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Mixed martial arts action drama, starring Nick Nolte and Tom Hardy, in which a fractured family relationship is tested even further when two estranged brothers enter the same prestigious fighting competition. Tommy Conlon (Hardy) and his brother, Brendan (Joel Egerton), are the children of former boxer and recovering alcoholic Paddy Conlon (Nolte) - and both have issues with him. Tommy, tortured by his recent experience as a soldier, reconnects with his father to some extent when he enlists him as his coach for the upcoming Sparta mixed martial arts competition, which Tommy hopes to win in order to be able to give the prize money to the family of a fallen comrade. Brendan, in contrast, needs the money to provide for his wife and children after losing his job. How will the brothers cope if the tournament forces them to go against the fraternal bond and do battle?
In this follow-up to 'Conan the Barbarian', Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) joins the virgin princess Jehnna (Olivia d'Abo) on a search to find a magical crystal. Accompanied by Zula (Grace Jones) and Akiro (Mako), the expedition begins its daring adventure, unaware that the greatest danger lies with its own sponsor, the treacherous Queen Tamaris (Sarah Douglas).
When Roger and Anita marry and their dogs Pongo and Perdita produce a litter of 15 dalmation puppies, they find themselves receiving unwelcome advances from the evil Cruella de Ville. She has plans to turn the pups into a fur coat and when Roger and Anita refuse, she hires two comedy crooks to steal them for her. Once the theft is revealed, Pongo rallies together a gang of canine friends and sets out on a mission to retrieve his young, discovering them in a lonely mansion, imprisoned along with a further 84 dalmation puppies.
Trevor Pinnock conducts and performs alongside Berliner Philharmoniker flutist Emmanuel Pahud and the Kammerakademie Potsdam, in this performance celebrating the 300th birthday of Frederick the Great. Recorded live at the Royal Theater of the Neues Palais Potsdam, the works featured are: Frederick the Great: 'Flute Concerto No. 3 in C major'; Franz Benda: 'Flute Concerto in E minor'; Johann Joachim Quantz: 'Capriccio in G major'; 'Capriccio in B major'; 'Flute Concerto in G major'; 'Preludio in D major'; and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: 'Flute Sonata in A minor'.
Daniel Barenboim conducts and plays with the Berlin Philharmonic in their annual Europa Konzert, recorded live in May 2006 at the Theatre of the Estates in Prague. The all-Mozart programme includes Symphonies No.35 'Haffner' and No.36 'Linz'; Horn Concerto No.1; and Piano Concerto No.22, K482.
Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman star in this sumptuous Paris-set period drama based on the novella by Guy de Maupassant. Georges Duroy (Pattinson) is a suave and handsome young journalist using his wits and powers of manipulation to make his way in 1890s Paris. In order to ascend the social ladder, Duroy seduces a string of influential society beauties including Madeleine Forestier (Thurman), Virginie Walters (Kristen Scott Thomas) and Clotilde de Marelle (Christina Ricci). His peasant background has soon become a distant memory as he achieves dizzying success both in his career and in fashionable society.
Sci-fi action thriller co-written by Luc Besson and starring Guy Pearce. It is 2079 and the world's most dangerous criminals are incarcerated in a secure prison in outer space. During an official visit by the president's daughter, Emilie (Maggie Grace), a breakout occurs and Emilie is taken hostage. In desperation, the president enlists the services of wrongly-convicted spy (Pearce), offering him a deal: if he can rescue Emilie from the clutches of the prison's most violent inmates, he can be assured of his own acquittal and future freedom.
Ben Wheatley directs this dark British thriller/horror starring Neil Maskell. Former soldier Jay (Maskell) works alongside his partner Justin (Ben Crompton) as a hitman. When problems erupt in Jay's marriage and personal life, the strain has a devastating effect as he abandons any semblance of morality or humanity and becomes consumed by the violence and depravity of his work.
Jessica Alba stars in this fourth film in the children's action adventure series. Teenage twins Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) have never got along with their stepmother Marissa (Alba) since she married their father, spy-hunting reporter Wilbur (Joel McHale). Unbeknown to the twins, however, Marissa is in fact a retired super-spy. When Earth comes under threat from the villainous Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven), Marissa is called back into action, and Rebecca and Cecil must put their resentments aside and assist her in protecting the future of the human race.
Hamburg Ballet director and chief choreographer John Neumeier's interpretation of Hans Christian Anderson's fable. With music by Lera Auerbach, Yuan Yuan Tan takes the lead role in this production staged by the San Francisco Ballet.
