Shall We Dance (Dir. Peter Chelsom) (2004): An overworked Chicago accountant (Gere) tired of the boring routine that his life has become sees a beautiful dance teacher (Lopez) through a window and decides to start taking lessons from her in order to get to know her better and as the joy of dancing enters his life he discovers that it might just be the secret to saving his troubled marriage. As the accountant's skill as a dancer improves he eventually signs up for the Chicago Crystal Ball Dance Competition. Will he win? Sweet Home Alabama (Dir. Andrew Tennant) (2002): Melanie Carmicheal (Reese Witherspoon) is a New York fashion designer with the ideal glamourous life; beautiful successful and newly engaged to perfect-on-paper bachelor Andrew (Patrick Dempsey). All would be perfect if not for her past life with Jake (Josh Lucas) the redneck husband she married in high school who refuses to give her a divorce. When the too-good-to-be-true Andrew son of Mayor Kate Hennings (Candice Bergen) sweeps her off her feet by proposing Melanie goes back to her roots to track down her estranged husband and fix the only obstacle in her path to her future happiness. Initially frustrated by her old memories Melanie slowly warms to and accepts her past as a necessary part of her future...
Previous UK releases of Catchfire have listed the pseudonymous Allan Smithee as director, but this version proudly opens with "a Dennis Hopper film". Also known as Backtrack, it offers a plot that advances by illogical leaps and bounds while whole scenes seem to go astray. With prominently billed actors getting almost nothing to do while major players go un-credited, a bland music score that might have been laid in from another film entirely and an ending that makes a lot of noise without actually resolving much, the film certainly has its bad points. However, it's also one of Hopper's more eccentric films, and more fun than Colors or The Hot Spot (which he had no trouble owning up to), partly because the director also takes a quirky lead role and his own personal interests are stirred by the modern art frills of the chase plot. The film opens with LA-based conceptual artist Jodie Foster, looking chunkily terrific just before her adult career took off, suffering a minor breakdown on the freeway and happening on a gangland execution. Pint-sized mob boss Joe Pesci sets his killers on her but the crooks ineptly murder Foster's boyfriend (Charlie Sheen, taking a very early bath). Pesci calls in Hopper, a professional hitman who immerses himself in Foster's life and art in order to track her down only to develop an obsessive crush on the woman. When he finds her, he gives her the choice between getting rubbed out or becoming his property. Hopper retains the knack for finding odd-looking byways of rural America, but is uncomfortable with helicopter chases and shoot-outs. The leads, despite great chunks of missing story, are both interesting--Foster sexily vulnerable and Hopper doing a wry New York drawl as the sax-playing hit man. Catchfire also offers an amazing supporting cast of the director's friends, including Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Tony Sirico (The Sopranos), Bob Dylan (with a chainsaw), Helena Kallianotes (Five Easy Pieces), Julia Adams (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), and John Turturro.On the DVD: the film itself comes in a good-looking widescreen transfer, but the lack of special features let the disc down, with only feeble notes for three cast members (and no Smithee filmography). --Kim Newman
This collection of rarely seen video performances illustrates the power and range of Doc's talents and the evolution of his performance style. His music ranges from flatpicking guitar instrumentals a harmonica solo a capella gospel singing frailing banjo to fingerstyle guitar and warm vocals. The tapestry of sounds Doc wove during his fisrt two decades performing outside North Carolina - the Big Picture - unfolds in these enduringly and inspiring performances.
Sue was a very sulky little girl. Especially if she didn't get her own way. If she couldn't have sweets before lunch or the biggest doll in the shop she sulked. This DVD in the Little Monsters series also features episodes with Sickly Simon Bossy Bethany Rude Roger Worried Winnie and Friendly Franco.
Tutor Fred Sokolow teaches moveable fretboard patterns for any guitar style.
Trumpet players Danny (Fred Astaire) and Hank (Burgess Meredith) have been avoiding graduation for seven years so that they can continue playing with their college band. They hire pretty Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) as the band's agent and as she quickly increases their earning power the boys find themselves with flourishing musical careers. Ellen is one day hired as Artie Shaw's band manager and makes plans for Danny and Hank to audition for Shaw. Both however are keen rivals for Ellen's hand and the tension between them sees them attempting to foil eachother's chances as they audition for Shaw.
