Matthew McConaughey plays the ultimate bachelor about town, a serial heartbreaker until one day the ghosts of his former girlfriends visit him and take him on a journey through his failed relationships
The most talked about TV show of 2005 now brings you The X Factor: The Greatest Auditions Ever exclusively on DVD. Millions of TV viewers have watched the UK's biggest ever talent search on Saturday nights to find the Nation's brightest singing talents. Now it's your chance to relive all the best and worst moments from the X Factor auditions. In the summer of 2005 75 000 contestants from all over the UK came face to face with three of the most powerful people in the music industry - Simon Cowell Sharon Osbourn and Louis Walsh. They decided the fate of each auditionee whether talented talentless or downright bonkers. Watch as the judges argue between themselves about who is good enough to go through to the next round relive Simon's most outrageous comments and rejections and see for the first time exclusive unseen footage of the contestants and judges. The Greatest Auditions Ever relives the highs and lows with clips that made you both laugh and cry. Who can forget such characters as Justin or should we say Justine the Vicky Pollard look-a-like from Total Eclipse and you'll find out if Della ever got to sing another song. If all this isn't enough let's take a trip down memory lane to the very first series of X Factor. See all the best and the worst auditions from the chicken plucker's rendition of the Bee Gee's 'Tragedy' to the Leeds rapper and his version of 'Eminem's Stan'. All these and many more on The X Factor: The Greatest Auditions. So without further ado' It's Chico time!
Former child star Janette Scott stars opposite Vernon Gray in a story of runaway romance that transcends the class barrier. Based on R.F. Delderfield's play The Orchard Walls, Now and Forever stars Scott as a well-to-do girl for whom the path of true love runs anything but smooth, and Gray as the young car mechanic who fails to impress his future fiancee's snobbish mother. This heart-warming drama is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Janette Grant is a lonely schoolgirl with divorced parents. She lives with her mother in a provincial town, where she falls in love with Mike, the son of a local garage owner. Appalled on discovering the alliance, Mrs Grant decides to send Janette to Canada. When a desperate bid to kill herself thankfully fails, the young girl hatches a plan to elope with Mike to Gretna Green...SPECIAL FEATURESOriginal theatrical trailerImage galleryPromotional material PDFs
Rob Reiner directs this drama starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Cruise) is a Navy lawyer assigned to defend two men who accidentally killed a soldier by strangling him with a towel. Initially working out a quick and easy plea bargain with the prosecuting lawyer (Kevin Bacon), Kaffee is persuaded to investigate the case further by a determined colleague (Demi Moore). Together they take on the might of the army establishment, as the trail of evidence leads to the accused's commanding officer (Nicholson).
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When four young Americans sign up to work as counsellors in a remote Spanish camp, their visions of a fun-filled summer quickly dissipate. As one of the four is seemingly infected with a deadly disease, they begin attacking anything and everything in their path. Before the group even realise what's happening, a rage-inducing virus begins to take hold, spreading rapidly one-by-one among them. Before long, each must fight for their lives, if they have any hope of surviving the night.
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam - and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs. Aided by a beautiful State Department official (Leonore Kasdorf) and a former Army buddy (M.Emmet Walsh), Braddock amasses top secret information and state-of-the-art weaponry. Now this one-man army is prepared to blast his way into Vietnam...but will he be able to blast his way back out? Cast and Crew: DIRECTOR: Joseph Zito CAST INCLUDES: Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, James Hong, David Tress, Lenore Kasdorf and Ernie Ortega Awards and Reviews: Explosive! Theactionelite.com
The son of Italian immigrants in Canada struggles to find the best way to reveal to his parents that he's gay.
Detective Jay Jensen (Ken Olin) investigates the brutal murder of Stacey Eckhart a young mother who has been having an affair with the husband of a respected socialite Faith Kelsey (Cybill Shepherd). When the police follow up all the possivle leads they discover that Faith is a woman without conscience. She's capable of seducing cops manipulating her lovers and planning the most cold-blooded murders. She is a woman who will stop at nothing to get equal with those who betray her and she always gets what she wants. Based on a true story.
Ealing Films' exciting horseracing drama features a memorable performance from Bill Owen as a jockey with a troubled past. Also starring Kay Walsh, Robert Morley and Wilfrid Hyde White, The Rainbow Jacket was filmed on many of the country's key racecourses including Newmarket, Epsom and Sandown Park and is featured here as a remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Sam Lilley, a champion jockey who lost his license, trains young George a keen racegoer with ambitions to ride professionally. But when George gets his first race it comes down to a photo-finish and Sam has bet heavily on the boy winning.
'Good morning hungry citizens of District 12! Don't forget today is the Gathering Ceremony, so parents please do bring your beloved children to the square for a random death lottery.' When lithe and fearless Kantmiss Evershot volunteers to take part in the winner-takes-all STARVING GAMES, she takes on a whole lot more than she had bargained for.... including Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, The Avengers and ANGRY BIRDS!
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.
