Feature fi lm of the BBC TV series in which Dr Del Shaw (Ian Bannen) of Doomwatch - the British government's environmental monitoring organisation - travels to the island of Balfe to investigate pollution. A year earlier, an oil tanker's cargo contaminated the local waters - but has there been any adverse long-term effects - such as the villager menfolk transforming into near-neanderthals? Judy Geeson, Percy Herbert and George Sanders co-star.
Made-for-TV miniseries that traces the journeys of the 13th century Venetian trader Marco Polo. Setting out in the company of two priests to both prove the existence of China, and convert it to Christianity, Marco Polo (Ian Somerhalder) continues the exploration on his own when the priests decide to turn back. Struggling on through blizzards and outlaws, Polo is eventually rewarded by reaching the court of ruler Kubla Khan (Brian Dennehy) who, impressed by the explorer's fortitude and courage, adopts him into his court.
In the second part of the fantasy trilogy Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring, whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.
A most extraordinary experience awaits those with a taste for the strange and the bizarrre in the small town of Black River Falls. Rocked by an inexplicable confluence of events in the late 1890s this sleepy Wisconsin town generated some of the most unlikely news reports and stories ever told. Previously harmless residents - including children - commit a series of gruesome violent murders. Sightings of ghosts and reports of haunting and possession run rife. Shocking dreamlike and s
From the director of Nightmare Man (1999) and sundry episodes of Due South and The Outer Limits TV series comes Demon House, a schlocky horror flick re-titled to disguise the fact that it's actually Night of the Demons III. Here we see yet another visit by a group of stupid teenagers to a house wherein lies a doorway to Hell. Amelia Kinkade returns as evil hostess Angela, but that's all there is to link back to the previous two movies--they even use an entirely different house! As for the plot: it's Halloween and two girls with car trouble hitch a lift from a vanload of clichéd "kids" who accidentally hold up a Kwik-E-Mart. They hide in the out-of-bounds funeral parlour, Hull House, which--you'll never guess--has a history of mysterious murders. Then, in a surprising twist, they begin to be picked off one-by-one and transformed into a variety of demons. A race ensues to see who will survive until sun-up. The camera trickery is right out of Sam Raimi's vastly superior Evil Dead trilogy, while even the titillating nudity is dispensed with in the first few minutes. At least the CGI credits sequence is impressive. On the DVD: Check out the extras: a trailer! 12 "interactive" chapters! 4:3 screen ratio! Plastic case! --Paul Tonks
A reporter and kick boxer search for a missing friend and turn up a series of underground kick boxing matches organised by an illegal arms dealer.
A 4 DVD box set collecting together the concerts: Pavarotti & Friends (1992) Pavarotti & Friends 2 (1994) Pavarotti & Friends for the Children of Bosnia (1995) Pavarotti & Friends for War Child (1996) Pavarotti & Friends for the Children of Liberia (1998) Pavarotti & Friends for Guatemala & Kosovo (1999) Pavarotti & Friends for Cambodia & Tibet (2000) and My Heart's Delight (1993).
Love has left the marriage of Zandalee (Erika Anderson) and Thierry (Judge Reinhold) so Zandalee finds ecstacy in the arms of Johnny (Nicolas Cage) her husband's boyhood friend. Once aroused her longings cannot be satisfied until her obsessive need for passion overwhelms the three in a dark triangle of desire and death...
The Care Bears live in a magical faraway place called Care-a-Lot. Care-a-Lot is part of the Kingdom of Caring and is filled with lots of rainbows and clouds to jump and slide on. It is from this secret place high up in the sky that the Care Bears watch over us and keep us safe using their special individual Belly Badge powers.
Born into a world filled with prejudice are children who possess extraordinary and dangerous powers the result of unique genetic mutations.
A young Asian girl gets caught up in a Romeo and juliet style romance as she falls in love with a west-country lad. While disapproving families on both sides make life difficult the East meets the East End as Bollywood comes to London.
Based on a play called 'The Clansman' this film was billed as 'the first feature film' and caused riots on its release because of its racist overtones. The film follows a family through the American Civil war. Includes 'The Making Of...' Silent. Tinted Version.
