Fantastic, classic over the top teen drama, following a 2 extremely popular seasons, the millions are fans have nothing to be dissapointed about when watching this series. The now familiar characters, play their fitting roles in a way that can combine extreme drama, wit humorous laid-back wit. The concept of the program focuses on the lives of four wealthy teenagers living in the Orange County, California. Seth Cowen, a 'geek chic' boy, accompinied by his adopted brother Rian alongside their girlfriends Marissa and Summer, face many more adventures in their final year at Harbour School. Incredibly witty, and hugely dramatic!
mid tingling sensation, the concepts and brains thats gone into micheal's plan of getting into prison and getting Linc out. Edge of the seat drama, lets hope season 2 isnt a let down!
The begining of an excellent series, which great soundtracks and script writing, which doesn't take it's self too seriously, and very entertaining to watch.
This dvd includes 2 of the best episodes of the whole series. Tooth and Claw sees The Doctor and Rose fighting a werewolf and protecting Queen Victoria (played by Pauline Collins). Rose has a bet with her companion that she can get Her Majesty to say "We are not amused", which lends an amusing respite from the actually quite scary scenes.
The other corker on the dvd is The Girl In The Fireplace. Another scary one, which makes my kids jump every time the Doctor finds a ticking monster undrer a child's bed - the stuff of all childhood terrors. In this episode, the Doctor, finds and loses love with Madame de Pompadour: the French King's mistress. Frightening scenes mixed with quet emotin make this me favourite episode of the series.
Also features School Reunion, where Antony Head (from Buffy and Little Britain) plays a bat-like creature, masquerading as a head-tacher, who eats his pupils.
I bought this dvd purely because the game was pretty good, best choice ive ever made.
at first it was a bit boring, just completely made up of flash backs, but if you watch it you realise how they help gungrave become better and how they assist the story.
its basically a tale of love, friendship and revenge. it starts with Brandon Heat before he became Beyond the Grave, him and his best friend harry macdowell and how they join the mafia known as the organisation, or Millenion.
they both remain best friends while going up the ranks of millenion.
then brandon heat is killed, and he goes through a process called necrolysation to take revenge on the one that killed him.
the action never stops in the later episodes, and each episode brings Beyond the Grave closer to his killer.
This series is excellent, a must have. Never have i seen a series which is emotional yet action packed as this!
A dark brooding study of nechrophiliac obsession or a hauntingly unforgettable romance which tears at your heartstrings,either way Alfred Hitchcocks"Vertigo" is a masterpiece of American cinema.
Featuring a tellingly perceptive dual-role performance by ice goddess Kim Novak and at the peak of his dramatic form,James Stewart as the emotionally scarred,acrophobic detective,"Vertigo" is an uniquely,compelling movie.
Stunningly photographed in and around San Francisco and boasting a gloriosly rhapsodic score by maestro Bernard Hermann,seldom have the total elements of film gelled to such perfection.
To divulge the storyline would be not only be indiscreet but unforgiveable as this is one of Hitchcocks most intricate and complex studies.
Now that the original negatives and soundtrack have been lovingly restored and remastered ,the true original beauty of "Vertigo" is here for all to savour.
I guarantee that once you have watched this wonderful film,you will want to watch it again and again!
"Vertigo" is an exciting experience,the impact of which will never leave the viewers subconscious mind and is guaranteed to become one of your all time favourite dvds.
Put this one at the top of your want list and you will never regret the investment!
First shown on BBC Television in the early 90s, this is a superb series focusing on police corruption and the CIB team that try to combat it.
The series features some individually excellent episodes written by the likes of (series creator) JC Wilsher and an over-arching storyline that leads up to a gripping climax as the team focus on corruption all too close to home.
The mood is gritty and jaundiced throughout, the ensemble acting by main characters and guest cast alike impeccable. The guest cast features many familiar and dependable faces (Pete Postlethwaite, Jack Shephard, Ray Winstone etc.) and there's a lot of fun to be had in spotting future stars in cameo roles.
This is no plain old cops and robbers show. It's a complex piece with strong characters, intelligent plotting and moral conundrums thoughout.
Some commentaries would have been nice, but at these prices, the 13x50 minute episodes it contains are value enough.
