Fargo (Dir. Joel Coen Ethan Coen 1996): William H. Macy plays Jerry Lundegaard a Minneapolis car salesman who is by all accounts a loser. He is desperately in debt so decides to hires two thugs (who are bigger losers than he is) to kidnap his wife in the hope that his wealthy father-in-law (who bullies him regularly) will pay the ransom. When one of the kidnappers goes off the rails and events career out of control it falls to Marge Gunderson Chief of the Brainerd Police Department to set things right. Arguably the best of the Coen brothers films (they won an Oscar for the script) featuring two of their best usual suspects Steve Buscemi and Frances McDormand; who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in this role. The film raked in a range of other prestigious and International Awards 36 in total - including best direction at Cannes and David Lean Award for Direction at the 1997 BAFTA awards. Sex Lies And Videotape (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 1989): With smoldering sensuality and biting humor the surprising relationship between the three title subjects is revealed in Sex Lies and Videotapes one of the most-talked about erotic comedy of the eighties. James Spader ran away with the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his brilliantly understated and seductive performance as Graham a long-lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of John a self-involved philanderer his angelic wife Ann and her saucy sister Cynthia. One by one each is drawn into the very ""personal project"" Graham is working on leaving the relationships between them forever transformed.
Puccini's 'Turandot' as directed by David Pountney. His production is based on the idea of fear of civilisation: the fear that the fatal combination of rapid technological progress gradually spinning out of control and inhuman political systems poses a fundamental threat to all human values.
This informative DVD provides comprehensive instruction to help transition coaches and female gymnasts from recreational to complulsory gymnastics. Coach Steve Nunno demonstrates numerous drills and progressions for each of the following events: floor exercise vault balance beam and uneven parallel bars.
Sci-Fi heavy-hitter Andromeda is back for a 4th season! This first volume contains the episodes: 1. Answers Given To Questions Never Asked 2. Pieces Of Eight 3. Waking The Tyrant's Device 4. Double Or Nothingness 5. Harper/Delete
Steve Hillage first came to prominence as a member of the multi-national rock band Gong. Steve appeared on successful albums such as Angels Egg You and his final album with the band Shamal. Steve recorded his first solo album in 1975 entitled Fish Rising. This album was recorded whilst still a member of Gong. Shortly after however Steve and his partner Miquette Giraudy left Gong embarking on a career that continues to this day under the name System Seven. In 1976 Steve recorded the album L with Todd Rundgren producing. The album was a huge success and Steve subsequently formed the Steve Hillage Band which included former Jethro Tull drummer Clive Bunker and future Camel bassist Colin Bass. The band made its live debut at the Hyde Park concert staged by Queen in September 1976. Following the live debut the band played numerous live concerts including a concert in Germany in early 1977 for German television. This performance is now captured on this DVD. The track listing of this fabulous performance from the first Steve Hillage band includes: Salmon Song Hurdy Gurdy Glissando Hurdy Gurdy Man Solar Musick Suite Lunar Musick Suite It`s All Too Much (Lunar Musick Suite)/ It's All Too Much II Aftaglid Pt. I Elecktrick Gypsies Not Fade Away. The DVD also includes an exclusive interview filmed at Steve and Miquette's studio in London in January 2007 where Steve and Miquette discuss the Steve Hillage Band the German concert and also the recording of the albums Fish Rising 'L' and Motivation Radio. Track Listing: 1. Salmon Song 2. Hurdy Gurdy Glissando 3. Hurdy Gurdy Man 4. Solar Musick Suite 5. Lunar Musick Suite 6. Meditation of the Dragon 7. It's All Too Much 8. Aftaglid part 1 9. Electrick Gypsies 10. Not Fade Away (glid forever) 11. Bonus Feature - Exclusive Interview
Though the Guardian opens with a nod or two to Three Kings, it really offers a cut-down version of Fallen, with Los Angeles Detective Kross (Mario Van Peebles) facing Telal--a body-hopping Sumerian demon he encountered at an archaeological site in Iraq during the Gulf War--entrusted by ritual scarification with the task of protecting a 12-year-old boy who will grow up to unite the three great monotheistic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and thus set the Devil's work back millennia. A sub-plot deals with a red powder drug ("Chaos"), imported by the demon's minions, which catches on in LA sending coke-sniffing agents into murderous frenzies (the funniest scene) and briefly giving guest star dealer Ice-T superpowers until an ambiguously angelic hit lady (Stacy