For almost 20 years Audrey Hepburn's pixie-like features lit up Hollywood's silver screens with hit after hit and she became not only a screen icon, but also a style icon (with a little help from Givenchy), and still features high in polls of the world's most beautiful women. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that Paramount have chosen to honour her with a box set of some of her best-known films. However, this is only "some of", with the absence of her dazzling performances in Roman Holiday and My Fair Lady, leaving three out of the four films included here lacking in comparison. Breakfast at Tiffany's is the strongest and certainly the best-loved Hepburn film in this collection, offering beautifully comic performances by both Hepburn and her leading man, George Peppard. Funny Face also makes a welcome entry, if only for the wonderful performance by Fred Astaire; Hepburn, though, was not a strong enough dancer to hold her own against Astaire's brilliance. Sabrina holds its own as the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who turns into a beautiful society girl, but it was clearly a quick and easy vehicle for Paramount to produce in the wake of Hepburn's success in Roman Holiday. The mysterious entry of the collection is Paris When It Sizzles, probably one of Hepburn's least-known and most quirky films, with two parallel love stories played out on the screen. Although not an obvious hit and hard work in places it offers an interesting screwball performance by Hepburn, even if the sparks did not fly with her screen partner William Holden. On the DVD: The Audrey Hepburn Collection offers a nice clean widescreen transfer for three of its movies, but Sabrina is a full-frame transfer that lacks something in comparison. All but Breakfast at Tiffany's (which has a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack) are mono sound transfers, which is only a real disappointment in Funny Face because of George and Ira Gershwin's score. The special features are also lacking, with only a trailer offered on two of the films and a mildly interesting documentary on Sabrina. The best is the featurette on Funny Face, which charts the success of Paramount in the 1950s, but offers nothing a film fan would not have known already. All in all this is an attractive box set, but perhaps one for the die-hard Hepburn fan only. --Nikki Disney
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The minute he wakes up and the minute before sleep - for two minutes each day, Blake Falls feels alone. He tries to grab those minutes before they vanish. They are enough to remind him who he is.
Northfork: Northfork is a mythical tale of loss and resurrection continuing The Polish Brothers' cinematic obsession with the American heartland and the country's shifting dreams and visions. It is 1955 and the barren town of Northfork is quite literally about to be 'dammed'. Plans for a new hydro-electric plant in the area mean that the plains on which the town stands are soon to be flooded. With most of the townsfolk already evacuated several stoic citizens remain among them a lustful young couple a modern-day Noah who has built an ark for his two wives and a frail orphan boy who dreams he is the lost member of a host of wandering angels. Charged with removing the last of the residents is an Evacuation Committee comprising of six trench-coated agents some of whom will discover their own lives profoundly changed before the deluge is over. (Dir. Michael Polish 2003) Twin Falls Idaho: A different kind of love story. The minute he wakes up and the minute before sleep - for two minutes each day Blake Falls feels alone. He tries to grab those minutes before they vanish. They are enough to remind him who he is. Francis Falls understands that if it weren't for Blake he wouldn't be able to make it. His conjoined twin's heart is very strong. Blake he knows could live without him. The brothers live quietly in an eccentric hotel peopled with odd characters talking in a shorthand formed over 25 years. They dress impeccably in a custom-tailored suit adjusting each other's ties; they dine on cotton candy and on their birthday their only meal is their trademark chocolate cake; they blow out two candles one at a time. They can keep straight faces while telling outrageous tales from their earlier days in show business. When Francis becomes ill Blake holds him through the night the way he always has. Together they feel complete. When Penny (Michele Hicks) a beautiful young woman enters their lives for the first time someone sees the brothers' world from the inside. She makes them think of possibilities when they're certain there aren't any. They start to wonder how it would be to feel complete in new ways. ""Maybe I'll call you when I'm single "" Blake quips. They imagine living not as medical anomalies but as individuals who can breathe walk and dream on their own. (Dir. Michael Polish 1999)
Arucard and the Hellsing organisation face a twofold challenge! A traitor within begins leaking classified information and a TV journalist is out to expose Hellsing's secret mission! Episodes include: Innocent As A Human Brotherhood and Dead Zone.
The worst enemy of the night is one of its own! A secret war brews in the night - a war where humanity is only a pawn. The Hellsing Organization deploys in the shadows to protect the mortal world. But now artificially spawned vampires have appeared forcing Hellsing to call in their ultimate weapon; the rogue vampire - Arucard! After he transforms the dying Seras Victoria into a vampire they join forces to combat the undead army as well as to quell their new found hunger....
