Rev is a contemporary sitcom about the enormous daily frustrations and moral conflicts of the Rev Andrew Smallbone (played by Tom Hollander). He's a Church of England vicar newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy socially-divided world of St Botolph's in Kennington South London. It's a very modern world he has no experience of... And it shows.
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart. Includes a booklet.
Winning a raft of awards, not least of which four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, Oliver Stone's Platoon was a box-office smash heralding Hollywood's second wave of Vietnam war films. Where predecessors The Deer Hunter (1978) and Apocalypse Now (1979) were elaborate epics, Platoon simply showed the daily reality of the war from the point of view of ordinary soldiers. Stone's own service in Vietnam gives his work a unique authenticity. Charlie Sheen gives his best performance to date, enduring a series of increasingly large-scale and bloody battles which retrospectively make one wonder why Saving Private Ryan was hailed as so new. Against this gruelling verity the film falters over the symbolic conflict between good and evil sergeants played by Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger. Even though this was also based in real life, it strikes a too conventionally Hollywood-like note in a film which otherwise maintains much of the raw power of Stone's other film from 1986, Salvador. Johnny Depp fans should look out for an early appearance by the star. Stone would return to Vietnam with the more sophisticated Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven and Earth (1993). On the DVD: The 50-minute documentary "Tour of the Inferno" goes beyond the usual "making-of" to present a personal account both of the film and of Stone's own time in Vietnam. Likewise the two audio commentaries--one by Stone, the other by Captain Dale Dye, fellow veteran and military technical advisor--range between the making of the film and the degree to which the actors came to inhabit their parts, to their own wartime experiences. Both commentaries bring a fresh level of appreciation and understanding to the film. Also included is the original trailer and three TV commercials, together with well-presented stills galleries of behind-the-scenes photos and poster art. Following a credit sequence marred by dirt on the print, the anamorphically enhanced 1.77:1 image is sharp and clear. The many night scenes are very dark but remain easily comprehensible. The three-channel Dolby Digital sound is suitably raw and powerful, though an early sequence featuring rain in the jungle suffers from very distracting repeated drop-outs in the left channel. --Gary S Dalkin
NASA's worst nightmare turned into one of the space agency's most heroic moments in 1970, when the Apollo 13 crew was forced to hobble home in a disabled capsule after an explosion seriously damaged the moon-bound spacecraft. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton play (respectively) astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in director Ron Howard's intense, painstakingly authentic docudrama. The Apollo 13 crew and Houston-based mission controllers race against time and heavy odds to return the damaged spacecraft safely to Earth from a distance of 205,500 miles. Using state-of-the-art special effects and ingenious filmmaking techniques, Howard and his stellar cast and crew build nail-biting tension while maintaining close fidelity to the facts. The result is a fitting tribute to the Apollo 13 mission and one of the biggest box-office hits of 1995. --Jeff Shannon
Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film Crazy Heart from writer-director Scott Cooper. In London cinemas from 19 February, nationwide from 5 March.
From Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Director Gore Verbinski (Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise) come Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer in The Lone Ranger. Filled with action and excitement this thrilling adventure brings the famed masked hero to life through brand-new eyes. Native American warrior Tonto (Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Hammer) a man of the law into a legend of justice. It's a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as these two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Bloopers
When they were 12 years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the woods. Mark's 5 year old brother Jesse was bothering them. They told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years later, Danny now a detective learns some shocking news. Jesse's DNA has been found at a murder scene
Returning to the origins of the massively popular RESIDENT EVIL franchise, fan and filmmaker Johannes Roberts brings the games to life for a whole new generation of fans. In RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY, once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town.The company's exodus left the city a wasteland with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
Years of abuse endured in silence. This is Beth Williamson's life a life of lies and denial where nothing will stop the shocking brutality she suffers at the hands of her husband Tim. Finally as Tim's reign of terror reaches a shattering climax she can take no more. Beth has no choice but to flee with her young daughter. But with the police powerless to control Tim Beth becomes her husband's prey - and he'll stop at nothing to hunt her down. Her only hope is to go 'underground'. But when Beth becomes a vital witness in a murder case she is faced with a terrible choice: either she can protect her annonymity and her life or let a friend's killer go free...
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES combines fantastic storytelling with the next leap in Visual Effects for an emotional and action-packed motion picture experience unlike any other.
