Bastian Balthazar Bux (Mark Rendall) is an average twelve year old boy whose life revolves around going to school watching TV and playing video games. That is until he discovers a magical book `The Neverending Story' in a fascinating curiosity shop owned by the mysterious Carl Coreander (John Dunn Hill). Bastian's imagination is inspired by the book's tale of an enchanted world called Fantasia; a world ruled by the Childlike Empress (Audrey Gardiner) and inhabited by an assortment o
Catherine Cookson's heart-rending tale of Emily Kennedy and her relationship with three different men.
This 1997 thriller For Hire ponders the question of what terrible things a person might be persuaded to do, given the right circumstances and the right price. Rob Lowe plays Mitch, a Chicago cab driver trying to make it as an actor, married to the pregnant Faye. Among his clients are bestselling writer Lou Weber (Joe Mantegna), who befriends Mitch and confides in him that a drug dealer is trying to kill him. Over the next few days, Mitch begins to suffer severe stomach pains, collapsing in Weber's apartment after a fare and is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. With only a short time to live, he decides to take up Weber's offer to rub out his drug dealer stalker for $50,000, a nest egg for his family after he's gone. A not entirely unpredictable twist follows, hinted at by the Lucifer-like beard sported by Mantegna and the film alights only briefly to meditate on the potential for evil in all of us before resuming its journey along conventional, though certainly passable Hollywood thriller lines. An intriguing precept--it's just a slight shame that neither the players nor director's hearts seem really to be in this movie. On the DVD: Features a trailer. --David Stubbs
John Haloran dies from a heart attack leaving his wife Louise with something of a problem; she won't get to inherit any of the Haloran family money when Lady Haloran dies if John is already dead. So Louise forges a letter from John in order to convince the rest of his family that he has been called away urgently on business to New York whilst she journeys to the ghostly ancestral home in Ireland. It is her intention to ingratiate herself into the family and ensure a cut of the inheri
This box set contains Jackass: The Movie plus Volumes 2 and 3 of Jackass the TV show. Jackass is very probably the most perfectly named programme in the history of television. The cult MTV hit is the sort of exceedingly stupid thing that can only be the work of clever people; in this case, a collection of old-enough-to-know-better delinquents who appear to have taken the wisdom about the dumbing-down of popular culture as a challenge. The difference between Jackass and most dumb things on television is that other dumb things on television like to pretend that they're arch, or clever, or at the very least camp. Jackass makes no such pretensions, and for this reason it is incredibly liberating and funny. There is no subtext to any of this. Johnny Knoxville and company think of something supremely idiotic to do, and do it. We see them riding down hills on ice blocks, inviting a fire crew to turn their hoses on them, and trying to ride bicycles around a 360-degree wooden loop while dressed as chickens. That only one cast member ends up hospitalised is little short of miraculous, and surely proof that God loves his clowns. --Andrew Mueller
Bastian Balthazar Bux (Mark Rendall) is an average twelve year old boy whose life revolves around going to school watching TV and playing video games. That is until he discovers a magical book `The Neverending Story' in a fascinating curiosity shop owned by the mysterious Carl Coreander (John Dunn Hill). Bastian's imagination is inspired by the book's tale of an enchanted world called Fantasia; a world ruled by the Childlike Empress (Audrey Gardiner) and inhabited by an assortment o
Federal Judge Faith Matheson (Lena Olin) finds herself in potential danger when she is handed a case involving corruption in the military. Her ruling could decide the fate of the first U.S. rocket into space in over 30 years and the powers that be want nothing to stop it. She is assigned into the protective custody of Conor Gallagher (Bill Pullman) a former Marine Corps helicopter pilot but that doesn't stop the both of them from being pulled into a web of conspiracy treason and
How do you like your blockbuster movies? If the answers loud, fast and full of big robots fighting, then youre well and truly in luck. For director Michael Bays take on Transformers, based on the toys of the same name, delivers just that. And with some style. The film stars the fast-rising Shia LaBeouf (Disturbia) as Sam, who discovers that his first car has a little more to it when it transforms into an Autobot robot called Bumblebee. Fortunately, the Autobots are the good guys, and following not far behind are a good number more, headed up by Optimus Prime. Against them are the less friendly Decepticons, with Megatron at the helm, and the two sides are set for a frenetic battle right in the middle of Planet Earth. Theres a plot sitting underneath all of this, but its pretty much given with the Transformers movie that its just a vehicle to get the film from one set piece to another. And theres little denying that the action sequences are spectacular. Boasting quite staggering special effects, the on-screen action moves with a pace and ferocity that sometimes makes it hard just to keep up with it all, as mighty robots engage is some quite staggering fights. Its quite an achievement. Paving the way for an already-in-production sequel, Transformers has little pretensions about what its going to do, and is all the better for it. This is a film about big robots, big fights, big effects and, ultimately, big, dumb grin-inducing fun. What, really, is there not to like? --Jon Foster
What The Universe Tells Me:Is a one-hour documentary exploring how music and philosophy combined to create an all-encompassing panoramic experience aimed at moving it audience toward personal and communal transformation.One of the largest and most ambitious symphonies ever composed. Mahler's Third requires off-stage instruments children's and women's choirs vocal soloist and a six-part scheme that incorporates folk poetry and philosophical text. The emotional charge of the work steadily mounts from the chaos of creation in the first movement to the summit the highest level from which the world can be surveyed in the last.From the volcanoes of the South Pacific to the Alpine peaks and meadows where Mahler composed dramatic images from the natural world give shape to the symphony's evolutionary saga. Performances combine with illustrative artwork computer animation historical film clips and the insights of world-renowned historians philosophers and biographers. Thinkers such as Howard Garder Stan Brakhage and Catherine Keller join Mahler experts Henry-Louis de La Grange Donald Mitchell Moten Solvik Peter Franklin and Edward Reilly to explore an artwork so rich and emotionally compelling that it mirrors the entire world!Featuring performances by Grammy nominated baritone Thomas Hampson internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Mignon Dunn and the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by Glen Cortese this double DVD set is a must for all music lovers and those new to the world of the symphony.
