The Secret Life of Us follows eight twentysomethings sharing three apartments in a Melbourne residential block, and may well be Channel 4's best-kept secret. Buried in a mid-week late-night slot the show has nevertheless developed a cult following as an antipodean answer to This Life, though one mercifully free of amateurish shaky photography. This is actually a good-looking soap spiced with post-watershed language, sex, nudity and a refreshing dose of humour--think Sex and the City meets Coupling, or Dawson's Creek goes to The Book Group. The show takes a while to get going, introducing too many characters too quickly in disorientating fashion, but becomes engrossing entertainment filled with realistically young, aimless and confused, if not very likeable characters. Central to the show is Alex (Claudia Karvan, soon to become much more famous in Star Wars: Episode III) giving a strong performance as an emotional insecure doctor who sets things rolling by having a fling with her best friend's boyfriend. Samuel Johnson meanwhile is the highly sexed struggling novelist whose work in progress, the titular Secret Life of Us offers commentary on the ever more tangled web of romance, deception and friendship. It's Australian drama for those who have outgrown Melbourne's Neighbours. On the DVD: The Secret Life of Us comes to DVD in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer which looks fine, showing just a little graininess in the darker scenes. The sound is Dolby Prologic and is more than adequate given the small-scale, intimate nature of the production. There are optional subtitles. --Gary S Dalkin
From the producer of and writer of 'Have I Got News For You' and 'Spitting Image' watch a fourth award-winning series of cheeky wacky and outrageous sketches featuring minor and major celebrities of the day including George W. Bush and Tony Blair!
Say goodbye to all you think you know and embrace new beginnings on the smartest, sexiest crime show on television. Crime novelist Richard Castle and no-nonsence detective Kate Beckett are made for each other - the only problem is, they don't seem to realise it. But Castle and Beckett have come a long way since their first case together. Are they finally ready to take their relationship to the next level? Experience again the gripping drama, clever dialogue and engaging characters with killer chemistry on the show that combines the perfect mix of suspense, humour and heart.
Season 1 Get on the beat with a new hit drama. Loaded with provocative banter and a talented cast. Castle: The Complete First Season is can't-miss entertainment. Rick Castle is a world-famous crime novelist whose stories come to life when a copycat killer follows his literary blueprint. Enlisted to help the NYPD stay a step ahead of the murderer, Castle realises working with the police can also supply him with a slew of ideas for his next book. The relationship gets a little more complicated – and a whole lot more fun – when he is paired with the attractive Detective Beckett, who doesn't appreciate Castle's unorthodox style. Experience every witty, suspense-filled moment of the original series in this 3-disc DVD collection. Packed with never before-seen bonus features, including a behind-the-scenes peek at the cast, this addictive series is a killer on DVD! Season 2 TV's most engaging and unlikely crime-solving duo is back in the spectacular second season of ABC's Castle. The banter flies faster than the bullets in this unique series, loaded with drama, romance and laughs. Best-selling mystery novelist Rick Castle's unique approach to crime solving may have won over Detective Kate Beckett, but their relationship is still on rocky ground. Relive all your favourite cases in this 6-disc DVD set. Packed with never-before-seen bonus features, including inside secrets from the set, this collection is a must have for every Castle fan!
At one of North America's most exclusive ski resorts several skiers have been found dead in very bizarre circumstances. The brutal slayings are believed to be the work of a mysterious skier dressed in black who has recently appeared on the slopes. Kimberly Van Arx has invited a group of her college friends for a snowboarding weekend at her wealthy father's private ski retreat. The gang settle in for a long night of booze and ghost stories. But soon they discover they are not alone...
A woman comes forward as one of several claimants to the Romanov fortune. Is she really the Grand Duchess Tatiana daughter of the last Czar of Russia?
The final series of British TV's most successful animated show is bought to DVD for fans to complete their collection! The Complete Series 5 features more than 150 sketches with characters such as Stone Age Wayne & Coleen Gordon Ramsey and Paula Radcliffe in for special 2-D treatment!
