Director Michael Ritchie's (The Golden Child) debut film is a tense and taut look at the world of Olympic skiing. Robert Redford is the hero a handsome loner from Idaho Springs Colorado bent on making it to the top of the heap. As the pressure and tension build Redford handles himself well learning in the process how fleeting and lonely fame can be. Redford is well cast as the all American boy chasing his dream and Gene Hackman is excellent as the tough and demanding American sk
Gung Ho: Marine raiders in a new outfit train for invasion in this gripping World War II action film. The bloodthirsty misfits of the 'Gung Ho' squadron become fierce fighting machines.... West Of The Divide: A man searching for his brother pretends to be a killer to gather information more quickly... Neath the Arizona Skies: Nina the daughter of a rich Indian is due to inherit her father's oil field but needs his signature to claim the land. Several outlaws
DVD is supplied in a special Fathers Day packaging. An ideal gift for Fathers Day. One of the most popular screen westerns ever made, this Academy Award winning classic blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the true story of the West's most likeable outlaws. No one is quicker than Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) when it comes to get rich quick schemes, and his sidekick Sundance (Robert Redford) is a wizard with a gun. When these two bungling bank and train robbers tire of running from the law, they set out for Bolivia with Sundance's girlfriend (Katharine Ross). Though they can barely speak enough Spanish to communicate 'This is a stick-up', that's only a minor detail to the two nicest 'bad-guys' who ever rode the West.
Dr. Chopper
Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook - Ultra Limited Print Run. 170,000 SQ miles of desert. 90 minutes of Oxygen. No way out. Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is a fairly average, American truck driver, he works as a contractor in Iraq and leads a fairly average life, he doesn't know what's about to hit him! While working his usual deliveries he is taken hostage, knocked unconscious and awakens in a deep, dark coffin! He soon realises he is in real trouble. With little oxygen, a lighter and a mobile phone to help him, he tries whatever he can to escape his terrifying tomb. Paul contacts everyone he knows that could possibly help him, but to no avail; he could be buried anywhere in an enormous Iraqi desert. Paul realises that only one man can help him out of this impossible situation; himself! He'd better do it fast!
Directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring off-the-wall comedian Gene Wilder as New York cartoonist Duffy Bergman 'Funny About Love' is about Bergman's desire to father a child and the surreal and slightly obscure elements of being in love. Wilder's often deranged and paranoid portrayal of one man's desire to enter the realm of parenthood and responsibility reveals a humorous yet touching insight into the battlefield that love can be. Bergman's inability to socially interact with peop
Bigoted white officer Captain Beau Carter must lead an all black unit on what is almost certainly a suicide mission behind enemy lines. The unit's combat experience to date has been confined to digging graves and latrines - they've got two days to shape up into a mean fighting machine!
The 1960s come to life in this gripping film. Berkeley in the Sixties captures the decade's events- the birth of the Free Speech Movement civil rights marches anti-Vietnam War protests the counter culture the women's movement and the rise of the Black Panthers- in all their immediacy and passion. Dramatic archival footage interwoven with present day interviews and 18 songs from the Grateful Dead Jimi Hendrix Joan Baez The Band and Jefferson Airplane make Berkeley in the Sixties an exceptional documentary on the 1960's.
A crew of scientists arrives on a far cold planet to examine archaic artefacts of unknown origin. They discover that the German enemies have already a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing they only find the German's bodies obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.
Disgruntled video store owner Ray (Robert Patrick) is struggling to make ends meet in the desert of the Southwest U.S.A. To escape his problems he takes to the highway. On route to nowhere he picks up an attractive and mysterious hitchhiker Harley (Jennifer Esposito). The chemistry between them is immediate and Harley offers Ray the opportunity of a lifetime - to help her smuggle million of stolen money from a local bank. In the tradition of the classic American road movie and with a cast of bizarre characters dramatic locations and an unpredictable plot Backflash is a modern and edgy thriller with a stellar cast also including Colm Meaney and Melissa Joan Hart.
