Eighteen feet longer than the Lancaster the Short Stirling was the first and largest of the RAF's wartime four-engine bombers. Although well over 2 000 Sterlings were built not one remains today! Throughout Europe the search is on for a wreck that might conceivably be restored. Unitl then Remeber The Sterling is the only way to really experience this important British Bomber! This DVD features rare and exclusive wartime footage as well as interviews with Surviving Stirling aircrew members!
Filmed in Rusholme, Manchester, for the great Mancunian Film Corporation, Cup-tie Honeymoon is a riotous post-war comedy from the North of England where the gags come quicker than the team's wingers! Joe Butler (Sandy Powell) is the soccer-mad son of the company chairman, who has to decide which team he will play for in a cup-tie: his school or his father's. If he makes the right decision he can also score with his dad's pretty secretary! Features an excellent supporting cast of Dan Young, Betty Jumel and Pat Phoenix, most of the fi lm was shot on local streets and at Manchester City's Maine Road stadium.
Off The Hook
Reality bites! High school sweethearts Brady Claire and six of their college friends board a houseboat for a fun-filled sun-soaked spring break vacation. But when they discover a nest of large eggs in the marshlands -- and one of them can't resist taking one back to the party -- their weekend of fun-in-the-sun will turn into a weekend of terror!
Mike Andropolis is a failure law school drop-out and jack-of-all-trades about to lose his house and family. In desperation he decides to train for the Olympic Marathon in a last ditch attempt at winning back his family and his self-respect...
Never forgive. Never forget. When his sister turns up missing retired homicide detective Eddie Burns (Rhames) finds himself back on the job and hot on the trail of a sadistic monster (Oldman). But as he finds himself being pulled deeper and deeper into the world of pornography and drugs Burns soon discovers that he has a great deal in common with the prey that he is stalking. And as the renegade lawman squares off with evil personified in the ultimate battle one man will be puni
An enormous alien spacecraft lands behind a movie theatre in the tiny desert town of Dead Rock. An insect alien vaporizes the projectionist and in a flurry of film splicing he puts together an incredible collection of Science Fiction film clips featuring monsters all in the act of destroying the Earth. As the aliens try to gain control two ten year olds realize that the incredible visual effects on the screen aren't effects at all... but real aliens invading earth. Now it's up to th
An enormous alien spacecraft lands behind a movie theatre in the tiny desert town of Dead Rock. An insect alien vaporizes the projectionist and in a flurry of film splicing he puts together an incredible collection of Science Fiction film clips featuring monsters all in the act of destroying the Earth. As the aliens try to gain control two ten year olds realize that the incredible visual effects on the screen aren't effects at all... but real aliens invading earth. Now it's up to them to save the day!
Though the Guardian opens with a nod or two to Three Kings, it really offers a cut-down version of Fallen, with Los Angeles Detective Kross (Mario Van Peebles) facing Telal--a body-hopping Sumerian demon he encountered at an archaeological site in Iraq during the Gulf War--entrusted by ritual scarification with the task of protecting a 12-year-old boy who will grow up to unite the three great monotheistic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and thus set the Devil's work back millennia. A sub-plot deals with a red powder drug ("Chaos"), imported by the demon's minions, which catches on in LA sending coke-sniffing agents into murderous frenzies (the funniest scene) and briefly giving guest star dealer Ice-T superpowers until an ambiguously angelic hit lady (Stacy Oversier) tosses him off a building. There are elements of The Matrix stirred in, with Oversier and Telal dead ringers for the Carrie-Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving characters, but it inevitably boils down to a Fallen-style formula. It's stripped-down demonology--ever since The Evil Dead, those Sumerian demons have been getting a bad press--with direct-to-video action, but is by no means unlikeable. On the DVD: Along with the trailer, this disc offers IMDB filmographies for Van Peebles, Remar, Ice-T and John Terlesky (who used to be a busy B-actor in the likes of Chopping Mall and Valet Girls and now directs quickies such as Guardian). The transfer is augmented for 16:9 and looks significantly better than the video version, giving this low-budget effort a relatively lush feel, though the Iraqi desert does look as though it was an hour or so drive out of Los Angeles. --Kim Newman
A courtroom drama based on a true story which exposes the horrors of racial violence. On a cold night in 1986 three black men struggled to repair their car in a middle-class neighbourhood of New York City. Unable to start the vehicle they sought refuge in a small restaurant nearby. What happened next sent shockwaves throughout the world.
