A tough-minded moving film about a working-class housewife's mental breakdown caused by imposed social rules. This insightful study of sexual politics earned an Oscar nomination for both Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes.
Dwayne The Rock Johnson stars in this gritty and inspirational movie based on a true story of a group of teenage delinquents given a second chance to redeem themselves by playing football. Sean Porter (Johnson) is a frustrated juvenile probation officer. Most of the kids in his detention camp are either sent back to prison once they leave or meet a violent end when they return to the streets. Desperately looking for a way to make a difference he and his co-worker Malcolm Moore (Xzibit) devise a plan to teach discipline and responsibility through the game of football. But with only four weeks before the start of the season Porter must overcome insurmountable odds to put together a competitive team. It's a season that will test their minds spirit and bodies as Porter teaches his players the principles of good character strength through resiliency and genuine respect for one another.
40 films over 4 DVDs. Extensive collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. These films many of which are made available here for the first time since their original release - capture the spirit and strength concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before during and after the Second World War. These diverse and compelling films are fascinating historical documents bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of the rapidly changing world. Yet they are also striking in their different approach to the form. Using poetry dramatic reconstruction modernist techniques and explicit propaganda the film-makers found fresh new ways to get their message across.
Official selection at London Film Festival, Cold Weather, from cult US director Aaron Katz, is a highly inventive thriller that plays out with multiple twists and turns. With inspired performances from its cast, the film begins as a story about family - a brother and sister getting to know each other after years apart - and unfolds into an unexpected mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end.
Bastian Balthazar Bux (Mark Rendall) is an average twelve year old boy whose life revolves around going to school watching TV and playing video games. That is until he discovers a magical book `The Neverending Story' in a fascinating curiosity shop owned by the mysterious Carl Coreander (John Dunn Hill). Bastian's imagination is inspired by the book's tale of an enchanted world called Fantasia; a world ruled by the Childlike Empress (Audrey Gardiner) and inhabited by an assortment o
Light & composition with phillip dunn learn from a master of his craft how to improve your photography and get more from your camera Learn how to create images with impact with this practical fun non-technical step by step guide featuring real-life no-nonsense photo shoots indoors and out
Catherine Cookson's heart-rending tale of Emily Kennedy and her relationship with three different men.
This 1997 thriller For Hire ponders the question of what terrible things a person might be persuaded to do, given the right circumstances and the right price. Rob Lowe plays Mitch, a Chicago cab driver trying to make it as an actor, married to the pregnant Faye. Among his clients are bestselling writer Lou Weber (Joe Mantegna), who befriends Mitch and confides in him that a drug dealer is trying to kill him. Over the next few days, Mitch begins to suffer severe stomach pains, collapsing in Weber's apartment after a fare and is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. With only a short time to live, he decides to take up Weber's offer to rub out his drug dealer stalker for $50,000, a nest egg for his family after he's gone. A not entirely unpredictable twist follows, hinted at by the Lucifer-like beard sported by Mantegna and the film alights only briefly to meditate on the potential for evil in all of us before resuming its journey along conventional, though certainly passable Hollywood thriller lines. An intriguing precept--it's just a slight shame that neither the players nor director's hearts seem really to be in this movie. On the DVD: Features a trailer. --David Stubbs
Already a major children's author Jacqueline Wilson's novels 'Girls In Love' have now been adapted into a CITV series! In this feature length story taken from episode of the second series follow Ellie Magda and Nadine on a series of brilliantly observed life lessons that will touch the heart of every girl in love...
There is nowhere you can go to see and hear the amazing stories and songs that form the history of Earth Wind & Fire. The story is told by the people who created it lived it and made it happen. Band members Maurice White Verdine White Philip Bailey as well as Eric Benet Wyclef Jean and others tell the Earth Wind & Fire story in their own words featuring the hit music of their career. Features cuts from Let's Groove Boogie Wonderland Got to Get You Into My Life Fantasy September Reasons Sing a Song Shining Star That's The Way of the World After the Love Is Gone Serpentine Fire Keep Your Head to the Sky and Thinking of You.
