A DVD accompaniment to their greatest hits album, International Supervideos collects together American punk rockers Green Day's entire visual history to date. Now something of the elder statesmen of the movement, the compilation starts with tracks from their breakthrough major label debut Dookie and brings us up to date with the Warning album and its three singles. While their music has always stuck fairly close to the three-minute punk-pop template, the band have explored the video medium well. Managing to avoid the clichéd live performance approach, the majority of the clips instead place the band in various environments, from a mental hospital (the excellent "Basket Case") to the clever sports pastiche of "Nice Guys Finish Last". Ironically, the best track of the lot is the one that owes nothing to their usual influences, the emotive, acoustic "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)". With this willingness to step outside of there own parameters and the later material easily equal to the best of their career, International Supervideos is not only an essential purchase but one that hints at a bright future for the band. On the DVD: While punk rock isn't always about sound quality and clarity, International Supervideos is blessed with hi-fi crispness, providing an equally satisfying aural and visual experience. The almost cartoonish, Day-Glo quality of many of the videos is enhanced by the picture quality. Extras, however, are at a frustrating minimum. There's a web link, chapter selection and a subtitle facility, at last helping to make sense of Billie Joe's less than defined lyrics. --Phil Udell
Short Time is an action comedy centring on Burt Simpson (Coleman) a burnt out cop divorced and depressed. His sole joy is his son Dougie whom he hopes to send to Harvard. But Burt's existence is thrown into turmoil when he is informed he has only a ""short time"" to live just one week before retirement. On discovering that his insurance policy will only pay out - and Dougie will only be able to afford to go to college - if he dies in the line of fire Burt must turn into a wild vigilan
Derek had it made: He was good looking rich envied and respected by everyone. Then dealers and vandals smashed his priviliged circle. He and his friends responded to the need of help by forming a secret brotherhood of vigilantes to rid their community of lowlife.
The Jonas Brothers head to the big screen-in Disney Digital 3-D -in a high-energy Walt Disney Pictures rockumentary feature film event from director Bruce Hendricks ("Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert")
Comedy greats Jimmy Jewel and Hilda Baker star as Eli Pledge and his sister Nellie in the classic award-winning comedy Nearest and Dearest. Eli - an aging lothario - and Nellie - virtuous to the last but in possession of a wonderfully flexible grip on the English language - inherit clapped out condiment company Pledge's Purer Pickles from their father. Much hilarity ensues amongst the malaproprisms bolshie workforce and none-too-subtle double entendres as the siblings try their best to run a profitable company in spite of one another. Episodes Comprise: 1. A Price On Your Head 2. A Young Man's Fancy 3. When You've Got To Go 4. When Love Walks In 5. An Open-And-Shut Case
Baby's Day out The Cotwell family arrange a family portrait only to discover that the photographers are kidnappers! Dunston Checks In An orangutan called Dunston checks into a hotel which he proceeds to turn upside down. The manager's son Kyle is determined to help Dunston escape to a new life...
Get ready for big laughs on the high seas as Adam Sandler plays Shecky Moskowitz a cruise ship waiter who has his eyes on becoming the ship's comedian. Shecky notices that the ship's comedian Dickie Diamond always gets the stunningly gorgeous beauty queens on board by being the funny man. Dickie doesn't want any competition and refuses to give Shecky a chance to perform on the ship as his warm up act. As fate would have it Dickie hat is blown overboard and he gets locked in the bathroom. With the comedian presumed lost at sea and the ship in need of a comedy act Shecky is given his big break at stand up. The big question is will he sink or swim? Shecky's antics rock the boat in this hilarious sea adventure that's jam packed with hysterical comic sketches and sexy fantasy sequences.
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse, none of them able to remember how they got there or even who they are.
Radio astronomer Zane Ziminski becomes intrigued by some strange wavelengths and noises he picks up over his transmitter. But when Zane alerts his boss to his findings he's fired. So Zane conducts an investigation on his own tracing the sound waves to a Mexican village. After more sleuthing (and some odd occurrences) Zane discovers a power plant -- that turns out to be the headquarters of some very deadly extraterrestrials.
Famed World War II pin-up girl Betty Grable stars as Lorry the most popular girl at the USO in a small Midwestern town. En route to a new job in Washington D.C. Lorry a secretary takes a detour to New York where she and a friend crash a ritzy nightclub and Lorry pretends to be a Broadway star. This provides a backdrop for lavish production numbers with Grable in gorgeous gowns showing her glorious gems. Comic actors Martha Raye and Joe E. Brown fill out the cast joined by the swing orchestra of Charlie Spivak and the Stardusters singing group.
Polar opposite teenagers Paul and George meet and fall in love on a campsite in Wales during the summer of '88 in this quintessentially British drama from first-time director Lloyd Eyre-Morgan. The young lovers make a pact to return the following summer and run away together but when only Paul shows up he vows to find his young lover and sets off with his best friend in tow and his overbearing mother not far behind. If they think running away is going to be easy they d better dream on.
The best bits from the career of the Welsh boxing sensation Joe Calzaghe.
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
Great music. Hilarious comedy. Everything a rock 'n' roll movie should be. - The Hollywood Reporter Bands make it rock, but roadies make it roll! Meatloaf (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) stars in this rollicking road film, that features live performances by Alice Cooper, Blondie, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Jr, Asleep At The Wheel and Kaki Williams. Roadie is the ultimate ride on one of the greatest rock 'n' roll trips of all time! Now available in high definition on Blu-ray! Travis Redfish (Meatloaf), falls hard for Lola, a glitter-spangled groupie determined to lose her virginity to Alice Cooper. Hoping to win her affections Travis signs on with a touring rock band and soon finds himself the greatest roadie of all time !
This historical thriller stars Kevin Costner and features a powerful supporting cast including Donald Sutherland Jack Lemmon and Ed Asner. Upon examining the Warren Commission report on President Kennedy's assassination New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Costner) suspects that there is more to the story than the public is being told.
Joe Calzaghe: Undefeated
'You're Next' - a chilling warning scrawled in blood on a neighbour's wall, starts an evening of bloody mayhem for the Davison family.
Comedy greats Jimmy Jewel and Hilda Baker star as Eli Pledge and his sister Nellie in the classic award-winning comedy Nearest and Dearest. Eli - an aging lothario - and Nellie - virtuous to the last but in possession of a wonderfully flexible grip on the English language - inherit clapped out condiment company Pledge's Purer Pickles from their father. Much hilarity ensues amongst the malaproprisms bolshie workforce and none-too-subtle double entendres as the siblin
Collection of dramas centered around complex murder cases. 'The Third Voice', directed by Birger Larsen, follows the killing of a Scottish doctor. After his body is found on the river bank with a stab wound to the heart, the prime suspect in Rafe Carey (Frank Gilhooley)'s murder is his brother-in-law Leo Durridge (Peter McDonald), whom he was with at the time of his death. Leo, however, claims he is innocent and that he witnessed Rafe drowning in the water. In 'The Lost Weekend', directed by Paul Wright, wealthy philanthropist Arla Beckman is reported missing. When it is discovered that Arla was having an affair with English aristocrat Dominic Cotterall (Sebastian Armesto), the man-about-town's reputation proceeds him and he becomes the lead suspect in her disappearance. 'The Big Bang', directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, looks at the cold-blooded murder of an off-duty policeman.
Sometimes the hero of the story just ends up being you! In this thrill a minute Western Pecos Bill (Swayze) helps a young lad save his family's farm. They then embark on a journey where plenty of danger and surprises are waiting for them!
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