It is difficult to know who this compilation of nominees for the 2002 BRIT Awards is aimed at. It is implausible that anybody will like everything here, and it is unbelievable that anyone possessed of rudimentary critical faculties will like more than three or four of the artists whose videos feature in this collection. Given the perennial determination of the BRITs to celebrate all that is mediocre, and the fact that 2001 was less than a vintage year by any standards, "BRIT Awards 2002" is mostly rather dismal viewing. There are a few heartening moments: Kylie Minogue releasing a decent single ("Can't Get You out of My Head") is testament more to the law of averages than her musical abilities, but the video is a small masterpiece of choreography and computer imaging. Destiny's Child and Dido also owe particular thanks to their directors, though it might reasonably be argued that the bulldozer that eventually destroys the house in which Dido simpers along to "Thank You" arrives about four minutes too late. Probably coincidentally, the best three videos (and the best three songs) are all animated affairs: Daft Punk's "Digital Love", Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood" and Radiohead's typically baleful, and beautiful, "Pyramid Song". On the DVD: That individual tracks can be easily selected is a necessity with a compilation of this sort. The "bonus features" are barely worthy of the phrase: extremely desultory biographies of the artists, and links to the official Web sites of the BRITs and Sony. --Andrew Mueller
Operation Delta Force They're armed they're ready and they're very very dangerous. They're the gung ho shock troops whos mission it is to blast their way into any of the world's 'hot zones' and dish out their own special brand of deadly justice. They're the Delta Force and every one of them would make Rambo look like a dress wearing sissy when it comes to sorting out the bad guys! Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday Lock and load! It's time for gut-wrenching glove-spanning hardcore military action as Delta Force the world's most elite special operations unit take on international terrorists. Ranging from the deserts of the Middle East to the icy waters of the Bering Sea this battle-hardened squad must face down the threat of nuclear holocaust as they combat the forces of the notorious criminal mastermind Flint Lukash. Utilizing a stolen Russian submarine and a hijacked luxury cruise ship - with its contingent of terrified passengers acting as a shield - Lukash evades the combined military forces of the U.S. and Russia to carry out his main objective: the theft of six nuclear missiles. Lukash succeeds in his mission and aims the missiles demanding billion not to unleash them. With his finger poised on the launch button there's only one thing to stand in his way: Delta Force! Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target Spy satellite code name Iris One has been launched by the U.S. in a desperate attempt to curb the ruthless drug cartels and Delta Force is back in action attacking and destroying the stockpiles of illegal drugs wherever in the world they may be hidden. But when the Delta team wipes out a billion-dollar stash of cocaine belonging to Colombian drug lord Umberto Salvatore they've taken on more than they bargained for. At a gathering of crime lords in Italy Salvatore unveils a daring plot to bring the United States to its knees and he enlists the aid of the world's gangster elite to pull it off. Meanwhile Salvatore's men hijack the most sophisticated stealth submarine in the U.S. fleet the USS Roosevelt and rig the on-board missiles to fire if the sub is attacked. Delta Force is reassembled to take out Salvatore and at all costs stop the submarine with its chemical weapons payload aimed at the United Nations building and an unsuspecting New York City. The clock is ticking the action is getting hotter and millions of lives are in the hands of a vicious madman: Delta Force is the only answer!
Richard Bradford is ex-CIA agent 'Mac' McGill who now works as a private investigator. He goes from job to job living out hotel rooms with all his worldly possessions in one old brown suitcase... Featuring all the episodes ever made! Episodes comprise: 1. Brainwash 2. The Sitting Pigeon 3. Day of Execution 4. Variation on a Million Bucks (1) 5. Variation on a Million Bucks (2) 6. Man from the Dead 7. Sweet Sue 8. Essay in Evil 9. The Girl Who Never Was 10. All That Glitter
After the end of his workday staid schoolteacher Jim explores the disco's and secret meeting places of London's gay underground unable to reconcile his sexual identity with the rest of his life - until the strain of living a lie threatens to take its toll at last.
The Frank Sinatra series traces the career of this century's most versatile entertainer. Placing special emphasis on Frank Sinatra's film and television work this remarkable 5 part series chronicles the ups and downs and overs and outs of a career that has spanned more than half a century. Included are classic film clips from his fifty-seven theatrical films as well as Sinatra's two forays into series television and his numerous guest appearances on television shows over the years
In a small parochial house on a tiny outcrop of rock somewhere off the west coast of Ireland, three priests and a housekeeper are locked in an endless series of philosophical debates. Catholicism or cake? Religion or rollerblading? Small cows or big cows that are far away? Welcome to the confusing (and confused) world of Father Ted. Special Features: Interview with writers Newly recorded commentary by Graham Linehan & Arthur Mathews Commentaries
Spanning a career of over 20 years They Might Be Giants are considered pioneers of independent rock music and have a notoriously dedicated fan-base around the world. 'Gigantic' is a comprehensive chronicle of the band's history told through performance animation videos and hilarious commentaries from friends and fans. Featuring the following live performances: 'Birdhouse In Your Soul' From the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; 'Boat Of Car' and 'Meet James Ensor' In-store p
Two students making their way through the Nevada badlands are discouraged to find their pit stop at a roadside diner interrupted by a violent gang of racist neo-Nazi skinheads. After offending the gang they've no choice but to head for the hills where a mountain hermit helps them plan to take back the town...
