LIZZIE is a compelling psychodrama based on the infamous 1892 axe murder of the Borden family in Fall River, Massachusetts. The film explores Lizzie Borden's life, focusing on the period leading up to the murders and their immediate aftermath and reveals many layers of the strange, fragile woman who stood accused of the brutal crime. As an unmarried woman of 32, and a social outcast, Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan (Kristen Stewart), a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a chance intimacy that blossoms into a wicked plan , and a dark, unsettling end.
A classic Irish movie, The Butcher Boy is set in a small town in Ireland in the mid part of the twentieth century. It tells the story of Francis 'Francie' Brady, a schoolboy who lives with his mother and alcoholic father. In the early part of the book it becomes apparent that Francie's mother is abused both verbally and physically by her belligerent husband, on a frequent basis. Francie's father, Benny, was raised in a tough religious school in Belfast, and it is suggested that this experience left him mentally traumatised. This mental trauma has left Benny bitter and angry, and he takes this anger out on his wife, his fury fuelled by alcohol. Francie's mother considers suicide and is committed for a time to a mental health facility.
In Disney's Hocus Pocus,Academy Award nominee Bettee Midlet (1991 Best Actress, For The Boys) stars with Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex And The City) and Kathy Najimy (The Wedding Planner) as three wild witches who return from seventeenth-century Salem for a night of zany fun and comic chaos. After they're conjured up by unsuspecting pranksters, the tricky trio sets out to cast a spell on the town and reclaim their youth. But first they must outwit three feisty kids determined to foil their scheme! Filled with bewitching laughs and magic, this hilarious film is perfect for the whole family! Features: 140 MINS OF BONUS (new bonus included) We ⥠Hocus Pocus: Trivia And Treats Edition Original Production Featurette
The secrets of a street you know. An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house but she has since married and is far from keen on the idea....
Captain Robert Falcon Scott of England and Roald Amundsen of Norway race the elements and each other to be the first to plant a flag at the world's South Pole. Despite the perception that the British were sure to beat the Norwegians Scott's expedition led to disaster and death in the middle of the icy wilderness. A docudrama in seven episodes: 1. Poles Apart 2. Minor Diversions 3. Leading Men 4. Gentlemen and Players 5. The Glories of the Race 6. Forgone Conclusion 7. Rejoice
The story of a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards with unique magical powers of his own. At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry he finds the home and family he has never had.
Long-awaited, long-overdue: The Professionals as you have never seen them before. Bodie and Doyle need little by way of introduction, but if the series had at all escaped you since its debut in 1977 their boss George Cowley, head of CI5, couldn't put it more succinctly than his opening gambit: anarchy, acts of terror, crimes against the public. To combat it I've got special men experts from the army, the police, from every service. These are The Professionals . Featuring the perfect ensemble cast of Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson (completely against type here) and the much-missed Lewis Collins, the series ran for 57 action-packed episodes and made an immediate impact on British and then international audiences which has sustained 40 years. But the series has never looked this good. Painstakingly restored from the camera-original negatives, the series could have been made yesterday. No matter how many times you have seen The Professionals, this is a new experience, like seeing it for the first time. Features: Brand-new, High Definition restorations of all 13 episodes in series three from the camera-original negatives Brand-new 5.1 tracks from original sound elements Remastered original as-broadcast mono tracks Remastered music-only tracks featuring Laurie Johnson's original scores HD photo galleries featuring hundreds of rare and previously unseen images All episodes are presented in their original production order PDF material featuring scripts and memorabilia English HOH subtitles
Author Michael Crichton and director Philip Kaufman had a falling-out over the script for Rising Sun, based on Crichton's best-selling novel (which was controversial for its take on the Japanese invasion of American business in the early 1990s). Kaufman ultimately won, doing an above-average job creating a murder-mystery based on the culture clash between Los Angeles cops and Japanese multinational business interests. When a prostitute is murdered at the opening of a new LA headquarters for a Japanese company, detective Wesley Snipes is forced to call upon retired cop (and Japanophile) Sean Connery to help solve the murder. But he runs into obstruction from the Japanese, as well as a high-tech cover-up, while having to deal with anti-Japanese sentiments from people on his own team. Rising Sun is intriguing, if overlong. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
A BRAND NEW RESTORATION COMMEMORATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORIGINAL WWII RAID A much-loved British classic, Michael Anderson's 1955 drama captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the center of Nazi Germany's industrial complex and the quintessentially English combination of inventiveness and dogged determination. Split into two distinct sections, the film deals first with the fraught, but the ultimately successful development of a new bomb, by Dr. Barnes N. Wallis (Michael Redgrave). The second deals with the mission itself during the British raid on the Ruhr Dams, and its associated costs for the enemy and for the British airmen. Adapted by R.C. Sherriff from Paul Brickhill's book Enemy Coast Ahead and featuring superlative special effects photography by Gilbert Taylor (to say nothing of Eric Coates' stirring theme tune), The Dam Busters was Britain's biggest box office the success of 1955. Collector's Edition Includes a 64-page booklet with brand new essays, and photographs, plus a rare print of an ariel photograph of the Mohne dam post raid, signed by the original 617 squadron Features: RAF poster of the Chastise Lancaster's
From BAFTA winning Lupus Films (We're Going On A Bear Hunt) comes this heart-warming Christmas special about a young boy sending his Christmas wish letter to Santa Claus. Henry is so excited about Christmas and wants everyone to feel the same way, so he sets about spreading the Christmas cheer by putting up decorations around his neighbourhood. He visits an elderly neighbour, Ms Broom, with a sack of Christmas baubles to brighten up her house. She wants nothing to do with Christmas however, and shoos him away. Henry still does all he can to bring colour to her dreary world, only to discover the truth behind her lack of Christmas spirit.
