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All 23 episodes from the
first season of the New
York-set crime spin-off
series starring Gary
Sinise as Detective Mac
Taylor, the no-nonsense
head of the New York CSI
team. Episodes are:
'Blink', 'Creatures of
the Night', 'American
Dreamers', 'Grand
Master', 'A Man a Mile',
'Outside Man', 'Rain',
'Three Generations Are
Enough', 'Officer Blue',
'Night Mother',
'Tri-Borough',
'Recycling',
'Tanglewood', 'Blood,
Sweat and Tears', 'Til
Death Do We Part',
'Hush', 'The Fall',
'The Dove Commission',
'Crime and Misdemeanour',
'Supply and Demand',
'On the Job', 'The
Closer' and 'What You See
Is What You Get'.
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Brilliant 17th century
swordsman and poet Cyrano
(Gerard Depardieu) is
cursed with a very large
nose and he feels this
makes him too ugly for
his beloved Roxanne (Anne
Brochet). Consequently,
he pours all his energy
into helping his handsome
but unintelligent friend,
feeding him the lines he
needs to win her heart.
Unfortunately this plan
backfires, leading the
lovely Roxanne to fall in
love with Cyrano's
beautiful words just as
much as she does her
suitor's handsome face.
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The complete first season
of the award-winning
animated series created
by Seth Green and Matthew
Senreich. The show uses
stop motion animation and
a host of action figures
and dolls to perform
sketches that poke fun at
television, films,
music and celebrities in
America. Episodes
comprise: 'Junk in the
Trunk', 'Nutcracker
Sweet', 'Gold Dust
Gasoline', 'Plastic
Buffet', 'Toyz in the
Hood', 'Vegetable
Funfest', 'A Piece of
the Action', 'The Deep
End', 'S&M Present',
'Badunkadunk', 'Toy
Meets Girl', 'Midnight
Snack', 'Atta Toy',
'Joint Point', 'Kiddie
Pool', 'Nightmare
Generator', 'Operation:
Rich in Spirit', 'The
Sack', 'That Hurts Me'
and 'The Black Cherry'.
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Luzhin (John Turturro),
a Russian master visiting
Italy for the World Chess
Final, finds his world
turned upside down when
he unexpectantly falls in
love. Despite his genius
Luzhin is extremely
introverted and finds it
difficult to function in
the everyday world, but
when he meets Natalia
(Emily Watson) she offers
him a glimpse of a life
outside the chess world
and opens up the
possibility of a whole
new way of living.
However, she is also
about to get married.
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Horror based on the
novella by Stephen King.
After a number of people
in a small town in Maine
are killed by
supernatural creatures
lurking in a thick fog,
a small group of
survivors led by artist
David Drayton (Thomas
Jane) take shelter in a
local supermarket. The
frightened survivors
attempt to discover the
origins of the deadly
mist, with rumours
pointing toward an
experiment conducted at a
nearby military base. As
the world around them
slowly descends into a
literal hell-on-earth,
one of the survivors
calls for Old
Testament-style
sacrifices in order to
pacify the malevolent
forces.
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Mike Barker's costume
drama is set 1645 when
England is coming out of
a civil war. The New
Model Army have defeated
the Royalist forces and
King Charles I (Rupert
Everett) is now
imprisoned. General
Thomas Fairfax (Dougray
Scott) celebrates with
his deputy Oliver
Cromwell (Tim Roth) but
they don't agree on what
to do with the King.
However, it is the more
powerful of the two,
Cromwell who manages to
take charge and in order
to indroduce his new
parliamentary ideas he
must put the King on
trials and eventually
execute him.
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A special edition of the
fifth mountain biking
video magazine. Not only
are all the highlights of
bicycle and dirt action
from 2002 in Rotterdam,
San Francisco and Paris
included here but also
the short film 'A Lesson
in History' by Kathy
Sessler, and an
interview with Cory
Nastazio and MX from
Mammoth.
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Martial arts action film
from director Stephn Fung
about Teddy (Anthony Wong
Chau-Sang), a former
secret agent turned
chiropractor, struggling
to raise his children
alone after the death of
his wife. He tells
stories of his glory days
while teaching his
children martial arts but
they find his tales from
the past embarrasing.
However, unknown to his
children, Teddy still
works undercover
protecting retired agents
and when an evil enemy
re-appears and kidnaps
him to settle an old
score it is up to the
children to put their
martial arts training
into action to get their
father back.
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Sports comedy starring
Dan Aykroyd and Daniel
Stern as Jimmy and Mike,
fanatical supporters of
the Boston Celtic
basketball team. They are
so obsessed with seeing
their home team win the
championship game that
they kidnap the opposing
side's star player (Damon
Wayans). However, fate
has a twist in store...
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Off-beat French comedy.
Marco (Marcello
Mastroianni) is a
Parisian driving-school
instructor. When he
starts to feel a little
bit unwell, he makes an
appointment with his
doctor, and is shocked
to be informed that he is
four month's pregnant.
When news of this leaks
out, Marco is turned
into a worldwide media
celebrity.
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James Stewart stars in
this biopic of American
bandleader Glenn Miller.
A talented young
trombonist, Miller
(Stewart) falls for Helen
Burger (June Allyson)
while studying at the
University of Colorado.
He gets his first big
break after leaving
college performing his
own arrangement of
'Everybody Loves My Baby'
at an audition, and
builds himself a
reputation working for
bandleader Ben Pollack
(playing himself).
Marriage to Helen
follows, and Miller
finds success with his
own 'sound' after a
trumpet player splits his
lip, forcing him to
substitute a clarinet
solo on 'Moonlight
Serenade'. He goes on to
become the leading jazz
bandleader of his day,
but tragedy looms with
the outbreak of World War
Two. Many of Miller's
erstwhile colleagues,
including Louis
Armstrong, Gene Krupa
and Frances Langford,
appear here as
themselves.
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All five episodes of the
Channel 4 science series
presented by Richard
Dawkins, James Dyson,
Stephen Hawking, David
Attenborough and Robert
Winston. The series looks
at the many ways in which
British science and
ingenuity have helped
shape the modern world,
and celebrates the great
thinkers and moments in
British science, from
Newton to the present
day.
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Psychological thriller by
Scottish director Gillie
MacKinnon, starring
Jonny Lee Miller as
Denis, a young pilot
with a happy life: a
beautiful home, a loving
wife expecting their
first baby and plenty of
money. But his life is
shattered when escaped
convict Ricky Barnes
(Andy Serkis) breaks into
his home one night and
kills his pregnant wife.
Miraculously, the baby
survives, but Denis is
too distraught to look
after it, leaving its
care to his cousin
Christine (Jodhi May).
