Popular water-cooler drama about an unremarkable and uncharismatic chemistry teacher Walter who discovers new passion in his life after he learns he has terminal cancer. Once a successful chemist Walter now teaches apathetic high school students and works part-time at a car wash to help support his family - wife Skyler who earns a modest income buying and selling items on eBay and son Walter Jr. a strong-willed 17-year-old suffering from cerebral palsy. Realizing he has nothing but his family left to live for Walter's new sense of purpose reinvigorates him into a man of action as he turns to an exciting life of crime to provide for the ones he loves.
In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, LA Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere and White Jazz)--a compelling blend of LA history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolour noir films, Chinatown. Kim Basinger richly deserved her Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a conflicted femme fatale; unfortunately, her male costars are so uniformly fine that they may have canceled each other out with the Academy voters: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and James Cromwell play LAPD officers of varying stripes. Pearce's character is a particularly intriguing study in Hollywood amorality and ambition, a strait-laced "hero" (and son of a departmental legend) whose career goals outweigh all other moral, ethical and legal considerations. If he's a good guy, it's only because he sees it as the quickest route to a promotion. --Jim Emerson
The world's weirdest summer road trip continues - and in Season 2 the Tennysons encounter more action than ever. Fortunately Ben starts to get the hang of the Omnitrix unlocking two new alien heroes to transform into: Cannonbolt and Wildvine. Along with Gwen's lucky powers and Grandpa Max's gadgets that just might be enough to keep saving the world from the evil villains that want to destroy it.
With his memoir a bestseller and the movie role of his dreams, BoJack's ready to jump-start his career and his life. Unless he messes it all up.
The unluckiest man in Vegas (William H. Macy) is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love which throws the situation into reverse.
After receiving a terminal diagnosis, a woman opts into a futuristic cloning procedure to ease her friends' and family's loss. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to decommission her clone lead to a court-mandated fight to the death.
Unavailable at all for nearly three decades, then issued in a VHS edition in 1996, the Rolling Stones' legendary Rock and Roll Circus finally gets the full treatment with this DVD release documenting the 1968 event. The Stones were reportedly unhappy with their performance (hence the long delay), and it isn't their finest moment; performing "Jumping Jack Flash" and a variety of songs from their then-new Beggars Banquet album, Keith Richards is game, but Jagger's preening (especially on "Sympathy for the Devil") is over the top, and guitarist Brian Jones looks dissolute and well on his way to his death the following year. A certain weirdness permeates some of the other musical acts as well: Jethro Tull lip-syncs unconvincingly, Taj Mahal and band were obliged to perform before the circus set was completed and the audience had arrived, and John Lennon's outing with impromptu supergroup the Dirty Mac (with Richards, Eric Clapton, and drummer Mitch Mitchell) is hampered by Yoko Ono's caterwauling, although their version of the Beatles' "Yer Blues" is cool. Still, the Who are brilliant, Marianne Faithfull is beautiful, the various circus acts are fun, and the crowd clearly loves it. The DVD comes with some fascinating bonus features, including three extra songs by Mahal, some lovely classical piano by Julius Katchen, and a "quad split-screen" version of "Yer Blues". Best of all are a new interview with the Who's Pete Townshend and the various commentary tracks added for the DVD--especially those by Tull's Ian Anderson, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and Stones Jagger, Richards, and Bill Wyman (who dryly attributes Jagger's reluctance to issue the show to his dissatisfaction with his own performance, not the band's). Flaws notwithstanding, this is a treat. --Sam Graham
The final episodes of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries based on the bestselling novels of Elizabeth George finds Lynley and Havers' friendship pushed to its limits. These final two episodes comprise the sixth and final series of the popular TV thriller where class divisions are tested and overcome by the desperate and sometimes personal demands of detective work. Limbo: The body of a young boy - abducted 15 years earlier - is discovered in the grounds of an Italian country villa. Lynley who as a family friend had helped in the Italian investigation goes out to Italy to support the family. But when he begins an affair with the family's now grown-up daughter - Julia - and she is then found dead in her Rome apartment Lynley is hauled in for questioning by the Italian police. Is he guilty of her murder? Lynley is convinced that Julia's death is somehow tied to her brother's abduction 15 years ago. Is the man Lynley helped convict of that crime innocent as he has always claimed? Know Thine Enemy: The body of a missing school girl Sarah Middleton is discovered in a lake wrapped in rubble sacks and chains. She has been raped and the bruising on her hands suggests she may have been held prisoner. Meanwhile another school girl Kelly Stevens is reported missing by her mother. Kelly is diabetic and unless she is found quickly she will slip into a diabetic coma. But with Assistant Commissioner Evans stopping door-to-door enquiries fearing they will alarm the public will Lynley and Havers be able to find enough leads to save Kelly?
