Episodes: Homer to the Max: The Springfield Files: X-Files Agents Mulder and Scully investigate Homer's encounter with an ""alleged"" extraterrestrial. Lisa The Iconoclast: Lisa discovers that her town's beloved founding father Jebediah Springfield was in fact a vicious pirate. Homer wins the coveted role of town crier in an upcoming Bicentennial parade. Homer Badman: Homer is wrongly accused of sexual harassment when he tries to enthusiastically
One morning Danny Wallace decided to start his very own country. Little did he know it was a decision that would take him tens of thousands of miles across the globe meeting world leaders inventing laws and becoming a King. He meets Cardinals Princes and the man who owns the moon. He travels to Italy Denmark America and the UN. He tries to enter the Eurovision Song Contest make all crime illegal and with an army of loyal citizens backing him up he strives to create the nices
Will Wallace, Dean Cain and Don Swayze star in this horror from director Daric Gates. When big city detective Michael (Wallace) relocates to the country with his wife Rachel (Emily Brooks) after the death of their young daughter, a job at the small sheriff's office holds the quiet life that he needs. However, on his first day in town Sheriff Hendricks (Swayze) informs him of an investigation into a missing teenage girl. When Michael discovers that the girl's boyfriend is currently living in a.
The classic family adventure is now on Blu-ray for the first time, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Andre the giant, Christopher Guest and Billy Crystal. Relive the magic of director Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, This is Spinal Tap) and Academy Award winning* screenwriter William Goldman, with this Special Edition of the beloved movie classic The Princess Bride. A spectacular adventure of heroes, giants, villains, princesses, pirates, miracles and, yes, even the odd bit of kissing. When Princess Buttercup - lovelorn after the loss of her beloved sweetheart Westley - is kidnapped by cunning crook Vizzini and his sidekicks Fezzik the Giant and swordsman Inigo, she is confident her one true love will come to save her. But is the man in the mask hot on the heels of her captors the Prince Humperdink, to whom she is now betrothed, or a mysterious stranger? This family fairytale will touch your heart, tickle your funny bone and leave you feeling happily ever after.
Toy Story 1 John Lasseter's Toy Story poses the universal and magical question of what do toys do when they are not being played with? Cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), Andy's favourite bedroom toy, tries to calm the other toys during a wrenching time of year--the birthday party, when newer toys may replace them. Sure enough, Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) is the new toy that takes over the throne. Buzz has a crucial flaw, though--he believes he is the real Buzz Lightyear, not a toy. Bright and cheerful, Toy Story is much more than a 90-minute commercial for the inevitable bonanza of Woody and Buzz toys. Lasseter further scores with perfect voice casting, including Don Rickles as Mr Potato Head and Wallace Shawn as a meek dinosaur. The director-animator won a special Oscar "For the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film". In other words, the movie is great. Toy Story 2 Like the handful of other great movie sequels, Toy Story 2 comments on why the first one was so wonderful while finding a fresh angle worthy of a new film. The craze of toy collecting becomes the focus here, as we find out that Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) is not only a beloved toy to Andy but also a rare doll from a popular 1960s children's show. When a greedy collector takes Woody, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) launches a rescue mission with Andy's other toys. To say more would be a crime because this is one of the most creative and smile-inducing films since, well, the first Toy Story.Although the toys look the same as in the 1994 feature, Pixar shows how much technology has advanced: the human characters look more human, backgrounds are superior, and two action sequences that book-end the film are dazzling. And it's a hoot for kids and adults. The film is packed with spoofs, easily accessible in-jokes and inspired voice casting (with newcomer Joan Cusack especially a delight as Cowgirl Jessie). But as the Pixar canon of films illustrates, the filmmakers are storytellers first. Woody's heart-tugging predicament can easily be translated into the eternal debate of living a good life versus living for forever. Toy Story 2 was deservedly a huge box-office success. --Doug Thomas
Grizzled veteran detective Mark Simmons (Lou Diamond Phillips) can't seem to catch the Badge Bandit the city's serial prankster who's causing mischief and embarrassing the police. Karina Murphy (Lulu Wilson) is a spunky 12-year-old who dreams of being a cop. She stumbles on Simmons' stakeout where she proves she's got serious detective skills and tech-savvy smarts. While Simmons wants to ignore Karina, the police captain does the unthinkable and teams them up. While on their mission to stop the Badge Bandit, the unlikely duo goes on a hilarious, action-filled adventure! Bonus features: The Making of Cop and a Half: New Recruit Lou and Lulu: Partners in Crime Solving
A biopic of one of the first true greats of boxing in the 20th century this film is interspersed with footage from the real Joe Louis in action. The fact that Louis is treated on equal par with the white characters in the story led to the film being banned in certain parts of southern America when originally released!
Young and beautiful Kim Walker (Durbin) aspires for the life of a Broadway actress and singer. She devises a scheme which will get her on stage in fact she gets the lead role in a new play through the help of the magnificent John Sheridan (Laughton) even against the writer's objections.
