A group of friends, once again, jump into the hot tub time machine, but this time it is to travel into the future.
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For better or worse, David Mamet's hit play Sexual Perversity in Chicago is watered down into this romantic comedy about a couple (played by Rob Lowe and Demi Moore) who get together and then fall apart due to Lowe's character's inability to commit. Jim Belushi is on hand as the gratuitously swinish best friend who looks at women as meat, and Elizabeth Perkins is entertainingly arch as Moore's gal pal and Belushi's nemesis. There is nothing about this 1986 film by Edward Zwick (co-creator of TV's thirtysomething and director of Glory and Courage Under Fire) that is at all reminiscent of Mamet, but that doesn't make it bad or dull. While one can feel the script straining to fill in gaps where chunks of the original play have disappeared, Zwick often successfully tells the story without words at all, relying on the actors to convey pure emotion. Lowe is good, and the then-willowy Moore's understated performance reminds one of the actress she might have been before she became a spectacle. --Tom Keogh
Southern Comfort is more than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana Bayou. Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend warrior National Guardsman on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth brings a hard pragmatism to the "new guy" in the unit, a Texas transplant less than thrilled with his new unit. "They're just Louisiana versions of the same rednecks I served with in El Paso", he tells level-headed Keith Carradine. The barely functional unit of city boys and macho rednecks invade the environs of the local Cajun trappers and poachers, "borrowing" the locals' boats and sending bursts of blank rounds over their heads in a show of contempt. Before they know it the dysfunctional strangers in a strange land are on the losing end of guerrilla war. The swamp rats kill their commanding officer (Peter Coyote) and terrorise the bickering bunch as they flee blindly through the jungle without a map, a compass, or a leader to speak of. Hill directs with a clean simplicity, creating tension as much from the primal landscape and the Cajuns' unsettling reign of terror as from the dynamics of a platoon of battle virgins tearing itself apart from rage and fear. Ry Cooder's eerie and haunting score and the primal, claustrophobic landscape only intensifies the paranoia as the city boys splinter with infighting (sparked by a bullying Fred Ward), blunder through booby traps and ambushes, and finally turn just as savage as their pursuers in their drive to survive. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
Thundercats the classic 80s cartoon finally arrives on DVD! In a distant galaxy the world of Thundera is in crisis. The planet's structure has become unstable and is near collapse. With their destruction imminent Thundera's denizens known as the Thundercats escape in a spaceship and plot a course for a new home. While in transit the Thundercats are attacked by evil mutants and their craft is irreparably damaged. Jaga the eldest Thundercat sacrifices himself in order to pilot the ship safely to its destination: Third Earth. Episodes Comprise: 1. Exodus 2. The Unholy Alliance 3. Berbils 4. The Slaves of Castle Plun-Darr 5. Pumm-Ra 6. The Terror of Hammerhand 7. Trouble with Time 8. The Tower of Traps 9. The Garden of Delights 10. Mandora: the Evil Chaser 11. The Ghost Warrior 12. The Doomgaze 13. Lord of the Snows 14. The Spaceship Beneath the Sands 15. The Time Capsule 16. The Fireballs of Plun-Darr 17. All That Glitters 18. Spitting Image 19. Mongor 20. Return to Thundera 21. Dr. Dometone 22. The Astral Prison 23. The Crystal Queen 24. Safari Joe 25. Snarf Takes Up the Challenge 26. Sixth Sense 27. The Thunder-Cutter 28. The Wolfrat 29. Feliner (1) 30. Feliner (2) 31. Mandora and the Pirates 32. Return of the Driller 33. Dimension Doom
Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
Don Henley helped define the 70's as a member of the enormously successful rock band the Eagles before launching an impressive solo career that includes such hits as 'Dirty Laundry' 'The Boys Of Summer' and 'All She Wants To Do Is Dance'. On May 25 2000 he returned to his Texas roots for a remarkable concert recorded before an enthusiastic audience at Fair Park Music Hall in Dallas. This rock legends live performance captures all the passion satire and originality that fans around the world most treasure in his influential music. Track listing:- Dirty Laundry; Sunset Grill; Workin' It; Taking You Home; The Boys Of Summer; Lilah; Everything Is Different Now; The End Of The Innocence; All She Wants To Do Is Dance; New York Minute; Talking To The Moon; They're Not Here They're Not Coming; The Heart Of The Matter; Desperado; The Long Run; My Thanksgiving; Hotel California
