Guitar legend and composer John McLaughlin has appeared on some of the most important jazz fusion albums in the last 40 years from Tony Williams Lifetime and Miles Davis's early electric albums to his own ground-breaking outfits the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti. In May 2008 he brought his 4th Dimension band to the Barbican for a sold-out concert. Jack Massarik' review in the Evening Standard said: His talent of course is intergalactic. Using a simple Strat-like black solid-body guitar he was in searing form on numbers old (Senor CS The Unknown Dissident) and new (Maharina Five Peace Band). No less dazzling in support were Hounslow's drum hero Mark Mondesir Leeds's ultra-versatile drum/keyboard wizard Gary Husband and Dominique Di Piazza a French bass-guitar virtuoso as blindingly fast as Johnnie Mac himself. This 104 minute DVD is the first complete McLaughlin concert ever presented on DVD. Filmed at a concert in Belgrade from the same tour it features a remarkable concert from the band performing an exciting set of tunes from McLaughlin's past repertoire. Tracklist: 1. Senor CS 2. Little Miss Valley 3. Nostalgia 4. Raju 5. Sully 6. Maharina 7. Hijacked 8. The Unknown Dissident 9. Five Peace Band / Mother Tongues
The Big Swap is the sexiest movie of the 90's. It takes the frankest look yet at one of society's last remaining taboos partner swapping! This is cinema at it's most challenging. It is compelling explicit and intelligent. One drunken night five couples decide to swap partners. At first it seems like harmless fun but events begin to move swiftly out of their control; events that take them to extremes of human emotions. A cross between 'Sex Lies and a Videotape' and 'This Life'
A young architect (Guttenberg) is engaged in an affair with his boss's wife. Witnessing an attack on a young girl from his bedroom window she needs him to report it since she cannot admit to being there for fear of alerting her husband to the affair. The architect dutifully steps forward and pretends to be the witness only to become the chief suspect in a series of brutal murders...
A busy bank holiday.... A ham fisted assistant.... Increasing paranoia.... All in a days work... Award winning playwrite Tim Firth (writer of Calendar Girls) creates a new comedy drama set in an electrical superstore. Alan assistant manager at 'Rocket' gets a chance to be the store manager on a busy bank holiday whilst his boss is away. However it seems his boss has laid a trap for Alan in the shape of Frank a mid-60's guy on a trainee scheme. Alan is forced to oversee a man who kn
A tragic death brings the old gang back to their hometown and they decide to spend the weekend at the vacation getaway from their childhood. What they don't know is that the home is host to a strain of mutant flies that feed on human flesh! One by one the flies claim their victims inhabiting their bodies and laying more of the deadly creature's eggs - and no one is getting out alive.
In the aftermath of the Cold War the world fights a different type of conflict.Conventional warfare is a thing of the past.This time the enemy remains faceless.Now a madman has organised a cartel of international terrorists and mercenaries into a lethal guerrilla strike campaign spreading fear and death across the globe. And the United States has become the prime target.In the shadow of night a group of commandos slip quietly out of the sky parachuting onto the roof of a military hangar. They eliminate several guards and open two huge bay doors. Inside Owen Turner steps up admiring a .2 billion B-2 Stealth bomber. A highly decorated fighter pilot Turner was thought to be dead killed on a top-secret mission in Central America. But this was just an elaborate ruse to steal important satellite access codes and disappear. Until now ...
The Jovian Invaders have destroyed our base on Mars wiped out our space fleet and now only one ship stands between Earth and Total Annihilation! Privately funded by the mysterious Nergal Corporation the High Mobile Battleship Nadesico is the most formidable fighting vehicle ever conceived but due to a shortage of trained soldiers the crew is a little unorthodox. Against an assistant cook as a pilot a General's daughter in command and the largest contingent of geeks and misfits
A film of vibrant contrasts in a dramatic New York setting, Nasty Baby is the latest creation from multi-award winning cinematic auteur Sebastian Silva. Co-produced by Pablo Larrain, it stars Silva, Oscar-nominee Kristen Wiig and actor, director and vocalist Tunde Adebimpe in a morally inquisitive film which deftly combines social commentary with powerfully personal issues in the intense, shifting world of artists and yuppies. A Brooklyn couple, performance artist Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. As they navigate the pitfalls of creating a new life, they are continually harassed by a menacing local vagrant known as 'The Bishop' their joyous pursuit of parenthood suddenly taking a dark turn when Polly is assaulted... Special Features: Sebastian Silva Introduction Original Theatrical Trailer
A complicated chain of murders uncovers a conspiracy that spans three decades. A young female PI is hired to solve a number of local murders. With no luck coming from the courtroom she has to take matters into her own hands.
