Many lesbian movies are long on charm and short on production values; Better Than Chocolate has a solid dose of both and steamy sex scenes to boot. Our heroine Maggie (Karyn Dwyer), a clerk at a lesbian bookshop, meets footloose butch Kim (Christina Cox) and, after Kim's van is towed away, they move in together. Unfortunately for their romantic bliss, Maggie's mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson), and teenage brother move in that very evening thanks to Lila's impending divorce. But what really complicates matters is that Maggie can't bring herself to come out to her mother. Even when she tries, Lila steamrollers through the conversation, as if she knows what's coming and doesn't want to hear it. Interwoven with this is the struggle of Judy (Peter Outerbridge), a male-to-female transsexual who's in love with the bookshop's owner, Frances (Ann-Marie MacDonald), who's freaking out because customs officers are holding a list of books at the border that they claim are obscene. The overlapping plots are deftly juggled, the personal and political are compellingly interwoven, and, most satisfying of all, the characters have problems that aren't going to be easily resolved. A handful of candy-coloured lip-synching musical numbers give the movie some flash and the sex scenes give it some heat, but it's the elements of sorrow and ambiguity that really make the joy in Better Than Chocolate something to savour. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
The Godfather Trilogy is the benchmark for all cinematic storytelling. Francis Ford Coppola's masterful adptation of Mario Puzo's novel chronicles the rise and fall of the Corleone family in this celebrated epic. Collectively nominated for a staggering 28 Academy Awards®, the films are the winner of 9, including 2 for the Best Picture for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II. To this day the saga is rightfully viewed as one of the greatest in the history of motion pictures. Now, for true cinmea lovers, comes The Godfather Trilogy with the Corleone Legacy Family Tree, Original Theatrical Art Cards, and Collectible Portraits with Frame to complete every fan's collection.
Rita Tushingham made her indelible screen debut as Jo a young girl who falls pregnant after leaving home and her floozie of a mother - a revelatory performance by Dora Bryan. Jo befriends Geoff (Murray Melvin) a gentle kind-hearted gay man and they move in together like two children playing house for a while finding an innocent but fragile happiness.
One day the necrophiliac tendencies of Dr Hichcock (Robert Flemyng, The Quiller Memorandum) go too far and his wife dies from an overdose. Bereft, the doctor leaves his house but returns years later with a new wife, Cynthia (Barbara Steele, Black Sunday). The house they return to is eerie and Cynthia hears strange things, meanwhile, she doesn't realise Dr Hichcock intends to use her body to re-animate his dead wife's corpse. Released at the height of the Italian horror boom that was produced in the wake of the influence of Hammer's era-defining horror productions, director Riccardo Freda (The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire) and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (The Whip and the Body) create a dark and wicked gothic horror that brings in sly allusions to the work of Alfred Hitchcock while the period detail of Victorian London provides a lush backdrop. Product Features New 2023 2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented in three versions across two Blu-rays: Disc 1: the 87-minute export version The Terror of Dr Hichcock with extras; Disc 2, exclusive to the limited edition: the re-ordered 76-minute North American version The Horror of Dr Hichcock; and the English dub of the complete 87-minute Italian cut Raptus: The Secret of Dr. Hichcock Audio commentary by critics Kat Ellinger and Annie Rose Malamet New interview with screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (2023) Visual essay on Bluebeard in gothic film by Miranda Corcoran (2023) An interview with Madeleine Le Despencer on necrophilia and taboo gothic (2023) Trailers Gallery Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by critics and experts including Chris Fujiwara on the film; an archival piece by Alan Y. Upchurch, Tim Lucas and Luigi Boscaino on the making of the film featuring interviews with Freda, Steele, Flemyng and others; a comparison of the different versions by Tim Lucas; and a critical overview by Cullen Gallagher Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
Box Set Comprises: Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt: Selwyn Froggitt is the kind of man everybody comes across - all too often. The kind of man who thinks he can fix anything. The kind of man who when you see him coming you run for cover. Selwyn's favourite phrase is 'Leave it to me.' Whatever the problem he knows what to do and how to handle it. The trouble is that despite boundless confidence in his own abilities Selwyn really knows very little and can handle even less. But that doesn't stop him... Bill Maynard stars as the council labourer hapless handyman and all-round public nuisance in this classic Yorkshire Television sitcom from the pen of award-winning writer Alan Plater (Beiderbecke). Oh No - It's Selwyn Froggitt boasts a regular supporting cast featuring Bill Dean (Brookside) - who also wrote lyrics for each show's theme song - and Robert Keegan (Z-Cars) and remained a firm favourite with the viewing public throughout its two-year run establishing Bill Maynard as a household name. This release combines the pilot episode screened in 1974 as part of a run of single plays and the complete first series broadcast in 1976. Selwyn: Bill Maynard returns as Selwyn Froggitt known to us all as the council labourer hapless handyman and all-round public nuisance persistently haunting the bar of the Scarsdale Working Men's Club and Institute. This time however Selwyn's making an attempt to broaden his horizons: bubbling with his usual enthusiasm he's uprooted himself from Scarsdale to the Paradise Valley Holiday Camp where he has been appointed Entertainments Officer. It's a big step for Selwyn but he can surely take it all in his stride... Spinning off from Yorkshire Television's hugely successful Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt Selwyn was again produced and directed by sitcom legend Ronnie Baxter (Rising Damp); this release contains the complete series originally screened in 1978.
