Filmmaker Holly invites the stunning Vicki (Anna Walton) to take part in a documentary she's shooting about the Weekend Vampire phenomenon. A passionate and erotic affair quickly develops between the two women. Is it just a coincidence that a series of horrific vampirestyle murders start occurring? Holly eventually discovers that Vicki is responsible for the killings and is devastated. Devastation soon turns to incredulity when Vicki explains that she is a real vampire!
Mojave is a classical, cerebral thriller about a brilliant, near-suicidal artist, Thomas (Garrett Hedlund), who attempts to escape his privileged existence into the desert only to encounter a homicidal, chameleon-like drifter--Jack (Oscar Isaac).
In a totally unexpected piece of casting, Blue Valley Songbird stars Dolly Parton as a country singer/songwriter with big hair, large breasts and lots of lippy. The comparison ends there, though, because here she plays Leana Taylor, a talented performer hampered by her provincial background (and unpleasant manager/boyfriend) who realises she must escape her small-town roots in order to achieve her true potential. This isn't the most taxing of narratives, but it's the music that counts here. This movie is of the "musical drama" genre--take a star musical performer, give them the lead role in a movie, then furnish them with every excuse to perform therein so long as it can be done as a realistic element within the overall story--and as such it's highly agreeable. Parton not only has buckets of musical talent but also has plausible acting skills, even if the viewer is bound to think that these are mainly to do with being Dolly Parton. In any event, the songs are excellent, so this is well worth watching even if you find yourself fast-forwarding until you see someone picking a guitar up.--Roger Thomas
Catherine (Keri Arnold) is a fearless eleven year old who thinks nothing of skipping school to play on the wild Yorkshire moors near her family farm. Her parents hardly notice as they are too preoccupied by her younger brother Matthew's (Jason Walton) illness. As Matthew's condition starts to deteriorate Catherine makes friends with Uma (Kavita Sungha) a new girl in the valley. While playing truant on the moor one day the two girls have a mysterious experience that convinces Catheri
Creatures called Blood Gnomes from another dimension seek human blood to co-mingle with their own. They suddenly appear ripping their victims apart and feeding the remains to a grotesque monster that is their mother. As the body count increases the police are baffled. Daniel a crime scene photographer discovers the secrets to the murders only no one believes him! He follows their trail into the underground S&M world where he encounters the seductive and evil Elandra who controls the creatures 'Mother' imprisoned in a crate to do her bidding. Elandra lures Daniel into a trap at a party where the Blood Gnomes attack him and all the party goers in an orgy of blood and carnage.
A double bill of Jackie Chan/Owen Wilson Wild West adventures including Shanghai Noon and the sequel Shanghai Knights Shanghai Noon (Dir. Tom Dey 2000): Two cultures collide when East meets West in Shanghai Noon a wildly hilarious stunt-filled action-adventure-comedy starring the death-defying action hero Jackie Chan Owen Wilson and Lucy Liu. Chan plays Chinese Imperial Guard Chon Wang (say it out loud) who hightails it to the wi
Spotswood (Aka The Efficiency Expert)
Aamber (Anna Walton) is a young nurse, intent on getting home to her family after a long shift. Frankie (Danny Dyer) is a dangerous psychopath on the run. When he takes her hostage in her car, she realises she must rely on her own wits to survive and soon a deadly cat and mouse game ensues through the long, nightmarish night. By morning, only one of them will be left alive...
An inspired experimental chemist, wakes up in a New Orleans jail, accused of arson that's linked to an illegal drug-manufacturing ring. Suffering from amnesia, he's unexpectedly released on bail, determined to find his missing girlfriend.
Set in the deep American south Claude Montgomery (Thornton) and his wife Ruby (Dern) head back to their roots in Little Rock Arkansas to reunite with their family and lend support to their Uncle Hazel (Varney) who has been arrested for attempted murder. Here they meet with Ruby's eccentric mother Jewel (Ladd) her sultry sister Rose (Preston) and other members of their outrageous family in an amusing yet poignant story of family feuds mixed with sweeter emotions.
