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Adam Rodgers directs this romantic comedy starring Andy Garcia and Vera Farmiga. Single parents George (Garcia) and Edith (Farmiga) meet when they accompany their children to an admissions tour of Middleton University. Heart surgeon George, who is with his son Conrad (Spencer Lofranco), seems somewhat uptight, which initially leads to a clash of personalities with carefree Edith and her daughter Audrey (Taissa Farmiga). However, as the day progresses and the pair get to know each other better, sparks begin to ignite. But with the tour only set to last the day, will their connection have a chance to develop?
David Blair directs this British drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground cage fights from which Danny can profit. Salvation appears to call out to both men when they begin relationships with Lisa (Emma Stansfield) and Isabel (Maxine Peake), but will they be able to escape the bloody world of gambling and fighting Danny has plunged them into?
To win at all costs, sometimes you pay the ultimate price. In the fifth and final season of the multi-honoured legal thriller, powerhouse attorney Patty Hewes and ex-protégée Ellen Parsons face off in a fatal double showdown: the wrongful death case against a charismatic, international cyber-hacker, and a devastating custody battle pitting Patty against her own son - resulting in a series finale as explosive as it is unexpected.
All 13 episodes from the first series 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 series follows Francis Underwood (Spacey), the House Majority Whip who, despite his position of authority, is gravely dissatisfied. Fuelled by a sense of ambition matched and encouraged by his wife Claire (Robin Wright), Francis ultimately wants to be president and is embittered by the fact that he has recently been denied a promotion. Armed with an arsenal of political secrets to equal anyone in Washington, Francis sets out to scheme and blackmail his way to the top.
The complete second series of the BBC drama, adapted from Jennifer Worth's memoirs, about a group of midwives working in East London in the 1950s. In this series, it's 1958, and while Jenny (Jessica Raine) has her hands full dealing with an abused patient, fellow midwives Trixie (Helen George) and Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris) are forced to board a Swedish cargo ship to tend to the captain's pregnant daughter.
Haunted by the failure to catch Londonʼs most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid now heads up the notorious H Division – the toughest police district in the East End. Charged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel, Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law; but always in the background lurks the fear of the Ripper. The Ripper's Shadow is still felt in the neighbourhood by the vigilantes, the sensation-seeking newspaper hacks and the men who hunted – and failed to find – the notorious murderer. It seems that even though the notorious killer has disappeared, there are plenty more willing to stain the streets of Whitechapel with their victims’ blood...
The last instalment of the teen vampire saga based on the bestselling books by Stephenie Meyer. After Bella (Kristen Stewart) is turned into a vampire by her lover, Edward (Robert Pattinson), she appears to be enjoying her new immortal life and the abilities bestowed upon her. But after Irina (Maggie Grace) mistakes Bella and Edward's child, Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy), for an 'immortal child' and tells the Volturi this, they vow to destroy the potentially threatening girl and the whole Cullen family for allowing her to be transformed. In order to protect themselves and Renesmee, the Cullen clan must enlist the help of other vampire clans from around the world, in the hope of convincing the Volturi of the false claims of Irina.
Crime drama starring Paul 'Triple H' Levesque, Michael Rapaport and Parker Posey. AJ (Levesque) is released from prison after serving a 13-year sentence for committing manslaughter in order to protect his friend Jack (Rapaport), a second-rate gangster and son of local mob boss Dr. Vic (Bruce Dern). AJ plans to set up his own business and lead a life free of crime but it is not long before he finds himself once again caught up in a murder, this time an accidental shooting at the hands of Jack. While trying to deal with the mishap Dr. Vic finds himself being investigated by the Louisiana Tax Board and things soon get out of hand. When Jack skips town, AJ realises that his friend's wife Claire (Posey), who has a history with AJ, and daughter Pepper (Juliette Goglia) are in danger and does all he can to save them.
All 14 episodes from the fourth season of the US biker drama series. Led by Clay Morrow (Ron Perlman), the outlaw motorcycle club Sons of Anarchy exerts a mafia-like hold over the small Northern Californian town of Charming. In this season, as the members of SAMCRO regroup after their prison stretch, a new business alliance brings unforeseen dangers. The episodes are: 'Out', 'Booster', 'Dorylus', 'Una Venta', 'Brick', 'With an X', 'Fruit for the Crows', 'Family Recipe', 'Kiss', 'Hands', 'Call of Duty', 'Burnt and Purged Away', 'To Be, Act 1' and 'To Be, Act 2'.
