The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France but his plane disappears en-route. Famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery...
Caroline Quentin stars as DCI Janine Lewis the hit police drama Blue Murder. Starring along side her are Ian Kelsey ( Casualty ) David Schofield ( Our Friends in the North ) and Nick Murchie.
Tom Hanks won rave reviews for his Oscar nominated performance (1988 Best Actor) as a twelve-year old boy trapped inside a thirty-year-old body in director Penny Marshall's winning comedy. At a carnival young Josh Baskin wishes he was big - only to awake the next morning and discover he is! With the help of his friend Billy (Jared Rushton) Josh lands a job at a toy company. There his inner wisdom enables him to successfully predict what children want to buy making the awestruck
By way of an experiment, a mixed-sex anti-aircraft battery is set up during World War II. The result is Carry On England, and the sex is indeed pretty mixed, although the drafting in of Patrick Mower and Judy Geeson rather demonstrates the need for at least some of the cast to be attractive in order to make this premise feasible. For the most part, of course, it's tits-out sex-comedy slapstick all the way, but there's a nicely ambivalent performance from Kenneth Connor, who portrays the wartime British officer class as being pretty much bonkers, a telling interpretation which Stephen Fry was to perfect years later in Blackadder Goes Forth. The location is of course typically Carry On cheap-and-cheerful, but its inevitable drabness, together with the indistinguishable khaki uniforms, tends to put a bit of a damper on the adult-panto atmosphere which the best Carry Ons deliver. The cast commendably manage to transcend this, though, so there's still plenty of fun to be had. On the DVD: The feature is presented in 1.77:1 aspect ratio, but the disc has no added features. --Roger Thomas
An African-American baby abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. When the mother struggles through rehab to kick her habit she then seeks to reclaim her lost son...
Reality TV gets a reality check in Run Ronnie Run!..... Ronnie Dobbs is a drunken mullet-haired criminal who can't seem to keep himself from getting arrested. When spotted once again on a national reality show a Hollywood TV Producer Terry Twillstein gets the brilliant idea to base an entire show on Ronnie himself. Overnight Ronnie is a national TV star and the toast of Hollywood! But it isn't long until clean living and morality get the better of him and he can't get arrested a
Stay Single And Live Forever.... Series Two of Sam adapted from the book by John Finch. Mark McManus stars as Sam in this fondly remembered TV series.... Episodes comprise: Stay Single And Live Forever / Credit / Sins Of The Father / The World As It Is
It all begins like the perfect day for ex-cop now ex-con Ray Mercer (Peter Weller). He finally gets out of jail is met by his stunningly beautiful wife visits a Las Vegas casino and wins a massive jackpot. But having gently tapped him on the shoulder Lady Luck is now about to punch Ray very hard in the face. Still on parole he shouldn’t even be in the casino his unfaithful wife wants a divorce and suddenly he’s caught up in a brutal heist that’s gone catastrophically wrong. And as the bodies start piling up higher that the casino’s chips the trouble really starts when mysterious gangster ‘The Butcher’ arrives...
Thumb Wars is a parody of Star Wars in which all the characters are played by real human thumbs with equally real human eyes and mouths grafted onto them through the wonders of computerised image tweakery. Obvious, really. If you're a fan of the toy and puppets dramas on The Adam and Joe Show or, frankly, even if you're not, you'll love this. Quite apart from the inherent wonderful silliness of mastermind Steve Oedekerk's creations, the mickey-taking is of a high order as Loke Groundrunner, Hand Duet and Princess Bunhead, aided by Oobedoob Benubi, battle the forces of the evil Thumbpire (the stormtroopers wear thimbles) in order to destroy the "big dangerous weapon thing that can blow stuff up". Along the way, Luke and Oobedoop replay Bunhead's holographic message while lying on the floor so they can look up her dress, the two robots have sex and Hand Duet insists on being paid in girly giggles. The eventual destruction of the "big dangerous weapon thing" will have you in stitches, with Groundrunner attempting to use "the power of the Thumb" while the spirit of Oobedoob urges him to "use the instrument panel, Luke--that's what it's there for". --Roger Thomas
The sixth series of The X-Files picks up after the events of the big-screen movie. So it is that "The Beginning" attempts to fit the film into the TV chronology before moving on to tackle plot points left dangling from series five's "The End" (note the guard asleep at the nuclear power plant console is named Homer!). Between story arc threads are several pleasing one-off excursions: time travel to a Bermuda Triangle boatload of Nazis ("Triangle"); further temporal escapades akin to Groundhog Day ("Monday"); a demonic baby case featuring genre stalwart Bruce Campbell ("Terms of Endearment"); and "The Dreamland, Parts 1 and 2", in which David Duchovny gets to play someone else via personality switching. Back in the conspiracy scheme of things, Mulder chases "S.R. 819", a Senate resolution tying conspiracies together; "Two Fathers" and "One Son" indicates that the abductee experiments are intended to cure the black oil disease; and the year finishes with "BioGenesis", in which a beach-buried UFO has Scully and the audience wondering if we are from Mars. --Paul Tonks
Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd deliver stunning performances in this acclaimed psychological drama that takes a revealing look at the two personalities of Marilyn Monroe.
