The complete third series of the hugely popular army drama starring Robson Green Jerome Flynn Holly Aird and Gary Love. These thirteen episodes see the King's Fusiliers on location in New Zealand and Germany... Episodes Comprise: 1.Shifting Sands 2.Live Fire 3.Base Details 4.Fall Out 5.Disintegration 6.Hide And Seek 7.Trouble And Strife 8.Hard Knocks 9.Camouflage 10.Staying Together 11.Dutch Courage 12.Stand By Me 13.Leaving
A powerful and very unique love story, which tells with bold, unflinching humour of the sadomasochistic love affair between a troubled young woman and her domineering boss.
A harrowing, if limited, 1993 thriller, Desperate Justice stars Lesley Ann Warren as Carol, a mother whose young daughter is raped by the caretaker of her school and left in a coma. The culprit is quickly rounded up; however, the case against him is dismissed for lack of rock-solid evidence. In a moment of blind fear and rage, Carol metes out summary justice of her own--and must face up to the consequences. Desperate Justice is suitably restrained in dealing with the violence central to its subject matter. While competently enough scripted and acted to retain the viewer's interest and sympathy, it has a slightly fuzzy, sucrose feel about it that acts as a general anaesthetic against the inevitably disturbing subject matter. The final scenes in particular achieve a tidy, somewhat predictable sense of "closure" so beloved by Americans. Despite its made-for-TV air, Desperate Justice has just enough about it to ensure a passable late night 90 minutes over a mug of Horlicks. On the DVD: This is not the sort of movie that was ever designed to benefit from DVD enhancement. Picture format is 4:3. As well as trailers, there are included here items entitled "About the film" and "About the stars", which turn out to be perfunctory text-only blurbs. --David Stubbs
Season Two of the epic saga of the South Carolina Main family and the Pennsylvanian Hazards. In the fateful year 1861 began a war which was to tear America apart and which threatened to destroy the lives of the Hazard and Main clans. Friend fights friend brother stands against brother as the two families once bound by friendship and love are now on opposite sides of the bloody conflict.
Season Three of the epic saga of North And South which features the trials of the South Carolina Main family and the Pennsylvanian Hazards. In the fateful year 1861 began a war which was to tear America apart and which threatened to destroy the lives of the Hazard and Main clans. Friend fights friend brother stands against brother as the two families once bound by friendship and love are now on opposite sides of the bloody conflict.
A second series of chilling and supernatural goings on as University lecturer Robert Bridge (Andrew Lincoln) becomes further embroiled in the world of the medium Alison Munday (Lesley Sharp)... Episodes Comprise: 1. Roadside Bouquets 2. Ratman 3. Lullaby 4. Your Hand In Mine 5. Mirrorball 6. Mind The Bugs Don't Bite 7. Things Forgotten 8. A Name Written In Water
All aboard for runaway action and suspense in this riveting masterpiece from writer/director Michael Crichton! Starring Sean Connery Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down it's a spine-tingling and suavely performed adventure based on history's first great train robbery. This ingenious and wonderful crime caper delivers mile-a-minute thrills and breathtaking excitement. Connery is Edward Pierce a master thief who conceives a brilliant plan to steal a fortune in gold bars from a railway payroll car. But to pull off the most daring heist in history Pierce must join forces with a safecracker (Sutherland) and his own beautiful girlfriend (Down) in a series of intricately-plotted thefts that will test all of their nerve camaraderie and larcenous skill.
An enchanting version of the most loved fairy tale Cinderella set to a Rodgers and Hammerstein score. Starring Academy Award nominated Lesley Ann Warren and Broadway star Stuart Damon – it is a magical, musical reimagining of the classic story.
Like a good claret laid down for a couple of decades, Victor Victoria (1982) just improves with age. Based on a 1930s German screenplay, Blake Edwards' cross-dressing musical tackles sexuality and gender with a sweet generosity of spirit and endearing warmth. To Edwards' credit and that of his wife Julie Andrews in the title role it is far more than a star vehicle, with James Garner, Lesley Ann Warren and, particularly, Robert Preston (as worldly gay Toddy) contributing quick-fire performances that brim with brilliant timing. Andrews, too, is wonderful in a deceptively complex part. It shouldn't have worked at all. Victor Victoria was made at a time when the Hollywood musical's currency was at its lowest and Andrews might have been deemed a rather old-fashioned sort of star. But by keeping Henry Mancini's songs in context as stage numbers, the traditional values of the musical are subverted. And the whole thing is bathed in a soft, intimate light; this is a film of considerable artistry on every level. On the DVD: Victor Victoriais presented in widescreen with a sharp Dolby Digital soundtrack; the picture quality is splendid. Extras include lists of cast, crew and awards as well as the original theatrical trailer. Best of all is a touching--if occasionally repetitive--commentary from Blake Edwards and Julie Andrews, who clearly remember the project with great pride and affection. Somewhat belatedly they resurrected it as a Broadway show in the 1990s, in which Andrews again scored a considerable personal triumph. --Piers Ford
Jean Claude Pommier (Pierce Brosnan) is an anthropologist who has spent years travelling the globe, studying the phenomenon of Nomads, mythical supernatural creatures. Pommier then gets murdered after believing that he has discovered their existence in Los Angeles. Before he dies, he reveals his secret to a young doctor (Lesley-Anne Down). Following his death, the doctor has visions of how Pommier followed a street gang as they conducted random acts of violence, only to discover that they were in reality Eskimo spirits that walk the Earth in human form…
The complete third series of the outstanding Emmy Award-winning Upstairs Downstairs. Episodes Comprise: 1. Miss Forrest 2. A House Divided 3. A Change Of Scene 4. A Family Secret 5. Rose's Pigeon 6. Desirous Of Change 7. Word Of Honour 8. The Bolter 9. Goodwill To All Men 10. What The Footman Saw 11. A Perfect Stranger 12. Distant Thunder 13. The Sudden Storm
