Set amongst the privileged elite of Oxford University The Riot Club follows Miles (Max Irons) and Alistair (Sam Claflin) two first year students determined to join the infamous Riot Club where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening. The Riot Club is directed by Lone Scherfig who most recently helmed ‘One Day’ and the Best Picture Academy Award nominee ‘An Education’. It is produced by Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Pictures (‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ ‘Seven Psychopaths’). Screenwriter Laura Wade has adapted her critically-acclaimed play ‘Posh’ with development support from the BFI Film Fund and Film4. 'Posh' premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2010 before transferring to the West End.
The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-speciesthought to be mere mythsrise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
Horror in which four young women and a man wake up dead and stranded on a beach. After taking refuge in a deserted house they soon realise things are not as they seem and that they are trapped in a version of hell. They must overcome evil forces and some distressing personal memories to have a chance of returning to the lives they knew.
There are Victorian country-house shenanigans aplenty in Impromptu: novelist George Sand (Judy Davis, affected but pretty charming) has eyes for Franz Liszt's young protégé Chopin (Hugh Grant, solid as always, but burdened by a silly Polish accent and a script that never lets him stretch out), but various lovers, jealous rivals, and Chopin's own overdeveloped sense of propriety conspire to confound her. Impromptu is witty but overlong--probably 20 minutes of hijinks and repartee, not to mention several completely gratuitous and redundant characters, could have been sliced from the film. Davis plays Sand as an impetuous, overgrown tomboy, outraging her genteel hosts by wearing pants, chomping cigars, and falling off horses; her coterie of artist-friends assure us, in a series of naked plot devices, that she nonetheless has a heart of gold. It's all good silly fun, and about as feminist as your average Def Leppard video--the other two developed female characters are ugly stereotypes: a featherbrained, feckless social climber (Emma Thompson, who once again proves she's up for anything) and a spiteful, back-stabbing shrew (the ever-capable Bernadette Peters). Director James Lapine clearly belongs to the Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman school of historical accuracy, so don't expect to learn anything about the period or the artists themselves. --Miles Bethany
There’s a new Head Teacher at Waterloo Road. Karen Fisher comes with a renegade daughter and a troubled son; and is soon joined by her husband as a supply teacher. It’s a family affair, except that this family is an explosion waiting to happen. New challenges to hit the school system include more than one pupil who comes out as gay, bullying, bulimia, sex education and the morning after pill, a bright student who is forced to live alone in a hostel and a boy, whose father is a gangster, taking the law into his own hands. Grantly Budgen has to deal, not only with his own weaknesses but the decline of his beloved wife from Alzheimers. And an old friend is back as a former student. Janeece returns to the school as school secretary, but she doesn’t come back alone. Francesca Montoya, the Spanish Teacher, finds herself heavily in demand from an eager Tom Clarkson, but she’s already crossed a very dangerous barrier and started an affair with a pupil that could send her to prison if they aren’t very careful. In one of the tensest, most exciting Waterloo Road series yet seen, fast-moving events lead to dangerous, illegal and possibly even deadly conclusions. Special Features: Outtakes School Photos Social Networking Snaps Subtitles
Jack Taylor is an Irish ex-cop, on the wrong side of forty who has become a finder with a sharp tongue and a soft heart. He takes on the cases The Guards won't touch, no matter how hopeless. He’s pig stubborn. He defends the lost and the broken. He's good because he looks where no one else looks, talks to the people no one else talks to. Moreover, he knows every back street in his hometown, Galway, knows the seed and breed of everyone in it. But small towns have big memories, and like Jack they are quick to anger and slow to forgive. Based on the novels by Ken Bruen and starring Iain Glen, (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey), Nora-Jane No one (The Descent, The Magdalene Sisters), and Killian Scott (Love/Hate, Single-Handed) this DVD collection brings together the first three stories; The Guards, The Pikemen and The Magdalen Marty. Special Features: Interview with Director Stuart Orme Iain Glen Filmography Ken Bruen Biography Picture Gallery Subtitles
Based on a story by John Milius (Apocalypse Now Magnum Force Big Wednesday Conan The Barbarian) Extreme Prejudice stars Nick Nolte (48hrs Down And Out In Beverly Hills Cape Fear) as Texas ranger Jack Benteen. It follows his bloody crusade to bring down childhood friend and drug baron Cash Bailey (played by Powers Boothe: Southern Comfort The Emerald Forrest Sin City) rescue his latin lover Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man Predator 2 Moscow On The Hudson) avenge the death of local sheriff Rip Torn (Dodgeball Men In Black) and save his town from a secret military militia put together by the federal government. It's all in a days work for Texas ranger Jack Benteen and it all must be done with Extreme Prejudice.
Sharpe's Justice The Peninsular War is over and Sharpe returns to England with his reputation fully restored. He is soon ordered to the North of England to take command of a local militia force in his home town as it is troubled with unrest and machine-breakers. Sharpe finds that he is torn between two sides - that of the corrupt gentry and that of his own people the rough tough and spirited masses who are kept down by their superiors. He finds himself faced with one of the
Fresh out of jail motor-mouth con man Gabriel Cane (Woods) sets up a bet with local gangster John Gillon (Dern) in which ageing prize fighter 'Honey' Roy Palmer must knock out 10 opponents within 24 hours. The con is on but exactly who is scamming who?
