In the first season of The X Files, creator Chris Carter was uncertain of the series' future, so each of the episodes is a self-contained suspense story; they do not delve deep into the ongoing X Files mythology or turn to self-parody and humour as do episodes in later seasons. Yet, these episodes display the elements for which the show would become famous: the cinematic production values and top-notch special effects, the stark lighting of the Vancouver sets, the atmospheric halo of Mark Snow's score, and the clever plots dealing with subjects ranging from the occult, religion, and monsters to urban legends, conspiracy theories and science fiction. Most importantly, Season 1 introduces FBI agents Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox "Spooky" Mulder (David Duchovny), two of the most attractive government officials around. Scully is the serious-minded medical scientist assigned to join Mulder on the X Files, a division of the FBI dealing with the paranormal. Mulder is the intuitive thinker with a dry wit, a passionate believer in the existence of paranormal phenomena and one of the few characters on television smart enough to figure out who the bad guy is before the audience does. Their muddled relationship, a deep friendship laced with sexual tension, provides the human heart in a world where the bizarre and horrible lurk in everyday society. The materials on the bonus disc provide some interesting trivia and background, but it is the 24 episodes themselves that make this seven-disc boxed set a true find. Those unfamiliar with The X Files often view all the fuss with the same scepticism with which Scully first regards her new partner's ideas. But just as she comes to realise the uncanny accuracy of Mulder's outlandish theories, newcomers to The X Files who sample a few episodes in this boxed set will likely find themselves riveted to their television late into the night. And undoubtedly, the shadows and creaking noises in the house that evening will seem more menacing than usual. --Eugene Wei
Recorded in July 2001, Tom Jones's high-voltage return to his roots in Live at Cardiff Castle, featuring more than two hours of hits spanning four decades, certainly set the grounds of Cardiff Castle--and 10,000 fans--alight. As a singer, Jones has always played a canny game. He's proved particularly adept at reinventing himself as an avuncular costar for today's young singers, bumping and grinding through hip-hop and rhythm and blues without neglecting the brassy novelty numbers which set him on the path to stardom back in the 1960s. The voice has survived the years virtually intact. Subtlety was never exactly a Tom Jones trademark and everything is attacked with the stops full out. All the hits are here: "Delilah" and "What's New Pussycat" are interspersed with "Burning Down the House" and a "Sex Bomb" which really zips along. The hips might not be as snake-like as they once were and the pouring sweat is testimony to the effort required by gyrations which would test a much younger man. But when he sails into "The Green Green Grass of Home", it sounds like a deserved paean both to his staying power and a charisma which genuinely appeals across the generations. --Piers Ford
Tom Cruise ignites the screen in this runaway smash hit that 'holds you on the edge of your seat before blasting you out of it.' (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times). Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers... and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. Product Features Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible Mission: Explosive Exploits Mission: Spies Among Us Mission: Catching the Train Mission: International Spy Museum Mission: Agent Dossiers Mission: Marketing Excellence in Film: Cruise Generation: Cruise Photo Gallery Trailer Gallery HD
The Kingdom of Camelot is plunged into darkness after the death of noble King Arthur, as the reign of his cruel sorceress sister, Morgan, begins. Commanding three deadly dragons with her dark magic, she hunts the remaining Knights of the Round Table to the ends of the Earth. Galahad realizes that in order to succeed, they must find his father, Lancelot, who's been in exile for years. Only then will they be able to journey back to Camelot, defeat Morgan and her dragons, and rescue the Lady Gui.