Predator (Dir. John McTiernan 1987): It sees the heat of their bodies. It smells their fears. It hunts for sport. It kills for pleasure. In a place without rules - the hunter has become the hunted. Deep inside the jungles of Latin America Schwarzenegger's team of elite commandos are being slaughtered by a mysterious predator. No longer are they hunters - they are the prey... of an alien whose only instinct is to kill. One by one it strikes with inhuman ferocity. Now to survive with the jungle as their only ally they face their greatest challenge: to stay alive. Chain Reaction (Dir. Andrew avis 1996): A student machinist (Keanu Reeves) finds himself caught in a maze of secret government cover-ups high tech espionage and murders after working on a groundbreaking scientific experiment. Eddie Kasalivich (Reeves) and Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) are part of a team of scientists who have developed a revolutionary new source of energy. But no sooner have they finishes celebrating their triumph than their lab is destroyed and the head of their team killed. Named as the main suspects Eddie and Lily quickly realise their only hope lies with a powerful and mysterious bureaucrat (Morgan Freeman) who may or may not be on their side.
Zion Canyon - Treasure Of The Gods' makes it possible for viewers to explore the hidden recesses and dizzying heights of the canyon in breathtaking detail. The immense panoramas filling the screen make viewers part of the journey to discover the real Zion canyon and its treasures as well as the treasures of other beautiful canyons of the Southwest.
24 fantastic tracks from the big band era. An exhibition of jazz at it's best from many of the greats including Sarah Vaughan Artie Shaw with Fred Astaire Benny Goodman Gene Krupa Jimmy Dorsey.
It's time to clean house! Not since Pulp Fiction has a film captured the violence and terror of gangland warfare and underworld killers blended with sharp black humour and a sense of street style. See the blood soaked trials and tribulations of two Yakuza hitmen and their unlikely bonding with a mentally unbalanced ex-cop and his feisty teenage daughter.
The year is 2700 and the Earth is polluted, barren and exhausted. Wall-E is the last of a group of clean-up robots, sent to restore the Earth by lifting and compressing the endless quantities of rubbish left behind by a human race that has withdrawn to the safety of space. Wall-E spends every day doing what he was made for on the lonely, silent Earth. His only companion is his trusty pet cockroach, Spot. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for as he chases his dream ac...
Investigating the mysterious deaths of two notorious mass murderers FBI Special Agent Jason Chandler (Patrick Muldoon) finds that half a dozen more of the FBI's most wanted serial killer suspects have recently disappeared without trace. He soon comes to the incredible conclusion that there's a killer slaughtering serial killers!
Nothing was too dangerous for Dave. He had the fastest skateboard. He climbed the highest trees. He did the most daring wheelies on his mountain bike. Everyone said Don't do that Dave! It's much too dangerous! But Dave took no notice. He did it anyway. This DVD in the Little Monsters series also features episodes with Sulky Sue Ticklish Timmy Grown-Up Gabby TV Trevor and Rude Roger.
It's the year 2019 fifteen years after the world was devastated by a nuclear war. It is a land where gangs of human predators travel in packs like wolves where junkyards are filled with the dying remnants of society and an army of carnivorous escaped military prisoners threaten a fragile sliver of civilization. The only hope of the few remaining survivors is to reach a distant land from where radio signals indicating the presence of human life are being emitted...
American Pie: You'll never look at warm apple pie the same way again! American Pie takes a hysterical look at the goal of four ""unlucky in love"" high school friends who make the ultimate pact: lose their virginity by prom night. As they try to manipulate their way into the hearts of some of their classmates their plans often backfire with hilarity. One fails to score with the sexy foreign exchange student and then makes a last ditch effort with a band member who has an interesting way with her flute while another is so desperate he actually hires someone to give him a ""reputation"". Follow the raging hormones of four teenage boys and their girls as they gear up for the most important night of their lives; the prom! (Dir. Paul Weitz 1999) American Pie 2: After their first year apart at college the guys (Kevin Jim Oz Finch and Stifler) rent a beach house vowing to celebrate their friendship and make this the best summer ever. But as always whether their dreams come true or not is ultimately up to the girls (Vicky Michelle Nadia Heather and Jessica). Through one boisterous summer of ear-splitting parties side-splitting mishaps - and yes a trip to band camp - the gang discovers that times change and people change but friendship lasts a lifetime. (Dir. J.B. Rogers 2001) American Wedding: Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) have finally decided to tie the knot but with their friends (including Stifler) returning from college the chances of their big day going off without a hilarious hitch or two are very small indeed! (Dir. Jesse Dylan 2003)
Female photographer Elys Trumbo witnesses a murder and manages to take a picture of the gang leader. When they come looking for her maverick cop Robert Malone is assigned to protect her and capture the gang in the process.
'Kung Phooey' is a family film with crossover adult appeal. Modelled very much on films like 'Airplane' Kung Phooey is a brilliant spoof on just about every Kung Fu movie ever made from the 'Kalsshopper' wisdom of the original TV series to the tree walking of 'Crouching Tiger'. Art's wild adventures and mishaps begin when he arrives in America on his quest for the magical Ancient Peach he encounters a crazy host of characters; the evil Helen Hu her bodyguards One Ton Lo Fat an
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