Steven Toast (Matt Berry The IT Crowd House of Fools) is back. Struggling actor and resident of Soho's famous theatreland the hapless thespian returns for more misadventures alongside his inept agent Jane Plough (Doon Mackichan Smack the Pony Plebs) and peculiar flatmate Ed Howzer-Black (Robert Bathurst Cold Feet Downton Abbey). This time he faces amongst other challenges a prostitutes’ and celebrity blow-football tournament the horror of being buried alive freemasonry and of course his arch-nemesis Ray 'Bloody' Purchase. Can Toast win out and secure the glamorous acting roles he's sure his immense talent deserves? Special Features: Audio Commentary of Desperate Measures with Matt Berry (Writer) Arthur Matthews (Writer) Michael Cumming (Director) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Audio Commentary of Fool in Love with Matt Berry (Writer) Arthur Matthews (Writer) Michael Cumming (Director) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Mo' Burned Toast Series 2 Songs Deleted Scenes Steven Toast's Voiceover Showreel 'My Turn' Toast Autobiography On the Analyst's Couch Part II: Steven Toast recalls some of his most memorable stage roles.
Waiting: No one's gonna make it big here. Always remember the cardinal rule of eating out: Never mess with people who handle your food! Ryan Reynolds (The Amityville Horror) Anna Faris (Scary Movie) and Justin Long (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) star in this hilarious comedy about the band of mischievous waiters waitresses and cooks just waiting to show guests how extraordinary the service at ShenaniganZ restaurant can be. Just Friends: Some friends are just friends. Others you get to see naked. When Chris a likable high-school loser finally gathers the courage to reveal his love to Jamie - the girl of his dreams and a super cool cheerleader - she rejects him saying she just wants to be friends. So he moves across the country and transforms himself into a selfish womanizing and successful music executive. But 10 years later circumstances bring him back to his home town and fate reconnects him with the ""just friends"" girl of his dreams. Suddenly Chris has the chance to undo the past but unbelievably he finds it more difficult to romance Jamie than it was 10 years ago. Can one escape the clutches of the ""friend zone?"" Is it possible to go from ""just friend"" to boyfriend? Chris is about to find out the hard way. Van Wilder: Ryan Reynolds gives a charismatic performance as a seventh year senior Van Wilder who wants nothing more than to continue his cushy life at Coolidge College as ""Campus Legend."" With a personal assistant and a panache for throwing parties graduation is the furthest thing from his mind. But when Gwen Pearson (Tara Reid) enters his life could his priorities start changing?
Titles Comprise: 28 Days Later:In this film from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland a powerful virus is unleashed on the British public following a raid on a primate research facility by animal rights activists. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them... 28 Weeks Later:Six months after the rage virus has annihilated the British Isles the US Army declares that the war against infection has been won and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. In the first wave of returning refugees a family is reunited - but one of them unwittingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead and this time it is more dangerous than ever.
