This set combines renowned TV chef James Martin's two French cookery series Brittany and Champagne into one special gift set. In the first series James is our guide for a trip to Brittany an area he first visited as a student to explore the delights of its regional recipes and produce the historic towns and villages and the magnificent scenery. He is joined by various culinary guests on the journey including The Hairy Bikers (Dave Myers and Simon King) Lawrence Keogh and Daniel Galmiche. Each episode combines mouthwatering recipes prepared at that day's campsite or by the beach with visits to places of interest including stunning markets for seafood and fresh Breton produce a winery and a brewery a goat's cheese factory a local bakery a strawberry farm and beautiful coastal oyster beds. In the second series James Martin returns to France for a trip to Champagne an area he visited frequently as a child. Famous for its sparkling wine Champagne is also a region with a rich heritage in food and history and some delightful scenery which James explores in the company of fellow chefs Lawrence Keogh and Daniel Galmiche. The episodes combine delicious recipes ably demonstrated by James and his guests with visits to various markets for local produce a monastery distillery a fromagerie and a celebrated champagne house as well as the chance to go truffle hunting. It's a truly sparkling culinary experience! Episodes Comprise: Disc One - Brittany 1. Concarneau 2. Concarneau 3. Pont-Aven 4. Vannes 5. Vannes 6. Pornic Disc Two - Brittany 1. St Servan 2. St Servan 3. Lamballe 4. Dinan Disc Three - Champagne 1. Reims 2. Troyes 3. Aix-en-Othe 4. Reims 5. Aix-en-Othe
'Doctor At Large' was the third entry in the long running 'Doctor' series of films. Directed by Ralph Thomas (brother of Gerald the director of the 'Carry On 'movies) it follows the further madcap exploits of Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) in particular his attempts at general practice.
Celebrating her high school graduation young student Lynne Peterson is killed by drunk driver Tom Fiske a successful businessman. Her father vowing to see his daughter's killer punished must face a slow-moving legal system and a high-priced defense lawyer...
Revenge knows no mercy. Seeing the world as an orchestra Kimberly manipulates those around her like the master conductor she believes herself to be. Convincing her two best friends to join her in a devastating campaign of character assassination against their befuddled teacher Mr Anderson Kimberly entangles the entire Bevery Hills community in her carefully woven web of seduction and deceit.
The official review of the 2003 Rugby World Cup for the Scottish rugby team.
The Specialist: Sharon Stone is May Munro a beauty with a fatal past: she's sworn death to the mobsters who murdered her parents. To do the job she recruits ex-CIA explosive experts Ray Quick (Stallone). Miami grows white-hot as May lures the killers and Ray detonates them into ashes. But a vicious mob boss (Roy Stieger) his brash son (Eric Roberts) and a psychotic hired gun (James Woods) with a lethal grudge against Quick won't go without a fight. The passion the two aven
This near two-hour Granada Television production of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Conan Doyle's most popular Sherlock Holmes tale, stars series regular Jeremy Brett as the Baker Street detective and Edward Hardwicke as his close ally, Dr John Watson. A thrilling blend of detective yarn and Gothic horror, the tale concerns the apparent return of an old curse upon the Baskerville family in the terrifying form of a gigantic killer hound. Fans of Hardwicke get an opportunity to see his Watson on a solo mission for part of this story, though Brett--easily the best of all screen actors to play the sleuth--is never far from the narrative. The supporting cast is very good, and the beast itself, revealed in a famously terrifying finale, is indeed a spooky revelation. --Tom Keogh
Gimme Gimme Gimme is quite simply the chaotic adventures of one over the top tart (Kathy Burke) and one perennially lonely gay guy (James Dreyfus) who happen to share both a flat in London and a yearning lust for whatever luckless man happens to cross their paths! This release includes all the episodes from the three series. Series 1: 1. Who's That Boy? 2. The Big Break 3. LEgs And Co. 4. Do They Take Sugar 5. Saturday Night Diva 6. I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do 7. Millennium Series 2: 1. Teacher's Pet 2. Stiff 3. Prison Visitor 4. Dirty 30 5. Glad To Be Gay 6. Sofa Man Series 3: 1. Down And Out 2. Lollipop Man 3. Secrets And Flies 4. Trauma 5. Singing In The Drain 6. Decoy
The end of the epic saga is drawing nearer and the search for the fabled earth is nearing its conclusion. But is Galactica now virtually falling apart ready for what could be her final mission? And has humanity's final chapter also arrived? This 3 disc Blu-Ray box set of the final season of Battlestar Galactica may herald the end of our story but will it be the same for the human race itself?
