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David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) is a young computer whizz who hacks into what he believes is a new line of video games, little knowing that it is in fact NORAD, America's defence program. He inadvertently creates a hostile global situation, placing the world on the brink of nuclear war. Together with his girlfriend Jennifer (Ally Sheedy) and a misanthropic computer expert (John Wood), David must fight to prevent an atomic meltdown.
All six episodes from the tenth series of the BBC sci-fi comedy, following the interstellar exploits of Lister (Craig Charles), the last human in the universe, his hologram colleague Rimmer (Chris Barrie), android Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) and Cat (Danny John-Jules). In this series, Rimmer is torn when he receives an SOS distress call from a ship commanded by his all-conquering brother, Howard (Mark Dexter); Lister loses Rimmer in a game of poker to a group of biologically engineered life forms; and the crew become marooned in Britain in 23 AD, which leads to an encounter with a very important historical figure. The episodes are: 'Trojan', 'Fathers and Suns', 'Lemons', 'Entangled', 'Dear Dave' and 'The Beginning'.
Triple bill of classic suspense thrillers from director Alfred Hitchcock. In 'Dial M for Murder' (1954), adapted from the stage play by Frederick Knott, former tennis pro Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) hatches a cunning plot to get rid of his socialite wife, Margot (Grace Kelly), when he discovers that she has been unfaithful. Wendice blackmails a corrupt former schoolmate into murdering her but the fellow bungles the job and Margot, having killed her would-be assailant in self-defence, then finds herself under suspicion of premeditated murder. In 'Strangers On a Train' (1951), based on Patricia Highsmith's novel, tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets Bruno Antony (Robert Walker) by chance in a train carriage. After some idle chat in which it transpires that each man has someone in their lives they would like to dispose of, Bruno proposes that he kills Guy's wife, in return for Guy murdering Bruno's father. Guy is appalled, but when his wife is murdered he realises that Bruno is intent on carrying out the 'deal', whether Guy wants to or not. In 'North By Northwest' (1959) advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is lunching in a restaurant with his mother when he mistakenly answers a page for one George Kaplan. He soon finds himself on the run across the country, being pursued by enemies of the government who are convinced that he is a secret agent. He finds a friend in Eve Kendall (Eve Marie Saint), who helps conceal him during a perilous train journey, but soon discovers she is not all that she seems...
Classic musical comedy starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. In 1927, Don Lockwood (Kelly, who co-directs) has worked his way up from being a song-and-dance man with partner Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor) to become a top movie star. His on-screen partner, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), who believes that Don loves her for real, needs to have her awful voice dubbed with the arrival of talkies. The girl selected is 'serious' actress Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), for whom Don soon falls. Musical numbers include the famous title song and 'Make 'Em Laugh', 'Good Morning' and 'You Were Meant for Me'.
Double bill of silent features from the 1920s. 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925), masterpiece of Russian silent film pioneer Sergei M. Eisenstein, is a dramatised account of the naval mutiny and street riots at the sea port of Odessa that sparked off the 1905 Russian Revolution. When the crew of the Potemkin protests after being given rotten meat as rations, the captain responds by ordering the execution of the dissidents. Outrage at this injustice quickly ignites and the townspeople have soon surrounded the harbour in a mass demonstration - but the scene gives way to tragedy and brutality as the authorities move in to quell the uprising. In British documentary 'Drifters' (1929), which was influenced by and originally screened alongside 'Battleship Potemkin' in the UK, director John Grierson looks at the North Sea herring fleets and the men who worked them. The film pays particular attention to how the once traditional industry has become a more modern enterprise.
Dune: Part Two explores the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
Documentary about the life and work of singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. Produced by his daughter, Gina, the film charts Belafonte's tireless contribution to the civil rights movement in America and around the globe, as well as his glittering musical career in which he sang alongside stars including Sammy Davis Jr, Petula Clark, Shelley Winters and Nina Simone.
