Must see episodes in Voyager Season 5 include 'Drone' in which Seven of Nine raises her 'offspring' a Borg drone from the 29th century only to see him destroyed. Season 5 also includes the feature-length 'Dark Frontier' in which Seven is captured and returned to the Borg Queen; 'Someone To Watch Over Me' in which the Doctor discovers he has a major crush on a certain female crew member and 'Equinox' in which a Starfleet captain and his crew are found to have been killing aliens in
The City Of Glasgow backdrop with its characteristic dry wit combined with the menacing nature of the cases make Taggart unique in style and it is now the longest running detective drama on UK television. Episodes Comprise: Penthouse & Pavement Saints & Sinners Atonement An Eye For An Eye Puppet On A String Compensation.
The title of Gothika prepares you for a spooky, atmospheric thriller with an emphasis on supernatural mystery. The best way to appreciate the movie itself is to understand that it's a waking nightmare that needn't make sense in the realm of sanity. Making a flashy Hollywood debut after his superior 2000 thriller The Crimson Rivers, French actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz pours on the dark and stormy atmosphere, trapping a competent psychologist (Halle Berry) in the prison ward where she treated inmates (including Penelope Cruz) until she was committed for killing her husband (Charles S. Dutton), who was also her boss. Did a car crash cause her to suffer ghostly delusions, or is a young girl--dead for four years--sending clues from beyond the grave? Berry has to prove her innocence while Kassovitz keeps everything--including the viewer and costar Robert Downey Jr. (as Berry's colleague)--in the dark about just where the nonsensical plot is leading. There's a better movie in here somewhere, among the catwalks and crannies of the impressive prison-castle setting, and Berry gives 100% in a performance that's consistent with the movie's overwrought tone. Attentive viewers will identify the killer early on, and the ending is anticlimactic, but Gothika serves up a few good shocks for ghost-story connoisseurs. --Jeff Shannon
You have the right to remain silent...forever! The Maniac Cop is back.... and you will be screaming blue murder again in this chilling action-packed sequel to the original hit penned by subversive horror-maestro Larry Cohen! The mysterious Officer Matt Cordell is stalking the streets of New York once more... and when this psycho with a badge books you it's for the arrest of your life! Once Cordell was a hero a super-cop. But he was framed by crooked superiors and now
Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria from the Theatre du Jeu de Paume, July 2002.
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride is another made-for-video sequel to a Disney masterpiece. As with the Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas sequels, most of the recognisable vocal talents return, creating a worthwhile successor to the highest-grossing animated film ever. We pick up the story as the lion king, Simba (voiced by Matthew Broderick) and Nala (Moira Kelly) have a new baby cub, a girl named Kiara (Neve Campbell). Like her father before, she seeks adventure and ends up outside the Pridelands, where lions loyal to the evil Scar (who died in the original) have lived with revenge in their hearts. The leader, Zira (a spunky turn from Suzanne Pleshette), schemes to use her son Kovu (Jason Marsden) to destroy Simba. As luck with have it, Kiara has bumped into Kovu and fallen in love. This all sounds familiar since all of Disney's straight-to-video sequels have played it very safe, nearly repeating the originals' story, tone, and pace. Perhaps there were too many cooks for this production. Besides the two screenplay credits, there are eight other writers credited for additional written material. The look of the film has none of the surprise of the original but is far superior to other animated videos. In fact, the film played in European cinemas. For children, the sequel will be a favourite. The comic antics of Timon (Nathan Lane) and Pumba (Ernie Sabella) are enjoyable, as is Andy Dick as Nuka, the mixed-up older son of Zira. And there's plenty of action. The best element is the music. Relying on more African-influenced music, the five songs featured are far superior to those in Disney's other sequels. Zira's song of revenge, "My Lullaby," was cowritten by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon. The oustanding opening number, "He Lives in You", was created for the Lion King Broadway smash and now finds a whole new audience. --Doug Thomas
After seven long years trying to return home, it's no surprise that the seventh season of Voyager was emotional. It begins with the resolution to season 6's "Unimatrix Zero", in which Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Torres (Roxann Biggs-Dawson), and Tuvok (Tim Russ) must find a way off the Borg Cube and Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) faces the loss of the precious bit of humanity she has just discovered. "Human Error" focuses on Seven's further attempts to explore her human side (a romance comes from out of the blue). And if Seven isn't the cast's most fascinating character, it's the other crew member struggling to find his not-quite-human identity, the Doctor (Robert Picardo). In "Body and Soul," the Doctor gets to experience physical life in the body of--who else?--Seven. He writes a novel in "Author, Author," and in the first of a pair of excellent two-parters, "Flesh and Blood," he explores what it means to be a hologram in the midst of a deadly situation involving the Hirogen. In the second two-parter, "Workforce," the crew is kidnapped and brainwashed into becoming ordinary laborers on a planet with a worker shortage, but Janeway is forced to question whether she wouldn't prefer this version of a normal, stable life. The seventh season also saw the first Trek wedding since Dax-Worff, the return of the old Federation-Maquis conflict, the continuing efforts of Lt. Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz) to bring Voyager home, Kim (Garrett Wang) taking command twice (once with the help of the Emergency Command Hologram), the return of Q, and Neelix's discovery of a group of fellow Talaxians. The final episode, "Endgame," is less concerned with misty-eyed goodbyes than with a bending of conventional views of the space-time continuum that leads to an exciting showdown with the Borg queen (Alice Krige, repeating her role from Star Trek: First Contact but making her first appearance on Voyager). DVD bonus features include the usual season recap, a 12-minute featurette on the final episode, and a crew profile of the Doctor. --David Horiuchi
They were more than mere Washington wives. They were part of the American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image but concealing their private truths. They had no other choice. They were Kennedy women. For Joan wife of senatorial hopeful Ted Kennedy the nomination will thrust her into the spotlight. For the tenacious Ethel wife of future Attorney General Bobby Kennedy the political life is as vital to her as her own. And for John's en
Peter Falk stars as the iconic crumpled trenchcoat-clad detective Columbo. Features a collection of classic episodes from Season One.