The final season of The King of Queens sends this under-appreciated sitcom out with a bang. The season begins with several strong stand-alone episodes, including ones in which Doug (Kevin James) uses a tax refund to buy an ice cream truck; Carrie (Leah Remini) suspects that their best friends have managed to buy a vacation home by sponging off of her and Doug; Doug, after rescuing a chicken from being killed, becomes a vegetarian; Arthur (Jerry Stiller), eternally resplendent in argyle sweaters, asks Doug and Carrie for the money to get braces; and Adam Sandler (Punch Drunk Love) plays a high school friend of Doug's with a lot of repressed anger. But the season crescendos in a three-episode story that begins with Arthur preparing to get married again while Doug and Carrie's marriage crumbles when Carrie wants to move to an apartment in Manhattan. From there, the Heffernans' worst impulses run comically amok, demonstrating this show's long-standing strengths: The cheerful exploitation of all the character's bad behaviour, be it Doug's selfishness, Carrie's envy, or Arthur's raging egomania; snowballing storylines that routinely end in entertaining disaster and humiliation; and the skilfully-honed interplay of the three leads. The supporting cast--including Doug's best friend Deacon (Victor Williams), the emotionally enmeshed roommates Spence (Patton Oswalt) and Danny (Gary Valentine), and needy dog-walker Holly (Nicole Sullivan)--all have their moments, but James, Remini, and Stiller are the show's engine, and it runs like a Maserati. The Complete 9th Season lacks any extras, which is disappointing considering that it's also a short season of only 12 episodes; but the satisfying comic crunch of each episode makes this box set still a must-have for any fan of the show. --Bret Fetzer
Buried beneath the Arctic ice since the Cold War genetically modified Soviet soldiers have been rediscovered reactivated and are ready to unleash devastating destruction. They are cold-blooded killing machines with super-human strength and one man a scientist who has been searching for them his entire life will try to stop the carnage before they complete their terrifying top-secret mission.
A thirty-something couple make their way through the fading light on a chilly winter evening in Upstate New York. Kim and John take their 8-year-old son Miles on a weekend away at a friends country farmhouse. But a fluke accident sets off a chain of events that alters their lives forever and conjres up the ferocious spirit of the ""wendigo"" that they think has manifested in only Miles' imagination.
John Porter is back. And he's in as tight and tough a situation as ever.Section 20 returns with two new highly-skilled and battle-hardened operatives - British Sergeant Michael Stonebridge and ex-US Delta Force Commando Damien Scott. Tasked by razor-sharp new section head, Colonel Eleanor Grant, to track the lethal, elusive terrorist LATIF, in possession of an apocalyptic WMD, our heroes must put aside their differences and defuse a plot that could ignite a war.Strike Back: Project Dawn is a breathlessly tense, smart and sexy adventure. Across five stories, Scott and Stonebridge plunge into a terrifying siege in a Delhi hotel; mount an undercover operation to derail a weapon heist in Cape Town by a ruthless former IRA operator; take up arms against a ferocious Sudanese militia to rescue a British aid worker; track a treasonous spy in a savage Balkan gangster state; and finally, race to stop a huge-scale double suicide bomber attack in Budapest, orchestrated by the ingenious, merciless Latif. As Section 20 finally confront their nemesis, prey becomes predator in a staggering series climax...
Fairy tales collide when Mambo and Munk tip the scales of good and evil once again. This time Princess Snow White is a misguided teenager who'd rather have fun with friends Red Riding Hood Goldilocks and Little Bo Peep than help peasants. When Snow White's father is matched up with Lady Vain - a scheming witch brewing to rule the kingdom - the adventure begins.
The Dead Zone: Christopher Walken stars as high school teacher Johnny Smith a car crash victim who emerges from a 5 year coma with the ability to see into people's future. Consequently this extra sensory perception enables Johnny to avert several potential disasters and earns him a degree of local celebrity. After his 5 missing years however Johnny has lost both his job and his fiance and he longs for his former existence minus his new 'gift'. That is until he meets with local politicians and would-be Presidential candidate Greg Still son (Martin Sheen) and sees future-events of genuinely cataclysmic proportions. It is only then that Johnny must come to terms with his powers his conscience and his destiny... Firestarter: Firestarter the best-seller by top writer Stephen King came blazing to the screen in a million saga produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Eight year-old Drew Barrymore who won America's heart in E.T.-The Extra-Terrestrial stars as the child who has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. But can this power and the love of her father save her from the sinister government agency.. 'The Shop'? The top-notch story an all-star cast that includes George C. Scott Martin Sheen Louise Fletcher Art Carney David Keith and Heather Locklear plus amazing special effects and stunts from the masters who worked on Star Wars E.T.-The Extra-Terrestrial and Raiders Of The Lost Ark make Firestarter the classic 80s horror movie.
