Ray / Genius - A Night For Ray Charles | DVD | (06/06/2005)
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| RRP Ray (Dir. Taylor Hackford 2004): Jamie Foxx stars in this biopic of legendary soul and R&B singer Ray Charles. Riding high on a wave of Oscar buzz Foxx proved himself worthy of all the hype by portraying blind R&B legend Ray Charles in a warts-and-all performance that Charles approved shortly before his death in June 2004. Despite a few dramatic embellishments of actual incidents (such as the suggestion that the accidental drowning of Charles's younger brother caused all the
Maureen O'hara - Rio Grande (1950)/The Quiet Man/Lady Godiva/Against All Flags/The Rare Breed (1966)/Our Man In Havana | DVD | (27/09/2010)
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| RRP Rio Grande (Dir. John Ford 1950): John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara are embroiled in an epic battle with the Apaches and each other in this John Ford classic. Lt Col. Yorke (Wayne) heads to the Rio Grande to fight a warring tribe. But Yorke faces his toughest battle when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to possible court-martial. Locked in a bloody war he must fight to redeem his honour and save his family. The Quiet Man (Dir. John Ford 1952): John Ford's The Quiet Man celebrates one of Hollywood's most romantic and enduring epics. The first American feature to be filmed in Ireland's picturesque countryside Ford richly imbued this masterpiece with his love of Ireland and its people. Sean Thornton is an American who swears off boxing after accidentally killing an opponent. Returning to the Irish town of his birth he finds happiness when he falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate. Though he is sorely tempted to pick up the gloves against her brother the town bully Sean is determined not to use his fists. Mary Kate and Sean wed but her brother refuses to pay the dowry. Sean would rather walk away than accept this challenge. Even when his new wife accuses him of cowardice Sean stands firm. But when she boards a train to leave he is finally ready to take matters into his own hands. Lady Godiva Of Coventry (Dir Arthur Lubin 1955): Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady Against All Flags (Dir. George Sherman 1952): In 1700 the pirates of Madagascar menace the India trade; British officer Brian Hawke has himself cashiered flogged and set adrift to infiltrate the pirate republic. There Hawke meets lovely Spitfire Stevens a pirate captain in her own right and the sparks begin to fly; but wooing a pirate poses unique problems. Especially after he rescues adoring young Princess Patma from a captured ship. Meanwhile Hawke's secret mission proceeds to an action-packed climax. Rare Breed (Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen 1966): In the 1880s Englishwoman Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) and her daughter Hilary (Juliet Mills) come to America to sell their prize Hereford bull at an auction. When he is purchased by Bowen a wild Scotsman (Brian Keith) the women hire a footloose cowhand named Burnett (James Stewart) to help them transport the animal to its new owner. So begins an adventure that tests the mettle of all involved as they battle killers cattle stampedes and each other. But when they reach Bowen's ranch even greater obstacles force them to summon up extraordinary courage if they and the prize bull are to survive... Our Man In Havana (Dir. Carol Reed 1959): Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana is recruited by the British Intelligence Services. As he has nothing to report he invents facts and pretends to discover secret operations...with disastrous consequences. Carol Reed directs this adaptation of the Graham Greene story.