Although the superhero comic book has been a duopoly since the early 1960s, only DC's flagship characters, Superman and Batman (who originated in the late 1930s) have established themselves as big-screen franchises. Until now--this is the first runaway hit film version of the alternative superhero X-Men universe created for Marvel Comics by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and others. It's a rare comic-book movie that doesn't fall over its cape introducing all the characters, and this is the exception. X-Men drops us into a world that is closer to our own than Batman's Gotham City, but it's still home to super-powered goodies and baddies. Opening in high seriousness with paranormal activity in a WW2 concentration camp and a senatorial inquiry into the growing "mutant problem", Bryan Singer's film sets up a complex background with economy and establishes vivid, strange characters well before we get to the fun. There's Halle Berry flying and summoning snowstorms, James Marsden zapping people with his "optic beams", Rebecca Romijn-Stamos shape-shifting her blue naked form, and Ray Park lashing out with his Toad-tongue. The big conflict is between Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Ian McKellen's Magneto, super-powerful mutants who disagree about their relationship with ordinary humans, but the characters we're meant to identify with are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine (who has retractable claws and amnesia), and Anna Paquin's Rogue (who sucks the life and superpowers out of anyone she touches). The plot has to do with a big gizmo that will wreak havoc at a gathering of world leaders, but the film is more interested in setting up a tangle of bizarre relationships between even more bizarre people, with solid pros such as Stewart and McKellen relishing their sly dialogue and the newcomers strutting their stuff in cool leather outfits. There are in-jokes enough to keep comics' fans engaged, but it feels more like a science fiction movie than a superhero picture. --Kim Newman
The eighth series of The X-Files was a year of brave decisions. David Duchovny's increasing dissatisfaction with the role meant he only appeared in a few episodes. The solution: enter Agent John Doggett (Robert Patrick) who basically stole the show within his first two minutes of screen time (and watch out for several Terminator 2 in-jokes too). Scully switched roles to being the believer alongside Doggett's sceptic in a year that was more reliant on the background story arc than ever before. Her pregnancy remained at the foreground, while a more prominent Skinner joined in a hunt for the abducted Mulder that drew upon the black oil, cloning and bounty hunting aspects of the convoluted alien conspiracy story. A distinct lack of guest stars or writers indicated maturity beyond the need for ratings stunts: dedicated fans were pleased to see cameos from sinister Krycek, the reliable Lone Gunmen and the return of the show's very first abductee. The real strengths of the series came from new characters, including alternative female role model Special Agent Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish), and some terrific standalone episodes. Investigations covered a man going backwards in time, deaths aboard an oil rig, a contagion in the Boston subway tunnels and creatures resembling bats and slugs. Agent Leyla Harrison (named after an X-Files fan who died of cancer) got to ask all the petty questions regular viewers want to know themselves. This year turned out to be a remarkable achievement so late in the show's life. On the DVD: The X-Files, Series 8 is a six-disc box set with all the episodes presented in anamorphic 16:9 format with Dolby 2.0 sound. The extras are mainly confined to the final disc, though there are selected deleted scenes and "international" clips from the dubbed German, Japanese and Italian versions of the show on the other discs. Two audio commentaries for the episodes "Alone" (from director Frank Spotnitz) and "Existence" (from director Kim Manners) are supplemented by a routine 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary, more deleted scenes (with optional commentary), character profiles and special effects clips. --Paul Tonks
The Water Babies is a classically enchanting tale of a young chimney sweep apprentice forced to work long hours and in terrible conditions at the hands of his heavy drinking and dishonest master (Triple Oscar nominee James Mason). One day the young boy Tom is unfairly accused of stealing silverware from the home of a client. Frightened and confused he makes a run for it and leaps into Dead Man's Pool where he is magically transported to a fantasy world filled with animated creatures. Here he makes friends with The Water Babies and becomes immersed in an amazing world of adventure and song. Before he can return to the surface however he must help the Babies escape a tyrannical eel and a devious shark who are holding them prisoner.
This second series finds Cockney model Lorraine with fading prospects of Tory MP Charles ever proposing marriage - particularly with his aristocratic fiance Sybilla (Patricia Hodge) still very much on the scene. So, displaying a greater spirit of independence, she decides to move far enough out of town to avoid being always at Charles' beck and call; a little reminder that she's still a free agent.
The most fertile man in Ireland is in serious demand. Whilst the rest of the male population of Belfast are firing nothing but blanks Eamonn is blessed with 'tadpoles on speed that could impregnate a stone'. Realising that there is cash to be made out of his fellow man's infertility this 24 year old virgin transforms himself overnight into Belfast's very own one man sperm bank. Business is booming until Eamonn is sucked into the 'troubles' and finds his crown jewels dangling in the fires of political distrust and religious intolerance!
A troubled young man retreats from the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a small town. He is drawn into a relationship with a young woman whose boyfriend ends up dead leaving the new arrival as a suspect.
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1: Pilot Sonny Crockett an undercover cop for the Miami Vice Department and Ricardo Tubbs a New York street cop unwillingly team up to apprehend a Columbian cocaine smuggler in this pilot episode. 2: The Golden Triangle Crockett and Tubbs' assignment as hotel security turns out to be more than just routine when a drugs-related hit leads to a side of Lt. Castillo they've never seen before. 3: The Golden Triangle Part 2 Lt. Castillo must find a way to catch General Lao Li with enough evidence to send him to prison but without endangering My Ying's life who was brought to Miami by Lao Li as a hostage to protect himself from Castillo.
A boxing promoter who shares a church hall with a prudish reverend is the knockout formula for this sparkling Brian Rix farce.
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