It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's first feature adventure.
Stanley Kubrick's singular war saga packs a more visceral punch in 4K. Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio and R.Lee Ermey- as a drill instructor from hell- shine in this gripping chronicle of U.S. Marine recruits during the Vietnam War. Shifting from the raw brutality of basic training to the dehumanising effects of combat, Full Metal Jacket deftly combines nonstop action with scathing dark humour.
Guy Ritchie returns with another tale of criminals, con men and card sharks.
Archaeologist Robert Burns discovers a collection of priceless artefacts in China. He plans to take them out of China for restoration but the Chinese Mafia has made other plans for the treasure. Burns is framed for a murder and thrown in a Chinese prison; now he must fight for justice and his life!
The Adventures of Mark Twain is an amazing journey of imagination humour and heart and a must for fans of Aardman Studios. The film features a series of vignettes extracted from several of Mark Twain's works built around a plot that features Twain's attempts to keep his appointment with Halley's Comet. Tom Sawyer Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn stow away with Mark Twain on an incredible journey in Twain's airship. The journey introduces the three friends to a variety of the author's characters from; The Diary of Adam and Eve Huckleberry Finn The Mysterious Stranger The Famous Jumping Frog of Caliverous County and Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. The sequence based on The Mysterious Stranger reportedly received over ten million views upon being posted on YouTube. The sequence was allegedly banned from TV due to its disturbing content
One of a series of revisionist Vietnam cinema released in the late 1980s, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is essentially split into two stories linked by a number of characters. The film follows new recruit Joker (Matthew Modine) and his fellow soldiers through their basic training and into combat in Vietnam. The first half is a chilling portrayal of military brutality and de-humanisation, mainly at the hands of Sgt Hartman (played at a level of staggering intensity by ex-Marine Lee Ermey), that centres around the tragic character of Private Pyle, a young man pushed to the edge of his endurance. The tone of the film is no less harsh when transported to the combat zone as we see the results of the training process in action: the young men turned into unquestioning killing machines. Joker is perhaps the one exception, a soldier with "Born to Kill" written on his helmet who also sports a peace sign on his lapel. But the film finds itself caught in the trap of many of the war movies of the time--how to create audience empathy with characters who are essentially in the wrong. It's a dilemma that Full Metal Jacket never really solves, although as a spectacle the film is a masterpiece. Made in the days before CGI became the norm, the battle sequences--filmed, rather bizarrely, in London's Docklands before its redevelopment--are hugely realistic and are perhaps the key moments of the movie, heightening the disorientation and fear felt by the soldiers. By offering no more than a snapshot of the Vietnam conflict (the action deals with one individual skirmish), Kubrick cleverly leaves any judgement on the war to the audience, although clearly attempting to influence them. The fate of the characters who survive is also left in the balance, but we can perhaps imagine what awaits them. On the DVD: Part of a series of Kubrick DVD reissues, Full Metal Jacket has been treated to the full remastering and restoration treatment. The battle sequences have benefited the most, gaining a new audio and visual crispness and clarity that adds to their already impressive sense of realism--you can almost feel the heat searing from the screen and the explosions detonating around you. Maybe not the best war film ever made, as some may claim, but certainly one to take you right to the heart of the action. --Phil Udell
On the surface Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) has it all: a happy marriage two healthy children and a successful career as a commercial director. Until one night while on a trip to New York City a chance encounter leads to a passionate and uncharacteristic affair with a beautiful seductive and very married woman named Karen (Nastassja Kinski). Each vows to forget the affair but when Max returns home he slowly begins to withdraw from the people closest to him. One year later M
The Abominable Dr Phibes is an unusually beautiful horror classic in which Vincent Price stars as the titular genius who specialises in organ music, theology and concocting bizarre deaths for anyone who wrongs him. Discovering why is half the fun, so for now let's just say that Phibes is a little mad and very, very angry. Aided by his assistant, the lovely, silent Vulnavia, Phibes begins cutting a gory swathe through London's medical community, with the dogged Inspector Trout hot on his tail. The film contains many pleasures--exquisite art direction and a dark sense of humour among them--but the real treat is in watching an old pro such as Price at work. Whether he's playing his organ, staring down a victim or drinking through his neck, Price is at the top of his game. He mixes dark menace with wry comic touches, revealing both Phibes' maniacal obsession and offhanded confidence in his own genius. Settle in for an evening of elegant gore--and if an attractive, mute deliverywoman comes to the door, whatever you do, don't answer! --Ali Davis
The artistic masterpiece about love, war and comradeship from the celebrated creators of "The Red Shoes" and "A Matter of Life and Death."
Stanley Kubrick's singular war saga packs a more visceral punch in 4K. Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio and R.Lee Ermey- as a drill instructor from hell- shine in this gripping chronicle of U.S. Marine recruits during the Vietnam War. Shifting from the raw brutality of basic training to the dehumanising effects of combat, Full Metal Jacket deftly combines nonstop action with scathing dark humour. This Ultimate Collector's Set Includes: Full Metal Jacket 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Feature Films 32-page Booklet Letter from Stanley Kubrick 4 Character Art Cards Replica Theatrical Poster Exclusive film artwork
Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard of education. The putative leader of the students is Riff Randell who loves the music of the Ramones. A new principal the rock music hating Miss Evelyn Togar is brought in and promises to put an end to the music craze. When Miss Togar and a group of parents attempt to burn a pile of rock records the students take over the high school joined by the Ramones who are made honourary students. When the police are summoned and demand that the students evacuate the building they do so which leads to an explosive finale.
