Jazz icon Mel Lewis represents what American Big Band is all about. Giving his players the creative and expansive freedom to solo Lewis is known for his unselfish and innovative approach to big band music and his ability to make a big band swing like a Bebop quartet. In this exclusive live DVD concert performance Grammy award winner Mel Lewis leads his top-flight 19-piece band with Joe Lovano Dick Oatts Gary Smulyan and Ralph Lalama. Song Selections include Little Pixie I'm Getting Sentimental Over You I Get A Kick Over You I Wanna Be Happyand Ding Dong Ding.
Now available for the first time on DVD in the UK, Taking Off is acclaimed director Milos Forman’s (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) first US feature. This 1971 comedy-drama stars Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry as middle-class New York suburbanites, whose teenage daughter runs away from home when she gets in trouble with her parents. In the process of trying to unravel the mystery of the girl's whereabouts, the couple rediscovers their own lives. This funny, alternative coming-of-age tale features exclusive musical appearances from Tina & Ike Turner, Carly Simon and actress Kathy Bates (as ‘Bobo’ Bates). This DVD edition features a restored version of the film along with the following extras: Trailer Before Taking Off: Milos Forman’s Road To America (30 minute documentary) Photo Gallery
In the violent new dark age of the year 2021 all women are helpless slaves of a brutal male-dominated society: all women that is except the deadly and gifted maidens of 'The Sisterhood'...
Based on the life of Gertrude Lintz, a Long Island socialite who kept an amazing menagerie of animals on her estate, this very able film by Caroline Thompson (Black Beauty) concentrates on Lintz's relationship with a gorilla named Buddy, whom she raised from infancy on. The film is geared toward kids but in the very best sense as Thompson orchestrates some very entertaining sequences without cutting corners on logic, the way most forms of children's entertainment do today. Rene Russo is very good as the eccentric woman, and Robbie Coltrane is uncharacteristically warm and fuzzy as her patient husband. Nice support work from Alan Cumming and the rest of the cast. Thompson is aiming for something akin to the live-action glory days of Disney, and she comes close to achieving it. --Tom Keogh
On the Brooklyn Bridge in New York a young couple toss a coin which sends their lives off in two, very different, simultaneous directions. In Brooklyn they are forced to confront loss and family values, while in Manhattan the discovery of a lost mobile phone sends their day into a break neck tale of intrigue, suspense and murder.
Two sister's lifelong struggle with mental illness daily hardships and their own conflicted relationship evolves into mutual respect and understanding in this poignant and emotional real life story. Throughout their life Christine and Judy's stern but dutiful devoted mother tries to hide the fact that Christine is not like other girls. Suffering from Schizoaffective Disorder Christine is in and out of hospital for most of her teenage years leaving her younger sister Judy confused and ambivalent to someone who her mother loves as dearly as her. In later life Judy who has escaped the confines of small town life to New York receives a visit from her sister. But the re-acquaintance turns sour when Judy's friend begins displaying the kind of prejudice Christine and Judy's mother attempted to protect them from during childhood. And when their mother succumbs to a debilitating illness Christine's need for her sister becomes more apparent and overwhelming. Judy fears she must finally confront her own inability to form relationships and reconcile her feelings towards her sister so that they can both begin to lead the normal loving lives they crave so much.
Dementia 13: Dementia 13 will delight all fans who thrive on classics such as; Night Of The Living Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The Plot revolves around a seemingly benign member of a family who is the mad axe-murderer and is steadily picking off the rest of the family. The location is used imaginatively the gothic atmosphere suitably potent and there is a magnificently sharp cameo from Patrick McGee as the family doctor. Dementia 13 is guaranteed to make you double loc
When a British ship sinks in foreign waters the world's superpowers begin a feverish race to find its cargo: a nuclear submarine control system. And 007 (Roger Moore) is thrust into one of his most riveting adventures as he rushes to join the search...and prevent global devastation!
During the 1930s Deanna Durbin became America's favourite box-office star thus almost saving Universal films from bankruptcy. She retired at age 26 after making just 21 films. Five of those films are released on this box set: 'First Love' 'Three Smart Girls Grow Up' 'Can't Help Singing' 'The Amazing Miss Holliday' and 'For The Love of Mary'.
The Lion finds himself in the enchanted Land Of Oz after a storm and encounters the Wicked Witch of the East. She forces the Lion on a mysterious journey in her quest for control.
