The horrendous true story of a cat-and-mouse game between an FBI agent and a devious kidnapper who targets the children of rich families in Los Angeles.
The last thing TV news reporter Peter Allbright expects when covering the typically trivial Christmas stories is to get a great scoop. But then he never expected the real Santa Claus to drop into his life - literally.While cruising in his sleigh Santa tumbles out and lands in front of Peter's car. Santa is fine, except that he has total amnesia and can't remember a thing about his Christmas duties, or the words to Jingle Bells, or even how to ho-ho-ho. Peter, jaded by the crass commercialism of the season, sees the strange man with amnesia in the Santa costume as a great human-interest story. And his on-again off-again girlfriend, Claire, sees the bearded old man as the perfect choice for the department store Santa she needs. The only one who suspects he is the real Santa is Claire's seven-year-old son, Zack.With Christmas just days away, Santa's elves, led by elf-boss Max, have launched an all-out search to find their jolly ol' boss.
The coming together of the influential Python team is regarded as a milestone for modern absurdist comedy, though each of the six members had been doing similar sketch work prior to this first 1969 series, of whose highlights this video consists. The most revolutionary aspect of Python was its eschewal of punch lines, preferring as they did bizarre, surreal links and quantum leaps into the imagination of animator Terry Gilliam. Inevitably, Python has dated. Sketches such as "The Upper Class Twit of the Year" and the "Wink-wink, nudge nudge" man are worn down by familiarity. There's some clunky stereotyping and "Oo, ducky"-style gay references. That said, much of this still stands up. "Hells Grannies" and the race to find the world's funniest joke are fine, the Eric Idle-driven documentary spoofs are witty while the Batley Townswomen's Guild's re-enactment of Pearl Harbour is intelligently ridiculous. John Cleese, however, stands literally and metaphorically head and shoulders above the rest. His and Chapman's sketches, involving a mountaineering expedition leader with double vision and an arts TV interviewer who can't get past the etiquette of how to refer to his guest ("Eddie baby...") are pursued to their absurd non-conclusions with the remorseless logic of a top-drawer barrister. --David Stubbs
Nudge-nudge wink-wink say no more... it's a 4 disc box set including a feast of Monty Python sketches such as The Dead Parrot Sketch The 127th Upperclass Twit of the Year Competition From Hurlingham Park Bicycle Repair Man Vicious Gangs of Old Ladies The Lumberjack Song The Man With Three Buttocks The Joke That Kills People The Bishop It's In The Mind Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition The Finals of the All-England Summarise Proust Competition The Fifteenth Ideal Loon Exhibition The Cheese Shop Sketch Stand and Deliver The Ministry of Silly Walks Whicker Island Sam Peckinpah's Salad Days... and many more!
Keep 'Em Flying: When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello the air corps doesn't know what it's in for. Ride 'Em Cowboy: Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys horses or anything else.
Red White And Very Blue: For the first time in fifteen years Jim Davidson returns to his home turf and plays to a packed audience at the Hammersmith Apollo London. Jim will have you in fits of laughter when he tells you what he thinks of British politicians and how he would make a good mayor. And have you ever wondered what granddads get up to in lap dancing clubs...? Silver Jubilee: 2002 marked Jim Davidson's 25th triumphant year in showbiz. Filmed in Edinburgh during his 2002 sell out tour this hilarious live show offers up Jim's views on everything from Tony Blair and the Pope to his advice on foreplay! This really is Jim Davidson at his absolute best and a show to treasure... Live 2006: Jim returns to the stand up arena for another slice of his irrepressible humour and observations.
New York, 1929: a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan in Alan Parker's much-loved kiddie mob flick.
The Most Dangerous Game
Offenbach's operetta La Belle Hélene, which pokes fun at the Parisian upper class of a century and a half ago through tales of ancient Greece, requires a leap of imagination on behalf of today's audience that this production only partly succeeds in reconciling. On musical grounds we're on sure footing. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the chorus and orchestra of the Zurich Opera House with his customary flair for precise and taut rhythms and an appreciation of the composer's wit and the good tunes that are a-plenty. His multi-national cast headed by Vesselina Kasarova as Helen of Troy and Deon van der Walt as her lover Paris are excellent and among the smaller parts there's a lively and stylish performance from Liliana Nichiteanus as Oreste. The video direction by Hartmut Schroder and the superb sound obtained from the relatively intimate Zurich Opera House, a delightful setting for this operetta, are further assets. The production alas is unenlightening and perpetrates an over-the-top style that seems to be synonymous with Offenbach. The backdrop, a pink concave awning is hideous. The costumes by designer Jean-Charles de Castelibajac are silly: Paris is dressed in lederhosen and looks a twerp, Calchac, the high priest wears a Ku Klux Klan hat and Helen at one point looks as though she'll take to absailing. Kasarova suggests the lure of Helen in her voice but a beauty she's not. So it's left to Harnoncourt who joins the company at the curtain call with a twinkle in his eye and a nifty side step and his superb orchestra to remind us what might have been. --Adrian Edwards
Seven graduating sorority sisters decide to throw a graduation party at their sorority house despite the objections of the resident house mother. Following an embarrassing altercation between the house mother and one of the girls a foolish prank is played that results in the old woman's death. Unable to cope with the accidental death the girls decide to temporarily hide the body and not inform the police until after the party. On the night of the party each girl is individually stalked and murdered in a grizzly fashion by an unknown assailant. There is only one girl left alive to tell the tale... and the one person who can reveal the truth may be the one who wants her dead.
