Lizzie is a girl experiencing the ""highs and horrors"" of being 13 with a little brother a caring but meddling mother a tsunami of ever-changing moods and traumas and a middle school-full of mighty crises that await. No matter what's happening count on animated Lizzie to give the real unrestrained and often hysterical scoop on the emotions that Lizzie is really thinking. For her animated alter-ego it's the gut feelings that prevail and the raw emotions that must be displayed. Th
Dek (Rhys Ifans) is a gentle giant with two passions in his life: his souped up Ford Sierra 'Baby' and his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson). But while supporting her friend Carol (Kathy Burke) on a TV chat show Shirley is stunned when Dek walks on to propose live on air! As Dek is left to contemplate his future with Shirley in Nottingham Shirley's rogue ex-boyfriend has been watching in Glasgow and decides it's time to reclaim his woman. Heading south (swiftly followed by the gang he's just conned) Jimmy (Robert Carlyle) gets ready for an emotional and physical showdown with Dek and Shirley... little knowing that his daughter Marlene is also up for a fight!
The Grudge (Dir. Takashi Shimizu 2004): American nurse Karen Davis (Sarah Michelle Gellar) living and working in Tokyo is drawn to an odd house and exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim... Produced by Sam Raimi The Grudge sees Sarah Michelle Gellar changing tack from her 'Buffy' guise in this superior chiller directed by Takashi Shimizu adapted from his
When three fugitives fresh off a casino heist stop for gas at the Six Corners Cafe in Death Valley they encounter an unexpectedly hostile breakfast crowd. Gunshots erupt. An explosion destroys the gas station. As the fire burns down people are missing. Only six seem to have survived - a sheriff and his son two of the criminals a female doctor and a young waitress. It's a volatile and eclectic combination of survivors - the Godd the Bad and the Cute. The fire department never arrives. The highway is deserted. No one comes to help. No one living that is. The survivors discover they are trapped in an in between world in a supernatural plane between night and day light and dark the living and the dead. And they are not alone. Horribly mutilated dead people mysteriously appear and warn of an inescapable killer - an evil trailing a sickening force of decay and rot. In order to see another day the survivors must unite set their differences aside and combine their skills and resources to fight off the source of these deaths - the soul collecting terrifying killing machine known as the Reeker.
Iron ManBillionaire industrialist and genius inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead using his intelligence and ingenuity he builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. Iron Man 2With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) faces pressure from the government the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention Stark along with Pepper Potts and James Rhodey Rhodes at his side must forge new alliances - and confront powerful enemies.
Britten's last opera, Death in Venice will always be associated with the two voices for which the major parts in it were written. It is the achievement of Robert Tear and Alan Opie, in this magisterial performance by Graeme Jenkins with the Glyndebourne touring company, to produce telling performances that are entirely separate from our memories. Tear's Aschenbach is more bull-like than Peter Pears' moralist dreamer; his drift into sentimental eroticisation of the boy Tadzio upsets him as much for the weakness it reveals as for the collapse of his virtue. Alan Opie is as much of a virtuoso as John Shirley-Quirk in the multiple roles that culminate in the corrupting voice of Dionysus--the hotelier who persuades Aschenbach to stay, the barber who gives him a toupee and paints his face, the street entertainer, the rake who flirts with sailors; the otherworldly counter-tenor of Michael Chance is spookily right as Apollo. The scenes for dancers manage to be at once dreams of the erotic and plausible adolescent sea-side wrestling; the direction by Stephen Lawless and Martha Clarke manages to capture the mistiness of the piece from which fate and strangeness suddenly emerge. On the DVD: The DVD has subtitles in German, French and Spanish, as well as an acoustic which brings out the subtleties of Britten's string, brass and percussion in this difficult work. --Roz Kaveney
Join Lassie the ever-faithful companion and her friends in their exciting adventures. The courageous canine will always be there in times of trouble and strife helping those in need. Lassie truly is everyone's best friend!
On the eve of the biggest LGBT blowout of the year five gay and lesbian couples find themselves having to make reservations at the secluded Sahara Salvation Inn. A leather daddy a closeted drag queen a fag-hag lipstick lesbians pink pound yuppies a sugar daddy and his twink and a country singer and her baby-dyke girlfriend all check in to the creepy hotel oblivious to the peril that lurks. What should have been the party of the century quickly turns into every gay and lesbians worst nightmare when they discover that the hotel's proprietor is a god-fearing gay-basher with a penchant for mincemeat muffins! If that wasn't bad enough a snarling homosexual-eating Republican mutant starts to pick them off one by one. Feather boas and strap-ons fly when the gays and the freaks go to battle but who will make it out alive? A hilarious grindhouse splat-fest in the spirit of Benny Hill and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror will have you clutching your pearls for dear life. Just keep repeating 'It's only a movie it's only a movie it's only a movie!
