This completely absorbing three-hour documentary follows the lives of two inner-city African American teenage basketball prodigies as they move through high school with long-shot dreams of the NBA, superstardom and an escape from the ghetto. Taking cues from such works as Michael Apted's 35 Up, director Steve James and associates shot more than 250 hours of footage, spanning more than six years, and their completed work actually moves like an edge-of-the-seat drama, so brimming with tension, plot twists, successes and tragedies that its length--170 minutes--is never an issue. Yet, what makes the film more impressive is how James moves his scope beyond a competitive sports drama (although the movie has plenty of terrific, nail-biting basketball footage) and addresses complex social issues, creating a scathing social commentary about class privilege and racial division. The film opens by introducing William Gates and Arthur Agee, two Chicago hopefuls, as they are being courted and recruited by various high schools to play ball, and continues until the pair are college freshmen. James allows the audience the experience of not only watching their journeys and daily routines (it's a sobering portrait of inner-city life), but also witnessing their maturation. Each takes a separate path along the way, stumbling over several obstacles (William suffers injuries, Arthur fails to meet his coach's high expectations); but James takes particular care to stress the importance and strong commitment of each character's family along the way, giving the film a essential centre. The parents and siblings emerge with as much depth and complexity as the two main "characters", and turn Hoop Dreams into an unforgettable film experience. --Dave McCoy
Viggo Mortensen plays Charles Forsyth a prisoner wrongly accused and sent to the electric chair. When the prison he died in reopens under management of the man who framed him Charlie sets out to exact his bloody revenge.
Come Home Charlie and Face Them is based on the novel by R F Delderfield (To Serve Them All My Days). Charlie Pritchard thinks that the bank manager's daughter is his ideal woman as he works as a cashier in a dreary bank in a dreary Welsh town - that is until he meets Delphine. With Delphine and her sidekick Beppo a plan is hatched to rob Charlie's bank.
The Naked Gun series must be the only successful big-screen franchise to have been a spin-off from a spectacularly unsuccessful TV series. Although Police Squad went on to become a cult favourite, at the time the American TV network was so unimpressed they only showed four of the six episodes before cancelling it. But Leslie Nielsen's bumbling Lt Frank Drebin just wouldn't go away. Supported in masterly deadpan style by George Kennedy and Priscilla Presley, Nielsen cemented his reputation as a gifted comic actor with The Naked Gun decades after he had first become known as a minor Hollywood leading man (in 1955's Forbidden Planet for example). The first movie appeared in 1988 and spawned two sequels that replayed exactly the same routines: in The Naked Gun series sight gags (some of which are worthy of the Marx Brothers, some not) combine with excruciating puns and lots of toilet humour to follow the same hit formula as the creators' earlier slapstick masterpiece, Airplane. By the third film the formula may have become more than a little overworked, and few including the filmmakers cared much about the increasingly creaky scenarios, but Nielsen's easygoing idiotic charm goes a long way towards saving the day. There are still a lot of laughs to be found in all three Naked Gun movies, even if some of them are the unintentional result of seeing OJ Simpson before notoriety overtook his budding film career. On the DVDs: All three features are anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 widescreen ratios, with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Each disc also has a jovial ensemble commentary featuring co-creator David Zucker with other producers and writers, which is only intermittently informative but is at least intermittently funny, too. --Mark Walker
TC 2000 is the action packed tale of a chaotic society where the guardians of the rich and powerful are set in action against the brutal tribe-like criminal gangs of the underclass.
A comet comes within range of earth and begins circling the planet. But a strange chain reaction comes to force. Suddenly machines everywhere have become their own masters beginning a horrifying deathly and violent revolt against their masters. Can the shell shocked survivors escape to a place where the mad machines cannot reach them?
As the Japanese Mafia the Yakuza threatens to rip apart Los Angeles one cop crosses the Pacific to track down its most lethal killer.
The Hart family has long served as Canada's first family of Sports Entertainment from patriarch Stu and his Stampede Wrestling and Dungeon a training site that has produced multiple Hall of Famers though sons Bret Owen on to a new generation of WWE Superstars The Hart Dynasty. But the family's journey was never a smooth one as their accomplishments were often punctuated with devastating tragedies and loss. Now for the first time ever fans can learn the entire story in Hart & Soul: The Hart Family Anthology. A brand new documentary chronicling more than 5 decades of family lineage is filled with never-before-seen Hart family interviews and supplemented with a dozen matches featuring Bret Owen Keith Bruce The British Bulldog The Dynamite Kid Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart The Hart Dynasty and more!
