SO YOUNG SO BAD SO WHAT? Punk Goddess Wendy O. Williams of The Plasmatics, stars (and lends vocals to the killer theme song) in Reform School Girls, a riotous Women-in-Prison romp from Tom DeSimone (Hell Night). After a heist gone wrong, first time offer Jenny finds herself sentenced to Pridemore Juvenile Facility, an all-girls reform school presided over by Warden Sutter (Sybil Danning, Chained Heat), a megalomaniacal dictator with the shoulder pads of a 49er and sadistic Head Matron Edna (Pat Ast, Andy Warhol's Heat). Terrorised by resident bad girl Charlie (Williams) Jenny looks to the guards for help, finding them more interested in shower time Jenny and timid runaway Lisa rally girls, guns and buses to battle the lust-crazed lesbians. A knowing spoof of bad girls gone berserk, Reform Schools Girls mixed plenty of violence and nudity with songs from Williams and Etta James to ensure its cult status.
After a Decade of Silence... The Buzzz is Back! In 1974 Tobe Hooper quite literally changed the face of horror with his landmark film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Although the hulking Leatherface and his trusty power tool left an indelible mark upon the cinematic landscape it wouldn't be until 1986 that the buzz came back... in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2! Relocating the cannibalistic Sawyer clan to a cavernous labyrinthian dwelling beneath an amusement park Hooper's deliciously demented sequel sees Leatherface and Co. continue their murderous exploits afresh. This time around local DJ Stretch runs afoul of the Sawyers when she gets mixed up in the brutal slaying of two youngsters. Meanwhile Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright is hell-bent on avenging the murder of his nephew Franklin in the first movie. A cult classic in its own right The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 serves up a heady blend of gratuitous gore socio-political critique and jet-black humour - whilst Dennis Hopper's unhinged turn as Lefty needs to be seen to be believed! Whichever way you skin it Leatherface's second cinematic outing is an uncompromisingly delirious vision from one of horror's great directors. Special Features: 3-Disc Limited Edition High Definition Digital Transfers of Three Tobe Hooper Films Original Uncompressed Audio Tracks for all Films Limited Edition Packaging Newly Illustrated by Justin Erickson Individually Numbered #/10 000 Certificate Exclusive Limited Edition Extras The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) Presentation from a Digital Transfer Supervised by Director of Photography Richard Kooris Optional English SDH Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audio Commentary with Director and Co-Writer Tobe Hooper Moderated by David Gregory Audio Commentary with Stars Bill Moseley Caroline Williams and Special-effects legend Tom Savini moderated by Michael Felsher 'It Runs in the Family' - A Documentary Looking at the Genesis Making-of and Enduring Appeal of Hooper's film. With Interviews Including Star Bill Johnson Co-writer L. M. Kit Carson Richard Kooris Bill Moseley Caroline Williams Tom Savini Production Designer Cary White and more! Alternate Opening Sequence with Different Musical Score Deleted Scenes 'Still Feelin' the Buzz' - Interview with Horror Expert Stephen Thrower Author of Nightmare USA Original Trailer Disc 2 Blu-Ray and Disc 3 DVD Tobe Hooper's Early Works - Limited Edition Exclusive High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition (DVD) Presentation of two of Tobe Hooper's Early Works Available on Home Video for the First Time in the World The Heisters (1964) Tobe Hooper's Early Short Film Restored in HD from Original Elements Eggshells (1969) Tobe Hooper's debut Feature Restored in HD from Original Elements Audio Commentary on Eggshells by Tobe Hooper In Conversation with Tobe Hooper - The legendary Horror Director Speaks about his Career from Eggshells to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Trailer Reel of all the Major Works by Tobe Hooper 100-Page Book - Limited Edition Exclusive Exclusive Perfect Bound Book Featuring New Writing on the film by John Kenneth Muir an Overview of the Chainsaw Franchise by Joel Harley and an Investigation of Tobe Hooper's three-picture Cannon Deal by Calum Waddell Illustrated with Archive Stills and Posters with More to be Announced!
