Taken from a long-running DC Comics strip, Wonder Woman was made into a popular television series between 1978 and 1981, starring former Miss America, Lynda Carter. Capturing the hearts of TV audiences with her sexy outfit as much as her superheroine abilities, Wonder Woman quickly became a kitsch icon, battling the forces of evil with the unforgettably camp "garb of justice", including bullet-proof bangles, a golden lasso and the belt of strength built into her corset. She had an invisible plane, too. Originally Princess Diana of Paradise Island (an uncharted land of Amazon women in the Bermuda Triangle), Wonder Woman is sent as an emissary to the outside world to protect the human race from the forces of evil. And so she becomes Diana Prince, the geeky, bespectacled assistant to Steve Trevor of the Inter Agency Defence Command in Washington, whose father she assisted against the Nazis in the 1940s. --Laura Bushell
audio in italiano18 anni dopo elwood blues (aykroyd) esce di prigione. suo fratello jake (belushi) e' morto e la loro orchestra non c'e' piu'. se n'e' andato anche curtis, loro padre spirituale, lasciando un figlio poliziotto duro e puro. insieme con un nuovo partner, il gioviale mighty mack mcteer (goodman) e con buster, orfanello di 10 anni (bonifant), elwood si rimette in marcia. dovra' fare i conti con la mafia russa. tentativo parzialmente riuscito di continuare un film di culto che nel 1980, con l'aereo piu' pazzo del mondo inauguro' il genere catacomico: ludico, demenziale, goliardico, frenetico, buffonesco, tutto ma non rassicurante e mistificatorio. quel che c'e' di divertente e' gia' visto e quel che ha di nuovo non diverte. c'e' tanta musica, d'accordo. troppa.
A reinvention of Michael Caine's 1960s classic starring Jude Law as a lothario forced to rethink his carefree lifestyle.
Yes, The Five Doctors is the one that gathers together Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker and Davison, dumps them on some moorland and lets some of the Doctor's greatest enemies take potshots at them. Except, of course, that William Hartnell had sadly passed on by the time this series was made in 1983 (although his replacement Richard Hurndall does an excellent job) and Tom Baker was only featured as a patched-in cameo, apparently prevented from joining in by a temporal thingummy. However, this kind of creakiness comes with the territory and is soon forgotten. The assorted incarnations of the Doctor (together with a scattering of assistants) are drawn together through time and space to battle Daleks, Cybermen, Yeti--those weird androids which keep jumping into the air and disappearing--and many other old foes. They realise that they're on their home planet of Gallifrey and must eventually deal with the legacy of Rassilon, founder of the Time Lords. It's all great fun, of course, and the excellent chapter points on this DVD compensate for the rather self-indulgent lack of editing. --Roger Thomas
Gene Hackman is a career officer assigned a routine mission well beneath him: deliver a prisoner (Tommy Lee Jones) from Europe to the United States. However, the simple assignment becomes a daring cat-and-mouse game played as the last flames of the Cold War are flickering. This is the first of three films that teamed Jones with director Andrew Davis. In 1989 Jones was a wild card: an actor respected but only popping up in grade B fare. After Davis' Under Siege and The Fugitive, Jones was America's favourite gruff character actor, with an Oscar on his mantel. With a weaker script, Davis still creates the same kind of magic here. Hackman is superb as the officer, an action role similar to others that the nearly 60-year-old unexpectedly excelled at (Bat 21, Narrow Margin) during this period. Tight, tense and with no letup in the third act, The Package is a good gem for a Saturday night flick. --Doug Thomas
All 18 episodes from the first two series of the BBC drama starring Aidan Turner as Captain Ross Poldark. Upon returning to Cornwall after fighting in the American War of Independence, Poldark must rebuild his life following the death of his father with his estate in ruins and his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth (Heida Reed) engaged to his cousin Francis (Kyle Soller), after hearing premature reports of his death. With the help of his new maid Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson), Ross attempts to navigate the hostile, poverty-stricken locals and the region's wealthy and influential businessmen to reopen his family's disused copper mine, Wheal Leisure.
A pitch black, wryly British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe, Prevenge follows Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree. It's her misanthropic unborn baby dictating Ruth's actions, holding society responsible for the absence of a father. The child speaks to Ruth from the womb, coaching her to lure and ultimately kill her unsuspecting victims. Struggling with her conscience, loneliness, and a strange strain of prepartum madness, Ruth must ultimately choose between redemption and destruction at the moment of motherhood. Having shown at Venice, Toronto and most recently the London International Film Festival, Prevenge marks the directorial debut from Lowe, who is a true triple threat, writing, directing, and acting in the film during her own real-life pregnancy.
