Not since the legendary London Rock N' Roll show of 1973 have so many peerless masters of classic rock been gathered together on one stage. The Giants Of Rock n' Roll is just that - the gathering together of the main movers of the music that shook and continues to shake the world. From the primal shrieks of the over-explosive Little Richard to the metronomic rock riffs of Bo Diddley the fluid emotive blues of B.B.King the funky New Orleans melting pot gumbo of Fats Domino the st
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Illegal: Tildon Alreeuh an illegal immigrant from Sagania saves Brogan's life in a shooting incident and Brogan learns that his saviour's son Nillim is being held by snuff fight promoter Coe Barner. Divided We Stand: Jane and Took investigate the theft of a tarn egg-sac from Demeter Memorial Hospital while Brogan and Haldane are assigned to the protection of underworld crime boss Vinny Artak who is running for city council.
Stargate SG-1 is the TV spin-off from the 1994 big-screen movie. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the primary unit SG-1. With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Episodes on this DVD: "Fail Safe", "The Warrior", "Menace" and "Sentinel". Before now, this show has managed to skirt around the edges of the technological implausibility that plagued the latter Star Trek incarnations. But in "Fail Safe", Sam's surreal solution to the problem of an asteroid on collision course with Earth has to be seen to be disbelieved. Teal'c and his old master Bra'tac have always wanted an inspiring leader to assist in making the other Jaffa realise their mistaken allegiances. Kytano (Rick Worthy) sure looks like "The Warrior" for whom they've been waiting. But everyone's patience and beliefs are put to the test when Jack questions what he sees as a situation that's too good to be true. The discovery of a Data-like android poses all sorts of questions for the SGC, especially as the dormant machine is the only thing left of a desolated world. Dr Jackson persuades everyone to turn it on, and boy do they regret it! Reese (Danielle Nicolet) turns out to have the mental maturity of a child, and a stroppy one at that. Worse, she's responsible for the greatest "Menace" the galaxy has ever known. Former crimes by the sinister NID have to be rectified on a doomed world. Led by the timid Marul (a fantastic turn by Henry Gibson), the planet believes in the mystical protection of "The Sentinel". Regrettably two turncoat agents destroyed that protection and it's up to the team to put something in its place. --Paul Tonks
Oscar Wilde's comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith's film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave Joan Greenwood and Dame Edith Evans the enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage comedy been so engagingly transferred to the screen!
Peter Wintonick whose Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is one of the bestselling documentaries of all time has directed this unique 'documentary of documentaries' shot with lightweight equipment in vrit style in widescreen digital video. Rich in footage from classics such as Primary (J F Kennedy) Lonely Boy (Paul Anka) Jane (Jane Fonda) Don't Look Back (Bob Dylan) Nanook of the North and the Blair Witch Project
From the producer of the classic Don Juan De Marco comes a comedy that asks: if love is the answer could you rephrase the question?! Ben Bingham (Richard E. Grant) has slipped into the complacency of a daily routine unlike his vibrant wife Amanda (Carrie-Anne Moss). When she finally leaves him Ben is at a loss. He refuses to get out of his pyjamas until his popular 17 year-old son Justin (Johnny Pacar) takes over. He updates Ben's 'look' and pushes him out into the social scene. Before Ben knows what is happening he is the most popular single man in town pursued by his nurse his trainer and karaoke singing twins. Things change when Justin falls in love for the first time and Ben is forced to refocus recapture his humanity his heart and most importantly his wife ... who is now with another man. Starring Richard E. Grant (Withnail & I Jack & Sarah Bright Young Things) Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) and Janeane Garofalo (24 The Truth About Cats & Dogs Reality Bites) Love Hurts is a painfully romantic comedy
The Power: Jane and Took are assigned to protect a shipment of Luxorian Ice a vital part of Solartek's new solar power system which offers a safe alternative to hyper fusion. Seek and Destroy: With the discovery of Aladine-50 a vaccine against creon fever the importation of Earth dogs is all the rage in Demeter.
