Between the Doctor Who episode "Rose" and now, 2 spin-offs from Doctor Who...Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adentures have been made, and after Donna finds out what life would be like without meeting the Doctor, and with the help from a mysterious blond woman called Rose, she fixes it, Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures all join together for this explosive finale. As the Doctor and Donna witness the Earth move they try to find it, just as Rose, Mickey and Jackie appear. Sarah Jane and her son Luke(with the help of Mr Smith) recieve a signal, repeating "Exterminate"! The message also goes to Torchwood, Where Jack is worried and hurries to find the Doctor, leaving Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones alone. Sarah Jane tells luke she loves him and goes to find the Doctor.
Unit also hear the signal and then Martha leaves to find the Doctor. Harriet Jones sets up the subwave network and brings the Doctor to Earth, but it costs Harriet her life.
As the group gather and are captured by the Daleks and Davros, the plans to destroy all life in the universe starts but can the doctor save the universe 1 more time??
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As the children of time find the doctor, a fearsome old enemy lies in the darkness and the prophecy declares one will die
Torchwood is a brilliant spin off perfectly directed by Russell T Davies. The characters are one in a million, each with a completely different approach to aliens. The innocence of Gwen, the anger of Jack, the intelligence of Tosh and the sarcasticness of Owen makes for great television viewing.
Although not as heart warming as Doctor Who,Torchwood still congers up some very emotional moments, in particular the Cyberwoman episode, which shows the true side of Ianto Jones, played marvellously by Gareth David Lloyd.
With 13 episodes of sex, aliens and violence, and an amazing compilation of extras including deleted scenes, intervies and 13 episodes of Torchwood Declassified, this is a must have for any Doctor Who fan.
The Doctor's former companion, Jack Harkness has made his way to Earth, waiting. In an attempt to attract the Doctor, Jack joins Torchwood. In 2006, Gwen Cooper stumbles upon Torchwood at a crime scene, and witnesses a ressurection. Her life will never be the same again...
'Redacted' (Orwellian euphemism for censored) is a sickeningly powerful narrative reconstruction of an American war crime in Samara, Iraq. 26th June 2006: U.S. paedophile troops raped and murdered a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, killed her mother, grandmother and brother they then burnt her corpse in an attempt to cover their tracks. The event only came to light after Iraqi resistance executed two troops from the same unit in summary reprisals, with their statements broadcast on an Arab news channel. Divided into segments like 'Tell No Lies' (soldier's reportage), 'Checkpoint' (French documentary), video blogs and 'Al-Jazeera'-esque news reports, 'Redacted' is a war film for our times; in that no other picture has come close to accurately conveying people's varied, and often desperate, search for the truth in an age of Gobellian crypto-fascism, hemispherical propaganda and open acts of state censorship. Pvt. Angel Salazar, who hopes his DV account of the war will win him a place at film school, zooms in on a scorpion being overwhelmed by an army of ants, this scene not only serves as a cinematic allusion to Sam Peckinpah's 'The Wild Bunch' but makes the same analogy as well i.e. deadly military might overcome by the force of many. Peckinpah was depicting Vietnam and the ignominious end of an American era, De Palma uses the image for Iraq and suggests that this may be one disaster too many; the kind that not only brings about the end of an era, but the irreversible moral death of an entire nation. 'Redacted' is as thematically complex a film as it is sequentially simplistic, weighed down by the sun-scorched stench of death and tragedy; disparate omens herald inevitable consequences for all involved. One soldier leafs through John O' Hara's 1934 novella 'Appointment in Samara' whose protagonist's path to self-destruction, in some ways, mirrors the occupation, a pregnant woman is shot to death at the now infamous American checkpoint, and Farah, the young girl in question, is surreptitiously molested on the same site by those who would later end her life: crime upon crime, indignity upon indignity building up to a point when we finally appreciate the significance and rhythm of Verdi's deafening soundtrack. The French documentary entitled 'Barrage' ('Checkpoint'), though intended to depict the monotonous daily routine of an occupation foot soldier, seems to harbour an air of detached relief in that France, having instigated numerous failed acts of imperial folly in Algeria, Vietnam & Indo-China, stayed out of this one. Its also a historical jibe at the French habit of constructing barricades & checkpoints, which they did with superhuman efficiency and speed in all of the aforementioned countries, and at home during the anti-colonial riots in 1968 and 2005. We also get an insight into the Nazification or Zionisation of U.S. forces on the ground: for since most of the prominent neo-cons who planned this war are Zionists; with an ulterior allegiance to either Israeli expansionism in the Middle East (i.e. Eretz Israel from Jordan to Galilee which, incidentally, is the colonial ambition depicted on their flag with those blue rectangles representing the aforementioned rivers) or inane apocalyptic desires to bring about the end of the world through Rapture; 'Redacted' inhabits that void between reason & madness. Moving from medium to medium, De Palma improves upon certain aspects from his equally powerful 'Casualties Of War' (1989) in which a platoon of U.S. troops kidnap, rape and murder a young Vietnamese girl; one of the main differences is that this company has no Erickson (Michael J. Fox) and hence no voice of reason or outrage. The handful of soldier's we're led to believe are better than their comrades, simply fall away; all their talk of professionalism and duty become impotent gestures of mealy mouthed defiance or regret in the face of brute force and evil. 