Denis embarks on an
elaborate plan of revenge
against the man who has
wrecked his life,
involving faking his own
death and mimicking his
enemy. But his plan
backfires and he ends up
locked into a high
security prison alongside
his nemesis.
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An American in England
decides to go and stay in
an old country house with
his friend Casper Femm.
Upon his arrival he is
informed of Casper's
untimely death, and is
then introduced to the
rest of the family, but
as evening draws on
members of the family
begin to get murdered and
the murderer must be
found before there is
no-one left alive.
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Bollywood drama about the
struggles and survival of
people in a small town
who are plagued by
poverty, bad harvests
and a monster of a
moneylender called
Karamkali (Sudha
Chandran). Leelaram
(Paresh Rawal), earns a
meager source of income
through his business
selling Malamaal Weekly
Lottery Tickets. One day,
while watching TV at a
local tea stall, he
learns that one of the
tickets he's sold has in
fact won the One Crore
Rupees Bumper Prize. As
most of the other
villagers don't own a TV
and are illiterate,
Leelaram knows that he is
likely to be the only one
to know this information.
The problem is how to
find that one ticket from
the 105 he's sold.
Leelaram decides to throw
a party which is only for
his 105 customers on the
condition that they bring
along their tickets as an
invite to the
celebrations. As luck
would have it, all turn
up except one-Anthony the
drunkard. When Leelaram
pays him a visit he finds
Anthony dead in front of
the TV. Shocked on
hearing about his
victory, Anthony died
with the lottery ticket
still in his hand. What
follows from hereon is a
roller coaster ride of
unusual events with
surprising twists and
turns at every stage.
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It is twenty years since
the events of the first
Slap Shot movie, and
ice-hockey team the
Charlestown Chiefs are
facing another challenge.
In the face of financial
difficulties the team has
been sold to Richmond
Claremont (Gary Busey) a
media mogul with a strong
family-values agenda who
wants the Chiefs to
perform as part of a
circus-on-ice type
display show with a showy
team called the Omaha
IceBreakers. Bored by
playing second fiddle in
pre-rehearsed display
games team captain Sean
Linden (Stephen Baldwin)
and his compatriots
decide to disrupt
Claremont's plans, but
the results are exactly
as they planned...
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All 23 episodes from the
first two seasons of the
1990s US sci-fi series
starring Jerry O'Connell
as Quinn Mallory, the
boy genius who discovers
the portal to an infinite
number of parallel
Earths, enabling him and
his teacher, Professor
Maximilian P. Arturo
(John Rhys-Davies) to
'slide' from world to
world, accompanied by
his female co-worker Wade
Welles (Sabrina Lloyd) -
and Rembrandt 'Crying
Man' Brown (Cleavant
Derricks), a soul singer
who just happens to be
driving past Quinn's
house at the moment of
the experiment. Episodes
are: Pilot Episode (Parts
1 and 2), 'Fever',
'Last Days', 'The Prince
of Wails', 'Summer of
Love', 'Eggheads', 'The
Weaker Sex', 'The King
is Back', 'Luck of the
Draw', 'Into the
Mystic', 'Love Gods',
'Gillian of the Spirits',
'The Good, the Bad and
the Wealthy', 'El Sid',
'Time Again and World',
'In Dino Veritas', 'Post
Traumatic Slide
Syndrome', 'Obsession',
'Greatfellas', 'The
Young and the
Relentless', 'Invasion'
and 'As Time Goes By'.
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TV drama re-telling of
the classic Jules Verne
tale. Following a bold
escape from a Confederate
prison camp during the
American Civil War,
Captain Cyrus Smith (Kyle
MacLachlan) and his
comrades are swept out to
sea by a perilous storm
and fetch up on a
foreboding tropical isle.
Salvation comes in the
form of Captain Nemo
(Patrick Stewart), the
troubled hero of Jules
Verne's '20, 000 Leagues
Under The Sea' who has
built a fortress on the
island and claimed it as
his scientific
playground. When Nemo
learns of Cyrus'
engineering background,
he tries to enlist Cyrus
in his ultimate project -
the creation of a
doomsday weapon that Nemo
believes will end all war
forever. After Cyrus
doubts Nemo and his
weapon, the castaways
are thrown out, left to
fend for themselves
against the wrath of
Mother Nature betrayed.
Will the escapees betray
their ideals and ask Nemo
for help, or will he
unleash the power of his
fearful weapon?
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Ten episodes from the
first series of the
Scottish legal drama,
with Iain Cuthbertson
playing Procurator Fiscal
John Sutherland. In
effect the public
prosecutor, Sutherland
has to investigate a
variety of cases which
often bring him into
conflict with colleagues,
the police, and the
local community. Episodes
comprise: 'A Cry for
Help', 'The Running
Man', 'The Return',
'The Ship', 'The
Runaway', 'The Climb',
'The Family', 'The
House', 'The Prodigal'
and 'The Killing'.
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Private detective Jeff
Bailey (Robert Mitchum)
is hired by gambler Whit
Sterling (Kirk Douglas)
to find Sterling's
girlfriend after she
shoots him and takes off
with $40, 000 of his
money. Bailey tracks the
woman, Kathie Moffett
(Jane Greer) to Mexico,
only to fall for her
charms. When Kathie
convinces Bailey that she
is innocent, he tells
Sterling that he has been
unable to find her -
unaware that he is
becoming trapped in a
tangled web of deceit,
murder and blackmail.
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The third film in the
popular 'X-Men' film
franchise. When a private
laboratory supported by
the government finds the
cure for the mutants,
using the DNA of a
powerful boy, the
mutants have the option
of giving up their powers
and becoming human.
However, Magneto (Ian
McKellen) opposes and
decides to join a force
to fight against the
government and kill the
mutant boy. Meanwhile,
Jean Grey (Famke Janssen)
resurrects uncontrolled
by Xavier (Patrick
Stewart) and with the
personality of the
powerful Dark Phoenix.
She destroys Cyclops
(James Marsden) and
Xavier, and allies to
the evil forces of
Magneto, making them
almost invincible.
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Feature-length episode of
the paranormal
investigation series. In
this instalment, Yvette
Fielding and her team pay
a visit to the Winchester
Mystery House in
California. Once the home
of wealthy widow Sarah
Winchester, the house
was purposely designed by
her to house
'unfortunate' ghostly
souls.
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From the Wright Brothers
to the supersonic age,
the advances in aircraft
design have been well
documented. But the more
sophisticated the
aircraft become, they
are still limited by one
thing - The Human Factor.
This release provides a
detailed examination of
the science of 'aviation
medicine' which became a
crucial factor in the
twentieth century in the
attempt to marry the
speed and power of
continually improving
flying technology with
the delicate tolerance
levels of the human mind
and body.
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Vintage WWII musical with
the Andrews sisters and
Harry James with his
orchestra. Contains the
sisters' original
rendition of 'Don't Sit
Under The Apple Tree'.
