QUARTET is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto, starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins as four retired opera singers.
A rogue gunman is assassinating high-ranking military officers one by one. When Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Beckett (Chad Michael Collins Sniper: Reloaded) is informed his father legendary shooter Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger Sniper franchise) has been killed Brandon springs into action to take out the perpetrator. But when his father rescues him from an ambush Brandon realizes he's a pawn being played by his superiors to draw out the killer. It's up to the two men bound by blood to bring an end to the carnage.
Hit American sitcom Will and Grace is as perky as Friends and as wittily urbane as Frasier. The premise concerns Will (Eric McCormack), a mildly uptight lawyer who agrees to have as a flatmate his best friend, interior designer Grace (Debra Messing). Their relationship has all the hallmarks of one between lovers--emotional dependency, little things that get on each other's nerves, strong mutual interests and volcanic arguments. The only snag is that while Grace is straight, Will is gay. Though not shy of poking sharp fun at that situation, Will and Grace is among sitcom's most potent and sophisticated antidotes to homophobia. Though initially a little too pleased with its own camp pertness, the show grows and grows on you with successive episodes, finally becoming indispensable. It also benefits from secondary characters Jack (Sean P Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally), also gay and straight respectively, both outrageously and hilariously irresponsible characters: he's a free spirit and freeloader, she's "working" as Grace's assistant even though she doesn't need the money, having married some. Despite its diamond and rapid-fire punch lines, Will and Grace conveys enough sense of the lovelorn predicament of the main characters to prevent it becoming too cute. --David Stubbs
QUARTET is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto, starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins as four retired opera singers.
The only Deanna Durbin film made in colour Can't Help Singing was a spectacular musical triumph nominated for two Academy Awards and a real favourite with her fans. Featuring four great songs from Deanna Durbin - ""Can't Help Singing"" ""Any Moment Now"" ""More and More"" and ""Cal-i-for-ni-ay"" Can't Help Singing captures Deanna at her musical best.
Footballers' Wives plays rather like a dramatisation of the worst bits of Heat magazine, fuelling our obsession with worshipping at the celebrity altar. In essence it's Dynasty set in the world of premiership football, though you shouldn't be fooled by the title: this is definitely not a "game of two halves". For the first time in history, men may leave the room at the mention of football to let the women gorge themselves on a surfeit of bad fashion, affairs, drug habits, long-lost children and the gratuitous disposal of excessive wealth. There are more than a few recognisable characters--the foreign manager, the glamour-model wife, the smouldering Italian mid-fielder--whose presence only adds to the (intended) impression that this just might be fact thinly disguised as fiction (though it's unlikely that any real footballer's wife would almost kill the chairman of the club in a fit of rage, as Tanya does in the first episode). Unsurprisingly Footballers' Wives was created by the same team that produced the trash-fest that was Bad Girls and despite never being a contender for best drama it offers a perfect opportunity to become a voyeur in a world with more glitz and leg action than most. On the DVD: Footballers' Wives is presented with an ordinary TV transfer. The special features are nothing to get excited about, just standard interviews and photo galleries. --Nikki Disney
They're young they're rich and they've got everything that money and fame can buy. They should be having the time of their lives. But the reality is very different... The second season of the exciting drama from the team that brought you 'Bad Girls'.
Party At The Palace starts with Queen Guitarist Brian May--who looks more than ever like a haircut with a person growing from beneath it--playing "God Save The Queen" on the roof of Buckingham Palace; seemingly missing the point of his obvious inspiration, Jimi Hendrix's apocalyptic subversion of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock. Unbelievably, and theoretically impossibly, it goes downhill from there. It can only be assumed that the bill for the Queen's Jubilee was assembled by an ardent republican. The concert is a motley assortment of has-beens and time-wasters, a curious number of whom felt it proper to celebrate the monarch's 50 years by singing old Motown songs badly. The concert also features an extended plug for Queen's (that's the Band) risible musical We Will Rock You and Lenny Henry shouting. Bewilderingly Party At The Palace is not only redeemed, but made worth owning, by the four-song set by Brian Wilson with his version of "God Only Knows"--accompanied by Andrea Corr—-offering a heartbreakingly earnest performance. The concert ends with a pantomime version of "All You Need Is Love". Party At The Palace is the night rock & roll gave up. On the DVD: Party at the Palace is presented in 16:9 format. Songs can be selected by title or by artist. There are subtitles in French, German and Spanish. Proceeds from the sale of the DVD, "after the deduction of costs and expenses in relation to its production and distribution", will be donated to the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Trust. --Andrew Muller
A sales clerk wins the heart of a little boy and his widowed mother amidst the magic of Christmas in New York City. Jodie (Cynthia Gibb) is a widow with a six-year-old son. Her life is settled and comfortable until the day she goes shopping in the smart Manhattan store where Steve Mason (David James Elliott) works. A sales clerk working in the kids' toy department Steve instantly falls in love with Jodie. But she is only there to buy a train for her company to use in a commercial. She has no interest in the train or the magic of Christmas expecting to return the toy the next day. Her son Timmy changes everything. The train his mother brings home for Christmas is his dream come true. Like Steve young Timmy believes anything is possible and wishes with all his heart that the train is for him. And Steve is wishing for Jodie. But will their wishes come true? Will Jodie be won over by the power of Christmas magic?
