It's 1900 and a British archaeological expedition has discovered the secret chamber of the Egyptian Prince Ra. The team decide to bring home a whole host of artefacts including the mummified Prince. However the Prince isn't so happy about this and decides to wake up just as the team are about to unveil their find to the unsuspecting pubic...
Three archaeologists searching for the 4 000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka among the ruins in Egypt are warned of grave consequences if they violate her tomb. Madness strikes one and as the others return to England with a mummy a series of murders take place as the mummy seeks a deadly revengre on those who desecrated the secret tomb...
When the University downsized the para-psychology department Doctors Venkman ( Bill Murray) Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Spengler (Harold Ramis) make the leap from scientist to Ghostbusters investigators and exterminators of paranormal pests! The bewitching Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) discovers her refrigerator has become a portal into the spiritual dimension our heroes then come face to face with an ancient evil force with plans to raise hell in Manhattan!
The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls. When John Winger (Bill Murray) loses his job his car his apartment and his girlfriend all in one day he decides he only has one option: volunteer for Uncle Sam. John convinces Russell to join the army so they can get in shape likening it to a health spa. Once in boot camp wiseguy John tangles with his by-the-book Sgt. and becomes the unofficial leader for his platoon made up mostly of other misfits and assorted losers. After somehow making it through graduation they are given a special assignment but thanks to John's romantic interest in a pretty MPO the other men wind up behind the Iron Curtain until John Russell their dates and Sgt. Hulka make a daring rescue attempt in explosive style
Back again for another healthy portion Are You Being Served? features the limp-wristed Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries and that blue-rinsed battle-axe Mrs 'Betty' Slocombe leading the outrageous department store staff through a fifth series of outrageously funny episodes! Episodes Comprise: 1.Mrs. Slocombe Expects 2.A Change Is as Good as a Rest 3.Founder's Day 4.The Old Order Changes 5.Take-Over 6.Goodbye Mr. Grainger 7.It Pays to Advertise
Based on Tom Sharpes satirical novel and set in a fictional, all-male Cambridge College, 1987s Porterhouse Blue is a crusty delight. Ian Richardson stars as the austere moderniser who takes over as master of Porterhouse with a view to bringing in radical changes; David Jason is Skullion, head porter for 45 years and a bulldog-style traditionalist.Porterhouse Blue is a wonderfully grotesque and not inaccurate depiction of an Oxbridge college that has set itself resolutely and decadently against the modern world. Crammed with hoggish, port-swilling dons who are more concerned that the college stay "head of the river" than with academic achievement, the highlight of Porterhouses year is the Founders Feast, in which students and tutors gorge debauchedly on roast swan stuffed with widgeon, to the horror of the new vegetarian master. Jasons Skullion looks on approvingly: hes a stickler for Porterhouses inverted values, disapproving, for instance, of student Zipser (John Sessions), the only fellow at the college actually there to work. When the master eventually fires Skullion, the forces of traditionalism gather in sympathy and attempt their revenge.Unfolding over 190 leisurely minutes, Porterhouse Blue is an elegantly turned comedy in which practically every morsel of dialogue is to be savoured for its delicious tang. Jason and Richardson are reliably excellent in what is an overall exhibition of British TV thespianism at its finest. --David Stubbs
In the middle of the 17th Century Eva Van Damme a Dutch aristocrat left Holland for the reckless spoils of the New World. She and her clan built a great mansion in New England cut themselves off from the rest of society and eventually disappeared from view altogether. It was here she revealed in her dark obsession one that had driven the Van Damme's from their Dutch home her insatiable sexual appetite for her twin brother.. More than three centuries later a ferry carries ailing John Strauss and his wife Kathleen to an eerie New England community. He is dying from a mysterious blood disease and has traced his roots to this enclosed island in the vain hope he may discover some key to his condition. Strauss knows he was born here but as a baby he was sent to Paris and subsequently adopted if he can find his relatives he may be saved. However as he will soon discover death can sometimes be a sweet release.
Heralded by many as the quintessential Bond movie, Goldfinger features some of the most iconic moments in the series to-date. Who could forget Oddjob and his killer hat or Shirley Eaton doused in gold? Special Agent 007 (Sean Connery) has just come face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time. And now he'll have to outwit and outgun this powerful tycoon to prevent him form cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox - and obliterate the world economy!
The searing classic of paradise lost. The 24-year old idol-to-be James Dean plays Cal a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his favored brother Aron (Richard Davalos). Playing off the haunting sensitivity of Julie Harris Dean's performance earned one of the film's four Academy Award nominations. Among the movie's stellar performers Jo Van Fleet won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Every Sentence Comes To An End. So Brace Yourself...For The Final Season Of Oz! On the surface not much has changed inside the walls of Oswald State Penitentiary. Schillinger has revenge on his mind Cyril is facing execution Beecher is hoping for parole and McManus is finding solace in a meditative maze. But there's toil and trouble brewing in the Oz cauldron as the Oz players rehearse for their presentation of Macbeth and the climactic final act.