Four Sided Triangle (Dir. Terence Fisher 1953): Murray stars as Dr. Bill Leggat who along with his childhood friends Lena and Robin creates a machine that can flawlessly replicate anything be it animate or inanimate. Undermining the trio's professional relationship is the sexual tension that has been brewing for years. Both men are attracted to Lena but on the eve of the public announcement of their invention Lena declares her love for Robin. Devastated Bill decides to clone Lena and names the clone who has all of Lena's feelings and memories Helen. Confident that Helen will love him Bill takes her on a holiday. However while away Bill's relationship with Helen does not go as planned causing Bill to resort to some shady experiments on Helen that will force her to love him. Produced by Hammer studios and directed by their most celebrated director Terence Fisher Four Sided Triangle was something of a precursor to many of their most famous films The Quatermass Xperiment (Dir. Val Guest 1955): A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in the English countryside two of the crew members have disappeared. The third who is barely alive undergoes a quite terrifying transformation which threatens Earth's very existence... Quatermass 2 (Dir. Val Guest 1957): Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which on his arrival he finds has been completely destroyed... X The Unknown (Dir. Leslie Norman 1956): Penned by master horror screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and intelligently directed by Leslie (father of film critic Barry) Norman. The story sees a mysterious gelatinous monster which feeds off radioactivity terrorising a remote Scottish village.
Steve Marriott was the frontman of two of the U.K.s biggest groups of the late Sixties and Early Seventies Small Faces and Humble Pie. After Humble Pie disbanded in 1975 he pursued a solo career as well as becoming re-involved with his former bands when both later re-formed. One of Britrocks unsung heroes Marriott never achieved the solo success his songwriting and music talents clearly deserved and was about to unite with Peter Frampton when he tragically accidentally died in a house fire in 1991. Steve Marriott is in brilliant form in this concert filmed in Saarbruecken Germany in 1987 at which he performs his favourite numbers including several Small Faces hits. Tracklisting: Some Kind Of Wonderful / Can I Get A Witness Don't You Lie To Me All Or Nothing What'cha Gonna Do About It Talking 'Bout You My Girl Fool For A Pretty Face Five Long Years Tin Soldier Run Rudolph Run I Know - You Don't Want Me No More Slow Down
A programme which looks at the aircraft which was developed from the De Havilland Comet and which first flew in 1967. Deployed by the Royal Air Force in an anti-submarine warfare role the Nimrod has also been used in coastal rescue.
Discover the world of fine art with the people who made it happen. Arata Isokai: The architect of the Museum of Contemporary Art reveals the motivation of the design of his symbolically imaginative buildings. Eui Kyu Kim: The renowned Korean Artist who creates spiritual canvases that emphasise the curves and contours of the body. Ed Ruscha: Considered to be one of the first modern artists who embraced the impersonality of billboard advertising to philosophise about the arbitrariness of the painted and printed expression. Bob Branaman: A Distinguished film-maker print-maker and painter whose work encompasses a broad and eclectic range of subject matter from the treatment of the aboriginal people in America to his love of the female form. Don Williams: Using the medium of pastel in realistic fashion by documenting his surroundings with a camera and incorporating the photographs into hauntingly realistic pastels. The Fauves: An overview of the sensation that this group created in art during the early 1900's and the lasting influence they have even today. Sam Francis: A montage of Francis' watercolours at the hight of his popularity reviewed by Andre Emmerlich. Man Ray: Ranging from the sublime to the bizarre Man Ray was a visionary in contemporary art. His fine and graphic art was innovative and his photography continually went beyond all accepted boundaries. He is still an art icon 30 years after his death. Aurobora Press: Housed in one of downtown San Francisco's oldest buildings this turn of the century firehouse has been revived as a living studio where artists can work through their inspiration in a nurturing comfortable setting. Richard Pousette-Dart: One of the original Abstract Expressionists who now enjoys the notoriety that his New York contemporaries have long experienced. Often termed 'painterly' abstraction learn how Pousette's work expresses an evocative field of colour hinting at myth ritual and psychological themes. Wrapped In Glory: The tale of how American history has been recorded stitch by stitch in rare and beautiful quilts that demonstrate how utility meets art. The Eight: A survey of paintings by the group of 'Eight' who broke away from the established traditions of American art and imposed an influence that remains present even today. Andre Emmerlich: Perhaps the world's most famous art dealer candidly reveals the relationship between the artist and the dealer and the myth of the discovered artist.
