Four more fantastic episodes of the award winning channel 4 sci-fi show on the third double DVD of the season. Packed with action and excitement Andromeda is fast becoming a huge sci-fi phenomenon.
Laura Fygi - Live At The North Sea [European Import]
One Day In The Western Year 2031... It's unknown how long the Blue have actually existed. The first confirmed sighting came in 2017. That was fourteen years ago. At first we thought they were a biological weapon that some rogue nation had developed but we soon learned they were very different. One Day: It is the year 2031. Humankind has been replaced as the dominant species by a race of monstrous insect-like creatures known as Blue. Sleeper Yuji Kaido finds himself thrust in
A factual drama telling the remarkable but little known story of George Best's relationship with his alcoholic mother. The film will have a tragicomic tone and focus on Best''s year long retirement from football aged 26. A year in which Best decided he was going to enjoy himself. Sod Manchester United. Sod football. Sod everyone and everything except himself. But the harder Best tries to establish himself in the life of a Soho dandy the more surprised he is to find himself pulled back to his raw Belfast roots. George is trying to concentrate on dating three Miss Worlds at the same time and building up his collection of night-clubs and sports cars when he discovers his formerly tee-total 'mam' has taken to heavy drinking. And he thinks it''s all his fault... Through the course of this 90 minute film the black farce of Best's life - his carousing his evasion of those trying to save him or lure him back to football his stumbling into the politics of Northern Ireland - will be counter-pointed by the tragedy of his mother''s slow death from alcoholism. Until finally Best gives up on hedonism and puts on his boots again... only to discover his genius has gone. The Bests will be an unfamiliar telling of a very familiar story. It will capture Best at a point where his future his mother's future and the future of Belfast are all hanging in the balance. It's the forgotten year of the George Best legend but it may just be the most important.
The film version of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy takes a deeper though no less entertaining approach than the easy laughs of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity. The "coming together" of idle playboy Will (Hugh Grant) and put-upon loner Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) is a revealing tale of self-understanding and role reversal. Will finds that being yourself is of little consequence without a defining human context, while Marcus finds that pleasing others counts for little without a degree of self-confidence. How they arrive at this complementary awareness is the intriguing subject matter of the film, involving well-meaning single mothers, difficult adolescents and helpless older adults. Yet there's a wider significance to all this in the guise of human stereotypes--how we fall into them and how we can try to get out of them. The film's wit and amusement comes down to deft and understated directing from Chris and Paul Weitz, and a snappily crafted screenplay from Peter Hedges and the Weitz brothers. Grant clips his hair as well as his vowels for a believable and ultimately sympathetic Will--by far his best performance since Four Weddings and a Funeral. As Marcus, Hoult is convincingly self-dependent, but could have been even more self-absorbed. Toni Colette is a dead-ringer for the well-meaning but ineffectual hippie mother Fiona, while Rachel Weisz gives her best screen performance to date as the attractive and vulnerable Rachel, with whom Will comes of age emotionally. Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack will delight those who enjoy his brand of reconstituted 1970s Dylan; the title track has a wistful charm and there's a gem of an instrumental in the "Countdown" sequence. About a Boy is in the best traditions of British comedy: enlightening as it amuses, it's a film to enjoy and come back to. --Richard Whitehouse
Diehard supporters of everyone's favourite anti-Pope will want Demistifying the Devil, if only because Marilyn Manson is all things to all of them--cutting-edge nu-nasty rock theatre act or slacker anti-hero--you take your choice. However, this very unauthorised biography (there's no footage of young Brian himself or his immediate musical circle other than a few seconds of blurry concert material) is also informative viewing for the merely curious. Mostly consisting of anecdotes from people who were either associated with him before he became famous or who were ejected from his entourage, it soon becomes clear that MM was and remains a genuinely talented visionary. It also becomes clear that the best thing he ever did to further his career was to abandon the huddle of derivative no-marks who constituted the "scene" in his home town of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and whose parochial ramblings dominate this unintentionally hilarious documentary. If you're a fan, you'll have your faith confirmed. If you're not, you'll still end up feeling strangely pleased that both Manson and those he left behind are getting the respective levels of attention they deserve. --Roger Thomas
It was a crime against humanity... but one woman refused to let it die. Featuring committed performances from its stars, For Their Own Good tells the moving true story of one woman's courageous fight to correct a terrible injustice and force a much-needed change in the law. In 1984, a ruthless corporation based in a Texas town made a humiliating demand of its female workforce: they must choose between children – or their jobs. Because the toxic substances that the women handled in the course of their work might cause defects in an unborn child, the corporation ordered them to undergo compulsory sterilisation or lose their jobs. This is the true story of a crime almost beyond comprehension and the story of Sally Wheeler (Elizabeth Perkins - Big, Finding Nemo), a woman desperate to have another child, who refused to let her anger die and endured both public humiliation and private heartache in her unrelenting fight for justice. Made by the producers of the hit feature film Fried Green Tomatoes, For Their Own Good also stars Laura San Giacomo (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Pretty Woman) and Charles Haid (Hill Street Blues). It is written and directed by Ed Kaplan (My First Love, Walking on Air, Dear God).
