Starring Simon Pegg and set in a Notting Hill commune at the dawn of a new decade Hippies pokes affectionate fun at the everyday lives of the editorial staff of the ambitious but laughably ineffective underground magazine Mouth.
Cube: Six Strangers awaken from their daily lives to find themselves trapped in a surreal prison - a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambers armed with lethal booby traps. None of these people knows why or how they were imprisoned. But it soon emerges that each of them has a skill that could contribute to their escape. Who created this diabolical maze and why? There are unanswered questions on every side whilst personality conflicts and struggles for power em
A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.
Two sisters and their families spend - or rather, endure - Christmas at their late parents' dilapidated country house.
The first sound-film by one of the greatest of all filmmakers Vampyr offers a sensual immediacy that few if any works of cinema can claim to match. Legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer leads the viewer as though guided in a trance through a realm akin to a wakingdream a zone positioned somewhere between reality and the supernatural. Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian West aka the secretive real-life Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces. His growing acquaintance with the family who reside there soon opens up a network of uncanny associations between the dead and the living of ghostly lore and demonology which pull Gray ever deeper into an unsettling and upsetting mystery. At its core: troubled Gisle chaste daughter and sexual incarnation portrayed by the great cursed Sybille Schmitz (Diary of a Lost Girl and inspiration for Fassbinder's Veronika Voss.) Before the candles of Vampyr exhaust themselves Allan Gray and the viewer alike come eye-to-eye with Fate - in the face of dear dying Sybille in the blasphemed bodies of horrific bat-men in the charged and mortal act of asphyxiation - eye-to-eye then with Death the supreme vampire. Deemed by Alfred Hitchcock 'the only film worth watching... twice' Vampyr's influence has become by now incalculable. Long out of circulation in an acceptable transfer The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Dreyer's truly terrifying film in its film restored form for the first time in the UK on DVD.
The Fantastic Four are back and this time they find themselves having to deal with the powerful Silver Surfer and the planet-eating Galactus.
This harrowing but rewarding 1984 drama concerns the real-life relationship between New York Times reporter Sidney Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), the latter left at the mercy of the Khmer Rouge after Schanberg--who chose to stay after American evacuation but was booted out--failed to get him safe passage. Filmmaker Roland Joffé, previously a documentarist, made his feature debut with this account of Dith's rocky survival in the ensuing madness of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal campaign. The script of The Killing Fields spends some time with Schanberg's feelings of guilt after the fact, but most of the movie is a shattering re-creation of hell on Earth. The late Haing S. Ngor--a real-life doctor who had never acted before and who lived through the events depicted by Joffé--is outstanding, and he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Oscars also went to cinematographer Chris Menges and editor Jim Clark. --Tom Keogh
Following his award-winning documentary The War on Democracy John Pilger's new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war. The War You Don't See traces the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of Hiroshima and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan. As weapons and propaganda are ever more sophisticated the very nature of war has developed into an 'electronic battlefield'. But who is the real enemy today?
Starring Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow, "Sylvia" is a story of the love, passion, wit and despair between two of the 20th century's most brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia Plath and the British poet Ted Hughes.
The seventh and final series of this wonderful Highland drama brings with it a host of new problems for the McDonald family to contend with introducing a few new faces as well as revisiting one or two old ones. Following the sudden death of his partner Meg Golly now finds himself as a single parent struggling to cope with the demands of both his son and his job. He soon learns that he is not alone and he and Molly become become closer than they have been for a long time. Meanwhile
A performance of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra which tells the story of the struggle for power in 14th Century Genoa. Claudio Abbado conducts.
The flapping of a butterfly can change everything. Your family, your future. But nothing can alter your desire. An exquisitely playful film exploring the shifting boundaries of friendship and the inevitability of love, Mariposa (Butterfly) is the seventh feature by acclaimed Argentinean director Marco Berger, whose award-winning credits include Plan B and Absent. A butterfly flaps its wings, and Romina's universe is divided into two parallel realities: Flap. Abandoned as a newborn baby, at age sixteen she and her adoptive brother German, despite powerful feelings for each other, know their relationship cannot become a physical one. Flap. Romina and German are drawn to each other as friends, their awkward, adolescent relationship threatening to turn towards something more emotionally fulfilling. Their story alternates between realities, building up an awkward tapestry of endless possibilities...
Set in the 48 hours leading up to the catastrophic battle of the Somme this is the intense story of young men at war as seen through the eyes of 17-year old Billy Macfarlane (Nicholls). As the boys wait for the attack alternately excited and terrified this group of nave soldiers is forced to confront the reality of the enemy as the suspense reaches breaking point. When Billy's platoon is ordered to go with the first wave of attackers the awful truth of what they're about to un
A treasure hunting crew bites off more than they can chew in this underwater white-knuckle thriller. Levi, a British expat diver, has been searching for the wreck of the USS Charlotte for his entire life. Assisted by US college graduate Noah, the pair may have finally made a breakthrough in the wreck's location. Their crew expands after Noah's college friends visit the duo, but as the group find themselves trapped in the darkness of the USS Charlotte's interior, air rapidly running out, they discover that their dwindling oxygen supply is the least of their fears.
Steve Oram writes, directs and stars in this low-budget surreal horror comedy set in a world where human beings behave like wild apes. When Smith (Oram) upsets Ryan (Julian Rhind-Tutt), the alpha male of a fellow tribe, by engaging with a younger female member of his group, a battle for dominance begins of which only one man can win... The film also stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt of 'The Mighty Boosh' (2003) fame.
Stationed in England during World War II Buzz Rickson (McQueen) is the bravest Air Force pilot in his squadron and the most reckless. His maniacal quest for thrills takes him to the brink of destruction during the B-17 bombing raids on Germany. But while Buzz's daredevil heroics win the grudging respect of his crew his rebellious attitude alienates everyone except his co-pilot Ed Bolland (Robert Wagner)...
One of the most sensational cases from Ed and Lorraine Warren's files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before.
A box set containing the best of Andrew Lloyd Webber on DVD each production featuring a dedicated 'Making Of' featurette! Shows include: Cats Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Jesus Christ Super Star Evita By Jeeves
This groundbreaking series was nominated for over 15 Emmys® and in it's first season, was the winner for Outstanding Makeup (Prosthetic). Nip/Tuck follows hotshot Miami plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) , who later head to the capital of superficiality: L.A. These cutting-edge stories range from funny to suspenseful to uncommonly powerful. Surgeries are graphically bold. Sexuality is rampant. Guest stars who go under the knife include Rosie O'Donnell, Joan Rivers, Kathleen Turner and Larry Hagman, among others. From Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy, Nip/Tuck is a prescription for entertainment unlike anything you've ever seen.
Workmen unearth prehistoric skulls while carrying out excavations on the London Underground. Very soon a strange and malevolent force is unleashed.
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