The Hellsing Organization's war against the undead intensifies! The organization suffers major losses in battle and Arucard must confront the deadly Pladin Alexander from Iscariot again! Then the stakes are raised as he prepares to face one of the original undead - and Integra fights for her life against her own sister! Episodes comprise: Duel Kill House and Red Rose Vertigo.
Night has fallen on the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The guides have gone home, the lights are out, the school kids are tucked in their beds... yet something incredible is stirring as former night guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) finds himself lured into his biggest, most imagination-boggling adventure yet in which history truly comes alive. In this second installment of the Night at the Museum saga, Larry faces a battle so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world'...
The worst enemy of the night is one of its own! The Hellsing Organization makes its last stand against the unknown traitor and Incognito one of the original undead at the Tower of London: with the Queen and Integra's life at stake! Seras must finally make her choice about what she has become and the mysterious bond between Alucard and Integra is revealed... Episodes comprise: Master Of Monster Transcend Force Total Destruction and Hellfire.
Best Selling crime author Todd Russell is famous wealthy and engaged to the stunningly beautiful Lori. In fact he seems to be the man who has everything but looks can be deceiving! Homicide detectives David Wolcott and Dwayne Seaver uncover a string of murders which took place ten years earlier suggesting a copycat killer is on the loose. With the killings being identical in every detail the conclusion is that only one man could possibly have such detail and that is the detective who investigated and became obsessed with the Evergreen murders. That man was Todd Russell before he quit the force to become a best selling author! Finding himself as the prime suspect Russell is further confused when he receives an ambiguous call notifying him that a woman who he has never heard of has passed away and bequeathed everything to him as her only son! As far as she is concerned Russell believes that his mother who he knows and loves is alive and well and for this mystery writer fiction soon starts to blur with reality as his life starts to spiral out of control and the copycat killings escalate. He hurtles from one surreal situation to another with the detectives hot on his tail but they are thrown into confusion themselves as possible further suspects are unearthed.
Having been wrongly accused of bombing a civilian hospital during the Gulf War Owen Turner (Ice-T) a rogue naval officer fakes his own death and hijacks a Stealth fighter to target key military installations around the world. Meanwhile his comrade Roberto Menendez (Andrew Divoff) a maniacal Columbian arms dealer sinks a US submarine stranding it on the bottom of the ocean floor. American military power is now under attack by two of its own!
James Fenimore Cooper's classic tale of the English Indian scout Hawkeye and his Mohican friends during the French and Indian War remains a favourite adventure.
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Matthew Broderick stars in Academy Award winner Horton's Foote's stunning drama On Valentine's Day. It is 1917 in the town of Wharton Texas. On Valentine's Day young Elizabeth Vaughn (Hallie Foote) defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying a young man of humble prospects. Her parents have not spoken to her since her marriage even though the couple lives in a rooming house nearby they are struggling financially and she is pregnant. This film to some extent autobiographical is based upon the story of writer Horton Foote's mother and father On Valentine's Day is about the unselfish love of a man and a woman about abiding love within a family about the emptiness of living without love - all enduring themes of human existence.
A swinging sixties musical adventure featuring appearances from the Small Faces and David Hemmings. Lester Benson the manager of a top rock band; The Small Faces is hiding a secret. His true name is Arthur Gittins and he is and ex-con. This explosive secret could ruin his career and destroy the band. Enter a diamond thief who knows lester's true identity. Desperate to ship his hoard of stolen stones out to Amsterdam he blackmails The Small Faces' manager into smuggling the contraband onto an offshore pirate radio ship where it will be collected by Kiki Dee's crooked agent! It looks like the perfect crime but unfortunately the daughter of the police chief heading the case is a big Small Faces fan. Featuring four top tracks from The Small Faces two great performances by the Chantelles and a sizzling number from Kiki Dee 'Dateline Diamonds' is a true rock 'n' roll gem!
Matthew Broderick stars in Academy Award winner Horton's Foote's stunning drama On Valentine's Day. It is 1917 in the town of Wharton Texas. On Valentine's Day young Elizabeth Vaughn (Hallie Foote) defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying a young man of humble prospects. Her parents have not spoken to her since her marriage even though the couple lives in a rooming house nearby they are struggling financially and she is pregnant. This film to some extent autobiographical is based upon the story of writer Horton Foote's mother and father On Valentine's Day is about the unselfish love of a man and a woman about abiding love within a family about the emptiness of living without love - all enduring themes of human existence.
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