Based on the much loved, timeless fairytale The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling andMe tells the story of Ratso, a wheeler dealer city rat, and Ugly, a baby duckling with a striking appearance.But Ugly isn't your average duckling and Dollar signs flash before Ratso's eyes as he recognises Ugly as a potential source of income. However, as the pair embark on an unlikely adventure, Ratso comes to realise that there is more to life than making a quick buck and so begins a lifelong friendship. A must for fans of classic fairytales and more recent films such as Ratatouille and Happy Feet this offers pure delight for the whole family.
Airplane (Dir. Jerry Zucker David Zucker & Jill Abrahams 1980): Voted ""one of the ten funniest movies ever made"" by the American Film Institute Airplane! is a masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy. Featuring Robert Hays as an ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning; Julie Hagerty as his girlfriend/ stewardess/ co-pilot; and a cast of all-stars including Robert Stack Lloyd Bridges Peter Graves Leslie Nielsen Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...and more! Their hilarious high jinks spook airplane disaster flicks religious zealots television commercials romantic love...the list whirls by in rapid succession. And the story races from one moment of zany fun to the next! Top Secret (Dir. Jerry Zucker David Zucker & Jill Abrahams 1984): 'Top Secret!' pits American rock star Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) against the dreaded East German High Command. It's a race against time as Nick teams up with Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge) to find her father before he can create the ultimate super weapon - the Polaris Mine. Along the way 'Top Secret!' manages to do for war epics and Elvis films what 'Airplane!' did to disaster movies!
Ricky Tomlinson and Phil Daniels star in this dark new British comedy about two neighbours whose disagreements soon escalate.
Silent comedy star Harold Lloyd personally selected his funniest scenes for this hysterical compilation. Our bespectacled hero always seems to go from one set of troubles to another. Contains classic bits from gems such as 'Why Worry?' 'The Milky Way' 'Girl Shy' 'Movie Crazy' and 'Professor Beware'. You will never forget poor Harold's daring antics on a skyscraper in his best loved film 'Safety Last!' or his daring climb down the side of a building in 'Feet First'.
The granddaddy of giant monster movies, The Lost World was one of the most expensive movies ever made in 1925, costing more than a million dollars, and has remained one of the most influential. Every larger-than-life creature feature since--from King Kong to Godzilla and Jurassic Park--owes a debt to this original adventure fantasy based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. It's the story of a maverick scientist (Wallace Beery under a bushy beard) who finds a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles and comes back to London with a captured brontosaurus to prove it. His expedition includes Bessie Love, the daughter of an explorer who disappeared on the previous expedition, and big game hunter Lewis Stone. The ostensible stars of the picture are all upstaged by Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs, simple models brought to life with primitive stop-motion animation (the technique was soon to be perfected by O'Brien for King Kong). Hardly realistic by any measure, these pioneering special effects are still a sight to behold, especially the lumbering brontosaurus which receives the most care from O'Brien, both foraging in his jungle and rampaging through the streets of London. With the coming of talkies, The Lost World became obsolete: all known American prints were destroyed in favour of a sound remake (which became King Kong) and the film only survived in a severely truncated form (even the original negative was lost). For this release David Shepard meticulously "rebuilt" the film using material from eight different surviving prints from all over the world, cleaning and restoring along the way. The result is 50% longer than previously extant prints, still not complete but closer than any version since its 1925 debut. The difference is not merely in restored scenes but in a rediscovered sense of grace in scenes filled out to their original detail and pace. The film moves and breathes once again like a silent film. On the DVD: From the attractive solid slipcase to the wonderful "period" menu interface, this is a delightful DVD package. The film itself looks surprisingly good--a real tribute to the restoration team's efforts--with careful tinting in the style of the period (blues for evening, reds for dawn etc.). The disc features the choice of either an original score by The Alloy Orchestra or a classical orchestral score compiled and conducted by Robert Israel (both enjoyable and effective), 13 minutes of O'Brien's animation outtakes (including a couple of isolated frames that capture O'Brien manipulating his models) and a well-meaning but basic commentary by Arthur Conan Doyle historian Roy Pilot. There's also a text biography of Conan Doyle and a display of original postcards, posters and other promotional items. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
From the Academy Award-winning team of Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis comes the hilariously original, ground breaking adventure that thrilled critics and audiences alike - and sparked one of the most successful movie trilogies ever!The year is 1985 - but not for long. Because teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is about to be blasted back to 1955 aboard the plutonium-powered DeLorean created by eccentric genius Doc Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). But when Marty accidentally keeps his parents-to-be from falling in love, it triggers a time shattering chain reaction that could vaporise his future - and leave him trapped in the past! Now, Marty's last hope is to change history - before the clock runs out in his only chance to get himself Back to the Future!
