Giuseppe VerdiMacbethFrom the Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1972Opera in Four Acts
Motivated by his childhood experiences Emmy Award-winner/actor/comedian Chris Rock narrates this very hilarious and touching story of a teenager growing up as the oldest of three children in Brooklyn NY in 1982. 1982 is the year that Chris (Tyler James Williams) turns 13. Filled with dreams of being a cool teenager Chris moves with his family from the projects to the Bed-Stuy: Do or Die neighborhood. As the family's emergency adult while his parents are working he's responsible for taking care of his younger brother Drew (Tequan Richmond) who's taller and more confident than Chris and sister Tonya (Imani Hakim) who gets all the parents' attention. Chris' rough cost-conscious father Julius (Terry Crews) works numerous jobs to properly support his family. Sassy mom Rochelle (Tichina Arnold) runs the household on a tight budget is very strict and works part-time in a small real estate office. With his mom determined to see him in a good school though Drew and Tonya go to the same school in their old neighborhood Chris reluctantly faces multiple bus transfers every day to attend Corleone Junior High in the fiercely Italian neighborhood South Shore. Despite being an immediate target for bullies Chris' innate charm and sharp wit enable him to make new friends like Greg (Vincent Martella) another smart nice kid... who can't fight by the way
The Nazis Created it! The Allies Must Destroy it! In the face of an impending colossal defeat the Germans are desperate during the final days of World War II. In a bid to turn the tide of the battle Nazi scientist Professor Ullman manages to create the ultimate soldier - one who cannot be killed by bullets or grenades. A group of American soldiers handpicked to infiltrate and destroy the Citadel where this monstrous super-soldier is created find themselves facing the wrath of the extremely powerful and uncontrollable Doomtrooper.
The Night That James Brown Saved Boston (2 Discs)
Blending state of the art animation with live action Hop is a comedy about E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) the teenage son of the Easter Bunny. On the eve of taking over the family business E.B. leaves for Hollywood in pursuit of his dream of becoming a drummer. He encounters Fred (James Marsden) an out-of-work slacker with his own lofty goals who accidentally hits E.B. with his car. Feigning injury E.B. manipulates Fred into providing him shelter and Fred finds himself with the world's worst houseguest.
Highlights form the British Touring Car Championship 2004. Includes all the top class drivers and action of the 2004 BTCC. This three hour action packed review has it all. Featuring exciting highlights first class onboard footage and all the news views and information you need to follow the season round by round....
Josh Millen a very bright but somewhat directionless teen turns 18. He's surprised when his brother Walter Schmeiss shows up on the doorstep wishing him a happy birthday. He lies that he's married with two children but explains to Josh that he's in the storage and transfer business.
Few 1950s creature features deliver in the way Fiend Without a Face does. The first hour is all build-up as tension grows between an Air Force research base and a small Canadian town (this is one of those British B films that pretends to be set overseas) as a series of mystery deaths are blamed by the superstitious on weird military experiments. It's not a spoiler to give away the big revelation, since every item of publicity material, including the DVD cover, blows the surprise: the initially invisible culprits turn out to be a killer swarm of disembodied brains with eyes on stalks and inchworm-like spinal cord tails. These creatures have a nasty habit of latching onto victims and sucking out their grey matter. The finale is a siege of a house by the fiends, which swarm en masse making unsettling brain-sucking sounds, and are bloodily done away with by the heroes. Using excellent stop-motion animation, this climax goes beyond silliness and manages to be genuinely nightmarish. The orgy of splattering brains stands proud among the cinema's first attempts at genuine horror-comic glee, setting a precedent for everything from The Evil Dead to Peter Jackson's Braindead. Marshall Thompson is a bland, stolid uniformed hero and most of the rest of the cast struggle with "anadian" accents, but Kynaston Reeves is fun as the decrepit lone researcher whose fault it all is. On the DVD: Fiend Without a Face on disc comes with a montage of scenes from other films in this batch of releases (The Day of the Triffids, The Stars Look Down) that plays automatically when the disc is inserted, but otherwise not even a trailer, much less the commentary track and other material found on the pricey but luxurious US Region 1 Criterion release. The print has nice contrasts but is pretty grainy. --Kim Newman
This light-hearted romp through Royal India presents a world of maharajas palaces imperiled art objects and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who came to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away from the royal couple. Nicknamed Georgie and Bonnie as children by their Scottish governess they must also divine the true motives of the Indian curator of the collection (Saeed Jaffrey) who is in league with the Maharaja's beautiful sister (Aparna Sen) and may be working against them. Amidst the backdrop of lavish tourist entertainments Christmas parties fireworks and even an English ghost a desperate game of palace intrigue will determine the ultimate resting place of the priceless paintings.
A dream-like story of loss and redemption set in the lost Montana town of Northfork, flooded to make way for a hydroelectric damn in 1955.
With a marriage built on shifting sand a husband and wife find themselves imprisoned by a sadistic killer - forced to make choices that will ultimately determine their family's survival or demise.
Taggart Doubles - Vol. 4: Cold Blood/Dead Giveaway
John Kang a martial arts expert and a cop coaches young offenders in the ancient discipline. When gang warfare threatens the entire neighbourhood Kang realises he has hidden powers beyond his imagination...
British Secret Service agent John Rennie becomes a liability to the Agency after a harrowing mission in Argentina. His ex-wife and children receive death threats and marked for murder he returns to Argentina with a plan that will either protect his family and the woman he loves or destroy them.
The Master Game broke new ground in the 1970s and 1980s when it established itself as the only international chess tournament played for television. Following its launch by BBC Television in 1975 it became a firm favourite amongst chess fans and grandmasters alike. The list of competitors featured is a who's who of famous Grandmasters from the 1970s including Anatoly Karpov Viktor Korchnoi Tony Miles Bent Larsen Nigel Short John Nunn Walter Browne and many more. Whereas computers have taken over the analysis of games in the modern age the unique aspect that made of The Master Game so popular was the players voicing their inner thoughts and letting viewers understand their thinking on the game. Series 7 is a 2DVD set that includes all 13 episodes of this hard fought series which included Andras Adorjan Nigel Short Walter Browne Eric Lobron Raymond Keene Larry Christiansen Miguel Quinteros and Hans-Joachim Hecht. Also included on this special edition is a bonus BBC documentary - The Lowdown: The Master of the Game - which follows the rise to international success of a young Matthew Sadler.
Based on the novel by Forrest Carter 'The Education Of Little Tree' is a simple and touching tale set in the deep-south during the Depression. It tells the story of a young boy Little Tree who is sent to live in the Tennessee Mountains with his grandparents. On his arrival Little Tree discovers he is half Cherokee and begins to learn the wisdom and way of life of the Cherokee but the government places him in an Indian school where he is abused physically and psychologically...
Star Trek 1 - The Motion Picture: Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner)is called upon to collect his old crewmates in order to save humanity from a giant hostile alien vessel steadily approaching Earth and destroying everything in its path. Star Trek 2 - The Wrath Of Khan: It is the 23rd century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training manoeuvres and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this inspection may well be the las
Bad Girls is about a closed world governed by petty rules and harsh punishments. Where women prisoners and officers are thrown together in intense physical and emotional relationships. Left outside their homes their partners and their children. And inside they must negiotiate their position in the prisoners' hierarchy and.... make new sexual choices... Features all episodes from series 5 - 8.
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