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Live stage performance by British comedian and actor Sean Lock recorded at the London Hammersmith Apollo in front of a sold-out audience.
It is the 1960s in France, and a young boy called Champion lives with his grandmother, Madame Souza, dreaming of winning the Tour de France. But before he competes he is kidnapped by the Mafia and taken to Belleville where his cycling skills are utilised. Madame Souza plans to rescue Champion with the help of 1930s jazz trio, The Triplets of Belleville and her trusty dog, Bruno.
Documentary following the career of legendary motor cycle racer Valentino Rossi. Rossi is one of the most successful and celebrated motorcyclists of all time. Hailing from Italy, he has won a record nine Grand Prix World Championships. In the unforgiving world of sport, however, past achievements count for little. This documentary follows Rossi through the years 2010 and 2011 as he bids to hold off a new batch of fast young racers and attempts to recover from a broken leg sustained in an accident. Narrated by Ewan McGregor.
Documentary which takes a look at the long-running Israel-Palestine conflict and attempts to find a way forward. Israeli Liat Aaronson and Palestinian Hanan Kattan made use of the TED conference to interview a number of leading female thinkers from the warring nations about the conflict. The film makers were particularly intrigued by those who suggested a way forward that didn't involve grandiose political gestures but, rather, involved helping ordinary people on both sides continue to live their lives and to work for reconciliation through respect and tolerance.
Historical adventure based on the life of Ioannis Varvakis. Before becoming a key figure in the Greek War of Independence, Varvakis (Sebastian Koch) lived as a pirate where he made his fortune in the transportation of caviar eggs. As his wealth grows, Varvakis becomes an acquantaince of royalty when he is employed by Catherine the Great of Russia (Catherine Deneuve). But despite his past adventures and the power he has acquired, Varvakis still does not feel content in his life's work and eventually returns to his homeland to fight in and fund the struggle against the Ottoman Empire.
Comic action thriller about US government assassins. In a top-secret facility underneath Washington D.C., two competing teams of assassins - code-named according to a deck of Tarot cards - are at work. When a new employee known only as The Fool (Joe Anderson) arrives for his first day of work, he is alarmed find his new boss murdered and the entire building rigged with explosives. The Fool must now race against the clock to identify the killer and make his escape. Zach Galifianakis, Brandon T. Jackson and Maggie Q co-star.
Romantic comedy starring Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel and Danny DeVito. Beth Harper (Bell) is a young, career-driven New Yorker who has hitherto been very unlucky in love. While on a whirlwind trip to Rome for her sister's wedding, she is attracted to the best man, Nick (Duhamel), but is dismayed to see him with another woman and turns to drink to drown her disappointment. In her drunken state she delves for coins in the famed 'Fontana de Amore', and is amazed on her return to New York to find herself being pursued by not one but five love-crazed men - including the delectable Nick. But is he really in love with her, or simply under the fountain's spell?
Thriller-horror. Four young friends are driving along a remote forest road when their car breaks down. A sudden and violent attack by a grizzly bear leads to the friends becoming trapped inside the car and battling to survive as they try to outwit the powerful and surprisingly intelligent creature.
Epic drama recounting the First World War battle that became a byword for the carnage of the times. Written by and starring Paul Gross, the film follows the fortunes of wounded sergeant Michael Dunne (Gross), recovering at a hospital in Canada. After striking up a relationship with nurse Sarah Mann (Caroline Dhavernas), Dunne decides to return to active duty in France in order to shepherd Sarah's younger brother David (Joe Dinicol) through the war. As the three arrive in France to take up their positions, the third battle of Ypres, otherwise known as Passchendaele, is about to begin...
Lancastrian comic Dave Spikey performs live stand-up, drawing on his 30-year stint of working for the NHS to regale his audience with hysterical tales of hospital life as well as stories of his school days, cheese addiction, monkeys on bikes, llamas on the loose and a crash course in 'jollyphonics'.
The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves effective, but soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces Batman closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante. Heath Ledger stars as archvillain The Joker, and Aaron Eckhart plays Dent. Maggie Gyllenhaal joins the cast as Rachel Dawes. Returning from Batman Begins are Gary Oldman as Gordon, Michael Caine as Alfred and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox.
Judd Apatow writes and directs this amiable comedy in which slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) and up-and-coming career girl Alison (Katherine Heigl) meet at a bar and end up having a one night stand. Eight weeks later, Ben is shocked when Alison asks to meet up with him and reveals that she is pregnant. Despite having little in common, the two decide that they have to at least try to make some kind of relationship work for the baby's sake.
A contemplative Chinese drama set against the spectacular landscape of the Three Gorges region. This Golden Lion-winning film tells the stories of a man and a woman searching for absent spouses in Fengjie, an ancient town on the Yangtze River which is in the process of being demolished and will soon disappear forever in the flooding caused by the controversial Three Gorges dam project. At the same time as offering a moving, humane and thought-provoking portrait of people astray in a world they no longer know, the film also explores the relationship between individuals and their environment and the strange co-existence of man-made squalor with the landscape's natural beauty.
