Charlatan medium Martha Travis (Arquette) and her alcoholic father Walter (Robards) make their living travelling from town to town putting on spiritualist performances during which Martha delivers false messages of hope from the dead to their surviving loved ones. At one such performance Martha gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband Tom. The problem is Tom isn't dead. When Tom is killed exactly as Martha envisioned the case attracts the attention of sceptical journalist Gary Wallace (Hulce) who discovers that Martha's premonition also revealed to her the identity of Tom Kuron's murderer...
The Last Hunter is the ultimate exploitation war movie containing some of the most horrific action scenes ever filmed. Army Captain Henry Morris (David Warbeck) is sent on a covert mission to destroy a Viet Cong radio station. He must venture through the deadly jungles to accomplish his goal. Accompanying him are a small commando detachment and a war journalist (Tisa 'Zombie Flesh Eaters' Farrow). Together they head through the jungle killing and killing. They encounter decompos
Fliss and Chris are a young happily-married couple whose whizz-kid friend Gavin moves in after splitting with his wife.
Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with her lover the 'revolutionary professor' Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his devoted houseboy Ugwu (John Boyega) in the dusty university town of Nsukka; Kainene turns out to be a fiercely successful businesswoman when she takes over the family interests and surprises herself when she falls in love with Richard (Joseph Mawle) an English writer. Preoccupied by their romantic entanglements and a betrayal between the sisters the events of their life loom larger than politics. However they become caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war in which the lgbo people fought an impassioned struggle to establish Biafra as an independent republic ending in chilling violence which shocked the entire country and the world. Based on the award-winning best seller by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun is the feature film debut from London based Nigerian playwright novelist and screenwriter Biyi Bandele. Starring Oscar-nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave) BAFTA-winner Thandie Newton (Crash) BAFTA-nominee Joseph Mawle (Birdsong) Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls) and John Boyega (Attack the Block) Half of a Yellow Sun is an epic love-story weaving together the lives of four people swept up in the turbulence of war produced by Andrea Calderwood of Slate Films (The Last King of Scotland).
Titles Comprise: Stars On Parade: A 1936 Musical film directed by Oswald Mitchell and Challis Sanderson starring John Rorke Debroy Somers Pat O'Brien Arthur Lucan and Mabel Constanduros. A rare chance to see some of the greatest acts from the Music Hall Years. Cavalcade Of Variety: Presented by Peter Brough - Includes music from the bands of Billy Cotton and Mrs Jack Hylton along with the Macaru and his Dutch Serenaders. Songs from Eve Becke & Phyllis Robins. Precision Dance routines from the Sherman Fisher Girls an amusing number by GS Melwin and a spectacular performance by The Australian Motor Air Aces. This film represents a rare opportunity to see performers who though now largely forgotten were top liners of the day.
Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding star in this classic portmanteau film that portrays the fates and fortunes of a group of disparate characters on their way to the Derby at Epsom Downs. Co-starring Googie Withers and John McCallum and directed by Herbert Wilcox, Neagle's husband and long-time collaborator Derby Day is presented as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio. Each year, thousands of people make their way to Epsom for the greatest fixture on the racing calendar. These little clusters of people, each unknown to the other, are all strangely incongruous. This year, however, some are destined to be intertwined before the day's end in both joy and despair.
Meantime: 'Meantime' centres on East End family the Pollacks - Mavis Frank and their sons Mark and Colin - and their experience of unemployment poverty and life in early 1980s Britain. When Colin comes under the influence of skinhead Coxy and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers Colin work family tensions erupt into conflict. Mike Leigh's first independent film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars including Gary Oldman Alfred Molina Tim Roth and Phil Daniels. First shown on television it is a memorable and closely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain. Made In Britain: Trevor is a teenage skinhead. Caught smashing the windows of a Pakistani owned shop he is sent to an assessment centre by social worker Harry where it is discovered he is highly articulate and intelligent. But he escapes steals cars and goes berserk; can Harry still save him?