As Breaking Bad's first year concluded, chemistry teacher Walt (two-time Emmy-winner Bryan Cranston) and his meth-making partner, Jesse (Emmy-nominee Aaron Paul), hooked up with drug kingpin Tuco (Raymond Cruz), and the money started to roll in. They expected some degree of danger--but not a homicidal maniac. When DEA agent Hank (Dean Norris) starts to close in on Tuco, he kidnaps the duo, who eventually escape, but the experience creates a host of new complications, leaving Jesse temporarily homeless and driving a wedge between Walt and his pregnant wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), and their 15-year-old son, Walt Jr. (R. J. Mitte). In his commentary, creator Vince Gilligan explains that the "chickens come home to roost" in season 2 as Walt's criminal activity catches up with him. In effect, he lives out the psychological version of The Fly, with his double life merging into one, such that he starts to become as ruthless as Tuco. Hank, meanwhile, gets a promotion that expands his jurisdiction to El Paso, while Skyler takes an accounting job that could cause her to "break bad" in season 3. If this AMC hit lacked a sense of humor, it just might be too hard to take. Aside from Walt's incurable illness and Hank's post-traumatic stress disorder, there's a head crushing, a shooting, an explosion, and an overdose. Though Walt and Skyler get few humorous moments, Jesse, Hank, and ambulance-chasing attorney Saul (Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk, an inspired addition) make the most of theirs. Jesse even gets a girlfriend (Krysten Ritter), who comes with a wary father (John de Lancie)--but there's still more shadow than light (not counting those panoramic desert shots). Strong stuff, but it's impossible to look away. Extensive extras include commentaries, deleted scenes, and featurettes on every episode. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Two escaped convicts (Zahn, Northam) steal a Winnebago motorhome owned by two gay men who are headed to Happy, TX to choreograph a beauty pageant for little girls.
'Bedtime' takes a peek behind the curtains and watches the night-time rituals of three contrasting couples in the last half hours of their day. Written by Andy Hamilton (Drop The Dead Donkey) 'Bedtime' is a funny moving and compelling mini-soap set in the bedrooms of adjoining house in an ordinary street in an ordinary London suburb... This DVD contains all six episodes of the second series of 'Bedtime'.
When Reese Hauser and his father relocate to a small Californian town the newcomer soon befriends the coolest kid in the school Zach. Zach introduces Reese to his beautiful but weird sister Ashley and her cute friend Pheobe. They invite Reese to visit an ancient stone which is set in a mystical clearing deep in the woods. The stone empowers the gang with a supernatural ability of their choice. Soon all four marvel in their new found power and turn the school into their own personal hell.
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey set off on a LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World's Fair. He was joined by The Merry Band of Pranksters, a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac's On the Road, and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16MM, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen...until now.
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.
Car troubles and a spooky waxworks museum spell trouble for a gang of US teens in this horror re-make.
Episodes from the multi-Emmy award winning TV show in which detectives Mary Beth Lacey and her partner Christine Cagney cop-operate in their personal and professional lives... Episodes Comprise: 1. Witness To An Incident 2. One Of Our Own 3. Beauty Burglars 4. High Steel 5. Hotline 6. Internal Affairs 7. Mr Lonelyhearts 8. Conduct Unbecoming 9. I'll Be Home For Christmas
Five students are hunted by a decaying creature and haunting visions in this horror.
L.A.'s San Fernando Valley is the setting for this chaotic multi-plotted comedy thriller featuring a murderous insurance scam perpetrated by sadistic double-crossers a bumbling love-struck hit man a kidnapped gallstone-suffering art dealer a washed-up suicidal screenwriter a pair of burnt-out undercover cops and one of the best catfights ever filmed...
EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE reunites fans with Jesse Pinkman (Emmy® Award-winner[i] Aaron Paul). In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future. This riveting thriller was written and directed by Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad.
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