Snake Eyes (Dir. Brian De Palma 1998): An explosive highly entertaining action thriller Snake Eyes teams Nicolas Cage with Gary Sinise; Cage is an Atlantic City cop who along with an arena full of spectators at a championship prize-fight is eyewitness to a political assassination! Determined to quickly solve the crime he immediately launches an intensive investigation... then learns that a search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-wideni
In the ruthless world of contract killing the line between business and pleasure is one that should never be crossed. Music sensation Treach stars in the explosive and intense thriller Love And A Bullet. Maleek 'Ghost' Bishop (Treach) is a nasty dangerous killing machine - loaded with rage and a temper that's primed to explode. As word of his prowess in the fine art of murder spreads he finds himself recruited to join an elite band of professional hitmen. But when the big boss
Sent to Transylvania on an errand for the U.S. administration Washington Press Secretary Jack Whittier who previously was engaged in an affair with the President's daughter is attacked by an unseen beast. Seemingly having recovered Whittier returns home. However upon his return to the Capitol Whittier transforms into a bloodthirsty werewolf and commits a series of grisly murders that terrorize the city. Police are convinced the killings are the work of a common criminal and Jack's spree of mayhem is blamed oniracial unrest. Yet when a full moon rises on the eve of a national address even the President may not be safe! Either a horror spoof or a political satire 'Werewolf Of Washington' draws on the paranoia of the Watergate scandal and the hipster humor of 'The Second City'.
She's The One: Mickey (Burns) a free-spirited New York cabbie and Francis (Mike McGlone) a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's (John Mahoney) influence. Though they disagree about nearly everything they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fianc'' Heather (Cameron Diaz) is Francis' secret lover. Though the brothers have beautiful wives (Maxine Bahns and Jennifer Aniston) Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry with uproarious and unexpected results. Picture Perfect: As adorable as she is ambitious Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position - and equally determined to snare Sam the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women. She achieves both goals by pretending she's getting married to Nick a man she met at a wedding and barely knows. But her carefully constructed fictional life comes face to face with reality when her boss wants to meet Nick sending Kate's personal and professional worlds spinning out of control... The Good Girl: Thirty-year-old Justine Last longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart Justine's good-girl existence takes a turn for the worse...
Francis Ford Coppola's feature debut co-written with blaxploitation legend Jack Hill (Coffy) and produced by the grand-master of independent cinema Roger Corman. The Haloran family gather at a sinister Irish castle to memorialize the death of the youngest sister Kathleen. While various family members plot and connive an axe-murderer is terrorizing the grounds and Kathleen's body shows up at just the wrong time. Slowly the family members become increasingly suspicious o
A compelling drama about scandal celebrity and sex - written by and starring Kay Mellor. Part-time lap dancer Sharon Harrison goes on a rare night out with the girls but when she claims that she's been drugged and raped by none other than Jamie Gillam the famous Castlefield football player he readily admits to having consensual sex but denies rape. When Sharon suddenly drops her case against Jamie Maxine Norris becomes suspicious and confides in her aunt determined to find out
This box set features the following films: Jackass: The Movie: Johnny Knoxville and his insane crew take the concept of the MTV show Jackass - a bunch of guys doing dangerous and disturbing stunts just to see what happens - to the extreme. This time it's not edited for television! Jackass The Movie: Number 2: Twice as fearless twice as hilarious and twice as curious Johnny Knoxville Bam Margera Steve-O Chris Pontius Wee Man Ryan Dunn Preston Lacy Dave England and Ehren McGhehey stumble back onto the big screen with another round of ridiculous stunts pranks mischief and other really bad ideas in Jackass Number Two. Laugh yourself silly and gasp in disbelief as the guys launch their battered bodies into the an onslaught of absurd situations and hopeful outcomes whether it's Pontius laying his manhood on the line for a puppet show Bam taking one for the team as he faces off butt-first against a hot branding iron or Knoxville's undercover and over-the-top pranks as a 90-year-old man these guys know what it takes to lower the bar and up the ante in their quest for nonsensical fun. Jackass 2.5: As if going number two wasn't enough Johnny Knoxville and the entire crew from Jackass return in yet another insane foray into stupidity Jackass 2.5! Featuring all the stuff they couldn't show you before the boys take their stunts to all-new heights that'll leave you laughing squirming and begging for more.
Who says armed robbery can't be civilised? Charismatic thief Bobby Comfort (Marsters) escapes from prison clears himself of all charges and returns to a new life he finds unsatisfying. Although he is devoted to his wife and daughter his old life comes calling both figuratively and literally in the form of ideas man Sammy Nalo (Cassini). With the help of Bobby's old partner they begin robbing swanky New York hotels while Comfort's second cousin and bumbling cop Phil P
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