An absolute must for fans of Georges Simenon's beloved sleuth, Inspector Jules Maigret, this four-volume Maigret Collection is the finest detective series from Granada Television since the late Jeremy Brett gave us his definitive portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 1980s. The masterful Michael Gambon is the latest in a long tradition of familiar leading men (from Jean Gabin to Richard Harris) who have played Simenon's blunt but humane, occasionally whimsical, and magnificently insightful investigator. Yet Gambon is perhaps uniquely suited to the part: a popular star with none of the baggage of a brand-name icon or the self-effacing obligations of a character actor. He captures perfectly Maigret's measured but hardly inscrutable presence in the eruptive underworld of Paris crime. Among the 12 episodes here is "Maigret and the Burglar's Wife", which does honour to Simenon's compassionate tale of a retiring thief whose accidental encounter with a corpse sets in motion one of Maigret's most intense psychological duels. The equally compelling "Maigret's Boyhood Friend" finds the detective on a case drawing suspicion to an old school chum, while "Maigret Sets a Trap" is a wonderful production of Simenon's puzzler about a serial killer whose patterns of motivation and action must be deciphered before he can be caught. --Tom Keogh
Set in modern-day Cardiff Torchwood stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack from Doctor Who. Torchwood follows the adventures of a team of investigators the team use scavenged alien technology in a very real world to solve crime; both alien and human. Separate from the government. Outside the police. Beyond the United Nations. Everyone who works for Torchwood is young under 35. Some say that's because it's a new science. Others say it's because they die young... Season 1 episodes: Everything Changes Day One Ghost Machine Cyberwoman Small Worlds Countrycide Greeks Bearing Gifts They Keep Killing Susie Random Shoes Out Of Time Combat Captain Jack Harkness End Of Days Season 2 episodes: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Sleeper To the Last Man Meat Adam Reset Dead Man Walking A Day in the Death Something Borrowed From Out of the Rain Adrift Fragments Exit Wounds Season 3 episodes: Children of Earth - Day One Children of Earth - Day Two Children of Earth - Day Three Children of Earth - Day Four Children of Earth - Day Five
Just when you thought they couldn't get any cooler...your favourite prehistoric pals from Ice Age and Ice Age 2: The Meltdown are back in an all-new, ginormous animated adventure for ALL ages...in 3D!This time around, Manny and the herd discover a lost world of ferociously funny dinosaurs, including a cranky T-Rex who's got a score to settle with Sid. Meanwhile, Scrat goes nuts over the beautiful Scratte, but is she trying to win his heart-or steal his acorn?Featuring an all-star voice cast, including Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah, Ice Age 3 Dawn Of The Dinosaurs delivers more thrills, more chills, and more mammoth-sized laughs for everyone! This fantastic 3D release is playable as a standard 2D Blu-ray and also includes the DVD and a digital copy for your portable media device!
A serial-killer begins a one man vendetta against the Catholic Church brutally slaying several priests and nuns. The police are baffled and the community frustrated. But someone may know who the murderer is... A man came to Father Koesler's confessional booth and said some things that made him suspect the stranger could be guilty of committing the heinous crimes. As a Catholic clergyman Koesler is forbidden to reveal anything said during the holy sacrament of Confession. But his co
Eric Carson is searching for his brother an athlete who came to the secret hospital of the legendary Dr Moreau to help him with a rare blood disease. The boy was subjected to Moreau's radical transplant techniques an operation that turned him into half man/ half panther. Eric finds his brother more animal than man when he is captured and subjected to a similar operation. Before his animal side can take over completely Eric rallies the other manimal experiments to revolt against Mo
Available for the first time on DVD! Deliberate sacrifice for deliberate gain. In Kevin Spacey's directorial debut three desperadoes are trapped by the police in a hole-in-the-wall bar after a robbery gone wrong. The situation escalates to boiling point with unexpected twists and violent consequences.