The complete first season of the US cop show set in inner city Los Angeles. In the pilot episode Wagenbach and Wyms are on the trail of a kidnapped girl. 'Our Gang' has Internal Affairs look into the death of Detective Cowley. 'The Spread' sees the detectives uncover a gun-smuggling operation. 'Dawg Days' finds Mackey playing the mediator in a hip-hop feud. In 'Blowback' the team have the tables turned on them in a drug bust. 'Cherrypoppers' has the detectives clamp down on underage prostitution in the area. 'Pay in Pain' finds Dutch and Wyms on the trail of a serial killer. 'Cupid and Psycho' sees the team's operations put on hold when allegations against them make front-page news. 'Throwaway' has relations between Lowe and Sofer grow even more troubled. 'Dragonchasers' finds Connie going cold turkey with Mackey's help. 'Carnivores' sees the team attempt to cool things down when relations between Rondell Robinson and the Nation of Islam get heated. 'Two Days of Blood' has Vendrell and Lemansky pursue a suspect through the cockfighting underworld. And finally, in 'Circles', in the aftermath of a riot, local cops start falling victim to a series of planned attacks.
All 12 episodes from the first season of the Golden Globe-winning US drama about a CIA officer determined to prove that a returned hero is actually an Al-Qaeda mole. Out of favour with her superiors after returning home from an unauthorised operation in Iraq, CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) is warned by one of her contacts that an American prisoner has been turned by his terrorist captors. When she subsequently learns of the rescue of US Marine sergeant Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) after eight years in captivity, Carrie's suspicions are immediately raised. But with the returning Brody hailed a hero, and her concerns falling on deaf ears, she's soon forced to break ranks to prove her theory.
Feature drama starring Minnie Driver as a schoolteacher intent on staging a rock opera version of 'The Tempest'. It is the summer of 1976, and Viv May (Driver) is an enthusiastic young drama teacher at a Swansea secondary school. With her diaphanous dresses and progressive attitudes, former actress Viv has her enemies amongst the school's more conservative staff, and has set her sights on creating a high-octane fusion of Shakespeare and David Bowie for this year's school performance. Between rehearsals her adolescent students pass the hot summer days lounging around the lido, fighting and falling in love, as their future beyond the safe confines of school life looms ahead of them.
All 13 episodes from the third season of the blackly comic American drama series starring Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher turned crystal meth producer. Walter turned to drugs after being diagnosed with lung cancer, hoping to pay off his weighty medical bills and provide for his family in the event of his death. Unfortunately, becoming involved in the drugs industry brings with it numerous complications. In this series, Walter has to deal with divorce proceedings initiated by his wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), when she finally discovers where their newfound riches have come from and finds his business at risk from both the DEA and a Mexican drug cartel. The episodes are: 'No Mas', 'Caballo Sin Nombre', 'I.F.T.', 'Green Light', 'Mas', 'Sunset', 'One Minute', 'I See You', 'Kafkaesque', 'Fly', 'Abiquiu', 'Half Measures' and 'Full Measure'.
All six episodes from the first series of the BBC drama, adapted from
Jennifer Worth's memoirs, about a group of midwives working in East
London in the 1950s. Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) gets her first job at
Nonnatus House which she soon realises is a nursing convent and not a
hospital, as she had assumed. As she begins caring for patients, she
gradually becomes accustomed to her new environment, making friends
with fellow midwives Cynthia (Bryony Hannah), Trixie (Helen George) and
the clumsy Chummy (Miranda Hart).
The complete first and second 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. Episodes are: 'A Study in Pink', 'The Blind Banker', 'The Great Game', 'A Scandal in Belgravia', 'The Hounds of Baskerville' and 'The Reichenbach Fall'.
The complete first and second 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. Episodes are: 'A Study in Pink', 'The Blind Banker', 'The Great Game', 'A Scandal in Belgravia', 'The Hounds of Baskerville' and 'The Reichenbach Fall'.
Double bill of British dramas about football violence and hooliganism. 'The Football Factory' (2004) is based on the novel by John King. Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer) is a bright but bored 30-year-old with a steady job and close-knit family who lives for the weekend life of casual sex, lager, drugs - and violence. Through him we meet three other males in his world: Billy Bright (Frank Harper), a right-wing fascist full of bitterness at a country that he perceives as having failed him; Zeberdee (Roland Manookian), a mouthy hooligan whose life revolves around crime and drugs; and Bill Farrell (Dudley Sutton), a 70-year-old war veteran who tries to enjoy every day to the limit. Shot in documentary style using a handheld camera, the film realistically captures the lure and potency of football violence. 'Arrivederci Millwall' (1990) follows a group of hardcore Millwall supporters as they travel to Bilbao in Spain for England's World Cup matches in 1982. Their rowdy behaviour soon leads them into trouble, and the violence escalates as Billy Jarvis (Kevin O'Donohoe) steals a gun to avenge his brother's death in the Falklands conflict.
