Episodes Comprise: Save the Unicorn / Save the Penguin Save the Three Little Pigs / Save the Owl Save the Swan / Save the Puppy Save the Bullfrog / Save the Poodle
All the deliciously funny episodes from the third helping of the smash hit TV sitcom! ""I am Gareth Blackstock. I am seriously unpleasant. My bark is worse than my bite and my bark is atrocious!"" Introducing Gareth ""I don't do reasonable"" Blackstock (Lenny Henry) the 2 Michellin starred chef/slavedriver of 'Le Chateau Anglais'. Woe betide anyone who gets in the way of his pursuit of gastronomic perfection... Episodes comprise: 1. When Janice Left Gareth 2. The Owner's
Starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby this seven disc set features all the episodes from the first and second BBC series based on Alan Hunter s novels. The year is 1964. Inspector George Gently is known for his relentless pursuit of notorious gangsters in London as well as the crooked cops that cover their tracks. But when his wife is murdered deciding that he s got one case left in him Gently heads up to Northumberland to solve it and then decides to stay. Supported by young Detective Sergeant Bacchus Gently is about to discover a whole new world of murder and intrigue in 1960s Britain a place where everything is about to change but the past is always present. Episodes Comprise: 1. Pilot 2. The Burning Man 3. Bomber's Moon 4. Gently With The Innocents 5. Gently In The Night 6. Gently In The Blood 7. Gently Though The Mill
Doubling My Girl with its sequel makes sense since they tell a two-part tale. In the first film, 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss (astounding newcomer Anna Chlumsky) lives with her widowed father, a distracted tuba-playing mortician (Dan Aykroyd). Rather understandably Vada is confused and disturbed about the nature of death. In her narration to camera we learn what it feels like to be a girl growing up in Pennsylvania in the early 1970s, as her father become involved with make-up artist Jamie Lee Curtis. Macaulay Culkin (in a performance reminding us that once there was a good child actor behind the name) is the best friend who assists her rite of passage. Jumping forwards two years into the sequel, My Girl 2, Culkin is replaced by Austin O'Brien. Now 13 and with a baby on the way in the Aykroyd /Jamie Lee Curtis home, Vada's growing-up continues further afield. She investigates the life of her mother in an attempt to understand her own. Los Angeles becomes the backdrop as she deals with the inevitable problems of puberty. Ultimately this is the story of a teenager's grounding in the ways of the world told simply and with charm. On the DVD: My Girl/My Girl 2 on disc sadly has no extras beyond a trailer for each film. It's also a shame the 1.85:1 transfer remains grainy for both. At least the three-channel surround picks out the period songs nicely. --Paul Tonks
The last instalment in Herschell Gordon Lewis' ground-breaking 'Blood Trilogy' (begun with Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs!) Color Me Blood Red saw the director focusing his grisly attention on the world of art. But this is graphic art! When temperamental artist Adam Sorg's latest paintings fail to impress his critics he finds himself unable to change his style using the materials at his disposal. Searching in vein for the perfect pigment he discovers that it is the deep re
Fiendish is the word for it! In Herschell G. Lewis's Colour Me Blood Red a demented artist (Don Joseph) finds that his paintings sell better when he uses real human blood for his crimson pigments. Not wanting to use his own vital fluids the artist begins killing his models and disemboweling them when his red paint supply runs low. This is the final film in Lewis's Blood Trilogy that began with Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs!
Though their initial meeting doesn't take place under the best of circumstances (a car accident brings them together) these two polar opposite people find themselves in bed together a few short hours afterwards. Complications ensue the next morning when the young lovers figure out that should they want to continue their relationship they may need to learn to like each other! For the first time Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung stars opposite Cantopop singing sensation Sammi Cheng (the pair would be reunited for the 'Infernal Affairs' trilogy) who scooped a Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nomination in this bubbly romantic comedy.