Based on the best selling novel by Dean R Koontz and directed by Brett Leonard Hideaway is a terrifying journey from the unconscious mind to the heart of evil. Following a miraculous escape from death after a near fatal car crash Hatch Harrison (Jeff Goldblum) has suffered terrifying visions of horrific murders murders which he inexplicably feels that that he himself has committed. Tortured by these images Hatch starts to suspect that he has not returned from death alone and that
A collection of the very best musical performances from the Amnesty International series of Secret Policeman's Ball series from the years of 1979-1991 featuring some of the finest talents in the music industry. ""The Policeman's Ball DVD's are wonderful... chock full of nostalgic fun moments.""
Inspired by true events. A company of American soldiers is lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge and makes a horrific discovery - a super bomb in development. The soldiers soon learn about a secret allied mission to retrieve a defecting German scientist in charge of a secret weapons program. Faced with impossible odds, the company and an escaping POW go on a daring raid into the heart of Nazi Germany in pursuit of the scientist. Starring Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Chad Michael Collins (Sniper: Reloaded), Neal McDonough (Captain America: The First Avenger), Vinnie Jones (The Tomb) and Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot).
Based on a true story... They call him the 'baby maker'. To married couples desperate to have children but unable to conceive he seems like the answer to their prayers. Dr Cecil Jacobson is larger than life - both physically and professionally as a respected expert on fertility medicine and artificial insemination. His reputation attracts those from all levels of society including Mary Bennet whose main aim in life is to have a child. But the joy of Mary and other prospective p
Shirley Valentine: Shirley Bradshaw has always been able to see the funny side of any situation. She was a high-school rebel and now she's a housewife and mother who one day looks back at her life and realises that she has lost touch with her dreams. When her best friend wins a magazine contest and asks Shirley to accompany her on a fortnight's holiday in Greece Shirley begins a voyage of self-discovery. On the island of Mykonos as Shirley luxuriates among sun sand and taramasalata she encounters islander Costas Caldes and falls in love...with life! The First Wives Club: Marriage has turned into a crash dive for Brenda Cushman Elise Atchison and Annie Paradise. These three well-heeled Manhattan women chums during their college days all took different paths. Now they're reunited by catastrophe--each has just been callously dumped by her husband for a younger sexier trophy wife. Smarting from the pain Brenda Elise and Annie join forces and concoct a plan to exact the most exquisitely bitter vengeance upon their exes. War has been declared.
During the last major German offensive of World War II, a company of American soldiers is lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge and they make a horrific discovery - Hitler has a super bomb in development.
Based on the novel by Paul Annixter Those Calloways tells the story of Cam Calloway (Brian Keith) a New England preservationist and fur trapper. Along with his son Cam dreams of buying a nearby lake to turn into a refuge for migrating geese. He finds however that making the dream come true requires much more money than he has and even greater ingenuity in getting around the real estate developers. The situation turns violent when Cam and his son move into a cabin on the property and an attempt is made on his life. Can Cam stop the development of this pristine area and carry out his lifelong wish to help the environment... Available for the first time on DVD!
On 16th July 1969 Apollo 11 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The purpose of the Apollo 11 mission was to land men on the lunar surface and to return them safely to Earth. 76 hours after launch the spacecraft was inserted into lunar orbit. Armstrong and Aldrin entered the Lunar Module preparing for descent to the lunar surface. Twenty four hours later the two spacecraft were undocked and the Command and Service Modules separated from the Lunar Module. On the 20th July 1969 after four days in Space the now legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the surface of the moon uttering the unforgettable and now famous statement One small step for man one giant leap for mankind.
Johnny Fortune is no good to anyone not mean but just no good. To escape Casino bosses who want him for stealing money he flees to England. He gets a job dressed as a bear for Punch & Judy shows which is an effective disguise. But when the Casino thugs track him down it's up to his two resourceful bosses to help him.
Monsters. Zombies. Chainsaws. Somebody doesn't love Lucy. Testing an experimental implant that gives people complete control over their environment a secret agency assemble five strangers. According to profiling of reading habits employment histories and shopping records they are five of the most balanced people in England. These five are offered an opportunity to spend a week in a specially designed house in which they will have ultimate power during set hours of the day within their own rooms. From creating objects out of thin air to changing their own appearance anything is possible within the house. The subjects' vital signs will be measured from afar to check that everything is OK. Two of the subjects David and Lucy create an environment of 50s domestic tranquility. Another Charlotte uses the power to gain knowledge and advance mankind. Another Luke is just looking to have as much fun as possible. There is however a fly in the ointment. The final subject James Todd is not who he claimed to be. The records weren't his. He is not one of the most balanced people in England. He's a borderline psychopath and having so much power at his fingertips looks set to erase that border altogether
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