Highly recommended.
remembering the good old days...it was just brilliant
This film produced for TV may have been missed on the radar by you. Don't make the mistake of passing it by. It's a modern day light hearted version of Beauty and the Beast. Martin Clunes plays the beast and you sense the actor has a real understanding for the character he plays. the reclusive owner of a large manor house in a village. The most beautiful actress in the world, Sienna Guillory, plays a barmaid in the village who helps out her dad with his plumbing business on the side. The two develop a bond as she undertakes some plumbing work on some old pipes in the manor house. A heart warming RomCom... but its Beauty and the Beast remember if it is to be believable. I'm in love with Sienna after seeing her in this film. Really heart warming stuff.
A return to form for the tight-wearing Kryton guy. Almost banishing Superman 4 from our minds (and hey, I liked Superman 3, although may be the only one), this is a return to form, but not as majestic as it could have been.
Limited in scope and lacking a credible bad guy (Spacey is great but it's unbelievable that he is Superman's greatest threat): this film still manages to pull you in and feel like a kid again (I wanna fly!).
Lois Lane definitely has untapped super powers too, her uterus must be made of lead to be able to catch that super sperm and the way she bounces around the inside of crashing planes without injury is miraculous!
Roll on Superman Returns Once More and please please please have him face off against Ultimo or something worthy the Man of Steel!!!
For the first time in one box set!!!
Talk about nostalgia - you could spend days on end in front of this! Great entertainment, to see mostly well written programmes (a couple of episodes lost their way a bit).
Great cast (Warren Clarke from Dalziel and Pascoe), great fun and good value!
Professional loser Ear Hickey"s ('Chasing Amy's' Jason Lee) life takes a turn for the better after he has what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity, and decides to adopt the karmic (or fortune cookie) principal of doing good to others as a means for good things to come your way. Earl wins the lottery, gets hit by a car, loses the ticket, wakes up in hospital, is mystically inspired by ex-'MTV' jock Carson Daley talking about karma, miraculously recovers the ticket, and along with kid brother Randy (Lee"s 'Mallrats' co-star Ethan Supple), uses his newfound wealth to put right all the wrongs of his past. And though 'My Name Is Earl' sounds rather unpromising, perhaps even trite or smaltzy, on paper; the end result is anything but.
I"ve been a Jason Lee fan since the movie 'Mallrats' back in 1995, and have seen him in pretty much everything he"s done since. An entertaining, consistently humorous, sitcom which manages to work on a variety of levels 'My Name Is Earl', whilst not always laugh out loud funny, is a real showcase for its star with some standout episodes ('Faked His Own Death', 'Cost Dad The Election' and 'Stole A Badge' are already classics in their own right). This 4 disc Season-1 set has a nice selection of outtakes, deleted scenes and a short making of featurette, which should keep the karma working in our favour until the next series.
This box set contains all 14 films featuring Basil Rathbone's portrayal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes. From 1939s "The Hound of The Baskervilles" to "Dressed to Kill"(1946)
Holmes and Watson (Nigel Bruce) were one of cinemas greatest pairings. To this day Holmes has never been better on the big screen with only Jeremy Brett's performance in Granada TVs 1980s series rivalling Rathbone as the greatest Holmes.
All 14 films have their moments but "The Hound of The Baskervilles" is the standout with the moors never looking more foreboding. Also particularly worthy of mention are "The Pearl of Death" with Rondo Hatton's creeper a truly memorable villain, "Terror by Night" where every passenger on the overnight train raises suspicion and "Sherlock Holmes and the Spiderwoman" with a great finale in a carnival shooting gallery and a powerful performance from Gale Sondergaard. In truth all 14 films can be regarded as classics of the genre although a couple now seem a little heavy handed with the wartime propaganda.
These films have been on TV countless times over the years and are available on various other DVD releases but the astonishing remastering job means this really is The Definitive Collection.
At the beginning of this film Wayne(Robert Redford) and Eileen Hayes(Helen Mirren) seem to have the perfect marriage and an idyllic lifestyle. Then one morning on his way to work Wayne is abducted by Arnold Mack(Willem Dafoe) a work colleague from years back that he barely remembers. Tension buils as the kidnapper informs his victim of the men paying for his kidnap and safe delivery into their hands. Meanwhile Eileen liasing with the FBI reveals cracks in the marriage. The first rate cast give the type of performances you would expect of such heavyweight names. Unfortunately the film is let down somewhat by an ending that is too clearly signposted and which arrives too suddenly.
