On Saturday 14th February 1900 a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College took a trip to Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. During the idyllic sun-drenched afternoon some of the party left the rest of the group and having climbed higher stopped to rest and fell asleep. They awoke as though still in a dream and silently ventured further through a passage in the imposing rock face. Some of the girls were never seen again. The film that established Peter Weir as a major filmmaker is a critically acclaimed classic of Australian cinema. With BAFTA-winning photography and a memorably haunting score Picnic at Hanging Rock remains one of the most chillingly atmospheric and beautifully enigmatic films ever made.
John Thaw stars in this critically acclaimed BBC drama based on the wartime career of Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris the Commander in chief of Bomber Command from 1942-1945.
The entire fifth season of the popular BBC sci-fi comedy set on board the mining spaceship Red Dwarf. In 'Holoship', Rimmer (Chris Barrie) falls in love with Commander Nirvanah Crane (Jane Horrocks), captain of a computer-generated spaceship. In 'The Inquisitor', Lister (Craig Charles)'s body is taken over by a self-repairing stimulant, known as The Inquisitor, who flies back and forth through time judging the quality of people's lives - and obliterating them if they do not meet his exacting requirements. In 'Terrorform', the crew cross the Swamp of Despair to look for Rimmer who has been captured on a 'psy-moon': a moon that shapes itself to a person's psyche. In 'Quarantine', the crew contract a Luck Virus and a Sexual Magnetism Virus from a hologram in an abandoned research centre. 'Demons and Angels' sees Lister and Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) playing with their new invention, a triplicator - but unfortunately the machine is having more than a few teething problems. Finally, in 'Back to Reality', the gang 'wake up' to find they have been playing a computer game called Red Dwarf for the last four years, and they are actually a bunch of sad geeks... apart from Lister, who is really a rich and successful yuppie called Sebastian.
All six episodes from the fourth series of the sci-fi comedy. In 'Camille' Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) finds love, while the crew battle a DNA beast in 'DNA'. In 'Justice' Rimmer (Chris Barrie) is in deep trouble when the crew stumble across Justice World, where everyone is judged for their crimes. 'Dimension Jump' features an alternative universe where Rimmer is a hero, while in 'White Hole' Holly (Hattie Hayridge) powers down the ship leaving it drifting towards certain doom. In 'Meltdown' the crew visit Waxworld where old wax droids in the theme world have embarked on a fruitless war between different factions.
A double bill compiling some of the Smeg Ups that took place throughout this classic comedy series! Smeg Ups: Kryten the 4 000 series sanitation mechanoid takes you on a journey into a dimension of fluffs bloopers hitches and smeg ups that lead to one inevitable response: 'Cut!' A dimension where the crew forget their lines and giggle uncontrollably where props fall apart and doors refuse to open where model space ships self-destruct when their strings break and chameleonic mutants can't get anything right... Includes outtakes from Series IV to VI Kryten answers fans' ten most-asked questions and the original ending for Series VI. Smeg Outs: The hilarious sequel to Smeg Ups. Join Kryten and Lister as they take you on a journey into a plane of reality no humanoid has previously been allowed to see a dimension of cosmic cock-ups and ballistic blunders where no-one can remember their lines and nothing goes right - ever. Also includes the outtakes from the first three series the original Tongue Tied song the most popular Red Dwarf scene ever and footage from the 1995 Red Dwarf convention.
From acclaimed Black British filmmaker Horace Ove (Pressure 1975) comes this comedy of manners in which a West Indian cricket team from Brixton travel to a Suffolk village to play against the local team as the culmination of the village's 'Third World Week'. Ove subtly explores and undermines white and black stereotypes and succeeds in linking two familiar but strange cultures through the simple device of a sports game.
All six episodes from the third series of the popular sci-fi sitcom. In 'Backwards' the crew returns to what they think is Earth, but find time is behaving oddly, and loads of things begin to un-happen. In 'Marooned' Lister (Craig Charles) and Rimmer (Chris Barrie) find themselves stranded on an arctic moon with no food (except a pot noodle and a can of dog food), no heating and little hope of survival. The boys decide to open their hearts to each other. In 'Polymorph' a chameleonic genetic mutant gets aboard the ship and terrorises the crew with non-stop slobbering horrors. In 'Bodyswap' Rimmer and Lister swap bodies to help Dave lose weight, but Rimmer won't swap back after the experiment. In 'Timeslides' the crew travel back in time thanks to some mutated developing fluid that allows people to walk into photographs. Finally, in 'The Last Day', Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) discovers that he only has 24 hours of operating time left, so the boys decide to give him a great, last day.
