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Bus 174
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José Padilha, Marcus Prado, Sacha Amback, Joào Nabuco, Sandro do Nascimento; Directed by …
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Multi-award winning documentary by Brazilian director José Padilha,
exploring the conditions and circumstances that led to an armed
siege on a Rio bus in June 2000. When Sandro do Nascimento, a young
homeless man evidently high on drugs, failed in his attempt to rob
Ônibus 174 in a wealthy area of Rio de Janeiro, he took the bus
passengers hostage armed with a pistol. The situation escalated as
the police, a SWAT team and reporters converged on the bus, and the
hijacking unfolded in front of a nation until it reached its tragic
and horrific climax. Padilha looks behind the event at the
circumstances of Sandro's life: he had watched his mother's brutal
murder as a small boy, and managed to survive the 1993 massacre of
homeless children at Candelária. The documentary shows the
desperation of Sandro's plight, using interviews with people
involved in the event, including members of Sandro's family, and
live television footage to tell this powerful and unsettling story.
During the Second World War, Air Commodore Waltby is flying to
Allied Command Headquarters with an attaché case packed with
information that could stave off an invasion by Germany.
Unfortunately, his plane is shot down and he and three colleagues
are left drifting in a lifeboat in the North Sea - with the vital
intelligence reports still not in the hands of Allied Command. As
the Allied authorities direct the search, the four men are edging
closer to death and the Germans are planning their assault.
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Gangsta Granny
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Miranda Hart, Julia McKenzie, Robbie Williams, India Ria Amarteifio, Reece Buttery, …
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Children's comedy based on the book by comedian David Walliams. Ben
(Reece Buttery) dreads staying at his gran (Julia McKenzie)'s house
when his mum and dad drop him off, expecting the usual boring games
of scrabble and knitting. But on his latest visit, his gran reveals
a fascinating secret - that she was once a renowned jewel thief
known as the 'Black Cat' - and shatters Ben's image of his boring
old relative. Together they set out on a whirlwind adventure to
pull off the one robbery that always eluded her, breaking into the
Tower of London and stealing the crown jewels.
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Eden
(DVD)
James Remar, Jessica Lowndes, Diego Boneta, Mario Casas, Nate Parker, …
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Shyam Madiraju directs this drama starring Ethan Peck and Nate
Parker. After their plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean, the
surviving members of a US football team find themselves stranded on
a deserted island with limited resources and little hope of rescue.
With supplies quickly running out, teammates Andreas (Peck) and
Slim (Parker) begin to turn on each other after disagreeing on how
to ration their dwindling resources. With the increasingly
unbalanced Andreas forming his own faction and taking them to
another nearby island, Slim is left to try and hold the remaining
survivors together while also trying to protect them from Andreas
and his group's violent behaviour. The cast also includes Jessica
Lowndes, James Remar and Diego Boneta.
Double bill of documentaries from British film-maker Marc Isaacs.
'Someday My Prince Will Come' (2005) looks at life in a small
coastal town in Cumbria and follows a young girl and her cousin as
they share memories from their childhood and begin to think about
what the future may hold. 'Philip and His Seven Wives' (2005) tells
the story of Philip Sharp, an ex-rabbi attempting to build a new
godly family in his quiet suburban neighbourhood. Believing he has
communicated directly with God, Sharp claims he is a former Hebrew
king and therefore entitled to take seven wives.
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Nightmare
(Blu-ray disc)
David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden, Brenda Bruce, George A. Cooper, …
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Classic British horror directed by Freddie Francis. After
experiencing a number of terrifying nightmares, young student Janet
(Jennie Linden) is sent home from her boarding school. Now under
the care of her guardian Henry Baxter (David Knight), Janet's
nightmares become more regular as she starts having disturbing
visions of a mysterious woman dressed in white. When Henry then
brings home his wife, who looks exactly like the woman from Janet's
dreams, it is enough to finally push a hysterical Janet over the
edge.
