A crime mystery set in the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, where the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people.
The Innocents tells of an impressionable and repressed governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) who agrees to tutor two orphaned children Miles (Martin Stephens) and Flora (Pamela Franklin). On arrival at Bly House she becomes convinced that the children are possessed by the perverse spirits of former governess Miss Jessel (Clytie Jessop) and her Heathcliffe-like lover Quint (Peter Wyngarde) who both met with mysterious deaths.
1965 saw Ken Loach working as one of the in house directors of the groundbreaking The Wednesday Play series at The BBC which included Three Clear Sundays Up the Junction and The End of Arthur's Marriage. Of these plays Up The Junction had the most impact telling the story of three young women factory workers in their work and home lives focusing on Rube as she meets her first boyfriend and chronicles the significant life changing events that follow including an illegal abortion. Not only controversial at the time Loach's inter-cutting of real life interviews mixed in with drama became a signpost for his future directing style striving for naturalism and realism. 1966 saw Ken Loach's breakthrough piece Cathy Come Home. The play follows the lives of young sweethearts Cathy (Carol White fresh from Up The Junction) and Reg (Ray Brooks) starting out as a newly married couple moving into a new place and having children. Reg then suffers an accident which means he is unable to work and they end up being evicted and separated. With Cathy homeless but still looking after the children she faces having her children taken away from her by Social Services. This is perhaps the play that has had more impact than any other on television highlighting the very real problem of homelessness. Even some forty years later the power of Cathy Come Home remains undiminished. In Two Minds charts the turbulent life of a young woman who endures a difficult family life and after throwing a kitchen knife at her mother is diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Much like Cathy Come Home the realistic documentary style helps provide veracity to the story. Written by Jim Allen The Big Flame is a story of striking Liverpool dock workers who decide that to safeguard their futures they must control the port themselves. This was the first of several Ken Loach / Jim Allen collaborations - many of which would be starkly political. The BAFTA nominated Days of Hope was Jim Allen's tale of a working-class family in the period from 1916 to 1926 taking in the First World War events in Ireland and the General Strike of 1926. Running to well over six hours the series tells an epic story particularly in the light of the parlous state of the economy and labour relations in Britain at the time. A radical series in every sense Jim Allen was able create real parallels in Days of Hope that resonated with the working class of the mid 1970's and the political climate at that time. Loach returned to the BBC with The Price of Coal (written by Kes author Barry Hines) a film which depicted the lives of those living in a coalfield community. The first part subtitled Meet The People is a comic tale surrounding the story of a colliery community in preparation for a visit by Prince Charles and the efforts being put on by the management to make the pit fit for a future king involving grassing over an unsightly coal slag heap and whitewashing everything in site. The second part Back To Reality is completely different in tone when the colliery suffers a sudden underground explosion trapping killing and injuring the miners and as the rescue team work frantically to rescue those trapped those above ground argue about who is to blame. The Rank and File which completes the collection again written by Jim Allen is a story based around the strike by the Pilkington Glass workers. This beautifully packaged collection displays some of Loach's very best work and gives a real insight into working class life in the 60's and 70's. The collection also features an interview with Ken Loach a documentary entitled Housing Problems and a commentary track for Cathy Come Home.
Hank Hill is an old fashioned hardworking beer drinking man who is trying to live in a modern Texas world. His wife is opinionated his son is a disappointment his friends are losers and his Father is oppressive. But through it all Hank keeps a level head a strong sense of morality and by doing so keeps himself ""King of the Hill."" Episodes Comprise: 1. Peggy Hull: The Decline And Fall 2. Cotton's PLot 3. Bills Are Made To Be Broken 4. Little Shop Of Horrors 5. Aisle 8A 6. A Beer Can Named Desire 7. Happy Hank's Giving 8. Not In My Back Hoe 9. To Kill A Ladybird 10. Hillennium 11. Old Glory 12. Rodeo Days 13. Hanky Panky: Part 1 14. High Anxiety: Part 2 15. Naked Ambition 16. Movin' On Up 17. Bill Of Sales 18. Won't You Pimai Neighbour 19. Hank's Bad Hair Day 20. Meet The Propaniacs 21. Nancy Boys 22. Flush With Power 23. Transnational Amusements Presents: Peggy's Magic Sex Feet 24. Peggy's Fan Fair
The final ten episodes from the eighth season of the Australian TV drama, a reimagining of 'Prisoner Cell Block H', the popular soap broadcast between 1979 and 1986 which follows the lives of the staff and inmates of a women's prison. The episodes are: 'Rogue', 'Requiem', 'The Ties That Bind', 'Judas Kiss', 'The Unknown Terrorist', 'One Eye Open', 'Collateral', 'The Abyss', 'The Reckoning' and 'Legacy'.
