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En route from New York to Hollywood for a drag queen beauty pageant, three friends are forced to take an unwelcome detour. Stranded in the tiny Midwest town of Snydersville, the three make the best of the unfortunate situation. Their glitz and glamour shake-up the sleepy locals and the stage is set for an outrageously funny weekend of flamboyant fun and unrefined simpleness.
Complete first series of the BBC's controversial television drama about corporate and government conspiracy, starring Bill Nighy and John Simm. When a teenage drug-dealer is shot dead and a high-profile MP's lover is killed falling under a Tube train, investigative journalist Cal McCaffrey (Simm) is asked by his editor to find out if there was any connection between the two deaths. Cal's discovery of a missing briefcase that may contain information sensitive to the government puts his life in danger, and with a hitman on his tail he needs police protection. At the same time, Cal's growing involvement with the MP's wife begins to compromise his objectivity, and when he discovers a link between the dead girl, the government and the sinister U-Ex Oil company, his position at the newspaper is abruptly terminated. Trying to stay one step ahead of the people after him, Cal is able to expose the person responsible for ordering the killings, unleashing a controversy that could bring down the government.
Drama set in Reykjavik, Iceland, directed by Fridrik Thór Fridriksson. Keith Carradine stars as Simon, an American man with a dubious past who returns to Iceland after some 30 years' absence. His intention is to put an end to his criminal past by taking his own life - but when he meets a young woman, Dua (Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir), who he suspects may be his daughter, his puts his plans on hold to help her out. She is in trouble with the police, and together she and Simon run away to Hamburg, illegally smuggling Dua's valuable Icelandic falcon with the intention of selling it to rich Arabs.
This collection of classic Laurel and Hardy shorts are based around the maritime adventures of Stan and Ollie. In 'The Live Ghost' they help round up a reluctant crew for a ghost ship. Taxi driver Stan boards ship against his will in 'Sailors, Beware!'. In 'Two Tars', Stan and Ollie, as sailors on shore leave, become involved in a massive traffic jam. They are again sailors on leave in 'Men O'War', with hostilities taking place on a boating lake. 'Any Old Port!' sees Stan and Ollie arriving in port from a whaling voyage. In 'Why Girls Love Sailors' Stan helps a damsel in distress. And in 'Towed in a Hole', the men buy a boat - and fill it with water to detect the leaks.
Martial arts action comedy starring Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu Tien and Hwang Jang Lee. Disobedient young martial artist Wong Fei-hung (Chan) is sent to train under his uncle Beggar (Tien), a wine-guzzling master famous for crippling his students. Desperate to escape his brutal teacher's regime Fei-hung runs away but is confronted and beaten senseless by hired assassin Thunderleg (Lee). Angry and ashamed Fei-hung is forced to return to his drunken master to continue his rigorous training in the art of drunken boxing.
Scathing black comedy about love, sex, family, murder, incest and revenge, based on the 17th-century play by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Middleton and transposed by subversive British director Alex Cox to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. After ten years in hiding, Vindici (Christopher Eccleston) returns to destroy the Duke (Derek Jacobi) who murdered Vindici's wife on their wedding day. During his absence, Vindici's family fell into poverty - while the Duke, Duchess and their decadent sons acquired wealth and power, ruling over their court obsessed with transient beauty, money, inherited privilege and power. Determined to exact his revenge, Vindici sets out to gain the confidence of the Duke and his villainous heir, Lussurioso (Eddie Izzard). The film was screened at the 2002 Locarno Film Festival.
Classic haunted house horror, directed by Robert Wise and starring Claire Bloom and Julie Harris. An anthropologist foolishly starts to investigate a haunted house and gets sucked into the terrifying world of the paranormal.
A group of fun-loving teenagers take jobs at a recently re-opened summer camp, unaware of the circumstances that had led to its closure: the drowning of a young boy named Jason and subsequent murder of two counsellors over twenty years before. No sooner has the camp re-opened for business than the killing begins again, as the teens are picked off one by one. Followed by seven sequels.
A second film version (the first was made in 1930) of Erich Maria Remarque's story about a group of idealistic young Germans recruited to fight on the Western Front in 1914. Amongst their number is the patriotic Paul Baumer (Richard Thomas), whose preconceptions are rapidly shattered upon witnessing the horror of life at the front. Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence and Ian Holm also star.
When her husband walks out on her, Lola is angry and enraged. When he then starts spending the family savings on his new girlfriend, she realises she must take her revenge. Meanwhile, daughter Lucia develops an alternative strategy... and when both women try to put their plans into action, hilarious and disastrous results rapidly ensue.
