British Secret Service agent John Rennie becomes a liability to the Agency after a harrowing mission in Argentina. His ex-wife and children receive death threats and marked for murder he returns to Argentina with a plan that will either protect his family and the woman he loves or destroy them.
Art Garfunkel plays a moody American psychoanalyst whose mounting obsession with a beautiful fun-loving young girl drives her to the brink of death on a drug overdose. As he waits anxiously at the hospital and tries to answer police questions he recalls the details of the complex and tempestuous affair: their meeting their discovery of physical joy marred by mental anguish their constant separations and reconciliations. Yet is he telling the police the whole truth?
In 1815 monk Tomas Alcala unwittingly unleashes two female succubi Munkar and Nakir upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage...
Silent comedy star Harold Lloyd personally selected his funniest scenes for this hysterical compilation. Our bespectacled hero always seems to go from one set of troubles to another. Contains classic bits from gems such as 'Why Worry?' 'The Milky Way' 'Girl Shy' 'Movie Crazy' and 'Professor Beware'. You will never forget poor Harold's daring antics on a skyscraper in his best loved film 'Safety Last!' or his daring climb down the side of a building in 'Feet First'.
Series 5 of Minder continues the comic adventures of Arthur Daley (George Cole) and Terry McCann (Dennis Waterman). Strong support is provided as ever by Dave The Barman (Glynn Edwards) Inspector Chisholm (Patrick Malahide) and guest star appearances from the likes of Robbie Coltrane Ray Winstone Beryl Reid and others. All together - ""I could be so good for you!"" Episode titles: 'Goodbye Sailor' 'What Makes Shamy Run?' and 'A Number of Old Wives' Tales'.
The story of Billy, Will, Jules, Daphne and Dodie, a group of people who prove that there are no secrets between friends.
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Live
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers were the quintessential ""hard bop"" ensemble rooted in the core elements of Swing and Blues. As Jazz became more prevalent and expansive the characteristic ""hard bop"" of the Messengers became accepted as the global definition for Jazz music. Art Blakey it's eldest and most eloquent exponent was its master. This brilliant performance at Ronnie Scott's from February 21st 1985 is testament to this fact. Tracklisting: 1.On The Ginza 2.I Want To Talk T
Sexy Heather Graham leads a hilarious cast in an outrageously high-spirited comedy about the crazy things people will do for love. When Joline discovers that her husband has abruptly left her in an effort to find himself she drops everything and drives out to New York City in search of her stray spouse. Then after finally tracking him down in the west Texas desert Joline demonstrates that she'll do anything to win him back. Also featuring Casey Affleck Goran Visnjic and Luke Wilso
Director Renny Harlin (Cutthroat Island) took the reins of this 1990 sequel, which places Bruce Willis's New York City cop character in harm's way again with a gaggle of terrorists. This time, Willis awaits his wife's arrival at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, when he gets wind of a plot to blow up the facility. Noisy, overbearing and forgettable, the film has none of the purity of its predecessor's simple story; and it makes a huge miscalculation in allowing a terrible tragedy to occur rather than stretch out the tension. Where Die Hard set new precedents in action movies, Die Hard 2 is just an anything-goes spectacle. -- Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Live from Ellis Island April 12th & 13th 1996. Tracks include: 1. Program Open: America 2. A Heart In New York 3. A Poem On The Underground Wall 4. Scarborough Fair 5. Homeward Bound 6. Cecilia 7. Crying In The Rain 8. El Condor Pasa (If I Could) 9. All I Know 10. Bright Eyes 11. Bridge Over Troubled Water 12. Mrs. Robinson 13. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) 14. April Come She Will 15. The Sound Of Silence 16. Grateful 17. Closing Credits: Goodnight My Love
Matt Cole and Dutch Everett are a hard working family struggling to make an honest living during tough times in the Old West. Deke Turner is the reason for the trouble a ruthless landowner determined to have the Everetts' ranch by whatever means necessary. When the youngest member of the family Matt kills one of Deke's men in self-defence Turner seizes the opportunity to frame him for murder. Dubbed the Kansas Kid Matt is rescued from custody by Cole and Dutch but now all three are wanted men each with a price on their head.
