Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in The White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving of recent American TV series. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable press spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lynam make up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. --David Stubbs
The epic tale of two stoners in the wrong place at the wrong time and now having to outrun the mob! From the guys that brought you "Superbad".
The immortal Peter Sellers is hilarious as a pompous retired general who still has a taste for the ladies in French playwright Jean Anouilh's philosophical farce. A lusty comedy of manners 'Waltz of the Toreadors' tempers its treatment of an old rake's delusions with generous dollops of wit and compassion.
No Celebrity is safe! BBC One's The Impressions Show stars the hugely talented comedy combo of Culshaw and Stephenson mercilessly unleashing their particular brand of observational humour on our most popular celebrities. Following on from the smash hit Dead Ringers Jon Culshaw teams up with Debra Stephenson (Coronation Street Bad Girls) to bring you a collection of the best bits from their hilarious new impressions show in the imaginatively titled The Best Of The Impressions Show Only the cream of the comedy crop has been selected for this outrageously funny special. Laugh along at spot-on impersonations of your favourite celebrities from Ross Kemp legging it from The Famous Five to Terry Wogan's terrifying interrogation techniques and Davina McCall's gloriously over the top bed time stories. Culshaw and Stephenson bring you more celebrities more jokes and more laughter. This fabulously funny collection is a must have for all comedy fans!
Shun your Shakespeare chuck away your Chaucer destroy your DVDs of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle! You've got to make shelf space for the complete box set of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. Never has so much fun and lunacy been crammed into one small cardboard container. If you tried to squeeze in even one more tiny joke it would squash the others so badly they'd jump out and run home crying to their mummies. Marvel at the relatively young Tony Robinson's hilarious cavortings in the days before he got boring and started digging holes in the mud; watch the hysterically laid back Danny John Jules and realise there is life after Red Dwarf. Gasp at incredible six foot chickens listen rapt to tales of volcanoes that spew forth mauve custard and run away terrified from snailiens from outer space. You'll laugh you'll cry you'll be sick into a small paper bag and still come back for more...honest! The Complete Series One: It's a little known fact that Robin Hood was a complete wimp who took all the credit for the grit in Maid Marian's guts. It was in fact she who assembled and fought oppression with a bunch of prats known as the Merry Men-a dwarf called Little Ron a Rastafarian an ugly dolt by the name of Rabies and a yuppie called Robin of Kensington. Doing incredibly brave things like piercing their ears and rescuing tadpoles Marian and her men combat the cruelty of a mad bad king called John and his villainous Sheriff of Nottingham. The Complete Series Two: Prepare to be horrified by the beastly Beast of Bolsover and the foul things he does to our beloved Sheriff. Laugh your hands and feet off as the stupid villagers don brown noses in aid of charity. Learn to loathe Maid Marian's nemesis Rotten Rose she's scheming manipulative revengeful and a bit of a slapper. This is entertainment at its nauseating best! The Complete Series Three: Six spanking episodes in which our heroine struggles against aliens wrestles with giant jelly babies and gets really hacked off with very thick villagers. Also featuring an additional hour-long episode in which she falls in love with a complete plonker. Not so smart now are you Marian? The Complete Series Four: In this the final series of the muddy extravaganza that is Maid Marian and her Merry Men Rabies grows wings Robin turns nasty and the peasants celebrate High Forks night 'Remember! Remember! the 27th of April.' To quote Robin Hood himself this series is 'as funny as Russell the Abbot.
We never thought we'd find a place where we belong. Don't have to stand alone we'll never let you fall. Don't need permission to decide what you believe. I said jump down on Jump Street. I said jump down on Jump Street. Your friends will be there when your back is to the wall. You'll find you'll need us cause there's no one else to call. When it was hopeless a decision is what you need. You'd better be ready to be ready to jump. 21 Jump Street. Acclaimed for its gro
'The King Of Marvin Gardens' is a dark drama about two brothers who team up for an odd real estate scheme involving a Hawaiian island. Jason (Bruce Dern) summons his younger sibling David (Jack Nicholson) a Philadelphia radio personality to join him in Atlantic City to get the deal going. But when David arrives he finds that a local crime boss has had Jason thrown in jail. David intervenes on his brother's behalf and succeeds in bailing Jason out. But the charges won't be dropped
War Of The Worlds H.G. Wells' chilling novel of a Martian invasion of Earth becomes even more frightening in this 1952 film adaptation that's widely regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. An Oscar winner for Best Special Effects The War Of The Worlds delivers eye-popping thrills laser-hot action and unrelenting edge-of-your-seat suspense. No one who has seen the film's depiction of the swan-shaped Martian machines - ticking and hissing menacingly as they cut their path of destruction - will ever forget their ominous impact! When Worlds Collide In this Oscar-winning science fiction movie from producer George Pal an impending collison with a runaway star signals the destruction of Earth! The government refuses to listen to scientists but private industrialists finance the building of a spaceship which will carry a limited number of people to another planet to begin a new civilisation. As doomsday approaches they race against time and the panic of those who will be left behind. The potential pulverising impact of the collision the massive tidal waves and devastating earthquakes and the final cosmic smashup make a chilling panorama of disaster. The balance between human and planetary drama is excellently maintained as When Worlds Collide builds to its fascinating unforgettable climax.
In classic mystery style Broadway playwright Alex Dennison invites actors and others to a 'cold reading' of his new play. But it is really his scheme to catch the killer of his actress fiancee Monica Welles who died a year previously?