The plot is thin but the
numbers come thick and
fast in a whirlwind of
WWII,
make-the-troops-swing
action. 'Even the Jeeps
are jivin', says one
character.
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Collection of films
released to commemorate
the 100th anniversary of
the birth of Swedish film
star Greta Garbo. In
'Anna Christie' (1930),
the eponymous former
prostitute (Garbo) lives
with her father (George
F. Marion Sr) on a
broken-down barge. When
they rescue Irish sailor
Matt Burke (Charles
Bickford) from drowning,
he falls in love with
Anna. She is, however,
reluctant to reveal
details of her past. In
'Mata Hari' (1931),
Garbo stars in the title
role as a German spy
working in Paris. She has
already seduced the
Russian general Shubin
(Lionel Barrymore), and
has now set her eyes on
Lieutenant Rosanov (Ramon
Novarro), a young
up-and-coming officer. In
order to get her hands on
secret documents in his
possession, she spends
the night with him. But
the secret police are on
to her, only waiting to
get enough evidence to
arrest her. In 'Queen
Christina' (1933) Garbo
plays the 17th Century
Swedish Queen who escapes
an undesirable political
marriage by running away
and disguising herself as
a man. When she falls in
love with a Spanish
ambassador, they have to
liaise secretly,
realising their destiny
is doomed. 'Anna
Karenina' (1935) is the
Hollywood film version of
Tolstoy's classic novel
and stars Garbo as the
wife of a villainous
Russian aristocrat (Basil
Rathbone) who falls for a
cavalry officer (Fredric
March). In 'Camille'
(1936) Marguerite (Greta
Garbo) is an ailing
prostitute who finds love
with younger man Armand
(Robert Taylor). At first
he is unaware of the
nature of her profession,
but it soon proves to be
a barrier to their
happiness. Finally, in
'Ninotchka' (1939),
Garbo plays a Russian
emissary who is sent to
Paris on a special
mission. Once there, she
falls in love with the
acceptable face of
Capitalism, attached to
the body of Melvyn
Douglas.
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Double bill of the
comical Chevy Chase
character. 'Fletch'
(1985) features Chevy
Chase as a newspaper
reporter with a talent
for disguise. While
working undercover to
catch some drug
traffickers, the hapless
Fletch meets wealthy
businessman Stanwyk (Tim
Matheson). Claiming to be
suffering from terminal
cancer, Stanwyk asks
Fletch to engineer a
break-in to his mansion
and bump him off so that
his wife can claim the
life insurance. Smelling
a rat, Fletch goes
undercover to
investigate. In 'Fletch
Lives' (1989), the
disguise-happy reporter
flies to check out an
enormous Louisiana home
left to him in a will,
only to find it a ruin.
Before he can leave, a
woman drops dead and he
becomes embroiled in
another murder mystery
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Double-bill of horror. In
'The Exorcism of Emily
Rose' (2005), based on
'true events', the
Catholic Church, in an
extremely rare decision,
officially recognises the
demonic possession of a
19-year old college
freshman. The film
chronicles the haunting
trial of the priest
accused of negligence
resulting in the death of
the young girl believed
to be possessed. Laura
Linney plays the lawyer
Erin Bruner, who takes
on the task of defending
the priest, Father Moore
(Tom Wilkinson), who
originally performed the
controversial exorcism.
In 'The Relic' (1997),
biologist Margo Green
(Penelope Ann Miller)
teams up with police
Lieutenant D'Agosta (Tom
Sizemore) to investigate
a series of grisly
murders at her place of
work - the Natural
History Museum. Can there
be a link with the
recently-arrived crates
belonging to a missing
anthropologist from
Brazil? All that is found
in the crates are some
leaves covered with a
strange fungus which,
when analysed, proves
capable of mutating
whoever eats it. When a
guard is killed and a
headless body interrupts
the museum's exhibition
gala, Margo and D'Agosta
discover that there is an
ancient killer monster on
the loose.
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In 1976 the missing heir
to the enormous
Tichbourne fortune, Sir
Roger, is reported as
being in Australia, and
his brother Alfred sets
out to investigate,
accompanied by black
manservant Andrew Bogle
(John Kani). When Alfred
dies of drink on arrival,
the family deny Andrew
the funds necessary to
return, and so he
advertizes for the
missing heir. Butcher
Thomas Castro (Robert
Pugh), responds, and on
the way back to England
Andrew instructs him on
the etiquette and
deportment skills he will
require in order to
convince. However,
although Lady Tichbourne
accepts the claimant as
her own, influential
lords Arundell (Charles
Gray) and Seymour (James
Villiers) see that he is
an imposter, and embark
on a lengthy campaign to
have him stripped of his
new-found wealth and
status and imprisoned for
fraud.
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Korean action comedy, as
a young gangster tries to
move up the gangland
heirarchy. Despite his
cheating girlfriend
Hyun-Ji (Lee Mi-Yeon) and
the best efforts of the
local judiciary,
small-time hoodlum Tae-Ju
(Han Suk-Kyu) is
determined to become a
crime boss. But if he's
to realise his dream and
finally lose his lowly
'No.3' position in the
setup, Hyun-Ji has to
outsmart his rival
gangster, the
intellectually-challenged
Ashtray (Park
Sang-Myeon).
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Todd Haynes' tale of
1950s prejudices in
America. Housewife Cathy
Whitaker (Julianne Moore)
thinks she has the
perfect set-up; two
children, a successful
husband (Dennis Quaid)
and a house in the
suburbs. But this vision
is shattered one night
when she surprises her
husband at work and finds
him in the arms of
another man. Not able to
tell anyone in her social
circle, she finds solace
with their
African-American
gardener, Raymond
(Dennis Haysbert).
However, when they are
seen alone together by
Cathy's best friend
(Celia Weston) - a social
taboo in that era - the
gossip begins and this
threatens to reveal the
Whitaker's secret life.
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Teen double bill. Hilary
Duff and Heather Locklear
star in 'The Perfect Man'
(2005). Holly Hamilton
(Duff) is sick of moving
house every time her
single mother Jean
(Locklear) breaks up with
another worthless
boyfriend, so she comes
up with a plan to create
an imaginary secret
admirer who will boost
Jean's self-esteem and
hopefully keep her in one
place. But when the
romance takes off, Holly
has to produce the goods,
and so she borrows her
best friend's handsome
uncle Ben (Chris Noth) to
pose as the secret
admirer. But will Holly
be able to keep the
pretence up for long?