'Redacted' cleverly subverts expectation in the way that one soldier initially set up an average Joe or, in a more traditional war movie, may even have been cast as the hero; is cowered into reluctant participation by the thuggish threats of an obese pederast and his vile accomplice; two character archetypes usually consigned to treacherous buffoon or henchmen roles. The real horror lies not just in the henious crime itself, but the collective betrayal of human decency by those who stood by and let it happen, for as Pvt. Salazar states: "Just because you're watching it, doesn"t mean you're not a part of it...they just watch and they do nothing". And that's the message at the heart of this picture: how modern technology has hindered the positive mobilisation of society, as much as it's helped us to stay informed about events hidden by corporate media collaborators. For if 'Redacted' prompts you to seek out documentaries like '9/11: The Road To Tyranny', 'Fabled Enemies', 'Truth Rising', 'Terror Storm', 'War Feels Like War', 'Standard Operating Procedure', 'Out Of Star', 'Taxi To The Dark Side' and others, then De Palma, in spite of having his film suppressed by the powers that be, can consider his work a success, and if all it does is remind us that this war as an affront to shared values of human decency, than that too, counts as a moral victory of sorts. And though the pictures of Iraqi casualties on De Palma's 'Collateral Damage' reel were 'redacted' by distributors for legal reasons, arguably the ultimate irony in a film about censorship, that montage still impacts with great force, but if & when De Palma wins his case to present them in their original form, it would emphasise his point that this catalogue of human suffering, when seen as it is, ought to be enough of a catalyst for immediate action & focused indignation from the American people. And if its not, well then some may recall Aristotle, whose famous maxim correlates with this film's penultimate scene in its exasperated desertion of hope for humanity: "Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon". A powerful, innovative and highly unsettling picture, 'Redacted' is a film you don't want to watch, but simply can't afford to miss.
Apparently, Horst Wessel lied: the bastard, lied about a lot of things: lied about what time it was, lied about the weather and perhaps worst of all; he lied about 'Never Back Down' being a good movie. In what's sure to be a hit with ADD thugs of all ages, this nonsensical excuse for an action picture, here in a somewhat dubiously entitled 'Beatdown Edition', is a broke man's 'Fight Club' made by people whose only artistic influences appear to be military recruitment videos, and episodes of 'The OC'. And yet, there's the slightest glimmer of a coherent storyline (i.e. references to the shield of Achilles) struggling to be heard over the din of bozo dialogue and bone crunching MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) bouts. 'Never Back Down' sees troubled new kid on the block Jake Tyler (a fairly credible performance by Sean Faris) living out an American high school cliché, fortunately, he's hit on by sultry blonde bombshell Baja (newcomer Amber Heard) on his first day, unfortunately, she suckers him into attending a party where bored rich twats knock the seven bells out of each other for kicks: our guy is humiliated by smirking cad / steroid enhanced uberman Ryan (an on-the-money performance by Cam Gigandet, whose obviously studied Val Kilmer"s performance as Ice Man in 'Top Gun'). Djimon Honshu, an actor who really ought to know better, crops up as Ryan's no-nonsense mentor who trains him for an inevitable rematch whilst every teenage airhead and jock in Florida cheer like imbeciles as wannabe Hitler youth pound each other into oblivion. 90 minutes go by painlessly enough, some of the MMA sequences are fairly impressive though I did have a few questions: don't the girls get to fight each other, is every guy in this movie a latent homosexual and would any of these clowns last a second in 'The Octagon'? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to violently berate my untermensch neighbour for being slightly out of shape whilst demanding his wife dress provocatively at all times, bring me beer and clap appreciatively as I attack her husband with a table leg, Sieg Heil. 'Never Back Down' makes for trashy, dumbass entertainment of the highest (lowest?) order; the DVD has one impressive multi-angle fight feature (similar to the multi-angle duel on 'The Count Of Monte Cristo' disc) though I guarantee it'll be in the 3.99 bargain bin faster than you can say 'Ralph Macchio'. Watch it once, break it in half and eat the disc: Never give up, never give in, never watch this movie again. Mindless fluff.