The daring World War II plot that changed the course of history. In November 1943 Heinrich Himmler (Donald Pleasance) received a simple message The Eagle Has Landed. It meant that a crack force of German paratroopers were safely in England poised and ready to kidnap the Prime Minister of England Winston Churchill. The force is under the command of Colonel Kurt Steiner (Michael Caine). All goes smoothly as the German force disguised in Polish uniforms is accepted by the villagers. But one of the men is killed while rescuing a little girl and his German uniform is discovered. The entire village has to be taken hostage and hidden in the town church. Agents and counteragents work desperately to keep the scheme alive. Steiner himself takes a dangerous gamble. He overpowers an American ranger commandeers his jeep and uniform and drives to the mansion where Churchill is relaxing. The action and suspense are nonstop in this World War II thriller which also stars Treat Williams Larry Hagman Anthony Quayle and Jean Marsh.
Mark Williams stars as Father Brown the crime-solving mild mannered intuitive Roman Catholic Priest in this acclaimed drama series based on the stories by GK Chesteron. Featuring all 10 episodes from the first series Williams plays Father Brown wonderfully and is joined by a superb supporting cast (Sorcha Cusack Nancy Carroll Alex Price and Hugo Speer) in this glorious and rich production. Episodes Comprise: Hammer of GodWhen an ungodly man is murdered at the unveiling of a new church clock Father Brown must find the killer before an innocent woman is sent to the gallows. The Flying StarsFather Brown becomes embroiled with a theatrical family when he discovers that a supposed tragic drowning was actually murder. The Wrong ShapeSoon after his poetry recital Leonard Quinton is found hanging in the conservatory. When Father Brown realises that he could not have committed suicide the search begins for a murderer. The Main in the TreeWhen Lady Felicia finds a stripped and injured man stuck up a tree Sid is implicated as the perpetrator. Can Father Brown prove his innocence or has Sid gone too far this time? The Eye of ApolloWhen the Church of Apollo comes to Kembleford Susie is drawn to their charismatic leader Kalon. After Kalon's wife is murdered Father Brown must break his spell over Susie or risk losing her forever. The Bride of ChristWhen two nuns die in mysterious circumstances at St Agnes convent Father Brown investigates with the aid of Sister Boniface an eager young fan of detective novels. The Devil's DustFather Brown joins the search when a girl who is believed to be radioactive goes missing overnight. But just who is responsible for her disappearance? The Face of DeathAfter a murder at the Kembleford charity treasure hunt general suspicion falls upon a bereaved man who wants revenge. However Father Brown is determined to prove the man's innocence. The Major and The MagicianWhen the mayor drops dead during his speech at the Kembleford village fete Father Brown deduces that he was deliberately electrocuted. Meanwhile Mrs McCarthy's past comes back to haunt her. The Blue CrossWhen his priceless Blue Cross is targeted by the infamous criminal Flambeau Father Brown takes the initiative to try and save his soul. But is he walking into a trap.
Tracklisting: 1.Franz Ferdinand - Matinee 2004 2.Travis - Driftwood 2000 3.Faithless - We Come 1 2002 4.Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life 1999 5.Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? 2000 6.Robbie Williams - Angels 1998 7.Supergrass - Pumping On Your Stereo 2003 8.Ash - Shining Light 2002 9.Levellers - One Way 1994 10.Primal - Scream Rocks 2003 11.Elastica - Connection 1995 12.The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl 2000 13.Basement Jaxx - Go
Hoodlum, Bill Duke's interesting but flawed blaxploitation take on the classic gangster movie, usefully redresses a balance. It is all too easy to see the criminal underworld of the 1920s as an all-white affair, in which Harlem is an exotic locale where occasionally white gangsters patronise the black performers of the Cotton Club, from which black audiences were specifically barred. Yet one of the principal sources of illegal revenue was the numbers racket in Harlem--gambling on stock market closing figures--revenue on which the likes of Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano were keen to lay their hands. Lawrence Fishburne is an impressive "Bumpy" Johnson, the street enforcer turned strategist for the matriarchal Queen (Cicely Tyson), gradually learning a ruthlessness that forfeits him the love of a good woman, Francine (Vanessa Williams). Tim Roth as Schultz and Andy Garcia as Luciano are essentially melodramatic turns--the foul-mouthed punk and the reptilian smoothy--and both turn in enjoyably full-blooded unsubtle performances. --Roz Kaveney
In 1971 when Carry On at Your Convenience hit the screen, the series had long since become part of the fabric of British popular entertainment. Never mind the situation, the characters were essentially the same, film after film. The jokes were all as old as the hills, but nobody cared, they were still funny. But it's just too easy to treat them as a job lot of postcard humour and music hall innuendo. This tale of revolt at a sanitary ware factory--Boggs and Son, what else?--certainly chimed in with the state of the nation in the early 1970s when strikes were called at the drop of a hat. Here, tea urns, demarcation and the company's decision to branch out into bidets all wreak havoc. Kenneth Williams as the company's besieged managing director, Sidney James and Joan Sims give their all as usual, but it's the lesser roles that really add some lustre. Hattie Jacques as Sid's budgerigar-obsessed, sluggish put-upon wife and Renee Houston as a superbly domineering battleaxe with a penchant for strip poker remind us that in the hands of fine actors, even the laziest of caricatures becomes a real human being. On the DVD: Presented in 4:3 format with a good clean print and standard mono soundtrack, Carry On at Your Convenience feels as comfortable as an old pair of shoes. But where's the context? The lack of extras leaves the viewer wanting biographies and some documentary sense of the film's position in the series. The scene index is often arbitrary and the budget packaging means that we don't even get a full cast list. --Piers Ford