'Honey' (2003), the
debut feature from music
video director Bille
Woodruff, stars Jessica
Alba as Honey Daniels,
an ordinary girl who
works in her local record
store and teaches dance
classes at the community
centre. At the weekends
she goes dancing at the
nightclubs downtown,
where she meets Michael
Ellis (David Moscow), a
music video producer who
gives her the chance to
work for him as a
choreographer - her dream
job. But it soon
materialises that he has
his own agenda, which
Honey is unwilling to
comply with. Guest stars
include Missy Elliott,
Jay-Z and Tweet as
themselves.
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British suspense
thriller. Van Johnson
stars as Major Baxter
Grant, an American army
doctor in post-war
Germany who is falsely
accused of illegal drug
dealing. Determined to
find a way to prove his
innocence, he escapes to
Berlin where his wife
Anna (Katherine Kath) is
still living. Unbeknownst
to him, however, Anna
has sublet their flat to
cabaret singer Lilli
Hoffman (Hildegarde
Knef). As Grant becomes
the quarry of both the
German police and
American army
investigator Carson (Cec
Linder), he finds
himself thrown upon
Lilli's mercy.
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Judy Davis, Derek Jacobi
and James Purefoy star in
this two-part mini-series
set against the backdrop
of the international
diamond industry. When
Senator Joan Cameron
(Davis) sets out to find
out the circumstances
behind her daughter's
murder in Africa, she
uncovers a trail of greed
and corruption that leads
from the dangerous mines
in the Eastern Congo and
war-ravaged villages of
Sierra Leone to the
fashionable enclaves of
London and Cape Town.
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All 27 episodes from the
first season of the racy
US teen drama. In the
pilot episode, troubled
teen Ryan Atwood
(Benjamin McKenzie) is
taken in by the wealthy
Cohen family after being
arrested for car theft in
his hometown of Chino,
California. In 'The Model
Home', Ryan decides to
run away from his cushy
new home, but is
persuaded to stay by his
new friends Seth (Adam
Brody) and Marissa
(Mischa Barton). 'The
Gamble' sees Ryan's
mother Dawn (Daphne
Ashbrook) making a
surprise visit to her
son's new home. Newport's
finest young ladies are
preparing to enter
society in 'The Debut'.
'The Outsider' sees Ryan
taking a job at the Crab
Shack diner. Marissa must
choose between Ryan and
Luke (Chris Carmack) in
'The Girlfriend'. In 'The
Escape', Seth, Ryan,
Marissa and Summer
(Rachel Bilson) take an
end-of-summer trip to
Tijuana, Mexico. 'The
Rescue' sees Ryan
enrolling at his new
school. School begins in
'The Heights', and
Marissa finally chooses
her man. 'The Perfect
Couple' sees Ryan and
Marissa planning their
first date. In 'The
Homecoming', it's
Thanksgiving - and Ryan
gets a call from his
family back home. 'The
Secret' sees Ryan and
Luke making friends. In
'The Best Chrismukkah
Ever', Seth is still
stringing two girls
along. It's New Year in
'The Countdown', and
Seth finally makes his
choice. In 'The Third
Wheel', there's an
unwelcome guest in the
Cohen household. 'The
Links' sees Summer
getting used to being
just friends with Seth
and Anna (Samaire
Armstrong). Summer has
found herself a new
boyfriend in 'The
Rivals'. Relationships
are looking fragile for a
few couples in 'The
Truth'. In 'The
Heartbreak', it's
Valentine's Day and
Marissa confesses her
true feelings to Ryan. In
'The Telenovela', Ryan
and Marissa are having
trouble staying just
friends. 'The Goodbye
Girl' sees Anna leaving
Newport to return to
Pittsburgh, much to
Seth's dismay. In 'The
L.A.', Summer and
Marissa get invited to a
Hollywood party. 'The
Nana' sees Nana Chen
(Linda Lavin) arriving in
Newport for Passover with
some tragic news. 'The
Proposal' sees Luke
becoming the victim of a
tragic accident. In 'The
Shower', everyone is in
shock after Caleb (Alan
Dale) and Julie (Melinda
Clarke) announce their
engagement. In 'The
Strip', Seth and Ryan
get into a sticky
situation in Las Vegas
while attending Caleb's
Bachelor party. Finally,
in 'The Ties That Bind',
Juile and Caleb get
married, while Ryan
faces a difficult
decision.
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Political thriller based
on the acclaimed 2003 BBC
mini-series. With the
action transposed from
Westminster to
Washington, the film
follows the
investigations of
journalist Cal McAffrey
(Russell Crowe) as he
probes into the
suspicious death of the
mistress and former
research assistant of
ambitious up-and-coming
Congressman and potential
presidential candidate
Stephen Collins (Ben
Affleck). As he works
alongside the police on
the case, McAffrey
becomes romantically
involved with the
Congressman's estranged
wife, Anne (Robin Wright
Penn).
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FBI agent Warren Stantin
(Sidney Poitier) is
forced to travel through
the forests of Canada in
pursuit of a cunning
homicidal maniac. En
route, Stantin
reluctantly teams up with
tracker Jonathan Knox
(Tom Berenger), whose
girlfriend (Kirstie
Alley) has been taken
hostage by the killer.
The unlikely pair
gradually forge a bond of
mutual respect as they
battle both to survive in
the wilderness and catch
up with their prey before
it is too late.
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A collection of five
documentaries about the
natural world by
film-maker Werner Herzog.
In 'Encounters at the End
of the World' (2007)
Herzog travels to
Antarctica accompanied
only by his
cinematographer to
explore the unique
landscape and history of
the world's most
southerly continent, and
to meet some of the
people who live and work
there including
scientists of various
disciplines. 'Grizzly
Man' (2005) explores the
life and death of amateur
grizzly bear expert and
wildlife preservationist
Timothy Treadwell, who
lived unarmed among the
bears for 13 summers and
filmed his adventures in
the wild during his final
five seasons. In October
2003, Treadwell's
remains, along with
those of his girlfriend,
Amie Huguenard, were
discovered near their
campsite in Alaska's
Katmai National Park and
Reserve. They had been
mauled and devoured by a
grizzly, the first known
victims of a bear attack
in the park. 'The White
Diamond' (2004) portrays
the struggle of an
aeronautical engineer who
designed and built an
airship to fly it over
the forest canopies of
Guyana. In 'La Soufriere'
(1977), Herzog visits
the island of Guadeloupe,
on which a volcano is
about to erupt, and
talks to people there who
refuse to be evacuated.
'The Flying Doctors of
East Africa' (1969) looks
at the flying doctors
service of the African
Medical and Research
Foundation in Tanzania
and Kenya.
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An examination of the
ravages of the AIDS
epidemic and its toll on
the New York gay
community. This powerful
drama takes a look at one
day from each year of the
1980s and charts the
effects of the disease on
a group of old friends.
Stephen Caffrey and
Patrick Cassidy star.
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Matt Roberts is a
personal trainer to many
professional celebrities.