Oversier) tosses him off a building. There are elements of The Matrix stirred in, with Oversier and Telal dead ringers for the Carrie-Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving characters, but it inevitably boils down to a Fallen-style formula. It's stripped-down demonology--ever since The Evil Dead, those Sumerian demons have been getting a bad press--with direct-to-video action, but is by no means unlikeable. On the DVD: Along with the trailer, this disc offers IMDB filmographies for Van Peebles, Remar, Ice-T and John Terlesky (who used to be a busy B-actor in the likes of Chopping Mall and Valet Girls and now directs quickies such as Guardian). The transfer is augmented for 16:9 and looks significantly better than the video version, giving this low-budget effort a relatively lush feel, though the Iraqi desert does look as though it was an hour or so drive out of Los Angeles. --Kim Newman
This box set features the following films: Kramer Vs Kramer (Dir. Robert Benton) (1979): Returning home late from work one night a career-obsessed Ted Kramer is told by his wife Joanna that she is leaving him. After a life of being 'somebody's daughter' or 'somebody's wife ' she's going off to find herself - leaving Ted to care for their 6 year-old son. Ted while trying to hold down his job gets to really know his son: cooking his meals taking him to the park understanding every need and fear. For the first time in his life he feels like a fulfilled parent. But then Joanna returns. And she wants her son back... Papillon (Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner) (1973): They called him Papillon meaning butterfly. If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil's Island. Stranger Than Fiction (Dir. Marc Forster) (2006): This is an inventive comedy about a novelist (Emma Thompson) struggling to complete her latest and potentially finest book - she only has to find a way to kill off her main character Harold Crick and she'll be done. Little does she know that Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is inexplicably alive and well in the real world and suddenly aware of her words. Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears what she has in mind and realizes he must find a way to change her (and his) ending. Joan Of Arc (Dir. Luc Besson) (1999): The year is 1429. France is in polical and religious turmoil as members of the royal family battle for rule. But one peasant girl from a remote village gave her country the miracle it was looking for. Milla Jovovich is Joan of Arc a young woman who would inspire and lead her countrymen until her execution at the age of nineteen. Raised in a religious family Joan witnessed her sister's rape and death at the hands of an invading army. Years later as the same war raged on Joan stood before her king with a message she claimed came from God: give her an army and in God's name she would reclaim his diminished kingdom. Tootsie (Dir. Sydney Pollack) (1982): Michael Dorsey is fine actor but an irreproachable perfectionist who can hardly make ends meet; the best he can do for his wallet is take on a couple of jobs as a part-time drama coach and a part-time waiter. But when with the help of a few accessories (including rouge and a padded bra) he transforms himself into Dorothy Michaels everything changes. Dorothy lands a hot job on a soap opera monopolizes the covers of glossy magazines and wins thousands of adoring fans. But when he falls head-over-heels for his co-star Julie (Jessica Lange) he's got a real problem: How can he tell Julie he loves her when she thinks he's a she? Accidental Hero (Dir. Stephen Frears) (1992): Davis is ace reporter Gale Gayley who literally falls into the story of a lifetime when she's a passenger on a airplane that crashes into a Chicago bridge. In the smoke and darkness she's saved by a rude foul-mouthed hero who promptly disappears into the night..leaving only his shoe behind. When Gale's TV Station offers a million dollars to the mystery hero a gentle Vietnam vet (Garcia) appears to claim the prize - and share it with the city's homeless. But this screwball Cinderella story is complicated by the fact that the real hero is a small-time crook (Hoffman) whom nobody believes. Both men have something heroic inside as well as something to hide and it's up to Gale to discover the true meaning of courage.
Dennis Hopper stars as Captain Ellisworth in this drama that focuses on crooked cops and the crime underworld. The captain is up to his neck in red tape when new officer (Marc Singer) tries to play hero during a bank robbery turning it into a dangerous shoot-out. Soon the new officer also happens upon a dirty lieutenant (Michael Madsen) and his crew in the middle of wrongdoings and accepts a payoff to keep his mouth shut. This opens up a new story of conspiracy and corruption within
The fourth series of Gene Roddenberry's cult sci-fi show continues...
Episode titles: If The Wheel Is Fixed The Shards of Rimni Mad To be Saved Cui Bono The Lone And Level Sands.