With the capture of prominent Serbian war criminals Radovan Karadzic, Slobodan Milosevic and the noose tightening around General Ratko Mladic, perhaps its time to look back at how cinema handled one of the longest, most brutal, European conflicts since WWII. Now some Serbs have always been the useful idiots of imperial tyranny; barbaric, reactionary patsies used by colonial powers to further ulterior motives and give the 'New World Order' an easy way in. After all; Kissenger, Rockerfella, Carrington, Sherman and Eagleburger's reconstruction, policy & economic development companies won more in the Balkans than the Bosnians, Croats, Serbs or Kosovars put together. Author David Icke's exceptionally detailed, and uncontested, analysis of the machinations at work before, during and after the war depicts a land and people divided & conquered by the 'New World Order' in an underhanded, protracted and sinister campaign that would scar the face of Eastern Europe for decades to come. Now almost every movie about the former Yugoslavia, 'Welcome To Sarajevo' and 'No Man's Land' being notable exceptions, has been saddled with contrived storylines or biased towards one side or another, and in that respect, some may argue 'Harrison's Flowers' is no different; though it still makes for an impressive, sobering shock-to-the-system that evokes memories of films like 'Salvador' and 'Reds'. Elie Chouraqui's adaptation of Isabel Ellson's 'Le Diable a l'Advantage' is an engrossing, well-paced melodrama, which offers an insight into the motivations of war correspondents, and how the best of them not only observe and inform; but challenge power to convey truths which help channel and define a moral imperative amongst the people. Set in 1991, award winning 'Newsweek' war photographer Harrison Lloyd; an excellent David Strathairn ('Good Night & Good Luck') is missing-presumed-dead on assignment in Yugoslavia, just as the fighting, initially dismissed as an insignificant flare up, takes an irreversible turn to all out civil war. Andie McDowell puts in the best performance of her career as Harrison's wife; Sarah who, convinced her husband is still alive, takes it upon herself to go to Croatia and into the notorious Vukovar region (site of an infamous Serb siege / massacre) to find him. With an all star cast which includes Brendan Gleason, Adrien Brodey, Elias Koteas and a then unknown Gerard Butler, 'Harrison's Flowers' is a film that pays tribute to those who trust to hope in the darkest of times. As commendably realistic in its depiction of urban warfare and man's descent into the abyss of bestial depravity, as it is in showing us the simple pleasures of family life and the importance of retaining one's dignity in the face of relentless provocation. Adrien Brody and Brendan Gleason put in naturalistic, instantaneously believable performances as a pair of gonzo journalists; the former justifiably embittered about the state of his industry, the latter surprisingly good humoured in spite of his surroundings. And though indebted to that old Hollywood staple genre: 'Woman-In-Peril', it also has shades of classic film noirs like 'The Third Man' and 'Rome, Open City', not the last word on that awful, pointless conflict by any stretch, but 'Harrison's Flowers' is an accomplished film depicting one woman's struggle for hope in the fog of war.
Lost in space. Old enemies. A new commander. Killer machines, life sucking aliens. Trapped in the future, memories of the past (the same episode). Unlikely alliances. Familiar faces (for sci-fi fans anyway) People returning from the dead. Just a normal year in the life of Atlantis.
Amanda Tapping and Christopher Judge both from Stargate SG1 making appearances in the show. Amanda Tapping as a more regular cast member. Other cast members being shown at their best with engaging and unexpected plot twists and as per ususal with this show the final episodes has me eagerly awaiting the next season with baited breath. What will happen next. Watch this space....