Here he introduces the
fat loss plan recently
employed by pop star
Melanie C. It features
four distinct stages -
cardiovascular exercises,
resistance training,
stretches and nutrition -
and works even if you're
not famous!
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Box set containing all
three films from the
hugely popular 'X-Men'
film franchise based on
the long-running Marvel
comic strip. In 'X-Men'
(2000), mutants Charles
Xavier (Patrick Stewart)
and Magneto (Ian
McKellen) are former
friends, but look set to
become mortal enemies
when fascistic US senator
Robert Frank Kelly (Bruce
Davison) calls for the
registration of all
humans with abnormal
powers. While telepath
Xavier, who runs an
altruistic academy for
superhuman 'X-Men',
wishes to enlighten
non-mutants and break
down the prejudices which
divide them, Magneto
believes that the only
solution is for the
mutants to take over.
Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)
- an aggressive loner
with an admantium
skeleton and the ability
to heal his body of any
wound - and teenager
Rogue (Anna Paquin), who
can absorb the life force
of others simply by
touching them, are
selected by Xavier to
join his academy, but it
isn't long before
Magneto's followers are
attempting to capture
them so that they can
assist in his plan for
world domination. In
'X-Men 2' (2003),
Professor Charles Xavier,
Wolverine, and the
Academy for Gifted
Youngsters, aka the
X-Men, find themselves
in the firing line after
a failed assasination
attempt on the President
points the finger at the
school. It was in fact
the mysterious teleporter
Nightwalker (Alan
Cumming) who ordered it,
and, in an attempt to
clear their names, the
X-Men are led into a trap
set by the evil William
Stryker (Brian Cox) - a
mysterious scientist
apparently working for
the government. As it
soon becomes evident that
Stryker's agenda is to
destroy all mutants, the
X-Men need to call in the
help of many of their old
friends and foe,
including Magneto
(McKellen), if they are
to stop him. In 'X-Men 3:
The Last Stand' (2006),
when a private laboratory
supported by the
government finds the cure
for the mutants, using
the DNA of a powerful
boy, the mutants have
the option of giving up
their powers and becoming
human. However, Magneto
(McKellen) opposes and
decides to join a force
to fight against the
government and kill the
mutant boy. Meanwhile,
Jean Grey (Famke Janssen)
resurrects uncontrolled
by Xavier and with the
personality of the
powerful Dark Phoenix.
She destroys Cyclops
(James Marsden) and
Xavier, and allies to
the evil forces of
Magneto, making them
almost invincible.
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Widower, father of two
and Undertaker, William
Shawcross (Martin Clunes)
is looking for love, but
finds it hard to find
when he tells prospective
dates what his job is.
When he registers with a
dating agency, he meets
Mary (Julie Graham), an
attractive, divorced
mother of two who works
as a midwife. The two
soon get together, but
not without a few
glitches along the way.
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A profile of the Hawker
Typhoon featuring
extensive archive footage
that has been newly
released by the Imperial
War Museum after
remaining unseen for 60
years. It includes very
early Typhoon 1b footage,
early bomb and ditching
tests, air-to-air film
of Typhoons, 'shoot
down' footage from German
camera crews and
extensive Typhoon gun
camera film.
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Made-for-TV adaptation of
the best-selling novel by
Kim Edwards. When Dr
David Henry (Dermot
Mulroney) and his wife
Nora (Gretchen Mol) give
birth to twins, Phoebe
and Paul, David is
dismayed to discover that
Phoebe has Down's
syndrome. Unbeknownst to
his wife, he makes the
decision to send Phoebe
to an institution,
telling Nora that her
daughter was stillborn.
However, when the
attending nurse (Emily
Watson) decides to
intervene and raise the
baby herself, she sets
into motion a sequence of
events that will haunt
the doctor and his wife
for years to come.
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Multiple Emmy, Golden
Globe and SAG Award
nominee Matt LeBlanc
reprises his 'Friends'
role as charming and
still-single Joey, who
has struck out on his own
and moved to Hollywood,
hoping to truly make it
as an actor. Joey says
goodbye to a time when
his friends were his
family and welcomes the
chance to turn his family
into his friends. After
reuniting with his
high-strung sister Gina
(Drea de Matteo), a
strong and sexy
hairdresser, Joey moves
in with her genius
20-year-old son,
graduate student Michael
(Paulo Costanzo), who
literally is a rocket
scientist. What Joey
lacks in book smarts,
however, he more than
makes up for with his
people skills, making
him the best new friend
his nephew could ask for.
Episodes comprise:
'Pilot', 'Joey and the
Student', 'Joey and the
Party', 'Joey and the
Book Club', 'Joey and
the Perfect Storm',
'Joey and the Nemesis',
'Joey and the Husband',
'Joey and the Dream Girl
(Part 1)', 'Joey and the
Dream Girl (Part 2)',
'Joey and the Big
Audition', 'Joey and the
Road Trip', 'Joey and
the Plot Twist', 'Joey
and the Taste Test',
'Joey and the Premiere',
'Joey and the Assistant',
'Joey and the Tonight
Show', 'Joey and the
Valentine's Date', 'Joey
and the Wrong Name',
'Joey and the Fancy
Sister', 'Joey and the
Neighbor', 'Joey and the
Spying', 'Joey and the
Temptation', 'Joey and
the Breakup' and 'Joey
and the Cliffhanger'.
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Jack Russell is still
regarded by many as the
best keeper in English
cricket. This programme
traces his life as
cricketer and painter,
providing an insight into
one of cricket's madcap
characters. It also
features interviews with
Jack, his
Gloucestershire teammates
and ex-England colleagues
such as David Gower and
Mike Atherton.
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Ex-cavalryman Paul Cable
(Tom Selleck) and his
family return to Arizona
after the American Civil
War, where they discover
that Union sympathisers
(David and Keith
Carradine) have taken
over Cable's homestead.
Now Cable has to fight
one more war of his own
in order to get his home
back. An adaptation of
the Elmore Leonard novel.
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Concert recorded at the
House of Blues, Las
Vegas, in November 2004.
Macy Gray's rasping
vocals give her a unique
sound. In this concert,
she displays the talents
which have made her a
star in the world of
rhythm and blues. The
track list includes 'I
Try', 'Sweet Baby' and
'Things That Made Me
Change'.
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Box set containing the
complete series of the
sci-fi drama from writer
Joss Whedon. Set 500
years in the future,
after a galactic civil
war has united alll the
space colonies under the
repressive Alliance,
former rebel soldier
Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan
Fillion) captains the
Firefly class cargo ship
'Serenity', taking on
odd jobs and scoring
heists where he can to
keep his ship and his
crew in the air, all the
while trying to avoid the
attentions of the
authorities. Episodes
include: 'Serenity (Part
1)', 'Serenity (Part
2)', 'The Train Job',
'Bushwhacked',
'Shindig', 'Safe', 'Our
Mrs Reynolds',
'Jaynestown', 'Out of
Gas', 'Ariel', 'War
Stories', 'Trash', 'The
Message', 'Heart of
Gold' and 'Objects in
Space'.