A snowbound ranching family is threatened by both internal conflicts and a deadly cunning predator in this offbeat Western from John Wayne's Batjac production company. Robert Mitchum stars as Curt Bridges one of three sons born to stern matriarch Ma Bridges (Beulah Bondi) and her weak alcoholic husband (Philip Tonge). With the ranch's cattle falling prey to the elusive killer cat Bridges and his two brothers Arthur (William Hopper) and Harold (Tab Hunter) are forced to confront the beast to save the family's herd. Teresa Wright (Shadow of a Doubt) is their bitter unmarried sister and Diana Lynn (My Friend Irma) is the young neighbour who sets tensions - and passions - aflame amidst the family's mounting crisis.
Big-city surgeon Michael (Hays) is still mourning his wife who passed away four years ago. At Christmas he returns with his daughter Jilly (Gorrell) to his home town where his father Bob (Palance) and the townsfolk want him to stay and run the local hospital. There's a problem however. It's Sarah (Jillian) the local vet town mayor - and Michael's ex-girlfriend. She thinks that Michael's far too high-powered to adjust to small-town life. But the wily old Bob has other ideas...
Broken Silence features five documentaries from around the world about the Holocaust presented by Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. The titles are: Lusi Puenzo's Some Who Lived Janos Szasz's Eyes Of The Holocaust Pavel Chukhraj's Children of The Abyss Andrzej Wajda's I Remember and Vojtech Jasny's Hell On Earth.
The future looks uncertain for the three couples in the fourth series of Cold Feet. Adam (James Nesbitt) and Rachel (Helen Baxendale) desperately want to be parents and face rigorous adoption procedures however unknown to Rachel Adam's first love is back on the scene to win him back. David (Robert Bathurst) is battling to keep his marriage together after his short-lived affair but Karen (Hermione Norris) is not warming to his efforts and her drinking spirals out of control. F
The BFI's celebrated Jacques Tati remaster series continues with the world premiere High Definition release of the great director's much-loved debut, Jour de f�te, in not one, but two different versions. This award-winning comic masterpiece introduced audiences to Tati's dazzling blend of satire and slapstick, and has won the hearts of audiences the world over. Tati plays an appealingly inept postman who is intent on modernising the postal system in the depths of rural France. Tati's...
The last film directed by John Cassavetes, Big Trouble reteamed some of the creators of the much funnier The In-laws. But despite another script by Andrew Bergman, and a cast that reunited Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, this comedy doesn't live up to its predecessor. A spoof of Double Indemnity, the film casts Arkin as a nervous insurance agent faced with huge college tuition bills for a trio of sons headed for Yale. To make extra money, he gets involved in a scheme with a woman (Beverly D'Angelo) trying to kill her husband (Falk). That the whole thing turns out to be an adventure in insurance fraud shouldn't come as a surprise. Despite an inconsistent script, the chemistry between Arkin and Falk can still produce the occasional laugh. --Marshall Fine
A young students promising athletics career is cut short. School bullies smash his leg leaving him semi-crippled. Brooding and twisted he strikes back using spectacular and brutal methods he wreaks powerful revenge on each of his assailants. There is almost no limit to the ingenuity of his murderous imagination.
In an attempt to revivie their flaggin sex life Dave and Ophelia act out complex sexual fantasies that soon take a dark turn...
Evil Dead (Dir. Sam Raimi 1982): In the literary tradition of Stephen King and the cinematic mode of George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) The Evil Dead is a visual and aural attack on the senses which requires a strong stomach and a healthy sense of humour! Whilst holidaying in the Tennessee woodlands five innocent teenagers unwittingly unleash the spirit of the evil dead. One by one the teenagers fall victim to the frenzied flesh-eating monsters amidst a tour-de-force display of stunning special effects. The Hills Have Eyes (Dir. Wes Craven 1977): The Carter family taken a wrong turn when crossing the desert for California and are attacked by a savage group of cannibals. For the Carters who have to revert to their own primitive instincts it is a battle for survival: the lucky ones died first...
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