Thriller starring Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon. Linda Hanson (Bullock) is an average housewife with a loving family, but when a policeman comes knocking on her door with news that her husband, Jim (McMahon), was involved in a fatal car accident, Linda's world slowly begins to unravel. While her grief is at first overwhelming, Linda assumes that the whole thing was nothing more than a vivid dream when she wakes up the next morning to find her husband very much alive. With each passing day, however, Linda's reality shifts and her circumstances grow increasingly surreal; one day Jim is dead and the next he is right there by her side. As her investigation leaves her convinced that her husband's death wasn't a dream and that her picture-perfect life may not have been quite as flawless as she thought, Linda embarks on a mind-bending journey to prevent her grim premonition from becoming a reality.
Sci-fi film noir filmed in a unique style in which real actors are transformed through motion-capture animation to create a black and white comic-strip style. Set in a near-future Paris, the film depicts the city as a menacing place dominated by the vast and all-seeing Avalon Corporation, which has insinuated itself into every aspect of modern life through its sales of the ultimate commodities: youth and beauty. When a beautiful young scientist, Ilona (Romola Garai) is kidnapped, police officer Barthélémy Karas (Daniel Craig) is assigned to solve the case. His investigation leads him down a deadly path, and he eventually discovers that events that took place back in 2006 have irrevocably affected the future of humankind with dire consequences.
You've visited lands where a cyclops roams (The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad), skeletons duel (Jason And The Argonauts) and cowboys lasso dinosaurs (The Valley Of Gwangi). They are the worlds of Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion effects master who creates another dazzling realm in Clash of the Titans. Olympian gods, mythological monsters and heroic mortals populate this imaginative spectacle. Harry Hamlin is Perseus, mortal son of Zeus and champion of captive Andromeda. From that storyline, Harryhausen unleashes sea creature Kraken, snake-haired Medusa, swamp denizen Calibos, flying horse Pegasus, two-headed dog Dioskilos, giant scorpions and all manner of eye-popping adventure. Let the clash begin!
Family comedy starring Ice Cube as Nick, a smooth operator who is interested in a young, attractive divorcee - Suzanne (Nia Long), mother of a 7-year-old-boy and an 11-year-old-girl. Trying to get together with Suzanne, Nick volunteers to bring her children to meet her out of town. Missing the plane, they must make the long journey by car. What Nick doesn't know is that Suzanne's children think that no man is good enough for their mum and will do everything they can to make the trip a nightmare for him.
A collection of classic Laurel & Hardy shorts based on the misadventures of Oliver Hardy before, during, after or instead of getting married! In Beau Hunks a failed romance prompts Ollie to join the Foreign Legion, taking Stan with him. Our Wile centres around his attempts to elope with his beloved Dulcy', with assistance from Stan as the Best Man. Helpmates, one of the team's best short comedies, sees Stan and Ollie trying to clean up the residue of a wild party before the return of Mrs. Hardy, while in Me and My Pal Ollie's wedding day is disrupted when Stan arrives with a jigsaw puzzle. In black & white.
Peter Greenaway's surreal story has twin brothers (Brian and Eric Deacon), both zoologists, re-examining the meaning of life after a car accident involving a swan claims the lives of their wives. They study the decomposition of several animals with time-lapse photography, plot to liberate zoo animals, and begin a menage-a-trois with the one-legged woman who survived the crash.
Big-budget sci-fi starring Asa Butterfield and Ben Kingsley. When an alien race known as the Formics attack Earth, the International Fleet prepare for their next attack by recruiting the most intelligent children on Earth and training them to lead the inevitable battle. Split up from his family and taken to the Fleet's Battle School, Ender Wiggin (Butterfield) quickly makes a name for himself as the best recruit of his generation with abilities even surpassing those of the legendary war hero Mazer Rackham (Kingsley). As his reputation grows and Ender continues to impress his peers, he is expected to be Earth's only hope against the alien race. But with the Formics preparing for their next move, will Ender finish his training in time to lead his people to victory as anticipated?
Soaring even higher in a state-of-the-art digital transfer from restored elements and with dynamically remixed digital audio, the Academy Award - winning adventure also now includes eight minutes intergrated into the film director Richard Donner. Enjoy more footage of the Krypton Council, a glimpse of stars of prior Superman incarnations, more of Jor-El underscoring his son's purpose on Earth and an extended sequence inside Lex Luthor's gauntlet of doom.
T.J. Storm stars in the title role of this martial arts action feature. To obtain the necessary funds to release his father from prison, South African martial artist Sizwe Biko aka Black Cobra (Storm) smuggles stolen diamonds into the US to sell them on the black market. But when he is double-crossed by the Japanese mafia the Black Cobra is forced to use deadly methods to recover his stolen goods.
For his son, One man will reach for the impossible. Will Smith stars in this moving tale inspired by a true story of Chris Gardner, a San Francisco salesman who's struggling to make ends meet. When his girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) walks out, Chris is left to raise their 5-year old son Christopher (Jaden Smith) on his own. Chris' determination finally pays off when he lands an unpaid internship in a brutally competitive stockbroker-training program, where only twenty interns will make the cut. But without a salary, Chris and his son are evicted from their apartment and are forced to sleep on the streets, in homeless shelters and even behind the locked doors of a metro station bathroom. With self confidence and the love and trust of his son, Chris Gardner rises above his obstacles to become a Wall Street legend. |
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