Turning 30 and not having been married is driving 3 friends Jasmine Tanya and Micki crazy. Will these friends end up with husbands or heartaches the love of their lives or simply a weekend they'll never forget?
Lucky for Eddie Murphy he got hold of the rights to this 1963 Jerry Lewis classic before Jim Carrey did. Murphy had a comeback of sorts with his Jeckyll-and-Hyde-derived fable of awkward chemistry professor Sherman Klump (Murphy), who discovers a potion that transforms him into the suave, cocky lady-killer Buddy Love (also Murphy). The big difference between the two versions is that Murphy's Sherman is not only a nerdy intellectual but is also grossly obese, which provides the opportunity for some hilarious digital transformation effects, as well as some gentle satire of our culture's attitudes toward fat people. As he did in the hit Coming to America, Murphy plays multiple roles, and the scenes at the Klump family dinner table, in which he plays everybody, are brilliantly funny. (Murphy won the National Society of Film Critics' award for best actor of 1996 for these performances.) Lewis based his Buddy Love on the 1960s ideal of cool exemplified by Sinatra and the Rat Pack; Murphy stumbles a bit by playing up the oily phoniness of his latter-day Love a little too soon, but for the most part The Nutty Professor represents a welcome return to form for Eddie Murphy. --Jim Emerson
The final 3 series of Rab C Nesbitt are included in this Series 6 - 8 Boxset. In series 6 crisis hits the Nesbitt household when Rab's benefit is suspended. But there is worse news to come when Rab becomes seriously ill and for once drink isn't responsible. In series 7 it's a new dawn for the Nesbitt's after the General Election and Rab and Mary are facing an empty nest with Gash moving out. But why does the prospect of a new government and a new daughter-in-law leave Rab feeling old? In series 8 Rab has just been released from jail and is washing dishes with thoughts of revenge against Jamesie stewing. But with the Nesbitt's first grandchild on the way Rab contemplates his new status as a grandfather and attempts to make amends with Mary. Includes 18 episodes.
This gravity-defying workout will give you the strength energy and shape of a younger body. The secret is to hone in on specific muscle groups to provide the greatest results in the least amount of time. You’ll tone and tighten using a series of small concentrated muscle movements strengthen with traditional exercises that involve a full range of motion and create long beautiful lines with deep stretches. 4 Dance-inspired workouts for arms legs bums & tummy! For beginners and all fitness levels
Five thousand years ago an alien spacecraft piloted by the android SIRIUS is destroyed by an electrical storm and the remains of the craft and it's occupants are buried by time. It is survived however by an intriguing myth that the aliens possessed the gift of everlasting life and that the buried craft contains an elixir which if replicated would bring untold riches to the owner of such a powerful drug
Tagged Classics double DVDs showcase the best events from WWE's past and are consistently strong sellers. Rebellion 1999 was a UK exclusive pay per view held in Birmingham. Jeff Jarrett defends the Intercontinental title against D-Lo Brown and faces Chyna on the same night while The People's Champ The Rock attempts to take the WWF Championship from Triple H in a Steel Cage Match. Insurrextion 2000 was held in London and featured England's own British Bulldog challenging Crash Holly for the Hardcore title. The Hardy Boyz take on Edge and Christian and in a Triple Threat Match The Rock faces Shane McMahon and Triple H.
The last man on earth is not alone. Will Smith plays that lone survivor in I Am Legend, the action epic, fusing heart-pounding excitement with a mind-blowing vision of a desolated Manhattan. Somehow immune to an unstoppable, incurable virus, military virologist Robert Neville (Smith) is now the last human survivor in New York City and maybe the world. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows... watching Neville's every move... waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered... and quickly running out of time.
Keep 'Em Flying: When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello the air corps doesn't know what it's in for. Ride 'Em Cowboy: Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys horses or anything else.
Packed with stars including Ben Affleck Matt Damon Chris Rock Shannon Elizabeth Jason Lee and more this wildly irreverent comedy is actor/director Kevin Smith's finale to the adventures of Jay and Silent Bob that began in Clerks and ran through Mallrats Chasing Amy and Dogma. When best buddies Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) discover that a major motion picture is being based on their likenesses they head for Hollywood to claim the big money they deserve. But when the dopey duo learn that they've been cut out of the cash they set out to sabotage the flick at all costs. Featuring a host of celebrity cameos set to a hot soundtrack Jay and Silent Bob's raucous cross-country road trip is a crash course in the rules of the road with a nonstop assortment of outrageous characters that will have you laughing out loud!
Simon is the smallest kid in town but has always known that he was born to do something big while at the same time his best friend Joe is searching for the identity of his father. Together these two share the ups and downs that will forever bind them together.
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