The oldest daughter of a pioneer family is kidnapped by an Indian tribe. Battling all odds her brother searches for the tribe and along the way convinces an old drunken prospector to help him find her. They eventually locate the tribe and to win back his sister's freedom he must risk his own life by passing the test of Crooked Sky a test in which he may die to save his sister from the executioner's arrow.
Riccardo Chailly conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and an outstanding cast in Nikolaus Lehnhoff's sensational staging of Puccini's great operatic thriller. Stars Catherine Malfitano as Tosca Bryn Terfel as Scarpia and Richard Margison as Cavaradossi. Bryn Terfel plays the 'tough guy' in contrast to many of his other stage characters which makes this Tosca immediately stand out as unusual from others. Outstanding orchestral performance with Riccardo Chailly conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam.
France lays in chaos after the defeat of Napoleon. The Duke of Corlaine and his henchman Count Villiers have taken control of the countryside - imprisoning anyone who questions their authority. Captain Scarlett a soldier returning from the war arrives to find his estate has been confiscated by the Count. Determined to regain his land and noble birthright Scarlett confronts Villiers only to find the beautiful Princess Maria has been taken hostage by the Count. Scarlett is captured while rescuing the Princess and is imprisoned with fellow nobleman Pierre DuCloux. In the dark dungeon before the morning of their execution Scarlett and Pierre swear an oath to rid France of Corlaine and Villiers forever.
This limited special edition contains all four series of the cult comedy smash plus a play at home IT Crowd fantasy role play game featuring 12 character cards a pop out 20 sided dice player counters and two game boards. Written by Graham Linehan (Father Ted Black Books) and produced by Ash Atalla (The Office) The IT Crowd centres on the worlds of Roy Moss and Jen who make up the IT department of Reynholm Industries. While their social betters work upstairs in fantastic surroundings the IT dept. work in a horrible dark basement underneath it all...
After the collapse of the Manchu Dynasty the surviving officials plan to restore order across China. One of these men Silver Fox (Hwang Jang Lee the villian from 'Drunken Master') hires the best fighters in the country to assasinate those who were responsible for the revolution and destroy all kung fu schools. To combat this menace the various schools band together and nominate Chow Fung master of the Eagle style to face the might of the Silver fox in a one-on-one bone breaking
Close Your Eyes And Go To Hell 20 years ago Melissa was discovered caked in blood deranged mumbling that the evil killed her father. This evil takes the form of Hellinger: once a man he made a pact with the devil and paid for it. Now Hellinger's back with blood on his mind for anyone who doesn't believe...
The Alamo (Dir. John Wayne 1960): In 1836 General Santa Anna and the Mexican Army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him General Sam Huston needs time to get his main force into shape. To buy that time he orders Colonel William Travis to defend a small mission on the Mexican's route at all costs. Travis' small troop is swelled by groups accompanying Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett but as the situation becomes ever more desperate Travis makes it clear that there will be no shame if they leave while they can. The Horse Soldiers (Dir. John Ford 1959):: A Union Calvary outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail / supply centre. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The scret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to ensure her silence. The Union officers each have different reason for wanting to be on the mission. Brannigan (Dir. Douglas Hickox 1975): The story of Brannigan a tough unconventional Chicago cop who trails an international racketeer to London where he finds his methods contrast sharply with those of the stiff-upper-lipped British...The Horse Soldiers Cast a Giant Shadow (Dir. Melville Shavelson 1966): After a brilliant career with the U.S. army WWII hero and Jewish American Mickey Marcus (Kirk Douglas) is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding its Arab foes. Against the wishes of his wife (Angie Dickinson) Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a rag-tag underground army into a first-class fighting machine. But as the threat of war looms Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautiful activist Magda Simon (Senta Berger).
Reunited with many of the team behind Trouble in Store (1953), his smash hit of the previous year, for his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home. Having being raised in the home Norman has stayed on as odd-job man, a role which ideally suits his man-child persona. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing and it is simply impossible not to like Norman Wisdom. The film's success led directly to the aptly named Man of the Moment (1955). --Gary S Dalkin
Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal eccentric and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas at Austin. Shooting the film on 16mm for a mere $23 000 writer/producer/director Linklater and his close-knit crew of friends eschewed a traditional plot choosing instead to employ long takes and fluid transitions to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters each as unique as the last culminating in an episodic portrait of a distinct vernacular culture and a tribute to bohemian cerebration. Slacker is a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants and one of the keynote films of the American independent film movement of the 1990s.