A performance of Verdi's seventh opera 'Giovanna D'Arco ' performed by the Orchestra Communale Di Bologna and conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Episodes Comprise: Save the Unicorn / Save the Penguin Save the Three Little Pigs / Save the Owl Save the Swan / Save the Puppy Save the Bullfrog / Save the Poodle
This box set contains Jackass: The Movie plus Volumes 2 and 3 of Jackass the TV show. Jackass is very probably the most perfectly named programme in the history of television. The cult MTV hit is the sort of exceedingly stupid thing that can only be the work of clever people; in this case, a collection of old-enough-to-know-better delinquents who appear to have taken the wisdom about the dumbing-down of popular culture as a challenge. The difference between Jackass and most dumb things on television is that other dumb things on television like to pretend that they're arch, or clever, or at the very least camp. Jackass makes no such pretensions, and for this reason it is incredibly liberating and funny. There is no subtext to any of this. Johnny Knoxville and company think of something supremely idiotic to do, and do it. We see them riding down hills on ice blocks, inviting a fire crew to turn their hoses on them, and trying to ride bicycles around a 360-degree wooden loop while dressed as chickens. That only one cast member ends up hospitalised is little short of miraculous, and surely proof that God loves his clowns. --Andrew Mueller
In an industrial town in Lancashire during the mid-1960s Vincent Dungarven's mother wants him to be a Roman Catholic priest and he half thinks that he has the vocation. He is a reserved young man a schoolmaster and at thirty has never been in love. One day he visits the local library and encounters Laura a new librarian. Fascinated by her beauty and charm he overcomes his shyness and asks her out. She accepts and soon he falls passionately in love with her for although she is a
Bastian Balthazar Bux (Mark Rendall) is an average twelve year old boy whose life revolves around going to school watching TV and playing video games. That is until he discovers a magical book `The Neverending Story' in a fascinating curiosity shop owned by the mysterious Carl Coreander (John Dunn Hill). Bastian's imagination is inspired by the book's tale of an enchanted world called Fantasia; a world ruled by the Childlike Empress (Audrey Gardiner) and inhabited by an assortment o
Federal Judge Faith Matheson (Lena Olin) finds herself in potential danger when she is handed a case involving corruption in the military. Her ruling could decide the fate of the first U.S. rocket into space in over 30 years and the powers that be want nothing to stop it. She is assigned into the protective custody of Conor Gallagher (Bill Pullman) a former Marine Corps helicopter pilot but that doesn't stop the both of them from being pulled into a web of conspiracy treason and
WonderPets: Save The Nutcracker
How do you like your blockbuster movies? If the answers loud, fast and full of big robots fighting, then youre well and truly in luck. For director Michael Bays take on Transformers, based on the toys of the same name, delivers just that. And with some style. The film stars the fast-rising Shia LaBeouf (Disturbia) as Sam, who discovers that his first car has a little more to it when it transforms into an Autobot robot called Bumblebee. Fortunately, the Autobots are the good guys, and following not far behind are a good number more, headed up by Optimus Prime. Against them are the less friendly Decepticons, with Megatron at the helm, and the two sides are set for a frenetic battle right in the middle of Planet Earth. Theres a plot sitting underneath all of this, but its pretty much given with the Transformers movie that its just a vehicle to get the film from one set piece to another. And theres little denying that the action sequences are spectacular. Boasting quite staggering special effects, the on-screen action moves with a pace and ferocity that sometimes makes it hard just to keep up with it all, as mighty robots engage is some quite staggering fights. Its quite an achievement. Paving the way for an already-in-production sequel, Transformers has little pretensions about what its going to do, and is all the better for it. This is a film about big robots, big fights, big effects and, ultimately, big, dumb grin-inducing fun. What, really, is there not to like? --Jon Foster
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