In a terrifying tale of the American Dream gone wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown in a reinvention of the George A. Romero classic, "The Crazies".
After barely surviving a hostile invasion from an unknown alien species mankind’s military powers joined forces to form the United Defence Force in a bid for survival. A decade later and the UDF has managed to force the enemy back to a final pocket of resistance in Pakistan patrolled by the soldiers based at Outpost 37. The world has long presumed that the war is over but little do they know that the aliens are planning a second attack one the human race will not survive and the handful of men left at Outpost 37 are all that stands between them and total annihilation.
David Jason is the gritty and dogged Detective Inspector Jack Frost a man who has little time for paperwork or the orthodox approach. Featuring the complete series 6 of A Touch Of Frost. Episodes include: Appendix Man One Man's Meat Private Lives Keys To The Car.
Director Barry Levinson treats The Natural as a kind of shrine to America's national pastime, baseball, complete with all the possible mythic resonance that can be gleaned from the subject. Fans of the Bernard Malamud novel may be dismayed, but anyone who fell for the similarly mythic Field of Dreams will be hooked. Levinson displays an unabashed devotion to the game, although the film could use more of the realities of chewing tobacco and pine tar. The story opens as a young man (Robert Redford, in soft lighting) emerges from the sun-dappled heartland as maybe the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. On his way to the majors, he is waylaid by an enigmatic black widow (Barbara Hershey) and vanishes for many years. When he re-emerges, a silent mystery, he lands a spot with a New York team and begins tearing up the league--he's still the natural. Redford is fine, and Kim Basinger and Oscar-nominated Glenn Close are effective as the women in his life. The crowning touch is the soaring, extraordinary music by Randy Newman, the singer-songwriter turned orchestral composer. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com
Lavish clubhouse manicured greens 18 holes of golfing paradise...not! Tattered and almost without any customers Penneytree has become the target of a takeover by its competitor Bentwood Country Club. Inspired by a freak accident Liberty Penneytree hatches a plan to bring in more golfers. Gorgeous ladies led by 'Barbara The Bod' and the fun filled 'cart wash' are the attractions as busloads of new customers flock to the new Penneytree Golf Club. Bentwood issues the ultimate challenge a winner-take-all-match between Penneytree and Bentwood your pro against my pro. The winner gets the loser's property. Who's gonna win and who's gonna get the shaft?
An infamous horror moviemaker plans his comeback - but how far will he go to make film realistic?
An irresistible melange of showbiz and politics, The Rat Pack is a sprawling HBO TV movie about the late-50s axis between Frank Sinatra's cool-talking cronies and the White House-bound Kennedy clan. Ray Liotta, William L Petersen and Joe Mantegna manage to give real performances as opposed to impersonations as Frankie, JFK and Dean Martin, and there's a stand-out turn from Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis Jr, who fantasises a blazing, gunslinging rendition of "I've Got You Under My Skin" as delivered to the cross-burning Nazi pickets outside his hotel campaigning against his marriage to a white Swedish starlet. Naturally the story goes over a lot of familiar ground (Marilyn Monroe, and so on,) but the Hollywood-Vegas angle, with the obvious criminal tie-ins, lends it a freshness. Angus McFadyen remains typecast as real-life actors, following up his Orson Welles (Cradle Will Rock) and Richard Burton (Liz, the Elizabeth Taylor biopic) by doing a squirming, but funny take on Peter Lawford, caught between the White House and Sinatra's vast, demanding ego. Its general style is somewhere between a Scorsese gangland epic and made-for-TV muckraking biopic and a lot of material from Shawn Levy's fine book Rat Pack Confidential is worked into the weave. On the DVD: The Rat Pack is a no-frills disc presented in a good-looking 16:9 anamorphic transfer, though as it's a TV movie this means trimming the top and the bottom of the image. --Kim Newman
Love Meets Murder - the once popular rock'n'metal band, now down on their luck and their careers, seek to create their magnum opus. Locked into a Wednesbury studio for the weekend nobody is able to leave - but before the band have just finished tearing into their new hit, a series of mysterious murders begin to plague them all. Now only their own self-belief can save them from the psychotic mind of their assailant.
I Am Soldier follows Mickey (Tom Hughes, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll) taking on the most dangerous military training known to man: SAS selection. The Special Air Service is the UK's most renowned Special Forces regiment, tasked with missions in some of the most dangerous and hostile locations on the planet. Mickey is smashed by the grueling selection process- physically, mentally and emotionally. But, when the Counter Terrorism Squadron take charge of a deadly situation, Mickey, Carter (Noel Clarke, Star Trek Into Darkness) and their fellow recruits advance into conflict to see if they really do have what it takes . Many try to get into the SAS. Only the elite prevail.
The incredible story of the Irish 'Rocky' who fought his way back against all the odds to become one of boxing's greatest heroes ! As a young Heavyweight Joe left Ireland to join Mike Tyson in Cus D'Amato's legendary training camp in the Catskill Mountains and became one of his greatest friends. Iron Mike labelled Joe 'The Toughest white Man on the Planet' because he couldn't put him down - neither could Lennox Lewis. With his heavyweight career tragically ended in a serious road accident Joe's life spiralled into decline - he was shot in a gun battle with gangsters and later charged with attempted murder before finally serving time in prison. Back on the streets again Joe put his life back together and at the age of 38 returned to the ring in triumph ! This is the story of one man's battle against adversity and how he wouldn't give up his fight to be recognised as one of The Toughest Men On The Planet!
On The Ropes follows the story of fictional Martial Arts instructor, Keith Kraft and his rivalry with boxing gym owner Big Joe. When a local documentary maker is invited to cover a news story for regional TV on a proper fighting gym, run by Big Joe, little does he know how events will unfold; particularly as his attention is drawn to a rival gym with a unique fighting style owned by self-proclaimed karate expert Keith Kraft. On the Ropes is best described as Spinal Tap meets Rocky and is based on the writer's own experiences with gym culture.
Evil has a home... On a night when their quiet suburban neighbourhood is plagued by mysterious blackouts. The tight knit Armstrong clan presses on with its plans to celebrate the birthday of the head of their family... Curtis Armstrong. They have no idea of how truely cursed the family reunion will be. As the family tensely awaits his return Curtis is out in the chaos of the blacked out city on a mission to evict squatters from one of his downtown properties. What he finds in
Relive the excitement of the 2003 Rugby World Cup with the IRB Official Review on DVD. From the first match of the tournament through to the epic England versus Australia final this 180 minute production comes packed with all the key tries and tackles scrums and lineouts penalties and mauls and of course the occasional drop goal. This edition includes material specific to the Ireland team.
As his family anxiously awaits his return Curtis is out in the chaos of the blacked-out city on a mission to evict squatters from one of his downtown properties. What he finds in the crumbling building are no ordinary squatters but he is face to face with an Old World horror intent on spreading its evil in the New World...
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