At a hospice facility nestled in the mountains of Southern California three very different families face the one thing they have in common: One member of each family is in the last stages of a terminal illness.
An innovative mix of animation and live action, the film deals with the intersecting lives of three people.
The story of Dr. W.T Morgan the 19th century dentist who discovered anesthesia.
Planning a summer filled with fun and romance at the remote Placid Pines Camp nothing can prepare a group of young students for the terror-filled encounters ahead of them. Following in the camp tradition the first night is spent playing a spooky game called 'Bloody Murder'. Thrills by the camp fire soon turn into the students worse nightmare as they begin to disappear one by one...
As the rare and deadly African Ebola virus spreads uncontrollably through the largest urban areas of America a lone doctor fearlessly searches for the truth and uncovers a conspiracy that puts her own life in danger...
A celebration of Britain's most famous and enduring television programme Coronation Street features 80 landmark episodes 8 from each year of the decade from the 1980s in a 10-disc box set. With 8 outstanding episodes from each year this box set represents the very best of Coronation Street in the decade where soap opera viewing figures went through the roof. With many episodes unseen since their original broadcast the release is an opportunity to re
When James Cagney starred in the movie adaptation of The Time of Your Life in 1948, it was hotly been debated whether William Saroyans stage play was really filmable at all. Because of its small cast, because all the action takes place on a single claustrophobic set, because the "plot" consists entirely of sub-plots, and because Saroyans "dirty sentimentality" isnt to everyones taste, such doubts are still understandable today. However, accept the movie for what it is--a play in a box--and youll be captivated. The story revolves around a slightly down-at-heel bar-restaurant, where a group of disparate characters come and go as their stories gradually unfold. They include an ex-prostitute desperately seeking a new life, a dancer looking for a break into showbusiness, a down-and-out who discovers a vocation as a pianist, a beer-sodden cowboy and a villainous "stoolie" who, needless to say, gets his comeuppance. This gaggle of misfits is presided over by an enigmatic, champagne-drinking philanthropist (brilliantly played by Cagney) who gently nudges them towards their goals while indulging his own fascination with the minutiae of daily life. Throughout this quietly delightful picture the audience are not told why hes this way, but it is possible to make an educated guess. On the DVD: The Time of Your Life might be a classic, but it apparently warrants no extra features. The black and white picture is 4:3. --Roger Thomas
A young women named Gabriela has been fascinated with murder ever since she was a child. Moving one step closer to her obsession Gabriela takes a job with a crime scene cleaning service in Miami all the while fantasising about meeting the notorious 'Blue Blood' serial killer. Gabriela's dream is soon filled with a chilling face-to-face encounter with the psychopath... but will she live to tell the tale? Don't miss the surprising conclusion to the film that is as funny as it is frigh
A new horror envelops Tokyo in a web of fear as a mysterious entity runs amok pulling it's victims into the sewers and devouring them! Can even the combined forces of the Knight Sabers Genom and the A.D. Police stop the monster before it chooses its next victim? Then with Linna missing and Sylia and Nene out of action Priss finds herself facing her most deadly adversary yet a gargantuan military boomer that she cannot possibly stop alone. Contains the episodes: My Nation Underg
My Enemy My Friend: During the finals of the Asian Tournament Ray faces off against his old teammate and former friend Mariah. They soon come to realise how much they have lost by being rivals. A Score To Settle: The final match of the Asian Beyblade Tournament reaches an uncertain conclusion when Tyson and Lee's decisive battle ends in a draw. The resulting sudden death session between Ray and Lee rekindles the pair's old hometown grievances. A Star Is Born Fresh: from the Bladebreakers' win in Asia Tyson comes home and realises he's front-page news! Meanwhile at a local playground the kids are all out Beyblading when Tyson spots a boy being bullied. With the help of Max Kenny and Dizzi Tyson manages to rebuild his blade and demands a rematch.
Mark and Cassie Woodman (William Russ and Roma Downey) could be just the perfect couple. They married young and although they've had their problems there proud of their teenage son Kevin and are still as happy as they were on the day they first got married. But when Mark takes a short buisness trip Cassie and Kevin's secure family world is lost when they see a TV news report that Marks plane has crashed with loss of many lives. After an anxious wait they hear the news they've been praying for - Mark is alive although badly injured and unconscious. However Cassie is stunned to discover that Mark had a travelling companion listed as Mrs C.Whitman who didnt survive the crash. The shocks don't end there leaving her wondering if she knew her loving husband at all...
Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the film's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker
Steve Catlin was known as a real lady-killer. But it's his new bride's mysterious death that causes his former wife Edie Ballew to question how accurate that nickname really is. With little more than a hunch and the help of an out-of-town detective Edie finds clues that reveal her cunning and smooth ex husband as a cold methodical killer. But can she warn his latest wife and can she convince the local police...
John Haloran dies from a heart attack leaving his wife Louise with something of a problem; she won't get to inherit any of the Haloran family money when Lady Haloran dies if John is already dead. So Louise forges a letter from John in order to convince the rest of his family that he has been called away urgently on business to New York whilst she journeys to the ghostly ancestral home in Ireland. It is her intention to ingratiate herself into the family and ensure a cut of the inheri
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as an official appointed second-in command to the US ambassador to a tumultuous Eastern European country. When the ambassador is murdered in an attempted coup it's down to JC and a small group of US marines to fend off the attackers!
Now you can own the entire adventures of The X-Files in this bumper DVD box set. every episode from all 9 seasons of this multi-award award-winning show are available for the first time in this exclusive Collector's Edition. Don't miss the opportunity to see how the phenomenon all began back in 1993 and how it came to a close 9 years later!
The last instalment in Herschell Gordon Lewis' ground-breaking 'Blood Trilogy' (begun with Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs!) Color Me Blood Red saw the director focusing his grisly attention on the world of art. But this is graphic art! When temperamental artist Adam Sorg's latest paintings fail to impress his critics he finds himself unable to change his style using the materials at his disposal. Searching in vein for the perfect pigment he discovers that it is the deep re
Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo In Maschera.Live At The Metropolitan Opera on 16 February 1980.
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