Seventh volume of episodes from the Johnny Speight-scripted comedy sketch series starring the popular English comedian Arthur Haynes. The show, which ran from 1957 until its star's untimely death in 1966, was performed on stage and featured a mixture of sketches, music and guest appearances. It quickly became one of ITV's biggest successes and established Haynes as a household name, along with his 'straight man' Nicholas Parsons.
Titles Comprise: 1. Mean Machine 2. Coach Carter 3. Bad News Bears
Jim Kelly is back as Black Belt Jones ex-CIA and lethal. 'The North Star' is a priceless diamond. Its theft from an American courier leads Lucas - Black Belt Jones - into a seedy world of strippers and hookers. Fists fly as he smashes his way through the heart of a den of thieves.
A British actor and his girlfriend are captured along with several Russian soldiers by Chechen rebels while on tour in Georgia. They are thrown into a hole in a remote village where the horrors of war are horrifyingly apparent. Held for ransom that doesn't materialize one of the actors is released to raise cash in Britain. Upon his return he meets a conscript who is also desperate to save another captive. The two join forces and head back to the Chechen village to wage a two –man assault that will soon become an all- out war! From the award winning writer director Aleksei Balabnov of the Brother gangster Films Comes an intense and uncompromising look at the atrocities faced during wartime. Explosive gritty and controversial this powerful film features extreme and realistic action sequences that reveal a brutal vision of a war the world would rather forget.
Dek (Rhys Ifans) is a gentle giant with two passions in his life: his souped up Ford Sierra 'Baby' and his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson). But while supporting her friend Carol (Kathy Burke) on a TV chat show Shirley is stunned when Dek walks on to propose live on air! As Dek is left to contemplate his future with Shirley in Nottingham Shirley's rogue ex-boyfriend has been watching in Glasgow and decides it's time to reclaim his woman. Heading south (swiftly followed by the gang he's just conned) Jimmy (Robert Carlyle) gets ready for an emotional and physical showdown with Dek and Shirley... little knowing that his daughter Marlene is also up for a fight!
A real archaeological artefact from 1967, Good Times will be mostly of interest to anyone who wants to see a parade of fashions that Austin Powers would reject as too garish to be seen on the street in. The nothingy plot concerns then-married Sonny and Cher playing themselves as a one-note bickering sit-com couple, signing up with sinister film tycoon Mordicus (an impeccable George Sanders) to make a movie but not wanting to do the mouldy rags-to-riches hillbilly script on offer. Cher is supposed to be less interested than Sonny in making a movie--which might well have been the truth since she mostly lies around doodling outrageous fashion designs or contributing her strange sung-through-the-nose vocals as poor, goofy Sonny does all the hard work flogging life into skits that had been squeezed dry by the Monkees before being passed to him. The finale finds Sonny and Cher standing up for integrity and refusing to make a bad film even if it means they gets blacklisted all over town--a lesson it's a shame that they (especially Cher) didn't take to heart in their later careers. Astonishingly, this was the feature directorial debut of The Exorcist's William Friedkin, who fills the screen with colour, action and gaggery after the manner of the then-hip Batman TV show while focusing on screaming outfits that remain among the darnedest things you ever saw. Aside from a reprise of "I Got You, Babe", the score is a little light on the slim canon of S&C hits; the songs included are "It's the Little Things", "Good Times", "Trust Me", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "I'm Gonna Love You" and "Just a Name". The DVD extras include a few sketchy bios and a jump-to-a-song feature. --Kim Newman
Set in the deep American south Claude Montgomery (Thornton) and his wife Ruby (Dern) head back to their roots in Little Rock Arkansas to reunite with their family and lend support to their Uncle Hazel (Varney) who has been arrested for attempted murder. Here they meet with Ruby's eccentric mother Jewel (Ladd) her sultry sister Rose (Preston) and other members of their outrageous family in an amusing yet poignant story of family feuds mixed with sweeter emotions.
Father Dominic (Derek Nimmo) has left Mountacres Priory and is now working as curate to Father Harris (Laurence Naismith). As in Oh Brother - the series predecessor - Father Dominic is a well intended individual unfortunately he's as disaster prone as ever and he continually causes problems for those who exist around him.