After the success of Jurassic Park in 1993, the floodgates opened for digital special effects, and Jumanji is nothing if not a showcase for computer-generated creepiness guaranteed to give young children a nightmare or two. Whether that was the filmmakers' intention is up for debate, since this is a PG-rated adventure revolving around a mysterious board game that unleashes a terrifying jungle world upon its players, including gigantic spiders, huge mosquitoes, a stampede of rhinos, elephants, and every other jungle beast you can imagine. Robin Williams plays a man-child who's been trapped in the world of "Jumanji" for 26 years until he's freed by two kids who've discovered the game and released its parade of dangerous horrors. A chaotic and misguided attempt at family entertainment, the movie does offer a few good laughs, and the effects are frequently impressive, if not entirely convincing to the eye. --Jeff Shannon
The subtext of Gardens of Stone, a grim, snail-paced Francis Ford Coppola film, is the death of Coppola's son Giancarlo in a boating accident. Coppola came back with this Vietnam-era military drama about the men assigned to patrol and serve at the funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. James Caan is the world-weary patrol leader with a fatherly interest in a gung-ho cadet (DB Sweeney). Caan tries to show Sweeney the potentially fatal future that awaits him if he volunteers for combat, but he can't break through his young charge's zealousness. The subplot involves crusty Caan's attempts at romance with Anjelica Huston, who can't quite fathom his contradictions. The story is all glum and lumbering, despite a warm, full-bodied performance by James Earl Jones as one of Caan's buddies.--Marshall Fine
Following the success of Karel Reisz's 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' Alan Sillitoe adapted another of his works for the screen this time a short story of a disillusioned teenager rebelling against the system to make Tony Richardson's 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' one of the great British films of the 1960s. Newcomer Tom Courtenay is compelling as the sullen defiant Colin refusing to follow his dying father into a factory job railing against the capitalist bosses and preferring to make a living from petty thieving. Arrested for burglary and sent to borstal Colin discovers a talent for cross-country running earning him special treatment from the governor (Michael Redgrave) and the chance to redeem himself from anti-social tearaway to sports day hero. With Colin a favourite to win against a local public school tensions build as the day approaches...
The man. The myth. The driver. Doug Hefferman (Kevin James) is The King of Queens but his wife Carrie (Leah Remini) really rules the roost. Doug is the ultimate guy's guy but he loves Carrie so much he's willing to sacrifice his games room (plus his 70-inch TV) so that her father Arthur (Jerry Stiller) can move in a decision he's regretted ever since. Doug's free time is split between quality time with his wife and play time with his mates. A parade of crazy neighbours and oddball citizens of New York's middle-class borough help make this show the reigning comedy champ. The King of Queens proves you don't have to have a huge castle to live like royalty. Episodes Comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Fat City 3. Cello Goodbye 4. Richie's Song 5. Paternal Affairs 6. Head First 7. The Rock 8. Educating Doug 9. Road Rayge 10. Supermarket Story 11. Noel Cowards 12. Fixer Upper 13. Best Man 14. Dog Days 15. Crappy Birthday 16. S'ain't Valentine 17. Court Date 18. White Collar 19. Rayny Day 20. Train Wreck 21. Hungry Man 22. Time Share 23. Where's Poppa 24. Art House 25. Maybe Baby
The Very Best of Dad's Army, Vol 2 is a further helping of episodes from the BBC's most durable comedy, well chosen to illustrate the variety of situations and predicaments in which Warmington-on-Sea's home guard find themselves. "Menace from the Deep" sees them marooned on the town pier, having to contend with a rogue mine and an inebriated Hodges. "Mum's Army" has Captain Mainwaring set up a women's division and promptly fall for the charming Miss Gray, in a cunning take on Brief Encounter. "No Spring for Frazer" charts Frazer's beleaguered attempts to locate a missing gun part with predictably disastrous results. "When Did You Last See Your Money?" similarly puts Corporal Jones through the mill after he switches a package containing £500 with one containing a half-pound of sausages. Finally, "The Honourable Man" brings the enmity of Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson to a head when the latter inherits an honorary title. The performances have that spontaneity and gently self-mocking humour so familiar, yet so enjoyable, however many times around. On the DVD: The Very Best of Dad's Army, Vol 2 on disc has an accompanying documentary (partially reprised from that on Volume 1) containing interviews with surviving cast members, present-day comedians and Messrs Croft and Perry, whose inspired scriptwriting continues to amuse and entertain. The early-70s prints have come up well, with subtitles and six chapter headings per episode to make locating favourite scenes easier than ever. --Richard Whitehouse
It's non stop romps as the Carry On team deliver the goods in one of the rudest and funniest of the Carry On films. The cast are all on top form as a bunch of no-hoppers who join an agency in the search for a job. The anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs including a chimps tea party trying to stay sober at a wine tasting and demolishing a house.