As rites-of-passage films featuring a young man's sexual initiation in the arms of a beautiful woman go, Class (1983) has plenty going for it, not least its attractive cast: Andrew McCarthy as Jonathan, Rob Lowe as Gatsby-ish best friend Skip and Jacqueline Bisset as the beautiful woman who is old enough to know better and just happens to be Skip's mother. Lewis John Carlino's film has moments of insight, taking a few well-aimed shots at the vaguely sinister network of American public school life. In the first reel it neatly subverts the bullying scenario that threatens when the geekish Jonathan arrives at the school, while offering the briefly intriguing sight of Lowe in scarlet bra and pants. And there's a subplot of deceit and complicity that both strengthens and threatens the friendship that rapidly forms between Skip and Jonathan. In many ways, though, the most interesting element of the picture--Skip's relationship with his dysfunctional family--is left unexplored. Jonathan's deflowering and subsequent interludes are merely titillating. And Bisset's Ellen, a desperately sad character, becomes superfluous once the revelation that she is the "teacher" sets the boys' friendship on the path to fraternal solidarity. On the DVD: Class is presented in widescreen anamorphic format and looks as good as its leading players, although the Dolby Digital mono soundtrack has odd moments of flatness that detract from the cinematic experience. Extras are limited to the cinema trailer that now looks like a red rag to the puritanical objectors who were appalled by the graphic scenes in which Jonathan loses his virginity to the predatory Ellen. --Piers Ford
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia centres around the lives of four egocentric friends, whose warped views and precarious judgment often lead to trouble.Whether it’s underage drinking, homophobia or smokers’ rights, no subject is off limits for the hilariously warped gang at Paddy’s Pub. The staff of this neighbourhood bar takes dysfunction and political incorrectness to wickedly hilarious extremes in this refreshingly raw and edgy comedy. Knock one back with Mac, Charlie, Dennis and his sister Dee, as their twisted and self-obsessed worldviews lead to awkward and outrageous misadventures, from sleeping with each other’s moms to smuggling heroin into prison – the hard way! Welcome to Paddy’s, where you'll meet the most vain, dishonest, self-obsessed gang of friends since Seinfeld…Bottoms Up!
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In this all new feature length special never seen on TV Bob the Builder and his team of machines travel to the Winter Games in snowy Bobblesberg. Their job is to build a log cabin for the Bobsville Mayoress but a huge snow storm hits and leaves the event building machines stranded en route. There's lots to do and the clock is ticking: can they build it? Team Leader Scoop is joined by brand new characters Benny and Zoomer for their biggest ever challenge. This star studded adventu
Ballet in two acts from the Th''atre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels. Based on Nutcracker and Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann. For his witty and audacious Nutcracker award-winning choreographer Mark Morris uses Tchaikovsky''s original score but his story is closer to E.T.A. Hoffmann''s more grisly original Nutcracker and Mouse King than the cosier traditional versions of the ballet. It was filmed at the Th''''tre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels in 1992 and American cartoonist Charles Burns'' pop art set provides the backdrop. As in Hoffmann''s story there is a party at the Stahlbaum''s but this one is set in 60s America with vicious sibling rivalry a stifling marriage and clashing agendas of the campest bunch of guests in town. The Dance of the Snowflakes is a highlight and a Morris masterpiece with men and women in tutus spraying handfuls of snow and sweeping up on pointes. The national dances are funny and inventive with Morris as an Arabic woman in flowing robes. This is Morris at his most entertaining. The Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Th''''tre Royal de la Monnaie is conducted by the theatre''s Musical Director Sylvain Cambreling.