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This documentary profiles
the Flying Scotsman, a
160-ton, AS Pacific
class steam locomotive
designed by Sir Nigel
Gresley. The Scotsman
started life in Doncaster
in 1923, and was sold by
British Rail in 1968 for
£3, 000. Included is
rare footage of the train
in its heyday, and
interviews with both past
and present owners and
the 'backroom boys' who
prepared the train for
its main line journeys.
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Dr Gayatri (Bipasha Basu)
and a team of fellow
scientists from America
set out to investigate
healing powers that
science cannot explain
and other paranormal
activities in India. Here
they meet the gifted
Varun (Sanjay Dutt) who
has inexplicable
paranormal powers.
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Mexican comedy drama
starring Diego Luna and
Gael Garcia Bernal as
Beto and Tato, rivalrous
half-brothers who work on
a dusty banana plantation
and play football for
their local team on their
days off. Both men dream
of leaving their poor
hometown behind them and
earning enough to build a
dream home for their
mother, Elvira (Dolores
Heredia). Beto, whose
notorious temper on the
field earns him the
nickname of 'Rudo',
dreams of becoming a
professional goalkeeper,
while Tato, nicknamed
'Cursi' owing to his
fancy moves and trickery
on the pitch, wants to
be a famous singer. When
the two are accidentally
discovered by
professional talent scout
Batuta (Guillermo
Francella), their lives
change forever - but can
they ever reconcile their
brotherly differences?
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Keith Nelson (Eric
Stoltz) is a young man
with woman trouble. He's
lucky enough to have got
a date with High School
princess Amanda Jones
(Lea Thompson), but does
she really like him? Or
is he just a way of
getting back at her
insensitive rich-kid
boyfriend Hardy Jenns
(Craig Sheffer)? The
young teen outsider is
confused, so confused in
fact that he fails to
notice how his tomboy
best-friend Watts (Mary
Stuart Masterson) really
feels about him. Vintage
High School drama from
the pen of 1980s teen
supremo John Hughes ('The
Breakfast Club', 'Pretty
in Pink').
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Collected series one of
the popular ghost hunting
programme in which a team
of otherworld specialists
attempt to track down
Britain's specters. Led
by impeccably coiffed
Scouse showman-medium
Derek Acorah, the team
sets up in the UK's most
haunted spots according
to legend and lore,
attempting to
conclusively prove the
existence of the
unexplained. They
invariably come away with
nothing approaching
conclusive but their
encounters often provide
good entertainment. This
series sees the team
visiting locations
including: Blackpool
Pleasure Beach,
Chillingham Castle in
Northumberland (Britain's
most haunted castle),
Culzean Castle in
Ayrshire, Derby Gaol,
Aldwych Tube station in
London and Athelhampton
Hall in Dorset.
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Ernest is now on the
maintenance team of the
local shopping centre.
When six of his
colleagues form a
basketball team, with
the chance of playing an
exhibition against the
NBA, Ernest wants to be
a part of the team, but
always feels left out.
But when the Basketball
Angel arrives to give him
the 'Magic Shoes', he
becomes one of the stars
of the showdown.
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Morality thriller. When
John Harris's (Michael
Craig) daughter is
injured in a boating
accident, only a blood
transfusion will save
her. Unfortunately, this
goes against his
religious beliefs, and
as a result the child
dies. Taken to court by
local Dr. Brown (Patrick
McGoohan), Harris
eventually wins the case,
but at what cost.
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Israeli comedy drama
starring Siyabonga
Melongisi Shibe as James,
a black South African
who decides to go on a
pilgrimage to the holy
city of Jerusalem.
However, when he arrives
in Israel, the
authorities suspect him
of trying to infiltrate
the country in order to
work illegally and put
him in prison.
Languishing in his cell
awaiting deportation,
James sees everything as
a test of his faith. His
prayers are seemingly
answered when his release
is secured by illegal
immigrant employer Shimi
(Salim Dau). For James,
this is a sign from God -
but in reality the test
of his faith has only
just begun.
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Vintage WWII musical with
the Andrews sisters and
Harry James with his
orchestra. Contains the
sisters' original
rendition of 'Don't Sit
Under The Apple Tree'.
The plot is thin but the
numbers come thick and
fast in a whirlwind of
WWII,
make-the-troops-swing
action. 'Even the Jeeps
are jivin', says one
character.
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Feature-length ITV drama
based on real events.
Bill and Wendy Ainscow
(Timothy Spall and Brenda
Blethyn) are a middle
class, middle-aged
Birmingham couple locked
in a deeply dysfunctional
relationship with their
32-year-old daughter Lisa
(Rebekah Staton). In a
culmination of years
spent unsuccessfully
trying to obtain a
diagnosis and get state
help to deal with with
Lisa's condition - which
eventually turns out to
be Asperger's syndrome -
Bill and Wendy are
ultimately driven to
desperate measures with
tragic consequences.
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Appropriate subject
matter for Elvis' first
film after he left the
army in 1960. Elvis plays
a guitar-picking gunner
who accepts a bet that he
can spend the night with
a cabaret dancer, hoping
to use the proceeds to
open a nightclub.
'Tonight Is So Right For
Love' and 'Blue Suede
Shoes' are among the
songs.
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TV drama re-telling of
the classic
treasure-hunting tale
starring Dirty Dancer
Patrick Swayze. Renowned
safari hunter Allan
Quatermain (Swayze) has
given up the life of an
adventurer, vowing to
leave the natural beauty
of Africa to its own
people and its
destruction to others.
His acceptance, however,
of a handsome offer from
beautiful Elizabeth
Maitland (Alison Doody)
holds the promise of an
expedition of another
sort - to find the
desperate woman's missing
father who disappeared in
Africa while searching
for the legendary King
Solomon's Mines.
Quatermain knows the
legend of King Solomon
well. He also knows that
no living soul who dared
to seek out the world's
greatest treasure has
ever returned alive. But
for Quatermain and his
band of hardy adventurers
no challenge is too great
or too dangerous.
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When an aristocratic
British couple (Cary
Grant and Deborah Kerr)
open their stately home
to the public, a Texan
oil millionaire (Robert
Mitchum) enters their
private quarters and
successfully seduces the
wife. The Earl then tries
to win back his wife by
enlisting the help of an
ex-girlfriend (Jean
Simmons), ultimately
challenging his rival to
a good old-fashioned
duel.