Triple bill of the vampire horror film series. In 'The Lost Boys' (1987), two brothers move to a new town and soon fall in with the wrong crowd - a gang of punks who also happen to be blood-swilling vampires. The older brother (Jason Patric) proves easy prey and is soon a fully paid-up member of the undead. But the younger brother (Corey Haim) is made of tougher stuff and, along with a couple of friends, decides to make a stand. Pretty soon the suburbs start swinging to the sound of teen vampire combat. In 'The Lost Boys - The Tribe' (2008), a young girl named Nicole (Autumn Reeser) falls in with a pack of vampire surfers after moving to California with her brother Chris (Tad Hilgenbrink). Seduced by the leader of the gang, Autumn soon realises that there are forces in nature that could destroy everything she has ever cared for. 'The Lost Boys - The Thirst' (2010), sees Corey Feldman reprise his role as Edgar Frog, a down and out vampire hunter who is asked by writer Gwen Lieber (Tanit Phoenix) to rescue her son from a newborn army. Gwen offers to pay Edgar a substantial fee for his services and he agrees to take on the dangerous mission. Realising the risks involved, Edgar asks his brother, Alan (Jamison Newlander), to assist him.
Gregory Peck gives an Oscar-winning performance as lawyer Atticus Finch in this crime drama adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. In Alabama in the 1930s, Atticus defends a black man accused of raping a young white woman while his children, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Phillip Alford), play in the street. The controversial nature of the trial, taking place in the racist culture of the Deep South, leads the local townsfolk to turn against Finch and sees his family become the victim of a series of terror attacks. As well as Peck's Best Actor statuette, the film won another two Academy Awards with an additional five nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Badham).
Supertramp captured live in Paris on their World tour of 1979. Recorded at the Pavillon de Paris, the concert followed hot on the heels of their multi-platinum selling 'Breakfast In America' album, and features hits including: 'Bloody Well Right', 'Goodbye Stranger', 'Give A Little Bit' and 'Rudy'.
Billy Wilder directs this critically acclaimed classic comedy starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. In February 1929, unemployed musicians Joe (Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon) go on the run after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre. Pursued by gangsters led by the ruthless Spats Colombo (George Raft), the duo are forced to disguise themselves as women and join Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee)'s all-girl band on the next train to Florida. Joe falls for Sugar Kane (Monroe), the band's singer, while Jerry finds himself pursued enthusiastically by millionaire Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown). Comic complications ensue. The film received a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (Comedy) with Monroe and Lemmon being awarded for their performances.
John Mark Ainsley heads the cast in this production of Mozart's opera recorded live at the Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich, in June 2008. Other performers include Pavol Breslik, Juliane Banse and Annette Dasch, with Kent Nagano conducting the Orchestra and Choir of the Bayerisches Staatsoper.
Blake Lively and Michiel Huisman star in this fantasy drama directed by Lee Toland Krieger. Unable to age after being struck by lightning during a car accident, Adaline (Lively) has lived a solitary life to protect her secret. But when a chance meeting with Ellis Jones (Huisman) leaves Adaline pining for the life she used to have. Can she finally let her guard down and have another shot at love? The supporting cast includes Harrison Ford, Kathy Baker and Ellen Burstyn.
Comedy drama starring Steve Carell as Cal, a divorcee who is struggling to find success in the dating world. Until recently Cal was happily married - or so he thought. When his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), files for a divorce, he is thrown into the unfamiliar territory of single life. Drowning his sorrows at a local pub, Cal meets a 30-something bachelor, Jacob (Ryan Gosling), who gives him advice and helps him work on his appearance. While women start to get interested in Cal, his son, Robbie (Jonah Bobo), falls for his babysitter (Analeigh Tipton), and Jacob meets a girl (Emma Stone) who isn't fooled by his charms. Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon also star.
Jimmy (Phil Daniels) is a young Mod looking for pills, thrills and a sense of identity in 60s London. His increasing reliance on the buzz provided by the gang mentality of his friends reaches its height in the Brighton Bank Holiday confrontations with the Rockers. An inevitable comedown follows when he is expected to return to the plodding banality of everyday life.
