Tom Hanks stars in this big budget adaptation of the festive children's book
It's 1992 and the miners of Grimley Colliery are facing uncertainty. Not only is their pit under threat but the Grimley Colliery Band is on the verge of breaking up - that is until Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) arrives. As the only female member of the band she somehow manages to rekindle their enthusiasm for the forthcoming National Championship as well as rekindling a childhood romance with Andy (Ewan McGregor).
Controversial upon its release, Ralph Nelson's Soldier Blue follows Honus (Peter Strauss) and Cresta (Candice Bergen), the only remaining survivors of a Cheyenne Native American attack, as they travel across the unforgiving wilderness of the American frontier in search of refuge. Their journey reaches a tragic climax as they witness the brutal and cold-blooded slaughter of the Cheyenne tribe at the hands of the U.S. army.Reflecting the political climate of the time, Soldier Blue is uncompromising in its anti-war stance and in its extremely graphic depiction of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. By shedding light on America's dark history and the inhumane actions of the U.S. army, this revisionist western is one of the most radical films in American cinema's history. NEW Interview with actress Candice BergenAudio commentary by film critic Steve Mitchell and Howard S. BergerNEW Trailer
THE LADYKILLERS is quintessential Ealing. Director Alexander Mackendrick’s film centres on a criminal gang planning their next job who find themselves boarding with an innocent old lady who thinks they are musicians. When the gang set out to kill Mrs. Wilberforce they run into one problem after another and get what they deserve. Mackendrick’s last film as director before his move to Hollywood THE LADYKILLERS remains one of the best British comedies ever made.
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell's 1877 heartwarming literary classic, is brought to life in this five part US mini-series from 1978 released on triple DVD for the first time. Filmed entirely on location in Kentucky, Black Beauty is the story of a horse, the people who loved &cared for him, and those who did not - the story of a magnificent spirit that overcame all odds and prevailed. Starring William Devane (24:Live Another Day, The Dark Knight Rises), Diane Ladd (Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman, Chinatown), Eileen Brennan (Will & Grace, The Last Picture Show. ) New Black Beauty movie to be released theatrically in 2015 starring Luke Perry(Beverley Hills 90210).
Season 3 of NCIS: Los Angeles hits the ground shooting as the team lands in Romania to rescue their boss and friend, Hetty Lange (Oscar winner Linda Hunt), from a ruthless crime family. But Hetty's mission is as much personal as it is professional, revealing a bombshell secret about team leader G Callen's (Chris O'Donnell) past.This secret culminates in the team's first-ever collaboration with Hawaii Five-0, in a joint effort to prevent a global pandemic... which ultimately brings Callen's vendetta full circle. The team pulls together with the bold moves of ex-Navy SEAL Sam Hanna (LL Cool J), Special Agent Kensi Blye (Daniela Ruah) and LAPD liaison Marty Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen).While the operatives hunt the world for criminals, Eric Beale (Barrett Foa) and Nell Jones (Rene Felice Smith) are the home-base tech wizards who keep them posted on all international intel. In this 6-disc, 23-episode set, every mission keeps the team on its toes... and viewers on the edge of suspense.
As a Christmas treat in the late 1960s and 70s, the BBC produced adaptations of ghost stories based on the works of MR James, the Cambridge academic and author of some of the most spine-tingling tales in the English language, which were broadcast to terrified viewers in the dead of winter. This was a tradition that was briefly revived by the BBC between 2007 and 2010. These adaptations, which have a subtlety and style all of their own, have been a major influence on many contemporary British horror filmmakers and have come to be some of the most sought after British TV titles of all time by their legions of eager fans. Episode Comprise: Whistle and I’ll Come to You. The Stalls of Barchester. A Warning to the Curious. Lost Hearts. The Treasure of Abbot Thomas. The Ash Tree. The Signalman. Stigma. The Ice House. A View from a Hill. Number 13.
Christmas in Holmfi rth is always full of festive fun as these cracking Christmas Specials spectacularly show. Here we see Compo feeling a little frosty having trouble scraping enough together to buy his beloved Nora the perfect present – could Auntie Wainwright have the answer? Howard has a problem too: he’s got a present to give to Pearl and keep from Marina all at the same time. But the lack of wise men is more than made up for with a surplus of Santas. There’s one on the rooftops four on the doorstep and one very sozzled one enjoying a silent night locked in a pub. That’s what you call a very merry Holmfi rth Christmas.