Antoine Bardon-Jacquet directs this comedy drama starring Ron Perlman and Rupert Grint as reluctant accomplices in a 1969 ruse. With the planned USA moon mission imminent, CIA agent Kidman (Perlman) is tasked with persuading Stanley Kubrick to produce a fake moon landing film in case the venture goes awry. A naive Kidman travels to London where he is duped by seedy band manager Jonny (Grint) who introduces his waster friend Leon (Robert Sheehan) as Kubrick to get the handsome down payment. When it dawns on Kidman that he's been tricked, he forces Jonny to help him get a moon landing film. But with only seven days till lift off, can they pull it off?
Welcome to Kehoe, it's -10 degrees and counting at this glitzy ski resort in the Rocky Mountains. The local police aren't used to much action until the son of unassuming town snowplough driver, Nels Coxman (Liam Neeson), is murdered at the order of Viking (Tom Bateman), a flamboyant drug lord. Fueled by rage and armed with heavy machinery, Nels sets out to dismantle the cartel one man at a time, but his understanding of murder comes mainly from what he read in a crime novel. As the bodies pile up, his actions ignite a turf war between Viking and his long-standing rival White Bull (Tom Jackson), a soulful Native-American mafia boss, that will quickly escalate and turn the small town's bright white slopes blood-red.
Super spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) and scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if this odd couple can't learn to work as a team, the whole world is in peril. SPIES IN DISGUISE is an animated comedy set in the high-octane globe-trotting world of international espionage.
When a geophysicist discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating, he must gather the world's gifted scientists to travel into the earth's core and detonate a device that will reactivate it.
In this latest film adaptation of a Stephen King novel Anthony Hopkins stars in the tale of a widowed mother and her son whose lives change when a mysterious stranger moves into the apartment above them.
Christian Bale stars in director Christopher Nolan's new take on the origin of the legendary superhero.
A young man’s mythical quest to solve the riddle of the Gods unlock the doors to Olympus and become an immortal. Hero’s epic journey leads him through the darkest realms of Ancient Greece accompanied by the beautiful but twisted Oracle of Gaia the powerful sorceress Medea and genius inventor Daedalus. Hero battles trickster gods vicious monsters seductive nymphs kings and despots as he transforms from fresh-faced naïve young man into a ruthless cold-hearted killer and a match for the gods themselves. OLYMPUS is a fast-paced fantasy/drama set in Ancient Greece. While it takes place in a visually stunning mythological world that defies the realm of imagination the series is grounded in timeless storytelling presenting a no-holds-barred adventure into the darker side of human nature and laying bare our most twisted desires of lust betrayal jealousy greed ambition fear trust…and love.
Tom Selleck reprises his role as Jesse Stone in the fourth installment of the Jesse Stone series. The movies are based on the best-selling novels by Robert B. Parker. In this exciting drama Jesse Stone has settled in as the police chief of the small New England town of Paradise Mass. and his ultimate nightmare has come true: Stone finds himself filling his time writing parking tickets and struggling to keep his ever-present attraction to beautiful women and booze under control. With one of his officers on maternity leave and another fighting for his life after suffering a gunshot wound Jesse's restlessness gets the best of him and he re-opens a 12-year-old cold case involving the murder of a bank teller. Jesse finds his unsolved case unfolding while he's also investigating the tawdry circumstances surrounding an alleged rape aboard a yacht during the town's annual Race Week.
Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz star in this mysterious thriller based on the Spanish film "Abre los Ojos."
American Indians were "cool" in 1970, the year A Man Called Horse made its vigorous, feverishly real, and occasionally shocking debut alongside Little Big Man and Soldier Blue. Unlike the latter two films, however, Horse is less an allegory for Vietnam-era America and more of a vision quest for historical identity. In one of his defining roles, Richard Harris plays an English aristocrat captured by Dakota Sioux in 1825. Over time, he adopts their way of life and eventually becomes tribal leader--but not before undergoing savage initiation rituals, the most famous of which involves being suspended by blades inserted beneath Harris's pectoral muscles. Horse looks clunky, quaint, and inadvertently demeaning in some respects today, but the film's Native-American milieu is at least defined on its own terms, making no concessions to familiar Western conventions. The real draw is Harris, whose performance has a soulful integrity. --Tom Keogh
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