COUNTERSPY Fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claims she is being blackmailed. Of course, he agrees to help but even he could not have foreseen that he'd end up finding a man, fully clothed, dead in a bath... LITTLE RED MONKEY A mysterious assassin targets eminent British atomic scientists, leading to fears for the safety of Leon Dushenko a Russian defector and missile expert who is passing through London en route to the United States. Will he be the assassin's next victim? THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK Dr Frank Smith and Eve arrive from America, apparently on honeymoon but actually on an undercover assignment from Washington. They are instructed to rendezvous with a Hungarian scientist who has vital information about biological warfare! RING OF SPIES A bookseller and his wife; a disgruntled naval clerk; an undercover Soviet agent with a false identity... all members of a secret spy cell working from a bungalow in suburban Ruislip, hidden for years from unsuspecting neighbours and British spycatchers!
The Grifters is Stephen Frears' darkly modern noir tale of a small-time grifter Roy Dillon (John Cusack) torn between his new girlfriend (Annette Benning) and his estranged mother (Angelica Huston): both con-artistes with their own angles to play. When small-time cheat Roy Dillon winds up in hospital following an unsuccessful scam it sets up a confrontation between his mother Lilly and sexy girlfriend Myra. Both Myra and Lilly are ruthless at playing the con game in a league far above Roy... and always looking for their next victim. The question soon becomes who's conning who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust.
Charles Bronson demonstrates exactly what tough is in this two-fisted action drama about a drifter suddenly caught up in the fight game during The Great Depression. Chaney (Bronson) a down-on-his-luck loner hops on a freight train to New Orleans where on the seedier side of town he tries to make some quick money the only way he knows how - with his fists. Chaney approaches a hustler named Speed (Coburn) and convinces him that he can win big money for them both. Chaney wins a f
We will remember them. Four terrorists wanted to turn Flight 93 into a weapon. Forty passengers and crew stopped it from reaching its target... This drama made for US TV documents the final tragic journey of Flight 93 on 11th September 2001 where the passengers managed to heroically overthrow the terrorist threat at the expense of their lives.
Jack Rosenthal's prime-time firefighting drama series returns to DVD.
Roger Livesey and a very young Anthony Newley star as a Victorian father and son who accidentally swap bodies after a foolishly casual wish made in the presence of a magical Indian artefact! Written and directed by filmmaker, wit and reconteur Peter Ustinov, Vice Versa is featured here as a brand-new remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. During a heart-to-heart with his son, pompous businessman Paul Bultitude envies his schoolboy son Dick's youth, while Dick wishes he were grown up. They both get what they wish for when, magically, the son becomes the father (and vice versa) - a situation that soon causes consternation and uproar! Product Features Image gallery The Strange World of Gurney Slade episode one Saturday Spectacular: an Anthony Newley variety show from early 1960 Limited edition booklet by Neil Sinyard
Jerry Maguire (Dir. Barry Levinson 1996): Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a man who knows the score. As a top agent at Sports Management International Jerry is unquestionably master of his universe - until that is he gets a sudden attack of morals and is unceremoniously fired! Hanging on by a thread Jerry is forced to start from scratch supported only be three very unlikely allies- single mother Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger ) her cheeky young son Ray and Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) a second rank player for the Arizona Cardinals - and Jerry's sole remaining client. Rain Man (Dir. Cameron Crowe 1988): Dustin Hoffman joins Tom Cruise to bring a funny and moving tale of brotherly love to the screen. Heartless Charlie Babbitt expects a vast inheritance after his estranged father dies. But Raymond his institutionalised older brother someone he's been totally unaware of is willed the entire fortune instead. Raymond is an 'autistic Savant' with severely limited mental abilities in some areas but with genius gifts in others. When Charlie kidnaps Raymond the crazy cross-country drive back to Los Angeles teaches them both a few lessons in life. For as they overcome their mutual distrust of each other a deep bond is forged as they painfully share past memories present problems and a possible shining future together. A Few Good Men (Dir. Rob Reiner 1992): One man is dead. Two men are accused of his murder. The entire Marines Corps is on trial. And 'A Few Good Men' are about to ignite the most explosive episode in US military history. Universally acclaimed A Few Good Men unites the big screen's biggest stars as Hollywood heavyweights Jack Nicholson Tom Cruise and Demi Moore lead an all star cast in director Rob Reiner's powerful account of corruption cover-up and a relentless quest for justice within the sacred corridors of the US Navy. With powerful performances from Kevin Bacon and Kiefer Sutherland A Few Good Men makes its mark as one of the best courtroom dramas of the '90s..
Vian (Sean Bean, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings) has just been released from prison after serving time for beating a man to death while he was drunk. Moving in with his sister, Bethley (Kate Walsh, The Perks of Being a Wallflower), he is desperate for retribution, and a chance to put right his terrible mistake. Making a promise to himself to stay dry, he finds a job, even a girlfriend (Eva Longoria,Desperate Housewives), and the future is looking up. But when an unexpected tragedy drives him back to the bottle, old demons wake, and Vian is faced with a final battle against alcohol, those who want to see him fail, and most importantly, himself. Will he crumble in the face of his enemies, or can he find the strength to fight his demons, and survive?
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