When Jason set out to find his father he could never have anticipated where his journey would lead... Far from home and desperate for answers Jason washes up on the shores of an ancient land. A mysterious place; a world of bull leaping of snake haired goddesses and of palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants - this is the lost city of Atlantis. But beneath the surface of this enticing place is a dark and simmering past a complicated web of treachery and deceit in which Jason himself now seems inexplicably bound. He soon finds himself embroiled in a perilous game of politics and power from which there is no escape. Aided by the studious young Pythagoras and the overweight overbearing Hercules Jason embarks on a voyage of discovery which sees him brush shoulders with Medusa come face to face with the Minotaur and even do battle with the dead.
A gritty, uplifting drama of love and illness. Construction worker and keen amateur footballer Nick Cameron (Robert Carlyle) has the best of everything when he meets and moves in with soulmate Karen (Juliet Aubrey). But complications arise when symptoms of a mysterious illness including numbness and double vision begin to sap his energy. As MS sets in, his physical powers quickly diminish and he loses his job, his sport and his sexual drive. Eroded by frustration, anger and self-pity, Nick lashes out at Karen, even accusing her of sleeping with her boss. At his lowest ebb, summoning vestiges of pride and self-sacrifice, Nick urges Karen to leave him. Will she accept an easy escape from his despondency and rancour, or stand by this frail shell of the man she fell in love with? Heart-wrenching, intense and unforgettable, the raw emotion is cut with laddish dark humour, and the electrifying central performances are supported by engaging early screen appearances by James Nesbitt and Sophie Okonedo. First shown as part of BBC Two's Love Bites' season of dramas in 1995, and now released on DVD, writers Jimmy McGovern and Paul Henry Powell who drew on his own experiences battling MS shared the Royal Television Society's Best Writer award the following year. £1 from every copy sold donated to MS Society UK by Simply Media Winner of the 1996 BAFTA for Best Editing and Royal Television Society Award for Best Writer (Jimmy McGovern and Paul Henry Powell) Directed by acclaimed BAFTA winner Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) and written by Emmy and multi-BAFTA winner Jimmy McGovern (The Street) Stars Primetime Emmy nominee and BAFTA winner Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting / The Full Monty) and BAFTA winner Juliet Aubrey (Middlemarch) Also features Golden Globe nominee James Nesbitt (Cold Feet/ The Missing) and Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) Includes exclusive interview with Danny Wallace on football and MS
A group of shop-keeping families are transported back to the birth of the high street in the 1870s and propelled through a century of change right up to the modern era and the 1970s.
Truly Madly Deeply is an intelligent, moving, and deeply funny story about love and death. Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a scatterbrained professional translator, has lost the love of her life, Jamie (Alan Rickman). As her life (and her flat) slowly falls to pieces, she is inundated with an endless stream of repairmen and eligible suitors. But rather than go on with life, Nina dwells on her dead love, slumped at her piano, endlessly playing half of a Bach duet. Then, in a truly magical sequence, his cello suddenly joins her melody... and Jamie's back from the dead. At first it's bliss--think of the superficially similar blockbuster Ghost, only with real people instead of pretty faces Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. But Nina gradually realises it's a thoroughly real Jamie who's back; complete with every annoying, argumentative fault she'd conveniently forgotten. (He might be dead, he explains, but he still attends political meetings.) Moreover, he has to hide whenever any of the living are around. And he's constantly ice-cold. And he invites his dead pals to her place at all hours. What's a living woman to do? Director Anthony Minghella went on to create the melodramatic period piece The English Patient--but in this film, he shows a far more sensitive, subtle touch. The photography is brilliant, capturing the simple beauties of suburban London. And the wonderfully acted characters, quirky and all too real, will keep you laughing--and always guessing what will happen next.--Grant Balfour, Amazon.com
Rachel is eight and for the first time is allowed to join her brothers and sister to visit their grandfather - Amos, as he carries out his annual ritual of a night in the hills, where he worked as a young shepherd boy. Grandfather is delighted to see the children and a special bond is established between him and Rachel. He tells the how she reminds him of a magical night; he then proceeds to recount it. He explains how, ahead of the other shepherds protecting their flock with him, he is flown away by the Angel Gabriel, to be the first visitor to the newly-born Christ child. This magical re-working of the nativity by the leading writer Michael Morpurgo is rich with human poignancy as we share this very special experience.
The seventh and final season of Buffy's vampire vanquishing adventures. Episodes Comprise: 1. Lessons 2. Beneath You 3. Same Time Same Place 4. Help 5. Selfless 6. Him 7. Conversations With Dead People 8. Sleeper 9. Never Leave Me 10. Bring On The Night 11. Showtime 12. Potential 13. The Killer In Me 14. First Date 15. Get It Done 16. Storyteller 17. Lies My Parents Told Me 18. Dirty Girls 19. Empty Places 20. Touched 21. End Of Days 22. Chosen
Annette Bening stars as a West End diva in this tale of amorous folly and revenge set in the world of the London stage in the late 1930's.
On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa, a nun in the Catholic order, was riding on a train when she received what she took as a message from God telling her to assist the poorest of the poor, and to live among them. Committing to this new purpose brought her initially in conflict with the Catholic Church and the Government of India. Undaunted by the obstacles and challenges of her new calling, she rose to become viewed by many as the greatest humanitarian of modern time. THE LETTERS tells the story of how this tiny figure of a woman changed hearts, lives and inspired millions. Though she herself grew to feel isolation from and abandonment by God, she said she saw God in every human being. Her story is told from the point of view of a Vatican priest charged with the task of investigating acts and events following her death. A Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, she is currently under consideration by the Catholic Church for sainthood. Click Images to Enlarge
A heartwarming coming-of-age drama, where childhood fantasy meets grown up reality. It's wartime. As the bombs fall Carrie Willow and her younger brother Nick are evacuated to Wales where they live with the difficult Mr Evans. They make the most colourful collection of friends, from the strange Mister Johnny who speaks a language all of his own, to the wonderful housekeeper Hepzibah Green who makes everyone's time at Druid's Bottom so delightful.
