Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger star in the story of Depression-era U.S. fighter and folk hero Jim Braddock.
Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished. Skinamarink is a one-of-a-kind film that re-creates the sensation of being very young and essentially powerless, unable to even articulate why everything feels so... wrong (Los Angeles Times).
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Each week twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny return to the family home for a Friday night dinner of domestic squabbling, food-related pranking, and lashings of crumble crumble'. Series 1 Adam goes on a blind date in front of his entire family, Jonny jumps out of a bin bag and almost kills Grandma, Dad has a chat with Adam about females', Mum comes face to face with her nemesis - Bitchface', Grandma gets locked out the house in her bikini, and neighbour Jim brings round a special basket of green fruit - called a schmoigel'... Series 2 Adam goes out with a girl who smells like Mum, Jonny gets a girlfriend who's twice his age, Dad dries fish in the downstairs cupboard, Mum is forced out the house by a mouse, neighbour Jim makes a birthday cake for his dog, Grandma gets a new boyfriend who tries to fight Dad and we meet Dad's mother - Horrible Grandma'. Series 3 Adam gains a new female admirer - a 9-year-old girl, Jonny gets the world's worst tattoo, Mum practices being a counsellor on her horrified family, Dad tries to hide a dead fox from Mum, Grandma goes back out with the terrifying Mr Morris, neighbour Jim accidentally swallows his dog's sleeping pills, and someone's getting married...
Woody Allen's gentlest and most unassuming movie, Radio Days isn't so much a story as a series of anecdotes loosely linked together by a voice-over spoken by the director. The film is strongly autobiographical in tone, presenting the memories of a young lad Joe (clearly a stand-in for Allen himself) growing up in a working-class Jewish family in the seafront Brooklyn suburb of Rockaway during the late 1930s and early 40s. In this pre-TV era the radio is ubiquitous, a constant accompaniment churning out quiz shows, soap operas, dance music, news flashes and Joe's favourite, the exploits of the Masked Avenger. Given Allen's well-publicised gallery of neuroses, you might expect childhood traumas. But no, everything here is rose-tinted and even the outbreak of war makes little impact on the easygoing, protective tenor of family life. Now and then Allen counterpoints his family album with the doings of the radio folk themselves (blink, and you'll miss a young William H Macy in the studio scene when the news of Pearl Harbour comes through). The rise to fame of Sally (Mia Farrow), a former night-club cigarette girl turned crooner, is the nearest the film comes to a coherent storyline. But most of the time Allen is content to coast on a flow of easy nostalgia, poking affectionate fun at the broadcasting conventions of the period and basking in the mildly rueful Jewish humour and small domestic crises of Joe's extended family. There aren't even any of his snappy one-liners, and the humour is kept low-key, raising at most an indulgent smile. A touch of Allen's usual acerbity wouldn't have come amiss. But for anyone who shares these memories, Radio Days will surely be a delight. On the DVD: Not much besides the theatrical trailer, scene menu and a choice of languages. The screen's the full original ratio, but nothing seems to have been done to enhance the soundtrack, and the dialogue's not always clear. A boost in volume may help.--Philip Kemp
The super smash-hit comedy is back for a sixth tasty helping of six mouth-watering new episodes, as brothers Adam and Jonny return to the family home for a Friday night dinner of roast chicken, crimble-crumble and all-round craziness. In this series Dad buys a grotty old caravan - and starts living in it, Mum almost has a heart attack when the boys both get females', Jonny buys the world's most disgusting coat, Adam gaffer-tapes Jonny's phone to the ceiling, Aunty Val takes up sexting, Horrible Grandma wreaks havoc in the Goodman household - and Jim gets a brand new dog.