Crammed with astonishing action and fight sequences this enormously successful sequel to The Robe continues the story of Demetrius (Victor Mature) the Greek slave who after the death of his master is sentenced to train as a gladiator in the Roman arena. There his newfound Christian faith is put to the test when he has to contend not only with the swordsmen and wild beasts of the arena but also the evil and sensuous Messalina (Susan Hayward) and the mad emperor Caligula (Ja
Norman has always had a fascination with dolls since he was a child. Now a grown man, his complex needs are supported by carers. When Johnny, a replacement care worker arrives, Norman s prize Doll, Hugo, mysteriously goes missing. Johnny isn t who he pretends to be and will make Norman go on a journey of discovery to find the truth behind evil talking dolls that lurk in an abandoned military tunnel system.
The smash hit TV series starring Johnny Depp on DVD for the first time ever! It all begins here as baby-faced rookie Officer Tom Hanson (Johnny Depp) is assigned to an elite squad of young undercover cops - Judy Hoffs (Holly Robinson) Doug Penhall (Peter DeLuise) and Harry Truman Ioki (Dustin Nguyen) - to infiltrate high schools and fight crime. Frederic Forrest and Steven Williams co-star in this classic first season that also features such guest stars as Jason Priestly Josh Bro
BBC One's The Impressions Show starring the hugely talented comedy combo of Culshaw and Stephenson returns for its second series mercilessly unleashing its particular brand of observational humour on our most popular celebrities. Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson present a host of new characters and returning favourites like Davina McCall, Jimmy Carr, Harry Hill, Piers Morgan, Katherine Jenkins, Jordan and Alex Reid, Tess and Bruce, Ross Kemp, Joanna Lumley and Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond from Top Gear. Follow a host of celebrities in ridiculously ludicrous, comical situations. Find out to what extent Philip Schofield misses Fern Britton sitting beside him on the This Morning sofa, the reason why Chris Evans should never be given coffee. Ant calls the police when Dec goes missing for five minutes, Boris Johnson apologises a lot, and Bill Gates meets Ricky Gervais in The Microsoft Office. Culshaw and Stephenson bring you more celebrities, more jokes and more laughter making this fabulously funny series a must have for all comedy fans!!!
Tony Robinson's one man show Cunning Night Out!
Mean Streets: You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it on the streets... 'Mean Streets' heralded Martin Scorsese's arrival as a new filmmaking force - and marked his first historic teaming with Robert De Niro. It's a story Scorsese lived a semi-autobiographical tale of first-generation sons and daughters in New York's Little Italy. Harvey Keitel plays Charlie working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Amy Robinson is Teresa the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. And in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York and National Society of Film Critics De Niro is Johnny Boy a small-time gambler in big-time debt to the loan sharks... (Dir. Martin Scorsese 1973) Taxi Driver: 'Taxi Driver' provoked fierce controversy when it was released running into censorship problems in America as some of the scenes of violence were described to be 'as gory as Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs' (Evening News '76). In addition there was outcry at a 13-year-old schoolgirl actress (Jodie Foster) co-starring as a prostitute. (Dir. Martin Scorsese 1976) Casino: Robert De Niro Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice... (Dir. Matin Scorsese 1995) Sleepers: To four boys growing up on the streets in the mid 1960s Hell's Kitchen was a place of innocence ruled by corruption. The infamous New York City neighbourhood that stretched north from 34th to 56th Street and pushed west from the 8th Avenue to the Hudson River was guided by both priest and gangsters. The children who grew up there shared joyful times but subscribed to a sacred social code-crimes against the neighbourhood were not permitted and when they did occur punishment was severe. Four friends made a mistake that changed their lives forever... (Dir. Barry Levinson 1996) Cape Fear: Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them. Master filmmaker Martin Scorsese brings heart - pounding suspense to one of the most acclaimed thrillers of all time. Fourteen years after being imprisoned vicious psychopath Max Cady [Robert De Niro] emerges with a single - minded mission to seek revenge on his attorney Sam Bowden [Nick Nolte]. Cady becomes a terrifying presence as he menancingly circles Bowden's increasingly unstable family. Realising he is legally powerless to protect his beautiful wife [Jessica Lange] and his troubled teenage daughter Danielle [Juliette Lewis] Sam resorts to unorthodox measures which lead to an unforgettable showdown on Cape Fear. Visually stunning images and brilliant performances from a talented cast highlight this roller-coaster ride through relentless psychological torment. (Dir. Martin Scorsese 1991)
A look at significant historical moments in time and the music that helped defined them.
Terror has been reinvented! When residents of his apartment building begin to disappear Marvin comes to believe the unthinkable: the mutant breed of giant carnivorous insects that once plagued society are back and beginning to revisit their devastation! Though he's confined to his room due to a severe illness Marvin must rally whatever support he can in order to exterminate these horrifying creatures before he ends up their next victim! Available on DVD for the first t
Based on the best-selling novel, The 5th Wave, four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Against a backdrop of fear and distrust, Cassie (Chloë Grace Moretz) is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. As she prepares for the inevitable and lethal fifth wave, Cassie teams up with a young man who may become her final hope if she can only trust him. Special Features: Deleted Scenes (Exclusive to Blu-ray) The 5th Wave Survival Guide (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Training Squad 53 (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Creating a New World (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Cast Gag Reel Inside The 5th Wave Sammy on the Set Commentary with Director J Blakeson and Chloë Grace Moretz
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