In The Passenger, a provocative new drama from the director Tor Iben, sexual and moral boundaries are put to the test when a handsome stranger begins to infiltrate the lives of two artists. While searching for a condo in Berlin for his father, Nick meets Philipp, a talented photographer, and Lilli, a gorgeous actress. There is instant chemistry and both are easily seduced by Nick's charms. Lilli and Philipp begin to explore their relationship with the sexy visitor, succumbing to their...
We are the future!... and nothing can stop us. Andy Norris the new music teacher at a high school from hell faces an assortment of adolescent thugs eager to haze him on a daily basis. But brutality and unruliness aren't uncommon at Abraham Lincoln High where drugs prostitution and violent classrooms are controlled by gangs. Initially Norris isn't intimidated by the hoodlums harassing him but when they start threatening his wife he'll have to take them on one by one...
In this touching yet hilarious comedy Clifton Webb stars as Frank Bunker Gilbreth a turn-of-the-century efficiency expert who tries to apply his exacting work standards to raising his children - all 12 of them! Based on the bestseller by children of the real Mr. Gilbreth and narrated by the Gilbreth's oldest daughter Ann (Jeanne Crain) Cheaper by the Dozen is an entertaining charming film that follows this unique family throughout their life together.
Paulie (Piper Perabo) Tori (Jessica Par) and Mouse (Mischa Barton) share a relationship deeper than sexuality and a love that is intensified in the hothouse atmosphere of an all-girl boarding school. Mouse leaves a small-town upbringing to attend Perkins Girl's College. Her two senior roommates the striking sharp-witted Paulie and the charming beautiful Tori quickly adopt her. The girls become inseperable but although they are the closest friends Mouse has ever had she is confused by the depth of the emotional and sexual relationship between Paulie and Tori. Their world shatters when Tori and Paulie are caught in bed together. Terrified that her family will find out Tori distances herself from Paulie and her own feelings. Defiantly refusing to submit Paulie battles to keep Tori. And Mouse is left torn between her friends. Through this sensual and violent struggle Mouse glimpses how powerful love can be and how impossible it is to define.
Firewall (Dir. Richard Loncraine 2006): Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) is an average family man in Seattle who heads up the hi-tech security team at his local bank. But following a seemingly trivial case of identity theft Jack's life is turned upside-down when he discovers that his wife (Virginia Madsen) and two kids have been kidnapped. The ransom? A mere $100 million which the kidnappers led by Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) want Jack to obtain for them via his expert computer skills. Initially compliant Jack is soon irked by Cox and his cronies to the point where he decides to risk everything to get his family back and bring the bad guys to justice... The Fugitive (Dir. Andrew Davis 1993): Catch him if you can. The Fugitive if on the run! Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through the breathless manhunt movie based on the classic TV series. Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. Jones is Sam Gerard an unrelenting bloodhound of an U.S. Marshal. They are hunted and hunter. The non-stop chase has one exhilarating speed: all out.
Director Vincent Sherman's 1941 classic. As the people of Germany adapt to life under Nazi rule two brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the country s new philosophy. Eric (Philip Dorn) is the leader of a resistance group broadcasting clandestine radio messages telling the nation the truth about the war and Germany's new regime. His younger brother Kurt (Jeffrey Lynn) a solder maimed in the fighting returns home from the frontline a true believer dedicated to the cause. A gripping drama unfurls as the brothers' lives become intertwined when Kurt is tasked by the Gestapo to uncover the voice of the resistance.
In classic mystery style Broadway playwright Alex Dennison invites actors and others to a 'cold reading' of his new play. But it is really his scheme to catch the killer of his actress fiancee Monica Welles who died a year previously?
James Cameron's debut feature is a thrill-a-minute terror ride where scuba divers investigating a sunken wreck at a plush Caribbean resort unwittingly unleash a shoal of mutated piranha which are as deadly in the air as under water!
The Falcon (George Sanders) finds himself embroiled in a murder when ex-jailbird Moose Malloy (Ward Bond) storms into a nightclub looking for his former showgirl girlfriend Velma. When the manager refuses to tell Moose where she lives Moose kills him. The police swarm the nightclub and begin to question the witnesses but the Falcon decides to carry out his own investigation. Things grow a little more complicated though when the Falcon is hired by Marriot (Hans Conreil) to make a 000 pay-off in return for a stolen jade necklace. When the assignment turns out to be a trap the Falcon finds himself in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse. Adapted from the Raymond Chandler novel Farewell My Lovely the third film in the Falcon series
Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case. After being taken in by richer neighbours he started to exhibit an obsessive and selfish urge to make more and more money, loving and leaving women at will to further this end.
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