Andromeda heads for second season climax with this penultimate double DVD including four incredible episodes featuring time travel and space battles for every discerning sci-fi fan.
Tail Sting
Sultry Italian songstress Laura Pausini captured live in Paris during her 2005 world tour. Tracklist: 1.Gente 2.Un'Emrgenza D'Amore 3.Medley - Che Bene Mi Fai / Fidati Di Me / La Mia Riposta / Cosi Importante 4.Vivimi 5.Mi Abbandono A Te 6.La Solitudine 7.Benedetta Passione Ogni Volta 8.Non C'e 9.Medley - Strani Amori / Letera / Il Monde Che Vorrei / Il Tuo Nome In Maiuscolo 10.Resta In Ascolto 11.La Prospettiva Di Me 12.Medley - Cuando Se Ama (Sei Que Me Amavas) / Mi Rubi L'A
In one of his darkest roles Richard E. Grant plays an ageing professor obsessed with his star student Polly (Fraser). Polly is trapped in a dead-end job working for intrusive Professor Julius Greengrass (Grant). Her relationship with boyfriend Chapman (Adam Fenton) is falling apart and jealous sister Jimi (Antonia Bernath) rarely leaves her side. When Polly has the chance to escape her nearest and dearest have other ideas. Alone in her flat Polly struggles to keep her grip on reality. Mysterious sounds surround her voices in the darkness whispers of deceit. Polly knows she's not cuckoo but why won't the noises go away? She turns to the one person she can trust - her boss. But Julius has a dark secret of his own. He wants Polly and he'll do anything to get her. Using oppressive cinematography and a haunting soundtrack from BAFTA nominee Andrew Hewitt writer/director Richard Bracewell whose first film was the acclaimed low-budget comedy The Gigolos carefully builds Polly's world echoing her stressed and anxious state. Expertly played by Fraser we feel Polly's sense of isolation as events unfold around her in this darkly atmospheric and compelling story of deception and intrigue.
The very final instalment in Gene Roddenbury's hit Sci-Fi Series Andromeda brought to you on DVD! How will it all end? Episodes Comprise: 18. Quantum Tractate Delirium 19. One More Day's Light 20. Chaos And The Stillness Of It 21. The Heart Of The Journey (Part 1) 22. The Heart Of The Journey (Part 2)
Sympath: Still en route to Baikonur Marlene and Yuji cross paths with a rough-mannered stranger named Dice. With the Blue lurking dangerously close he offers them shelter for the night and Yuji is given a glimpse into his seemingly carefree life. But as Yuji soon discovers no one left on Earth is without their demons... Not even Dice. Oasis: Yuji is separated from Marlene and Dice amidst the confusion of a sandstorm. He is rescued from the desert by a band of noma
Agony: Yuji disobeys Marlene's orders by saving a little girl's life and discovers a group of survivors hidden among the ruins of the city. Yuji makes a promise to the little girl Yung that he will protect her from the Blue. But this new cause is threatened when he learns a shocking truth about his rescuers from Second Earth. Priority: The surviving members of the Sleeper Recovery Team must enter an abandoned communications tower that is now a Blue nest in a desper
Titles Comprise: Three The Visitation Paranormal Ascendancy
Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are charged with stopping the evil force they released into the world years earlier. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.
He never hurt a soul until the day he died. From the director of I know What You Did Last Summer and the scribe of Scream comes Venom a voodoo horror tale set deep in the swamps of Louisiana centered around a group of teenagers trying to uncover the truth behind a friend's mysterious death. What they discover is an evil force worse than they could have possibly imagined and now they are the ones running for their lives.
Andromeda chronicles the adventures of Captain Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) and his crew on the starship Andromeda Ascendant as they search the galaxies in an effort to rebuild the Systems Commonwealth a community of worlds strewn across the universe working together for peace. A third volume of episodes from the fourth season of the hit sci-fi series.
The final volume of the fourth season of the sci-fi favourite! Episodes comprise: 19. A Symmetry Of Imperfection 20. Time Out Of Mind 21. The Dissonant Interval (Part 1) 22. The Dissonant Interval (Part 2)
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