Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
The good news is, Dr. Watson does get married. The bad news is, Sherlock Holmes throws his bride off a moving train. Actually, there's even worse news than that--but all will be explained in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, the sequel to Guy Ritchie's 2009 hit. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return to their roles as Holmes and Watson, as the duo take on the world's greatest criminal mind, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), a man whose latest scheme has global implications. Sherlockians who prefer their consulting detective to remain in a traditional mode had best look the other way, for the sequel continues Ritchie's vision of Holmes as a hard-punching action hero hurtling through a barrage of special effects sequences. If you can go with that, A Game of Shadows actually improves on the first film: the story makes a little more sense (or possibly the whole thing moves so smoothly you don't notice the illogic), Harris is a delicious villain, and new cast members Noomi Rapace (from the Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series) and Stephen Fry (playing Sherlock's brother Mycroft, who calls his sibling "Sherlie") add appeal. It's all frivolous and superficial, but the film's playful attitude and breathless forward motion are skillfully managed--and the final note adds just the right punctuation. --Robert Horton
A nurse secretly addicted to methadone inspires strength in her patients who are ignorant of her condition. But her marriage to a reformed addict threatens to lift the lid on her secret life... Based on a true story...
American diplomatic courier Mike Kells (Tyrone Power) is sent to Salzburg to pick up Top Secret papers. The exchange goes disastrously wrong, an American agent dies and the vital papers go missing. In a desperate race against time, Kells hunts down the only lead he has – a mysterious blonde (Hildegarde Neff). Her trail takes him to Trieste – one of the most treacherous and dangerous cities in Europe, with Soviet spies and assassins stalking the streets. Who is the blonde really working for – and just who is the glamorous American widow (Patricia Neal) who keeps turning up? In Cold War Trieste no one is who they seem – and no one can be trusted….
Get set for more hard-charging action and laughs than you can shake a stick at in this uproarious sequel to the original 1977 Slap Shot. Sean Linden (Stephen Baldwin) is the long-suffering captain and coach of the Charlestown Chiefs. The Chiefs are a team whose glory days are a distant memory. However the team's new millionaire owner (Gary Busey) has a new game plan: to turn the Chiefs into the bumbling underdog losers in a bogus made-for-TV hockey league! And to add insult to injury
In the third installment of the hit series An Idiot Abroad, Ricky Gervais has persuaded his friend Karl Pilkington to embark on a new adventure following in the footsteps of the great explorer Marco Polo. But this time he'll have little company. Ricky is sending Warwick Davis to join Karl on the 5000 mile journey from Venice to China. Along the way their relationship is tested as they attend a traditional masked ball, live with Romany Gypsies, act in a Bollywood film, and attemp to climb a sacred mountain. How will the 'little Englander' cope with Warwick's entusiasm for the local traditions and culture, and will they still be talking when they reach the end of the route. Special Features: Commentary Deleted Scenes Warwick's Holiday Photos
Twenty-one years after an acrimonious split '70's rock band Strange Fruit are about to regroup and go on the road again. Their goal is to perform at the Wisbech Open Air Rock Festival the venue of their final disastrous performance which heralded their demise two decades earlier. The intervening years have seen the band members settling in to lives ranging from simply ordinary to the outright poverty stricken. 'Still Crazy' takes a sharp and acutely funny look at what it takes to get yourself back on stage with a group of people you haven't spoken to since glam-rock and platform shoes were all the rage! This hilarious film charts Strange Fruit's increasingly desperate efforts to recapture the magic the music the lost opportunities and the missed romance of their prime. Are they 'Still Crazy' enough to succeed?
Extras is the spiritual successor to The Office created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Series 1: Ricky plays Andy Millman who having given up his day job to be an actor finds he just can't land the big parts. In fact he rarely gets a speaking role so spends most of his days stuck in a green room with other extras envying the A-list stars with his fellow actor Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jensen). Each episode Extras has a different setting and cameo appearances from guest artists including: Samuel L Jackson Kate Winslet Ben Stiller Ross Kemp Vinnie Jones and Les Dennis! Series 2: The second series sees Andy (Gervais) experience the highs he has longed for with his newly written sitcom 'When The Whistle Blows'. However while the show achieves high ratings Andy's creative integrity is under threat from the catchphrase-riddled mainstream appeal of it all. The answer; artistic credibility and celebrity friends which leaves poor Maggie out in the cold now working as a background artist on Andy's breakthrough venture. As before a slew of high-profile celebrities pop up for some hilarious cameos including Sir Ian McKellen Robert De Niro and Orlando Bloom amongst others all willing and able to humiliate themselves!