Will and Grace: Series 2 (Episodes 1-4) | DVD | (24/02/2003)
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| RRP Hit American sitcom Will and Grace is as perky as Friends and as wittily urbane as Frasier. The premise concerns Will (Eric McCormack), a mildly uptight lawyer who agrees to have as a flatmate his best friend, interior designer Grace (Debra Messing). Their relationship has all the hallmarks of one between lovers--emotional dependency, little things that get on each other's nerves, strong mutual interests and volcanic arguments. The only snag is that while Grace is straight, Will is gay. Though not shy of poking sharp fun at that situation, Will and Grace is among sitcom's most potent and sophisticated antidotes to homophobia. Though initially a little too pleased with its own camp pertness, the show grows and grows on you with successive episodes, finally becoming indispensable. It also benefits from secondary characters Jack (Sean P Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally), also gay and straight respectively, both outrageously and hilariously irresponsible characters: he's a free spirit and freeloader, she's "working" as Grace's assistant even though she doesn't need the money, having married some. Despite its diamond and rapid-fire punch lines, Will and Grace conveys enough sense of the lovelorn predicament of the main characters to prevent it becoming too cute. --David Stubbs
Norman Granz Presents Duke Ellington With Ella Fitzgerald At The Cote D'Azur | DVD | (07/02/2000)
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| RRP Norman Granz presents Improvisation. This DVD includes fifteen great Jazz tracks as well as a bonus track which interviews Hank Jones Harry Edison and Clark Terry.
Mersey Sound | DVD | (17/04/2007)
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| RRP The original 1963 BBC documentary on the Merseybeat explosion. Includes exclusive footage of The Beatles at Southport's Little Theatre performing Twist and shout Love me do She loves you and are interviewed collectively and individually backstage signing contracts being mobbed on the road at the hairdressers and rehearsing. Interviews with Liverpudlians a club manager editor Bill Harry a guitar shop manager Brian Epstein and TV producer Jim Casey. Group One and The Undertakers are shown at Liverpool's first downtown 'beat' venue -The Iron Door.
Duel in the Sun (Roadshow Edition) | DVD | (15/08/2017)
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Love Thy Neighbour - Series 2 - Episodes 9 And 10 | DVD | (03/03/2008)
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| RRP Episodes 9 and 10 of the cult 70's TV Comedy. Episode 9 Eddie returns from holiday to find that someone has commandeered his seat in the Lion and Lamb! Not only that but the co-op has been transformed into the Taj Mahal Emporium. With rumours that Fortnum and Mason's is about to become a Curry Centre Eddie decides enough is enough and something has to be done. Episode 10 It is time for the showdown between Eddie's 'Snowflakes' and Bill's 'Sambos'. Maple Terrace braces
White Tiger | DVD | (18/11/2002)
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| RRP Jim Gregory (Bruce Jenner) is going to take some tough hits at Grambling College. He's Grambling's first white football player. Why would a promising quarterback from California come to an underfunded black college in Louisiana? Three words: Coach Eddie Robinson (Harry Belafonte). But Jim's hopes get sacked in a hurry. Scrambling to defend himself against racial discrimination on campus and bitter teammates at practice Jim decides to punt. He asks another college for a scholarship a
Crazy Streets | DVD | (05/06/2008)
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| RRP Elaine has been mugged, fired, dropped by her agent and she's ready to end it all. Instead, she accidentally holds up a wealthy couple and winds up with a full-length mink and a full-blown mystery that changes her life for good. Internationally-acclaimed actress Hanna Schygulla stars as Elaine Hines, would-be novelist whose search for fame and fortune lead to murder and mistaken identity in this offbeat comedy of errors. Hoping to return the coat, Elaine finds herself on the trail of an elusive woman called Lulu (Deborah Harry) Elaine's wildest dreams come true as she becomes published, rich and New York's trendiest heroine. But her troubles aren't over yet in this wacky tale of two women and one unforgettable misadventure. Alec Baldwin, in his first screen appearance, plays the hard headed cop who is caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse chase involving big bucks, the mob, and two beautiful women.
The Curse of King Tutankhamen's Tomb | DVD | (07/02/2011)
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| RRP In November 1922, Howard Carter and his backer, Lord Carnarvon, make an extraordinary discovery in the Valley of the Kings, the sacred burial ground of the pharaohs, near Luxor: the tomb of the frail young king, Tutankhamen. But the rumour of an ancient curse, of impending grief and disaster, threatens to mar their triumph... A stellar cast - including Tom Baker, Eva Marie Saint, Robin Ellis, Wendy Hiller, Raymond Burr and Harry Andrews - feature in this lavish HTV drama, filmed on location in Egypt and based on Barry Wynne's bestselling Behind the Mask of Tutankhamen. A small army of over 70 actors and technicians travelled to the Valley of the Kings to make the film, but this stunning, highly authentic production - allocated a budget of over two million pounds - was not without its own drama; the most frightening in a series of on-set incidents saw Ian McShane, originally cast as Carter, narrowly escaping serious injury when his car plunged over a 40ft cliff, leaving several cast and crew members feeling decidedly uneasy about the legend of an ancient curse!