Baywatch was the global TV phenomenon of the Nineties. At its peak this glossy beach soap was watched by over one billion people in one hundred and forty countries worldwide with people soaking themselves in the drama of Malibu beach life and taking to the show like lifeguards to water! David Hasselhoff is Mitch Buchannon a single-parent lifeguard who is the mentor for a crowd of hip young attractive lifeguards keeping the beach safe for the masses. The series' simple premise caught the imagination of audiences worldwide and the show launched the careers of a number of young actors who would go on to cause heatwaves and set temperatures soaring with their on-screen chemistry including Billy Warlock Erika Eleniak Pamela Anderson Yasmine Bleeth Carmen Electra and Tracey Bingham. A landmark TV show that was a ratings smash for over a decade and that still remains a topic of conversation today this box set contains all twenty-two episodes of bikini-clad and sexy six-pack action.
A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.
Patterns exist everywhere: in nature, in science, in religion, in business. Max Cohen (played hauntingly by Sean Gullette) is a mathematician searching for these patterns in everything. Yet, he's not the only one, and everyone from Wall Street investors, looking to break the market, to Hasidic Jews, searching for the 216-digit number that reveals the true name of God, are trying to get their hands on Max. This dark, low-budget film was shot in black and white by director Darren Aronofsky. With eerie music, voice-overs, and overt symbolism enhancing the somber mood, Aronofsky has created a disturbing look at the world. Max is deeply paranoid, holed up in his apartment with his computer Euclid, obsessively studying chaos theory. Blinding headaches and hallucinogenic visions only feed his paranoia as he attempts to remain aloof from the world, venturing out only to meet his mentor, Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), who for some mysterious reason feels Max should take a break from his research. Pi is complex--occasionally toocomplex--but the psychological drama and the loose sci-fi elements make this a worthwhile, albeit consuming, watch. Pi won the Director's Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. --Jenny Brown
Two small time crooks Mario and Roberto along with their female companion kidnap a young girl and decide to hide out at a friend's jungle house where he makes his living trading with the local natives. However the local natives have a particular speciality on their menu - human flesh When Mario rapes his friend's wife she takes revenge by tying him to a tree to be eaten by the natives. Having informed the kidnapped girls parents of her whereabouts the remaining gangsters f
Between 1979 and 1982 the Not the Nine O'Clock News team produced the sharpest comedy to be found on British television and launched the careers of the stars production team and writers and was the most talked-about comedy series of the 1980s with an enormous following worldwide. Sketches flow with the sharpest wit. News clippings and archive material are mixed with monologues and music. This selection of their quick-fire blend of satire pastiche pop and witty sketches includ
Barb Wire is the sexiest, toughest woman in Steel Harbor, a city marked by chaos and crime, providing a home for a new kind of mercenary. If you've got a problem, Barb Wire is the solution. She'll use any weapon - including her body - to take what she wants, crossing the line for no man, until the day Axel Hood hits town. He's on a mission and Barb is the only one who can get him out alive. Will Barb help the man who once betrayed her? There's only one thing you can be sure of... she can get anything you want, for a price. Are you ready to pay...?In this action-packed sci-fi thriller, Pamela Anderson shines as a hot avenging angel and Temuera Morrison (The Mandalorian) delivers his debut Hollywood performance.Directed by David HoganStarring: Pamela Anderson, Udo Kier, Temuera Morrison, Clint Howard, Xander BerkeleyBonus Features:New 4K HDR restoration from the original negative with Dolby Vision by TurbineNew 5.1 and 2.0 mixNew interviews with producer Todd Moyer (18 mins), costume designer Rosanna Norton (18 mins) and visual effects supervisor Chris Brown (16 mins).Sexy Outtakes (9 mins)Making-of (15 mins)Promo featurette (6 mins)Trailers
Baywatch was the global TV phenomenon of the Nineties. At its peak this glossy beach soap was watched by over one billion people in one hundred and forty countries worldwide, with people soaking themselves in the drama of Malibu beach life and taking to the show like lifeguards to water!David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider) stars as Mitch Buchannon, a single-parent lifeguard who is the mentor for a crowd of hip, young, attractive lifeguards keeping the beach safe for the masses. The series' simple premise caught the imagination of audiences worldwide and the show launched the careers of a number of young actors who would go on to cause heatwaves and set temperatures soaring with their on-screen chemistry, including Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, Alexandra Paul and David Charvet.A landmark TV show that was a ratings smash for over a decade and that still remains a topic of conversation today, this box set contains all twenty-two episodes of bikini-clad and sexy six-pack action.