Based on a play called 'The Clansman' this film was billed as 'the first feature film' and caused riots on its release because of its racist overtones. The film follows a family through the American Civil war. Includes 'The Making Of...' Silent. Tinted Version.
C.S.I. is an acclaimed edgy fast-paced drama series about a passionate team of forensic investigators (among them William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger) who work the graveyard shift at the Las Vegas Criminalistics Bureau. Their job - to find the missing pieces at the scene that will help to solve the crime and vindicate those who often cannot speak for themselves - the victims. Between the hidden clues and the buried motives lies the trail to the truth because peopl
In the sleepy little town of Fairwater, a monstrous evil has awakened - an evil so powerful, its reach extends beyond the grave.
Exclusively available at Amazon.co.uk, this box set contains the complete second series of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The second series consolidates the show's well-deserved popular appeal, while beginning to explore (gently at first) beneath the slickly professional surface of the investigators themselves. Gradually we learn more about what makes Grissom and his astonishingly gifted forensics team tick, beyond merely that they are workaholics who seem to require no sleep at all. The show's trademark reveals of vital evidence--be it on the autopsy slab or under the microscope--add a fresh spin to what is, at heart, a good old-fashioned whodunit series. And just when CSI starts to seem a little too pat, just when the trail of clues seems too neat, the show always seems able to throw a surprise or two at us: perhaps there has been no crime after all; perhaps the evidence concerns a completely different crime altogether; or perhaps, as in one brave episode concerning brothers implicated in multiple murders, the evidence simply isn't good enough to convict the right man, even when Grissom knows which one really is guilty. Thanks to its focus on more single-case episodes, the latter episodes provide an even more highly concentrated dose of forensic puzzle-solving. With the whole team working together on one puzzle crime (or series of crime puzzles), the group dynamic is elaborated and the audience drawn deeper into each investigation. "Identity Crisis" sees the return of Grissom's nemesis, serial killer Paul Millander; in "The Finger", Catherine is caught up in an elaborate kidnap plot; in "Burden of Proof", a stray body in a "body farm" leads to a difficult case of child abuse; while "Chasing the Bus" brings the team together to unravel the mystery of a bus crash in the desert. "Stalker" is possibly the show's most terrifying episode to date, with a woman found murdered behind the safely locked doors of her apartment. The season concludes with "Cross Jurisdictions", a rather unsubtle way of introducing the spin-off show CSI: Miami and, finally, "The Hunger Artist", a somewhat strained attempt to comment on our society's obsession with glamour and self-image. --Mark Walker
A riotous burst of energy and colour almost documentary in style Rockers is a cameo-packed gutsy thriller of the dread-locked ganja-smoking drummer Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace's attempts to succeed in the cut throat Jamaican music biz which provides much insight amusement and education. The film captures reggae at its musical apex with a vibrant and magnificent reggae soundtrack now digitally re-mastered from the original 35mm film made in 1978.
There Are Worse Things Than Dying... A chilling teen horror flick starring nominee Emily Blunt. It's Christmas break. A young woman catches a ride home from a stranger she meets through a college ride board. Racing to beat a severe winter storm the two young travelers take a shortcut down a remote country road only to find themselves forced into a snow bank by a mysterious vehicle that engages them in a dangerous game of chicken. Over the long night that ensues an intense relationship develops between the pair as they must brave the elements and confront the road's sinister legacy that dates back to the terrible events that occurred there in the 1950s.
Burt Reynolds plays Phil Potter a low-key contented magazine writer who tries to put his life back together after his wife (Candice Bergen) opts for independence as a singer-songwriter. A wacky nursery school teacher (Jill Clayburgh) tries to help him surmount the emotional hurdles but it's rough going in this delightful contemporary tale; he's still hung up on his ex-wife...