Tom and Arthur's relationship deteriorates when Tom is offered a job in New Zealand which Arthur promptly steals. As Tom is heading for the port Phyllis and Deborah discover that Ormston is under threat of demolition for a new road scheme. Len and Linda get their foster child. Jean and Eddie's wedding doesn't go according to plan and Jean's long-estranged mother Violet turns up which makes her happy but her father Wilf furious. Tom decides to make amends with his father when he r
The first DVD compilation of its type this features an episode from each of three classic American television police shows. Each episode contains a special guest star; Ironside 'Tagged for Murder' with Bruce Lee Columbo 'A Stitch in Crime' with Leonard Nimoy and Kojak 'The Birthday Party' with none other than Richard Gere. COLUMBO: A STITCH IN CRIME Dr Barry Mayfield (Leonard Nimoy) is a brilliant young heart surgeon on the staff of a major Los Angeles Hospital. However he cannot accept that the hospital's senior heart specialist the revered Dr Edmund Hiedeman has invited a foreign specialist to help them with their work on a drug that will combat transplant rejection. Veteran Nurse Sharon Martin believes that Mayfield is a cold opportunist who would like to take all the credit for the research project. Even she doesn't know how far he will go to reach his goal. IRONSIDE: TAGGED FOR MURDER When George Bellingham is electrocuted in his own pool Detective Sgt Ed Brown refuses to accept the accidental death verdict and discusses his suspicions with Ironside. They track down a series of mysterious numbers on the dead mans watch which leads them to some former friends of Bellingham's including a retired general who tells the strange story of a robbery in the closing days of the war. With special guest star Bruce Lee. KOJAK: BIRTHDAY PARTY Kojak's young niece Ellena is kidnapped during her birthday picnic by an unidentified woman. The kidnappers call Kojak's office threatening the safety of the child unless one of their accomplices being held for the murder of a policeman is released immediately from the precinct house. A furious Kojak works against the clock to discover the identity of the kidnappers and save his niece. With special guest star Richard Gere.
Argent Films presents a collection of distinctive heroic World War II action headed by Hollywood superstars Mel Gibson and Richard Burton in authentic action drama finely crafted by the likes of RAMBO director George Cosmatos.Very rarely shown on TV, these Wartime accounts of Heroes fighting against the WWII Axis, from the Pacific to the African desert, are now brought together in one must-have collector's set.Attack Force Z: Mel Gibson leads a Special Forces Commando (including Sam Neil) to locate and rescue a defecting Japanese Officer who has crashed in the dense jungle of a Japan occupied Pacific Island. Based on a real mission by Z Force, a forerunner of the S.A.S., made up mostly from Australian and British volunteers, their daring missions changed the course of the war and remains secret to this day.Massacre In Rome: Nerve-wracking dramatization by RAMBO director George P. Cosmatos, and accentuated by an electrifying score by Oscar winner Ennio Morricone, of one of the worst atrocities of the War. Richard Burton (in a career best) plays Kapler, the German Officer whose human conscience gets pitted against the sadistic might of the Reich after Hitler directly orders him to execute 335 civilians as reprisal for the killing of 33 Nazi soldiers by Italian Partisans. Casablanca Express: At the height of WW2, British PM Winston Churchill is covertly on his way to the then-secret Casablanca Conference with US President Roosevelt and France's General DeGaulle. To confuse the Nazis trailing him, the PM gets off his plane in Algiers and boards the Casablanca Express. When he gets kidnapped by a crack unit of Nazi Sturmtruppen, halfway across the Moroccan desert, it is down to a few, fearless, unsung heroes from the British SIS and a U.S. Marine Platoon to rescue Churchill, preventing a devastating Nazi Victory that would have changed the course of the War and the world as we know it.
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: A hunter a scientist a vampire an invisible man an immortal a spy a beast....when a masked madman known as ""The Fantom"" threatens to launch global Armageddon legendary adventurer Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) commands a legion of superheroes the likes of which mankind has never seen. Now despite fighting their own personal demons - and each other - they must join forces to save the world. Daredevil: Ben Affleck is Matt Murdo
Frustrated with the legal process a young and ambitious lawyer approaches his former college classmates and colludes with them to meter out strong justice where the all too lacking legal system has failed. These hyper-intelligent modern day vigilantes wreak out justice and vengeance upon those that were spared by the technicalities and limitations of our legal system. Sometimes the defenders of innocence become the criminals.
Girl Next Door (Dir. Luke Greenfield 2004): Matthew never saw her coming...but all his friends had! Teenager Matthew's dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door. However after falling in love with her Matthew finds out that he's going to have to do a whole lot of crazy things to keep her! This DVD boasts an 'Uncut' version of the film which includes all the bits that you couldn't get to see in the cinema! Say It Isn't So (Dir. James B. Rogers
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