Sequel to the popular 1977 feature. Outlaw driver The Bandit (Burt
Reynolds) is now an alcoholic down on his luck, who accepts the job
of delivering an elephant to the Republican National Convention in
just 24 hours. Hot on his tail of course, is the redneck Sheriff
Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), still smarting from his earlier
humiliation.
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A Case of You
(DVD)
Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood, Peter Dinklage, Sam Rockwell, Brendan Fraser, …
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Romantic comedy starring Justin Long and Evan Rachel Wood. Shy
writer Sam (Long) meets Birdie (Wood) at a coffee shop and, in an
attempt to make a good impression, uses her Facebook profile so he
can pretend he has similar interests. When she falls in love with
him, Sam finds it difficult to keep up the persona he has created
but also worries that the real him won't be enough for Birdie...
The film features cameos from Peter Dinklage, Sam Rockwell, Brendan
Fraser, Vince Vaughn and Sienna Miller, among others.
Feature documentary chronicling the journey of
comedian-turned-activist Russell Brand as he embarks on his latest
project: save the world. As the self-proclaimed narcissist, who
admits to believing he is a messiah, sets out to make people
understand how we, the human population, are slowly killing the
world we live in, he encounters opposition from every direction,
including the people who put him on the showbusiness map. The
documentary includes interviews with Brand's parents, his ex-wife
Katy Perry and several of his friends including Noel Gallagher,
Jonathan Ross and Matt Morgan.
Award-winning documentary about former CIA and NSA employee Edward
Snowden, who, in 2013, leaked classified information revealing a
number of global surveillance programs. The film follows reporter
Glenn Greenwald and film-maker Laura Poitras as they travel to Hong
Kong to meet with Snowdon in the days leading up to the
revelations. The film won the Academy Award and BAFTA for Best
Documentary.
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The Wanderers
(DVD)
Ken Wahl, Toni Kalem, Linda Manz, Karen Allen, John Friedrich, …
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The Wanderers are an Italian-American teenage gang living in the
Bronx in 1963, clashing with their rivals The Baldies and the
Duckie Boys. Director Philip Kaufman soundtracks the turf battles
and rites of passage narrative with plenty of rock'n'roll.
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Fear Clinic
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Robert Englund, Cleopatra Coleman, Bonnie Morgan, Felisha Terrell, Angelina Armani, …
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Thomas Dekker and Robert Englund star in this horror written and
directed by Robert Hall. When a group of people with extreme fears
hear about a man called Dr Andover (Englund) who has built a
chamber designed to cure phobias, they travel to his clinic and
begin treatment. The unconventional therapy consisting of induced
hallucinations seems to work at first, but when some of the
patients still find themselves struggling with their fears one year
on they return to the clinic to try again. As the patients restart
their treatment they discover that not everyone can be cured...
Swashbuckling fantasy adventure based on the ancient Persian legend
of Sinbad the Sailor. When Sinbad (Shahin Sean Solimon)'s new love,
the Sultan's daughter Froozeh (Sadie Alexandru), is kidnapped by an
evil sorcerer (Said Faraj) the eponymous hero must embark on a
dangerous voyage of the seven seas to save her. Along with his
assembled party, the crew have 40 days and nights to save the
princess before her soul is lost to The White Thief forever. Along
the way the crew must battle legendary creatures such as the
Cyclops as Sinbad races against time to rescue his love.
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Charlie's Country
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Bojana Novakovic, Bobby Bunungurr, Peter Minygululu, David Gulpilil, Jennifer Budukpuduk Gaykamangu, …
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Rolf de Heer directs this Australian drama starring David Gulpilil
as Charlie, an Aboriginal man who goes on a journey into the bush.
With the police interfering with his community's traditional way of
life, Charlie decides to go and live in the bush. However, he
becomes ill and has to be treated in hospital and later runs into
trouble with the law. Will he find the peace he is looking for?
