An elite covert operations unit known as the Impossible Mission Taskforce (IMF) carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure capture or death. Their mission should they choose to accept it is given by the unseen figure known only as the 'Secretary' who instructions are relaid on a tape guaranteed to self-destruct in five seconds... Episodes Comprise: 1. Pilot episode 2. Memory 3. Operation Rogosh 4. Old Man Out (Part 1) 5. Old Man Out (Part 2) 6. Odds On Evil 7. Wheels 8. The Ransom 9. A Spool There Was 10. The Carriers 11. Zubrovnik's Ghost 12. Fakeout 13. Elena 14. The Short Tail Spy 15. The Legacy 16. The Reluctant Dragon 17. The Frame 18. The Trial 19. The Diamond 20. The Legend 21. Snowball In Hell 22. The Confession 23. Action! 24. The Train 25. Shock 26. A Cube Of Sugar 27. The Traitor 28. The Psychic
The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential films of the surf movie genre creating and defining an entire category of cinema which has endured and evolved in the decades since its release in 1966. This powerful film has become a timeless masterpiece that continues to capture the imagination of every new generation. Director Bruce Brown follows two surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August on a trip around the world in search of the ultimate surfing adventure and the perfect wave. From the uncharted waters of West Africa to the shark-filled seas of Australia to the tropical paradise of Tahiti and beyond these California surfers accomplish in a few months what many people never achieve in a lifetime... they live their dream. The title comes from the last line in the film which expresses the idea that if one had enough time and money it would be possible to follow the summer around the world making it endless. The surf-rock soundtrack to the film was provided by The Sandals. In 2002 The Endless Summer was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally historically or aesthetically significant"".
Jason and Alexander are sailing to Honolulu when they come across a burnt out yacht. Deep in the hold a giant spider and its offspring are eagerly awaiting their next meal.
In David E Kelley's Boston law drama, Ally McBeal, his lawyers' private and work lives are always inextricably linked. Nobody does anything in the "Cage and Fish" firm without their colleagues knowing about it, including going to the toilet. Kelley is as willing as always to embrace implausible coincidence in his storylines for the pay-off of maintaining the high pace and dramatic neatness. Our anti-heroine Ally McBeal starts her third season with a wet, wordless fling in a car wash with Jason Gedrick, and it's no surprise that Ally ends up facing Gedrick at the altar when a client asks her to be bridesmaid. With the entire firm invited along as guests, can she keep quiet about the groom? Well, you know Ally--she may not have any lasting success in the romance department but it's a subject she feels very strongly about. The third season sees fewer CGI expressions of Ally's thoughts and imagination, but the drama is just as colourful. Billy's increasing concerns over the balance of male and female power manifests itself in his newly dyed blond hair and his hiring of six PVC-clad women to follow him around boosting his testosterone. Other highlights include Ally exploring her lesbian side with Ling, Elaine posing as John's "fluffer" to banish his sexual insecurities and an explosive Thanksgiving party at Ally's. There are plotlines within Series 3 which stretch plausibility, such as finding out that Ally's dad is the man Georgia's been snogging to forget her husband's metamorphosis into a blonde-haired, sexist egomaniac. Ally McBeal does have the tendency to descend into sickening sentimental tosh, like all the "child inside" nonsense in Episode 11, but that aside, it continues to provide escapist entertainment of the first order. --Emma Perry
Based on the novel by Larry Beinhart, 'Salvation Boulevard' stars Greg Kinnear as Carl, a former Deadhead who has traded in Jerry Garcia for God. He accidentally witnesses Pastor Dan (Pierce Brosnan), the leader of his new megachurch, commit a crime, and spends the rest of the film trying to make peace with his family, an atheist professor and a fellow Deadhead-turned security guard. Ratliff's fascination with religion stems back to his childhood in Amarillo, Texas, where he was raised as an evangelical Christian. He's since broken from the church and in his 2001 documentary 'Hell House,' even explored a megachurch's annual attempt to scare kids into Christianity through a haunted house.