Neath The Arizona Skies | DVD | (11/08/2003)
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| RRP An Indian princess has to be protected from a gang of outlaws...
One Direction: Reaching For The Stars - Part 2 The Next Chapter | DVD | (04/11/2013)
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| RRP With their phenomenally successful Take Me Home tour ensuring that One Direction continue to dominate the music landscape, this 60 minute special gets up close and personal to see how the boys lives have been transformed over the last three years. From screaming teenage mania in Melbourne and Mexico, swimming pool antics in Miami to the release of their big screen 3D movie, This Is Us, from award winning director Morgan Spurlock. With commentary from showbiz insiders and all the latest news a...
Tauber - Waltz Time | DVD | (28/02/2005)
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| RRP A charming joyous expertly crafted bon-bon of old Vienna full of fluffy cuddly girls of a bygone era gypsies romance gallantry and of course waltzing. The old guard views and waltz as immoral but at the end of the film it is adopted as the official court dance. Tauber is a shepherd and sings 'Break of Day' twice (mostly on camera). The others sing operetta-style arias and duets. Caressing violins punctuate the deft script.
Freaks | DVD | (20/10/2000)
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| RRP One of the most famous, most shocking and, for much of its existence, most elusive of cult films, Tod Browning's Freaks remains worthy of its dubious top billing by literary critic Leslie Fiedler as the greatest of all Freak movies. At the centre of the story are two circus midgets, Hans and Frieda (already well known in the 1930s through film and advertising appearances as Harry and Daisy Earles), whose marriage plans are blasted when Hans becomes the target of the aerialist Cleopatra's plot to marry him then kill him off for his money. During what is certainly one of the most notorious scenes in cult film history, the wedding party of freaks ritually embrace Cleopatra as one of us. Through her undisguised horror at this and her gruesome punishment by the freaks, the film bluntly confronts viewers about our awkwardness about different bodies while simultaneously stirring up fear and alarm in familiar horror-movie style. Better known for the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula (1931), Brownings showmanship was equally a product of the circus (he was himself an adolescent contortionist in a travelling show). His meshing of circus and cinema--two dangerous entertainments--produces Freaks' uniquely disquieting effect.Startled and indignant preview audiences forced the producers to add an explanatory foreword to the film but even this crackles with sensationalism as it veers between sideshow-style sympathy and fright warning. None the less, protests and local censorship ensued and the film never reached the mass audience for which it was made. Still, some of the real stars of the midway Ten-in-One shows of the 1920s and 30s (Johnny Eck, Daisy and Violet Hilton the Siamese twins, Prince Randian, the Hindu Living Torso) are showcased here as themselves and it is their undeniably real presence in what is otherwise familiar fictional terrain which is still so provocative. --Helen Stoddart
Enemies Within | DVD | (11/11/2002)
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| RRP When Ryan Corey a hard nosed investigative reporter starts his investigation of the harmful after-effects of chemical and biological warfare he has no idea what he will uncover. His sources lead him toan Army Hospital where he discovers 'North West 3' a top secret wing. Corey is determined to learn what goes on behind the closed doors of this secret wing and when he gets too close is mysteriously injected with a deadly virus. As his own life is slipping away he is caught up in a frenzied effort to track down the perpetrators of his own murder and expose the truth...