The character of Charlie Chan was created by Ohio born Earl Derr Biggers Warner Oland played the part aplomb in this adventure Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police force crack detective and worldwide celebrity finds himself in England and accepts a case where he has to find a murderer in 65 hours to save an innocent man from the gallows the action takes place in a wealthy country home where there is more than one dead body the obligatory assault on Chan himself misleading clues an
How Much Are You Worth? Conrad a director at a high-powered advertising agency is in mourning for his lost relationship. To ease the pain he hires a male prostitute Tyler for $200 and finds himself in danger of falling in love again. Although Conrad is getting more involved he understands things have to remain on a financial level and offers Tyler a job at the agency on condition that he has sex with him twice a week. But the effects of Tyler's entry into the workforc
Few composers have been more loved in their lifetime than William Walton. His capacity to astonish and profoundly move us remains undiminished. This Italia prize-winning film includes the only full-length interview ever recorded with Walton. It includes contributions from Laurence Olivier, Sacheverell Sitwell and Lady Susana Walton. Specially performed extracts of his music are conducted by Simon Rattle in his first substantial contribution to television when he was in his early 20s, with Sim.
One of Herschell Gordon Lewis' most weird and wonderful films The Gruesome Twosome saw a return to form for its director after a short diversion into less gory (and less commercially successful) celluloid territory. Mrs Pringle's Little Wig Shop is a family business specialising in hairpieces crafted from human hair. Located on a college campus the shop is well served by the number of young women eager to change their style. But the laws of supply and demand are such that the Pringles are forced to make a few sacrifices... human sacrifices. Wielding his trusty electric carving knife Mrs Pringle's son Ronald helps his Mom out by scalping those unfortunate enough to enquire about the room that the old lady has to rent. This outrageous and blackly comic movie features a truly surreal opening sequence that has to be seen to be believed. You'll flip your wig!
First screened on ITV's South Bank Show in 1981, At the Haunted End of the Day remains the only full-length documentary on Sir William Walton, and is probably the most perceptive of Tony Palmer's composer studies from the 1980s. The first half of Walton's life is the stuff of novels: his unremarkable childhood in Oldham; his years as a chorister at Oxford University; his induction into "high society" by the Sitwell family; above all, the series of major works written during the 1920s and early 30s. The second half--when Walton relocated to Ischia and, surrounded by the tropical garden his wife Susana created, continued to compose impressive but often overlooked works--allows for some stunning footage of the Italian coastline. Musical contributions are plentiful, notably the young Simon Rattle directing Belshazzar's Feast and the First Symphony, and there are revealing interviews with Sacheverell Sitwell and Laurence Olivier. Interspersed throughout is film of the composer at work and in transit: laconic, self-deprecating, yet resolutely aware of his own worth. On the DVD: At the Haunted End of the Day arrives on disc in a standard TV 4:3 video aspect that reproduces well, though picture quality varies according to location. The soundtrack has the required immediacy. There are no subtitles, nor any extras: a "20 years on" postscript would have been welcome, though Palmer does provide some candid observations on the making of music documentaries in the accompanying booklet.--Richard Whitehouse
A young girl and her grandfather are torn apart by her parents divorce. She finally makes a stand for herself which lays the groundwork for mending the fractured ties.
The complete BBC recording of the service attended by H.M. The Queen, H.R.H. The Duke Of Edinburgh, The Royal Family, the family of H.R.H. The Duchess of Cornwall and eight hundred guests, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Revd and Rt Hon. Dr Rowan Williams, assisted by the Dean of Windsor, The Rt Revd David Conner.The service includes music by Albinoni, Bach, Gretchaninov, Hoddinott and others, chosen by Their Royal Highnesses, performed by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Christopher Warren-Green and the Choir of St George's Chapel conducted by Timothy Byram-Wigfield, with organist Roger Judd.
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