Antonio Banderas is the titular Desperado out for revenge against the drug-lord responsible for the death of his girlfriend in Robert Rodriguez's semi-sequel, semi-remake of his debut El Mariachi (1992). Set in a Mexican town, this is a contemporary Western that combines elements familiar from classic Sam Peckinpah movies with the post-Reservoir Dogs school of film-making. With a threadbare story and unbelievable characters acting in unbelievable ways the result is a repulsively blood-soaked comic-book treatment, in which the best scenes are bar-stool monologues by Steve Buscemi and Quentin Tarantino. The film also introduced Salma Hayek to English-speaking audiences. She's incandescently sensual here and survived a farcical rock-video-style sex scene to become a Rodriguez regular. On the DVD: Desperado is a Superbit DVD, meaning maximum disc space has been given to the film, with a data rate close to double that of a normal DVD, no extras and just a choice between Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 soundtracks. The 1.78:1 anamorphically enhanced transfer is virtually flawless, with excellent detail, accurate colours and a refreshing absence of grain. The Dolby Digital soundtrack is very good and the DTS even better, though as this comparatively low-budget film was originally released in stereo it's not state-of-the-art even when remixed. Only those with high-end home cinema set-ups are likely to notice significant technical improvements over a standard DVD version. --Gary S. Dalkin
This collection of traditional music from Ireland and Scotland arranged for solo guitar is the result of a passionate study of the tradition by some of the finest musicians playing in this genre. The idea of arranging this music for solo guitar is still relatively new. Looking back lees than a century you would find this music performed on fiddle pipes button accordion flutes and whistles in solo and ensemble settings but never guitar even in its basic role of providing rhythm.
A case of mistaken identity is at the heart of this classic comedy western starring John Astin (Gomez in the comedy horror The Addams Family) as two ne'er-do-wells stumble across the sleepy town of Molybdenum. When Michael O'Toole is incorrectly identified as the infamous out-law Desperate Ambrose it's up to his younger sibling Timothy to spring him from prison. Their innocence confirmed the O'Toole brothers soon endear themselves to the local folk and decide it's time to put Molybdenum on the map.
Classic performances by the original Wishbone Ash line up from film and television vaults around the world including 1971 performances from the Pilgrimage album and priceless 1973 performances from the legendary Argus album. Tracklisting: Blowin' Free / Blind Eye / Lady Whiskey Medley / Phoenix / Vas Dis / Jail Bait / Time Was / Sometime World / Blowin' Free (reprise) / The King WIll Come / Warrior / Throw Down The Sword / Goodbye Baby Blues
The Official DVD Review of the 2010 Isle of Man TT brings fans all the action and atmosphere from the world's greatest road race festival. Once again making use of the excellent footage captured by North One Television the action packed DVD review delivers a comprehensive look back at two weeks of speed and drama. With extensive coverage of Practice Week the five solo races both sidecar races and the new clean emissions TT Zero event for electric bikes the Official Review is the definitive story of one of motorsport's greatest events. In addition to edge-of-the-seat race action as the bikes reach up to 190mph blasting around the legendary Mountain Course just inches from walls houses and hedges the TT DVD features white-knuckle on-bike footage informed commentary rider interviews behind-the-scenes access and special features. The 15-times TT winner John McGuinness and Honda teammate Steve Plater lead the entry list for the 2010 TT while Cameron Donald and Bruce Anstey carry the banner for Suzuki as the manufacturer celebrates its 50th anniversary. It's an all-star cast with Michael Rutter Ryan Farquhar Guy Martin and many more challenging for solo honours. Dave Molyneux already a 14-times TT winner is the man with a target on his back as the best sidecar crews in the world including drivers like Tim Reeves Ben Birchall and Klaus Klaffenbock race for honours - joined by the new team launched by five-time TT winner Nick Crowe. Plus the 2010 TT promised a mouthwatering line-up of newcomers including Hudson Kennaugh David Johnson Dan Hegarty and Brian McCormack. This is the Official DVD Review of the 2010 TT packed with essential action and heart-stopping drama.
Since 1998 Sprung has provided the dedicated mountain biker with brain food. This special compilation features som of our favourite moments from the first four videos spanning three years thousands of miles and many hours looking through the lens. In this case motivation comes in DVD form! Featuring the very best of: Racing Dirt Jumping DH Lessons Video Diaries BMX and classic Sprung features...
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