Stephen Chow directs this fantasy drama starring Yun Lin as the mermaid Shan. When business tycoon Liu Xuan (Chao Deng) buys the Green Gulf with the intention of reclaiming some of the land from the sea, the technology used causes the marine life in the area to die. The surviving merpeople who reside in the Gulf decide to send one of their own, Shan, who is able to disguise herself among humans, so she can assassinate Liu Xuan and put an end to the deaths. The assassination attempt doesn't go to plan, however, as Shan develops feelings for the entrepreneur.
Sort of comedy, sort of not, Mo' Money--cowritten, coproduced and costarring Damon Wayans--concerns a loser who takes an entry-level job at a credit company to impress a girl and soon gets caught up in fraud and blackmail. Marlon Wayans, Damon's brother, costars as a confederate in the chicanery. The film is meant to be both a jokefest and an edgy drama--the criminal activity is treated as a dark and serious matter--but the end result is that Mo' Money succeeds on neither level. --Tom Keogh
Bonfire night, South London: Sam (Jodie Whittaker - St Trinians, Venus) is robbed by a gang of hooded youths. Suddenly a flaming meteor crash-lands close by. Sam makes her escape, but the gang are attacked by a small vicious alien. They kill the ghoulish invader, but their triumph is short lived. More aliens are invading and they're bigger, stronger and out for blood. The gang's only chance of survival is to take refuge within the concrete walls of their housing block. Teaming up with Sam and local drug dealer Ron (Nick Frost - Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), they realise it's time to step up and be heroes. From the producer of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, and Paul, Attack the Block is the directorial debut of comedian and broadcaster Joe Cornish (The Adam and Joe Show). A sci-fi, horror, action, comedy with an old school flavour, its inner city versus outer space. Special Features: Audio Commentary with Joe Cornish, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Simon Howard and Leeon Jones Audio Commentary with Joe Cornish, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway and Nick Frost Executive Producer Commentary with Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright
Love Hurts charts the everyday life loves and pains of an ""odd couple"". As the mismatched pair try to figure out how to have a relationship that doesn't hurt they discover that love isn't always quite that simple. Episodes: 1. Crawling From The Wreckage 2. Take It To The Limit 3. Walk Right Back 4. Relative Values 5. Cured! 6. Stormy Weather 7. A Day In The Life 8. Charity Begins At Home 9. Who's Sorry Now? 10. Let's Do It
Based on James Herriot's autobiographical best sellers If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet the long running TV series All Creatures Great and Small is back with Series 7!
James Van Der Beek is Sean Bateman, the younger brother of "American Psycho's" Patrick Bateman. Against a backdrop of 'Dressed to get screwed parties', drugs, casual sex and student excess we follow Sean through the doors of a New England arts college.
Dishwasher and small-fry criminal Ray hits on a plan with his partners in crime to re-open a local pizza place and dig through to the bank down the street. As his wife can't cook pizza but does great cookies, that's what they sell. While the no-hope tunnellers get lost underground, the cookie operation really takes off and the team find themselves rich business people. But the other local money isn't quite ready to accept them.
Christian-themed comedy drama following a group of friends who return to their hometown to mourn the loss of their hero. At the funeral of Chris Hayden (Jason Borck), the friends reunite after having grown apart in recent years. While there, they find themselves questioning their faith and confronting their hidden secrets.
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The romantic trajectory of two people struggling to make love work in spite of overwhelming odds. Having met in the '80s after a disastrous one night stand Adam and Steve don't recognize each other when they meet again fifteen years later. With the help of their best friends - a formerly obese stand-up comic Rhonda and straight guy ladies man Michael - our protagonists fall in love only to realize a year into their relationship that they met before and unwittingly changed the course of each other's lives that fatefull night in the 80's. Now the question is - can they accept this and incorporate it into their current understanding of each other? Or more importantly can they hold hands on the street without being beaten up?
Jon is checking his tyre pressures hoovering his floor mats and putting an emergency packed lunch in the boot of his car ready to hit the road again with a brand new tour 'Nidiot'. The perennial singleton and misanthrope is determined to become a more easy-going person for the sake of his friends and his future health. Find out whether or not a leopard can change its spots or if they are doomed to be angry forever not to have been given a more uniform and symmetrical fur pattern.
5 hysterical DVDs. 1 sensational autobiography. The definitive collection from the 'Godfather of Comedy'. Featuring: Live & Smoking: When Richard Pryor took the stage at a small New York stand up club back in April 1971 his white liberal audience didn't know what had hit them. The raw young comic delivered a no hold barred performance aggressively daring people to react. 'Live And Smoking' is an astonishing record of how arguably the world's greatest comedian started honing his skills. Visibly nervous Pryor nevertheless leaves himself wide open (as he did throughout his career) producing shocked silences when discussing sleeping with white women and giving men oral sex. But when he slips into the characters - of the now infamous - 'Wino Preacher' and 'Willy The Junkie' the audience stops mattering to him. Pryor produces heart-wrenching closely observed portraits that are almost to painful to watch but are the mark of a genius storyteller. Live & Dangerous: He was the biggest movie star in the world he has been called the greatest stand-up comedian of all time - and now for the first time his finest show - Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is coming to DVD. Richard Pryor TV Show (3 Discs): One of the funniest TV programs ever The Richard Pryor Show features the outrageous comedian at his peak. Airing in 1977 this cutting-edge sketch comedy program dared to challenge censors' restrictions like no other TV series before it. Completing just four shows Pryor personally cancelled the series after feuds with the censors. His determination to remain true to his vision resulted in a high quality program that was far ahead of it's time.