All the ingredients to prove a most pleasent tasting pudding. Although the story is quaint in a 'nutcracker' way it also pulls no punches on life itself. Without giving the game away too much, in the midst of a magical fantasy there is also sadness. It's a good lesson for children and adults alike, a genuine narrative on life.
Dustin Hoffman is superb as the ever optimistic Mr Magorium, Natalie Portman has a quiet, gentle wit which even the 'mutant' falls for, and at last they've found a child actor that is not only pleasing on the eye, but has a novel demenour and an iota of intellegence. But, for me, the zebra is the star!
A magical toyshop, a believer, a determined (cutely quirky) child and a 'stuffed shirt'.
I fully enjoyed Dara's witty way of telling jokes as stories the only thing was you have to keep your full attention on him as the way he speaks you can miss the punch line if you get distracted.
Its the kind of film you can curl up on the sofa with your quilt and a hot cup of cocoa and just chill. Its a easy watch but it has that feel good factor.
I've never sobbed so hard at a film. It is pretty good, but if you want to let your kid watch it, at least stop it before the end. Not to ruin anything, but the ending ain't so happy.
The story line goes something along the very obvious lines of boy fancies girl who doesn't deserve him, goes to prove his love for her and falls in love with another girl who needs rescuing, who starts out despising him and then falls in love with him after all etc.etc. All been done beofre surely - it is just another boring love story isn't it? Wrong, wrong wrong. Expect romance - yes, adventure -yes, fantasy - yes. But completely unexpected will be Michelle Pfeiffer in a beauty to sagging breasts role and Robert De Niro in a hilarious dance that just has to be watched over and over again till you fall out the chair laughing. Claire Danes as Yvaine the beautiful star just raidates in her role. Charlie Cox as Tristan is suitably good looking and believable as a young man who goes to find his true love (or so he thinks) a bit of the star and ends up finding out that his real true love is in front of him and worth far more. Whilst Octavious and his brothers who search for the pendant to become king and become ghosts along the way add that little bit of darkness and subtle humour that keeps you diverted whilst watching the romance between Tristan and Yvaine blossom. The fact that there is another world just across a wall seems completely believeable and right from the start you get drawn into this film and feel like it just might be. In fact I'm off to cross the wall at the bottom of my garden to find myself a Tristan....
Fantasty adventure with romance, swashbuckling, a beautiful cast and Robert De Niro as you have never seen him before.
I am not what you would class as a manga fan but I bought this DVD on recommendation from others.
Now I see that this medium can be awe inspiring and deep, full of action and emotion with a real plot and story behind it.
Graphically it is stunning, emotionally too.
The film tries to blur the distinction between human and machine, is a machine just a machine or can humans form relationships with machines?
Do we have more rights than a machine to live or equal rights or indeed less right because of our violent tendancies?
The character animation is so smooth and detailed and the backgrounds are also convincing, some of the slow motion animations are incredibly detailed.
I give this film 10 out of 10 and urge you to see it even if this format isn't usually your thing, you won't be disappointed.
In this extremely action packed movie, it follows an anxious accounts manager Wesley Gibson (played by James McAvoy) who is walked all over, in his life, by his girlfriend, his best friend and his boss at work. Gibson soon learns that he is the son of a world class assassin who was part of a fraternity of assassins until his recent death. "Fox" (played by Angelina Jolie), another fellow member of the fraternity, soon tracks down Gibson and informs him that the fraternity wants to train him to be one of them and to revenge his father"s death by killing the man who killed his father.
Gibson agrees to join the fraternity but first he must learn the ways of the fraternity. Fox and the leader of the fraternity, Sloan (Morgan Freeman) soon teach Gibson how to control his special powers and to become an assassin. However, the Fraternity is not what it seems and Gibson soon discovers corruption and betrayal that he must defeat to survive.
A truly great film, with a little bit of something for everyone including high powered car chases, intense gun and knife fights and enough plot to keep you interested. Well worth watching
A Truly Great Film
Benidorm is the best programme EVER! A definite must see! Five star rating *****
Heath Ledger is amazing - great story you can't help love Ned at the end.
A must see.
I dragged a good few people with me to see this one, and the response was mixed. I couldn't have praised it higher, but my friends' reactions ranged from mildly amused to "a waste of time and money". I just wanted to iron out the rifts between so many differing opinions, and pedal the only one that makes sense. Mine.
