Get ready for threehilarious movie adventures with SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star and the Bikini Bottom gang! Join your favourite yellow sea sponge for super-heroic missions across land and sea to rescue his pals from peril. With new friends and foes to discover along the way, the whole family will love this fun-filled three-movie collection.The Spongebob Squarepants movie: SpongeBob SquarePants takes leave from the town of Bikini Bottom in order to track down King Neptune's stolen crown.The Spongebob Movie Sponge Out Of Water: When a diabolical pirate above the sea steals the secret Krabby Patty formula, SpongeBob and his nemesis Plankton must team up in order to get it back.The Spongebob Movie Sponge On The Run: After SpongeBob's beloved pet snail Gary is snail-napped, he and Patrick embark on an epic adventure to The Lost City of Atlantic City to bring Gary home.Extras:Mini movieDeleted Storyboard ScenesSing along Music VideosArts & CraftsAnd More!
Billy Liar was the multimedia phenomenon of its era. Starting out as a novel by Yorkshire writer Keith Waterhouse, it rapidly became a long-running stage play, adapted by Waterhouse with playwright Willis Hall, which lead to the movie, scripted by Waterhouse and Hall for John Schlesinger to direct, then a stage musical and finally a spin-off TV series. Do you get the feeling it caught the mood of the times? The basic set-up owes a lot to James Thurber's classic short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Our hero, Billy Fisher, lives at home in a Bradford semi with his nagging parents and works as a lowly clerk in an undertaker's parlour. But, in his imagination he lives a rich and varied fantasy life as gallant military leader, suave socialite, best-selling novelist and so forth. Trouble is, he can't always keep fantasy and reality apart, any more than he can the keep two girls he's engaged to separate. Not to mention his other problemsÂ…. Schlesinger's direction brings out the desperation behind the comedy, and Tom Courtenay, at once defiant and hangdog, slips perfectly into the role created on stage by Albert Finney. But the whole cast's a joy, not least the great Leonard Rossiter as undertaker Mr Shadrach, Billy's saturnine boss. And then there's Julie Christie--the luminous spirit of the Swinging 60s--in her first starring role as the girl who offers Billy a chance of real escape. At the end, when she takes the train to London, away from the smoke and the grimness "oop" north, the whole British New Wave went with her. On the DVD: just the theatrical trailer which is a fairly crass affair. There's been no remastering, it seems, but both sound and vision are clean enough and the print preserves the original's full 2.35:1 widescreen ratio. --Philip Kemp
Adapted by celebrated screenwriter Jack Rosenthal (Coronation Street) from C. F. Taylor's acclaimed play of the same name, And a Nightingale Sang struck a chord with audiences when it first aired for its bittersweet, sharply observant and humorous portrait of working-class family life on the British Home Front during World War Two. Despite air raid sirens, gas masks, ration books and whistling bombs punctuating their everyday lives, the Stott family remain stoic as they focus on keeping life as normal as possible. Helen Stott is the family's sensible 30-year-old daughter: a kindly yet self-deprecating girl who walks with a limp, whose life so far has not been very kind to her. Surprised to find love during the chaos of war, she falls for gentle soldier Norman. However, the course of true love runs less than smoothly Starring Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey) as the pitiful Helen Stott, and Tom Watt (Eastenders) as the soldier who steals her heart. Helen's flirty younger sister Joyce is played by Pippa Hinchley (Coronation Street), who is attracted to every solider apart from her own husband (Stephen Tompkinson DCI Banks). John Woodvine (The Crown) also features as the Stott family's father, preferring to escape awkward family situations by banging out popular tunes on the piano than face conflict, and Oscar-nominee Joan Plowright (Enchanted April) as the devoutly Catholic family matriarch, who finds herself drawn to her priest. The DVD will also feature fascinating extras in the form of three real wartime public information films, giving insight into the unrivalled efforts on the British Home Front, from the Imperial War Museum: They Keep the Wheels Turning (1942), Britannia is a Woman (1940) and The New Britain (1940).
Set in Newcastle towards the end of World War 2 this romantic drama chronicles the sacrifices made by a blue-collar woman and her family. This is the story of the Stotts an eccentric family waging their personal battles against the terrifying backdrop of Britain during WW2.
Paul Sharpe is a successful commercial television director with what seems to be an exciting career and an attractive loving family. He is also frustrated and restless despite years of therapy. He still feels humiliated by the failure of his movie career and begins to look for ways to expand his horizons by following the occult. He meets Janus a mysterious dancer who awakens his interest in out-of-body travels. After the police begin investigating him Paul soon realises he might not be in control of his new found 'freedom'. Janus is out to take over Paul - body and soul.
When Sylvia's well-meaning dad (Watt) surprises her with a devastating revelation Sylvia's world is turned upside down. But will she crumble or prove herself at the local flamenco contest? An uplifting feel-good Brit comedy drama Flirting with Flamenco will have you laughing crying and feeling empowered to turn your life around.
Some Bark. Others They Bite... Maurice Todd; antique dealer and bus-pass holder - not that Maurice often travels by bus being a resident of Bristol's fashionable Clifton and loving husband to fiery fifty-something Maria-Carmen a lady who prefers to travel in style. Stuart Whitlock aka spook; twenty-four counter-cultural drifter - and broke. Spook concocts a scheme to claim a reward for 'finding' Maria-Carmen's beloved bulldogs to make a quick five hundred quid. But the plan is hi-jacked by fellow crusty and hardcore anarchist Dennis Balch and transformed into a full-on kidnap. Maurice turns to his son Raymond a frazzled Police Detective-Sergeant. Incensed at the theft of his mother's dogs Raymond takes the law to his own hands. The world of crusties and Bristol bourgeoisie collide as the tension ratchets up lives are turned upside-down- not least that of Spook's spaced-out girlfriend Nora who finds herself on the run with Dennis and two pissed-off dogs. What about the dogs?
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