Late September takes place over a 24 hour period and follows the course and aftermath of a birthday celebration arranged by a middle-aged woman for her husband to whom she has been married for nearly 40 years. As the day and night progress, old rifts, new relationships and secrets emerge amongst friends, and the underlying tensions in the marriage can no longer be contained. This age group, the post war generation now approaching old age, has not received much attention in film and here their lives, their hopes and fears for the future are portrayed with a total lack of sentimentality but also with great warmth, humour and empathy. The problems these friends face are specific but universal and recognisable to us all. The question of whether it is better to live alone or to live with someone you feel lonely with is never answered but is reflected in different ways within the reality of the individual characters, as it is played out with intensity and honesty in a beautiful Kent house and garden in the shadows of late September.
Meet the most unconventional investigative duo of any time - JEFF SLADE and HOLLY TURNER in the mystery adventure series Crime Traveller. Sleuths come and go working on intuition luck and clues but Slade and his science officer colleague Holly are armed with something extra in their fight against crime - their very own Time Machine. High speed chases and intriguing puzzles are solved with the aid of their unreliable Time Machine in this stylish fast-paced drama.
Run aground during a fierce storm a group of passengers are forced to abandon ship. As the survivors (among them prisoners a prison guard and a criminal psychologist) struggle ashore they find themselves at an apparently deserted lighthouse. It's not long until they discover the headless corpses of the lighthouse keepers and they realise that the ship was also carrying a prisoner more dangerous than any of them - murderer Leo Rook (Christopher Adamson). Hunting them down one by
Based on Tom Sharpes satirical novel and set in a fictional, all-male Cambridge College, 1987s Porterhouse Blue is a crusty delight. Ian Richardson stars as the austere moderniser who takes over as master of Porterhouse with a view to bringing in radical changes; David Jason is Skullion, head porter for 45 years and a bulldog-style traditionalist.Porterhouse Blue is a wonderfully grotesque and not inaccurate depiction of an Oxbridge college that has set itself resolutely and decadently against the modern world. Crammed with hoggish, port-swilling dons who are more concerned that the college stay "head of the river" than with academic achievement, the highlight of Porterhouses year is the Founders Feast, in which students and tutors gorge debauchedly on roast swan stuffed with widgeon, to the horror of the new vegetarian master. Jasons Skullion looks on approvingly: hes a stickler for Porterhouses inverted values, disapproving, for instance, of student Zipser (John Sessions), the only fellow at the college actually there to work. When the master eventually fires Skullion, the forces of traditionalism gather in sympathy and attempt their revenge.Unfolding over 190 leisurely minutes, Porterhouse Blue is an elegantly turned comedy in which practically every morsel of dialogue is to be savoured for its delicious tang. Jason and Richardson are reliably excellent in what is an overall exhibition of British TV thespianism at its finest. --David Stubbs
Meet the most unconventional investigative duo of any time - detective Jeff Slade and temporal scientist Holly Turner in this mystery adventure series. High speed chases and intriguing puzzles are solved with the aid of their unreliable time machine in this stylish fast-paced drama.
Meet the most unconventional investigative duo of any time - detective Jeff Slade and temporal scientist Holly Turner in this mystery adventure series. High speed chases and intriguing puzzles are solved with the aid of their unreliable time machine in this stylish fast-paced drama. Episode 1: Jeff Slade and the Loop of Infinity Episode 2: Death in the Family Episode 3: Fashion shoot Episode 4: Revenge of the Chronology Protection Hypothesis
In an attempt to revisit a creative collaboration and revive his marriage, a theatre director brings together a group of performers to spend a week with him and his wife in an isolated, mountainous part of southern France. As the work progresses, fiction and reality become blurred and there is a constant tension between the characters emotional lives and the nature of the work - an investigation into the changing nature of love. The couple are haunted by memories and dreams which, in the end, threaten not only the venture but the marriage itself. All this is underpinned by a sense of melancholy, reflected in the songs and music performed, and in the dramatic and implacably beautiful landscape.
Director Jon Sanders continues to explore his improvisational techniques with great delicacy in his new film Back to the Garden. It is a year since the death of an inspirational theatre director and teacher and his widow is struggling to come to terms with her loss. A group of close friends many of whom are or were actors come to spend the weekend with her to offer their support and to celebrate his memory in an entertaining and moving performance before they scatter his ashes in the garden. Back to the Garden is both a meditation on love and loss and an evocation of the joys and sadness's of later life exploring these themes with humour and tenderness by the improvising cast. Special Features: Trailer
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