Doctor Who: Masque Of Mandragora (Dr Who)
All seven films together for the first time! Films Comprise: 1. Alien (Dir. Ridley Scott 1979) 2. Aliens (Dir. James Cameron 1986) 3. Alien 3 (Dir. David Fincher 1992) 4. Alien Resurrection (Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1997) 5. Predator (Dir. John McTiernan 1987) 6. Predator 2 (Dir. Stephen Hopkins 1990) 7. Alien vs Predator (Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson 2004)
Eighteen year old Rachel is an aspiring songwriter who has given up on her music after the recent death of her mother and without an attentive father figure in her life.Rachel’s father’s newest recruit, Amy, is staying in their swanky Los Angeles guest house for the weekend. Amy becomes the sole inspiration that Rachel has been yearning for. A wholesome college graduate fresh to California from the cornfields of Iowa, Amy happily confesses her dreams and desires to Rachel over the course of the weekend — and the two women gradually fall in deep passionate love.
Northern California's majestic Redwood Forest is thei scene fori a chance encounter between two young children (Matthew Garber Karen Dotrice) andi Jasper (Tom Lowell) a two-foot high gnome. Jasper has been desperately searching for a suitable bride to please Knobby (Walter Brennan) his 900-year old grandfather. Surprised and delighted with their find the children agree to help Jasper with his predicament - a problem that develops into a wild chase when an enterprising showman (Sea
John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut featuring Harry Dean Stanton (Cool Hand Luke; Alien; Paris, Texas; Repo Man) in one of his last starring roles. Lucky follows the spiritual journey of Harry Dean Stanton's character Lucky', a cantankerous, self-reliant 90 year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit the Arizona town where he lives. Having out-lived and out-smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. Released in the US just days after Stanton's death at age 91, Lucky, is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection. Eureka Entertainment are proud to present Lucky on Blu-ray and DVD, as well as the acclaimed 2012 documentary, Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction.
Matt Damon returns as the amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne who must return to the world he has so tried to leave behind him when a murder is committed in his name.
Based on Catherine Cookson's best-selling novel of murder passion and betrayed friendships this sweeping drama spans forty years during the second half of the 19th century. Roddy Greenback arrives in a remote Northumberland community. His father meets a violent death leaving the boy alone with no family to speak of. The young Roddy is adopted and raised by Kate Makepeace a good friend of his father and develops a close friendship with Hal and Mary Ellen but their sibling bond is put to the test as they become adults. The hidden secrets of the past are painfully unearthed as their lives continue to be intertwined by a tragic destiny.
Tom Green, who also wrote and directed this outrageous movie, plays a sad young man from Portland, Oregon, who dreams of becoming an animator. His parents (Rip Torn and Julie Hagerty) send him off to Los Angeles, but he comes back!
The Silkworm is the two-part drama adapted from the second novel in JK Rowling's critically acclaimed Cormoran Strike series, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The story follows on from the events in the first drama of the series which received rave reviews, Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling. They successfully solved the murder of model Lula Landry now Cormoran Tom Burke) and his partner Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger) are hired to solve their next case.
For Creepshow 2, the quickie 1987 sequel to the Stephen King-scripted/George Romero-directed 1982 original, Romero shifted jobs to become the screenwriter, earning King (who also has a goony cameo as a trucker) a "based on stories by" credit. Cinematographer Michael Gornick stepped up to make an uninspiring directorial debut, turning out a conventional TV-look picture unlike the sometimes striking Creepshow. A frame story mixes live action and cartoon as a small boy leafs through the latest issue of his favourite horror comic while plotting revenge against neighbourhood bullies. A pun-dropping host called the Creep (played by Tom Savini when not a cartoon) introduces three anecdotes. In "Old Chief Wooden Head", George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour are kindly Western shopkeepers killed by tearaways and avenged by the wooden Indian which stands outside the place. In "The Raft", four obnoxious teens are terrorised on a lake by a hungry slime-monster. And in "The Hitch-Hiker", hit-and-run driver Lois Chiles is haunted by her squashed victim, who keeps reappearing in a progressively battered forms. Though King and Romero deliver a good mix of cynical and melodramatic dialogue, the stories are disappointingly thin and predictable, with especially weak punch-lines. Of the performers, only Chiles really works up the hysterical attack needed to play a comic book character. On the DVD: just a trailer. The picture is a fullscreen print that cuts off crucial details in the comic book panels. --Kim Newman
The complete 1975 BBC adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel of social climbing betrayal and illicit affairs. The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior soon becoming bored and sexually frustrated. As a result she embarks on a series of affairs in her quest for real sexual fulfilment but in the process bankrupting her husband and sowing the seeds of her own self-destruction...