Landmark British drama series' first season set in turn-of-the-century England chronicles life among the residents of 165 Eaton Place. This is the first series of the classic British drama 'Upstairs Downstairs'. It is obvious in this first season that the budgets are low with the sets sparse and 'bloopers' often not being edited out. This season and the next (which was shown as two series in Britain) were combined into 13 episodes and shown in the US to great acclaim; it won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series and an Emmy nomination for Jean Marsh as Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
The English National Opera has always had an attractively light touch in Handel; this classic production, designed by Nicholas Hytner (director of The Madness of King George and The Crucible), manages to preserve both the work's occasional passion and its undercutting of that passion into urbane absurdity. Anne Murray's Xerxes is a tyrant in love, who learns the hard way that he can neither play with, nor command, his subjects' affections; her forthright declamatory singing, not least in the famous "Larghetto", conveys both the petulance and the final grandeur of a man undergoing a sentimental education. Valerie Masterson and Christopher Hudson, as the principal pair of lovers, combine perfect singing with an attractive romantic ardour; Hudson in particular makes clear just how heroic a counter-tenor can sound, listened to without preconceptions. In the soubrette role of Atalanta, Lesley Garrett is a cute trouble-maker. Sir Charles Mackerras' conducting gives each of the genre arias of which the work consists both an appropriate intensity of emotion and an overall charm. The English libretto is by Hytner. The recording is decent PCM stereo and the picture, originally produced for TV broadcast, is in 4:3 ratio. --Roz Kaveney
Soldier of fortune John Seeger (Steven Seagal) is the best in the business: the business of kicking 'A'!!! When you're a mercenary there's always going to be casualties but no job is too treacherous for Seeger who's blackmailed into orchestrating an impossible prison break leading a team of heavily-armed soldiers on a deadly mission to South Africa to rescue the son of a billionaire arms dealer. But when Seeger finds out he's been double-crossed it's payback time and no
REVENGE HAS A NEW NAME It's 1868 and the Civil War has been over for three years. An old abandoned mine is now being transformed into a military stronghold by a corrupt Mayor (Stephen Lang, Avatar, Don t Breathe) and gang of blood thirsty outlaws who are a part of a larger hell-bent web with intentions of restarting the Civil War. When a US Marshal, James McCord (Nathan Parsons: True Blood) comes into town he discovers that his priest brother has been murdered. McCord will stop at nothing to make the killer pay and defeat the gang to protect the peace and fate of the United States.
Zombie ApocalypseMonths after a zombie plague has wiped out 90% of the American population a group of survivors fight their way through the zombie hordes to a rumoured refuge on the island of Catalina. But will they survive the cross-country zombie gauntlet or will they join the legions of undead...? Abraham Lincoln Vs. ZombiesWhile the Civil War rages on President Abraham Lincoln must undertake an even more daunting task: Destroying the Confederate Undead. The DeadWhen the last evacuation flight out of war-torn Africa crashes off the coast American Air Force Engineer Lieutenant Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) emerges as the sole survivor in a land where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living. On the run in a hostile and inhospitable parched landscape where sudden death lurks around every sun-burnished corner Murphy has to use his wits and ingenuity if he is to get home alive to his family. When Murphy's path clashes with that of Sergeant Daniel Dembele (Prince David Osei) whose village has been torn apart by the reanimated dead they join forces. The two desperate men from two very different cultures fight side by side to survive across the incredible vistas of Africa as the world succumbs to the deadliest of viruses.In the first zombie road movie set against the spectacular vistas of Africa the Dark Continent becomes a dead zone. A stunningly shot horror fantasy The Dead is one of the most unique zombie movies of all time.
Dr.Susan Chandler has a call-in radio show and uses it explore the issues of lonely women murdered by a seductive killer. One such investigation puts her life and those of her closest friends in danger. Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark.
Originally sold with the provocative tagline 'Is 15 too young for a girl? Is one wife enough for one man?', this time-capsule of a film concerns itself with the story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl, and forms part of a peculiarly 1960s British wave of films exploring such sensitive subject matter (others included Term of Trial, Age of Consent, and Three into Two Won't Go).Starring Olivia Hussey, in her first post-Romeo and Juliet role, and the inimitable Tom Bell (The L-Shaped Room, Prime Suspect), this wonderful slice of British cultural history is one of only a handful of feature films directed by Gerry O'Hara, better know for his assistant-director work with such cinema giants as Tony Richardson, Carol Reed and Otto Preminger.
A festive tale about a mischievous but lovable puppy, named Cinnamon, who is determined to break-up her devoted mummy's new relationship.When a unlucky-in-love university professor, Madeline, meets single architect, Kevin, an unlikely romance begins to blossom. What nobody expects is that Madeline's Maltese puppy, Cinnamon, has other ideas. Not wanting to lose Madeline to romance, crafty little Cinnamon acts out, spoiling dates whenever she can and trying to break up the relationship.She has her chance to ruin the relationship altogether when Kevin agrees to take care of her and she runs away. Will Kevin be able to find her before Madeline finds out and he's left single and alone at Christmas?
The complete fourth series of the outstanding Emmy Award-winning Upstairs Downstairs. Episodes Comprise: 1. A Patriotic Offering 2. News from the Front 3. The Beastly Hun 4. Women shall not Weep 5. Tug of War 6. Home Fires 7. If You Were the Only Girl in the World 8. The Glorious Dead 9. Another Year 10. The Hero's Farewell 11. Missing Believed Killed 12. Facing Fearful Odds 13. Peace out of Pain
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