A year before the outbreak of the First World War Charlie MacFell returns from university to Northumberland to visit the farm where he spent an unhappy childhood and where his brutal father would subject young farm hands to vicious beatings on the hot cinder path. Marriage to the beautiful but adulterous Victoria Chapman turns out to be a further humiliation for Charlie but when he joins the army he discovers amongst the horrors of the Western Front a strength he never knew existed. Respected by his family and by his men on the battlefield he finally finds true love with his wife's younger sister. Just as lasting happiness is within his grasp fate seems poised to snatch it all away...
To find out what really goes on behind the scenes over the BSB racing weekend.The MCE BSB 2015 championship has granted an All Access pass to presenter and ex-superbiker James Whitham. Our cameras were there as the teams and riders laid out their ambitious plans at the official launch day, and James follows their progress through every MCE BSB weekend.
This is the seventh year that Sony has compiled and marketed the offical Brits album and it's one of the strongest tracklistings ever seen comprising the best tracks from this year's nominees with the cream of pop indie R&B and dance. This very first Brits DVD offering features 25 original promotional videos from today's biggest and brightest pop stars! TRACKLISTING: A1 - Same Old Brand New You All Saints - Pure Shores Artul Dodger - Please Don't Turn Me On Britney Spears - Lucky Coldplay - Yellow The Corrs - Breathless Craig David - Walking Away David Gray - Babylon Fatboy Slim - Sunset (Bird Of Prey) Jill Scott - Gettin' In The Way Kelis - Caught Out There Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around Lene Marlin - Sitting Down Here Moloko - The Time is Now Ricky Martin - She Bangs Ronan Keating - Life Is A Rollercoaster S Club 7 - Reach Sade - By Your Side Savage Garden - Affirmation Sisqo - Thong Song Steps - Stomp Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight U2 - Beautiful Day Westlife - Fool Again Wyclef Jean- It Doesn't Matter
Clint Eastwood's 25th film as a director, Million Dollar Baby stands proudly with Unforgiven and Mystic River as the masterwork of a great American filmmaker. In an age of bloated spectacle and computer-generated effects extravaganzas, Eastwood turns an elegant screenplay by Paul Haggis (adapted from the book Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner by F.X. Toole, a pseudonym for veteran boxing manager Jerry Boyd) into a simple, humanitarian example of classical filmmaking. Eastwood mines gold for each and every character: charting the powerful bonds that develop between "white-trash" Missouri waitress and aspiring boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), her reluctant trainer Frankie Dunn (Eastwood), and training-gym partner Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris (Morgan Freeman). --Jeff Shannon
Sometimes the only way out is to break in. A psychological thriller a coming-of-age drama a gay love story and a black comedy Ethan Mao tells the story of an 18-year-old boy reaching the point of no return. Booted out of his house for being gay Ethan Mao survives on the street as a hustler. There he meets 19-year-old Remigio a drug dealer and fellow hustler who takes him in. After being tipped off by his younger brother that his family is going on a day tri
In the last days of the Wild West Calamity Jane works as a mule skinner for Custer has a fling with Bill Hickok and tries to reclaim her daughter when she travels to London with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show...
Compelling drama at it's very best. Set in Edinburgh The Advocates contrasts the high powered and respectable world of the lawyers and advocates of the Scottish legal profession with the sleazy and deadly existence of the city's pimps prostitutes and drug addicts. In Series 1 Doctor Joe Sangster suspects foul play when a young prostitute is murdered by a drug overdose. In the growing climate of fear over drugs and AIDS in the city he turns to Greg McDowell a young lawyer-cum-investigator for help. Greg sees this as the perfect opportunity and decides to immerse himself in the gritty Edinburgh underworld in search of justice. Series 2 follows James McCandlish an eminent advocate who is arrested and charged with murdering his wife. Greg McDowell from the struggling law firm run by Katherine Dunbar represents him with the high profile case likely to raise the firm's image. McDowell is upset when Katherine is encouraged to supervise the McCandlish case and things take a turn for the worse when the company is sued for negligence over a different issue.
Recorded live in Live at Union Chapel captures David Byrne at his most irreverent. Performing 18 songs spanning four decades Byrne effortlessly weaves lyrically potent compositions and compelling arrangements to create an unforgettable evening. Among the performances are stunning versions of David's Work as well as Talking Heads favourites. Backed by a full band and a string section Byrne's stage presence is matched by his masterful delivery. Tracklisting : 1. (Nothing But) Flowers 2. And She Was 3. Once In A Lifetime 4. God's Child 5. The Great Intoxication 6. Un Di Felice 7. The Revolution 8. Sax and Violins 9. This Must Be The Place 10. What A Day That Was 11. Like Humans Do 12. U.B. Jesus 13. Life During Wartime 14. Lazy 15. I Wanna Dance With Somebody 16. Ausencia 17. The Accident 18. Road To Nowhere
Sean Bean stars as the dashing and daredevil Napoleonic hero Richard Sharpe Hero of Wellington's Spanish Army. But Sharpe unwittingly becomes caught up in a French plot; hie is convicted of the murder of a Spanish nobleman and sentenced to death this time he will need more than just his legendary courage to survive. In a desperate attempt to clear his name Sharpe is forced to venture deep into enemy territory to capture La Marquesa a beautiful French spy who alone can prove his innocence.