Like a post-menopausal preying mantis in heat, Sharon Stone makes her long overdue comeback, reprising her role as saucy crime novelist / part time serial killer Catherine Tramell in "Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction". Now they say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and for a fading Hollywood starlet like Sharon, "Basic Instinct 2" sounds about as desperate as it gets, that said, this movie isn"t as bad as you might think, in fact, I prefer it to the original. Having been traumatised for life by the sight of Michael Douglas"s arse in 'Fatal Attraction', I simply couldn"t bring myself to watch Paul Veerhoven"s ridiculously over hyped erotic neo-noir in 1992. I finally saw it 14 years later, frankly, I don"t know what all the fuss was about; it was entertaining at times, certainly, but no means a classic and definitely one of Veerhoven"s weakest, most impersonal and non-descript efforts. Sharon Stone won my respect after her tour-de-force performance in 'Casino', and I still think she should"ve won a Globe that year, but alas, it was the same old story: nobody cared, they"d seen it all, Shazza played her best hand early on and was out of the game sooner than expected...until now.
'BI2' is a trash-fest par excellence which, in spite of failing on all levels, may help Stone back into the big leagues. Directed by Michael Canton Jones (usually a man of more refined tastes, with serious films like "Rob Roy" and "Shooting Dogs" on his CV) the movie sees Tramell do what all Yanks do when they"re in trouble back home: she comes to England; and its not long before Cathy does London (which is filmed in a cool, slick but seedy way) shagging and slicing her way through a line of hapless foils like psychologist Dr. Glass (David Morrissey), Hugh Darcy, ex-Footballer / Ulrika Johnson beater Stan Collymore and David Thewlis who plays a cop clearly possessed by the ghost of John Thaw from 'The Sweeny'. 'BI2' is an empty box of tricks and cheap thrills that's worth watching once for a laugh (some of the innuendos are pure 'Carry On...') or if you"re a die-hard Sharon Stone fan (though I"ve never met anyone who is).
Forrest (a brilliant Tom Hanks) is sitting on a bench at a bus-stop. His attitude immediately appears unusual, especially when approaching men and women that occasionally and alternatively come to sit next to him. He seems very fond of telling them the incredible story of his life, which is presented as a long sequence of events quite different in nature, from tragic and moving to absurd and hilarious.
This means that you"re not going to see a particularly funny or sad movie. Neither is it a celebration of the mythical USA where even a man of subnormal intelligence can live a successful life. Then you may ask what it is all about. Maybe the apparently gullible (but in the end ingenious in his way) Forrest Gump is trying to teach something in an objectively uncommon manner. Definitely, imagining the development of USA society through thirty years (more or less) seen by a mentally handicapped man is a weird and revolutionary idea... at least so it seemed in the early nineties.
More than the plain direction of Robert Zemeckis, the thrilling soundtrack is worthy of remark. Every single moment is perfectly accomplished by an accurately chosen (and generally famous) song or piece of music.
1977: with the intent to contact any possible extraterrestrial intelligence, NASA sends Voyager 2 probe in deep space along with a message recorded on an anodic gold disc. 1984: John Carpenter tells the story of an alien that lands on Earth, willing to learn more about the authors of that message. This is the beginning of a three-day journey of the nth friendly alien (and his respective sympathetic companion) that tries to communicate with humans and discovers both their weaknesses and their virtues, love and hate, madness and rationality, in a word their genetic dichotomy.
"Starman" proves itself atypical in Carpenter"s filmography. Thrilling shots gives way to somewhat thoughtful scenes; breathless action to slower rhythm; ubiquitous electronic sounds to popular hits (Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra,...); muscular and ironic main characters to more vulnerable and soulful ones.
Actually, the movie lacks originality and the fairly predictable plot is interspersed with dialogues that nowadays may sound naïve. Anyway, the solid screenplay and, above all, the astounding Jeff Bridges" performance makes this explorer-from-the-stars an unforgettable one and unique enough to define this movie a must for every sci-fi fan.