""What if you could find brand new worlds right here on Earth where anything is possible? Same planet different dimension. My friends and I found the gateway. Now the problem is...finding a way back home!"" While working in his basement Quinn Mallory opens the gateway to parallel worlds. For a test run Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Arturo along. Upon opening the vortex Quinn uses too much power which causes the vortex to suck them in along with Rembrandt 'Crying Man' Brown who happened to be driving by Quinn's house. The four are stuck in a parallel world and must find their way back to the gateway for the next 'slide' hoping each time that the next one will take them home...
A semi-pretentious urban sleaze film, Shadow Hours offers Balthazar Getty--sporting a "BZAR" knuckle tattoo and a Charlie Sheen look as a recovering drug addict working nights in a Los Angeles filling station to support an angelic pregnant wife (Rebecca Gayheart). Getty is tempted to the wild side by sharp-suited mystery man Peter Weller, who takes him on a tour of nocturnal weirdsville: piercing clubs, bare-knuckle boxing arenas and big-money Russian roulette parlours. Getty comes to suspect that Weller is a perhaps-demonic serial killer who has been turning women's heads (literally) and calls in cop Peter Greene. But he also goes back to dealer Frederic Forrest to get back on drugs and is stuck with get-in-the-way boss Brad Dourif. The film has a good cast and the germ of an interesting idea, but ends up as just another drama about a backsliding rehab guy and nighttime folks. It works hard on being shocking without going all the way into Clive Barker territory, despite advice on extreme underground culture from shock-tactics queen Lydia Lunch and some nasty fishhook facial sculpture. The ending suggests Weller might be a semi-supernatural character, but cops out of dragging Getty all the way down to hell. Weller, who grabs most of the best lines ("I've seen things in this city make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie the Pooh"), is an interesting, ambiguous villain, but everyone else is very standardised. Writer-director Isaac H Eaton clearly has a large collection of David Lynch videos and watched Fight Club several times. On the DVD: Sound is presented in both 2.0 and 5.1, while the widescreen presentation looks a lot better than the full-frame video release. In addition, there's a trailer and a photo gallery montage of arty looking frame blow-ups scored with pounding weird-rock. --Kim Newman
Arthur Goldman a rich Jewish industrialist who lives in luxury in Manhattan and is irreverent about many things Jewish is arrested by Israeli secret agents for allegedly being a Nazi war criminal... Robert Shaw best known for his acting roles in movies such as 'From Russia With Love' and 'Jaws' turned playwright to create this brilliant drama inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann concerned with guilt paranoia conspiracy theories and martyrdom. Directed by Arthur Hiller
'Don't Open Till Christmas' is a thrilling and bizarre murder mystery where nothing is sacred - even Santa Claus! A killer is on the loose in London and his sights are set on one target - Santa Claus - dozens of them. Jolly old Saint Nick is stabbed beaten and electrocuted in department stores at parties and even on crowded street corners. What sort of twisted mind is behind these barbarous acts of violence?
Formed in 1982 and signed to their first big record deal in 1984 Lloyd Cole & The Commotions were one of the most successful indie acts in the UK and oft-quoted as influences to many other subsequently famous bands. Their knowingly pretentious lyrics and namedropping in songs endeared them to a generation of students - and for some time had the band vying with The Smiths in terms of popularity. Recorded in 1986 at The Marquee London and interspersed with pastiche band shots this excellent live concert was produced and directed by Mike Mansfield. Tracklist: 1. Rattlesnakes 2. Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken 3. Glory 4. Andy's Babies 5. Charlotte Street 6. Patience 7. Speedboat 8. Beautiful City 9. Perfect Skin 10. Forest Fire 11. Glory (reprise)
Colonel Ryan Beckett (Mark Dascascos) and his team of misfit tactical mavericks are called away from leave on orders from President Nelson (Rutger Hauer) only to be informed that the gravest threat to all humanity has become their ultimate challenge. Man's quest for harnessing the power of nuclear weapons has wreaked havoc on the earth. The Pacific plates are shifting. The world is hotting up. Earthquakes. Volcanic eruptions. An apocalypse of biblical proportions. They have just three days left to deflect the plates successfully with the power of another thermo-nuclear bomb - ground zero: Los Angeles. As both heat and panic flare through the cities of the world and with the help of a group of the US's top scientists Beckett must battle to save the planet and fight for the life of his daughter caught between marauding gangs taking the lawless streets hostage before the raging fire of hell on earth consumes them all!