Supposedly based on an actual event which remains unsolved to this day 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' is suffused with menace mysticism and languorous adolescent sensuality. In the year 1900 a group of schoolgirls set out on a St. Valentine's Day picnic from which two never returned. With this hauntingly beautiful film director Peter Weir marked the dawn of a new age in Australian cinema.
A comedy-adventure film best described as Indiana Jones meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With nods to the Matrix, Lord of the Rings and The Goonies it's a treat for fans of science-fiction and fantasy. Starring new YouTube superstar Stuart Ashen, alongside established stars such as Warwick Davis (Harry Potter, Return of the Jedi) and Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf), the film follows Ashens' insane search for a piece of electronic tat. the fabled Game Child console. He is accompanied by f.
The Emmy-winning comedy returns for an 11th outing, with the original cast and a host of guest stars on board. The series sees two of the Dwarfers' dreams come true: Rimmer accidentally saves a Space Corp Captain and is promoted to Officer, while Cat takes time off from loving himself to fall in love with a female cat with a very big secret. Lister wakes up to discover a deranged droid has stolen his body parts and Kryten has a mid-life crisis and changes his body cover from grey to Ferrari red. With big laughs and dazzling effects, Red Dwarf XI continues on from the award-winning Red Dwarf X and recaptures the show's golden age.
How Do They Do It? is the ultimate guide to everything. No wonder it's one of the most popular science shows on the planet. Ever wondered how they turn sea-water into air on a nuclear submarine? Or how they make the sharpest knives ever created - from sand? Or how they build the huge golden satellites that make your sat-nav work? How Do They Do It? has all the answers. From swaying skyscrapers to speeding skydivers from bullet trains to bullet-proof cars from digging diamonds beneath a volcano to creating the latest million astronaut suit. Robert Llewellyn's funny irreverent fascinating pop-science series takes you round the world to examine the tallest widest heaviest fastest most amazing bits of technology on the planet. From the eye-watering 12 million-horsepower engines sitting beneath the space shuttle to the jaw-droppingly massive rock crusher that gobbles 22 tonnes of rock every minute and the upsettingly humungous 650-metre long 30 000-tonne coal digger (three times as heavy as the Eiffel Tower). You don't know what BIG means 'til you've watched How Do They Do It? Crammed with amazing facts and awesome pictures How Do They Do It? tells the most intriguing incredible stories from the world of science and engineering.
A compilation of the best bits of the Channel 4 series, Scrapheap Challenge--The Commandments is an enjoyable enough exercise in eccentricity. Presented with admirable gusto by Robert Llewellyn and Cathy Rogers, each episode features two teams set an engineering challenge with only the contents of a large scrapheap for inspiration and materials. Watching the assorted teams of oddballs trying to create such diverse projects as drag racers and car crushers from little more than junk is certainly diverting, proving to be a little harder than it was on the A-Team. Edited down from the TV version, the rushed nature of it all is a little frustrating, with the teams seeming to jump from a pile of scrap to the finished article. This is not particularly one for the casual observer but certainly recommended for fans of the show. On the DVD: chapter selection makes it easy to head straight for your favourite challenge, be it the catapult or the mini-submarine. The picture quality is true to the video original, capturing the bright and colourful lighting of the television programme. There are no extras, however, leaving the package slightly lacking on this format. --Phil Udell
The first three series in this hilarious comedy show now remastered! Series 1: 'The End' sees a radiation leak wipe out the crew of Red Dwarf leaving only one survivor - Dave Lister. In 'Future Echoes' Red Dwarf breaks the speed of light leaving the crew experiencing visions of their own futures. 'Balance Of Power' sees Lister about to take his chef's exam and if he passes he will be able to have Rimmer replaced as the ship's hologram... In 'Confidence And Paranoia' Lister gets a mutated virus which makes his hallucinations come to life leaving the ship beset by herring rain amongst other things... 'Waiting For God' sees the ship's computer Holly find a pod floating about in deep space and Lister pleased to learn that he is a god. In 'ME2' Rimmer creates a duplicate of himself all seems perfect until they both find themselves in a conflict that only one can win... Series 2: Features the episodes 'Kryten' in which the crew of Red Dwarf finds an android called Kryten looking after three fellow crew members who have been dead for years... 'Better Than Life' in which Rimmer receives a note from his mother informing him that his father is dead 'Thanks For The Memory' in which the crew wake up with no memory of what has happened over the past four days In 'Statis Leak' the crew find a stasis leak which takes them back to the time of the original Red Dwarf... 'Queeg' sees Holly the ship's computer replaced by Queeg 500. In 'Parallel Universe' the crew are thrown into a parallel universe there they meet their female counterparts... Series 3: The complete third series of the television comedy science fiction programme. Features the episodes 'Backwards' 'Marooned' 'Polymorph' 'Bodyswap' 'Timeslides' and 'The Last Day'.
