Talking Threads is an exciting programme about the colourful and imaginative world of contemporary textile art. This DVD features ten leading British textile artists with easy to follow demonstrations including: Silk Painting Creative Embroidery Heat & Melting Techniques Contemporary Quilting Techniques Machine Embroidery Hand Dyeing Fabric Water Solubles Mixed Media Fabric Slashing- An Age Old Technique Reinvented
To safeguard a priceless national treasure the Greek government has requisitioned the luxury cruise liner Argo Theti for use as an undercover cargo carrier.The plan falls apart when the cruise ship is attacked by a submarine belonging to a fanatical billionaire art collector Elgin Bates.During the assault a fuel tank is ignited blasting a gaping hole in the ship's hull.Oxygen is now the most valuable commodity for the surviving passengers and crew trapped in an airtight compartment below decks. As the oxygen decreases the massive ship succumbs to the pull of the ocean dropping ninety feet down and crashing onto a ledge overhanging one of the deepest tracts in the Aegean Sea.As the ship teeters over the gaping mouth of the abyss the pressure causes the hatches to blow. One after the other decks corridors and cabins are rapidly flooded.Underwater under pressure they're fighting for their lives in the cruel deep.
The residents of an isolated cattle ranch have their quiet and peaceful lives turned upside down when a young drifter is found on their property in the dead of night. The boy claims a local merchant stolen money from him and so with the help of two strangers he killed the alleged thief. A mysterious and unsettling drama unfolds as upon describing his accomplices the locals realise he's talking about two men they know...but who died 15 years ago. Did the young man really carry out the crime or can the ghosts of two dead cowboys be guilty of murder?
Lucky for Eddie Murphy he got hold of the rights to this 1963 Jerry Lewis classic before Jim Carrey did. Murphy had a comeback of sorts with his Jeckyll-and-Hyde-derived fable of awkward chemistry professor Sherman Klump (Murphy), who discovers a potion that transforms him into the suave, cocky lady-killer Buddy Love (also Murphy). The big difference between the two versions is that Murphy's Sherman is not only a nerdy intellectual but is also grossly obese, which provides the opportunity for some hilarious digital transformation effects, as well as some gentle satire of our culture's attitudes toward fat people. As he did in the hit Coming to America, Murphy plays multiple roles, and the scenes at the Klump family dinner table, in which he plays everybody, are brilliantly funny. (Murphy won the National Society of Film Critics' award for best actor of 1996 for these performances.) Lewis based his Buddy Love on the 1960s ideal of cool exemplified by Sinatra and the Rat Pack; Murphy stumbles a bit by playing up the oily phoniness of his latter-day Love a little too soon, but for the most part The Nutty Professor represents a welcome return to form for Eddie Murphy. --Jim Emerson
Thunderbirds (Dir. Jonathan Frakes 2004): International Rescue run in secret by the Tracy family and led by Jeff (Bill Paxton) is permamently on standby to offer assistance when accidents and incidents threaten lives across the world. However when the villainous Hood (Ben Kingsley) infiltrates the Tracy's clandestine island base and imprisons most of the family who will rescue the rescuers? It's left to teenage Alan (Brady Corbet) and his similarly young friends to save the day! Small Soldiers (Dir. Joe Dante 1998):Meet the Commando Elite - toy action figures with an attitude. They've escaped from their boxes along with the Gorgonites kindhearted but unusual-looking creatures. Now teenager Alan Abernathy gets enlisted to help the Gorgonites and rescue the girl of his dreams before the whole town is turned upside down. Small Soldiers is a spectacular adventure for the whole family! We're Back A Dinosaur's Tale (1993): The voices of the above stars bring a handful of dinosaurs back to life in the modern day in this Steven Spielberg production. Lavish animation and imagination bring to life this delightful tale of dinosaurs in New York City. A group of very friendly very intelligent dinosaurs take a trip to Manhattan and brighten the lives of two very special lonely children.
For archaeologist Matt Fletcher (Casper Van Dien of Starship Troopers) it begins with the startling discovery of a 42-foot mummy buried beneath a desert valley in the American Southwest. But when additional evidence warns of a modern-day apocalypse Fletcher - along with a desperate industrialist (Robert Wagner of Austin Powers) and a skeptical engineer (Kristen Miller of She Spies) - must survive the rampage of the reanimated giant and the fury of a mysterious stranger who may be the most unholy incarnation of all.
Evil Has A Whole New Rap! The Leprechaun is back in the hood all blazed up and seeking revenge! When a group of friends discover his treasure they soon find out they've unleashed a can of demented whoop ass! With their stack of riches they go from poor to ghetto-fabulous overnight spending their newfound loot on pimped-out cars and hair extensions. One by one the friends stand up to the weed smoking knife-wielding car-stealing Leprechaun who will stop at nothing to get his treasure back. Evil has a whole new rap and the kids from the hood had better watch their backs!
In this drama a psychologist endeavours to balance his turbulent personal life, with those of his troubled patients. Unfortunately, he tends to get equally personally involved in both.
No ordinary halloween! What started off as the perfect way to spend Halloween for seven teenagers goes horribly wrong.... They travel to an old decrepit house the site of a horror movie set which is rumoured to be haunted. But when two grave robbers arrive seeking refuge from an army of the living dead it becomes an epic fight for survival....
Jean Vigneron's manservant is blackmailing his boss who is having an affair with Ines de Montalban. The servant is murdered. Everyone accuses Vigneron who keeps quiet so as not to compromise his lover. His innocence proved Vigneron flees with Ines. Montalban the cheated husband tries to forget them but sinks into debauchery. Despite ordeals in an unwelcoming Africa love conquers all...