First broadcast in 1955 The Adventures of Robin Hood stars Richard Green as Robin of Locksley. Together with his band of merry men he protects the countryside from evil Prince John (Donald Pleasence). This release features all the episodes from Series Two. Episode titles: A Village Wooing The Scientist Blackmail A Year and a Day The Goldmaker The Imposters Ransom Isabella The Hero The Haunted Mill The Black Patch Outlaw Money The Friar's Pilgrimage The Trap Hubert
Five dramas based on novels by Danielle Steel. Patrick Duffy stars in 'Daddy' (1991) as Oliver a successful advertising executive whose perfect family life is suddenly ripped apart at the seams. His wife leaves him his son gets a girl pregnant his daughter takes up with older men and his mother is hit by a bus. These crises convince Oliver to change his outlook - and his life - for the better. 'Changes' (1994) tells the story of a top TV news anchor (Cheryl Ladd) who falls in love with LA's top cardiologist (Michael Nouri). However their relationship is in constant conflict due to their five children from separate marriages. Stacy Haiduk stars in 'A Perfect Stranger' (1994) as Raphaella Phillips the young and beautiful wife of a diplomat 40 years her senior. When her husband has a massive stroke leaving him bedridden and helpless she remains faithful to him for five selfless (and loveless) years. A chance meeting with an exciting mystery man ignites long suppressed passions in her and they embark on a torrid affair which she reluctantly gives up out of a feeling of duty to her husband. However the dying diplomat knows more about the relationship than she realises forming part of a love triangle which could destroy them all. Stephanie Beacham and Christopher Plummer star in 'Secrets' (1992). Set in the world of glamorous prime-time soap operas the drama revolves around the cast of a new show called 'Manhattan'. In 'The Ring' (1996) Ariana Von Gotthard (Nastassja Kinski) is the daughter of a wealthy Berlin man who witnesses the way her country is being torn apart in the run up to the Second World War. Her father decides to help his children escape from Germany and after getting his son to Switzerland he returns to Berlin for Ariana but is executed as a traitor. Unsure as to the fate of both her brother and father Ariana marries a German soldier who is killed in the war. She then flees to America with her unborn child and in New York attempts to build a new life hoping that she will be reunited with her long-lost brother.
The story of Erica French who falls pregnant while in high school. She decides to keep the baby but faces a battle from the father as she is not trusted to look after Molly safely.
A black and bloody Irish comedy Irish playwright Martin McDonagh is making his directorial debut into the film world with 'Six Shooter' a 30 minute imaginative black comedy.
This is the film based on the 1970s TV sitcom Man About the House, made during the same period with the same cast. At the time, the whole idea of a single man and two single women sharing a flat, however (more-or-less) platonically, seemed terribly naughty. The scriptwriters wickedly stirred things up even further by making Richard O'Sullivan's character a randy-but-gentlemanly heterosexual, despite being a catering student--after all, in the 70s everyone just knew that all chefs were roaring poofs. The trio's sex-starved landlady (Yootha Joyce) and her rodent-like, impotent husband (Brian Murphy) were later to get their own series, George and Mildred. The plot is a perfunctory affair, as property developers attempt and fail to demolish the street in which the protagonists live. That said, the script (cowritten by John Mortimer) isn't really narrative-driven anyway, it's purely an excuse for the characters to interact with the will-they-won't-they-ooh-they-are-a-bit relationship between Robin and Chrissie (Paula Wilcox) and practically invites the viewer to cheer them on. While the transition to the big screen caused the idea to lose much of its energy, as a dollop of comedy nostalgia Man About the House is still great fun. And if you don't laugh at the jokes, just check out the clothes, cars, hairstyles and makeup, not to mention all that cigarette smoking! --Roger Thomas
Gilbert O'Sullivan: Live In Tokyo
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