All 28 episodes from the first three series of the BBC drama starring Aidan Turner as Captain Ross Poldark. After spending three years fighting in the American War of Independence, Poldark must rebuild his life in the small Cornish copper mining town he calls home. However, when he finds his father dead, his estate in ruins and his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth (Heida Reed) engaged to his cousin, the life he once knew seems to no longer exist. With the help of his new maid Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson), Ross attempts to navigate the hostile, poverty-stricken locals and the region's wealthy and influential businessmen to reopen his family's disused copper mine, Wheal Leisure.
Collection of nine short animated films telling the backstory of the Matrix.
A comedy-adventure film best described as Indiana Jones meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With nods to the Matrix, Lord of the Rings and The Goonies it's a treat for fans of science-fiction and fantasy. Starring new YouTube superstar Stuart Ashen, alongside established stars such as Warwick Davis (Harry Potter, Return of the Jedi) and Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf), the film follows Ashens' insane search for a piece of electronic tat. the fabled Game Child console. He is accompanied by f.
Bred from the creators of the classic horror 'Night Of The Living Dead' comes the long awaited sequel 'Children of the Living Dead'. Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town Matthew Michael's only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface this small town is anything but calm and peaceful.
Massively successful comedians Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball return in this hilarious fourth series. Years on the Northern cabaret circuit enabled them to hone their act for this ratings-winning show, making them household names and beloved by millions. A mixture of sketches, spectacular variety entertainment and a wealth of big-name guest stars ensured this highly popular series ran for many years.Enjoy more good-natured comedy capers with the dynamic double act, whose guests for this series include David Essex, Bruce Forsyth, Steve Davis, Frankie Laine, Leo Sayer and Adam Ant.
The Time Lords have this little trick. It's sort of a way of cheating death. Except it means I'm gonna change. The Ninth Doctor The Parting of the Ways. This beautifully-packaged individually numbered and limited edition coffee table book-styled collectors' album is every Doctor Who fan's dream possession. Individually numbered and boasting six DVDs with over 1000 minutes of Doctor Who footage it brings together every Doctor's regeneration episode: from the first Doctor exhausted from battling the Cyberman to Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor suffering from radiation unleashed by the Great One (a giant spider); and from the spectacular transformation of the Ninth Doctor to David Tennant's emotional farewell as the Tenth. The album is adorned with superb photography from across the era and features detailed and informative accounts of every regeneration. And if that wasn't enough new to DVD is The Tenth Planet featuring the Doctor's first regeneration - beautifully restored with the missing fourth episode now brought to life with stunning animation. Utilising the original soundtrack off-screen photographs and a short surviving sequence of the Doctor's regeneration the episode has been now reconstructed in animated form incorporating the restored version of the surviving sequence. Stories Comprise: The Tenth Planet The War Games Planet of the Spiders Logopolis The Caves of Androzani Time and the Rani Doctor Who: The Movie Bad Wolf and the Parting of the Ways The End of Time
Message In A Bottle: Grieving widower Garret Blake builds boats for a living. Rebuilding his life - that's another matter. But that's before Theresa Osborne comes to his North Carolina village. Theresa a lonely divorcee and researcher for the Chicago Tribune knows Garret is the author of the message she found inside a bottle on Cape Cod beach. And she knows the message spoke to her in a way that profoundly touched her heart. Kevin Costner as Garret and Robin Wright Penn as T
A quiet seaside town is engulfed by a thick fog in this chilling horror remake.