Devastated Peter takes a Hawaiian vacation in order to deal with the break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know that Sarah's travelling to the same resort as her ex ... and she has a surprise in store for him.
Doug (Kevin James) an absent-minded Queens-based UPS delivery man and Carrie his wife live in the same house as her father Arthur (Jerry Stiller). As man's man Doug tries to balance time with his pals and time with his wife it becomes abundantly clear that Carrie wears the pants in the household. This set includes all episodes from the second season.
Series 1 1 - Mouse2 - Flowers3 - The Welsh4 - The Elderly5 - Beer6 - Unusually Smart7 - TV Rudeness8 - Spelling9 - Consensus10 - Rape and Pillage11 - Inappropriate Questions12 - Passionate13 - Male Grooming14 - Compliments15 - Man Flu16 - Going To The Doctor17 - Necrophilia18 - Hauliers19 - Gaelic20 - Special Quiz21 - Quiz Winner22 - Birthday Cards23 - Food24 - Waste in Politics Series 2 1 - King Cnut2 - Dear America3 - Haircuts4 - Personal Debts5 - Authenticity6 - References7 - Lying Liars8 - Camelopard9 - Climate Change10 - Pub Queues (+ commentary track)11 - Innuendo12 - Trains, Part 113 - Trains, Part 214 - Signing Boobs15 - 3D16 - Communal Eating17 - Signs18 - Kid’s Stuff19 - Red Shirt (+ commentary track)20 - In Summary Special Features: DVD Exclusive Episodes: 1. Certainty 2. Publishing 3. Wedding Lists Inside the Crate: The History of David Mitchell’s Soapbox Pub Queues (+ commentary track with David Mitchell, producers Justin Gayner & Jamie Lennox, designer Arnold Pistorius) Red Shirt (+ commentary track with David Mitchell and producer Jamie Lennox)
A series of now-legendary stage comedies from the 1920s and '30s, the Aldwych Farces broke theatre box-office records and made the transition to celluloid with a run of hit films making stars of Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare. Most were penned by leading comic playwright Ben Travers and peopled by a regular cast of silly-ass aristocrats, battleaxe wives and put-upon husbands; nimble wordplay and finely crafted buffoonery were their hallmarks and the public loved them.Though only ten adaptations were made on film, the influence of these enduringly popular films was great and can be seen in some of the key British comedies from the first half of the 20th century. This ongoing range will include not only the Aldwych Farces themselves but those films that they influenced. They are presented here as brand-new transfers from original film elements in their original aspect ratio.LADY IN DANGER (1934)A businessman is compelled to help the queen of a strife-torn country leaving his fiancée distinctly unimpressed.Black and White / 65 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / EnglishPOT LUCK (1936)A retired Scotland Yard inspector meets mayhem on the trail of a gang of thieves who have purloined a priceless antique vase.Black and White / 69 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / English
So who exactly was Deep Throat, that all-important source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein bust open the Watergate scandal? Well, according to this thoroughly funny, keenly smart comedy from director Andrew Fleming (The Craft), it was two sweetly daft teenage girls named Betsy and Arlene. Taking the history and figures from Watergate and running gleefully and sacrilegiously amok, Dick offers up a hilarious what-if scenario that takes the Nixon administration's downfall from grave tragedy to hilarious farce. When Betsy (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene (Michelle Williams) run into a shady figure in the stairwell of Arlene's Watergate apartment building, little do they know they've stumbled upon G. Gordon Liddy (Harry Shearer) on the night of the Democratic National Headquarters break-in. Later, on a White House field trip, they wind up meeting with Nixon himself (Dan Hedaya) who, to ensure their silence, decides to make them official White House dog walkers and "secret youth advisors".Of course, Betsy and Arlene soon find out their idol has feet of clay, and ultimately decide to aid "radical muckraking journalists" (and queasy rivals) Woodward (Will Ferrell) and Bernstein (Bruce McCullough) in their investigation. Fleming and co-writer Sheryl Longin's enfolding of the Watergate scandal is extremely clever and inspired, from Arlene's 18-and-a-half-minute declaration of love on Nixon's tape recorder to the Hello Dolly cookies (laced with a certain herbal stimulant) that help bring about the U.S.-Soviet accord. And after all the angsty-serious portraits of Watergate, it's bliss to see the prime players sent up mercilessly; in addition to Shearer, the cast boasts Dave Foley (Erlichman), Jim Breuer (John Dean), Saul Rubinek (Kissinger), and Ana Gasteyer (Rosemary Woods), all in fine form. Hedaya's Nixon, dead-on but never parodic, is an Oscar-worthy comic turn and Dunst and Williams invest their characters with affection and humour; the success of the film lies in the way these talented actresses make us laugh with Betsy and Arlene, never at them. Don't be put off by the teen sheen on this comedy--it's also for all of us who still remember Watergate even after 25 years, and still love dancing on the scandal's grave. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com
Richard Warwick and Joanna Lumley star in this sexy, exuberant comedy charting the travails of a young guardsman learning to become an officer. Adapting his bestselling novel, The Breaking of Bumbo draws on the youthful experiences of director Andrew Sinclair: it is a time-capsule portrait of military rigour competing with the era's burgeoning sexual and social freedoms, set against a picture-postcard backdrop of Swinging-Sixties London. The Breaking of Bumbo is presented uncut in a brand-new...
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