Little Princess is full of energy charm and questions about how the world works. As with most little children she has an irrepressible curiosity and is delightfully stubborn when things don't go her way! But however demanding Little Princess gets you can't stay angry for long once she puts on her big smile and tries to make it all better.
Set during World War II Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) is a Detective Chief Superintendent who is refused his request of a transfer to join the war effort and remains on the home front. As the war rages in Europe Foyle finds his skills at detection in high demand as he battles against murder anti-Semitism mystery and betrayal on the south coast of England... Featuring the last 2 episodes of series 3.
Raw, violent and shocking, Scum is a compelling story set in a contemporary Borstal. It tells of life in an institution run by violence and brutality rather than reason, where the boy who can fight his way to the top of the heap and reign as 'Daddy' will gain the respect of the inmates and sadistic 'screws' alike. One of the most controversial films ever made in the UK, and one which caused a furore when it was first screened on TV, 'Scum' stars Ray Winstone as Carlin, the one man prepared t...
Join Little Princess and her friends for more adventures at the royal castle. With five favourite Little Princess episodes to keep your little ones happy! Little Princess really loves animals and when a trio of baby ducks hatch unexpectedly in I Want My Duck, she likes nothing better than looking after her new-found friends. Things start getting difficult though, as the little ducks need a lot of attention, and Little Princess must find their Mummy so can join in on all the games at the cas...
Discover the rituals and rites at the dark heart of America's most controversial organisation.At times, it has been among the most powerful and largest fraternal organizations in America, boasting up to four million members. It has survived for more than a century by wrapping its doctrine of hate and intolerance around the sacred cloth of Christianity and the fabric of American patriotism.The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History goes beyond the flaming crosses and beneath the robes, to reveal the dark heart of this controversial organisation.
Michael Kitchen stars as the thoughtful and enigmatic Chief Superintendent Foyle. England is in the grip of the Second World War and Foyle is anxious to join the war effort. However his applications have been repeatedly turned down and he returns home to the South Coast feeling frustrated and guilty. It soon becomes apparent that his detective skills are vitally needed on the home front. Fifty Ships: September 1940. An American millionaire a German spy an old flame and a bo
Join a thrilling expedition deep in the forbidding African jungle where two modern scientists are about to make an amazing discovery! While studying rare fossils they discover a pair of enormous pair of Brontosauruses and a hatchling dinosaur alive in the heart of the rain forest. To protect this rare find they must escape from a tribe of mystical native warriors and evade the grasp of an evil scientist in the ultimate battle to survive!Screen favourites Sean Young (No Way Out
An adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale. Kim (Ravi Sheth) is a happy-go-lucky but street-wise fifteen year-old urchin in India in the 1890s. He lives by his wits but his kind heart has earned him the nickname of 'Friend of All The World'. There are two main influences on Kim's life: Mahbub Ali (Bryan Brown) the tough wily Afghan owner of a horse-train and a saintly old train-loving Buddhist Lama (Peter O'Toole) whom he meets in Lahore. Following a chance meeting with the British Maverick Regiment and its chaplain Kim learns that he is the son of a deserter...
An alcoholic (Nicolas Cage) decides to travel to Las Vegas to drink himself to death, but when he arrives he embarks on a strange love affair with a prostitute (Elisabeth Shue). He never asks her to change her profession whilst she never asks him to stop
Documentary directed by Laura Poitras about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Laura Poitras examines the story of Assange and how he came to be an internationally notorious figure as well as interviewing him and examining his position in recent events, most prominently the vitriolic United States presidential election and the fallout afterwards.
A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with face-blindness after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
After inheriting his estranged mother s house, Leon is about to spend his first night there but is disturbed to discover that she had devoted her home as a shrine to a mysterious cult, which Leon believes was responsible for her death. When strange things start to happen, he begins to suspect that her oppressive spirit is reaching out to him with an urgent message...