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Denial
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Rosemary McHale, Jeremy Child; Directed by Andy Hay
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Discovery Miles 3 870
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Live production, recorded at the Bristol Old Vic, of Arnold
Wesker's controversial play. Dealing with the subject of 'False
Memory Syndrome', Wesker explores the nature of memory and the
self-interest of a therapeutic profession that would plant 'false'
memories of child abuse to explain behavioural problems.
Japanese anime series featuring the voice talents of Nao Toyama and
Ryota Ohsaka. When the Devil King Satan (Ohsaka) is sent to the
other world - modern-day Tokyo - after a battle with Hero Emi (Yoko
Hikasa), part of his punishment is that he must pay his way with
conventional methods. Resulting to a job in a fast food restaurant
Satan must work out a way to kill his nemesis and get back home.
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Hercules
(Blu-ray disc)
John Hurt, Ian Whyte, Rufus Sewell, Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, …
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Sword-and-sandal action epic directed by Brett Ratner and starring
Dwayne Johnson as the titular hero. After successfully completing
the twelve labours set out for him by King Eurystheus as a means of
atoning for previous sinful actions, Hercules is now a legendary
mercenary in Greece. Using his reputation and strength to his
advantage, he is able to overcome the most powerful of enemies.
However, when he is asked by the Thracian King (John Hurt) and his
daughter to defeat a particularly savage warlord, Hercules finds
himself having to endure the most difficult task set for him yet.
Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly and Michael Douglas star in this sci-fi
action movie following the Marvel Comics superhero. Decades earlier
scientist Hank Pym (Douglas) invented a special suit that would
allow him to transform to the size of an ant and give him super
strength. The ageing hero approaches petty thief Scott Lang (Rudd)
and, with the help of his daughter Hope Van Dyne (Lilly), Hank
trains him to become the new Ant-Man. After Darren Cross (Corey
Stoll) takes over his former mentor Pym's business he produces a
similar suit to be worn by the military as well as a more powerful
suit for himself, transforming him into Yellowjacket. This results
in chaos and it's up to Ant-Man to use both his thieving skills and
his newfound abilities to save the day.
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Vanished
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Cassidy Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Clark Freeman, Laura Heisler, Lee Wilkof, …
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Psychological horror based around the mysterious disappearance of
over 500 New England townspeople. In the autumn of 1940, the entire
population of Friar, New Hampshire abandoned their homes and all
their belongings and walked up a winding mountain trail, never to
be seen alive again. Their fate has remained a mystery for over 70
years, until in 2008 the coordinates for the trail - known as the
'YellowBrickRoad' - are declassified, and an official expedition
sets out to investigate the mystery. But no one is prepared for the
horrors that await...
Documentary about Indian film archivist and scholar P.K. Nair.
Having founded the National Film Archive of India in 1964, Nair
sought to source and preserve Indian cinema for the sake of its
cultural heritage. For the next 30 years he collected films from
throughout India and the wider world and was instrumental in
introducing world cinema to an Indian audience.
Collection of seven films from Canadian writer/director Atom
Egoyan. In 'Exotica' (1994), pet shop owner Thomas (Don McKellar)
arrives in town with a secret cache of rare bird eggs. Sharing a
cab from the airport he ends up in Exotica, a local strip club.
Fascinated by star stripper Christina (Mia Kirshner), he becomes
drawn into her sordid lifestyle, along with the club DJ (Elias
Koteas) and a disturbed tax auditor (Bruce Greenwood). As the
multiple narratives and chronological twists unfold, the characters
find their lives becoming inexorably intertwined as they head
towards a shocking conclusion. In 'The Adjuster' (1991), Koteas
plays Noah Render, an insurance adjuster whose attempts to help
others mask a deeper malaise in his own life. His wife Hera
(Arsinée Khanjian) is a disillusioned film censor who obsessively
copies the most explicit scenes in the films she is supposed to
review. After Noah helps a rich young woman whose house has burned
down, Hera invites a young film-maker into their home to shoot a
movie, and as their elaborate sexual fantasies are acted out on
video, they begin to explore a world where voyeurism and
exhibitionism are all-consuming. In 'Family Viewing' (1987), Van
(Aidan Tierney) finds himself in a difficult situation when he
realises that his father Stan (David Hemblen) is recording over the
family's home movies with home-made pornography. Not only is Stan's
lover Sandra (Gabrielle Rose) completely at the mercy of his dark
fantasies, but she also expresses a sexual interest in Van.
