Son of Rambow is a one of a kind film. Witty humour, cleverly written, happy tale of friendship shared between two lads from different backgrounds.
An easy watching film that conveys the beauty of friendship, no matter what your background.
I really enjoyed this film, bit sketchy at the beginning but got very enjoyable half way through. Katherine Heigl was a perfect choice for this film and James Marsden provides sufficent eye candy for any woman...
A really good comedy if you like your humour a little bit stupid at times.
All the characters are main characters and all have their own funny little ways and if you look at your friends im sure you'll know a louise or a gaz and if you're really unlucky a kelly from the pub!!
This breathtaking movie even stabs at the coldest of hearts the movie is one of the greatest love stories since romeo and juliet and is ended in a tradgedy when one of the lovers is frozen to deeth when the titanic sinks.
omg Betty is back this dvd is funny and fabulously dooshy in evey way betty wanted to be a writer so got a job at mode magazine as dainels assistant,however with nearly every one wanting to takeover mode magazine espeasially now the big boss is dead things at mode get rather complicated .
the gang is back for another series of friends this is so funny and you'l really enjoy every episode
this dvd is absolutly hysterical and reaches out to all age groups from 5 year olds to 50 years it will have the whole family in fits of laughter
This dvd was absolutly wonderful in everyway its about Hugh leaving the farm to go on a journey that will test even him to the full, but he gets alot out of the trip when he goes fishing and he even gets to keep some of the goods for himself to cook and experiment with. If your tiered of the same boring thing you do each day, you go to work come home tidy up ,cook diner its the same old same old then this dvd is for you.watch it when the kids are in bed and with a cup of tea in your hand and this dvd is totaly relaxing and you'll be talking about for ages just like i was. You'll feel like you've just come back from a fabulous holiday this dvd really is amazing !
Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall left the busy life of the city a few years ago to live out his dream of being a small holder.A few years later his small holding is up and running.See him in this spectacular dvd of him and his animals battle to survive for another seson at river cottage. not only that but see him creating some more of his fabulously dooshy meals and snacks.why not buy this dvd and be taken in to his world of contry life, trust me when i say i havnt seen anything like it before !
Christopher Walken is a stand up guy and an absolute legend; an actor who could make a nursery rhyme sound like a death warrant, deliver what's arguably the greatest gag ever written about a timepiece in the history of cinema, wax lyrical about Calvin Klein pants, explain the concept of the tooth fairy or create what's got to be the most menacing paraplegic who ever rolled on screen. Abel Ferrara's cult crime movie sees former Mafioso-turned Mafioso philanthropist Frank White (Walken) launch a bloody campaign to reclaim power in N.Y. after a long stretch in Sing-Sing. Ferrara, an auteur as profoundly disturbed as he is talented, wisely reunited with old friend and collaborator; screenwriter Nichols St. John for this ambitious, streamlined picture; whose themes of resurrection & return reflect Ferrara's directorial career at the dawn of a last decade. After a lukewarm reception to his take on Elmore Leonard's 'Cat Chaser' this marked Abel's return to the lurid, gritty urban exploitation thrillers that'd bought him to prominence in the late 1970s, it was also a Dickensian 'Tale Of Two Movies' for Christopher Walken; his Oscar winning performance in 'The Deer Hunter' followed by high profile failures 'Heaven's Gate' and 'Pennies From Heaven'. Walken, written off by studios as a relic of a bygone era, soon flirted with cult credibility in films like 'The Dead Zone', 'Brainstorm', 'War Zone' and 'Communion' hence 'The King Of New York' was an ideal vehicle for the erstwhile song n' dance man to shine. Now Frank White must've done at least 15-20 on murder one or drug related offences, so I'm guessing he caught the vapours of the Carter era but spent the Regan years inside, only to emerge during George H.W. Bush's presidency to discover things were worse than ever. Frank sets about settling some old scores and decides to do for his city what the powers that be can't or won't: wage a ruthless turf war from the inside out, with an effective, if unorthodox, policy of extreme violence against all who stand in his way (i.e. cops or criminals) and giving alms to help the poor (i.e. trying to keep a hospital open. getting hookers of the street etc). A quietly charismatic, death dealing demagogue, Frank is aided by his resourceful lawyer / lover; Jennifer (Janet Julian), female bodyguards Melanie and Raye (perhaps a thematic nod in favour of then U.S. enemy Colonel Gaddafi whose famous for having women bodyguards) and right hand man Laurence 'Larry' Fishburne in the kind of gangsta role satirised by Robert Townsend in 'Hollywood Shuffle'. Larry hams it up with his gold capped tooth, gaudy bling, exaggerated street speak and sprained ankle shuffle which, though I'm no expert, looks and sounds dated, even in 1989. Stoic old-timer, the late/great Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes and David Caruso play the cops hell-bent on sending Frank back inside or putting him underground, meanwhile, be sure to look out for cameo appearances by Steve Buscemi, Paul Calderon, Giancarlo Esposito, Vanessa Angel and Harold Perrineau. 'The King Of New York' isn't a particularly good film, in fact, they're clichés abound and its quite tackily put together in places. But its Christopher Walken who makes it a worthwhile purchase; for I can't tell how many times I've watched that scene where he confronts officer Bishop (Argo) in his home: "...those guys are dead because...they were running this city into the ground...cuff yourself to the chair: it's a stupid thing to do huh?" and Frank's auspicious return to the criminal underworld: "If any of you are tired of being ripped off by scum like that, you come with me, I'm at the Plaza hotel, you're welcome YOU'RE ALL WELCOME...to join". Walken is King.