Kicked out of the military twelve years ago former U.S. Intelligence Officer Henry Griffin is forced back into action by the notorious Japanese Mafia known the world over as the Yakuza. Griffin is commissioned by the Yakuza to assasinate a senior a senior American businessman. To ensure success they have kidnapped his eleven year old daughter. Lt. Kimberley Wilson of Naval Intelligence is coupled with L.A.P.D. detective Bill Emory to search for the fugitive Griffin whom trhey believe has again betrayed his country by siding with the Yakuza.
During World War Two Britain's survival depended upon her Atlantic convoys. Stalking the convoys were 'Wulf Packs' of German U-boats engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the convoy escorts and exacting a devastating toll on the defenceless merchantmen. The outcome of the entire war hung in the balance...
Bellini's Norma, first performed in 1831, is one of the most glittering jewels in the bel canto repertoire, placing huge vocal demands on the soprano in the title role. The druid priestess who falls prey to human frail ties before redeeming her grace in the flames of the sacrificial fire must also be played with a high degree of dramatic truth. In the 20th century, two singers scaled new heights in combining these requirements: Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland. Sutherland's great achievement, preserved in this 1978 recording of Opera Australia's production at Sidney Opera House, was to render Norma a very human being, unravelling her complex reactions to the events which bring her personal world tumbling down around her. Using Bellini's deceptively simple melodies to tender effect, she reveals the essential purity of many of his greatest arias, not least "Casta diva": an equally valid alternative to Callas' pyrotechnics. Ronald Stevens as Norma's errant Roman lover Pollione and Margreta Elkins as Adalgisa, the unwitting agent of the priestess's ultimate downfall, strike vocal sparks in their duets with Sutherland. But this is essentially a treasurable record of one of the all-time great divas in a role that brought her some of her finest notices, with her husband and long-time collaborator Richard Bonynge in the conductor's box. On the DVD: In all respects, this is a solid offering with few frills. The only extra is an Arthaus trailer. The 4:3 picture format and PCM stereo-sound quality are adequate media for a theatrical performance which is very much of its time: crudely-edited plot explanations separate the acts and there is the imposition of some rather naff stills of the ill-fated lovers on flickering flames to suggest the pyre. But Sutherland's performance triumphs over all. --Piers Ford
Three problem teens are headed for jail: (Claire Danes) for assault Pete (Giovanni Ribisi) for robbery and Linc (Omar Epps) for arson. They're set to do time with no hope for freedom until Captain Greer (Dennis Farina) offers them a deal to work for him - undercover. In a hip L.A. scene something is going down - but the cops aren't sure what. Captain Greer sends in his special undercover teen task force - The Mod Squad - to find out. But as this dynamic trio starts looking beyond the dance-floor fog of strobe lights glitter and tribal music they uncover an intricate crime ring involving drugs prostitution and dirty cops. Before they can blow the whistle the tables are turned when they're caught in a deadly set-up. Now with the cops hot on their trail they have little time to solve the puzzle clear their names and dodge going to the slammer - for good!
Gamerz represents a new chapter in cinematic history - the Celtic campus comedy. It is also the first ever Scottish film to feature live goblins. And rest assured this is one film where 'dragon in the third act' can only be a good thing! The hero of our tale is Ralph a peculiar young nerd from a scheme who's on his way to uni. Life's one long session of 'Neds Vs Nerd' where Ralph lives - but he escapes from this cruel reality by retreating into his darkened bed chamber and creating these insanely detailed fantasy game worlds.
When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of Fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation and fun, the result is anything but restive in this raucous comedy written and produced by John Hughes. The ultimate odd couple of John Candy and Dan Aykroyd are brothers-in-law who have only one thing in common-their intense dislike for each other. It all leads to a hilarious fight to the finish between two of today's most popular screen.
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