Christian Thielemann leads the Staatskapelle Dresden in this memorial concert to mark the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt. Along with Liszt's Faust Symphony, the conductor leads the orchestra in a performance of Wagner's Faust Overture.
High flying animated comedy adventure from Pixar Studios. 70-something retired balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Edward Asner) decides to use his twilight years to fulfil his lifelong dream of travelling through the wilds of South America. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, he lifts off for his big adventure - only to discover that he has inadvertently brought a stowaway along with him in the form of Russell (Jordan Nagai), an eight-year-old wilderness explorer who is desperate to earn his 'Helping the Elderly' merit badge. The film won awards for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Music at both the 2010 BAFTAs and the Academy Awards.
Daniel Barenboim leads the Vienna Philharmonic in this concert from the opening night of the Salzburg Festival in 2010. Included is Beethoven's 'Piano Concerto No.4', Boulez's 'Notations for Orchestra', and Bruckner's 'Te Deum' featuring performances by Elina Garanca, Dorothea Roeschmann, Franz Josef Selig and René Pape.
Sergio Leone's epic spaghetti Western starring Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda. Frank (Fonda) is a sadistic outlaw hired by a crippled railroad baron (Gabrielle Ferzetti) to murder a farmer named Brett McBain (Frank Wolff) and his family in order for his boss to inherit the land. When McBain's new wife Jill (Claudia Cardinale) arrives from Utah to find her family slaughtered, she vows to get revenge on the perpetrator, with the help of another outlaw named Cheyenne (Jason Robards) and a mysterious man known only as 'Harmonica' (Bronson).
Mythical hero Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) vows to take revenge after the murder of his parents and destruction of his village. Determined to learn the 'riddle of steel', he sets off with his companions, Subotai the Mongol (Gerry Lopez) and Queen of Thieves (Sandahl Bergman), to kill Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones), the leader of an evil snake cult. John Milius, who co-wrote the script with Oliver Stone, directs.
Ivor Bolton conducts the Freiburger Barockorchester in this performance of Handel's oratorio, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2009. Performers include Christine Schafer, Bejun Mehta, Johannes Martin Kranzle and Joseph Kaiser.
Director's cut of Tinto Brass's controversial and notorious erotic classic. Set in Berlin in 1939, as the Nazi dictatorship marches inexorably towards war, SS officer Helmut Wallenburg (Helmut Berger) is commanded to establish a brothel catering to the Nazi elite. Wallenburg diligently selects and trains 20 young Aryan women committed to the ideals of National Socialism and prepared to degrade themselves for their masters, setting the scene for an exercise in debauchery and corruption that parallels de Sade's 'One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom', and reflects the growing violence and depravity of the Nazi regime.
Claudio Abbado leads the Berlin Philharmonic in this recording of Brahms Violin Concerto and Dvorak's New World Symphony, recorded in Palermo, Italy, in 2002.
With the aid of sorcerer Shang Tsung, the evil Shokan Prince Goro has been Kombat champion for nine generations. If he wins for a tenth time the portals of Earth will be opened up to the desolation and despair of the Outworld for all eternity. The only hope of salvation lies in three humans who have been guided by the thunder god Rayden (Christopher Lambert) to find out how to conquer this evil prince. Based on the best-selling computer game.
Herbert von Karajan conducts the Wiener Symphoniker and the Berliner Philharmoniker in performances of Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, filmed in 1966 by film director Henry-Georges Clouzot.
West London teenager Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) dreams of having a professional football career, even though her parents are determined that she study to be a lawyer. When she is invited by local girl Jules Paxton (Keira Knightley) to join a women's football team, Jess jumps at the chance, and the team's coach Joe (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is impressed with her abilities. With Jess and Jules on board, the team begins a winning streak which puts them on track for the finals. However, in the face of continued opposition from her family, and after a falling-out with Jules, Jess is forced to reconsider her future in the game.
Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and pianist Yuja Wang in this performance of Mahler's 1st Symphony and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3, recorded in Lucerne in 2009.
Australian director Sean Byrne writes and directs this blood-soaked indie horror. When troubled high school heartthrob Brent (Xavier Samuel) turns down an invitation to the school prom from his highly-strung classmate Lola (Robin McLeavy), she enlists the help of her psychopathic father (John Brumpton) to execute a sadistic and brutal revenge upon him.
Mark Elder conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker for David Pountney's 2009 Bregenzer Festspiele production of Karol Szymanowski's 'King Roger'. Scott Hendricks, Olga Pasichnyk and John Graham-Hall star. |
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