Dividing his time between the family home and a nearby nursing
residence caring for his aging grandmother Armen (Selma Keklikian),
Van meets Aline (Khanjian), who works as a phone-sex operator, and
the two concoct a plan to escape his emotionally cold father. In
'The Sweet Hereafter' (1997), powerful lawyer Mitchell Stephens
(Ian Holm) arrives in a small town in British Columbia after 14
children die in a school bus crash. Announcing that he will win
compensation for the townsfolk, Stephens investigates the
mysterious circumstances surrounding the accident, discovering
various dark secrets lurking beneath the surface. In 'Calendar'
(1993), a photographer (Egoyan) and his wife (Khanjian) travel to
Armenia to photograph churches for use in a calendar, employing a
native speaking driver (Ashot Adamyan) to escort them around the
country. On their travels a relationship develops between the
photographer's wife and the Armenian guide. Looking back on this
time from his apartment in Toronto, the newly separated
photographer contacts women through an escort agency and invites
them to dinner, all while his estranged wife tries reconcile with
him. In 'Next of Kin' (1984), Peter (Patrick Tierney) is a young
man from an Anglo-Saxon family who is constantly under pressure to
do something meaningful with his life. The family visit a therapist
in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the tension between
themselves and Peter's apparent laziness. When Peter visits the
clinic before the next session hoping to view the video recording
of their last meeting he is given the wrong tape and instead is
shown the recording of an immigrant family who had given up their
first son for adoption upon entering the country. What Peter then
suggests to his family and therapist is that he take a break in
order to find himself, but what he actually does is assume the
identity of this other family's long lost son. Finally, in
'Speaking Parts' (1989), struggling actor Lance (Michael McManus)
works in housekeeping at a local hotel while waiting for his first
speaking role. Meanwhile, his co-worker Lisa (Khanjian) is obsessed
with him and seeks out all the movies he appears in as a means of
satisfying her voyeuristic tendencies. When Lance learns a
scriptwriter, Clara (Rose), is staying at the hotel he chooses to
leave his résumé in her room in the hope that she'll give him a
part in her next film about her late brother. Before long the two
become romantically involved and Lance finds himself with his first
lead role but Clara becomes increasingly distressed when a series
of changes are made to her story by the movie's producer.
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Bullet Ballet
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Shinya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura, Takahiro Murase, Hisashi Igawa, …
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Cult Japanese thriller directed by and starring Shin'ya Tsukamoto.
When Kiriko (Kyôka Suzuki), his girlfriend of ten years, commits
suicide by a gunshot wound to the head, Goda (Tsukamoto) goes in
search of the reasons behind her death. Owing to Japan's strict
laws, Goda knows that for Kiriko to acquire a pistol she would have
needed contacts in the criminal underworld. Before long Goda is in
the midst of ongoing gang warfare and while questioning Kiriko's
death he comes face to face with his own mortality...
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The Irish Pub
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Alex Fegan, Denis Clohessy; Directed by Alex Fegan
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Documentary directed by Alex Fegan about traditional Irish pubs and
the publicans who run them. Travelling all over the country, from
County Donegal to County Cork, Fegan speaks to a number of tavern
owners and their customers about the long tradition of the Irish
pub and its importance to local communities. Customarily being
passed on from generation to generation, the pub has become an
integral part of Irish society with some acting as post offices and
grocers as well as a regular watering hole. While reflecting on
days gone by, the owners and customers also give their thoughts on
whether the pub can continue to withstand the test of time and
present economic uncertainty.
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