British indie drama telling the story of the intense and destructive relationship between two teenagers who first meet on a suicide website. Obsessive-compulsive Nikko (Harry Treadaway) and beautiful loose cannon Stevie (Emma Booth) embark on a rollercoaster relationship that ultimately distances Nikko from his life, his friends and his obsession with bird-spotting.
Robin Williams, Peter Dinklage and Mila Kunis star in this comedy drama directed by Phil Alden Robinson. Henry Altmann (Williams), a cynical and curmudgeonly Brooklynite, undergoes a drastic transformation when he is mistakenly told by Dr. Sharon Gill (Kunis) he only has 90 minutes to live. Desperate to make amends with the people closest to him before he dies, he leaves the doctor's surgery frantically and sets off on a path of redemption. Meanwhile, Sharon, who has realised her mistake but has become aware of a potentially life-threatening brain aneurysm, tries to track Henry down to get him into care.
All ten episodes from the second season of the US drama series following two Boston brothers, gangster Michael (Jason Isaacs) and politician Tommy Caffee (Jason Clarke), as they pursue their very different versions of the American dream from opposite sides of the law. Episodes are: 'One Too Many Mornings 3:4-8', 'Down in the Flood 3:5-6', 'The Lonesome Death of... 4:7-8', 'Not Dark Yet 3:5-6', 'Dear Landlord 1:3-4', 'True Love Tends to Forget 1:1-4', 'Only a Pawn... 1:7-8', 'Shelter from the Storm 1:1-2', 'Call Letter Blues 1:2-6' and 'Things Have Changed 1:7-8'.
All six episodes from the third season of the Welsh crime drama series starring Philip Madoc as DCI Noel Bain, who relies more on instinct than scientific evidence to track down criminals. Episodes are: 'Shadow Falls', 'Box', 'The Inner Life of Strangers', 'Colour Blind', 'Sound Bites', 'Engineer', 'Blood and Water' and 'The Little House in the Forest'.
All 13 episodes from the third season of the American crime drama starring Timothy Olyphant as US Marshal Raylan Givens. In this season, though Raylan is still recovering from a gunshot injury, he refuses to sit behind his desk and becomes active in a murder case. The episodes are: 'The Gunfighter', 'Cut Ties', 'Harlan Roulette', 'The Devil You Know', 'Thick As Mud', 'When the Guns Come Out', 'The Man Behind the Curtain', 'Watching the Detectives', 'Loose Ends', 'Guy Walks Into a Bar', 'Measures', 'Coalition' and 'Slaughterhouse'.
All 24 episodes from the ninth season of the US drama series following a passionate team of forensic investigators who work the graveyard shift at the Las Vegas Criminalistics Bureau. Their job is to find the missing pieces at the scene that will help to solve the crime and vindicate those who often cannot speak for themselves: the victims. Episodes are: 'For Warrick', 'The Happy Place', 'Art Imitates Life', 'Let It Bleed', 'Leave Out All the Rest', 'Say Uncle', 'Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda', 'Young Man With a Horn', '19 Down', 'One to Go', 'The Grave Shift', 'Disarmed and Dangerous', 'Deep Fried and Minty Fresh', 'Miscarriage of Justice', 'Kill Me If You Can', 'Turn, Turn, Turn', 'No Way Out', 'Mascara', 'The Descent of Man', 'A Space Oddity', 'If I Had a Hammer...', 'The Gone Dead Train', 'Hog Heaven' and 'All In'.
Second series of the cult US prison drama, following the fortunes of a group of prisoners plotting a big breakout. This second season continues where the first left off, eight hours after the prison breakout. A significant development in this series is the introduction of FBI agent Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner), given the task of tracking down the eight escapees. The fugitives each follow their own journeys, which lead them across America, hotly pursued by the authorities. Episodes comprise: 'Manhunt', 'Otis', 'Scan', 'First Down', 'Map 1213', 'Subdivision', 'Buried', 'Dead Fall', 'Unearthed', 'Rendezvous', 'Bolshoi Booze', 'Disconnect', 'The Killing Box', 'John Doe', 'The Message', 'Chicago', 'Bad Blood', 'Wash', 'Sweet Caroline', 'Panama', 'Fin Del Camino' and 'Sona'. |
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