Tony Rome: Tony Rome a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD. The Detective: A hard-boiled mystery starring Frank Sinatra as the tough-as-nails Detective Joe Leland 'The Detective' was based on a novel by Roderick Thorp. Called in to investigate the murder of Teddy Leikman the homosexual son of a well-conn
In this comedy-western Kirk Douglas plays Cactus Jack Slade the worst badman in the West who has his beady eyes on a gold mine strongbox. Whenever he finds himself faced with a few hurdles he consults a book called 'How To Be A Badman' and he'll need it too to overcome the owner of the strongbox the feisty Charming Jones (Ann-Margret) and her huge helper (Schwarzenegger) known only as Handsome Stranger...
Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return as Holmes and Watson in this acclaimed action-thriller. This time, the sleuths face off against their greatest foe, Professor Moriarty, as they travel across Europe bent on thwarting the master criminal's plans for world domination.
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
Whoopi Goldberg returns in a gratuitous, poorly written sequel that contrives a reason to get her character back into Maggie Smith's convent. The "socially conscious" plot finds Goldberg being asked to relate to a bunch of street kids and pull them together into a choir. Since a bad guy is needed, the script grabs that old chestnut about a rich guy (James Coburn) preparing to close down the convent's school, and runs with it. The film is slow and unconvincing from start to finish, although co-stars Mary Wickes and Kathy Najimy get some good laughs, and the music is pretty spirited. --Tom Keogh
After a freak storm hits the estate a group of teenagers on community service discover that they've developed strange superpowers. As the gang try to come to terms with their powers they soon realise they weren't the only ones to be effected by the storm... But our gang of Misfits don't swap their mobile phone 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. Special Features: Series 1 Behind the Scenes Simon's Films The Making of Misfits Series 2 The Making of Misfits Shooting Misfits Behind The Scenes Online Films Series 3 Vegas Baby Short Film Erazer Short Film Behind The Scenes On Set with Misfits Stunts and Special Effects Featurette Visual Effects Featurette Series 4 Misfits Strung Out Behind the Scenes Building the Misfits Set Casting the Gang Working with Puppets Gag Reel Series 5 Behind the Scenes
First there was an opportunity... then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance. Special Features: 29 Deleted Scenes 20 Years in the Making: A Conversation with Danny Boyle and the Cast Commentary with Danny Boyle and John Hodge
'When you chase war long enough, war eventually chases you'. Shooting Robert King is the astounding story of war photographer Robert King, a nave rookie correspondent hungry for his first war. Filmed over 15 years and across 3 warzones, Robert King's story begins in Bosnia where he comes under sniper fire and mortar attack while moving towards the front line of battle. As the film moves to the theatres of war in Chechnya and Iraq his incredible and horrifying journey is bought shockingly to life through dramatic front line footage, bewildering photography and mesmerising action.
Set Comprises: The Killers (1946) Double Indemnity (1944) The Big Steal (1949) Crossfire (1947) Out of the Past (1947) The Blue Dahlia (1946) The Glass Key (1942) This Gun For Hire (1942) Farewell My Lovely (1944)
Having made his reputation as one of the most prolific and gifted horror writers of his generation (prompting Stephen King to call him "the future of horror"), Clive Barker made a natural transition to movies with this audacious directorial debut from 1987. Not only did Barker serve up a chilling tale of devilish originality, he also introduced new icons of horror that since have become as popular among genre connoisseurs as Frankenstein's monster and the Wolfman. Foremost among these frightful, Hellraiser visions is the sadomasochistic demon affectionately named Pinhead (so named because his pale, bald head is a geometric pincushion and a symbol of eternal pain). Pinhead is the leader of the Cenobites, agents of evil who appear only when someone successfully "solves" the exotic puzzle box called the Lamont Configuration--a mysterious device that opens the door to Hell. The puzzle's latest victim is Frank (Sean Chapman), who now lives in a gelatinous skeletal state in an upstairs room of the British home just purchased by his newlywed half-brother (Andrew Robinson, best known as the villain from Dirty Harry), who has married one of Frank's former lovers (Claire Higgins). The latter is recruited to supply the cannibalistic Frank with fresh victims, enabling him to reconstitute his own flesh--but will Frank succeed in restoring himself completely? Will Pinhead continue to demonstrate the flesh-ripping pleasures of absolute agony? Your reaction to this description should tell you if you've got the stomach for Barker's film, which has since spawned a number of interesting but inferior sequels. It's definitely not for everyone, but there's no denying that it's become a semiclassic of modern horror. --Jeff Shannon
Broadcast journalist Edward Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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