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Episodes from the first
half of the second season
of this animated
adventure series. The
battle is on as Optimus
Prime struggles against
the evil Decepticons to
gain supremacy of the
Earth. Episodes are:
'Autobot Spike',
'Changing Gears', 'City
of Steel', 'Attack of
the Autobots',
'Traitor', 'The
Immobilizer', 'The
Autobot Run', 'Atlantis
Arise', 'Day of the
Machines', 'Enter the
Nightbird', 'A Prime
Problem', 'The Core',
'The Insecticon
Syndrome', 'Dinobot
Island (Part 1)',
'Dinobot Island (Part
2)', 'The Master
Builders', 'Auto
Berserk', 'Microbots',
'Megatron's Master Plan
(Part 1)', 'Megatron's
Master Plan (Part 2)',
'Desertion of the
Dinobots (Part 1)',
'Desertion of the
Dinobots (Part 2)',
'Blaster Blues' and 'A
Decepticon Raider in King
Arthur's Court'.
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Classic wildlife
documentary following the
extraordinary story of
Christian the lion,
bought by famed
conservationists Bill
Travers and his wife
Virginia McKenna from the
Harrods department store
in London, and
successfully reintroduced
to the wild in Africa.
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In 1997 Mickey Finn and
Paul Fenton were asked to
perform at a show to
commemorate the 20th
anniversary of the death
of their band-member.
Mark Bolan. The reception
was so encouraging that
Mickey and Paul decided
to re-form T-Rex with 4
new members and here they
are performing classic
hits such as 'Telegram
Sam', 'Ride a White
Swan' and 'Children of
the Revolution'.
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Horror/thriller in which
a group of teenagers are
holed up in a deserted
hotel. While snowboarding
in the mountains of
Norway, five teenagers
have to find shelter
quickly when one of their
party breaks a leg. With
no phone reception, and
light fading fast, they
see a hotel off in the
distance and decide to
head for it. On arrival
the place is deserted,
with no phone lines to
the outside world, but
with no other options
available, the friends
settle down for the
night. Things take a turn
for the worse when they
discover a room in the
basement where someone
has been staying, that
someone being Norway's
most notorious serial
killer.
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A classic study in
obsession from Alfred
Hitchcock. After his fear
of heights indirectly
causes the death of a
colleague, San Francisco
cop Scottie (James
Stewart) retires. He is
subsequently hired by
magnate Gavin Elster to
follow his wife,
Madeleine (Kim Novak),
as Elster says he fears
for her life. Scottie
becomes bewitched by
Madeleine, falling in
love with her after
saving her from a suicide
attempt. Then, when
Scottie's vertigo
prevents him saving
Madeleine from a second
attempt to kill herself,
he becomes obsessed with
recreating the dead
woman's image.
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In the summer of 1936 the
five Mundy sisters
encounter problems which
threaten to tear them
apart forever. The
opening of a new knitting
factory destroys the
livelihoods of Agnes
(Brid Brennan) and Rose
(Sophie Thompson);
travelling salesman Gerry
(Rhys Ifans), the father
of Christina's (Catherine
McCormack) son,
announces that he is off
to fight the fascists in
Spain; and brother Jack
(Michael Gambon), a
missionary priest who has
been away in Africa,
returns home a broken,
senile man. As the
festival of Lughnasa
approaches, the tensions
between the sisters come
to a head. Also stars
Meryl Streep and Kathy
Burke.
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Derek Jarman's
interpretation of
Shakespeare's final play
is a tale of colonialism,
revenge, retribution
and reconciliation.
Prospero, the former
Duke of Milan, and his
daughter Miranda were
abandoned on a remote
island by the Duke's evil
brother Antonio. Twelve
years later, Prospero
has learnt the 'liberal
arts', and engineers a
tempest to shipwreck
Antonio's ship on the
mysterious island. He
plans for Antonio's
travelling companion,
Ferdinand the Prince of
Naples, to marry his
daughter and restore
peace between Milan and
Naples.
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Documentary exploring
Hungarian pianist and
composer Bela Bartok's
final years of exile in
the United States. After
fleeing war-torn Europe,
Bartok found himself
adrift in an unfamiliar
culture. Fighting
illness, poverty and
failure, he nevertheless
produced some of his
greatest work during
these last five years in
New York. The story is
told with contributions
from the composer's
friends and colleagues,
including Sir Georg Solti
and Yehudi Menuhin, and
his sons, Peter and Bela
Jr.
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Vintage horror starring
Boris Karloff as James
Rankin, a writer who
decides to reinvestigate
the 20-year-old case of
'The Haymarket Strangler'
- in which he believes a
man was wrongly hanged
for the gruesome murder
of five people in 1880s
London. But as he gets
close to the heart of the
case, it turns out that
he himself has a closer
connection with the
murders than his worst
fears could ever have
imagined.
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Take one apartment block
in Melbourne, eight
twenty-somethings, add
some love, friendship
and vodka and you've got
the dynamic Australian
series 'The Secret Life
of Us'. Includes all 22
episodes: 'A New World
Order', 'Free Will',
'The Dance', 'An Ill
Wind', 'The Grand
Delusion', 'It's Not
Easy', 'A Fine Line',
'Make Up Your Mind',
'Controlling the
Universe', 'Between a
Rock and a Hard Place',
'The Funny Side', 'Who
Do You Want to Be
Today?', 'From Little
Things Big Things Grow',
'Rose Coloured Glasses',
'Have a Little Faith',
'The Great Divide',
'Sweet Revenge', 'Signs
of Life', 'The
Searchers',
'Walpurgisnacht', 'Do
the Right Thing' and
'Truth Is Beautiful...
But So Are Lies'.
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Second volume of the
popular 1950s British
television series about a
group of hopeless
National Service
conscripts assigned to
the Surplus Ordnance
Department, starring
Bill Fraser, Alfie Bass,
Frank Williams, Ted
Lune and William
Hartnell, among others.
This volume includes the
remaining 24 surviving
episodes from the series,
as well as an episode of
the spin-off series
'Bootsie and Snudge'.
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Episodes 9-13 of the
anime series telling the
story of Shuji and Chise,
a couple of typical high
school students living in
a Hokkaido City, Japan
at a time of war. As with
most first romances, the
pair must deal with peer
group pressure, gossip,
intense emotions,
feelings of ambivalence -
and the fact that Chise
is a secret military
weapon capable of
levelling a medium-sized
city.
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Episodes 1-4 of the anime
series telling the story
of Shuji and Chise, a
couple of typical high
school students living in
a Hokkaido City, Japan
at a time of war. As with
most first romances, the
pair must deal with peer
group pressure, gossip,
intense emotions,
feelings of ambivalence -
and the fact that Chise
is a secret military
weapon capable of
levelling a medium-sized
city. Episodes are: 'We
Fall In Love', 'I'm
Growing', 'Together,
Alone' and 'Fuyumi'.