When mankind is reduced to a handful of scared cave dwellers a rebellious group of teenagers are cast out of their tribe and search the land for a new paradise reminiscent of their lost civilization. During their travels the teens encounter two immortal super-humans Judith and Neil who appear at first to be the answer to their prayers. However the couple's true motives soon become clear when they cleverly seduce each teenager in an attempt to pass on a super-human virus. When o
Set in Brixton, SW9, land of yuppies, clubbers, anarchists, guns and riots, this new Britsh drama follows five very different characters through a single extraordinary day.
A recluse who lives his life making furniture discovers a two year old orphan on his doorstep. Making a new life together their relationship is threatened when the natural father appears... Based around the George Elliot novel 'Silas Marner'.
It's days before Christmas and reindeer are found running loose through the streets of London. Meanwhile an astonished 9 year-old Tom (newcomer Kit Connor) discovers Santa (Jim Broadbent) in the garden shed. He has crash landed while test driving his new sleigh and enlists Tom and his father Steve (Rafe Spall) to help him get back to Lapland. But what happens when Santa is arrested and thrown into prison? Will Steve and Tom be able to break him out in time for Christmas? Get Santa is a heart-warming and funny family adventure about a father and son reconnecting to discover the magic of Christmas.
Join a 3D CGI animated Noddy and his friends in Toyland a place where toys come to life and adventure never ceases. This release features 'Hold Onto Your Hat Noddy' plus four other stories...
Celebrated war hero Audie Murphy packs a two-fisted punch in this action-filled western adventure which also features legendary Oscar winner Lee Marvin in one of his first screen appearances. Stephen McNally is Lightning the quick-drawing marshall of Silver city who's intent on capturing a ruthless gang of claim jumpers that have been terrorizing and murdering local miners-including his best friend. After losing the use of his famed trigger finger in a shootout Lightning deputize
St. Patrick's Day in Dublin City; this means trouble everywhere. Between The Canals follows three small time criminals from Dublin's North Inner City: Two are happy with their lot as drug users and thugs, but Liam is looking for a way out. He wants to quit his life of crime, get a job and provide for his girlfriend and son. He just has to get through this one day and maybe things will look brighter for him. A hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking story of loyalty, duty and masculinity. Special Features: Interview with Director and Writer Mark O'Connor. Song by Robert Delaney
Hailed as "genre-breaking stuff" on its release in 1992, this is the tale of a London estate agent who find he's the son of a Yorkshire pig farmer.
Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann made before he was tried and hanged in Israel in 1962 this powerful film stars Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong Resident Evil: The Apocalypse) as the SS officer who orchestrated the mass murder and destruction of millions of innocent people. Captured by intelligence operatives in Argentina 15 years after World War II Eichmann must be broken down by Captain Avner Less (Troy Garity) a young Israeli Police Officer. Gradually Avner uncovers the harrowing truth about Eichmann's role as the architect of Hitler's plan for the final solution which killed 6 million Jews including Avner's own father. As the world watches the two men confront each other in a battle of wills - the result of which will change a nation forever.
Based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe (1993-7) ran to 14 full-length television films that follow the adventures of the titular soldier through the later years of the Napoleonic Wars. The programmes are an outstanding achievement for the small screen, dominated by Sean Bean's central performance as the heroic, troubled outsider who turns out to be a resourceful and loyal leader. Bolstered by a strong supporting cast, particularly Daragh O'Malley as Harper and (in later episodes) Abigail Cruttenden as Jane, Sharpe is often visually striking, the action tense and gripping. Consistency is maintained by all 14 episodes being directed by Tom Clegg. On the DVD: Sharpe on DVD's sound is full-bodied stereo while the very "sharp" (pun intended) picture has been transferred slightly letterboxed at 14:9. Though looking much better than the original TV transmissions the occasionally cropped framing makes it apparent the films were shot in 16:9 widescreen, so it is regrettable they have not been transferred to DVD in that format. Otherwise these are first-rate releases. --Gary S Dalkin
Fascinating and imaginative The Company Of Wolves, directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with a Vampire) brings together the timeless Little Red Riding Hood and werewolf fables with a haunting, compelling, eerie and erotic difference. This movie is a magical bag of symbolic folklore about werewolves or rather their sexual connotation. Grandmother Angela Lansbury tells her granddaughter Sarah Patterson, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome...
Recently widowed and bringing up two teenage children local general practitioner and forensic surgeon Dr. Paul Dangerfield is a morose and brooding man dedicated to his profession sometimes at the cost of his personal relationships. Episodes Comprise: 1.Down By The Riverside 2.Death In Custody 3.Dem Bones 4.Dr. Stevens' Stalker 5.The Dead Businessman 6.The Call Girl 7.The Body In The Quarry 8.SAS Death 9.The Unfaithful Husband 10.The Norfolk Holiday: Part 1 11.The Norfolk H
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