Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman heads the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS), cracking previously unsolved crimes from the past. Her team is made up of ex-policemen who have opted for early retirement. This two disc set contains the best five episodes as voted for by the fans. Episode Comprise: God's Waiting Room: When Strickland refuses permission to investigate a suspicious death at a high end care home the team go undercover. Death of a Timeshare Salesman: When former escort girl finds God and confesses her sins the team fi nd themselves reinvestigating the death of a well-known timeshare magnate. Dead Man Talking: UCOS reinvestigate the death of a wealthy financier when a psychic tells the dead man's daughter that she needs to resolve some unfinished business on her father's behalf. Old Fossils: The team identify plenty of suspects when they reopen the case into the murder of a respected but outspoken palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum. The Girl Who Lived: When the DNA of a missing girl is found at the scene of a robbery a retired detective from Glasgow joins the UCOS team and things will never be the same again.
Andrija (Tom Conti) stars as a likeable and good-natured lifeguard at a tranquil Yugoslavian summer resort. It's the last summer of the German occupation, and he has yet to save a life. However the calm is disturbed when a platoon of Nazis set up camp on the opposite bank. Then a young widow (Susan George) and her son ask him for a place to hide from the Germans. Andrija falls in love and then saves the life of a drowning man. But whose life has he saved?This unique and gripping World War II drama captures the warmth of this idyllic land, and the evils of war that affect all of their lives. That Summer of White Roses premiered in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain. It won the Grand Prix and Tokyo Golden Dragon for 'Best Film' and 'Best Director' at the Tokyo Interntional Film Festival. It also won the Golden Arena and the European Kodak Awardat the Pula Film Festival.
On September 12 2004 just two-and-a-half days before Johnny Ramone's death a group of musicians and friends staged a benefit concert to celebrate The Ramones' 30th anniversary and to raise money for cancer research. Mandy Stein's touching rockumentary captures that unforgettable evening.
The aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the death of a young copywriter at a top advertising agency. Can Lord Peter solve the crime before more deaths occur?
The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival was a true musical watershed, as Jazz on a Summer's Day reveals. This 75-minute film captures an event poised on the cusp of a new era, as the cool jazz of Jimmy Guiffre and the effortless scat of Anita O'Day intermingle with the hard bop of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and the smouldering fusion overtones of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. There's a crisp contribution from Chuck Berry, a typically feel-good set from Louis Armstrong--including a hilarious duo with Jack Teagarden--and, as evening shades into night, a heartfelt performance from Mahalia Jackson, closing with a melting rendition of "The Lord's Prayer". Bert Stern has assembled all these and more into a satisfying sequence, complete with footage of an enthusiastic and informal audience. Shots of the yachting line-up from the America's Cup round out a blissful and what now seems blissfully naïve occasion. On the DVD: Colour picture quality has worn well, whereas sound has deteriorated notably at times: Thelonius Monk's quarter-tones could easily be a semitone flat! Even so, it's worth putting up with this to enjoy a tour through music-making whose relaxed spontaneity would be impossible to emulate today. --Richard Whitehouse
Set in a fictional paper the drive to get the story is intense - the phrase ‘by any means necessary' doesn't even cover it. Phone hacking, blagging, pinging... the staff here do it all. But it's all about to unravel and in a big way...Editor Kate Loy (Claire Foy) doesn't take any prisoners and the Proprietor of the tabloid she runs, Stanhope Feast (Michael Kitchen), demands she always gets the biggest stories first. But her moral compass went awry a long time ago - something that's about to cause her major problems. As the scandal breaks and the net closes in on her, things get funnier for the viewer as things go from bad to worse for the characters...