The granddaddy of giant monster movies, The Lost World was one of the most expensive movies ever made in 1925, costing more than a million dollars, and has remained one of the most influential. Every larger-than-life creature feature since--from King Kong to Godzilla and Jurassic Park--owes a debt to this original adventure fantasy based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. It's the story of a maverick scientist (Wallace Beery under a bushy beard) who finds a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles and comes back to London with a captured brontosaurus to prove it. His expedition includes Bessie Love, the daughter of an explorer who disappeared on the previous expedition, and big game hunter Lewis Stone. The ostensible stars of the picture are all upstaged by Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs, simple models brought to life with primitive stop-motion animation (the technique was soon to be perfected by O'Brien for King Kong). Hardly realistic by any measure, these pioneering special effects are still a sight to behold, especially the lumbering brontosaurus which receives the most care from O'Brien, both foraging in his jungle and rampaging through the streets of London. With the coming of talkies, The Lost World became obsolete: all known American prints were destroyed in favour of a sound remake (which became King Kong) and the film only survived in a severely truncated form (even the original negative was lost). For this release David Shepard meticulously "rebuilt" the film using material from eight different surviving prints from all over the world, cleaning and restoring along the way. The result is 50% longer than previously extant prints, still not complete but closer than any version since its 1925 debut. The difference is not merely in restored scenes but in a rediscovered sense of grace in scenes filled out to their original detail and pace. The film moves and breathes once again like a silent film. On the DVD: From the attractive solid slipcase to the wonderful "period" menu interface, this is a delightful DVD package. The film itself looks surprisingly good--a real tribute to the restoration team's efforts--with careful tinting in the style of the period (blues for evening, reds for dawn etc.). The disc features the choice of either an original score by The Alloy Orchestra or a classical orchestral score compiled and conducted by Robert Israel (both enjoyable and effective), 13 minutes of O'Brien's animation outtakes (including a couple of isolated frames that capture O'Brien manipulating his models) and a well-meaning but basic commentary by Arthur Conan Doyle historian Roy Pilot. There's also a text biography of Conan Doyle and a display of original postcards, posters and other promotional items. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
There has never been a more complete fighter than Joe Louis having all the attributes in one compact explosive package that made him the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He was world heavyweight champion from June 1937 to March 1949; his reign of 11 years & 8 months remains the longest in division history successfully defending his title 25 times before retiring in 1949 only to return because of his dire financial situation to lose title shot against Ezzard Charles in 1950 a
Queer as Folk' meets Skins' in this explosive new 3 part British drama, focussing on a group of gay 20-Somethings trying to work it all out - from writers Rob Ward (co-writer of critically acclaimed play Away from Home) and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan (Iris Prize winner for Closets ) Episode 1 - Entrances and Exits By Lloyd Eyre-Morgan Kane is dumped by Tom (again) during an intimate moment and moves back in with his mum (yet again). Will he ever find his place in the world or in the bedroom? Elsewhere, Kiegan is asked a question and Tim tells it as it is. Episode 2 - Best Man By Rob Ward Kiegan continues to escape the pressure of his breakup and family the only way he knows how, but will he further alienates himself at his niece's christening? Kane starts dating and a blast from Tim's past makes Lucy doubt their future. Episode 3 - Happy Returns By Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Rob Ward Tim throws a surprise 80s pop star fancy dress birthday party for Lucy, convincing her that recent difficulties are behind them. But is Tim really ready to get serious with her? Old friends and foes collide in the explosive season finale. Queer as Folk' meets Skins' in this explosive new 3 part British drama, focussing on a group of gay 20-Somethings trying to work it all out - from writers Rob Ward (co-writer of critically acclaimed play Away from Home) and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan (Iris Prize winner for Closets ) Episode 1 - Entrances and Exits By Lloyd Eyre-Morgan Kane is dumped by Tom (again) during an intimate moment and moves back in with his mum (yet again). Will he ever find his place in the world or in the bedroom? Elsewhere, Kiegan is asked a question and Tim tells it as it is. Episode 2 - Best Man By Rob Ward Kiegan continues to escape the pressure of his breakup and family the only way he knows how, but will he further alienates himself at his niece's christening? Kane starts dating and a blast from Tim's past makes Lucy doubt their future. Episode 3 - Happy Returns By Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Rob Ward Tim throws a surprise 80s pop star fancy dress birthday party for Lucy, convincing her that recent difficulties are behind them. But is Tim really ready to get serious with her? Old friends and foes collide in the explosive season finale.
The Bear: The story of a bear cub's first year of life told from the animal's point of view. After its mother is killed a young cub latches onto an adult male grizzly. The reluctant stepfather educates and protects his young ward through its first summer of wide-eyed growth including its initial encounter with the most dangerous creature in all of God's creation - Man. Running Free: Running Free is the adventurous inspiring story of a remarkable friendship between a boy and an abandoned young colt named Lucky. In an African mining town an orphaned servant boy raises a young horse that is destined for a life of hard labour. Together they find the strength to stand up to the cruel plantation owner and his mean-spirited thoroughbred Caesar; fleeing the destruction of the escalating war they chase after the freedom they deserve. Narrated by Lukas Haas (Witness Mars Attacks!) and starring Jan Decleir (Character Antonia's Line) Arie Verveen (The Thin Red Line) as well as Chase Moore and Maria Geelbooi in their big-screen debuts. Running Free is a visually stunning unforgettable tale about the triumph of the human - and equestrian - spirit. Fly Away Home: Young Amy (Anna Paquin) is reunited with her father (Jeff Daniels) after a nine-year separation. One day Amy discovers a nest of orphaned goose eggs and decides to take them home and nurture them until they hatch. When the newly hatched goslings adopt her as their Mother Goose Amy and her father become airborne adventurers battling against bad weather and a host of other pitfalls in their efforts to teach the geese to fly...
Never was a treasure so sought after... Pirates of the Plain centres around a nine-year-old boy (Seth Adkins) with an overactive imagination. Whether it's shoot-outs with the James Gang or laser battles with alien robots little Bobby's playmates seem real to him. It frightens his mother Dee Wallace Stone while Bobby's grandpa (Charles Napier) thinks it's just Bobby's way of coping with not having many friends and a father that left two years prior. At the same
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