These are the top 30 howlers and gaffes ever to be seen in footballs history picked by Fourfourtwo magazine,and produced by ex arsenal and england star Ian Wright.
The dvd is about all of the worst cock-ups in histoy [and some good bits] including Robert Pires and Thierry Henry against man city;and australia 31-samoa 0.
I think anyone who likes football and comedy this is the dvd for them.
"Pathology" gets washed up onto the shores of DVD land this August with no apologies or academic excuses for its graphic, violent and at times distasteful content. And, in all honest truth, why should it apologise? By the title alone, any reasonably worldly cinema goer or viewer of Silent Witness would know that this film isn't going to be about sunny walks in the park. Unfortunately what the title doesn't tell you (but the BBFC consumer advice does) is that pathological procedures are now the excuse for a bunch of bright young doctors to get high on drugs, take part in blood-stained sadomasochistic sex or indulge in manic wall-splattering gore-fests. All of these activities are explored in staggering detail, and usually at the same time, making the whole film feel like one long orgy of the depraved and demented. And yet, in all of this madness, there is still some enjoyment to be gained. The insane but strangely beguiling plot stems from watching bonkers but brilliant pathologists take part in their own deadly, intellectual game of inventive killing. This game follows a charming pattern of hunt - kill - dissect, as in turn they try to perform undetectable murders for their colleagues to work out. Caught up in the middle of the body bashing is Ted Gray (Heroes' Milo Ventimiglia), who becomes deeply involved in the after-hours games of his co-workers. The deeper he gets, the more he starts to doubt what kind of person he really is. However, after viewing the ridiculously horrific final scene, the audience is left with little doubt. This is far from being "buy it now" movie heaven, but you may find yourself going along with the mayhem (even if you do feel culpable afterwards). It isn't going to win Oscars, and it's not something to show your timid Auntie Dora, but it aims to thrill, and does it passably well.
Diana Dors, one of our late and most underrated actresses gives the performance of her life in this bleak but highly intelligent story of a young woman condemned to the death sentence because she is still so infatuated with her ex boyfriend that she decides to shoot his new partner.
Diana is ably supported by a standout cast including Yvonne Mitchell as the sympathetic prison warden and Athene Seyler as a caring prison visitor.
Originally released in 1956 and loosely based on the infamous Ruth Ellis case who was the last woman to be executed in this country,this was a very important film and helped to change the law as did "Victim" with its impassioned plea against the discrimination of homosexuality.
As a memorable example of cinema noir "Yield to the Night" deserves to have a place in the collection of any discerning viewer.
Dors actually deserved an Oscar for her sensitive portayal of the central character and confirmed all the expectations that had been raised when she was awarded gold medals at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Directed by J Lee Thompson and produced by Kenneth Harper,with a screenplay by John Cresswell and Joan Henry,
this is an unmissable movie of which British cinema can be truly proud!
A young blonde woman jealous of her ex boyfriends lover commits murder and is condemned to death.
A searing,dramatic story of time in the condemned cell and a cry for reform and compassion.
Im only 10 years old and watching that film cracked me up I was out of breath just laughing and smiling I just couldnt stop...!
Sanka:a realy funny guy who dosent like the cold he does a lot of things in the film but it can change when he gets cold...!
the rest of the characters:cracks me up and when it comes 2 cold theres not 1 thing that bothers them...!
I my self think you should make a new film called Cool Runnings 2 where you have a session of a film on 1 disk and a special editon on a nother.
thankyou 4 your laughs and i hope my ideas will come 2 your mind and maybe come true...!
Guy Ritchie directed this film in the days before he became known as Mr Madonna and before the critics started panning everything he did.
This is a darkly comic and at time brutally violent caper through London's seedy underbelly.
The action is triggered by the group of lads at the centre of the plot losing a huge amount of money in a card game, trouble is it wasn't entirely their money to lose! They quickly become embroiled in the criminal fraternity on their doorstep in order to pay their debts with something other than their kneecaps.
