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Action thriller disaster movie starring Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino and Alexandra Daddario. When a massive earthquake brings devastation to California LA Fire Department helicopter pilot Ray Gaines (Johnson) rescues his soon-to-be ex-wife Emma (Gugino) and the two make their way to San Fransisco in an attempt to save their daughter Blake (Daddario), but their journey is full of unimaginable dangers. Will they arrive in one piece and be able to protect their daughter from harm? The film also stars Paul Giamatti, Ioan Gruffudd and Kylie Minogue.
Daniel Craig stars as the latest incarnation of James Bond in the 21st instalment of the franchise. Based on one of the original Ian Fleming novels, the story follows a young Bond at the beginning of his career having just received his double-0 status. For his latest mission, 007 travels to Montenegro to investigate the highly exclusive Casino Royale where Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), a money man for an international terrorist group, is raising funds for their misdeeds through high-stakes gambling. The rookie MI6 agent, aided by British Treasury agent Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), is tasked with infiltrating the group and ultimately defeating the rogue player, both on and off the tables.
Pierce Brosnan returns as James Bond in the superspy's eighteenth official big screen outing. When a British warship is destroyed in Chinese waters, Bond is dispatched to prevent the outbreak of World War Three. He discovers that the superpowers are being manipulated by ruthless media tycoon Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce), and sets about enlisting the help of Carver's attractive wife, Paris (Teri Hatcher).
Daniel Craig returns as James Bond 007 in the globe-trotting franchise for which the term action movie was invented. After being betrayed by Vesper in Casino Royale, Bond (Craig) turns his sights on those who controlled her. Interrogating Mr White (Jesper Christensen), Bond discovers that the shadowy organisation responsible for blackmailing Vesper is a lot more powerful and dangerous than he ever imagined. Tracing a link to Hawaii, Bond soon crosses paths with Ukrainian beauty Camille (Olga Kurylenko) who leads him to megalomaniacal businessman Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), head of the organisation known simply as Quantum. Wishing to control one of the world's natural resources, Greene's organisation has a finger in every government agency worldwide, and it falls to Bond to keep one step ahead of his friends, and enemies, to stop Greene holding the world to ransom.
Pierce Brosnan's fourth outing in the 20th Bond film. 007 has spent the last 12 months in a North Korean prison - after being captured whilst on assignment by government agents - and when he is finally freed his superiors are worried that he will not be up to the job. That is until Bond discovers that one of his former captors, Zao (Rick Yune), has teamed up with the evil Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens) and the pair plan to put the fate of the entire world in jeopardy. Bond must once again save the world whilst also keeping his quota of glamorous women in tow (Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike), using the gadgets provided by Q (John Cleese) and travelling the world in the most expensive cars. Madonna provides the theme tune and also has a cameo role.
When a space shuttle goes missing during a test flight, James Bond (Roger Moore) is the man who must track it down. His investigations take him to Venice (where he uses his specially customized gondola), Rio de Janeiro (where he fights steel-toothed henchman Jaws on top of a cable car), and finally into outer space (where he uncovers a ruthless plot to wipe out the human race and replace it with genetically engineered humanoids). Highlights include Bond's encounters with NASA scientist Dr Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) and the climactic battle aboard villain Hugo Drax's (Michael Lonsdale) space station.
James Bond (this time played by George Lazenby) hands in his licence to kill after being banned from hunting down his arch-nemesis Blofeld (Telly Savalas). Continuing his investigations alone, he follows a lead to Portugal, meets and falls in love with Tracey Draco (Diana Rigg), and is told by her crimelord father that Blofeld is now in Switzerland. Pretty soon its snow, kilts, girls, secret bases and ski chases, as Bond chases down his enemy and attempts to foil a plan to unleash a deadly chemical weapon.
When the activating button for a nuclear launch is lost at sea, it is up to James Bond to retrieve it before it falls into the wrong hands. Roger Moore once again plays 007 in this, the 12th Bond outing, director John Glen's first Bond film and the first without an Ian Fleming credit. Highlights include a climb up a sheer rock-face; a car chase down a steep, winding mountain road; an underwater battle; and what might be the greatest of all Bond's celebrated ski chase sequences.
Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh star in this British drama written and directed by Carol Morley. Lydia and Abbie (Williams and Pugh) are best friends at their all-girls boarding school but they are very different people; Lydia is quiet and introverted while Abbie is ambitious and popular. After Abbie jeopardises her friendship with Lydia by sleeping with her brother, a fainting epidemic breaks out at the school and people are left wondering whether the mysterious Lydia could be the key...
A violent crime heist thriller from Tarantino collaborator (and fellow ex-video store employee) Roger Avary. An American safecracker (Eric Stoltz) agrees to help a Parisian thief rob a bank on Bastille Day. However, the night before the robbery he meets a beautiful woman called Zoe (Julie Delpy). The robbery goes wrong and ends in violence. Luckily, Zoe turns out to be one of the bank clerks and helps her new found friend escape from the police.
All 13 episodes from the third season of the award-winning political drama starring Kevin Spacey. Based on the novel by Michael Dobbs and the subsequent BBC adaptation of the book, the show follows Francis Underwood (Spacey), a politician whose sense of ambition is matched and encouraged by his wife Claire (Robin Wright). Armed with an arsenal of political secrets to equal anyone in Washington, Francis is more than willing to scheme and blackmail his way to the top. In this season, Francis's approval ratings plummet, a devastating hurricane hits the East Coast and Claire makes plans to run for Ambassador to the U.N.