Made in 1979 The World of Drunken Master appeared at the same time as Drunken Master Part 2, and is an unofficial prequel to Jackie Chan's Drunken Master (1978). As the titular character, Siu Tien Yuen appeared in all three films, though here his role is reduced to a 10-minute cameo and the bulk of the film is a flashback to 30 years earlier. The story unfolds as Jack and Mark Long play a pair of petty thieves who team-up, learn kung fu and fall in love with the daughter (Jeanie Chang) of the owner of a local distillery. Naturally there is a gang of villains who want to close the business down and steal the land, so that the second half of the movie is one long series of fight scenes. Clearly made on a very low budget, the action is nevertheless inventively choreographed and well filmed. Siu Tien Yuen doesn't have much to do, though the framing device and the passage of time to when the old friends meet again lends a poignancy and sense of loss unusual in kung fu movies. The star would reprise the character at greater length in Magnificent Butcher (again, 1979), while Jackie Chan finally delivered his own Drunken Master II in 1994. The title on this print is actually Drunken Dragon. On the DVD: the original 2.35:1 ratio film is presented here at standard TV 4:3, with often little evidence even of any panning and scanning so that the images look badly composed and lack important information throughout. The credits have been simply squashed to 4:3 so that everything looks tall and thin. Worse, the encoding is riddled with compression artefacts and the eye-aching out-of-focus, grainy, washed-out transfer shows clear evidence of originating with a poor quality video than the original film. There is no original soundtrack option, only a dreadful American dub. The sound is mediocre mono. Apart from various language subtitles the only extra is the original theatrical trailer. This is presented anamorphically enhanced, but the picture quality is still very poor and the image has been squashed from 2.35:1 to 1.77:1. The listed trailers for other MIA titles are missing from the disc, which astonishingly claims to be a "Special Edition". The cover blurb even manages to confuse the plot with that of an entirely different film, the same director's The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979). --Gary S Dalkin
When Private Investigator Patricia Collins is called to the scene of a murder she's not expecting to see her bloodied mirror image lying before her. But it is not just the shocking appearance of her surprise `twin' that Patricia has to deal with - she is also faced with a costly legal battle to clear her dead father's name...
The final six episodes of Minder to feature Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann comprise: It's A Sorry Lorry Morrie / Days of Fine and Closures / Fatal Impression / The Last Video Show / Fiddler on the Hoof / The Wrong Goodbye.
All ten episodes from the third season of the Adult Swim animated comedy series following the exploits of the American/Scandinavian death metal band Dethklok who are so popular with their fans that they will do anything the band's songs tell them even if it means certain death. Episodes Comprise: RenovationKlok TributeKlok DethHealth Dethmas FatherKlok Fertilityklok Dethsiduals Rehabklok Dethzazz Doublebookedklok
Titles Comprise:A Knight's Tale: Heath Ledger is William Thatcher, a peasant squire who breaks all the rules when he passes himself off as a nobleman and takes the jousting world by storm. The only thing that stands between William and his dream of becoming the world champion of this most extreme of competitions is the bad boy of the sport, Count Adhemar. And when the two rivals go lance to head at the world finals to determine who will be named the ultimate champion, you'd better arm yourself and hang on tight for the thrill ride of your life!Ned Kelly: The true story of the most notorious outlaw of his time; persecuted by the police and hunted by an empire, Ned Kelly had the largest reward in the world on his head. Forced into hiding when his family was unlawfully imprisoned, Ned and his gang soon became folklore...
The plot of The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club takes a new turn concentrating not on who did it? but moreover when was it done? A vast inheritance depends on the timing of the deaths of an elderly brother and sister - the sequence of deaths is the Big Question. Once this is established only then can Peter Wimsey's sleuthing turn to who the murderer is...
All six episodes of the ITV comedy drama series starring Liza Tarbuck as Helen a likeable forty-something teacher whose world is turned upside down when she discovers her husband of 20 years has been cheating on her.
10 year old Ikki Tenrio has always dreamed about becoming a top-ranked medafighter and now that he has his own medabot he can finally pursue his lifelong dream... Volume 1 of the animated adventures of Ikki and his top Medabot Metabee! Episodes comprise: Stung By A Metabee: When Erika is threatened by Medabot bandits Ikki buys an old KBT-Type Medabot named Metabee to Robattle the bad guys. Return Of The Screws: Ikki and his Medabot are continually bickering but when Metabee is kidnapped at a crucial moment the two must overcome their differences. Running Scared: Ikki and the Screws grow suspicious of their gym teacher after being forced into a brutal exercise programme! The Legendary MedafighterThe Old Man And The Sea Monster: Ikki and Metabee Robattle a Shark-Type Medabot at the beach.
With an outstanding performance by James Woods, Rudy: The Rudolph Giuliani Story is a warts-and-all portrait of New York City's lame-duck mayor, who rose from political disfavour to unexpected heights of heroism and leadership in the wake of September 11, 2001. Originally broadcast on the USA Network and based on Wayne Barrett's muckraking biography, it's a condensed, Cliff's Notes rendition of Giuliani's political career, with each commercial break serving as a chapter stop, beginning on the eve of 9/11 and alternating past and present highlights from Giuliani's rise to power. The film offers an unflinching portrait of a devoted public servant who's as fallible as he is competent: his wife (Penelope Ann Miller) understandably suffers while extramarital affairs and political fearlessness are all seen as by-products of Giuliani's compulsion to improve the city he loves. As Robert Dornhelm's clunky direction combines actual news footage with exacting recreations of 9/11 and its aftermath, Woods' charismatic performance wisely avoids mimicry to show us a flawed but noble man who, in the final analysis, deserves our conditional respect. --Jeff Shannon
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