously filled second disc there are seven short behind-the-scenes featurettes (including one dedicated to "Old Painless" the Gatling gun) plus a retrospective documentary, "If It Bleeds We Can Kill It", which includes both old and new interviews with many of the cast and crew. There are also outtakes and a deleted scene, special effects segments, camouflage tests and a text profile of the creature and its weaponry, plus a photo gallery. --Mark Walker
The headmaster of St Michael's school Dr Benjamin Twist (Will Hay) finds himself in hot water after a government inspection. He is asked to resign unless he can prove that his educational methods work and so when he comes into possession of the French paper he does not need much coaxing before showing it to his students. The boys pass with honours but a congratulatory trip to Paris goes awry when they and Twist inadvertently help to steal the Mona Lisa.
One of Will Hays brisker comic efforts, 1936s Convict 99 sees Dr Benjamin Twist, Hays clueless schoolmaster, caught in a case of mistaken identity and invited to head up a prison for especially hard-boiled criminals. Unable to believe his luck, Dr Twist celebrates his success with a few drinks, is still drunk when he arrives to take up his post and, confused with a new batch of inmates, ends up behind bars himself. There he makes the acquaintance of Moore Marriott as "Jerry the Mole", who has been digging an escape tunnel for nigh on 40 years and is only a fortnight away from his release date. When eventually reinstated as governor, Hay runs a loose ship, with inmates waited on by wardens, allowed to bet and even play the stock market. However, when a criminal on the outside attempts to defraud Twist, their indignation is naturally aroused. Convict 99 is a typical outtake from Hays bizarrely lawless universe, in which for all his harrumphing and bluster, hes unable to exercise any sort of discipline whatsoever over the men in his charge. Hay plays exactly the same character from film to film, one so ill-equipped for any situation hes equally suited for all. Whereas Twist is an incompetent who somehow muddles through, Hay the comic actor is a master of timing and double-takes who knows precisely how to create the air of a shambles. On the DVD: the original 1930s film stock has been well restored, give or take the odd crackle. But there are no extras, except scene index. --David Stubbs
Is she woman ... or animal? Vixen (Erica Gavin) and her bush pilot husband Tom (Garth Pillsbury) live in the remote Canadian Northwest. A young robust woman Vixen eagerly finds ways to temper her fiery libido while Tom is off picking up passengers in his plane. Also a racist she takes pleasure in ridiculing conscientious objector Niles (Harrison Page) a black American friend of her brother's. When Tom brings Dave (Robert Aiken) and Janet (Vincene Wallace) an attractive young
Isolated cut off inside an abandoned police station a handful of cops and some convicts on their way to Death Row must join forces and defend themselves against the gang called Street Thunder who have taken a blood oath to destroy. From the director of Halloween and The Thing Assault On Precinct 13 combines elements of the classic western and modern thriller to create a cult favorite.
The five most popular Hammer films now in this DVD box set! Titles included on this release are: The Quatermass Experiment Quatermass II The Abominable Snowman X the Unknown and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter.
The Millionairess (1960): Based on a play by George Bernard Shaw which studies an immensely wealthy woman who falls for the charms of a poor Indian doctor. Sophia Loren plays a spoilt heiress able to buy anything she wants. When she meets an Indian doctor (Peter Sellers) whose sole concern is to help the poor and needy she knows that this is the man for her. Although in love with her he is so terrified of being in her power that he foils all her attempts to 'buy' him. Only
Most Famous Hits Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky The Magic Of The High Tatras Music On DVD 1. Concerto For Piano And Orchestrta No 1 In B Flat Minor Op 23 Nutcracker Suite op. 71 2. Flower Waltz 3. Dance Of the Reed Flutes Swan-Lake Suite op. 20a 4. Lake In the moonlight 5. Hungarian Dance 6. Concerto For Violin And Orchestrta In D Major Op 35 Canzonetta : Andante 7. Overrture Solnelle 1812 Op 49 8. The Magic Of The High Tatras Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Soloist: Peter Toperezer, Piano Conductor: Bystrik Rezucha Composer: Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (Peter Tschaikowski) Format: DVD Studio/Label: Planet Song Firma/Company: Medusa Entertainment © A Carinco AGDVD-Erscheinungstermin/Released: 2003 Laufzeit/Running Time: ca. 60:52 Min. Bild/Picture Format: 4:3 / PAL - Colour Ton/Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Sprache/Language: English Ländercode/Regional Code: 0 - All Regions Bestell-Nr./Catalog#: 8543 EAN/UPC: 5055137185439
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