There are no wars to fight. But Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway, a dog-faced relic of past wars, still has a lot of fight in him. Besides playing "Gunny," Eastwood also directs and produces this tale of a Marine Corps lifer who, starting his last tour of duty before retirement, sees the bumpy road his life has taken become more complicated, due to feisty recruits, by-the-book officers and a salty ex-wife to whom he's still attracted, Take the ridge - Heartbreak Ridge - and get a vivid, rough-and-ready entertainment from a top artist in top form.
Ridley Scott directs this drama starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon. Waitress Louise (Sarandon) persuades her friend Thelma (Davis) to escape her sexist husband and join her on a road trip. When they stop off at a country bar, Louise ends up saving Thelma from an attempted rape - shooting and killing the rapist in the process - and the women consequently find themselves forced to go on the run. Along the way their money is stolen by a handsome cowboy (Brad Pitt) and they begin holding-up convenience stores to get by, feeling strangely liberated by their new-found assertiveness. The cast also includes Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen and Christopher McDonald.
Stephen Fry plays Peter, the owner of a stately home, who gathers together his friends from University on New Year's Eve. It has been 10 years since they all gathered together for the last performance of their musical comedy review and things and people have changed. Their differences begin to affect the celebrations. A British version of 'The Big Chill'.
Robert Mitchum stars in this thriller set in the 1930s in the rural American South. Psychopathic preacher Harry Powell is arrested for a minor offence in a small West Virginian town. His cell mate, Ben Harper (Peter Graves), who faces the death penalty, confides that he has hidden $10,000 from a bank robbery. When Powell is released Harper has already been hanged, so the preacher tracks down his widow and children in an attempt to get his hands on the loot.
Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt), and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores, the memory of the first murder seemingly confirming her guilt in the second. But when her daughter Selena (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story, the truth about the family's past gradually comes to light.
In the 1940s a pilot (Mel Gibson), overcome with grief when his girlfriend goes into a coma, agrees to be cryogenically frozen in an experiment. He is forgotten about however, and is only woken by chance in 1992, where he has to struggle to adjust to a radically different world, while staying one step ahead of the army in his search for his former lover.
Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, easily influenced and keen to live the good life. When he joins up with the local Mob family, all his dreams seemingly come true. But living a life of crime, as Henry soon finds out, can be very dangerous. Especially when the guys in your crew, the Goodfellas, are psychotic and can't be trusted. Covering a 30-year stretch in the lives of three key Mafia figures, this bold, unpredictable classic was one of the most powerful films of the 90's.
In 1880s Kansas, ageing gunslinger-turned-farmer William Munny reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement to help Ned Logan collect the bounty on a wanted murderer. The man in question cut up a prostitute in a lawless town lorded over by the corrupt Sheriff Daggett, and if Munny and Logan want to catch him they are going to have to deal with Daggett first.
Academy Award Winner
Io, Jupiter's innermost moon, hosts mining colony Con-Am 27, a high-tech hellhole. Marshall William T. O'Neil (Sean Connery) probes some mysterious deaths among the miners. In pursuit of the truth, he's alone. In Outland, writer/director Peter Hyams depicts a chilling extension of today's corporation-driven world.
World-travelling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting, they won't want to lose the love they've found. Academy Award winners Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood (who also produces and directs) bring blazing starpower and powerful conviction to the beloved characters of Robert James Waller's rhapsodic bestseller of love, choice and consequence. Also right are the small details and large emotions of once-in-a-lifetime love. With luck, a love like that happens to some of us sooner or later. For Robert and Francesca, it was later. And it was glorious.
When the USA satellites photograph many flying saucers coming to Earth, the American president has a meeting with his advisors. His science advisor convinces him that since Martians would be a developed culture, they would be peaceful by nature, despite the warnings of his military advisors. Soon, the authorities and civilians prepare a welcoming committee for the aliens. But they're about to discover that they've made a fatal misjudment.
British crime drama that chronicles ordinary family man Spencer Atkins (Michael McKell)'s descent into the criminal underworld. To protect his family and secure their future, Spencer finds himself increasingly involved in a series of dangerous drug deals that take him from his native Essex to the sunny island of Malta, but will the rewards be worth the price he has to pay for them?
Feature film that continues the story of the Japanese anime series following four high school girls who form a friendship at their music club. This film follows the girls - drummer Ritsu Tainaka (voice of Satomi Sato), bassist Mio Akiyama (Yôko Hikasa), keyboard player Tsumugi Kotobuki (Minako Kotobuki) and guitar hero Yui Hirasawa (Aki Toyosaki) - as they take a post-graduation vacation together. Their destination is London, home to many of the bands they admire and steeped in music history. What adventures will the girls get up to as they stand on the threshold of adulthood?
A British boy living in Shanghai becomes separated from his parents when Japan invades China at the outset of World War II. The film, based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, traces his progress through prison camp life and his steely determination to survive. The score is by John Williams. |
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