Every episode from all 5 seasons of Ally McBeal in one must-have collector's box set! Meet Ally McBeal she over-analyses her relationships (and sometimes lack of) to the point of becoming emotionally neurotic. Sounds annoying? It can be. Sounds so-American? It can be. Sounds addictive? It will be... They are young successful lawyers some of them could even be called beautiful a lot of them could be called eccentric and they all work and play together. From the first season we are introduced to the Unisex (the bathroom they all share). Ally is living with Renee still trying to deal with Billy's marriage to someone who is not her and is forced to come to terms with working with his new wife Georgia. Richard and Whipper are still together Elaine establishes herself as the resident know-it-all tart and John Cage is well warming up to being John Cage.... It is from this season we all have to hold to our hearts as the first time we were introduced to Ally McBeal the quirky original and (yet again) brilliance of a David E. Kelly creation!
Scientists discover time travel with horrible consequences when they inadvertently bring a giant carnivorous dinosaur back to modern Los Angeles.
Based upon an old Nordic legend a Berserker was a bloodthirsty warrior kept in chains and used as the first line of assault in Viking raids. Because they ate human flesh they were cursed by the God Odin forbidden a restful death and fated to be reincarnated in their blood kin. Now in present day America the Berserker has risen out of hell to stalk a mixed group of college students camping in the woods. When the blood feast begins the screaming suspense starts clawing at the nerves can anything human destroy the Berserker or will the carnage continue over the centuries?
One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabid features porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker. On the DVD: the widescreen image on the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe
Leonardo Donatello Michaelangelo and Raphael are back in a new animated series that more closely follows the dark tone of the original comic books than did the comedy-driven 1980s version. With the help of Zen master Splinter (a mutated rat) and their human ally April O'Neil the four ninja turtles battle New York City crime their evil nemesis Shredder and the mad scientist Baxter Stockman in a series of action-packed adventures. Contains all the episodes from Volumes 1-3: Thi
Season 3, should you decide to accept it (and you definitely should), was Mission's most accomplished. It garnered six Emmy nominations, and an Emmy for Barbara Bain, her third consecutive win, probably for "The Exchange," one of her finest hours, in which, breaking series format, her character is captured and psychologically tortured to discover for whom she works. As always, the first five minutes of any Mission: Impossible episode are the coolest: the lit fuse signaling Lalo Schifrin's indelible theme song, the opening-credits montage teasing the action in the upcoming episode, and Jim Phelps (Peter Graves), in some nondescript location, receiving his covert mission (usually to some nonexistent, but real-sounding country as Povia or Costa Mateo), on that self-destructing tape. It always seemed a waste of time for Phelps to go through the dossiers of possible Impossible Missions Force agents for each mission (and he does that less this season) as he invariably chose the same ones: model beauty Cinnamon (Bain), master of disguise Rollin Hand (Martin Landau), electricians expert Barney Collier (Greg Morris), and strongman Willie Armitage (Peter Lupus). Mission: Impossible didn't delve into the team members' private lives: it was all about the mission, and together, the IMF foils any number of domestic and international villains. Some missions (foil a coup, rescue a dissident) have more at stake than others (restore boxing's good name), but there's that great moment in almost every episode when the team's target discovers that he or she has been royally IMF'd. "Don't you see?" the warden of a so-called escape-proof automated prison protests in "The Glass Cage," "they thought of everything!" He's not kidding. Not even "Q" on his best day would have come up with that faux briefcase that secretly dispenses exact replicas of the prison's towels. Mission: Impossible today does seem a little low-tech, especially when compared to the special effects-laden feature films. And for anyone who has seen Airplane, it may be difficult initially to keep a straight face whenever Peter "Do you like gladiator movies?" Graves is onscreen. But with its clever and complex stories, impeccable ensemble, and fun-to-spot guest stars (that's John "Dean Wormer" Vernon torturing Cinnamon in "The Exchange"), Mission is impossible to resist. --Donald Liebenson
The animated Shakespeare series continues with the tale of two star crossed lovers contending with feuding families in Romeo and Juliet and the comical pangs of the heart from the daughter of an exiled Duke in As You Like It
In 1815 monk Tomas Alcala unwittingly unleashes two female succubi Munkar and Nakir upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage...
Five thousand years ago an alien spacecraft piloted by the android SIRIUS is destroyed by an electrical storm and the remains of the craft and it's occupants are buried by time. It is survived however by an intriguing myth that the aliens possessed the gift of everlasting life and that the buried craft contains an elixir which if replicated would bring untold riches to the owner of such a powerful drug.