Charles Fuller adapted his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play for the big screen in 1984. The film version, A Soldier's Story is essentially a murder mystery, played out against a background of inter and intra-racial conflict at a Second World War training camp. To the consternation of his white opposite number at the camp, a black captain (Howard W Rollins) arrives to investigate the death of a black sergeant (Adolph Caesar). Suspicion immediately falls on a pair of bigoted white officers but as the tale unfolds in a series of flashbacks, it soon becomes clear that a different kind of prejudice is also at work. Assisted by some excellent performances, director Norman Jewison opens the story out from its stage roots. There's a wonderful baseball scene (filmed on location at Little Rock) in which the double standards of Dennis Lipscomb's fidgety white captain are exposed with neat irony; he'll cheer his successful black team all the way home in the name of sport. His gradual, forced liberalisation provides the film with an important comic element. A Soldier's Story wears its heart on its sleeve without being superficial in any way. It's a compelling tale, well told and often highly entertaining, in which nobody gets off lightly, least of all the good guy. On the DVD: The widescreen presentation helps give an epic feel to what could, in other hands, have been a claustrophobic production. The picture quality is fine. But the monaural sound track is often rather muffled, leaving you straining to catch some of the dialogue. This is also a shame because the blues music--an inspired job by Herbie Hancock, assisted by Patti Labelle singing her lungs out as bar owner Big Mary--is an important element of the film's underlying theme and deserves to be better heard. The extras are valuable. Norman Jewison's commentary is detailed and sensitive. As he says, the film deals with "ideas in racism never seen on screen before", and he acknowledges the strength of his actors in getting those ideas across. "March to Freedom" is an excellent short documentary which features the moving testimonies of black servicemen on the insufferable prejudices they encountered while attempting to defend their country during the Second World War; A Soldier's Story is thus put sharply into context. --Piers Ford
Based on the true experiences of Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl who wrote eloquently of them in a widely circulated 2004 article Taking Chance is a profoundly emotional look at the military rituals taken to honor its war dead as represented by a fallen Marine killed in Iraq Lance Corporal Chance Phelps. Working as a strategic analyst at Marine Corps Base Quantico in VA Lt. Col. Strobl (Kevin Bacon) learns that Phelps had once lived in his hometown and volunteers to escort the body to its final resting place in Wyoming. As Strobl journeys across America he discovers the great diligence and dignity in how the military and all those involved with preparing and transporting the body handle their duties. Equally important he encounters hundreds of people affected by Chances death a vast majority of whom never knew him. This collective grieving eventually causes Lt. Col. Strobl a veteran of Desert Storm now assigned to office duty to probe his own guilt about not re-deploying to Iraq for the current conflict. Arriving in Wyoming Lt. Col. Strobl completes his catharsis when he encounters Chances gracious family and friends and discovers an extraordinary outpouring of community support.
Mankind's existence hangs in the balance when a demon takes on the might of a white warrior. The warrior manages to sever one of the demon's limbs and takes it to a sacred temple where kept safe it prevents the demon from preying on man again...
This is Simon and Garfunkel performing at their very best broadcasting live with archive footage from between 1963 and 1985. Tracklist: 1. The Boxer 2. The Sound Of Silence 3. Richard Corey 4. Homeward Bound 5. He Was My Brother 6. Poem On The Underground 7. Leaves That Are Green 8. A Most Peculiar man 9. I Am A Rock 10. Overs 11. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) 12. American Tunbe 13. Loves Me Like A Rock 14. Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes 15. Bridge Over Troub
Maggie Harwood (Penelope Ann Miller) is a British wine merchant's daughter obsessed with making it in her father's business. She is delighted when he sends her out on a routine business mission to a remote castle in Scotland. What appears to be an average job cataloging the stock of an ancient wine cellar becomes an opportunity of a lifetime when Maggie discovers a 150-year-old bottle of wine from a legendary year believed to have once belonged to Napoleon. What Maggie doesn't realiz
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