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
One of Marvel's greatest and most complex characters takes center stage as Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) becomes the host for the alien symbiote Venom. As a journalist, Eddie has been trying to take down the notorious founder of the Life Foundation, genius Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) and that obsession ruined his career and his relationship with his girlfriend, Anne Weying (Michelle Williams). Upon investigating one of Drake's experiments, the alien Venom merges with Eddie's body, and he suddenly has incredible new superpowers, as well as the chance to do just about whatever he wants. Twisted, dark, unpredictable, and fueled by rage, Venom leaves Eddie wrestling to control dangerous abilities that he also finds empowering and intoxicating. As Eddie and Venom need each other to get what they're looking for, they become more and more intertwined where does Eddie end and Venom begin? Also featuring a the Bonus Disc: Bonus Disc From Symbiote to Screen Featurette
Created by and starring filmmaker Lena Dunham, Girls takes a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their early 20s. The girls, having lived in New York for a couple of years are still not sure what they want from boys, from each other, from themselves... and things don't seem to be getting any clearer.
The family-slaughtering serial killer known as Jerry Blake has survived the stabbing by his stepdaughter and has been committed to a psychiatric hospital in Puget Sound. By playing on the new psychiatrist's naive desire to help he makes an escape. He then sets up a new identity as Gene Clifford whose death he reads in the newspaper and moves into the new Palm Meadows suburb which is being touted as the perfect family environment. There he pursues divorced realtor Carol Grayland and
Young mother Joy (Carol White) is forced to fend for herself when her brutal and uncaring husband Tom (John Bindon) is put in jail. Joy finds brief happiness with Tom's criminal associate Dave (Terence Stamp) who proves kind and gentle when she moves in with him but this relationship ends when he is also jailed and Joy is left to raise her young son alone in squalid circumstances. Poor Cow is a poignant controversial slice of raw social realism and in true Loach style is an imaginative exploration of the thin line separating fiction and real-life.
Twenty years after its release Illmatic has become a hip-hop benchmark that encapsulates the socio-political outlook enduring spirit and collective angst of a generation of young black men searching for their voice in America. Time is Illmatic tracks the musical legacy of the Jones family handed down to Nas from his jazz musician father Olu Dara. It also examines the social conditions and environmental influences that contributed to Nas' worldview. Along the way Time Is Illmatic shows how Nas - with the support of his Queensbridge neighbourhood crew the loyalty of his younger brother Jabari 'Jungle' Jones and sacrifices of his mother Ann Jones - overcame insurmountable odds to create the greatest work of music from hip-hop's second golden era.
Tom Stoppard pens this Academy Award-nominated adaptation of Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love, directed by Joe Wright and boasting a star-studded British cast headed by Kiera Knightley and Jude Law. Trapped in a loveless marriage and the ongoing fallout of a family crisis, Anna (Knightley) falls uncontrollably in love with charming and affluent bachelor Count Vronsky (Aaron Johnson). But as Anna falters to make a decision about leaving her husband, government official Karenin (Law), Vronsky continues to pursue his social life, leading Anna into a growing paranoia about his infidelities that eventually leads to tragic consequences.
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