""Newman is outstanding."" -Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide Paul Newman is electrifying as Fast Eddie Felson an arrogant amoral hustler who haunts backstreet pool rooms fleecing anyone who'll pick up a cue. Determined to be acclaimed as the best Eddie seeks out the legendary Minnesota Fats who's backed by Bert Gordon a predatory gambler. Eddie can beat the champ but virtually defeats himself with his low self-image. The love of a lonely woman could turn Eddie's life around
Tuck into five glorious helpings of award-winning madness with the Goodmans as they get together for a Friday night dinner of food, family and major-league bickering. Of course every family has its eccentricities, it's just the Goodman family have made an art form of theirs. Friday Night Dinner is an original series about growing up but not growing away. It marries the groundbreaking with the familiar and, best of all, it's really, really funny.
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of American comic book writer Harvey Pekar.
Series 1Twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny return to the family home each week for a Jewish Friday night dinner of soup chicken and crumble - plus massive side-orders of wind-ups and bickering. With a Master chef-obsessed Mum; Dad eating from the rubbish bin; Grandma wearing her new bikini around the house and Jim the neighbour who's terrified of his own dog it's a feat of endurance. And that's before the concerns about Jonny's 'made-up' girlfriend and Dad's non-stop requests for Adam to find a 'female' on the Internet. Of course every family has its foibles its rituals and its eccentricities. It's just that the Goodman's have made something of an art form of theirs... Series 2Each week twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny go back to Mum and Dad's house for Friday night dinner and each week Mum and Dad get ready for an evening of domestic squabbling food-related pranking and lashings of 'crimble crumble'. In this series Adam goes out with a girl who smells like Mum Jonny gets a girlfriend who's twice his age Dad dries fish in the downstairs cupboard Mum is forced out the house by a mouse neighbour Jim makes a birthday cake for his dog Grandma gets a new boyfriend who tries to fight Dad and we meet Dad's mother - 'Horrible Grandma'.
Mozart in Turkey is a feature-length 88-minute hybrid BBC co-production which interleaves making-of documentary footage (24 minutes) and filmed highlights (64 minutes) from Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("The Abduction from the Seraglio"). Working to their pre-recorded performance of the complete opera conducted by leading Mozartian Sir Charles Mackerras with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Choir, we see the cast mime to playback key arias, duets and quartets from Mozart's gorgeous work. The story of a Spanish noble woman, Konstanze (soprano Yelda Kodalli), her English maid, Blonde (soprano Désirée Rancatore), fiancé, Belmonte (tenor Paul Groves) and his servant, Pedrillo (tenor Lynton Atkinson) in the Turkish Harem of Pasha Selim (Oliver Tobias in a speaking role) is beautifully filmed in the famous Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. The documentary sections offer a brief, rather superficial look at Mozart's writing of the opera and the ideas that influenced it and are expressed within the drama. The music-making is hardly to be faulted and the staging is ravishing. Unfortunately the whole seems like an over-length DVD extra that should accompany a complete film of the opera--the very thing that is mysteriously missing from this release. On the DVD Mozart in Turkey is presented anamorphically, enhanced at 16:9 for widescreen televisions, with a virtually flawless picture taken, presumably, from digital tape. If the programme is watched complete the sound is stereo only and the music sometimes sounds harsh. If music highlights are selected, sound is available in stereo or a much fuller and more rounded Dolby Digital 5.1. There are optional subtitles in English, German, Spanish, French and Dutch, but if any of these is selected it is imposed over the English-language documentary sections as well as the German-language opera scenes. When playing music highlights there are rather abrupt and unmusical fades in and out between scenes. The menu is awful, offering the option either to play all or select a given track, but not to play from a particular scene onwards. Switching subtitles on or off, or changing audio tracks, entails returning to the main menu then starting the programme afresh. There is no resume play facility and there are no extras. --Gary S Dalkin
The award-winning, smash hit comedy is back for a third helping of family mayhem, as brothers Adam and Jonny go back to Mum and Dad's house for an evening of food, fighting, and frozen foxes In this series, Adam gains a new female admirer - a 9-year-old girl, Jonny gets the world's worst tattoo, Mum practices being a counsellor on her horrified family, Dad paints a hideous portrait of Mum, Grandma goes back out with the terrifying Mr Morris, neighbour Jim accidentally swallows his dog's sleeping pills, and someone's getting married...
