A South African Story of Truth Love and Reconcilliation. In 1996 the South African Government established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses of human rights under apartheid. These hearings would serve as a forum for those accused of murder and torture to be confronted by their victims and by admitting their guilt be granted amnesty under Ubuntu the native custom of forgiveness. Covering the sessions are Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and
Empire Day on the Slag Heap. With the strike at an end the miners are back however an accident leaves Bill with a broken back. Jessie receives a marriage proposal whilst Jack receives some surprising news. Episodes titles: Empire Day On The Slagheap A First Time For Everything Paddy Boyle's Discharge and Angel On Horseback.
Includes the tracks: 1. Grease 2. Summer Nights 3. Hopelessly Devoted To You 4. You're The One That I Want 5. Beauty School Drop Out 6. Stayin' Alive 7. How Deep Is Your Love 8. More Than A Woman 9. Jive Talkin' 10. Boogie Shoes
The notorious Long John Silver returns to Treasure island to sate his irrepressible desire for gold.
In 'Hamlet' we find Olivier acting and directing Shakespeare's immortal story of murder intrigue madness and despair. 'Henry V' is one of Shakespeare's most compelling histories complete with the great Battle Of Agincourt and directed by Olivier in lush technicolour became the most expensive film made by a British studio...
Taped as a lavish cable television special in 1997, One Night Only trades on the Bee Gees' shape-shifting career as pop survivors. Over the course of 111 minutes, this straightforward concert, produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and groomed for both video and CD posterity, sprints through 31 songs from their past three decades. Even after the inevitable disco jokes are expended, and the jaundiced viewer contemplates the role hats, hairspray, and comb-overs now play in dressing the once stylishly long-haired troika, the Gibb brothers' signature vocal harmonies and hook-laden song craft beg respect.Casual listeners can't be blamed for equating the Bee Gees with the dance floor bonanza they reaped through 1978's Saturday Night Fever, yet that commercial zenith was actually the culmination of a comeback for a group that had seemed washed up by the early 1970s. One Night Only thankfully takes an even-handed view of both their original late 1960s hits ("Massachusetts", "To Love Somebody", "Lonely Days"), building from a cannily Beatle-browed vocal sound, and the 1970s blue-eyed soul ("Jive Talkin'", "Nights on Broadway") that led them naturally into disco. The Fever hits are here, as are Gibb originals that clicked for other acts; the family circle also widens for a posthumous duet with their late brother, Andy Gibb, while Celine Dion gets star billing in the collaborative "Immortality". --Sam Sutherland
The Pursuit Of Happyness (Dir. Gabriele Muccino) (2006): Chris Gardner is a bright and talented but marginally employed salesman. Struggling to make ends meet Gardner finds himself and his five-year-old son evicted from their San Francisco apartment with nowhere to go. When Gardner lands an internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm he and his son endure many hardships including living in shelters in pursuit of his dream of a better life for the two of them. Big Daddy (Dir. Frank Coraci ; Peter Segal ; Dennis Dugan) (1991): Thirty-two-year old Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed...and he can't return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny! About A Boy (Dir. Chris Weitz ; Paul Weitz) (2002): Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously. A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women. Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) and his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette). The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will's secret and so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place and watch afternoon telly. However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship...
There have been many film and TV adaptations of Oliver Twist but this 1948 production from director David Lean remains the definitive screen interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. From the ominous symbolism of its opening storm sequence (in which Oliver's pregnant, ill-fated mother struggles to reach shelter before childbirth) to the mob-scene climax that provokes Bill Sikes's dreadful comeuppance, this breathtaking black-and-white film remains loyal to Dickens while distilling the story into its purest cinematic essence.Every detail is perfect--Lean even includes a coffin-shaped snuffbox for the cruel Mr. Sowerberry--and as young Oliver, eight-year-old John Howard Davies (who would later produce Monty Python's Flying Circus for the BBC) perfectly expresses the orphan's boyish wonderment, stern determination and waifish vulnerability. Best of all is Alec Guinness as Fagin, so devious and yet so delightfully appealing under his beak-nosed (and, at the time, highly controversial) make-up. (Many complained that Fagin's huge nose and greedy demeanour presented an anti-Semitic stereotype, even though Lean never identifies Fagin as Jewish; for this reason, the film wasn't shown in the US until three years after its British release.) Likewise, young Anthony Newley is artfully dodgy as Fagin's loyal accomplice, the Artful Dodger. Guinness's performance would later provide strong inspiration for Ron Moody's equally splendid portrayal of Fagin in the Oscar-winning Oliver! and while that 1968 musical remains wonderfully entertaining, it is Lean's film that hews closest to Dickens' vision. The authentic recreation of 19th-century London is marvellous to behold; Guy Green's cinematography is so shadowy and stylised that it almost qualifies as Dickensian film noir. Lean is surprisingly blunt in conveying Dickens's theme of cruelty but his film never loses sight of the warmth and humanity that Oliver embodies. --Jeff Shannon
Based on the phenomenal best-selling book by famed author Deepak Chopra and featuring all-new music from Olivia Newton-John The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success offers a life-altering perspective on the attainment of success.