Set in Wyoming in 1881 during the sunset years of the Wild West, 1992's Unforgiven was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood, and is generally considered to be the towering achievement of his twilight years. Eastwood plays William Munny, once a vicious, whisky-swilling bounty hunter, brought to heel by his marriage to a good woman. When she dies, he must raise two children and run a hog farm alone, something which we see him make a comically poor fist of doing. Then, in a twist of fate, a young outlaw called the Schofield Kid trots up to his farm and invites him to collect on a $1,000 reward raised by a group of prostitutes. However, Clint must not only face up to his own somewhat rusty skills as a gunslinger, but also to genial-but-psychopathic lawman Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman in superb form). Unforgiven ultimately conforms to the expectations of the genre, while subverting quite a few of them on the way. There's brooding on the consequences of violence ("It's a hell of a thing to kill a man"), as Munny's ineptitude with a rifle is matched by his feelings of penitence for his younger wrongdoings. Finally, however, Eastwood casts aside age and inhibition in a chillingly ruthless shootout, his powers miraculously (improbably?) restored, in what could also be seen as an assertion on the part of the ageing Eastwood of his own potency as a major player in Hollywood. On the DVD: Unforgiven is presented in this Special Edition release in a 2.35:1 widescreen transfer that gives due emphasis to what critic David Thomson described as the "drained, wintry" feel of the movie. There are numerous bonus features in addition to the original trailer. Eastwood official biographer Richard Schickel offers a particularly copious and detailed audio commentary which touches on all aspects of the film. The 64-minute 1997 documentary Clint on Clint offers a detailed if inevitably worshipful account of Eastwood's career. Finally, there's a 47-minute 1959 episode of Maverick, the old James Garner TV series, guest-starring a 29-year-old Clint, several years away from his big Hollywood break. --David Stubbs
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Adapted from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock theatre hit, Hedwig and The Angry Inch tells the story of an "internationally ignored" rock singer, Hedwig, and her search for stardom and love.
Disc Listing: Bob the Builder - Bob's Big Plan Bob the Builder - Chip Off The Old Block Bob the Builder- Let's Scram Bob the Builder- Super Speedy Benny Bob the Builder- Bob's Three Jobs -Spud's Bumper Harvest Bob the Builder- Bob's Three Jobs -Lofty the Star Bob the Builder- Bob's Three Jobs -Bob's Top Team Bob the Builder - The Three Musketrucks & Other Stories Bob the Builder - Adventures in Bobland Bay Bob the Builder - Radio Bob
With enormous enthusiasm and unsinkable optimism, daredevil Gonzo steps into his first starring role in Muppets From Space, a hilarious extraterrestrial adventure about the search for Gonzo's past.
Sitcom featuring an English guy and a girl from Wales. After speaking on the phone at work every day, Gavin and Stacey meet and soon discover that despite their obvious differences, they share a lot in common.
Wayne's World celebrates 30 years with this limited edition (schwing! ) steelbook. The party-on movie of the '90s never gets old with its rockin' tunes, radical babes and your excellent hosts, Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey), making their big-screen debut in this hysterical send-up of pop culture. Directed by Penelope Spheeris (SUBURBIA) and featuring Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere and (we're not worthy! ) Alice Cooper. Bonus Features Commentary By Director Penelope Spheeris Wayne's World Extreme Close-up: Exclusive Cast & Crew Interviews
Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander star in this one-hour action thriller from Berlanti Productions (The Flash, Arrow) and writer/executive producer Martin Gero. Stapleton stars as hardened FBI agent Kurt Weller, who is drawn into a complex conspiracy when a mysterious woman, with no memories of her past, is found in Times Square her body completely covered in intricate cryptic tattoos. As Weller and his teammates at the FBI -- Edgar Reade, Tasha Zapata and the tech-savvy Patterson -- begin to investigate the veritable road map of Jane Doe's tattoos, they are drawn into a high-stakes underworld that twists and turns through a labyrinth of secrets and revelations -- with the information exposing a larger conspiracy of crime, while bringing her closer to discovering the truth about her identity.
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