From the Arrow creative team of executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg and director David Nutter, The Flash is a fast-paced super hero drama that follows the high-speed adventures of the Fastest Man Alive. Written by Berlanti, Kreisberg and DC Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, the action drama follows Central City Police scientist Barry Allen, an everyday guy with the heart of a hero and the genuine desire to help others. Standing still emotionally since the day his mother was murdered (and his father unjustly jailed for the crime), Barry was taken in as a child by the investigating Detective West and raised in a cop's home alongside West's supersmart daughter (and Barry's dream girl) Iris. But when an unexpected and devastating accident at the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator facility strikes Barry, he finds himself suddenly charged with the incredible power to move at super speeds. While Barry has always been a hero in his soul, his newfound powers have finally given him the ability to act like one. With the help of the research team at S.T.A.R. Labs - including billionaire visionary Harrison Wells, biogenetics expert Caitlin Snow and the eternally upbeat Cisco Ramon - Barry begins testing the limits of his evolving powers and using them to stop crime, ensuring that no one suffers a similar tragedy to his own family history. Working with his adopted father Detective West; West's conceited partner Detective Eddie Thawne and Iris West, who's earning her degree in Criminal Psychology, Barry uses his superhuman abilities to help the people of Central City and stop the rogues' gallery of villains -- many of whom have also been altered by the particle accelerator explosion. Concealing his identity behind his incredible velocity, Barry can not only accomplish feats faster than human comprehension, but also taps into an energy that allows him to access moments out of time -- both past and future. With a winning personality and a smile on his face, Barry Allen - aka The Flash - is finally moving forward in life, very, very fast.
An Inside Look Into the Life of an Iconic Fashion Editor with Carine Roitfeld Stephen Gan Karl Lagerfeld Tom Ford Donatella Versace Alexander Wang Alber Elbaz and More. Mademoiselle C goes behind the polished veneer of the international fashion industry showcasing the hectic yet inspiring life of one of the few people in the world who does not make the wheel of fashion turn but has the wheel of fashion turning around her. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Trailer
'Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)' stars Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer as the dead detective and his hapless but very much alive partner. Mad ghosts mummified bodies experiments that mysteriously change a person's gender; nothing it seems is beyond the perlexing world inhabited by super-sleuth characters Jeff Randle and Marty Hopkirk aided and abetted by ghost-busting glamour girl Jeannie (Emilia Fox) and Hopkirk's mentor Wyvern (Tom Baker). Features every episode from series 1 & 2. Series 1 1. Drop Dead 2. Mental Apparition Disorder 3. The Best Years Of Your Death 4. Paranoia 5. A Blast From The Past 6. A Man Of Substance Series 2 1. Whatever Possessed You 2. Revenge Of The Bog People 3. O Happy Isle 4. Painkillers 5. Marshall & Snellgrove 6. The Glorious Butranekh 7. Two Can Play That Game For episode synopses please refer to the individual box sets.
When the TARDIS lands in on Earth in a quarry the Doctor and Sarah are caught in a mining explosion. She is found clutching what appears to be a fossilised hand buried in 150 million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive... Originally transmitted on BBC1 2 October to 23 October 1976.
Following in the great Carry On... tradition with a bit of Monty Python thrown in for good measure Nuns On The Run is a classic slice of slapstick comedy starring Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane. Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to ""leave"" he sets them up to be killed after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. Brian and Charlie decide to steal the money for themselves but when their escape doesn't go to plan they have t
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