Gone In 60 Seconds: Remake of the 1974 classic car-chase movie. Nicolas Cage is Randall 'Memphis' Raines a legendary car thief. When he retired car crimes fell by almost 50% but he is being forced out to retirement to save his brother Kip from an evil mobster Raymond Calitri. Kip has to find 50 cars by Friday or he will be killed. Randall gets his old team back (including Robert Duvall and Vinnie Jones) to save his brother's life. With the police on his case and Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip time is soon running out... The Rock (2-Disc Set): Academy Award winners Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage star in the action-adventure blockbuster. Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris) seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away a chemical weapons expert (Cage) and a cunning federal prisoner (Connery) - who happens to be the only man to have broken out of Alcatraz - must now break in and disarm the missiles! Face Off: Oscar-winning superstar Nicolas Cage and screen icon John Travolta battle head to head in 'Face/Off' the ultimate cat and mouse thriller directed by the world's most acclaimed action film director John Woo! To avenge the senseless murder of his son FBI agent Sean Archer (Travolta) undergoes radical new surgery allowing him to switch faces with the comatose terrorist Castor Troy (Cage) and assume his identity. But when Castor awakes and assumes Sean's identity the real Sean is thrust into an unimaginable nightmare fighting not only for his life but also those of his wife (Joan Allen) and daughter!
Featured tracks include: 'Behind The Sun' 'Show Me Your Soul' 'Stone Cold Bush' 'Special Secret Song' and 'Knock Me Down.'
Eric the would-be assassin is such a nice, caring fellow that Hitman has an immediate credibility problem: how could Eric (oriental superstar Jet Li in his follow-up to Lethal Weapon 4) ever believe he could be a cold-blooded murderer? The script tries to get around this by emphasising his poverty, and once he meets conman Norman (Hong Kong comedy star Eric Tsang), the film manages to blend amiable humour with amoral characters and polished action into an entertaining whole. A yakusa crime lord has been murdered by the Angel of Death, a professional hitman who only kills those he believes deserve to die. Getting well out of their depth in the hunt for the assassin, Li and Tsang make an appealing double act, while Gigi Leung is charming as Norman's lawyer daughter. With a moderately involved plot and an emphasis on character, action is limited to five well-staged set-pieces which are stylishly conceived, exciting and don't outstay their welcome. The finale even has a joke at the expense of Die Hard's running across broken glass, while the ending sets up the inevitable sequel. A long way from Li's magnificent Once Upon A Time in China (1991), Hitman is efficient, highly watchable Hong Kong entertainment.On the DVD: The 1.77:1 anamorphically enhanced picture is generally very good, though sometimes slightly grainy. The sound is Dolby Prologic, and far better than many other Hong Kong releases. Even so, the end title notes the film was shown theatrically in Dolby Digital, raising the question as to why the DVD does not also use this system. The film is presented in Cantonese with subtitles, or dubbed in English. Included is a 10-minute interview with Jet Li and a seven-minute interview with Simon Yam (who plays a detective), neither of which are specifically about Hitman. However, a 13-minute interview presented anamorphically enhanced with Keiji Sato (who plays the murdered yakusa's grandson) is specific to the film and ranks as the best extra. A text biography of Jet Li covers many pages and provides an excellent introduction to his career. The "music promo" is Hong Kong Legends' own trailer for Hitman, and is complemented by trailers for five other releases. --Gary S Dalkin
As twenty-four hour darkness descends upon the small town of Revelstoke Alaska local barber Dexter Miles knows all too well the signs of an approaching winter. But it's while cutting Sheriff Corgan's hair that he is surprised to overhear that the body of Lucy Walters has been found a woman he murdered days prior and hoped no one would find until the spring. When FBI Agent Crawley arrives in Dexter's sleepy town the barber finds an excitement and resolve he hasn't experienced in
Rachel gave birth to a healthy baby boy after months of turmoil for her and Adam; Pete and Jo tied the knot after convincing everyone - including themselves - that they were meant for each other; and David was left reeling after Karen was forced to confess her affair. We pick up six months later on their return from Sydney. Adam and Rachel embark on family life with their little boy Matt with realisation dawning on Adam that baby definitely makes three. Pete and Jo return from Austra
By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service Captain Strong a senior officer of the elite Queen's Messenger Corps is given the dangerous assignment of delivering a delicate communication to the British Ambassador of a troubled eastern European state.If intercepted the document will compromise secret agreements made by the various heads of state for control of the region's lucrative oil resources.Captain Strong is sworn to protect his cargo with his life. Now his commitment will be put to the test.In this age of high technology and the Internet some messages are still too important and can only be delivered by hand and at great risk by 'The Queens Messenger'.
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