Suspect Zero | DVD | (02/05/2005)
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| RRP This haunting psychological thriller finds FBI agent Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart) newly transferred to the Albuquerque office from Dallas after the botched arrest of his personal nemesis results in his demotion. Suffering from migraines and tormented by his memories and his dreams, Mackelway is immediately assigned to investigate the murder of a travelling salesman. Soon, he is investigating three similar murders and receiving mysterious faxes and notes from the killer, a former government agent named Benjamin O'Ryan (Ben Kingsley). O'Ryan was part of an elite squad that was trained in remote viewing. Able to tune into the sights, sounds, and feelings of victims and killers, O'Ryan enters a trancelike state and draws the gruesome scenes that lead him to the crime and the killer. Unfortunately, he is unable to turn this ability off, and has slowly been going mad and taking justice into his own hands. Thinking he's found a kindred spirit in Mackelway, O'Ryan pulls him deeper into the hunt for 'Suspect Zero', the ultimate killer. This feature from director E. Elias Merhige (SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE) also stars Carrie-Ann Moss as Mackelway's partner, who tries to keep Mackelway from going over the edge.
Blank Generation / Dancing Barefoot | DVD | (06/09/2002)
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| RRP DVD Double Feature! New York City. The Mid 70s. Music and its creative intentions were changing in a way that revolutionized the industry. Underground clubs particularly CBGBs played host to a dynamic range of sounds but one thing remained constant: originality. Blank Generation is the documentation of the moment in musical history when diversity blossomed and bold became beautiful. This proto-punk anthology features the Ramones Television the Heartbreakers Talking Heads the Patti Smith Group Blondie and several other acts of the time. Witness the incredibly real-performances of the bands plus their backstage footage photo-shoots and hanging out. Blank Generation is a testament to those who appreciate the spirit of underground music. It contains some of the greatest and most inspirational acts in Rock 'n Roll as they indirectly establish American Punk Rock. Now their music and message come alive through visionaries Ivan Kral and Amos Poe. Dancing Barefoot is the journey of Ivan Kral (the Patti Smith Group) Rock 'n Roll longevity and musical revolution. Through the early days in Prague to the late 70s in New York City up to present day Seattle Ivan has played his way through rough times and changing environments. With New York City as the primary focus the tale of Rock 'n Roll evolution is told by the Patti Smith Group Blondie Iggy Pop and other influential members of the community. Through much of the film the ever-popular underground venue CBGBs plays host to the artists' unconventional views. Although many different clips of songs are featured the Patti Smith Group rocks through Horses Ask the Angels Rock 'n Roll Nigger and the title track Dancing Barefoot plus adds their own flavour to several influential cover songs. Also featured are the inspirational performances of Patti's poetry. The era of Rock 'n Roll eccentricity is beautifully captured in this documentary by Ivan himself. It is a true gem for anyone who is interested in the development of music and ideology and the progression of Rock 'n Roll.
All Night Long | DVD | (26/01/2004)
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| RRP Set in London's Jazz scene of the 1950s this atmospheric modernisation of Othello features a strong cast and appearences by some of the best-known names from the music world.
This Joint Is Jumpin' | DVD | (21/03/2006)
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| RRP 26 Stompin' classics from the big band era. Artists include Dizzy Gillespie Jack Teagarden Billy Eckstein Harry 'the hipster' Gibbon The Art Tatum all stars Bobby Hackett Walter Liberace & the Les Paul trio.
Love Thy Neighbour - Series 2 - Episodes 7 And 8 | DVD | (03/03/2008)
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| RRP Episodes 7 and 8 of the cult 70's TV Comedy. Episode 7 When Eddie has to 'toe the party line' it is more to do with the G.P.O than politics. Forced to share his telephone line with Bill and Barbie it doesn't take long for Eddie to get his wires crossed. When he overhears Bill talking about a plan to hi-jack him Eddie fears for his life and runs to the police for protection. Episode 8 'Keeping up with the Reynolds' is starting to prove difficult for Eddie especially w
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