The award-winning hit comedy returns for a second helping, as things get even odder in the Goodman household... Each week twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny go back to Mum and Dad's house for Friday night dinner, and each week Mum and Dad get ready for an evening of domestic squabbling, food-related pranking and lashings of 'crimble crumble'. In this series, Adam goes out with a girl who smells like Mum, Jonny gets a girlfriend who's twice his age, Dad dries fish in the downstairs cupboard, Mum is forced out the house by a mouse, neighbour Jim makes a birthday cake for his dog, Grandma gets a new boyfriend who tries to fight Dad and we meet Dad's mother - 'Horrible Grandma'. Extras: Series 1 Recap & Behind the Scenes with cast and crew
Double bill of festive family adventures directed by Douglas Barr. In 'Northpole' (2014) the magical land where Santa Claus (Robert Wagner) lives is powered by the festive spirit generated by people around the world. However, as modern life takes over and people have less time to spend with their families over Christmas, Northpole is rapidly losing power and so it is left to one young boy, Kevin (Max Charles), to convince his family to save Christmas. In 'Northpole - Open for Christmas' (2015) Mackenzie Warren (Lori Loughlin) hopes to sell The Northern Lights Inn that she has inherited from her late aunt, and enlists the help of handyman Ian (Dermot Mulroney) to fix up the place. Ian and his daughter are charmed by the inn but can't revive Mackenzie's childhood love for the building. But Santa needs the inn to survive so he sends Clementine the elf (Bailee Madison) to restore Mackenzie's holiday cheer. Can they all work their magic on her and save the inn?
Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard of education. The putative leader of the students is Riff Randell who loves the music of the Ramones. A new principal the rock music hating Miss Evelyn Togar is brought in and promises to put an end to the music craze. When Miss Togar and a group of parents attempt to burn a pile of rock records the students take over the high school joined by the Ramones who are made honourary students. When the police are summoned and demand that the students evacuate the building they do so which leads to an explosive finale.
Explorer Paul Rose leads a team of ocean experts in a series of global science expeditions. With him maritime archaeologist Dr Lucy Blue investigates our past and our relationship with the sea exploring shipwrecks and lost civilisations; marine biologist and Oceanographer Tooni Mahto seeks the extraordinary life in our oceans today; and environmentalist Philippe Cousteau Jr looks to the future of our oceans and charts the way they're changing. Filmed in High Definition in some of the most beautiful diverse and threatened seas on our planet the team travels across the world to the Southern Ocean the Atlantic the Indian Ocean the Red Sea the Sea of Cortez the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean to dive the depths of the world's seas and oceans. The planet's seas are changing fast and Oceans builds up a timely global picture of our planet's most magnificent and vital asset.
The dominant themes of director Sidney Lumet's distinguished career are in full force in Night Falls on Manhattan, a moral melodrama involving a young district attorney (Andy Garcia) who takes on a career-making case only to uncover his father's possible involvement in pervasive police corruption. Balancing personal ethics and political compromise in a high-wire act of power and its abuse, Lumet relies on dialogue and superb performances (including those by Ron Leibman, Richard Dreyfuss and Lena Olin) to achieve a devastating impact. The script (based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley) is too smart and Lumet's direction too sure-footed to fall back on the black-and-white exploits of conventional criminals and their crimes. The movie's moral framework (like that of Lumet's earlier film Q&A) is more realistic, dealing in the grey areas between right and wrong where misdeeds can arise from the best intentions. At the centre of Garcia's dilemma is his father, a seasoned New York cop played so convincingly by Ian Holm that you'd never guess the actor was British. Although it received mixed reviews when released in 1997, Night Falls on Manhattan ranks among Lumet's finest films. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Cristina Reiner is notified of her father's death and is summoned to Monserrat Mansion for the reading of his will. Other members of her strange, accursed family are found there awaiting. When Death finally visits the castle in the person of an elegantly attired Queen of Darkness, Cristina is approached by the ghost of her father, who advises her to flee the castle and her cold-skinned, bloodthirsty relatives. But is it already too late?
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