At an exclusive private school John Marcus and Matt are the outcasts of their class. Constantly in trouble with the school bullied by the other students and having no luck with the girls they long to be part of the in-crowd. When a new student Luc arrives they are given the chance to transform their lives. Luc initiates them to a mysterious and shocking ritual. In return they gain the popularity and adulation they always dreamed of. The newly invigorated classmates set forth on a path of death destruction and debauchery. But Luc has not revealed the true extent of his supernatural skills as in reality he is a Warlock whose sinister mission is to acquire their souls for eternity.
Get Thrashed: The Story Of Thrash Metal is one of the best music documentaries ever made. Featuring the biggest bands in heavy metal music it covers the initial origins cultural impact and musical influence of Thrash Metal. Told first-hand by the members of bands like Metallica Slayer and Anthrax as well as using raw original show footage. Along the way we witness the drugs drinking fighting deaths mosh pits leather jackets long hair and most of all - the groundbreaking new music. Throughout the course of the film we follow the lives and music of these artists - truly realizing how the seeds they planted back then have given rise to the new breed of extreme Heavy Metal and Active Rock that has taken over the radio waves and major arenas today.
The love that lifted a man to paradise…and hurled him back to earth again! This film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel of a young medical student's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress (Bette Davis). The infatuation turns into a mutually destructive affair. This is the film that brought Bette Davis to fame and secured her future roles as a tough domineering woman. Fine acting by the entire cast with Davis an absolute knock-out.
Bitten by the 'Moonbug', photographer Steve Pyke sets out on a journey across America in his search to meet and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. A journey in which he was to meet the adventurers, risk takers and dreamers who were behind one of the most historic endeavours of our time. Moonbug explores the experiences of the science-fiction dream come true with the astronauts who made the bold step. From living rooms and moonscape deserts, to Cape Canaveral, Steve captures these pioneers in frank, revealing portraits, while unravelling their very personal and divergent memories. Pyke shares intimate moments with his subjects and their frank accounts of the risk-taking, monumental journey. Moonbug is as much an exploration of memory and perception and the documentation of time as it is space. The engaging, articulate astronauts offer philosophical insights into the motivations behind their participation and the bigger picture: how we understand and perceive the universe, where we fit in among these 'signposts of history' and the vulnerability of our lonely planet. With rare archive footage and an original score by Matt Johnson and The Moon bug is both a photographic road trip and an exploration of how photographs become signposts for history. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Houston International Film Festival. 'It is a rare and wonderful experience to visit with the men who went to the moon. Steve Pyke has done it and thanks to Nichola Bruce's compelling film Moonbug everyone else can come along.' -Andrew Chaikin, author of 'A Man on the Moon'
When successful Dallas architect Nancy Lyon died in agony from arsenic poisoning it seemed that no-one could unravel the mystery surrounding her death; someone was about to get away with murder. However District Attorney Jerry Sims is determined to find the truth... Based on a true story.
Nothing Sacred (1937) in which Carole Lombard co-stars with Frederic March is one of her most delightful movie outings and her only feature in colour. The hilarious screenplay by Ben Hecht and James H. Street has her cast as Hazel Flagg a small town girl who mistakenly believes that she is dying of radium poisoning. March plays a newspaper reporter who in the best tradition of yellow journalism talks his editor into bringing her to New York for one last fling. The faultless direc
In STEP ACROSS THE BORDER two forms of artistic expression improvised music and cinema direct are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts the intuitive sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into existence out of an intense perception of the moment not from the transformation of a preordained plan. In improvisation the plan is revealed only at the end. One finds it. The other connection concerns the work method: the film team as band. Much as musicians communicate via the music our work too was realized within a very small and flexible team of equals. What mattered was exchange. And movement. Sometimes we started filming in the middle of the night responding to a new idea that had arisen only minutes before. We had a fundamental feeling for what we wanted to do for what kind of film this should be. And we followed that feeling. It was all very instinctive.
The Screwiest Sexiest Goriest One Yet! A lunatic with a grudge against G stings pasties and pretty women is slaughtering the sexy strippers who work for night club impresario Marzdone Mobilie (Henny Youngman. Yes the Henny Youngman). Not content with mere murder the psycho enthusisatically mangles and mutilates the women thus turning Marzdone's go go girls into The Gore Gore Girls. Trying to solve the gruesome goings-on - which include buttocks bashing eyeball popping face ironing and body boiling in a bowl of french fries! - are obnoxious private eye Abraham Gentry (Frank Kress) and ditzy reporter Nancy Weston (Amy Farrell). And by coercing Nancy to perform in an ameteur strip contest Abraham offers the killer the perfect bait… A wicked mix of sick comedy topless dancing and ultra violence makes the film from director Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast) one of the ultimate B-movie gross-outs of all time!
Frank Zappa: The Freak-out List
A frighteningly real exploration of the tribal culture of football hooligans from the Brit director of "Goodbye Charlie Bright."
As the Battle of the Bulge rages on an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just hours before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall the tank's commander makes the risky decision to rescue an orphanage.
A devastating biological disaster is unleashed threatening to annihilate the human race. Three couples are forced to make life-altering decisions as the earth's population rapidly decreases towards extinction. With martial law declared and the streets in chaos the couples must struggle through the anarchy in a bid to try to survive. Each decision that they make could either save their lives or threaten to tear them apart. Starring Josh Hartnett (Sin City) Rosario Dawson (Sin City) Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies) and Frank Langella (Superman Returns) Parts Per Billion is a gut-wrenching tale of humanity's will to survive.
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