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war warlord rule criminality and anarchy No End In Sight is a jaw-dropping insider's tale of wholesale incompetence recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage Ambassador Barbara Bodine Lawrence Wilkerson former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell and General Jay Garner as well as Iraqi civilians American soldiers and prominent analysts. No End In Sight examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy - the use of insufficient troop levels allowing the looting of Baghdad the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government and the disbanding of the Iraqi military - largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? No End In Sight dissects the people issues and facts behind the Bush Administration's decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.
Puccini's 'Turandot' as directed by David Pountney. His production is based on the idea of fear of civilisation: the fear that the fatal combination of rapid technological progress gradually spinning out of control and inhuman political systems poses a fundamental threat to all human values.
Gone In 60 Seconds (2000): Academy Award winners Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie ride an unstoppable wave of speed and adrenaline in this hot edgy action hit from high-octane producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Legendary car booster Randall Memphis Raines (Cage) thought he'd left the fast lane behind - until he's forced out of retirement in a do-or-die effort to save his kid brother (Giovanni Ribisi) from the wrath of an evil mobster! But with speed to burn and attitude to spare Memphis hastily re-assembles his old crew - a rogues' gallery including Academy Award winner Robert Duvall - and floors it in a full-throttle race to pull off the ultimate car heist: 50 exotic beauties in 24 hours: and the cops are already on to them! The Rock (1996): Two Academy Award-winners Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage star in the action adventure blockbuster that critics hailed as a drop-dead thrill ride. Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away a chemical weapons expert and a cunning federal prisoner who happens to be the only man ever to escape from Alcatraz must now break in and disarm the missiles. From the hot film making team that brought you 'Crimson Tide' and 'Bad Boys' 'The Rock' delivers hard-hitting action and suspense you'll never forget!
A film by Phill Niblock featuring Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra. Composer photographer and filmmaker Phill Niblock's classic of experimental underground filmmaking with a sensational soundtrack by pianist Sun Ra and the members of his Solar Arkestra! Shot in the mid '60s when the Arkestra was based in New York this film was produced using a unique negative process andultra-tight close-ups on the moving hands and mouths of the musicians. The result is a virtually abstract music film mastered from a new print in all its incredibly sharp black & white glory.
When three men are put on trial for assault and rape a series of past shady dealings threaten to overwhelm the court case...
Love blooms and dies at the same time in the delicate dance between Oscar nominees Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson) and Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain). Gosling's Dean, a high-school dropout, works for a New York moving company. While relocating a frail widower into a retirement home, he spots Cindy, a nursing student who's visiting her grandmother, but the film actually begins six years later. Married with a daughter, they live in rural Pennsylvania. Heavy drinker Dean's looks are fading, while Cindy still turns heads. In his elegantly constructed second feature, writer-director Derek Cianfrance pirouettes between past and present, with each scene commenting on the next (set to the bittersweet tones of Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear). The Dean of the early years pursues Cindy, who resists at first, but a spontaneous date ends with her tap dancing (badly) and him singing (not so badly). She leaves her domineering boyfriend (Mike Vogel) for this attentive stranger, leading to scenes of intimacy that are far more suggestive than pornographic--even if the MPAA briefly rated the film NC-17. Later, when the family dog goes missing, the cracks in their marriage intensify, so Dean arranges for a night of romance, which plays out like a negative image of their first date. If the two actors, who are very good, are meant to carry equal weight, Gosling has the more difficult task. It's harder to like the clingy, insecure Dean, who loves more intensely and less wisely, but that makes Gosling's the braver performance. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Former hairdresser Jay Jay has become a drug addict, living his new life by doing the occasional deal for Vivian. As his drug habit grows, so does his need for money, leading him to undertake robberies. On the threat of arrest, he is forced to become a narc to two policemen.
In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. --Mark Walker
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