When Stanley (Wilson) first meets the smart successful and gorgeous Diana (Richards) he instantly knows that she is the perfect girl for him. So when he finally works up the nerve to ask her out and she unexpectedly says yes Stanley does everything he can to make their date the perfect night on the town! Once the big night finally arrives however anything that can go wrong does go wrong thanks to the constant interruptions of an unwelcome wacko who's convinced that he's doin
Follow the fortunes of stoners Dexter and Royce as with witty banter flowing between them they deal with an overdose drug debt a heist Satanists and medieval midgetsand all in one slightly surreal night in Weirdsville. Stars Wes Bentley (Ghost Rider; American Beauty) Scott Speedman (Underworld: Evolution; My Life Without Me) and Taryn Manning (Hustle & Flow; 8 Mile).
12 000 feet below the Antarctic ice it lays in wait... In the highest security prison for the world's deadliest criminals a team digs up the remains of a violent ancient creature that isn't quite dead...
The hit series Mission: Impossible returns to DVD featuring all 23 Season Five episodes! By the fifth season the show's changing times meant changing crimes as the emerging drug culture forced the IMF to spend more time in America battling organized crime and drug czars. But the winning formula stayed the same: Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) gets his assignment Barney Collier (Greg Morris) makes the required special effects and Willy Armitage (Peter Lupus) supplies the muscle. And while Paris (Leonard Nimoy) has the makeup skills to become any character required it's the team's newest member - the gorgeous Dana Lambert (Lesley Ann Warren) - who gives this season an added boost and makes this set of Mission: Impossible the most thrilling DVD experience yet!
Be prepared for a very emotional ride as Ally McBeal returns with the conclusion of Season 3. Blending humour and poignant drama Season 3 Part 2 bids a tearful goodbye to Ally’s first love Billy. The episodes commence with Ally’s brazen spirit going to dangerous lengths to capture a man… by purposely crashing her car into his. It would’ve worked if the gorgeous guy in question hadn’t laughed like the sound of “a cow giving birth” (In Search of Pygmies). The team’s frolics continue as Ally wins a contest to become one of Tina Turner’s backing singers for a night (Oddball Parade) has cyber-sex with a minor (Do You Wanna Dance?) and goes kicking and screaming into her thirties with collagen lip implants (Turning Thirty)! Amidst all this grab the tissues as Ally and the crew try to come to terms with the unexpected loss of Billy and new characters and old prove no one can be taken at face value. Season 3 Part 2 brings together all the elements that Ally McBeal is famous for: fun love lust and thoughtful moments that will certainly touch the heartstrings and leave you singing for more. Features the episodes 'In Search Of Pygmies' 'Pursuit Of Loneliness' 'The Oddball Parade' 'Prime Suspect' 'Boy Next Door' 'I Will Survive' 'Turning Thirty' 'Do You Wanna Dance' 'Hope And Glory' and 'Ally McBeal - The Musical Almost'.
After more than a decade of de facto exile from the mainstream, Joni Mitchell has regained much of her media profile, if not her commercial impact, thanks to deserved if belated accolades from critics and music business peers. Recent Grammy Awards and a special Billboard citation epitomise the ironies of Mitchell's 1980s obscurity: because she reached her highest profile with the broad success in 1974 of Court and Spark, which remains Mitchell's lushest, most accessible album, the Canadian musician and painter has found herself comparatively ignored in later years simply because her work ventured into more eclectic amalgams of her already diverse influences. Yet in her forays into world music, jazz and pop collage, Mitchell has remained a prescient and influential artist.This 1998 concert special sheds welcome light on the work from that post-Spark quarter-century, its 22 songs dominated by the confessional works that have remained Mitchell's strong suit. Early favourites like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Just Like This Train" retain their charm, but it's Mitchell's more mature pieces such as "Amelia" (from Hejira) and "Sex Kills" (from Turbulent Indigo) that convey the depth and acuity of her work. A superb band--including Brian Blade, Mark Isham, Larry Klein, and Greg Leisz--provides a sinewy, sympathetic framework well suited to the palette of jazz, folk, and pop colours that Mitchell daubs on her songs. Adding further intimacy to the performance is a circular stage design, a small audience and a welcome lack of "big" production effects; instead, Mitchell indulges her second career as a painter through a pre-show stroll around a gallery of her visual works.Mitchell's frail health in the late 1990s, as well as a lifetime of cigarettes, has taken a toll on her voice, which has lost much of its upper register. Yet there is also an added richness to her lower range befitting this sharp-eyed survivor's art. Old fans will also recognise the flurries of girlish laughter in between-songs patter, while savouring how Mitchell's powers as a writer and player (especially on a new, striking electric guitar) have matured as well. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com
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