Leslie Nielsen tones down the bumbling for Santa Who? but wearing a belly like a bowl full of jelly does little to diminish his trademark dimwittedness, which is what gets the bells ringing on this St. Nick flick. Peter Albright, self-involved TV reporter, can't believe his luck when Santa, presumably the for-hire variety, sails into his windshield and gets amnesia--what a story! When his search for Santa's family stops short at the North Pole, his humbug infestation subsides, setting him free to make merry. Predictability aside, Santa Who? drags a sleigh-full of better than average shenanigans into living rooms, making this a winter-evening warmer for the whole family. --Tammy La Gorce, Amazon.com
An ex-cop now working as a hack novelist is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the work of an unstoppable synthesized genetic organism! Can he and his ex-partner stop the creature before it spawns to create a human holocaust?
The film opens with the cast gathering after the funeral of Jude to see a film he had been working on for two years.
Angelina has been given the honour of putting on her very own performance of The Sleeping Beauty for the Queen in her splendid palace. In this magical introduction to ballet Miss Lilly William and Angelina''s other friends all help out to put on a Star Performance. Meanwhile Princess Phoebe and Henry cause havoc with their mischievous antics. It''s Angelina''s biggest challenge yet'' will she manage to pull it off?
For a first feature from a 24-year-old director, George Washington is an amazingly assured piece of work. The titles misleading: this is no biopic of Americas first President, but a poetic, richly atmospheric rhapsody set in a rundown industrial town in the American South. Given this backdrop, and a predominantly black cast, you might expect an angry study of social deprivation and racial tension, but Green has no such agenda. Instead, he derives a shimmering, heat-hazed beauty from his images of rusting machinery, junkyards and derelict buildings, and if the overall tone is tinged with sadness, its mainly from a sense of universal human loss. The action, such as it is, moves at its own slow Southern pace, following a group of youngsters, black and white, over a few high-summer days. Things do happen--a couple decide to elope, one boys saved from drowning, another gets killed--but theyre presented in an oblique, understated fashion that owes nothing to conventional Hollywood notions of narrative. With one exception, the cast are all non-professionals, mainly youngsters who director-writer David Gordon Green found in and around the town where the film was made, Winston-Salem in North Carolina. Shooting in a semi-improvised fashion, Green draws from his young cast remarkably spontaneous performances and dialogue (often their own) full of unselfconscious poetry. Drawing on a wide range of influences--among other things he cites Sesame Street, documentaries and such 70s classics as Deliverance, Walkabout and especially Terrence Malicks Days of Heaven--Green has fashioned a film thats fresh, tender and utterly individual. And it looks just gorgeous: belying the tiny budget, Tim Orrs widescreen photography lavishes mellow softness on images of dereliction and small-town decay. Never has dead-end poverty been made to look so attractive. On the DVD: George Washington comes on a disc generously loaded with extras. Besides the obvious theatrical trailer we get two of Greens early short films, Physical Pinball and Pleasant Grove (both clearly dry runs for the main feature), an 18-minute featurette about the films reception at the Berlin Film Fest and a deleted scene of a community meeting. This scene, the short Pleasant Grove and the movie itself also offer a directors commentary--or rather a directors dialogue, as Green shares the honours with one of his lead actors, Paul Schneider. Their laconic, unpretentious comments enhance the whole experience enormously. The film has been transferred in its full scope ratio (2.35:1) and looks great. --Philip Kemp
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Was
Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they learn why they fear the night. - Thulsa Doom Through the history of mankind the times that are most recorded in mythology and song are those of the great deeds and fantastic adventures. Such a time was the Hyborean Age. Such a tale is the story of Conan The Barbarian. Cimmeran Conan witnesses his parents' savage murder at the hands of the raiding Vanir and their master Thulsa Doom also leader of the snake-cult of Set. Fifteen years of agony first chained to the Wheel Of Pain grinding grain and then enslaved as a pit fighter forge a magnificent body and indominitable spirit. Freed miraculously one day by his owner Conan with his companions Subotai the Mongol and Valeria the Queen of Thieves sets forth upon his quest to learn the riddle of steel which his father has prophesied will confer ultimate power; and to kill the arch-villian Thulsa Doom.
Jimmy Jones - As Good As Gold Recorded live at the Circus Tavern during his 1999 sell-out tour the ''Guvnor'' brings you 70 minutes of nonstop daring risqu'' and shockingly ''blue'' gags delivered by one of Britain''s finest comedians. Not only will you experience sound quality which gives you the feeling of actually being there on the night but we''ve also included a documentary on Jimmy''s career and instant access to some of his funniest jokes. A Celebrity Audience With Jimmy Jones If you've never seen one of Jimmy's previous chart-busting DVDs or shows then get ready to hoot and holler with laughter. This is his funniest DVD ever with 75 minutes of hilarious material from the Godfather of adult comedy. Recorded live at the Theatre Royal in Windsor in front of an unsuspecting celebrity audience Jimmy is at his outrageous and riotous best. Jimmy Jones: The Guvnor''s Last Stand Legendary comedian Jimmy Jones returns to the Circus Tavern for a special performance of his very naughty brand of comedy in ''The Guvnor''s Last Stand''. The true daddy of all ''naughty'' comedians is joined by friends family and a sell-out audience for this hilarious adults only show. This is the Guvnor at his very best - a guaranteed laugh a minute. This DVD is packed with backstage extras and features appearances by Mickey Pugh and Frank Carson and ''warm'' tributes from Jim Bowen Roy ''Chubby'' Brown and Jim Davidson. A must for Jimmy Jones fans everywhere. Warning: If you are one of the few that have never seen Jimmy Jones perform take care when watching these show you might become addicted to one of Britain's funniest men!
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