Convicted counterfeiter Tris Stewart (Lloyd Bridges) is offered early release from prison in return for helping the US Treasury Agents track down his former partners-in-crime. Unwilling to cooperate Stewart manages to escape unwittingly playing straight into the T-Men's hands. Directed with style and a documentary feel by Richard Fleischer no-one is quite what they seem. Trapped is superbly lit with crisp intelligent dialogue - a top notch Film Noir with an explosive ending.
Bloodrayne is back! This time the sexy heroine (Natassia Malthe) battles a gang of merciless vampire cowboys led by Billy the Kid (Zack Ward). Scene after scene her death defying stunts with knives and sling-blades blaze a trail of mayhem for her villains.
With or Without You works as an above-average television drama; but that's about the height of its ambition. It's strange that Michael Winterbottom, director of the hard-edged, bitter Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) and the grandiose snowy western The Claim (2000) should have bothered with anything as routine and undemanding. Perhaps its greatest distinction is that it's set in present-day Belfast without so much as a mention of the Troubles. The plot is a bog-standard romantic triangle. Rosie and Vincent, who have been married five years or so, want a baby, but nothing's happening. It doesn't help that Rosie's older sister has sprogs burgeoning like mushrooms wherever you look. Then up pops a figure from Rosie's past--BenoƮt, her pen-pal from before she met Vincent. And being French, he's naturally charming, witty, romantic and everything poor old Vincent isn't. Think you can guess what's coming? Well, most likely you can--right down to the all-too-pat happy ending. Still, the actors (Christopher Ecclestone, Dervla Kirwan and Yvan Attal are the leads) are accomplished and watchable, the dialogue stays the right side of banal and it's refreshing to see Belfast shown as a civilised, cultured place to live. With or Without You passes an hour and a half pleasantly enough and may even raise the odd chuckle, but it covers well-trodden territory without much new to say. On the DVD: aptly routine stuff--the theatrical trailer, a bland "making of" featurette and some interviews with the three principal players. Widescreen (16:9 anamorphic) and Dolby Surround Sound give the material the best possible showcase. --Philip Kemp
When Tessa's ex-husband Michael remarries leaving her with two children she takes an immediate dislike to Carolyn. But when Tessa finds out she is terminally ill she decides to give Carolyn another chance...
Twenty Bucks is the story of a $20 bill from its birth at an ATM to its final shredding at the bank and the lives it touches along the way. Among those passing the buck are a prophetic bag lady (Linda Hung The Year of Living Dangerously) an about-to-marry-rich working stiff (Brendan Fraser TheMummy) a New Age witch (Gladys Knight) a struggling writer (Elisabeth Shue Leaving Las Vegas) adistracted cop (William H. Macy The Cooler) a well-mannered stick-up artist (Christopher Lloyd The Addams Family) and a hot-headed conman (Steve Buscemi Big Fish). And while they may be strangersto each other they do have one thing in common. When they passed the buck they never expected change
For this psychological drama Dennis Potter reworked his 1974 TV play 'Schmoedipus' transposing the setting from London to the United States. Distraught and dreamy Linda Henry (Theresa Russell) complains to her husband surgeon Henry Henry (Christopher Lloyd) about their sex-less childless marriage but he's obsessed with his basement model railroad layout and also engaged in an affair with a nurse (Sandra Bernhard). When mysterious stranger Martin (Gary Oldman) drops in on Linda he claims to be her long-lost illegitimate son. As seen in flashbacks the 16-year-old Linda was raped at a carnival by a man (Gary Oldman) who resembles Martin. Subsequent events hint at Martin as a delusion a product erupting from Linda's fantasy world.
Originally produced and broadcast on Canadian television this collection of 26 mini biographies features some of the most compelling characters of the 20th century. From dictators to statesmen Presidents to Prime Ministers Voices In Time represents history brought to life. Speeches Comprise: Disc 1: 1. David Lloyd George 2. Emily Pankhurst 3. Franklin D Roosevelt 4. Ho Chi Mingh Disc 2: 1. Adolf Hitler 2. Jawaharlal Nehru 3. John F Kennedy 4. Margaret Thatcher Disc 3: 1. Richard Nixon 2. Nelson Mandela 3. Ronald Reagan 4. Winston Churchill Disc 4: 1. Eleanor Roosevelt 2. Fidel Castro 3. Gloria Steinem 4. Harry S Truman Disc 5: 1. Lech Walesa 2. Jimmy Carter 3. Ayatollah Khomeini 4. Albert Einstein 5. Woodrow Wilson Disc 6: 1. Theodore Roosevelt 2. Robert Kennedy 3. Mikhail Gorbachev 4. Malcolm X 5. Mahatma Gandhi
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