Chad (Van Damme) a charming smooth karate instructor from Los Angeles is mysteriously urged to fly to China by the man who raised him like a son Frank Avery. There he meets Alex (Van Damme) a streetwise gun-slinging smuggler raised on the back streets of Hong Kong. Chad and Alex discover that they are in fact twin brothers separated when their parents were brutally murdered twenty-five years ago. In a violently explosive showdown the twins seek their revenge...
The evil organization SPECTRE has hatched a plan to steal a decoder that will access Russian state secrets and irrevocably unbalance the world order. It is up to James Bond to seize the device first but he must confront enemies that include Red Grant and the ruthless Rosa Klebb a former KGB agent with poison-tipped shoes. Even as Bond romances a stunning Soviet defector he realizes he is being lured into a deadly trap and he will need all of his courage abilities and cutting-edge technology to triumph over the forces that seek to destroy him.
All it takes is a little Confidence. After the huge success of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid George Roy Hill re-teamed with Hollywood stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman for this dazzlingly inventive tale about revenge in 1930s Chicago. The Sting is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of all time. Set in the 1930's this intricate comedy caper deals with an ambitious small time crook (Robert Redford) and a veteran con man
The Avengers the hip secret-agent series from 60's TV is reinvented for the movies with a stylish blend of wit fabulous retro fashions and effects-packed action. Ralph Fiennes is the very dapper John Steed and Uma Thurman is the smartly catsuited Emma Peel two secret agents who fight crime with style. Sean Connery portrays Sir John De Wynter an evil genius out to control the world with his high-tech weather machine. The madman poses quite a threat to mankind with his raging ice
Inspector George Gently: Series 2 (4 Discs)
Breathtaking in scope and scale The Bible features powerful performances exotic locales and dazzling visual effects that breathe spectacular life into the dramatic tales of faith and courage from Genesis through revelation. This historic television event is sure to entertain and inspire the whole family.