Low-budget vampire horror in which two brothers become caught up in a gruesome occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich. When his brother Victor (Dominic Purcell) reappears after two years of being mysteriously missing, paramedic Evan Marshall (Henry Cavill) sets out on a revenge mission that uncovers a devilish experiment set up by evil Nazi historian Richard Wirth (Michael Fassbender) back in the 1930s.
The Coen brothers' seventh film is a typically bizarre mix of mistaken identity, hippy philosophy and ten-pin bowling. Jeff 'the Dude' Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is a bowling buff, laid-back to the point of horizontal, who gets mixed up in a blackmail plot involving a millionaire namesake. Roped into delivering the ransom to secure the release of the millionaire's kidnapped wife, the Dude's karmic balance is really put in a spin when his gun-toting buddy Walter (John Goodman) decides to help out.
Fabrizio Maria Carminati conducts the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice in this performance of Donizetti's opera recorded live in 2009. Performers include Sonia Ganassi, Fiorenza Cedolins and Jose Bros.
Blockbuster sci-fi thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a professional thief with a difference: the spoils he goes after are not material objects but the thoughts, dreams and secrets buried in the minds of other people. This rare talent has cost him dear, rendering him a solitary fugitive stripped of everything he ever really cared about. When he is offered a chance for redemption by reversing the process and planting an idea rather than stealing it, he and his team of specialists find themselves pitted against a dangerous enemy that appears to pre-empt their every move. The film won four Academy Awards for its special effects, sound and cinematography.
A TV production of Mark Adams's opera recorded in Houston, Texas in 2000. Patrick Summers conducts the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, with performances by Stephanie Novacek, Joyce Di Donato and Chad Shelton.
Jean-Christophe Spinosi leads the Ensemble Matheus in this production of Handel's Messiah recorded live at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna in 2009.
Off the coast of Mexico, Dr Susan McAlester's (Saffron Burrows) team of scientists are working on a cure for Alzheimer's disease by injecting degenerate human brain cells into mako sharks. The three sharks selected grow to over forty feet in length, and begin to demonstrate signs of intelligent behaviour. When pharmaceuticals' president Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) arrives with funding in mind, one of the sharks attacks scientist Jim Whitlock, biting off his arm. However, the helicopter taking Whitlock to surgery crashes into the research centre and disables the protective security systems which keeps the killer sharks at bay...
Verdi veteran Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for this production of 'Otello' at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. Stage direction is by Stephen Langridge; soloists include Aleksandrs Antonenko, Marina Poplavskaya and Stephen Costello.
Classic silent war drama directed by William Wellman and starring Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen and Clara Bow. Two young men from the same small American town, Jack (Rogers) and David (Arlen), enlist as WWI fighter pilots, much to the anguish of local girls Sylvia (Jobyna Ralston) and Mary (Bow). Throughout their basic training the two men are at odds with one another but, as their time together increases, an unexpected friendship grows between them...
A double bill of animated features. In 'Despicable Me' (2010), trying to outdo his main rival Vector (voice of Jason Segel), serial villain Gru (Steve Carell) hatches a plan to steal the moon, aided by his army of genetically altered corn pops. About to set his dastardly plan in motion, and bristling with his arsenal of freeze-rays and sci-fi gadgetry, all goes according to plan until the arrival at his door of three little orphan girls, Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Agnes (Elsie Fisher) and Edith (Dana Gaier), in search of a father figure. In 'Despicable Me 2' (2013), now living a life of domestic bliss in suburbia with adopted daughters Margo, Agnes and Edith, Gru's world is turned upside down when he finds himself abducted by agent Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig) of the Anti-Villain League on the orders of boss Silas Ramsbottom (Steve Coogan). All is not what it seems, however, for with the world threatened by the new and dastardly super-villain known as Eduardo (Benjamin Bratt), it falls to the unique talents of Gru and his minions to step up to the plate and finally save the day. |
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