The best daze of your life. Available on DVD for the first time! Remember back in the day? Director Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing) does igniting a battle of the sexes in School Daze his groundbreaking urban musical-comedy that dares to take a taboo-smashing look at Historical Afro-American college life like no film before or since tackling topics only talked about behind closed doors. Loaded with enough romance rivalries and rituals School Daze is
This three disc collection features 12 episodes from the first series of The Big Valley a lavish western drama starring one of Hollywood's greatest female stars Barbara Stanwyck a four times Academy Award nominee. The series began screening in America in September 1965 and soon became a UK hit. It also starred Lee Majors making his TV debut as Heath and Linda Evans recent winner of ITV's Hell's Kitchen with Marco Pierre White. Former Disney girl Evans was previously best known for her role in glamorous prime time soap opera Dynasty. This action-filled Western adventure was set on the Barkley ranch in California's San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s.
The 'one-inch punch'; the one finger press up; the Way Of The Intercepting Fist. All are synonymous with Bruce Lee the instantly recognisable film icon. But how did an unruly kid from the backstreets of Hong Kong achieve such worldwide celebrity and become the first Asian film-star to go global? Made with the co-operation of Bruce's family and friends plus fellow film stars and martial artists the film presents a balanced portrait of the legend of Bruce Lee building a complete picture of a great martial artist and celebrity. As well as covering Bruce's film career 'Martial Arts Master' focuses on Bruce as a visionary martial artist and includes exclusive insights from Jim Kelly and Bolo Yeung (Enter The Dragon) Jackie Chan (Rush Hour) student and friend James Coburn (Our Man Flint) Bruce's brother Robert Lee plus other family members friends and co-stars from throughout his career. The methods of Jeet Kune Do the martial arts philosophy developed by Lee are demonstrated by the select group of students taught by Lee himself. The documentary also affords a rare glimpse of original training equipment designed and used by the master while the theories behind the 'one-inch punch' are explained.
Kim Ki Duk Double Pack (2 Discs)
Bad man's river is the bold and exciting story about four outlaws undertaking the job of blowing up an arsenal in Mexico...
On a peaceful afternoon our distorted lives hidden in it. A girl stared at me. She said I am a good painter and that's what I haven't heard for a long time. She tempts me saying she will give good things to me. But where she has led me there was a strange and ruthless man I have never seen before. I could see my image from his eyes that were full of rage and engorged with blood... From Korea's most original filmmaker Kim Ki-duk (The Isle Bad Guy 3-Iron) Real Fiction is an absorbing surreal and intriguing film that develops over actual time. Ju Jin-mo is a quiet and repressed artist who tolerates an endless stream of humiliating abuse from customers and street thugs alike as he sketches portraits in a park. Through an encounter with a dissatisfied customer Ju finds himself enraged by the reality of his life and becomes hell bent on tracking down everyone who has ever tormented him. Unfortunately for the individuals who so frivolously wronged this fragile artist a simple apology will now no longer suffice and bloodlust can only be satisfied with blood. Ju is determined to wash away the stains on his soul with murderous retaliation whilst completely unaware that someone is secretly recording the killing spree with a camcorder in all its bloody glory... 'Real Fiction' was shot with no retakes. Director Kim Ki-duk had ten 35mm cameras and two digital cameras rolling simultaneously with sets prepared in advance and the crew rehearsing for ten days prior to filming.
New Killers In Town: Battling babes heroine Moon Lee and Shaw Brothers veteran Lui Chi Liang prepare to do battle with the chinese underworld. One of the best Asian babe flicks of the 1990's. Escape From Brothel: When two young girls are trapped in a ruthless vice ring they enlist the help of their brothers to regain their freedom. However the brutal gang lords have other idea! An all-out Kung Fu fest with Billy 'Fist Of A Legend' Chong and sex kitten Pauline Wong this best seller is now available on DVD for the first time.
The civil rights movement is coming to Atoka County and the white residents don't like it they're prepared to commit assaults rape or murder to get their point across. In the middle of this powder keg County Sheriff Bascomb (Lee Marvin) endeavors to keep the peace as best he can together with Mayor Hardy who is the owner of the local lumber company and the bank on which most of the residents depend. Mayor Hardy employs most of the county and he wants a stable environment for business which includes keeping enough poor blacks around to do the most menial work for menial pay. After Nancy Poteet (Linda Evans) is apparently raped by a black man all hell breaks loose. Butt Cutt Cates (Cameron Mitchell) a loud mouth hardcore Klansman is arrested for raping a black woman prisoner while his sworn enemy Garth (O.J. Simpson) a young black man who witnesses a Klan murder gets a rifle and starts dishing out justice of his own. Before it's over the major part of the county is at war and bodies are falling everywhere.