In a gripping tale of courage resourcefulness and determination the consequences of a plane crash strip bare the morals of the survivors. The pilot of the doomed aircraft Frank Towns (James Stewart) is an aviator of the old school used to seat-of-the-pants flying distrustful of new technology. With his navigator Lew Moran (Richard Attenborough) he is piloting a cargo-cum-passenger plane high above the Arabian desert when a powerful sandstorm rises from below. Trusting his instin
The coming together of the influential Python team is regarded as a milestone for modern absurdist comedy, though each of the six members had been doing similar sketch work prior to this first 1969 series, of whose highlights this video consists. The most revolutionary aspect of Python was its eschewal of punch lines, preferring as they did bizarre, surreal links and quantum leaps into the imagination of animator Terry Gilliam. Inevitably, Python has dated. Sketches such as "The Upper Class Twit of the Year" and the "Wink-wink, nudge nudge" man are worn down by familiarity. There's some clunky stereotyping and "Oo, ducky"-style gay references. That said, much of this still stands up. "Hells Grannies" and the race to find the world's funniest joke are fine, the Eric Idle-driven documentary spoofs are witty while the Batley Townswomen's Guild's re-enactment of Pearl Harbour is intelligently ridiculous. John Cleese, however, stands literally and metaphorically head and shoulders above the rest. His and Chapman's sketches, involving a mountaineering expedition leader with double vision and an arts TV interviewer who can't get past the etiquette of how to refer to his guest ("Eddie baby...") are pursued to their absurd non-conclusions with the remorseless logic of a top-drawer barrister. --David Stubbs
When hapless college tutor Professor Gottlieb (George Baker The Ruth Rendell Mysteries) instructs his class of horny pupils to research a project on sexual fantasies he gets more than he bargained for. From double entendres to delightful stripteases the young men and women are soon playing the most intimate of games! This classic British sex comedy features a perfect mixture of familiar acting faces such as Ian Hendry Hugh Lloyd Queenie Watts and a raunchy roll call of naughty 1970s stars including Anna Bergman Suzy Mandel and an early un-credited appearance by supersexstar Mary Millington.
When Texas preacher Jesse Custer is inhabited by the renegade spawn of an angel and a demon, he gains the power to control people with just a word. Now Jesse, his badass ex Tulip, and his friend Cassidy (who happens to be a vampire) are thrust into a twisted battle spanning Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.
Toby Jones, Vicky McClure and Stephen Graham star in this three-part BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel. Set in Victorian London, the drama follows Soho shopkeeper Verloc (Jones) as he becomes increasingly involved in espionage and terrorism. Unknown to his wife Winnie (McClure), Verloc is employed by the Russian embassy to spy on a dangerous anarchist group and is tasked with bombing Greenwich Observatory so it can be blamed on the anarchists. As Chief Inspector Heat (Graham) becomes more aware of his suspicious activities, Verloc uses his vulnerable brother-in-law Stevie (Charlie Hamblett) to help him carry out his mission.
When a young boy's father becomes seriously ill the youngster comes to the conclusion that the only way that he can save him is to become an angel...
The wedding bells in this Donegal village haven't rung for years and with so few eligible women left, the single men have little choice but to give up and leave.
Chantal Akerman's La Captive is a deceptively simple story following the fascination of a wealthy young man for his apparently innocent and lovely girlfriend. Only loosely drawn from Proust's La Prisonniere, the Proustian elements are often largely submerged. Yet as a study in obsession it is balanced somewhere between Death in Venice and Vertigo. A chase through the streets of--an apparently timeless but actually contemporary--Paris, this is a picture of inexplicable obsession, moved along by fragments of whispered dialogue and a glimpse of bizarre daily ritual. With much of the story framed within the odd anti-hero Simon's grandiose apartment (which he appropriately shares with an ailing, rarely glimpsed grandmother), the film cleverly avoids suffocating its viewers by giving odd gasps of breath from the cheeky, light encounters between his girlfriend Ariane and the beautiful Andree--friends, or possibly sometime lovers. As a portrait of a relationship, La Captive will keep its viewers absorbed with its elegant tone and its intriguing and inexplicable story; but it might just as easily frustrate with its unresolved twists and turns.--Tricia Tuttle
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