In October and November 2002 The Fast Show favourites took to the stage.... to rapturous applause. This sell-out tour represented the final outing for a host of favourite characters from the 'suit you' tailors to a musical incarnation of Ted and Ralph to the office joker Colin Hunt.
Fleeing from a horrifically traumatic event Patty Vare (Winona Ryder) is on the run but is suddenly thrown from her horse and loses consciousness. When prep school rebel John Baker (Lukas Haas) discovers her he decides to help the beautiful and mysterious girl by hiding her in his dorm. Mutual attraction soon turns to romance and they explore the realms of young love. But time is against them as the police hunt her down to reveal the dark secret of her past.
A bumper box set of classic films featuring 'The First Lady of Cinema' Katharine Hepburn! Titles Comprise: Rooster Cogburn (Dir. Stuart Millar 1975): Two of the most popular stars in screen history are brought together for the first time in the follow up to True Grit. The film returns John Wayne to the role of the rapscallion eye patched whiskey guzzling Deputy Marshall that won him an Academy Award. Katharine Hepburn is prim Eula Goodnight a Bible thumping missionary who teams up with the gun fighter to avenge the death of her father. While in pursuit of the outlaws a warm rapport develops between the rough n' tumble lawman and the flirty reverend's daughter. State Of The Union (Dir. Frank Capra 1948): The Flamboyant businessman Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy) is persuaded by his mistress the powerful publishing heiress Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury) to seek the Republican nomination in the forthcoming elections. Mary Matthews (Katharine Hepburn) joins her estranged husband to present a public portrait of a happy family for the voters. With the aid of the conniving political boss Jim Conover (Adolphe Menjou) Grant begins the long road to the White House... Bringing Up Baby (Dir. Howard Hawks 1938): A dog belonging to an eccentric heiress (Hepburn) steals a dinosaur bone from David (Grant) an absent-minded Zoology professor. David follows the heiress to her home and all hell breaks loose when he loses his pet leopard known as 'Baby'. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn give fantastic performances in one of Hollywood's finest screwball comedies superbly directed by Howard Hawks. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Dir. Stanley Kramer 1967): Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award as Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton) the beautiful daughter of a crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn) returns home with her new fiancee John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; and the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. Holiday (Dir. George Cukor 1938): An iconoclastic young man (Cary Grant) who's engaged to a snooty heiress (Doris Nolan) discovers he's really in love with his fianc''e's down-to-earth sister (Katharine Hepburn) in director George Cukor's stylish comedy... Suddenly Last Summer (Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1959): Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn each received Oscar nominations for best actress in this gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play filmed at Shepperton Studios by director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Catherine Holly (Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the strange and horrible death of her cousin. Catherine's aunt Violet Venable (Hepburn) tries to influence Dr Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilising injections of Sodium Pentothal Dr Cukrowicz discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true. He then must confront Violet about her own involvement in her son's lurid death...
Charlie Chaplin was the first true superstar to emerge from the fledgling movie industry with his status being sufficient to ensure he controlled every aspect of his films - he wrote the script selected the cast and directed the action. He did all these tasks rather well as is evidenced by some of the classics to be found in this three DVD collection. Easy Street is perhaps his best known film where his bumbling police officer manages to bring order but equally worthy of attention are A Night In The Show and His New Job.
Chaplin plays two characters in his first full talkie. Adenoid Hynkel the dictator of Tomania and a Jewish Barber. The Barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his country. The film ends with a message of hope for the world.
John Wayne Gacy was a model citizen right down to volunteering to be a clown for the children at the local hospital. Shockingly though he kept a gruesome guilty secret that is revealed when a trail of missing young men lead to Gacy's suburban home. The nation watch in horror as one by one the discovery of over 30 murders come to light. Soon the details and drama surrounding the killings are unearthed along with the bodies lying entombed beneath the house. Based on the true story of one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.
Horrible Bosses Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness. Hall Pass Rick and Fred, two husbands who are having difficulty in their marriages, are given a Hall Pass by their wives: for one week, they can do whatever they want.
He may have been usurped in recent years but, during the period detailed in Murder Was the Case, Snoop Doggy Dogg was the last word in gangsta rap. As with the new boy on the block Eminem, the power behind Snoop's throne was undoubtedly producer Dr Dre, and he is to be found included in nearly as much of the documentary footage as the rapper himself. These sit alongside a selection of music videos and clips from live television performances. While not exactly in-depth, a few of the interviews do try and scratch beneath the surface of the gangsta veneer (when asked if he is a violent man, the reply is a slightly chilling "when I have to be"), a marked contrast to the clips of the proud father and baby son. The videos are the usual mix of edgy urban funk and street style, coupled with the by-now rather tired visual imagery. The short film from which the package takes its title takes these concepts to an uncensored conclusion, a tasteless and crass work indulging in explicit scenes of violence, drug taking and misogyny. On the DVD: A brief inclusion of two extra video clips, as well as an animated interactive menu and scene selector. The stereo sound quality is suitably booming.--Phil Udell
Recognising his genius Charles Chaplin won a special Academy Award for acting writing producing and directing The Circus. In this silent comedy The Tramp finds himself at a circus where he promptly gets chased by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the big top The Tramp is an accidental sensation with his hilarious efforts to elude the police and immediately gets hired by the ringmaster.
The DVD of the 1971 FA Cup Final is not just 90 minutes plus extra time of football in the gruelling sun. It is a step back in time to revisit the experience of the day! Containing the Official FA Cup Final Programme the TV schedule for the day the top 40 singles chart of that week the top selling singles and albums of that year the top TV of that year the best films news headlines top sporting events and a price comparison of prices paid for goods in 1971 compared to 2003. I
Jackie Chan makes a welcome return to Hong Kong cinema and to spectacular form in this action-packed crime thriller.
Written by Steven Moffatt the series is set in the fictional offices of the Junior Gazette a student newspaper ran with an iron fist by its editor Linda Day (Julia Sawalha)...
A profiler who escapes from his life of serial killers seeks sanctuary in a Scottish town where he plans to begin a book. But his life is threatened by the past and a killer who creates obituaries for his victims...
At first glance Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane) seems like an ordinary divorced dad who's trying to make ends meet. But Ray's got one extraordinary God-given gift - call it his winning tool - that sets him apart from other underpaid high-school teachers. With a little help from an unlikely business ally named Tanya (Jane Adams) Ray is about to hatch an inspired plan to ride his winning tool all the way to a more productive debt-free life.
On January 15th 1974 15 year old Charlie Otero's life was destroyed. He came home from school to find his parents and two of his younger siblings all murdered. He didn't know it at the time but the Otero's were the first victims of the serial killer who called himself B.T.K. (Bind. Torture. Kill). What followed was a lifelong search for the truth which culminated with the arrest conviction and imprisonment of a man named Dennis Rader 30 years after the Otero family were murdered. This film chronicles the beginning of the end of the 30-year-old B.T.K Strangler mystery as it is told through the eyes of Charlie Otero.
Live tracks include: 1. Phil Woods - My Old Flame 2. Ben Sidran - Space Cowboy 3. Sidran & Woods - Last Dance 4. Charlie Byrd - 7 Cum 11 5. Charlie Byrd - Just Friends 6. Stephane Grappelli - After You've Gone 7. Stephane Grappelli - Ater You In The Mood
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