Justin is looking for a way out. In a brutal world where gangland violence drug dealing and street fighting is a way of life getting out of the game was never going to be easy. Especially with mates like Tommy Sean and Billy. But as Justin finds hope from an unlikely source Tommy's drug debts spiral out of control dragging everyone into a world where only survival matters. Blending the surreal with the very real Zebra Crossing is a powerful disturbing adrenaline-packed journey. This fast paced and at times utterly terrifying story is the tale of one man's struggle to break free but as the pressure mounts and the stakes are raised escape seems ever further away. And for Justin time is running out...
For a first feature from a 24-year-old director, George Washington is an amazingly assured piece of work. The titles misleading: this is no biopic of Americas first President, but a poetic, richly atmospheric rhapsody set in a rundown industrial town in the American South. Given this backdrop, and a predominantly black cast, you might expect an angry study of social deprivation and racial tension, but Green has no such agenda. Instead, he derives a shimmering, heat-hazed beauty from his images of rusting machinery, junkyards and derelict buildings, and if the overall tone is tinged with sadness, its mainly from a sense of universal human loss. The action, such as it is, moves at its own slow Southern pace, following a group of youngsters, black and white, over a few high-summer days. Things do happen--a couple decide to elope, one boys saved from drowning, another gets killed--but theyre presented in an oblique, understated fashion that owes nothing to conventional Hollywood notions of narrative. With one exception, the cast are all non-professionals, mainly youngsters who director-writer David Gordon Green found in and around the town where the film was made, Winston-Salem in North Carolina. Shooting in a semi-improvised fashion, Green draws from his young cast remarkably spontaneous performances and dialogue (often their own) full of unselfconscious poetry. Drawing on a wide range of influences--among other things he cites Sesame Street, documentaries and such 70s classics as Deliverance, Walkabout and especially Terrence Malicks Days of Heaven--Green has fashioned a film thats fresh, tender and utterly individual. And it looks just gorgeous: belying the tiny budget, Tim Orrs widescreen photography lavishes mellow softness on images of dereliction and small-town decay. Never has dead-end poverty been made to look so attractive. On the DVD: George Washington comes on a disc generously loaded with extras. Besides the obvious theatrical trailer we get two of Greens early short films, Physical Pinball and Pleasant Grove (both clearly dry runs for the main feature), an 18-minute featurette about the films reception at the Berlin Film Fest and a deleted scene of a community meeting. This scene, the short Pleasant Grove and the movie itself also offer a directors commentary--or rather a directors dialogue, as Green shares the honours with one of his lead actors, Paul Schneider. Their laconic, unpretentious comments enhance the whole experience enormously. The film has been transferred in its full scope ratio (2.35:1) and looks great. --Philip Kemp
Six college students spend a weekend at a country resort completely unaware that they are being stalked by a devil worship cult.
Little Lisa Took an Axe and Gave Her Houseguests 40 Whacks... After terrorizing a convenience store salesgirl with tomatoes three lowlifes on a crime spree hide out at an isolated farmhouse occupied only by teenage Lisa and her pathetically paralyzed grandpa. Bad move guys for while Lisa looks innocent enough she's actually a ticking-time-bomb-of-psychotic-aggression who spends her days killing chickens feeding raw eggs to her granddad staring blankly into space and hallucinating blood on a mirror. So when the three numbskulls add Lisa to their list of people to abuse she promptly puts an end to their antisocial activities with the help of her two best friends a straight-edge razor and her handy Axe.
The speed of Bruce Lee the skill of Jackie Chan the grace of Jet Li! 'Top Fighter' is an in-depth and action-packed look at the superstars in the field of martial combat. For the first time the very best of the best clash in an arena where each can show his specialities to the fullest. Using rare and hard-hitting footage 'Top Fighter' goes where no martial arts movie has gone before - exploring the psychology of the combatant and how each has perfected his craft. Can you be the
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