Samuel Fuller re-worked and reinvented popular film genres as lenses through which to examine American history, ideals, and topical events. His detective thriller The Crimson Kimono, with its frank and unsentimental interracial romance twist, attacked the stubborn prejudice, ignorance and bigotry that Fuller saw lurking beneath the surface of the American nation. Special Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio The Culture of The Crimson Kimono' (2009, 10 mins): analysis by filmmaker Curtis Hanson Switch-Hitting Between Three Triangles (2018, 15 mins): audiovisual essay by Cristina Ãlvarez López Sam Fuller Storyteller (2009, 25 mins): insightful documentary with contributions from Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders, as well as Fuller's wife, Christa, and daughter, Samantha Sam Fuller on Henry Chapier's Couch (1989, 22 mins): archival interview from French TV in which Fuller answers questions about his life The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera' Rushes Tapes 01-06 (1996, 194 mins): unedited interview footage of Sam Fuller in conversation with actor Tim Robbins, recorded for Adam Simon's classic documentary Original theatrical trailers Image gallery: publicity photography and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Since the summer of 1955, the ITV network has entertained the nation with some of the most memorable programming ever created for British television. This collection celebrates those six decades with an outstanding, specially selected collection of superb dramas, hilarious comedies and thought-provoking documentaries some of which haven't been seen since their original transmission. With each disc themed to provide an evening's entertainment , this dip into the archives provides a trip down Memory Lane as well as a timely reminder of some of the best television of the last sixty years. A mixture of both classics and rarities (including some programmes thought lost forever), this set contains previously unreleased episodes of Crossroads, Rainbow, Tiswas, Coronation Street, World in Action, The Bill and Whicker's World together with some exceptionally rare items from the Associated Rediffusion archive: No Hiding Place, Mystery Bag, Crane and Our Man at St. Mark's. So spoil yourself settle down for a great night in and join us for a journey through the decades! DISC ONE ITV Opening Night Preview | Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky | The Army Game: April Fool | Man About the House: While the Cat's Away | Robin of Sherwood: The Greatest Enemy | The Prisoner: Checkmate DISC TWO Pathfinders in Space: Convoy to the Moon | The Larkins: Frightful Nightful | Sunday Night at the London Palladium: 28/11/1965 | The World at War: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow | Callan: Let's Kill Everybody DISC THREE Catweazle: The Sun in a Bottle | The Arthur Haynes Show: 08/12/1962 | The Avengers: The Winged Avenger | Public Eye: My Life's My Own | An Audience with Dame Edna DISC FOUR Crossroads: 26/10/1983 | On the Buses: The Strain | The Saint: The Contract | The Tommy Cooper Hour: 21/04/1974 | Auf Wiedershen Pet: The Alien DISC FIVE Rainbow: 26/12/1975 | Pipkins: Cowboys | Doctor in the House: What Seems To Be The Trouble? | The Power Game: The New Boy | 21 DISC SIX Magpie: 26/11/1976 | Shut That Door! | Space 1999: Breakaway | No Hiding Place: A Bird to Watch the Marbles | The Sweeney: Tomorrow Man DISC SEVEN Tiswas: 30/08/1975 | Four Feather Falls: Horse Thieves | The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show | Gideon's Way: The Wall | Tales of the Unexpected: Royal Jelly DISC EIGHT The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Coming of Robin Hood | Nearest and Dearest: What Seems to be the Trouble? | Rising Damp: Black Magic | Mystery Bag: Lockhart Finds a Note | Upstairs Downstairs: Miss Forrest | Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia DISC NINE Ace of Wands: Peacock Pie 1 | Coronation Street: 18/05/1964 | Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Could You Recognise the Man Again? | Crane: A Cargo of Cornflour | Soldier Soldier: Stormy Weather DISC TEN A Fine Romance: Series 2 episode 6 | World in Action: The Chart Busters | The Professionals: Blind Run | Inspector Morse: Driven to Distraction DISC ELEVEN George and Mildred: Moving On | Jason King: To Russia With... Panache | The Main Chance: The Best Legal System in the World | Justice: A Nice Straight-forward Treason | Strange World of Gurney Slade: Episode 1 DISC TWELVE Our Man at St Mark's: The Facts of Life | The Bill: The Short Straw | Man at the Top: I'll Do the Dirty Work | Whicker's World Aboard The Orient Express | Armchair Theatre: Afternoon of a Nymph - See more at: http://networkonair.com/shop/2287-itv-60-502762644674.html#sthash.pPmpBenG.dpuf
Father Jacob Vatican Saint-maker miracle detective and exorcist is on a mission: to defeat Satan before the end of the world. The stakes really are that high as the Devil tightens his grip - claiming the last century as his own this one in his sights. For the maverick Jacob played by award winning star Martin Shaw (The Professionals George Gently Judge John Deed) the job''s getting busier by the week. Claims of apparitions possessions signs of the Saints and the miracles of God are on the up. For some this is proof the struggle with Satan is intensifying and Armageddon the battle of the End of Days approaching fast. For others it''s merely an indication the Catholic Church is increasingly vulnerable to the whims of the deranged and deceitful... Investigating the truth confronting the sceptics as well as pure evil takes a priest of extraordinary integrity intelligence compassion and guts but - above all - faith. Father Jacob is such a priest: a man whose convictions enable and embolden him to confront the controversial to present the truth in all its forms wherever that leads him. And with Jacob forced to face his own hidden demons we follow him deep into that heart of darkness: witnessing as he does the most startling acts of satanic and saintly behaviour. Written and directed by the electrifying Joe Ahearne (Perfect Parents Dr Who) Apparitions confronts us with as many questions as answers taking us on a challenging often terrifying but ultimately life-affirming journey of white knuckle supernatural mystery and intrigue.
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