A morally dubious duo feature in this hilarious escapade as they fall out with a mob who run a harbour complex. They resort to crime and plan a supermarket robbery which not surprisingly goes haywire.
From J.J. Abrams the creator of Alias comes an action-packed adventure that will bring out the very best and the very worst in the people who are lost on a faraway desert island... Out of the blackness the first thing Jack (Matthew Fox) senses is pain. Then burning sun. A bamboo forest. Smoke. Screams. With a rush comes the horrible awareness that the plane he was on tore apart in mid-air and crashed on a Pacific island. From there it's a blur as his doctor's instinct kicks in: people need his help. Stripped of everything the 48 survivors scavenge what they can from the plane for their survival. Some panic. Some pin their hopes on rescue. A few find inner-strength they never knew they had. Kate (Evangeline Lilly) with no medical training suddenly finds herself suturing the doctor's wounds. Hurley (Jorge Garcia) - a man with a warm sense of humour despite the desperate situation - does his best to keep his cool as he helps those around him to survive. Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) is a faded rock star who harbours a painful secret. Sayid (Naveen Andrews) is a Middle Eastern man and former member of the Elite Republican Guard who must wrestle with the racial profiling directed at him by some of his fellow survivors. Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun (Kim Yun-jin) are a Korean couple whose traditions values and language are foreign and thus causes much to get lost in the translation. Sawyer (Josh Holloway) has an air of danger surrounding him and his intense sense of mistrust for everyone around him could prove to be fatal to his fellow castaways. Michael (Harold Perrineau) has just gained custody of his nine-year-old son Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) after the death of his ex-wife - they are a father and son who don't even know each other. Locke (Terry O'Quinn) is a mysterious man who keeps to himself and who harbours a deeper connection to the island than any of the others. And self-centered Shannon (Maggie Grace) - who actually gives herself a pedicure amid the chaos - and her estranged controlling brother Boone (Ian Somerhalder) - constantly bicker and must learn to get along if they are to survive.
Three interlocking stories set in the legendary New York City dance palace make up this charming film the third to be shot by Merchant Ivory Productions in America. In the first segment The Waltz Teresa Wright is a widow who comes to Roseland in order to sustain the memory of her late husband where she meets Stan (Lou Jacobi) a man who offers her an opportunity for happiness in the present. In The Hustle Christopher Walken stars as a gigolo with three women in his life all of whom depend on him for different degrees of romance and companionshiop. In the final segment The Peabody an older Vietnamese woman (Lilia Skala) sets out to win a dance competition despite warnings that it could imperil her health. Ruth Prawer Jhabvalas understated screenplay received accolades and delivers an uncharacteristic bit of sentiment not present in other Merchant Ivory efforts.
Astoundingly silly but incredibly popular, Police Academy is the first film in a seemingly endless franchise that takes aim at the men in blue. After a police academy drops all of its entrance requirements, all manner of misfits flood in, hoping to make it onto the force. One of these misfits, a lazy, aimless cadet played by Steve Guttenberg (Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby), was forced to enlist and tries whatever he can to get kicked out. But once he decides to stay, he tries anything and everything to finish his training, even as his drill instructor tries to shove him out. Featuring a wild bunch of strange supporting characters, from a female trainee who speaks below a whisper to a dominatrix instructor to a human sound-effects machine, Police Academy is mindless but fun. --Robert Lane, Amazon.com
Chainsaw mayhem cannibalism lusty nazis steak tartar blood and gore - all rounded off with some highly amusing offbeat antics by the great man Lucio Fulci himself. What more could a horror fan ask for?
A collection of war films starring the iconic John Wayne. Films comprise: 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. The Fighting Seabees 3. The Flying Tigers 4. Back to Bataan 5. Jet Pilot 6. The Flying Leathernecks
This Box Set contains the following films: An American Werewolf In London Dracula Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The Thing The Relic
They'll go far....too far. Joe and Mickey share a flat in Glasgow both are struggling actors who don't possess a lot of self-motivation. Joe owes money to loan sharks which means men with short haircuts and low intelligence threaten him with a near death experience if the debt isn't paid by next Tuesday. Mickey's pal Steve (Gary Cross) sends a postcard from LA raving about the place and persuading them to come over - They'll think you're Ewan McGregor's brother. With the heavies closing in and a taxi waiting Joe and Mickey escape to the airport and the hope of the so-called 'American Dream'.
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