With prices currently under 3 quid this is hard to resist, it's less than the cost of a rental and you can guarantee you'll laughing and wincing your way throughout this film. Probably both when it comes to seeing Sting, one of the most famous Geordies around, playing the Cockney father of one of the boys.
The film was a big enough success to be followed up by a series on Channel 4 so if you like this then there will be more to get your teeth into.
British Gangster film, a modern classic.
France, Great Britain, Germany, USA. All these countries contributed in funding Michael Haneke's remake of his disturbing 1997 Austrian film. And for what? For enjoyment? Unless extremely desensitized, you'll find it very hard to enjoy this movie. For our own benefit, then? Granted, the film does make a valid point, raising the issue of "is violence right in an entertainment format". Whatever the reason, this English language version of the original "Funny Games" is painful, pointless and horrible to watch.
We start the film with the sound of relaxing operatic music, which complements what's happening onscreen; a middle-class American couple and their child are driving along to their Holiday home to spend a pleasant weekend on the lake with their boat. Suddenly the noise changes and loud, violent, heavy metal rock music blears over the top, with the opening title credits. The film follows the same trend most of the way through. Just when you think everything's going to be fine and rosy, Haneke presses the "let them suffer" switch on his control panel, and we have to watch this family being psychologically tortured and terrorised at the hands of two seemingly polite youths. Haneke's decision to re-film his past effort shot for shot, word for word could be because he realised the main perpetrators for enjoying onscreen violence are the Americans, who eject from their disc drives anything that's in a foreign language and features subtitles. With an English language version, he could chastise the lovers of Hostel, Saw and the like by giving them what they ask for but in a harrowing way. This is where the film falls flat. The things we see onscreen are upsetting, harrowing and disturbing. Unfortunately, however, we seem to be observing this family's ordeal through one way glass, not being able to connect with them or feel their pain. This detached feeling is not easily explained, but it may be down to the fact that, as a whole, this film feels like a punishment. We are being punished for the violence we watch. It would be so much more effective if our eyes were opened in a way were haven't thought about. After viewing, it is impossible to feel grateful. Instead of coming across as ironic, the cruel and vicious antics in the film feel hypocritical on Haneke's part. The ending isn't powerful, rewarding or entertaining. And instead of changing your ways after listening to Haneke's "you are sick, sick people" filmic lecture, you may just want to dust off and watch your two disc extended edition of Hostel II just to spite him.
This title, more than any other, really shows off just what high definition is all about. That"s thanks in no small part to the breathtaking photography. It"s no secret that Scott incurred the wrath of his backers for taking his time over each shot in this picture but it certainly seems worth it now. The images are truly stunning in this restored print. The soundtrack by Vangelis, perhaps one of the best film scores ever, is crisp and clear and makes the audio experience every bit as impressive as the visual one. Be warned though, after seeing this movie, most other high definition titles may seem a little disappointing!
Visually impressive, though historically inept adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical, critically acclaimed graphic novel 'Persepolis: The Story of Childhood'. Now there's a lot to like in this spirited, often humorous sometimes deadly serious account of a young Iranian girl growing up amidst political turmoil, opting for semi-exile / study leave, almost getting herself killed in Europe yet managing to summarise her experiences with the eloquent observation: "I had known a revolution that had made me lose part of my family. I had survived a war that had distanced me from my country and my parents, and it's a banal story of love that almost carried me away". And yet there's one major omission, an oversight so glaringly obvious and unbelievable that even Satrapi's most ardent supporters may have to cite the hand of occidental censorship in its exclusion or, worse still, begin to wrongly question her motives or the fact that this movie was fast-tracked into production at a time when our corporate media is portraying Iran & Muslim culture in a less than favourable light. It's that one name that goes unmentioned which pretty much ruins this film's credibility for me, and that name is Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh. To tell a story about Iranian politics and not include her greatest, democratically elected leader (deposed in a deadly terror campaign instigated as part of the CIA-Mossad-M16 coup d'etat 'Operation Ajax') is like reciting 'The Iliad' and ignoring all references to Hector. 