Just Buried is a ruthlessly twisted dark comedy about ambition, greed, sex and death. When Oliver (Jay Baruchel) returns to his small-town home to attend his estranged father's funeral, his uneventful life suddenly takes a turn. He has just inherited the family business - a funeral home on the verge of bankruptcy. Aided and abetted by the bewitching embalmer Roberta (Rose Byrne), Oliver accidentally, and then not-so-accidentally, provides himself with paying customers. Together they ...
It is difficult to know who this compilation of nominees for the 2002 BRIT Awards is aimed at. It is implausible that anybody will like everything here, and it is unbelievable that anyone possessed of rudimentary critical faculties will like more than three or four of the artists whose videos feature in this collection. Given the perennial determination of the BRITs to celebrate all that is mediocre, and the fact that 2001 was less than a vintage year by any standards, "BRIT Awards 2002" is mostly rather dismal viewing. There are a few heartening moments: Kylie Minogue releasing a decent single ("Can't Get You out of My Head") is testament more to the law of averages than her musical abilities, but the video is a small masterpiece of choreography and computer imaging. Destiny's Child and Dido also owe particular thanks to their directors, though it might reasonably be argued that the bulldozer that eventually destroys the house in which Dido simpers along to "Thank You" arrives about four minutes too late. Probably coincidentally, the best three videos (and the best three songs) are all animated affairs: Daft Punk's "Digital Love", Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood" and Radiohead's typically baleful, and beautiful, "Pyramid Song". On the DVD: That individual tracks can be easily selected is a necessity with a compilation of this sort. The "bonus features" are barely worthy of the phrase: extremely desultory biographies of the artists, and links to the official Web sites of the BRITs and Sony. --Andrew Mueller
Great 2001 performance from one of pop's true renaissance men recorded following the release of the album 'Look Into the Eyeball'. Includes the Talking Heads Classic 'Life During Wartime'. Tracklisting: 1. (Nothing But) Flowers 2. God's Child 3. And She Was 4. Once In A Lifetime 5. Great Intoxication 6. Marching Through The Wilderness 7. Revolution 8. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) 9. What A Day That Was 10. Desconcido Soy 11. Like Humans Do 12. Life During Wartime 13. I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Ever since this convoluted thriller dazzled audiences and critics in 1995 and won an Oscar for Christopher McQuarrie's twisting screenplay, The Usual Suspects has continued to divide movie lovers into opposite camps. While a lot of people take great pleasure from the movie's now-famous central mystery (namely, "Who is Keyser Söze?"), others aren't so easily impressed by a movie that's too enamoured of its own cleverness to make much sense. After all, what are we to make of a final scene that renders the entire movie obsolete? Half the fun of The Usual Suspects is the debate it provokes and the sheer pleasure of watching its dynamic cast in action, led (or should we say, mislead) by Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey as the club-footed con man who recounts the saga of enigmatic Hungarian mobster Keyser Söze. Spacey's in a band of thieves that includes Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, and Benicio Del Toro, all gathered in a plot to steal a large shipment of cocaine. The story is told in flashback as a twisted plot being described by Spacey's character to an investigating detective (Chazz Palmintieri), and The Usual Suspects is enjoyable for the way it keeps the viewer guessing right up to its surprise ending. Whether that ending will enhance or extinguish the pleasure is up to each viewer to decide. Even if it ultimately makes little or no sense at all, this is a funny and fiendish thriller, guaranteed to entertain even its vocal detractors. --Jeff Shannon
BSB has allowed An Access All Areas Pass to television presenter James Whitham to find out what really goes behind the scenes at a race-day and what trials and tribulations occur over a race weekend. From pre-season preparations in the dark damp and rainy tracks of the cold UK it's intensive preparation until the first race-day. Listen to the ambitious plans of the teams and riders at the official launch day and chart their progress through every BSB round of the nail biting 2013 season. All the teams are covered in this exclusive DVD including many support classes of teams racing alongside the BSB factory teams. From the safe haven of the rider's motor homes to onboard their bikes on track fears and excitement are captured at every race round and qualification. The Official 2013 MCE British Superbike Behind the Scenes double disc set hosted by the ever popular James Whitham who follows the main riders and teams around the track and more importantly off the track to see how they train and stand the pain of being the gladiators of motorbike racing!
Sean Bean stars as maverick British rifleman Richard Sharpe in this romantic adventure set during the bloody conflicts of 19th Century Napoleonic Spain.Ordered to lay siege to the French stronghold - the walled city of Badajos - Sharpe is torn between overcoming the enemy and rescuing his lover - the beautiful guerrilla fighter Teresa (Assumpta Serna) - now trapped in the city on a secret mission spying for the British.There is one thing Sharpe hasn't counted on the evil presence of his old enemy Hakeswill who is determined to stop him at all costs.
Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema remembered for timeless stars and some unique movies that have stood the test of time. So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be? Born in South Africa but an icon of British cinema for more than two decades Sid James remains one of the best loved comic actors ever to grace the big screen. In homage to this larger than life character this special collection contains t
When oh when will scientists learn to stop playing with radiation? Island of Terror takes place on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. No phones no regular transport to and from the mainland but there is a well-equipped cancer research center where the well intentioned - but foolish! - scientists are irradiating lumps of tissue. The local constable finds a body with no bones in it ('No bones?' 'No bones!') and soon a team from London led by the ever-game Peter Cushing arri
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