25 years before Ang "don"t make him anglee" Lee, helmed the unjustly maligned 'Hulk' (which I loved), 'Marvel' comic"s not so jolly green giant was a regular on terrestrial TV, in an appropriately titled Saturday afternoon series: 'The Incredible Hulk'. Genial supporting actor Bill Bixby plays Dr. David Bruce Banner; a mild mannered scientist who, in a guilt wracked bid to release our inherent hidden strengths, zaps himself with too much Gamma radiation and creates an anger triggered alter ego in the Hulk (played with aplomb by champion bodybuilder Lou Ferringo). Season I has all ten episodes that aired from 1977-78 and is book ended by a pair of excellent double bills.
I"ll be the first to admit that nostalgia is the booze that"ll blur your judgement no end, the mind drug that"ll genuinely make you believe the 'A-Team', 'Knight Rider' and 'Streethawk' were some of the greatest shows ever made (and maybe they were!) but 'The Incredible Hulk', though dated, is still great fun. The special effects (including Banner"s now legendary magical jeans) are done with such care and attention to detail that they compliment the often overlooked performances from Bixby, Ferringo and John Colvin as annoying Tabloid reporter Jack McGee. Bill Bixby bought real pathos to his character; an outsider trying to get by, wronged at every turn, no one but Bill could"ve carried that 'Lonely Man' theme tune.
A classic programme loved by young and old, with its pitch perfect tone balancing serious drama and riotous Hulked out action, this show was way ahead of its time, and laid the foundations for all the good comic book movie adaptations we have today. Altogether now: "Don"t make me angry Mr McGee, you wouldn"t like me when I"m angry".
Great classic of six best friends.
Chandler,Monica,Rachel,Pheobe,Ross and Joey as they go through their early stages of there life through marrige and birth of there children. Also with great special guests, great special features and very good last minute surprises.
Southern belle and former choir girl Jessica Simpson, once a poor man"s Britney Spears, hit upon the novel idea of letting MTV chronicle her marriage to unknown wannabe actor / singer Nick Lachey, the ensuing car crash of compulsive viewing resulted in a show that ran for three seasons (2003-2005) of household hubris and intimate inanity. The more unsavoury elements of this entire enterprise should"ve been featured on the extras, for example, I"d love to have seen how Jess"s parents / managers; one time Baptist minister Joseph Simpson and ex-Sunday school teacher Tina Ann, first pitched Jessica for this series (it was initially supposed to be 'Newlyweds' starring Jacko and Lisa Marie Presley, but since that union lasted all of five minutes, the show as shelved for six years).
So far we"ve seen Jess get root canal work done (and anyone whose seen 'Newlyweds' seasons 1 & 2, will know exactly what that feels like), Nick and Jessica"s second anniversary and Simpson preparing for the role she was born to play: Daisy Duke in 'Dukes Of Hazard'. The busy couple also get together for a romantic reunion and candlelit dinner on Valentine"s Day, ahhhhh.
They divorced two months later.
Nick, a mere shadow of his former self (but still a lyrical master of allegorical subtlety), hit back with his album 'What"s Left Of Me', Jessica, no doubt, struggled to decipher the hidden meaning behind tracks like 'I Can"t Hate You Any More', 'Everywhere But Here' and 'On Your Own'. Meanwhile, Jessica"s pilot sitcom 'Jessica' (scrapped by the studios in 2002) looks set to be made after all, its just another cynical day in the fickle, clinical world of celebrity nothingness.
As an idea, 'Newlyweds' was a genius publicity stunt: it boosted Jess"s flagging singing career, got Nick Lachey noticed and all the couple had to do for some priceless free press, was relinquish their dignity on a daily basis. You"ll feel sorry for Nick, stuck as he is with an imbecilic airhead like Jess, but then, almost immediately, your sympathies will lean towards Simpson as Lachey shows himself up as a freeloading prat. Reality TV and its best, Jessica Simpson"s smart enough to play it dumb (though its impossible to tell when she"s faking, or indeed whether she"s faking at all). Scary. Its as hard to recommend this show, as it is to tear your eyes away from the screen when its on.
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