Not the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, this Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée. As usual, the adaptation adds a woman--orphaned jungle girl Elaine Cassidy--to the expedition, and an interesting villain (religious fanatic Peter Falk) beefs up the travelogue by marooning Challenger's gang on the South American plateau where dinosaurs, cavemen and Indians coexist eventfully. The Walking with Dinosaurs-style effects work well for the TV frame, but the real success is in integrating the Boys' Own adventuring with subtle eco-awareness, complex character interplay and the reliable wonder of soaring Pteranodons and Carnosaur attacks. --Kim Newman
Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) is a woman who knows what she wants and will stop at nothing to get it: including murder. After a drug deal goes wrong she cons her ineffectual husband Harlan (Bill Pullman) out of seven hundred thousand dollars. She hides in a small town where she takes up with young dumb lover Swale (Peter Berg) but soon Harlan is on her trail and he means business. John Dahl's modern take on the classic film noir is packed full of double-crosses sexual tensi
British cinema legend Stanley Baker's intense persona and rugged charm are brought to the fore in this gripping tale of Cold War espionage, where he plays a son in search of his missing father. Co-starring Peter Cushing, Mai Zetterling and Eric Portman, The Man Who Finally Died is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. In London, jazz musician Joe Newman receives a startling telephone call from his German father, a man he believed long dead. At the same time, a funeral is taking place in a quiet Bavarian town - and the coffin bears the name of his father! Joe's search for the truth proves more disturbing than he could ever have imagined. Special Features Image gallery
When advertising executive Bill Rago gets the chop he soon realises that he can't do anything else and is talked into teaching English grammar to a bunch of army recruits. The army wants him to be disciplined and do everything at the double; his pupils just want him to leave them alone...
FROM THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING NICK PARK! THIS IS THE COLLECTION OF FOUR CRACKING HALF-HOUR SPECIALS FEATURING THE CHARMING AND ECCENTRIC INVENTOR WALLACE, AND HIS FAITHFUL, FOUR-LEGGED FRIEND GROMIT!
A scorching picture from 1967, Night of the Big Heat is a sweat-inducing shocker based on the 1957 novel from John Lymington. The remote island of Fara is experiencing a stifling heat wave in the middle of winter, causing life, as the locals know it, to come to a halt. Tensions rise as the heat increases plus a high-pitched tone of unknown origin is incinerating the villagers. Directed by Hammer favourite, Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee alongside chisel jawed Patrick Allen, Night of the Big Heat is sizzling British sci-fi at its most intense.
Iris (Freya Allan) inherits a run-down pub from her estranged father (Peter Mullan) and discovers a dark secret within its basement - Baghead - a shapeshifting creature that will let you speak to lost loved ones, but not without consequence..
In 19th-century England a peasant named John Durbeyfield discovers that he descends from a noble family the d'Urbervilles. He sends his eldest daughter Tess to live with Alec d'Urberville a rich cousin. It soon emerges that the illustrious name was purchased by Alec's father and emotional entanglements soon spiral out of control...
Handsome young men whack each other in the face with sticks and learn about life in Youngblood, an enjoyably silly hockey movie. Rob Lowe stars as Dean Youngblood, an American rookie who's been given a shot on a Canadian Junior League hockey team. Sure, he can skate, but can he take a punch? This coming-of-age story is about learning the beauty of vicious hockey fights. No, really. Containing both young-bucks-in-the-locker-room shots and plenty of hockey violence, Youngblood is a surprisingly entertaining cupcake of a movie--there's not much nourishment, but it sure tastes good. Watch for Patrick Swayze as the team's leader and Keanu Reeves in his first film role as the French-Canadian goalie. --Ali Davis
Since it's first publication in 1908 Kenneth Grahame's THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS has become a best-seller throughout the world. In this unique film the award-winning animators of Cosgrove Hall have brought Grahame's characters Badger Mole Ratty and the flamboyant Toad of Toad Hall magically to life in a beautiful Edwardian country scene. Join these four lively characters in a wonderful production that captures all the fun and enchantment of a fairy tale adventure.
The world is falling into chaos. As he roams a crumbling city Duncan MacLeod the Highlander remembers happier times before the love of his life left... Hopeless and alone MacLeod finds his way to a band of immortal companions including his mysterious friend Methos and a mortal Watcher Joe Dawson. Together this small group sets out on a quest to find the origin of the first Immortal and The Source of their immortality.
Precious archive footage of 'Not Only But Also' capturing the genius of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. The classic Dagenham Dialogues (Pete and Dud in flat capped discussion) and such of-the-wall lunacy as 'The Order Of St Beryl' (the leaping nuns) show their partnership at its best and make this title a comedy collector's dream!
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