Labyrinth (Dir. Jim Henson 1986): Frustrated with baby-sitting on yet another weekend night Sarah - a teenager with a active imagination - summons the Goblins from her favourite book ""Labyrinth"" to take her baby step-brother away. When little Toby actually disappears Sarah must follow him into the world of the fairy tale to rescue him in hope that their loyalty isn't just another illusion in a place where nothing is as it seems! Labyrinth is a major fantasy feat
The hilarious sketch-based show which lampooned the new satellite television companies which had begun to operate in the UK! Each week a different aspect of 'cheap' television production and broadcasting provided the 'theme' for the sketches in the programme; no target was left untouched! Episodes Comprise: 1. KY Tellython 2. God Alone Knows 3. Good Morning Calais 4. Crisis Special 5. Speak For Yourself 6. Talking Head
Featuring the complete eighth series of Red Dwarf. Episodes comprise: 1. Back in the Red (Part 1) 2. Back in the Red (Part 2) 3. Back in the Red (Part 3) 4. Cassandra 5. Krytie TV 6. Pete 7. Pete II 8. Only The Good...
The complete fifth series of interstellar comedy from the Red Dwarf crew filled with classic moments such as Rimmer finally making it into the Space Corps not to mention Mr Flibble and the first appearance of Cat's alter-ego the dreaded Dwayne Dibley... Holoship: Rimmer is transmitted from Red Dwarf to the advanced Holoship Enlightenment which contains the cream of the Space Corps. Everything he has dreamed of exists on this ship; can he earn a commission to join this fantastic vessel? The Inquisitor: The Inquisitor roams through time weeding out life's wastrels and deleting the worthless: the crew of Red Dwarf crew are in serious trouble! Terrorform Rimmer: is taken prisoner inside his own mind and ends up being stripped oiled manacled licked chained taunted humiliated and nearly has a knobbly thing the size of a Mexican agarve cactus jammed up where only customs men dare to probe... Quarantine: After an encounter at a viral research centre Rimmer forces the crew to spend twelve weeks in quarantine. But who's watching the watcher? Demons And Angels: Who knows what evil lurks within the hearts of men? The Red Dwarf crew find out when they encounter their dark sides - four evil 'doppelgangers' hell bent on their destruction! Back to Reality: The crew discover an abandoned space ship on an ocean bed. However the salvage operation suddenly doesn't sound quite so sexy when they realise all of the occupants of the vessel committed suicide. Attack by a gigantic sea monster makes escape the favourite option...
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London Ghost Dance offers a stunning analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts memory and the past. It is an adventure film strongly influenced by the work of Jacques Rivette and Jean-Luc Godard but with a unique and artistic discourse of its own. The film focuses on philosopher Jacques Derrida who considers ghosts to be the memory of something which has never been present a theory explored in the film.
By the end of this fourth year, Red Dwarf had completed its metamorphosis from a modest studio-bound sitcom with a futuristic premise to a full-blown science-fiction series, complete with a relatively lavish (by BBC standards) special-effects budget, more impressive sets and more location shooting. Despite the heavier emphasis on SF, the character-based comedy remained as sharp as ever. Witness the Cat's reaction to Lister's pus-filled exploding head; Kryten's devastatingly sarcastic defence of Rimmer; or, the classic scene that opens the series, Lister teaching Kryten to lie. In "Camille", Robert Llewellyn's real-life wife plays a female mechanoid who transforms into something else entirely, as does the episode, which by the end becomes a delightful skit on Casablanca. "DNA" comes over all SF, with lots of techno-speak about a matter transmogrifier and a RoboCop homage--but in typical Dwarf fashion, turns out to be all about curry. "Justice" sees Rimmer on trial for the murder of the entire crew, while Lister attempts to evade a psychotic cyborg. Holly gets her IQ back in "White Hole", but wastes time debating bread products with the toaster. "Dimension Jump" introduces dashing doppelganger Ace Rimmer for the first time--he was to return in later series, with diminishingly funny results. Here his appearance is all the better for its apparent improbability. Finally, "Meltdown" goes on location (to a park in North London) where waxdroids of historical characters (played by a miscellaneous selection of cheesy lookalikes) are at war. Only intermittently successful, this episode is really memorable for Chris Barrie's tour-de-force performance, as Rimmer becomes a crazed, Patton-esque general. On the DVD: Red Dwarf, Series 4, like its predecessors, comes as a two-disc set complete with full cast commentary for every episode, an extensive retrospective documentary (mostly featuring the cast reminiscing), deleted scenes and lots of other fun bits of trivia. --Mark Walker
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