I'm kidding of course, but I really have found it difficult to see what problems people have with it. The film in itself is so sweet and endearing as a whole, and I think that's what the creators went for - a lot of my friends found it boring and particularly anti-hilarious, but it's not the laughs you go for, even though there are a good few. Don't get me wrong, I realise that people didn't walk out of the cinemas roaring, but there really are moments you'll laugh out loud at. For me, Wall-e was more about the accomplishment Pixar studios have made with the animation - in a hyphened word it's mind-blowing. It's hard not to be impressed by the effort put into each detail.
However, visuals aside, Wall-e has the biggest heart and imagination I've seen in a film in a long time, and I really appreciated it. The messages being conveyed about emotion, personal connection and the fate of the planet are all poignant and ring like bells afterwards. If you like a film that leaves you thinking, this is one of them, and I can guarantee some pretty heated discussions afterwards, concerning, for instance, how very bleak mankind's future is.
All in all I thought Wall-e was an absolute winner. It's a departure from previous hits such as Monster's Inc. and Finding Nemo, because there is less humour, but there's heaps and heaps of imagination. I've thought a lot about the humans in the film: the animation is decidedly less impressive where the humans are concerned, but again I think that's part of the message- don't we need to forget about ourselves sometimes? A friend told me she found the view on mankind's future too bleak, but I think it's down to clever films such as Wall-e to wake us all up and get us thinking about each other more, thinking about the environment. It's a gem of a film, and one which I guarantee you'll enjoy, kids and adults alike. And try to ignore the fact that he looks a little like Johnny 5. Enjoy!
The first time when I saw this film was a late night on TV from BBC. I was eating my cake and had not expect anything special from this film. However after the movie had started I was totally "feeled and falling" into the film. This film is not a big production. Although it is small budgetted but the film was made in 1970 in a rather charming and stylish way. The director told out this novel story of D.H. Lawrence via this film in a subtle way, to express the look of love and passion of the several main characters. The scenes of how the young lady(Joanna Shimkus)rejects the love of his boyfriend and also how Mrs. Fawcett(Honor Blackman)criticizing the passionate feeling between the young lady and the gypsy are very excellent and stunning. it seems telling us one should understand and realize that one side in love is tasteless. Also how strange and funny life is when one is so often morally strongly condemed by other people, oneself on the same time to criticizing the love life of other one. I have not read the novel, but i like this movie eventhough it might not have been following the exact plot line of the book. We are talking the film, not hte book. Overall it is a little gem, a charming film. All the actor and actress have performced well in the film. So try to locate this film, watch it and enjoy it!
A little gem, a charming film.
This has got to be the best thing to hit the screens of your televisions since Saving Private Ryan! This is an immense 10 hours of action, thrills, spills, shooting, laughs and the loss of the men. You will follow this wth wonder and start to feel like the men are apart of you!
You really get a feel for the war, what it must have been like and know how bad it was for the men!
Not only is the series amazing but the extras you get are one in a million! Well worth your money and time!
Following the exploits of Easy Company, of the 101st Airborne Division, this series shows the hoghs and lows of life as a paratrooper in such realistic conditions!
One of disney's best films yet. With music from elton john, like the circle of life, can you feel the love tonight etc. it is a story about a young lion cub that runs away from home after being threatened by his uncle to be blamed for his father's death. He runs as far away as he can where he meets some new friends, with whom he grows up with. until one day he bumps into an old friend who persuades him to go back and take his rightful place as king. there he goes to fight his uncle and his army of hungry hyenas
REC is one of the recent "found footage" movies, along the lines of Cloverfield and Blair Witch Project. However, it's probably the best of its type so far with a lot of very scary moments, a logical script and some neat characters.
It's definitely not for the faint hearted with some very shocking scenes and some gore, though it never goes over the top. Unlike many of this kind of movie, the characters have real reasons to keep the cameras rolling when bad things start to happen.
It's difficult to give a thorough review without giving away plot points in its lean 80 minutes of runtime. But, with both a sequel and an English-language remake on their way, it's definitely worth your time.
A bored TV crew is following the night shift of firemen in Barcelona. The tedium is broken when they get a routine call that turns out to be so much more.
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