Shot in the bright postal colours of a seaside postcard, Carry on Henry applies the usual Carry On sniggering to the married life of Henry VIII. Talbot Rothwell's script is standard bedroom farce and full of jokes about choppers, while the threat of beheading and the actuality of torture are constantly present but only as the terrible things that happen to cartoon characters who will be back next time. Sid James turns in one of his better performances as the endlessly lecherous and fickle Henry, married to Joan Sims and lusting after Barbara Windsor. There is a genuine sexual chemistry between James and Windsor which at times almost breaks open the farce formula. The usual regulars--Kenneth Williams as Thomas Cromwell, Terry Scott as Cardinal Wolsey, Charles Hawtrey as Sir Roger--do their usual turns; Williams is more subdued than usual, while Hawtrey hugely enjoys playing the Queen's secret lover. This was not one of the high points of the series, but it has its own curious charm. On the DVD: The DVD has no extras whatever, but is a good clean print in 1.77:1 ratio with crisp mono sound. --Roz Kaveney
A cross-cultural oddity, Tale of a Vampire feels like a 1970s British horror movie retranslated from the Japanese and mounted as a vehicle for Julian Sands. Director-writer Shimako Sato takes a gloom-haunted approach to the undead, allegedly influenced by the necrophile romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe (it claims to be based on Poe's poem "Annabel Lee") but also draws on the popular blood-sucking posiness of Anne Rice's bestselling novels. Alex (Sands), is a style-conscious vampire whose white shirts are always immaculate although he spends most of his nights messily pouring gore over his face. Living in a spartan docklands pad, Alex haunts a library of long-forgotten lore where he sets his cap at a young woman (Suzanna Hamilton) who may be the reincarnation of his lost love. Unfortunately, a hat-wearing rival vampire (Kenneth Cranham) has been nurturing a grudge against Alex for lifetimes and sticks his oar in, complicating the relationship between vampire and willing victim, setting up for a big stake-shoving climax. For all its vampire feuds and dodgily S&M-flavoured blood-drinking scenes, this is somewhat staid and solemn, with few locations and a low budget abstraction reminiscent of those old episodes of The Avengers where they could only afford to build a corner of a set and there wasn't any money left to hire actors. While Sands, with aptly vampirish poise, and Cranham, with a sinister Southern accent, are interesting and poised antagonists, making the most of Sato's allusive dialogue, heroine Hamilton lets the side down with an awkward performance that hardly suggests anyone worth giving up immortality for. Cranham's character is supposed to be Poe himself, oddly transformed from his historical stature: he seems to have put on a bit of weight since his death in 1849, but Cranham's sly nasty way of ordering gruesome nouvelle cuisine and tormenting a harmless crackpot is aptly Poeish. The slow-paced film takes a long time to confirm what is obvious from the outset (even from the title) and then shudders to a halt with all the characters' fates left vague. However, it has a unique and disturbing atmosphere--the few familiar vampire images of a bloody Sands are outweighed by weirder moments like Cranham's presentation of a pale Hamilton, tied to a bed with red ribbons, as an offering to his nemesis--that makes it more insidiously memorable than many of its higher-budgeted, splashier cousins. On the DVD: A no-frills (no trailer, no cast notes, no nothing), full-screen presentation, which sometimes cramps Sato's careful compositions, this also has a mixed blessing transfer which lends a mouldy or rusty fuzz to some of the blacks in the many night scenes. There is, however, a nice animated menu. --Kim Newman
Two more investigations for Foyle set on the southern coast of England during World War II who is assisted by Milner and his driver Sam.
By this third episode of Foyle's War, series creator Anthony Horowitz has his characters' fundamentals and the wartime milieu well in hand; he rewards himself by taking this remarkable programme to a new high. "A Lesson in Murder" concerns a cluster of terrible deaths--a jailhouse suicide provoked by abusive police, the monstrous killing of a child, the murder of a judge--directly or indirectly tied to a military draft board tainted by scandal. As Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) investigates the linkages, his two prized assistants, driver Sam (Honeysuckle Weeks) and Detective Milner (Anthony Howell), become personally involved with a pair of naive wartime casualties. Intensifying gloom over Germany's imminent declaration of war hovers over everything and a home-front crisis makes heroes of some and scoundrels of others. Fortunately, steadfast Foyle is there to separate one from the other. --Tom Keogh
Adventure drama set in 1927 Chicago surrounding Jimmy and his two Liverpool pals who work as lowly waiters on the Mauretania steaming towards America. They soon become involved in a gin selling racket and before long they are working for legendary gangster Al Capone...
In the time warp tradition of ICEMAN comes GHOST WARRIOR. Suddenly awake after 400 years of frozen sleep, a valiant samurai warrior struggles to survive the harsh challenges of modern-day Los Angeles. This action-packed tale is the thrilling saga of Yoshi, a master of Japan's 16th Century fighting arts, who is accidentally frozen in time and miraculously revived by cryosurgery in the 1980's. On the run from the institute that ended his sleep of centuries, Yoshi must pit his ancient skills and power against the forces of a violent and confusing world. He has vanquished enemies from a distant time but can he prevail on the streets of the future?
The complete third series about an eccentric Old Bailey defence lawyer.
The third series of cult comedy set in a second hand bookshop. Dylan Moran stars as the bohemian and frequently drunk owner who has one major problem with his line of work: he hates customers! Help is at hand however in the form of mild-mannered Manny (Bill Bailey) who proves to be something of a star at selling books and Fran (Tamsin Greig)their under achieving friend. This dubious trio form a family of sorts to protect each other from the realities of modern London but nothing can protect them from each other! Black books is a haven of books wine and conversation the only threat to the groups peace and prosperity is their own limitless stupidity. Episodes comprise: 1. Manny Come Home 2. Elephants And Hens 3. Moo-ma And Moo-pa 4. A Little Flutter 5. The Travel Writer 6. Party
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