Captain Chris Hanson has recruited an over-the-hill deep-sea diver a claustrophobic inventor and a troop of beautiful Polynesian pearl divers to plunder the sunken wreck of the Arianna. But their mission seems doomed even before they leave the dock! The local government orders Hanson to transport 30 criminals to a prison on a nearby island. As they sail towards the treasure they encounter strange lights on the horizon bizarre sounds from the darkness intense heat and thousands of dead fish littering the ocean surface. Are they bad omens or merely freaks of nature?
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison's return to London's Southampton Row is complicated by personal upheaval and an investigation into the disappearance of a child...
Mutant X is back with 22 exciting episodes in Season 2. Mutant X chronicles the adventures of a team of four human mutants possessing extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. Like hundreds of other unsuspecting subjects, these mutants were altered in secret experiments conducted in a covert government project. Realising that events have spun out of control, the organisation that created them is now hunting them down in an urgent 'product recall'. Mutant X's mission is to se...
Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of Good Fellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it isn't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of 70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the 90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson
An epic drama spanning forty years in the lives of Thomas and Kate Linthorne through their trials and tribulations while raising their children during the period after the Civil War. As they rise from poverty to wealth this story captures the power of love and the meaning of sacrifice. When Thomas Linthorne sets out to start a new life he acquires a large piece of land and goes on a search for the woman of his dreams. He rescues Kate from an abusive relationship and they develop a strong love for one another. Kate is unaware of the threat that is standing before her when a beautiful married woman moves in next door. Thomas' choices threaten to destroy his family his marriage and his life. Adapted from George Dell's critically acclaimed novel 'The Earth Abides'.
CompensationWhen local farmers in the village of Fenmore are killed in a series of arson attacks a land development company falls under suspicion. But the investigation leads DCI Burke's team to uncover something even more sinister.Saints and SinnersCompany lawyer Richard Flett is found murdered and the trail leads to the door of the Elysium Building Company. But when Flett's business partner is also murdered the team redoubles its effort to crack the case before the killer strikes again.Puppet on a StringDr Finn is accused of attacking his colleague Dr Mellor with a drug-filled syringe. Finn however has a cast iron alibi. Mellor is later found dead and the team's skills are pushed to the limit when a macabre discovery sends the investigation in a different direction.The city of Glasgow backdrop with its characteristic dry wit combined with the menacing nature of the cases make Taggart unique in style and it is now the longest running detective drama on UK television.
This limited edition DVD documents a 5 song performance by John Foxx at RTVE's Madrid TV studio in late 1983 during The Golden Section Tour. Once a good quality tape of the show was located, these tracks were originally intended to be for the recent Metadelic album. However, in the end that proved to be impossible and John was able to license it directly through Metamatic Records. Clocking in at around 26 minutes, the performance features five brilliant versions of the songs from The Garden a...
The Superstars of Raw and SmackDown look to delight the WWE Universe and steal the show by putting on the best pay-per-view match of the night. Fans can now relive a dozen matches of 2011 in WWE Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2011, featuring WWE Superstars CM Punk, John Cena, Randy Orton, Rey Mysterio, Triple H, Undertaker and More!Watch John Cena battle CM Punk at Money in the Bank, witness the No Holds Barred Match from WrestleMania XXVII between the Undertaker and Triple H. Plus a Ladder Match from Extreme Rules between Christian and Alberto Del Rio for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship, plus many more.
The Superstars of Raw and SmackDown look to delight the WWE Universe and steal the show by putting on the best pay-per-view match of the night. Fans can now relive a dozen matches of 2011 in WWE Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2011, featuring WWE Superstars CM Punk, John Cena, Randy Orton, Rey Mysterio, Triple H, Undertaker and More!Watch John Cena battle CM Punk at Money in the Bank, witness the No Holds Barred Match from WrestleMania XXVII between the Undertaker and Triple H. Plus a Ladder Match from Extreme Rules between Christian and Alberto Del Rio for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship, plus many more.
Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality fantasy humor beauty and horror cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40 000 when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards in an uninhibited manner the handsome men who assist her in the adventure. Whether
A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The episodes in this second collection from the second series are: "Stan's Trial", "Love Grows", "White Trash", "791" and "Wake the Dead". In "Stan's Trial", he's still desperate for some "bingo bongo yum yum time", which blinds him to a sting operation laid at the Celes Pleasure Liner. His alleged traitorous past finally catches up, and the events of "Giga Shadow" are made clear. A new, shorter title sequence opens the gender questioning "Love Grows". The Lexx accidentally eats a rubbish dumper and the toxic cargo has an adverse effect on everyone--to say the least. Their sex organs are swapped! A cliffhanger surprise leads directly into "White Trash", where we find the yokel clan family have been stowed away since before the destruction of The Cluster. On a crashed ship a cyborg pilot has been decapitated, which gives 790 an idea. While Kai and Xev find a hold full of prisoners with their hearts removed, 791 is born--with more than just a little personality re-programming. This homage to Alien ends with Xev's immortal line: "You may still only be a head 790. But you're the best head I ever had." Then we're back into spoof territory as "Wake the Dead" enjoys turning The Lexx into the stomping ground for a crazed teen killer. Still asleep from a joyride begun 287 years before, the group of "deserving" kids are dispatched with glee in a great performance by Michael McManus. There's even a shower murder with a musical nod to Psycho from composer Marty Simon. And we finally see a Lexx toilet--and its tongue! On the DVD: the most exciting extra for fans is a commentary from Brian Downey (Stan) and writer Lex Giggeroff on the episode "Wake the Dead". They have great fun discussing Xenia Seeberg's wigs and confirm that this was indeed pitched as a "teen slasher flick". Also featured is a gallery of nine stills, some hilarious text "Faxx" about all five episodes, biographies of Stan and Lyekka, and a "Story So Far" re-cap. The 10-minute "Making of Lexx the Series Part 2" documentary is the same as the VHS release. --Paul Tonks
On June 6 1944 the Allied Invasion of France marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3 000 000 men 11 000 planes and 4 000 ships comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen. Presented in its original black & white version The Longest Day is a vivid hour-by-hour re-creation of this historic event. Featuring a stellar international cast and told from the perspectives of both sides it is a fascinating look at the massive preparations mistakes and random events that determined the outcome of one of the biggest battles in history. Winner of two Oscars (Special Effects and Cinematography) the Longest Day ranks as one of Hollywood's truly great war films.
Likable Bob (Tom Green) just can't hold down a job and finds employment alphabetically by using the phonebook. Once in the ""B's "" he stumbles upon ""Butler School"" and is soon hired by Anne (Brooke Shields) single mother of 2 and business owner who desperately needs help...
A summer vacation turns into a nightmare as rising executive Tom Williams (John Ritter) takes his beautiful wife Gina (Rachel Hunter) and his children on a long-awaited break. Tom and his family are thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse when they are kidnapped by a vicious gang led by the psychotic Mr Eddie (Eric Roberts) the last in a line of white trash criminals lured to the west coast by the promise of easy pickings. Tom is given an ultimatum find $1.2 million or his family will die! But all is not what it seems as it becomes clear to Tom that the sadistic Eddie has no intention of turning his family free. Unable to ask for help Tom must summon up every ounce of moral and physical courage to save his family from almost certain death!
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