Collection of four BBC adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays comprising 'Richard II', 'Henry IV: Part One', 'Henry IV: Part Two' and 'Henry V'. Beginning in the year 1399, the plays deal with events affecting the monarchy during a 16-year period, where the ruling orders of Richard II (Ben Whishaw), Henry IV (Jeremy Irons) and Henry V (Tom Hiddleston) find themselves beset by rebellion, greed and war. The cast also includes Rory Kinnear, Simon Russell Beale, Julie Walters and Lindsay Duncan.
How do you prevent terrorists from unleashing mayhem on the entire world? You don't. This is a job for IMF agent Ethan Hunt. The world's greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe.
The Remains of the Day is one of Merchant-Ivory's most thought-provoking films. Anthony Hopkins is a model of restraint and propriety as Stevens, the butler who "knows his place"; Emma Thompson is the animated and sympathetic Miss Kenton, the housekeeper whose attraction to Stevens is doomed to disappointment. As Nazi appeaser Lord Darlington, James Fox clings to the notion of a gentleman's agreement in the ruthless political climate before World War Two. Hugh Grant is his journalist nephew all too aware of reality, while Christopher Reeves gives a spirited portrayal of an American senator, whose purchase of Darlington Hall 20 years on sends Stevens on a journey to right the mistake he made out of loyalty. As a period drama with an ever-relevant message, this 1993 film is absorbing viewing all the way. On the DVD: the letterbox widescreen format reproduces the 2.35:1 aspect ratio with absolute clarity. Subtitles are in French and German, with audio subtitles also in English, Italian and Spanish, and with 28 separate chapter selections. The "making-of" featurette and retrospective documentary complement each other with their "during and after" perspectives, while "Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honour" is an interesting short on the question of appeasement and war. The running commentary from Thompson, Merchant and Ivory is more of a once-only diversion. --Richard Whitehouse
You asked for more...and the Planet Express crew is delivering! Welcome back to Futurama, the light-years-ahead-of-its-time animated series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Join Fry, Bender, Leela and the rest of the gang for 13 hilarious new episodes that tackle some of the most controversial subjects in the galaxy...including evolution, mind exchange, feline intelligence and robosexual marriage. Hey, it could happen!Futurama has consistently received high critical acclaim, culminating in a Guinness World Record for Current Most Critically Acclaimed Animated Series in 2010. Season 5 includes all 13 new episodes and special features including Deleted Scenes, Full-length Audio Commentaries, The Prisoner of Benda Live Table Read and plenty more!
Decorated Civil War veteran Nathan Algren (Cruise) is sent to Japan to train and lead the Emperor's troops in modern Western gunpowder intensive warfare to eliminate the country's remaining rebelling samurai. Captured and imprisoned by the outlawed warriors Algren is slowly swayed by their strict adherence to the honourable code of Bushido and when the Emperor's forces mass once again Algren offers to join his former captors in an effort to preserve their way of life...
Ruled by the mighty King Augustin Carpia is a peaceful kingdom in a fantasy world inhabited by dragons knights and magical forces. The land's serenity is unexpectedly shattered by a Fire Dragon rising from afaraway land whose rampage spreads almighty fear and death amongst the kingdom's innocent people. In order to save her subjects from terror the daring princess Luisa asks Gabriel the son of a legendary dragonslayer for help. Together they must free the Ice Dragon the only creature who can defeat the monster thatbrings destruction upon their kingdom. But soon their savior will become their worst enemy.
What happened to Emily?Based on a true story. In 1976, the Catholic Church officially recognised the demonic possession of a German college freshman. During her exorcism the young woman died and the priest stood trial for causing her death. Academy Award nominee Laura Linney plays an attorney who defends the priest. The case reawakens her faith.
Det. Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) finds herself investigating a bizarre death in a very different part of London an affluent commuter suburb. When the manager of the local country club is found dead in his home neighbours are quick to blame youngsters from the rundown housing estate nearby and the local police are happy to go along with that view. With her personnel resources at full stretch D.S. Tennison is forced to engage in political games with the community while pulling together a difficult team and leading a problematic investigation.
C C Drood an easy-going cartoonist whose life turns into a nightmare of murder and abduction in this fast-paced complex thriller set in Los Angeles. Following a mail mix-up Drood is kidnapped by thugs throwing himself from the car he reports the kidnapping to the police. He meets Detective Smiley who at the end of the interview produces photographs of a woman called Yolanda murdered that morning. Drood's life is turned upside down when the corrupt cop tries to frame him for the murder of Yolanda.
Intolerance is considered the greatest film of the silent era and may well be the greatest film ever made. It has gained this reputation due to its influence on other filmmakers an influence that has become film grammar itself. The man behind the film D.W. Griffith is the acknowledged master of cinematic storytelling the first American director to elevate the movies to the level of serious art. More than 50 years after Griffith's death there is little question of the brillian
Comedian Katy Brand's hilarious sketch show in which she impersonates Amy Winehouse Lily Allen and Kate Nash among others!
Julia Stonecypher is down on her luck. She has lost her husband and the vice-president of the local bank pays a visit to tell her the house is being repossessed and she and her two children are homeless. After leaving Julia's house Brian the bank vice-president has an accident in his car and is forced to return to the house and shelter from the severe storm. A romance begins and Julia's life starts to take a turn for the better...
A SWAT compound comes under fire from an international terrorist who relentlessly and violently pursues a mystery man who was apprehended by Seattle SWAT after a raid went horribly wrong. The squad have 24 hours to find the terrorist and the man he s taken.
Spongebob Squarepants & The Big Wave / Spongebob Movie (2 Disc)
An airliner, Flight 65 from Washington D.C., crashes on landing. When rescuers arrive they find the plane completely empty. The crew and passengers have all vanished - and the Falcon finds himself embarking on the strangest case he has ever investigated!Among the missing passengers are top industrialist Stanley Palmer (Clarence Kolb) and his assistant Wally Fairchild (Robert E. Keane). The mystery deepens as the Palmer family start receiving ransom notes. Is the motive really kidnapping and extortion? Or has it got something to do with the big government war contract Palmer was pitching for?As The Falcon goes searching for the truth he finds that Palmer's family all seem to have their own guilty secrets - and it's not long before the shooting starts...
Steamboat Bill Jnr. / 1928: A spoiled young man is forced by his father to learn the ropes of river-boating on the Mississippi. After a series of mishaps which land the captain in jail Buster tries unsuccessfully to spring him. The highlight comes in the shape of a hurricane which smashes and destroys buildings and the pier and allows Buster to prove his worth by saving the Captain who is up to his neck in water. Convict 13 / 1920: Golf is the game that brings out the best in
A year before the outbreak of the First World War Charlie MacFell returns from university to Northumberland to visit the farm where he spent an unhappy childhood and where his brutal father would subject young farm hands to vicious beatings on the hot cinder path. Marriage to the beautiful but adulterous Victoria Chapman turns out to be a further humiliation for Charlie but when he joins the army he discovers amongst the horrors of the Western Front a strength he never knew existed. Respected by his family and by his men on the battlefield he finally finds true love with his wife's younger sister. Just as lasting happiness is within his grasp fate seems poised to snatch it all away...
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