Karaoke is the first of two television dramas written by the acclaimed TV playwright Dennis Potter. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with less than six months to live Potter undertook a race against mortality to complete two television dramas which were uniquely to be shared between Channel 4 and the BBC. In a televised interview with Melvyn Bragg he said My only regret is if I die four pages too soon. He didn't - and the result is a fitting tribute to a life committed to the creation of some of the finest television drama ever written. Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) is working on a fictional play for television. The play entitled Karaoke concerns a beautiful young woman working in a sleazy karaoke bar run by Arthur Pig Mallion. Fiction and reality begin to intertwine when Feeld overhears snatches of his dialogue in the world around him - and encounters real people bearing his character's names. The lines between the world he has created and the world in which he lives begin to blur - and a desperate struggle to control both becomes enmeshed in his evolving sickness and a terminal diagnosis. Re-writing his will to right wrongs leaving his body to a cryogenics laboratory and plotting to go out with a bang Daniel Feeld is about to write an ending for one world that will have great repercussions in the next.
In the tradition of other brat pack movies such as St. Elmo's Fire The Breakfast Club and the Outsiders and featuring some of the hottest of Hollywood's young actors LOVE SUCKS highlights the humourous problems of life and love faced by the outwardly cool but inwardly troubled American teens. After leaving college last summer heart-breaker Phil Fazzulo and high school jock Dennis Nolan find their high school dreams shattered when they end up tossing pizza dough for a living. Facing a stream of familiar faces they find themselves constantly having to duck out of sight or invent a seemingly endless stream of ridiculous excuses to disguise their total lack of achievement only serving to reinforce their humiliation and the realisation that their lives have remained virtually unchanged. They need excitement and purpose in their lives but when they are left in sole charge of Sal's Pizza Palace events take a sudden change for the worse and the excitement and purpose they crave finally arrives but in a very unwanted fashion. In the tradition of all failed college students there can only be one solution? THROW A PARTY! Obviously a party will solve all their financial career and romantic problems!
Tom and Vicky is the new puppet animation series of words music and song for young children. It's about a brother and sister who every day come to play and share adventures in their Grandad's garden. This is the second video release and contains another 5 fun-packed adventures from the first CITV series. First seen on CITV in Jan '98 Tom and Vicky grabbed a Stunning 500 000 kids viewers! These are similar to figures for Postman Pat. Sir Richard Attenborough and Rik Mayall provide the voices with music by Bryan Daly who created the music for Postman Pat. This is the second volume to be released.
She's mysterious she's exciting and she's turning his life upside down. Straight from the mean streets of New York the waif-like Jane (Calista Flockhart - TV's Ally McBeal) works her way into the life and heart of a cynical young writer. The spark that ignites between them sends them on a drug fuelled rollercoaster ride through the underbelly of New York City and Atlantic City. Jane's inner demons begin to haunt their relationship. The ride gets wilder until the stakes are lif
The Stargate is an intergalactic gateway developed by an ancient civilization that links other planets from other solar systems to ours. The U.S. Air Force assembles a Stargate team for interstellar peace-keeping missions. Boasting incredible special effects sequences rapid-fire pacing and awesome scenes of alien warfare Stargate SG-1 is your gateway to pulse-pounding sci-fi action!
Daddy's Girl is a chilling psychological horror feature. Heavily influenced by cult Japanese horror the film uses striking imagery to tell this dark haunting story. Stephen (Richard Harrington) is a psychiatrist struggling to hold his life together. Enduring perpetual grief over the violent death of his beautiful wife his life is fraught with pain and tragedy. Surviving only through his copious intake of prescribed drugs Stephen is anxious to return to work. When a close colleague at the hospital takes pity on him and reinstates him as Duty Psychologist Stephen is soon confronted with a troubled teenage girl called Nina (Jaime Winstone). With an obsession for cutting herself and a seemingly increasing blood-lust Nina displays sinister behaviour which begins to push the boundaries of teenage angst. Are her actions merely a symptom of an unhappy home life or are they rooted in a much more sinister cause? Set in bleak and ominous locations Daddy's Girl will drag you through seduction manipulation wilful betrayal and a haunting that refuses to desist. Daddy's Girl exploits the increasingly blurred distinction between psychosis and reality. It explores the fragile relationships between people and the explosive metamorphoses that comes with adolescence. It is a film that asks questions that you do not always want to know the answers to.
Sacrifices: Teal'c is upset when his son Rya'c plans to marry a Jaffa woman of the Haktyl who he sees as not fit for him. Ishta comes to the SGC after she believes Haktyl has been compromised and move her people into the SGC until Carter finds them a suitable planet. Ishta attends a meeting of Haktyl warriors to discuss rising against the Goa'uld Moloc but he finds out about the meeting and captures her. Endgame: The Trust are behind a plan to steal the Stargate and eliminate the Jaffa and the Goa'uld with the Tok'ra poison. Prometheus Unbound:Jackson embarks on a search for the lost Atlantis crew aboard the starship Prometheus. A deadly unseen Super Soldier gets onboard the ship and threatens the crew and it is falls upon Dr Jackson to face the Super Soldier alone.
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