There's a new kind of criminal on the streets - ruthless gangsters who have turned drug trafficking into highly lucrative inner-city corporations and who got a ""New Jack"" way of dress music and culture. There's a new kind of cop too. They're the tough young New Jack cops who grew up on the streets and who alone know how to bring these ruthless mobsters down...
Although Britain has changed almost beyond recognition since Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was first broadcast in the early 1970s, the show's simple slapstick humour has an ageless quality that makes it enduringly hilarious. Michael Crawford found fame as Frank Spencer, still probably television's most accident-prone man, and still Britain's most mimicked sitcom character, having inspired thousands of wannabe entertainers to don black berets and Humphrey Bogart-style rain coats and feebly exclaim "Mmm, Betty!". Crawford's great insight was to portray Frank as both a figure of fun and an endearingly sympathetic character: we laugh at him but never cease liking him, and we always admire his plucky never-say-die spirit. Most of the episodes share the common theme of Frank attempting to find a job (ranging from a holiday camp entertainer to an RAF cadet), but because of his clumsy demeanour and lack of common sense, losing the positions within a matter of hours. Pitted against a variety of middle-aged, male professionals (his GP, a psychiatrist and a public relations consultant for example), Spencer's stupidity reduces these "experts" to nervous wrecks. His long-suffering, doting wife Betty (Michelle Dotrice) features throughout, but despite his wild behaviour and idiocy she appears only mildly flustered by her husband's actions. On the DVD: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was one of the first comedy series to be recorded by the BBC in colour, but the sound and vision of the episodes transfer perfectly satisfactorily to DVD format. At times the production values of some of the episodes are decidedly ropey (watch out for stray boom microphones and the skewed opening and closing credit). Apart from the episode and scene selection menus, which incorporate sound extracts from the show, no extras are included. --John Galilee
Includes all three 'Special' episodes on DVD for the first time! 'Jessica's First Christmas' - First broadcast 25 Dec 1974: It's time for Frank's favourite annual event the nativity play. When the angel of the lord phones in sick Frank is ready to put the wings on. He's also designed a special flying effect but ends up flying a bit higher than intended! 'Learning To Drive' - First broadcast 25 Dec 1975: Frank has a driving lesson but his car gets away from! Back at the hous
Breaking All The Rules is a teen comedy set in a Canadian amusement park. It stars park worker Jack Fleming (Carl Marotte) and his pal (Thor Bishopric) who fancy themselves as God's gift to women. The boys manage to impress Debbie (Carolyn Dunn) and Angie (Rachel Hayward) especially after winning a stuffed toy that contains a valuable diamond. It was stolen by three hapless criminals who pursue the teenagers. A break-dancing contest provides the finale where the film conclu
Failure To Launch (Dir. Tom Dey 2006): Matthew McConaughey is Tripp a 35 year old who still lives with his parents. And who can blame him? It's free he's got a great room and mom (Kathy Bates) does the laundry. Desperate to get him out of the house his parents hire a gorgeous woman Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker) to give him a little...push. They just didn't expect Tripp would push back! In this romantic battle of wills there's no place like home... How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (Dir. Donald Petrie 2003): Andie needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days. Ben needs to prove he can win a girl in 10 days. Now the clock is ticking-and the year's most wildly entertaining comedy smash is off and running in this irresistible tale of sex lies and outrageous romantic fireworks!
The minute he wakes up and the minute before sleep - for two minutes each day, Blake Falls feels alone. He tries to grab those minutes before they vanish. They are enough to remind him who he is.
Charlie Jade is a science fiction television drama set in Cape Town South Africa in three parallel universes named Alpha Beta amd Gamma (or Alphaverse Betaverse and Gammaverse). The series revolves around Charlie Jade a private detective from Alpha. While on an investigation Charlie explores a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him from his own universe (Alpha) to a strange parallel universe (Beta). Soon Charlie is drawn into a conflict that involves these two universes and one other pacifist universe (Gamma).
After the surprise announcement of confirmed bachelor Scott friends Jay Dewey and Phil see the wedding as the ideal opportunity to add some more notches to their bedposts. The guys soon realise that it is going to take more than just a smile to get the sexy bridesmaids horizontal.
Charlie Jade is a science fiction television drama set in Cape Town South Africa in three parallel universes named Alpha Beta amd Gamma (or Alphaverse Betaverse and Gammaverse). The series revolves around Charlie Jade a private detective from Alpha. While on an investigation Charlie explores a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him from his own universe (Alpha) to a strange parallel universe (Beta). Soon Charlie is drawn into a conflict that involves these two universes and one other pacifist universe (Gamma).
Detective Michael Turner investigates mysterious deaths that occur in and around a maximum-security prison. What begins as just another suicide and murder case unfolds into a furious struggle to uncover the unexplainable while escaping death at the hands of a vengeful spirit unleashed within the prison walls. The Grudge meets X-Files in a maximum-security prison.
The true life story of Muhammad Ali (Will Smith), the world champion boxer who both ignited and mirrored the conflicts of the 60s & 70s and became one of the most admired fighters in the world.
This boxset features American Ninja 1 2 and 3. American Ninja (Dir. Sam Firstenberg 1985): US army private Joe Armstrong is escorting a supply convoy when it is ambushed by rebels. Instinctively he defends himself using the martial art of Ninjitsu - an ability that puts him under suspicion by his commander and fellow soldiers. In a plot riddled with dark intrigue Armstrong now finds himself a lone warrior fighting corruption within his ranks. In the depths of the Philippino jungle he discovers a dark secret in his past. He has been initiated into the deadliest art of the Orient and he must now face his destiny and fight the evil Black Star Ninja in the ultimate martial arts battle. This is a seminal Ninja movie with breath taking action as swift and sure as the blade of a samurai sword! American Ninja 2 (Dir. Sam Firstenberg 1987): On a remote Caribbean island Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of The Lion an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors. American Ninja 3 (Dir. Cedric Sundstrom 1989): Jackson is back and now he has a new partner karate champion Sean as they must face a deadly terrorist known as The Cobra...
Machine Gun Preacher is the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. Gerard Butler (300) delivers a searing performance as Childers, the impassioned founder of the Angels of East Africa rescue organization in Golden Globe-nominated director Marc Forster's (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) moving story of violence and redemption.When ex-biker-gang member Sam Childers (Butler) makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war, he is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region's vulnerable populace, especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of more experienced aide workers, Sam breaks ground for an orphanage where it's most needed-in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a renegade militia that forces youngsters to become soldiers before they even reach their teens.But for Sam, it is not enough to shelter the LRA's intended victims. Determined to save as many as possible, he leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children, restoring peace to their lives - and eventually his own. The explosive, real-life tale of a man who has rescued over a thousand orphans from starvation, disease and enslavement, Machine Gun Preacher also stars Michelle Monaghan (Due Date), Kathy Baker (Cold Mountain), Madeline Carroll (Mr. Popper's Penguins), Academy Award nominated Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) and Souleymane Sy Savane (Damages).
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