Taken from a long-running DC Comics strip, Wonder Woman was made into a popular television series between 1978 and 1981, starring former Miss America Lynda Carter. Capturing the hearts of TV audiences with her sexy outfit as much as her superheroine abilities, Wonder Woman quickly became a kitsch icon, battling the forces of evil with the unforgettably camp "garb of justice", including bullet-proof bangles, a golden lasso and the belt of strength built into her corset. She had an invisible plane, too. Originally Princess Diana of Paradise Island (an uncharted land of Amazon women in the Bermuda Triangle), Wonder Woman is sent as an emissary to the outside world to protect the human race from the forces of evil. And so she becomes Diana Prince, the geeky, bespectacled assistant to Steve Trevor of the Inter Agency Defense Command in Washington, whose father she assisted against the Nazis in the 1940s. In the 70-minute pilot, "The Return of Wonder Woman", our gal is sent in to prevent the nefarious Dr Solano from capturing a nuclear generating plant the Americans are flying into Latin America as a new source of energy. In "Anschluss 77", Steve and Diana are sent to investigate a former Gestapo agent now living in Latin America and have to battle a Nazi force that includes a cloned Adolf Hitler. Finally, in "The Man Who Could Move the World", Wonder Woman's adversary is a Japanese ex-intern from World War II who has developed telekinetic powers. Carter plays the role commendably straight, but just one listen to the theme tune ("in your satin tights, fighting for our rights") makes it clear this isn't meant to be taken seriously. Who else could save us from evil so stylishly? On the DVD: Wonder Woman, Volume 1 includes a gallery of memorabilia, a pretty extensive biography of Lynda Carter and the rest of the cast, and finally a short photo gallery for all you die-hard Wonder Woman fetishists. --Laura Bushell
A story of teenage tearing-away in 1950s America, The Young Stranger fails to make a serious, gripping narrative of the events that follow the somewhat innocuous pivotal moment when 16-year-old Harold "Hal" Ditmar (James MacArthur) punches a cinema manager. Adapted from a TV play and released two years after the benchmark for delinquency movies, Rebel Without a Cause, it has none of that film's raw urgency, seeming staid and inconsequential in comparison. The primary problem is that Hal makes an unconvincing hoodlum. His misdemeanour is less an act of rebellion than a brief misunderstanding. Far from articulating the angst of a generation, his angry tirades against his parents (Kim Hunter and James Daly) and the police set him apart from his peers and feel more like the self-pitying whines of a privileged individual. This sensation is further exacerbated by the fact that all of his problems are swiftly resolved in an all-too-neat ending. Still, The Young Stranger is an interesting period piece, not least for an amusingly tame car chase from first-time feature director John Frankenheimer. --Paul Philpott
Shopping Will Never Be The Same Again! Missing presumed dead in a fire which destroyed his home. Eric Matthews returns a year later to the site now occupied by a massive shopping mall. Demented even insane Eric is obsesed with being re-united with his childhood sweetheart Melody and destroying the mall. Eric is a tragic victim half human half monster trapped between extremes which propel this story beyond reality into fantasy relams of chilling horror and explosive action in this multi-million dollar production with special effects from the man responsible for 'The Kindred'.
Dear Frankie: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress
The Davros Collection contains the following: Doctor Who: Genesis Of The Daleks: This classic Doctor Who story was voted number one in a poll by Doctor Who Magazine. Starring fans' favourite Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor Genesis of the Daleks introduces the merciless villain Davros (Michael Wisher) and tells the terrifying story of how the Daleks came to be. Doctor Who: Destiny of The Daleks: The Doctor and Romana find themselves on Skaro and are forced to be military advisers to the Daleks' enemy Movellans while the Daleks revive Davros. Destiny of the Daleks stars the much loved Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor alongside Lalla Ward as a newly regenerated Romana and David Gooderson the most notorious villain Davros. Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks: Captured in a Time Corridor the Doctor (Peter Davison) and his companions are forced to land on 20th Century Earth after being diverted by the Daleks. It is here that the true purpose of the Time Corridor becomes apparent: after 90 years of imprisonment Davros is to be liberated to assist in the resurrection of his army. But not even the Daleks foresee the poisonous threat presented by their creator. Indeed who would suspect Davros of wanting to destroy his own Daleks - and why? Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks : Davros plans to create a whole new army of Daleks with which to take control of the Universe and it is up to the Doctor (Colin Baker) and Peri (Nicola Bryant) to stop him... Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks Special Edition: The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) returns to London in 1963 to deal with some loose ends involving an ancient and powerful Time Lord device. Things however get messy very quickly when two competing factions of Daleks are also after the same thing. Davros Audio Stories: This special edition box set contains an exclusive compilation of all 7 Davros audio stories plus an exclusive brand new audio story - The Davros Mission written by Nicholas Briggs. In this new audio drama specially commissioned for this box set Davros is taken by the Daleks for trial and imminent execution. But even in his darkest hour he finds allies and an insatiable cunning to survive.
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