Here's to risks ... In a wonderful tale of misfit adolescents who find their independence through a forbidden interracial relationship Noah Taylorstars as Danny a gangly stutterer with a wry wit few friends and a big crush on Thandiwe (Thandie Newton) a Ugandan student whose father is in some political danger back home. Danny goes to a boys academy and Thandiwe boards at a girls school nearby. The two meet secretly and deepen their doomed affair exploring adulthood for the first time on their own terms....
Available for the first time the complete collection of Olivia Newton-John videos Video Gold volumes 1 and 2. Track Listing Disc 1: 1.Deeper Than The Night 2.A Little More Love - Version 1 3.Totally Hot 4.Landslide 5.Magic 6.Physical 7.Carried Away 8.A Little More Love - Version 2 9.Recovery 10.The Promise (The Dolphin Song) 11.Love Make Me Strong 12.Stranger's Touch 13.Make A Move On Me 14.Falling 15.Silvery Rain 16.Hopelessly Devoted To You 17.Let Me Be There - Live 18.Please Mr. Please - Live 19.If You Love Me (Let Me Know) Track Listing Disc 2: 1.Twist Of Fate 2.Take A Chance 3.Livin' In Desperate Times 4.Shaking You 5.Heart Attack 6.Tied Up 7.Soul Kiss 8.Culture Shock 9.Emotional Tangle 10.Toughen Up 11.The Right Moment 12.The Rumour 13.Can't We Talk It Over In Bed 14.Reach Out For Me 15.I Need Love 16.I Honestly Love You 17.Sam - Live 18.Suddenly - Live 19.You're The One That I Want - Live 20.Xanadu - Live
Nickys a young man who plans to go straight when he returns home to his old stomping ground, but old friends and new enemies make that hard to achieve.
A teenage Australian girl deals with the traumas of everyday life. These include her difficult relationship with her single mother the unexpected return of her long-lost father the disapproving nuns at her strict Catholic school the acceptance of her schoolmates and romantic dilemmas over two very different boys.
Crosby Stills and Nash filmed in 1983 at LA's Universal Amphitheater. Tracks Include: 1. Turn Your Back On Love 2. Chicago 3. Just A Song Before I Go 4. Wooden Ships 5. Dark Star 6. Barrel Of Pain 7. To The Last Whale... 8. Critical Mass 9. A. Wind On The Water 10. B. You Don't Have To Cry 11. Blackbird 12. Wasted On The Way 13. Delta 14. Treetop Flyer 15. Magical Child 16. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes 17. Cathedral 18. Southern Cross 19. Long Time Gone 20. For Wh
Among the bouts featured Matt Hughes takes on Carlos Newton for the Welterweight Championship.
How do you prevent terrorists from unleashing mayhem on the entire world? You don't. This is a job for IMF agent Ethan Hunt. The world's greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe.
Julia Stonecypher is down on her luck. She has lost her husband and the vice-president of the local bank pays a visit to tell her the house is being repossessed and she and her two children are homeless. After leaving Julia's house Brian the bank vice-president has an accident in his car and is forced to return to the house and shelter from the severe storm. A romance begins and Julia's life starts to take a turn for the better...
The best post-punk music in Europe was electronic and for five years the best electronic music came from Sheffield. 'Made In Sheffield' documents the evolution of Human League Cabaret Voltaire Heaven 17 and ABC who emerged from Sheffield's musical scene in the late 1970s. Their dream was to destroy rock music: the result was the creation of some of the most influential sounds in pop. Rare archive footage soundtrack and exclusive interviews with the famous almost famous and not fa
A group of students form a pop group called Toomorrow in order to pay their way through school. Dying aliens kidnap the group, needing their vibrations to help their race survive.Written and directed by Val Guest, Toomorrow was an attempt by Don Kirshner to replicate the success he had had with The Monkees. This was also a first starring role for Olivia Newton-John, whose own singing career would take off the following year.
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