Who Do You Think You Are? follows the journeys of ten well known personalities as they explore their family trees, uncover their family history and discover fascinating and poignant facts about their ancestors that have been, until now, hidden in the annals of time.June Brown starts with a bare-knuckle boxer in London's East End and ends up in Algeria; J.K. Rowling finds herself on the French border with Germany in the disputed territory of Alsace Lorraine; Sebastian Coe is Jamaican bound to uncover a history of sugar and slaves; Larry Lamb discovers a fantastical fairground history and a lost relative; Emilia Fox explores a theatrical heritage and an engineering innovator; Alan Carr kicks off with stories of the soccer field before tracking down a missing soldier; Robin Gibb finds himself related to a poor boy turned military man and uses the Freedom of Information Act to get to the heart of a mid-wife's labour; Richard Madeley discovers what it is to be a Pilgrim; Len Goodman starts with a barrow boy before traveling to Poland and returning to the London of Karl Marx; and Tracey Emin explores workhouses, prisons and the craftwork of gypsies.
Vibrant orange sunflowers. Rippling yelow grain. Trees bursting with white bloom. ""The pictures come to me as in a dream "" Vincent Van Gogh said. A dream that too often turned to life-shattering nightmare... Winner of Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Best Actor Awards Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as the artist torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind. The obsessed Van Gogh painted the way other men breathe drivi
Wrongly accused of murdering the doctor who refused to treat his ailing mother young Arnold (Jim Hutton) is placed in a mental institution under the care and supervision of Dr Laura Scott. While there he is taught the secrets of out of body travel by a fellow inmate. Freed when the real killer is found Arnold swears revenge on those who committed him. Using his new-found psychic powers Arnold eliminates those he hates in a brutal and bloody reign of terror which leaves Detectives Mogan (Paul Burke) and Anderson (Aldo Ray) faced with a killer they can't even see.
Waterloo Road: Series 5 - Spring Term (3 Discs)
Timber Falls stars Josh Randall and Brianna Brown as Mike and Sheryl. When the couple stake their tent in the rugged mountains of West Virginia the worst they expect are mosquitoes. What they get is a nightmare... Sheryl vanishes. Mike wanders through the woods searching on his own and meets a God-fearing woman who says she can help. Little does Mike know her help is the last thing he needs. After a string of horrific events he finds Sheryl bound to a table in a remote cabin cellar. Something evil has been planned...
First broadcast in 1976 this release features the second half of series 2. It's 1918 the guns are finally silent and the Great War in Europe is over. But at the Bentinck Hotel in London's St James the devastating effects of four years conflict are still plain to see. Home from the front at last Charlie Haslemere is on his last legs and when the inevitable happens Louisa decides on drastic action much to the displeasure of the hotel's staff. Louisa's life must go on and there a
Field of Dreams is, in the words of its makers, a baseball film that "isn't about baseball". Rather, it's a magical film that works its spell on all but the most hard-boiled of viewers, an altogether superior slice of apple-pie sentimentality. Kevin Costner plays a young Iowa farmer who finds himself pestered by a whispering voice urging him, "If you build it, he will come". With the consent of an uncharacteristically supportive Hollywood wife (Amy Madigan) he sets about building a baseball diamond in the middle of his land. This action invites the prospect of bankruptcy--however, it also invites the spirit of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, a baseball superstar disgraced following his role in the 1919 World Series scandal. The supernatural voices continue to urge Costner to "go the distance"--and he seeks out reclusive writer Thomas Mann (James Earl Jones) and "Doc" Graham (Burt Lancaster), impelled by purposes he is as yet unable to divine. Field of Dreams works because it touches so endearingly on themes of redemption, inner peace and the possibility of second chances--the "dreams" which elude most of us. It also cites baseball as an idyllic metaphor for all that is decent and constant about America. Costner gives immense plausibility to an utterly, deliberately implausible scenario. On the DVD: Presented in anamorphic 1.78:1, the vivid, almost unnaturally natural Iowa colours are depicted to vivid effect (much of the diamond grass had to be painted green when it died). Generous extras include a making-of feature, an interview with WP Kinsella, author of the novel on which the book is based, and Costner. Director/writer Phil Alden Robinson also provides a director's commentary in which he describes the logistical difficulties of assembling 1500 automobiles for the memorable final scene. --David Stubbs
Legendary recording artist and Oscar nominee Diana Ross stars with multi-platinum Grammy Award winning singer and actress Brandy in this compelling story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child. With dazzling performances from both stars the film includes an exclusive duet ""Love Is All That Matters."" Eighteen years after leaving her baby daughter in pursuit of fame Olivia (Diana Ross) returns to seek out Kayla (Brandy) and make amends for the past. With years of experience and well placed contacts Olivia helps Kayla realize her own dream of singing stardom. But their fragile mother-daughter bond is tested when Kayla's success threatens to surpass her mother's... Together they must discover that love is more powerful than ambition and family more important than fame.
The Blues Brothers (Dir. John Landis 1980): They'll never get caught. They're on a mission from God. After the release of Jake Blues (John Belushi) from prison he and brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) go to visit the orphanage where they were raised by nuns. They learn that the church stopped its support and will sell the place unless the tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers decide to raise the money by putting their blues band back together and stagin
Wrongfully convicted for the murder of his wife and child Neil Byrne (Sean Bean) manages to elude his guards en route to prison when he jumps off a moving train. Byrne goes undercover in Manchester becoming involved with a crime syndicate as he struggles to prove his innocence uncovering several dark secrets in the process.
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