While much of the world watched the early success of 'Mein Kampf' and the bombing of Pearl Harbour was ten years in the future few were aware of the existence of an oriental 'Hitler' ... Baron Giichi Tankara. But the war had already started in Japan for James Condon American journalist and editor of the Japanese Chronicle whose intuition has led him to believe that major trouble was brewing. The role of Condon man of hard words and harder fists is just the kind of tough guy that first brought James Cagney stardom and in this movie you will not be disappointed as he battles to stay alive long enough to warn the rest of the world against a Japanese militarist plot called the 'Tanaka Plan' that has world domination as its objective. This is one of the first American martial arts movies and features some gripping action with Cagney doing his own stunts for which he trained intensively with Ken Kuniyuki a fifth degree judo master before shooting. This is Cagney at his best.
Available for the first time on DVD! An erotic game of death and desire. A beautiful married woman is seduced into a torrid love affair with a charismatic but ruthless business magnate. Tension mounts as the entanglement leads her deeper and deeper into a dark underworld of blackmail forbidden lust and murder.
A complex and fascinating avantgarde examination of time and personality. A film of authentic startling originality brilliantly mixing cinema and video techniques Arden and Bond have created a movie that captures the anxiety and sense of danger that has infiltrated the consciousness of so many people in western society.
With or Without You works as an above-average television drama; but that's about the height of its ambition. It's strange that Michael Winterbottom, director of the hard-edged, bitter Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) and the grandiose snowy western The Claim (2000) should have bothered with anything as routine and undemanding. Perhaps its greatest distinction is that it's set in present-day Belfast without so much as a mention of the Troubles. The plot is a bog-standard romantic triangle. Rosie and Vincent, who have been married five years or so, want a baby, but nothing's happening. It doesn't help that Rosie's older sister has sprogs burgeoning like mushrooms wherever you look. Then up pops a figure from Rosie's past--Benoît, her pen-pal from before she met Vincent. And being French, he's naturally charming, witty, romantic and everything poor old Vincent isn't. Think you can guess what's coming? Well, most likely you can--right down to the all-too-pat happy ending. Still, the actors (Christopher Ecclestone, Dervla Kirwan and Yvan Attal are the leads) are accomplished and watchable, the dialogue stays the right side of banal and it's refreshing to see Belfast shown as a civilised, cultured place to live. With or Without You passes an hour and a half pleasantly enough and may even raise the odd chuckle, but it covers well-trodden territory without much new to say. On the DVD: aptly routine stuff--the theatrical trailer, a bland "making of" featurette and some interviews with the three principal players. Widescreen (16:9 anamorphic) and Dolby Surround Sound give the material the best possible showcase. --Philip Kemp
The Falcon and his friend Goldie Locke check into what appears to be a silk-smuggling racket in San Francisco.
Richard Wagner's Lohengrin recorded at the Festspielhaus Bayreuth 1982.
Eli Kotch plans to use the visit of the Russian premier to aid him in his attempts to rob a bank at Los Angeles airport but can he get away with it?
Featuring spectacular archive footage seemless performances and vivid pivotal interviews with an extraordinary array of the most famous and infamous figures in the American jazz scene including Armstrong Basie Parker Coltrane Monk Charles Holiday Vaughan BB King Duke Ellington Dizzy Gillespie Tony Bennett Billy Taylor Carmen McRae Charles Mingus Wynton Marsalis Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald Masters Of Jazz is the most impeccably detailed and indispensible 12 hou
Alison Maclean's Crush is a powerful psychological thriller with shades of The Last Seduction. It's an impressive debut feature which echoes other darkly examples of New Zealand's Cinema of Unease such as Jane Campion's debut Sweetie and Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures. A wreckless car journey leads to a near-fatal crash. Lane who was driving escapes but deserts Christina who's trapped in the wreckage. Since they were heading to interview novelist C
Archie is a multi-millionaire, dog hating, practical joker with a wicked sense of humour. But when tragedy strikes, the joke is on him! In heaven he is turned into a dog - not any dog, but a fluffy white dog named Quigley!
Jet Li and Jason Statham go head to head in this all action spectacular as an FBI Agent seeks revenge on a mysterious assassin.
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