Joanna mourns for her friend the victim of a serial killer who specialises in preying on successful young women. Shortly after Joanna is addressed by a man who claims he's a private eye but his questions worry her and she begins to suspect all around her...
That's My Boy: Series 1
If it's action and adventure you''re seeking set sail for Rogue's Rock - a tiny independent island off the British Coast. Rogue's Rock is run by Wing Commander Rogue ( Donald Hewlett) and his loyal friends including his faithful batman Hawkins (Harold Goodwin) dodgy shopkeeper Will Polberry (Royston Tickner) and Ilse (Katya Wyeth). The adventure begins when two strange Germans arrive on the island searching for the wreck of a fabulous treasure ship. Soon everyone on the island is caught up in a huge plot to seize the world's oil rigs and battling an evil Arab government for priceless treasure buried beneath the desert sands! This DVD features all six episodes of the exciting ITV children's adventure series first shown on British television between 6th November and 11th December 1974.
An original Neil Simon screenplay makes Seems Like Old Times rise above what would otherwise be a forgettable comedy-love triangle. Goldie Hawn plays a good-hearted defence lawyer married to Ira (Charles Grodin), a politically ambitious district attorney. The craziness of their everyday lives becomes even more ridiculous when ex-husband Chevy Chase is framed for a bank robbery and seeks refuge with the woman he could never get over. Hawn hides the love of her life under her husband's nose as Chase tries to clear his name. Hawn tries to protect him and Grodin just tries to keep from going insane. A slapstick romance that's very often hit-and-miss, the dialogue saves this comic farce and provides wonderful moments between the three stars.--Robert Lane, Amazon.com
Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis wrote the script, but Bill Murray gets all the best lines and moments in this 1984 comedy directed by Ivan Reitman (Meatballs). The three comics, plus Ernie Hudson, play the New York City-based team that provides supernatural pest control, and Sigourney Weaver is the love interest possessed by an ancient demon. Reitman and company are full of original ideas about hobgoblins--who knew they could "slime" people with green plasma goo?--but hovering above the plot is Murray's patented ironic view of all the action. Still a lot of fun, and an obvious model for sci-fi comedies such as Men in Black. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
The true story of The Temptations the Soul vocal group of the 1960s as seen from the viewpoint of the last surviving member Otis Williams. Beginning from their humble origins in the late 50s and continuing through the 90s and the deaths of the other 4 members.
A collection of movies from actor Harold Lloyd
They're here they're queer and they make Sex & The City look like a demure tea party. Showtime's quintessentially American Queer As Folk--based on the British miniseries--pours on copious amounts of hot and steamy sex. This slick (and slickly entertaining) series shares the same basic concept as its British counterpart--centering on a group of gay friends living in a primarily industrial city--but after that all bets are off. Whereas the British version focused on the gritty realistic drama of its characters the American QAF is a glossy fun soap opera that occasionally tackles big issues but never lets you forget that life at times can be a party and you shouldn't be one of those poor suckers starving to death. A good part of the show's charm lies in its cast--boy-next-door Michael (Hal Sparks) ruthlessly seductive rake Brian (Gale Harold) out-and-proud Emmett (Peter Paige) wallflower Ted (Scott Lowell) and nubile teen Justin (Randy Harrison)--who grew from standard gay prototypes to intriguing characters by the first season's end. And while some subplots didn't work (such as Emmett's farfetched foray into gay-conversion therapy) others were quietly affecting including Brian's coping with his father's death. Some may object to the show's relentless fixation on sex (and gay men--there are just two lesbian characters) but this is a series that in its own polished way is both engrossingly fun and truly groundbreaking. It's liberating to watch an American TV series in which the straight world is only peripheral. Let's hear it for the boys!
Feature film and documentary. The Homecoming: This is a superlative piece of 20th century drama transferred to the screen with great skill. The screenplay differs little from the original play but Peter Hall uses the camera to create new imagery and symbolism. It is clear that Hall and his cast were completely in tune with this piece as the acting is superb. Paul Rogers is the clan 's malevolent patriarch and Ian Holm is the amusing but insidious Lenny while Vivien Merchant 's Ruth is both hypnotic and captivating. This is Harold Pinter 's masterpiece perfectly brought to the big screen by Sir Peter Hall. Pinter's Progress: A personal take on working with Harold Pinter from intimate conversations with actors directors and writers on their experiences of the man and his work. One of the truly great modern playwrights Harold Pinter passed away on Christmas Eve 2008 leaving behind a great legacy of work in theatre and film.
Born in Nebraska in 1894 Harold Lloyd's stage career beganat the age of 12. He ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era making nearly 200 comedy films both silent and 'talkies' between 1914 and 1947. Here he stars in 5 classic short films: Haunted Spooks Campus Vamp Our Gang Follies Schools Out Bear Shooting
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