Robert Bradley gives up his job in the shipyards to work with his Uncle John as a carpenter. He starts to explore the surrounding countryside and soon encounters Millie a strange girl-child known as 'Thorman's Moth'...
1923. The Great War is over but what kind of England has won? Now in a world of boom and bust motor cars and the Charleston the twenties bring a blast of energy and freedom to the village; as the outside world continues to break down barriers bringing with it big dramas and change.
A top-notch cast, including Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth, brings Blake Morrison's painfully honest memoir to life.
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads was actually a revival, in 1973, of the successful Dick Clements/Ian La Frenais 1960s comedy The Likely Lads, so notable for its fibrous but sympathetic treatment of life for two young men coming of age in North East England. This "Very Best of" collection brings together classic episodes from the 1973 series. Although tinged with nostalgia--the décor and styles of the early 1970s are almost pungently evocative--the quality of the writing defies the passage of time. Seven years on from their initial adventures, Rodney Bewes (upwardly mobile, self-improving Bob) and James Bolam (feckless, chippy Terry) meet by accident on the train. Bob is about to marry Thelma and move into modern semi-detached heaven, while Terry is just out of the army and drifting back home without a great deal of purpose. The relationship between the two men, basically sound but frequently compromised by their very different aspirations, is very cleverly drawn and played so that your sympathies never stay on one side for very long. Best of all, Brigit Forsyth's Thelma, a dragon in the making, adds an astringent dynamic. She is, says Terry, "so stuck up she thinks her backside's a perfume factory". The insecurity he generates in her is responsible for much of the comedy. On the DVD: The Very Best of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads comes to disc with no extras, simply standard 4:3 picture format video production and episode selection. But it's still fresh as a daisy all the same. --Piers Ford
One Minute Past Midnight: The year is 2058. Robert and Steve celebrate every New Year in the same 24-hour convenience store where they work the nightshift. No matter how much things change they always seem to stay the same even when Steve wins the lottery. But when Robert discovers that the girl of his dreams works on the dayshift he suddenly finds himself with a big decision to make. One Minute Past Midnight is a sweet dark and surreal comedy about love dreams and the fear of change. Fare Bene Mikles: The film explores the relationship between siblings Sergio and Maria from their troubled childhood to the hardships of adult life. Throughout the years their invented game called 'Mikles' provides their very own survival technique. Trafic: It is rush hour in Bucharest and young businessman Tudor is soon to be late for a meeting. Every passing minute seems endless as he sits wedged behind the wheel of his car. When he finally abandons his vehicle to confront a family drama he finds a new perspective on the everyday life he leads. Trafic is a disturbing and dazzling introspective into the sometimes meaningless rituals of contemporary urban life. Canciones De Invierno: It is November on the outskirts of an anonymous European city. Five different people are killing time in a variety of peculiar ways. But the pretence that their lives are under control is unravelling; all of them are trapped in the wreckage of recent love affairs. Wracked by insomnia self-abandonment midnight confessions and desperate behaviour their lives soon take unexpected turns as they try to win back the objects of their affection. Mekong Interior: When a couple travel to Cambodia the man is curious to search out his heritage but finds little to connect with and soon feels alienated in the environment. When the woman begins to experience a fascinating and exotic new world which draws her further and further in a profound tension develops that soon reaches breaking point. Breaking Out: Once a bubbly and extroverted singer Jessie now spends her day in anguished solitude desperately seeking to avoid her friends family and - most of all - her own paranoia. Fuelled by insecurity and a morbid fear of confrontation her fervid imagination finally leads her to make an unexpected reconnection with life.
Based on the memoir of John Bayley this tells the story of his marriage to acclaimed writer Iris Murdoch, from when they met as teachers at Oxford to her struggle with Alzheimer's disease forty years later.
On March 20th five years ago the UK and US went to war. Thousands of Iraqis died millions were displaced and cities were practically destroyed. But why and how? Now a groundbreaking drama goes behind scenes of the countdown to the Iraq war. Part thriller part political drama 10 Days to War has a relentless ticking-clock intensity with all events unfolding in real time. From Tony Blair selling the idea of war to his sceptical party and cynical public and the American marketing of Ahmed Chalabi as the George Washington of Iraq to the shock and awe of the first strike this distinctive and compelling film lifts the lid on the back-room bullying and gripping human dramas played out privately in the corridors of power. On March 20th five years ago the UK and US went to war. Thousands of Iraqis died millions were displaced and cities were practically destroyed.
A woman's life is turned upside down when it is revealed that her husband a member of the British Parliament has been having an affair with a former prostitute.
Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his sea-gull clan. He rather experiments with new always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in quest for wisdom.
A celebration of the most iconic - and much missed - homegrown star of the 21st century, BACK TO BLACK tells the extraordinary tale of Amy Winehouse. Painting a vivid, vibrant picture of the Camden streets she called home and capturing the struggles of global fame, BACK TO BLACK honours Amy's artistry, wit, and honesty, as well as trying to understand her demons. An unflinching look at the modern celebrity machine and a powerful tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent.
Please wait. Loading...
This site uses cookies.
More details in our privacy policy