A team consisting of a physicist his wife a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation and solve the mystery of Hell House...
King Of The Hill is another animation hit from Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge who also voices the starring character Hank Hill a propane gas salesman in the fictional town Arlen Texas. Hank is often besieged by the idiosyncrasies of society but he finds (some) serenity in his home-life with his wife substitute Spanish teacher Peggy his awkward son Bobby and his live-in niece-in-law Luanne Platter. Adding flavor to the ordinary dish the series serves are Han
Norman Jewison's dystopian Rollerball portrays a near-future in the aftermath of the Corporate Wars, in which nations have crumbled and conglomerates rule. In place of freedom the people are given bread and circuses: material comfort and rollerball itself. Played on a circular, slanted track by men on skates and motorbikes, this extreme sport is the ultimate extrapolation of the primitive blood lust implicit in many team sports. James Caan is outstanding as Jonathan E, star player with the Houston team. In the elegant detachment of Jewison's direction, emphasised by the stark, alienating use of classical music, there are echoes of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Notwithstanding the brilliantly staged arena sequences, Rollerball is essentially about freedom versus conformity and the corruption of unfettered capitalism, with Caan leading an existential rebellion in the tradition of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 which leads to a chilling, apocalyptic finale. Certainly the most prophetic film of the 1970s, Rollerball has an intelligence and power overlooked by those who simply denounce its brutal violence. On the DVD: Rollerball arrives on DVD with clear three-channel Dolby Digital sound, although obviously it lacks the impact of a more modern 5.1 soundtrack. The 1.77:1 transfer is anamorphically enhanced and is generally very sharp and detailed with excellent colour. Some scenes show a lot of grain, but this is presumably a consequence of having to shoot with very fast lenses to capture the swift and dramatic action under indoor lighting conditions. "Return to the Arena--The Making of Rollerball" is a new 25-minute documentary (4:3 with letterboxed film clips) that features Jewison, Harrison and various other personnel reminiscing about the making of the film. The highlight of the extras are commentary tacks from the Jewison and Harrison, and while there is inevitably some overlap of information, and some quite lengthy gaps in Harrison's track, there is also much to interest the serious film buff. Also included is an original seven-minute promotional featurette "From Rome to Rollerball: The Full Circle", the chilling original trailer, the teaser trailer and a trailer for the remake.--Gary S Dalkin
More yuletide fun with Springfield's first family! Homer VS. Dignity: With Smithers away Burns hires a cash-hungry Homer as his 'prank monkey' to peform stunts that ultimately damage Homer's dignity. Skinner's Sense Of Snow: A blizzard traps Skinner and Groundskeeper Willie with an assortment of students at Springfield Elementary. Dude Where's My Ranch?: While out Christmas carolling the famliy finds out from a lawyer that the carol they are singing is copyr
The complete tenth season of the popular animated series. In this season, Peggy (voice of Kathy Najimy) gets a job at the town newspaper, Bill (Stephen Root) volunteers at a halfway house and Hank (Mike Judge)'s softball team goes head-to-head with their undefeated rivals. The episodes are: 'Hank's On Board', 'Bystand Me', 'Bill's House', 'Harlottown', 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Clown', 'Orange You Sad I Did Say Banana?', 'You Gotta Believe (In Moderation)', 'Business Is Picking Up', 'The Year of Washing Dangerously', 'Hank Fixes Everything', 'Church Hopping', '24 Hour Propane People', 'The Texas Panhandler', 'Hank's Bully' and 'Edu-macating Lucky'.
Russell Crowe stars as Terry Thorne, a K&R (kidnap and rescue) expert called in by the wife of an American engineer (played by Meg Ryan) when her husband is kidnapped in South America.
Conveying the scope of his prodigious and varied creative output and the breadth of his extraordinary personal and political life, director/producer Alex Winter and producer Glen Zipper were granted exclusive access by Gail Zappa to a vast collection of his unreleased music, movies, incomplete projects, unseen interviews and unheard concert recordings, much of which was deteriorating and in danger of being lost forever.
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