Harry Belafonte Robert Ryan Shelley Winters and Ed Begley unite together in this crime drama which is a gritty tense look at racial tension. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars ready for the taking. It's too much to resist for bigoted ex-con Earl Slater. He agrees to take part in a bank robbery with former cop Burke but hesitates when he finds out that one of his partners is black. As tensions mount and the men get closer to their biggest score ever Earl's hatred erupts resulting in violent consequences for the heist and their lives.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 delivers strongly for the rabid fan base who have catapulted the young adult novel series and subsequent movie adaptations to the worldwide phenomenon that it's become, but it alienates a broader audience with a lack of any real action. Similar to the tone of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, the first film of the two-part Twilight conclusion is heavy on romance, love, and turmoil but light on fight scenes and gruesome battles. The movie doesn't waste any time getting to the goods and opens with Bella and Edward's much-hyped wedding scene. It works--the vows are efficient and first-time franchise director Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) moves the party along quickly and amusingly with a well-edited toast scene and some surprisingly moving moments between Bella and her father, cast standout Billy Burke. The honeymoon plays as a slightly awkward soft-focus made-for-TV movie, with a lot of long moments spent staring in the mirror and some love scenes that feel at once overly intimate and completely passionless. It's a relief when Bella retches on a bite of chicken she's cooked herself and quickly concludes she's pregnant with a potentially demonic baby. From bliss to horror, the Cullens return to Forks, where Bella spends the second half of the movie wasting away and Edward and Jacob are aligned in their anger and frustration over her decision. Throw in some over-the-top scenes with Jacob and his pack--including a strange showdown where the wolves communicate in their canine form by having a passionate nonverbal fight in their minds (a plot point that works much better in print, it's portrayed in the film via aggressive voice-over)--and the film overshoots intensity and goes straight to silly. The birth scene is horrific, but not as gruesome as in the book, and by the end, Bella has of course survived, though is much altered. The final scene features a delightfully campy Michael Sheen as Volturi leader Aro and makes it clear that the action and fun in Breaking Dawn, Part 1 is ready to start. Fans will just have to wait until Part 2 to get it. --Kira Canny
Autopsy
Richard Burton stars as successful novelist John Morlar who believes he has 'a gift for disaster' - the power to cause death and destruction through unconscious telekinesis. When Morlar is viciously assaulted and left for dead on the night of the Moon Mission disaster and a jet crash police investigating the attack quickly turn to Morlar's mysterious therapist Zonfeld (Lee Remick) in the belief that there is a link between the assault and Morlar's disturbing complex...
Based freely on the classic novels by CS Forester, Hornblower is a series of TV films following the progress of a young officer through the ranks of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series' greatest asset is the handsome and charismatic Ioan Gruffudd in the lead role, surely a major star in the making. No more faithful to Forester's books than the 1951 Gregory Peck classic Captain Horatio Hornblower, the real inspiration seems to have come from the success of Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, which likewise featured a British hero in the Napoleonic Wars. Nevertheless, while rather more easygoing than the real British navy of the time, the Hornblower saga delivers an entertaining adventure, greatly enhanced by the presence of such guest stars as Denis Lawson, Cheri Lunghi, Ronald Pickup and Anthony Sher. Beginning in 1794 with the 17-year-old midshipman joining the fleet at Portsmouth, "The Even Chance" offers a rather rushed introduction. --Gary S Dalkin
The Master Blackmailer is a two-hour 1991 Granada TV adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, which for the most part sticks close to the details of the original. Holmes (Jeremy Brett) takes on the reputed king of all blackmailers, Milverton (Robert Hardy), who has made a fortune extorting money from the famous and the blue-blooded and who routinely ruins others' lives when not pleased. Unable to talk Milverton into turning over letters belonging to Lady Eva Brackenwell, Holmes decides to steal them, going undercover as a plumber and even romancing Milverton's housemaid, Agatha (Sophie Thompson), to gain better access in the house. (The ethical Watson, played by Edward Hardwicke, is upset to hear of Holmes's deception of an innocent woman.) The story builds to a surprisingly violent finale, but the real hook is Brett's performance as the disguised detective and the startling suggestion that Holmes's close contact with Agatha truly moved the bachelor sleuth. --Tom Keogh
Political double-talk dirty tricks hidden microphones spy satellites bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Globe-trotting ace TV news reporter Partick Hale (Connery) is on the trail of a terrorist offering the sale of a nuclear bomb to a Mid-East oil country. Hale juggles Arab sheiks and international intelligence agents to get at the story. Meanwhile
An explosive tale of friendship and combat. Robert Wagner Broderick Crawford and Buddy Ebsen star in this absorbing drama about a recruit who comes of age during World War II. Sam Gifford (Wagner) is a young successful cotton planter who lacks compassion for others especially his own sharecroppers. But once in combat he answers to a sadistic commander (Crawford) and must rely on the friendship of a 'cropper'(Ebsen). Nominated for a 1956 Oscar for Best Music Between
Meet Lizzie McGuire. She is so thirteen years old with all the worries every thirteen-year-old has. How can I be more popular in school? Can I be seen wearing this or will it be a total social disaster? How do I stop my mother humiliating and embarrassing me? Am I turning into a geek? Join Lizzie (Hilary Duff) and her cartoon alter ego for an hilarious look at life on the edge - of teen years... Episodes include: Come Fly WIth Me Random Acts Of Miranda Lizzie's Niughtmare Night
Who wants a superhero with an ASBO? A gang of five teenage outsiders - party-girl Alisha hard-as-nails Kelly one-time sporting hero Curtis painfully shy nerd Simon and smart-aleck Nathan - get caught in a flash storm while on Community Service and suddenly find themselves saddled with strange superpowers. Unlike their more conventional counterparts they don't swap their mobile phones and ankle tags for capes and tights. Instead they discover just how tough life can be when you're all that stands between good and evil. Well that and your curfew order...
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