'Persepolis' begins in 1980 with populist revolution culminating in the dramatic fall of Anglo-American-Israeli appointed dictator Shah Reza Pahlavi II. We're soon introduced to Marji's endearing, politically conscious, predominantly Communist family; who express a mixture of ambivalence and hope for the new, ultra-orthodox Islamic theocracy led by Ayatollah Khomeini. Meanwhile Marji, ever the outspoken rebel, makes her stance against having to wear the veil under new laws and its here that the film makes a narrative detour with historical references to how Stalinist and British interference caused irreparable rifts within Iran's socialist party circa 1920, in much the same way as it shattered anti-Franco resistance fighters in Spain a decade later. These conversations become relevant as the film progresses, though they'll be lost on those who won't see the correlation with the plot against Mossadegh; where Iranians were factionalised into monarchists (supporters of The Shah and pro imperial plutocrats) and Islamic Socialists (supporters of Mossadegh and Ayatollah Kashani) just as were thirty years earlier. And I liked the scene in which Marji's uncle informs us of how a Stalinized left wing were duped into siding with Reza Pahlavi I (father of the Shah deposed in 1979) who was secretly in cahoots with 'The British Empire'; his deception allowing an imperial army to march into Iran in 1921, steal her oil reserves and install Pahlavi as dictator. I found the Iran-Iraq war chapter ill conceived and lacking in detail or context, thus what should've been an intense and dramatic event came across as vague and no where near as devastating as it must've been in reality, again, an absence of context leaves those without extensive prior knowledge completely confused. Marji's exasperated claim that the hard-line Islamic theocracy holds more political prisoners than the Shah, is also slightly disingenuous considering 'Persepolis' bizarrely seems to forget that in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. backed destruction of Iranian democracy in 1953, Mossad terrorists poured into the country via U.S. occupied Azerbaijan; to train a brutal new legion of Shah loyalists who would form the dreaded Savak (Iranian secret police). As The Shah, in his own words: "...restored the flow of Iranian oil to world markets in substantial quantities". I would've forgiven 'Persepolis' its occasional naivety or political posturing had it just referenced one paragraph from Weissman & Mokhiber's 'We Had a Democracy Once, But You Crushed It': "During the Islamic revolution in 1979, Iranians held up Mossadegh's picture, telling the world: we want a democratic regime that resists foreign influence and respects the will of the Iranian people as expressed through democratic institutions". At least that would've framed her story in some kind of rational context, because as it is, 'Persepolis' is all over the place and invites ridicule or even unsubstantiated claims that the writer is some kind of shill, or anti-Iranian propagandist, which is unfortunate, because Marjane Satrapi (the writer and her animated incarnation) is an immensely likeable, sweetly annoying, figure and we're with her all the way: from precocious little girl to surly teenager to troubled twenty something; from freedom, to repression and back again, in both Asia and Europe. 'Persepolis' can be quite a frustrating film at times, especially since Marjane Satrapi knows her history, after all, she states in no uncertain terms: "...the end of democracy was not 1979, it was 1953 when Mossadegh was pulled from power...the idea came from Churchill, who is a big hero in Europe; but not for us, he is the nastiest man in the world...for that (coup d'etat) killed the dream of democracy, not only in Iran, but for the whole region". Alas, none of those sentiments are expressed on screen. 'Persepolis' and its creators mean well and I doubt there's any malice in its making, though that one serious error means it goes from groundbreaking humanist chronicle to a watchable but interesting failure, from I-ran to Also-ran if you will. But now that we know this kind of film can work on screen, though I"m not entirely convinced animation can accurately cover all the bases in as greater detail as live action, perhaps its time to adapt comics like Stassen's 'Deogratias' or Joe Sacco's excellent graphic reportage 'Palestine', 'The Fixer' and 'Safe Area Gorazde'.
charmed failed to compare among the great giants of TV(BUFFY,The X-Files,Xena,Twilight Zone etc.),but it is unique in the way that it is an underestimated classic of the genre.
it tells of three sisters who team up to face various forms of evil.
their career is sharp and risky but never dull.
22 classy episodes here(some beat others but all are good)and it wraps up the classic charmed era with Prue Halliwell.
All Hell Breaks Loose is in itself a fantastic reason to buy this amazing dvd boxset,it is an epic finale of genuinly amazing and spectacular proportions...and is geruinly of a high in entertainment value.
a true gem while not a classic at these prices it is great to buy...you most certinly wont be dissappointed by the quality of these episodes.
simply great season of the show,while not Buffy it certainly comes close this year.
a great third outing in its best season of the show:).
the spectacular third outing of an underrated show
The Parents Television Council described this show as 'mind-blowingly inappropriate' - a quote that the show has subsequently used in its advertising campaigns - and rightly so, rather than being 'inappropriate' this show is up-to-date and relevant to its teen audience. The cast is impeccable and the soundtrack is fantastic. The writing is witty and it is full of drama - perfect for fans of trashy American teen shows, the great thing about GG is that it doesn't pretend to be anything else. I think what makes the show are the amazing costumes designed by Eric Daman, which really bring the characters to life, from Chuck Bass' signature scarf to Blair Waldorf's headbands. Despite being set amongst the privileged lives of the Upper East Side kids it still manages to deal with issues that all teens go through, without taking its self too seriously and going a bit 'Dawson's Creek'. This DVD is a must for fans of the show, with added extras such as the gag reel (so, so funny) and a behind the scenes look at how the show is made. Worth every penny.
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