8 Mile: The people of Detroit know 8 Mile as the city limit a border a boundary. It is also a psychological dividing line that separates Jimmy Smith Jr. (Eminem) from where and who he wants to be... Trainspotting: Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family... This is the story of Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his so-called friends - a bunch of losers liars psychos thieves and junkies. Hilarious but harrowing the film charts the disintegration of their friendship as they proceed seemingly towards self-destruction. Mark alone has the insight and opportunity to escape his fate - but then again does he really want to choose life?
The Big Trees (1952): Kirk Douglas plays Jim Fallon a hard-nosed lumberjack intent on making his fortune from California's famous giant redwood trees. The territory he has designs on though is inhabited by a God-faring colony that beg him not to strip their land of the mighty sequoias. Initially undeterred he ignores their pleas but soon discovers that there are others even more ruthless than himself who also want to oust the settlers. With violent confrontation inevitable Fallen slowly comes to question his own unscrupulous nature and finally makes an unexpected alliance. The Big Lift (1950): This film is one of the best true-life adaptations of an historical event - The Berlin Airlift. It was made on location in Berlin with the full cooperation of the US Military who actually played the minor acting roles with star Montgomery Clift. The Big Lift does a good job of showing how ordinary soldiers and people can have divided loyalties and wrestle with the adverse situation that befell them in Berlin at the time. Truly a time capsule of Postwar Berlin
This terrifying box set features three teen-fronted scary movies... The Wisher: 'The Wisher' is a number one box office hit but it is far too scary for Mary and she leaves the cinema before the end. But soon the fictional story becomes an evil reality as Mary finds a mysterious creature is stalking her. The creature looks and acts just like in the film and Mary believes it is granting her a wish in a twisted way but now she must work out what it wants from her before it is too late... Devil's Prey: It's the middle of the night and a group of teenagers are driving home from a party when they accidentally run into a young woman. Little do they know that this is the least of their worries as she is on the run from a posse of dangerous cult members who are out to catch her for a sacrifice. The Shadows as the cult members are known now have five more targets in their sights as the teens find themselves running for their lives to the nearest outpost of civilization. The Pool: School's out exams are over and it's time for real life to begin. But before 13 friends from the International High School in Prague disappear to the four corners of the earth they intend to throw the best party of their lives. The idea to stage the party in Prague's biggest swimming pool is illegal but cool. And when Gregor the laid back leader of the group thinks an idea is good then no one else from the group objects. But what begins as a night of all nights quickly turns into a life and death struggle as the friends come to realise that death itself is on the guest list. A mysterious masked killer starts a hunt throughout the building. As the kids panic it beings to dawn on them that the killer must be one of their own...
Excess Baggage: Brazen yet emotionally neglected Emily T. Hope (Alicia Silverstone) desperate for her father's attention stages her own kidnapping. But before she can enjoy a happy reunion with her father her car gets stolen with Emily still inside and professional car thief Vincent Roche (Benicio Del Toro) is about to find out that he's stolen a lot more than he bargained for! And when Emily's sinister ex-CIA 'uncle' (Christopher Walken) starts tracking them down the heat can only get hotter in this hilariously romantic adventure! Biloxi Blues: In this semi-autobiographical screenplay Neil Simon's private memoirs in the US Army are made public. Set in 1943 at an army base in Biloxi Mississippi a lowly recruit (Broderick) comes under the command of a very weird drill sergeant (Walken)... Go: Ronna needs to make some extra cash. Simon wants to escape to Vegas for the weekend. Adam and Zack want to stay out of trouble. But it's not just another night in the life of these unusual characters. They're about to embark on a wild ride that won't end until the sun comes up.
Gus Van Sant Double Pack (2 Discs)
A group of well-endowed young women go through a number of auditions to be selected as pointers and hand holders on a popular television game show. Those that make the cut must then deal with a bunch of libidinous producers hosts and guests. The supporting cast includes Dick Miller as a game show host Sid Melton as a publicist Los Angeles Times film critic Charles Champlin as himself and cult-movie actress Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith.
Supernatural children's feature. Near destitute after the death of her husband, a widow and her young children are approached by an elderly and mysterious solicitor, Mr. Blunden (Laurence Naismith), who asks the family to become the caretakers of a derelict, partly fire-damaged country mansion. The family takes up the offer and shortly after moving into a small cottage on the mansion's estate the youngsters, Jamie (Gary Miller) and Lucy (Lynne Frederick), meet up with a pair of ghosts, Sara (Rosalyn Landor) and Georgie (Marc Granger), two children who were killed in the fire at the mansion one hundred years ago.
It's two years since the trial is over and the James boys have an appointment with the electric chair. Refusing to give the media and the public the woeful explanations they expect the brothers with their unsavoury humour and complete lack of remorse become the kind of media heroes that only America in the late 1990's could embrace. Their bloody escape from prison leads to a massive manhunt with an intrigued public glued to their televisions thrilled but afraid. The killers hole up in a typical suburban town taking the Ryan family hostage. But it's the James brothers who are in for a nasty surprise it appears that the Ryan's have a few of their own axes to grind.
Sharing a dark journey through the weaknesses of the human heart with her only companion Lava once an evil Shinma and now her devoted guardian Miyu lives an endless quest as both the hunter and the hunted. Once Upon a Time: Unaware of her true identity Miyu is living as a normal girl with her Mother in the Talsho era. Confrontation: Stray Shinmas are dying mysteriously. Miyu suspects Reiha but can't understand why... The Boy Who Returned: Tokiya is g
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