Where fantasies come back to haunt you Alan and Wendy Barnet are a normal couple who find their seemingly perfect marriage has lost its spark. They want to reclaim their passion and make their sexual fantasies come true. An ad placed in a swinger's magazine leads them to the Zebra Lounge and a couple of experienced swingers - Louise and Jack Bauer whose erotic prowess knows no boundaries. Initially resisting but eventually yielding to the charms of Jack and Louise Wendy a
101 Films presents cult musical comedy Rock 'N' Roll High School, available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK and title 026 on the 101 Films Black Label. From director Allan Arkush and executive producer Roger Corman, this joyous teen classic is the ultimate teacher of the Three Rs: Rock, Rebellion, and Ramones! This Limited Edition version includes booklet and slipcase.1979: Riff Randell (P.J. Soles, Halloween) is the rockingest rebel at Vince Lombardi High. Evelyn Togar (Mary Woronov, Night of the Comet) is the strict new principal with plans to rule the school as her own personal dictatorship. Meanwhile the Ramones are the hottest band around. When these forces of nature collide, Lombardi High will never be the same! Striking back against Togar's record burnings and iron-fisted discipline, Riff leads a revolt that rocks the roof right off the school's hallowed halls!Product FeaturesIncludes Mindless Authority and Rebellious Youth' by Jon Towlson and I Got No Cerebellum' by Jimmy Martin4K scan from the Original Camera NegativeClass Of 79: 40 Years Of Rock N' Roll High School, featuring interviews with filmmakers and castCommentary with director Allan Arkush, producer Mike Finnell and screenwriter Richard WhitleyCommentary with executive producer Roger Corman and actress Dey YoungCommentary with Allan Arkush and actors P.J. Soles and Clint HowardCommentary with screenwriters Richard Whitley and Russ DvonchBack To School: A Retrospective, with interviews from Allan Arkush, Roger Corman and moreStaying After Class: An interview with actors P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten and Dey YoungInterview with Roger Corman conducted by Leonard MaltinInterview with Allan Arkush including a look at rare, behind-the-scenes stillsAudio outtakes from the RoxyOriginal radio ads and TV spotsTheatrical trailer
A 1960's hipster secret agent is brought out of cryofreeze to oppose his greatest enemy into the 1990's where his social attitudes are glaringly out of place.
Previous UK releases of Catchfire have listed the pseudonymous Allan Smithee as director, but this version proudly opens with "a Dennis Hopper film". Also known as Backtrack, it offers a plot that advances by illogical leaps and bounds while whole scenes seem to go astray. With prominently billed actors getting almost nothing to do while major players go un-credited, a bland music score that might have been laid in from another film entirely and an ending that makes a lot of noise without actually resolving much, the film certainly has its bad points. However, it's also one of Hopper's more eccentric films, and more fun than Colors or The Hot Spot (which he had no trouble owning up to), partly because the director also takes a quirky lead role and his own personal interests are stirred by the modern art frills of the chase plot. The film opens with LA-based conceptual artist Jodie Foster, looking chunkily terrific just before her adult career took off, suffering a minor breakdown on the freeway and happening on a gangland execution. Pint-sized mob boss Joe Pesci sets his killers on her but the crooks ineptly murder Foster's boyfriend (Charlie Sheen, taking a very early bath). Pesci calls in Hopper, a professional hitman who immerses himself in Foster's life and art in order to track her down only to develop an obsessive crush on the woman. When he finds her, he gives her the choice between getting rubbed out or becoming his property. Hopper retains the knack for finding odd-looking byways of rural America, but is uncomfortable with helicopter chases and shoot-outs. The leads, despite great chunks of missing story, are both interesting--Foster sexily vulnerable and Hopper doing a wry New York drawl as the sax-playing hit man. Catchfire also offers an amazing supporting cast of the director's friends, including Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Tony Sirico (The Sopranos), Bob Dylan (with a chainsaw), Helena Kallianotes (Five Easy Pieces), Julia Adams (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), and John Turturro.On the DVD: the film itself comes in a good-looking widescreen transfer, but the lack of special features let the disc down, with only feeble notes for three cast members (and no Smithee filmography). --Kim Newman
A female writer of mystery stories decides to rent a spooky house unaware of the frightening events to come...
Vincent Price stars in this classic haunted house screamer from director William Castle. Five guests are invited to a haunted house party by millionaire playboy Frederick Loren (Price) and his glamorous but scheming wife Annabelle (Carol Ohmart). The plot unfolds to reveal the manipulative couple have turned the party into a contest as each guest is offered $10 000 to spend just one night in ""the only truly haunted house in the World"". What starts out as a party soon evolves into a ni
In this campy classic musical tribute to the rock legends the Ramones the students of Vince Lombardi High School are a wild and rebellious bunch who are sick of sitting in school - they want to go see the Ramones in concert. Riff Randall the leader of the frisky students writes the song Rock 'N' Roll High School and leads a brigade of her peers to a Ramones concert. However when a fierce new principal cracks the whip and attempts to silence the rock music by burning stacks of the students' records a riot breaks out. The Ramones arrive at school and join forces with the students to take over the school and in a glorious victory burn it down. The terrific soundtrack includes such Ramones favorites as Blitzkrieg Bop Pinhead and Teenage Lobotomy in addition to the title track.
From the Director of I Spit On Your Grave. A violent, edgy ride focusing on the forlorn Reagan Tyler, a man who is troubled by visions and premonitions that ultimately lead him to Las Vegas. It's there that Reagan meets the beautiful and mysterious Monika, a young woman who turns out to have been killed the night before he even met her. Reagan is then forced to put the puzzle together of what happened, how she is still present, and help Monika with her revenge on the killers of her yo...
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