Like a multi-headed serpent the branches of the Dragon Line become the arms with which Galatea seeks to crush the last vestiges of human resistance in Tokyo. Now the city is abandoned. Only the Knight Sabers remain mankind's last line of defense against the nightmarish spawn of man and machine. But can even the Sabers defeat a beast with a million eyes and the mind of an insane child? The war against Galatea movesito the highest frontier as the Sabers stage a final desperate ass
Recorded in 1979. A tribute concert for Frank to celebrate 40 years in entertainment. Includes appearanced by Lucille Ball Nancy Sinatra Gene Kelly Tony Bennett Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr.
At a high school where the kids major in arson extortion and assault the new principal and the head of security might just be crazy enough to turn things around...
Angie Anderson (Sharon Stone) is a beautiful young woman who harbours a dark childhood secret - one that has kept her from having meaningful relationships with men. She works as a temporary secretary and spends her evenings at home alone working on her doll collection the one source of pleasure in her life. One night in her apartment elevator Angie is brutally attacked by a red-bearded assailant. She fights off the would-be rapist by stabbing him with a pair of scissors. Angie gradually becomes convinced someone is trying to drive her insane. Steve Railsback and Ronny Cox co-star in this pre-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone thriller.
Det. Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) finds herself investigating a bizarre death in a very different part of London an affluent commuter suburb. When the manager of the local country club is found dead in his home neighbours are quick to blame youngsters from the rundown housing estate nearby and the local police are happy to go along with that view. With her personnel resources at full stretch D.S. Tennison is forced to engage in political games with the community while pulling together a difficult team and leading a problematic investigation.
Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV's biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever seen. His shows remained firmly in the top ten until his untimely death in 1966 robbed the world of a comedy genius. Lack of repeats ensured that subsequent generations were denied Haynes' comedic brilliance - until now. Wickedly funny scripts by Alf Garnett creator Johnny Speight invariably drew on the familiar class antagonism later honed to perfection in Till Death Us Do Part, while Haynes' robust working-class delivery was inspired - never more so than in the character of Hobo Haynes, a belligerent, heavily decorated tramp fond of recounting tales of patriotic bravery whilst being 'up to me neck in muck and bullets'.
An out-of-work Chinese American actor involved with a high school girl learns that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai China. He moves to the exotic city to connect with his ancestry and start a new life but must leave behind the only girl who has ever loved him. Liam (Ken Leung) is a struggling actor wasting his time picking up on beautiful plastic girls in hip Hollywood bars with his buddy Joe (Joel David Moore) a writer who hasn't written a damn thing. The closest thing to an emotional connection in Liam's life is a flirtatious friendship with 16 year old Adelaide (Hayden Panettiere) a precocious high school girl who is actually more mature than Liam. When Liam learns he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai China he travels to the bright and beautiful city and discovers a profound connection to his family legacy. Liam meets a sophisticated Chinese woman named Micki (Kelly Hu) and finds himself falling into instant infatuation with her. Liam decides to move to China leaving behind Adelaide who is quite possibly the only girl who has ever loved him but running away from his problems only lands him in deeper trouble.
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family... This is the story of Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his so-called friends - a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. Hilarious but harrowing,the film charts the disintegration of their friendship as they proceed seemingly towards self-destruction. Mark alone has the insight and opportunity to escape his fate - but then again does he really want to choose life?
John Wayne has brawled bare-knuckled gunned down desperadoes fought jungle wars and piloted the skies. But 'The Cowboys' gives him one of his juiciest roles as a leather-tough rancher who deserted by his regular help hires eleven greenhorn schoolboys for a cattle drive across 400 treacherous miles. When the dust settles Wayne gives one of his best performances. In The Cowboys Rex Reed wrote All the forces that have made him a dominant personality as well as a major screen presence seem to combine. Old Dusty Britches can act. Co-starring the equally memorable Roscoe Lee Browne Colleen Dewhurst and Bruce Dern 'The Cowboys' is exciting proof. This version never before released in the UK includes a previously deleted scene.
Beware the beast within... Returning to his parents' ancestral home Colum Kennedy (Allen Scotti) discovers an Irish village populated by animalistic shapeshifters. When a hauntingly beautiful woman (Julie Cialini) stirs ancient passions with him he must choose between his family and unleashing his own true nature.
Fat Actress a hybrid new comedy/reality series stars Emmy-Award winning actress Kirstie Alley who plays a fictional version of herself: a successful television and movie star whose weight gain has become the subject of every tabloid imaginable as well as the blight of her existence as she tries to find work and true love in an unforgiving Hollywood... Episodes Comprise: 1. Big Butts 2. Charlie's Angels 3. Holy Lesbo Batman 4. The Koi Effect 5. Crack For Good 6. Cry Ba
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