All eight episodes of the TV series in which presenter Guy Martin embarks on a number of speed oriented challenges. Throughout the show, the motorbike racing mechanic tries to break the national record for the fastest bicycle with the help of Olympian Laura Trott, fly using only his muscle power and win the American Pike's Peak International Hill Climb. Series 1 episodes are: 'Britain's Fastest Cyclist', 'Hydroplaning Bike', 'Human Powered Aircraft' and 'World's Fastest Toboggan'. Series 2 episodes are: 'Tandem', 'Pike's Peak', 'Hovercraft' and 'Gravity Racer'.
Live performance by Azerbaijan soprano Dinara Alieva in Moscow. She performs classical works by, among others, Charpentier, Massenet and Puccini, as well as more modern pieces such as 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and ' I Could Have Danced All Night'. Constantine Orbelian conducts the Russian National Orchestra and the Grand Choir 'Masters of Choral Singing'.
Loosely based on the seminal 'Gonzo' writings of Hunter S. Thompson, this comedy stars Bill Murray as the renegade, drug-crazed, drunken journalist 'Dr' Hunter Thompson, who decides to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 Presidential Election, accompanied by his reprobate lawyer Carl Lazlo (Peter Boyle), in his own inimitable style.
A documentary profile of the prolific Czech choreographer. Filmed in Den Haag, Prague and Paris, Kylián's life, creative process and dances are examined in a rare portrait.
Collection of films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. In 'Day of Wrath' (1943), set in 17th-century Denmark, elderly pastor Absalon Pedersson (Thorkild Roose) is cursed at the stake by a peasant woman (Anna Svierkier) whom he has tortured into a confession of witchcraft. Soon after, Absalon's young wife Anne (Lisbeth Movin) begins an affair with his son Martin (Preben Ledorff Rye). When Anne tells Absalon of her love for Martin, the old man suffers a fatal heart attack and she too finds herself being faced with accusations of witchcraft. In 'Ordet' (1955), head of the family Peter Borgen (Ejner Federspiel) forbids his younger son Anders (Cay Kristiansen) to marry his girlfriend Anne (Gerda Nielsen) because her family belongs to a different Protestant sect. The ecclesiastical debate strikes to the community's heart, with only Inger (Birgitte Federspiel), the wife of Peter's eldest son Mikkel (Emil Hass Christensen), bridging the religious divide. In 'Gertrud' (1964), Nina Pens Rode stars as the eponymous politician's wife who decides to leave her husband (Bendt Rothe) just as he is about to take his place in government. Intending to move in with a young composer (Ebbe Rode), her plans change when she discovers that he has been unfaithful to her. In 'Master of the House' (1925), Johannes Meyer plays Victor Fransden, a businessman who takes out all his frustrations on his wife Ida (Astrid Holm) and family. Ida accepts the abuse and incessant fault-finding until one day his former nanny (Mathilde Nielsen) decides that she cannot bear to watch any more. She persuades Ida to leave Victor, and forces the erring husband to undertake all the household chores himself in an attempt to make him see the error of his ways.
Three performances by the Nederlands Dans Theater. The choreography by Jirí Kylián is set to Stravinsky's 'Les noces' and 'Symphony of Psalms', and Tôru Takemitsu's 'Torso'. Among the dancers are Shane Carroll, Nils Christe and Sabine Kupferberg.
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Top Gun: Maverick
Andris Nelsons conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in this collection featuring two performances of Strauss's works, 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', recorded in 2013, and 'Till Eulenspiegel', recorded in 2014.
Documentary about cyclist Lance Armstrong, the man behind one of the biggest cases of fraud in sporting history. When news broke that the seven-time Tour de France champion had been found guilty of doping offences, the world of sport fell into a state of mourning followed by severe anger at his deceit. In this documentary, director Alex Holmes delves deeper into the story and seeks to find the truth behind the allegations.
Television drama charting the dazzling and hazardous sea journey from England to Australia in 1812 as experienced through the eyes of a young Englishman, Edmund Talbot. Based on the trilogy by William Golding, the bulk of the story is set on board a ship on the high seas towards the end of the Napoleonic War.
Docudrama marking the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. Using groundbreaking technology to recreate scenes from the battle, Scotland's victory over England can now be witnessed by people of the 21st century.
Revenge thriller starring Macon Blair and Amy Hargreaves. Dwight (Blair), an outsider who lives out of his bullet-ridden Pontiac, is a man of few words whose parents were murdered when he was just a child. When he learns that the man responsible for their deaths, Will Cleland (David W. Thompson), is to be released from prison, he embarks on a deadly game of retribution which means reuniting with his estranged sister Sam (Hargreaves) and childhood friend Ben (Devin Ratray). Despite Dwight proving to be an amateur, his sense of revenge leads to him turning from victim into killer as a bloody duel between two families ensues.
Children's animated adventure following DC Comics superhero Batman (voice of Jason O'Mara). Batman discovers that he has a long-lost son, Damian Wayne (Stuart Allan), who has been trained to fight for his grandfather, the vigilante's enemy Ra's al Ghul (Giancarlo Esposito), in the League of Assassins. After Ra's al Ghul is killed, Batman attempts to prevent Damian seeking vengeance, hoping that he can set him on the straight and narrow.
All three episodes from the third series of the BBC's fast-paced modernised crime drama based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Laptops, mobile phones and the internet are the new tools for crime in a modern London under threat from serial killers, bombings and gang warfare. Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), the most brilliant intellect of his generation, has a unique analytical brain unlike anyone else's, and staves off the ever-present threat of boredom by solving crimes, the more intricate and baffling the better. Meanwhile, his friend and flatmate, John Watson (Martin Freeman), is an army doctor invalided home from the battlefields of Afghanistan. The episodes comprise: 'The Empty Hearse', 'The Sign of Three' and 'His Last Vow'. |
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