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Historical drama based on
the last chapter in the
life of Russian novelist
Leo Tolstoy. Christopher
Plummer stars as the
famous writer, who is
nearing the end of his
life after a long period
of ill health. He lives
with his family in a
compound at Yasnaya
Polyana, attended to by
his wife and the
disciples of his
'movement': a group of
people dedicated to his
ideas of pacifism,
vegetarianism, sexual
abstinence and communal
property who have
gathered in a nearby
forest camp. When the
head of the movement,
Vladimir Chertkov (Paul
Giamatti), urges Leo to
rewrite his will to
posthumously renounce his
material possessions,
thereby leaving his
family with nothing,
Tolstoy's wife Sofya
(Helen Mirren) does all
she can to influence her
husband and protect her
inheritance.
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British comedy starring
Alec Guinness as
Mediterranean ferryboat
Captain Henry St. James,
who believes in the
notion of 'a girl in
every port'. For Henry
has a wife on both sides
of the water. There is
Maude (Celia Johnson) in
Gibraltar and Nita
(Yvonne DeCarlo) in
Tangiers. Everything is
perfect as long as
neither woman decides to
visit the other port.
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In this, the sixth
volume of the series,
Yvette and the team
investigate spooky
goings-on at Halloween in
some of the scariest
locations in the UK. They
also visit Count
Dracula's birthplace in
Transylvania, and
uncover the cursed past
of the pirates of old
Bristol town, ooh arr,
ooh arr...
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Otto Preminger's late
'60s Hitchcock-esque
suspense thriller about a
missing child. A young
American mother who has
recently moved to England
goes to pick her daughter
Bunny up from her first
day at school only to
find she's missing. As
the police investigation
gets underway, it
becomes apparent that
this is far from an
ordinary missing kid
case: in fact it seems
that, given the
evidence, Bunny Lake
never existed. As the
case unfolds, the
police, led by
Superintendent Newhouse
(Laurence Olivier),
begin to suspect that Ann
Lake (Carol Lynley) may
be suffering from
delusions and that Bunny
might be no more than a
figment of her
imagination.Worse yet,
Ann's brother (Kier
Dullea) backs the police
theory. The film was
nominated for several
awards and also stars pop
group The Zombies as well
as the great Noel Coward.
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Geoff Thompson covers
every conceivable way to
take a man to the floor.
Ground fighting is taking
the martial arts world by
storm. But how do you get
to the ground safely and
end in a prone position?
What are the dangers of
throwing and taking an
opponent over? In this
series Geoff teaches you
how to control vertical
grappling and destroy an
assailant with a
demolishing throw.
Includes the original
'blow before blow'
techniques banned from
sport grappling at the
beginning of the century.
Geoff is qualified in all
different forms of
grappling and teaches
with a realistic bent.
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Learn to master the art
of fingerstyle guitar
with Tuck Andress. With
in-depth demonstrations
and explanations about
every aspect of
fingerstyle, including
walking bass patterns
with chords, voicings,
vibrato and leading with
melody. Booklet with
music examples included.
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Three elderly friends
(Don Ameche, Wilford
Brimley and Hume Cronyn),
in a Florida retirement
home, discover a
swimming pool that renews
their energy and gives
them a new lease of life.
The pool is full of
cocoons belonging to a
group of friendly aliens
in human disguise.
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Peter Bowman (David
Morse) is an American
engineer kidnapped by
guerillas while working
in Latin America. His
wife Alice (Meg Ryan) is
unable to raise the
requested $5m in ransom
money and turns to
hostage retrieval expert
Terry Thorne (Russell
Crowe) for help. Terry
tries to negotiate a
lower price with the
guerrillas, but also
finds himself falling for
Alice; then, when
information about Peter's
location filters through,
Terry decides it is time
to mount an armed rescue
mission.A. Confidential'.
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Perhaps best known for
being 'banned forever' in
its native Czech
Republic, Jan Nemec's
experimental film is a
surreal, creepy allegory
about the cause and
effects of power and
conformity. A group of
happy, carefree
picnickers are accosted
by a group of thugs led
by bullying sadist Rudolf
(Jan Klusák), who
quickly gains an
unbreakable hold over the
group and subjects them
to a cruel psychological
game in which he acts as
interrogator. The ordeal
is interrupted by the
arrival of a stranger,
Hostitel (Ivan Vyskocil),
who invites the whole
party to a nonsensical
yet elegant and formal
outdoor banquet. As the
bizarre games continue,
one member of the party
chooses to run away, and
the film ends with the
entire group arming
themselves as a shooting
party and setting off to
hunt him down.
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The former Scorpions and
UFO guitarist captured
live at the Metalmania
Festival in 2004. The
setlist spans his entire
illustrious career and
features such popular
tracks as 'Doctor
Doctor', 'Lights Out',
'Only You Can Rock Me',
'Rock Bottom' and many
more.
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Two film versions of
Roald Dahl's classic
children's novel
collected together in one
set. In 'Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate Factory'
(1971), directed by Mel
Stuart, young Charlie
Bucket (Peter Ostrum)
wins one of the coveted
'Golden Tickets' from a
Wonka Bar that allows its
holder to take a trip
around the eccentric
Willy Wonka's (Gene
Wilder) Chocolate
Factory. Charlie and the
rest of the winners find
themselves in a magical
world of chocolate
rivers, Oompa Loompas,
everlasting gobstoppers,
lickable wall-paper,
golden egg-laying geese
and chilling tales to
warn children not to
misbehave. Roald Dahl
wrote the screenplay from
his own book. In Tim
Burton's expansive
remake, 'Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory'
(2005), Freddie Highmore
plays Charlie, whilst
Johnny Depp takes on the
role of Wonka.
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Triple bill of films
covering motor races from
the 1950s. The first film
provides highlights from
the 1958 Production
Touring Car race (now
known as the British
Touring Car Championship)
at Silverstone and
contains early
slow-motion clips. The
second film covers the
1955 International
Tourist Trophy at the
Dundrod track in Northern
Ireland with black and
white footage of drivers
such as Stirling Moss and
Mike Hawthorn. The final
film contains black and
white footage of three
races at the 1950
International Race
Meeting at Goodwood,
including the
non-championship Grand
Prix.
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The third instalment of
the football drama
trilogy. Kuno Backer
reprises his role as
Mexican footballer
Santiago Munez, who
finds himself pitted
against his best friends,
Real Madrid team-mates
and England players
Charlie Braithwaite (Leo
Gregory) and Liam Adams
(JJ Feild) in the hope of
winning the sport's
ultimate prize at the
2006 FIFA World Cup
Finals in Germany.
Meanwhile, Liam must
finally face up to his
responsibilities as an
adult, both on and off
the field of play. Nick
Moran and Tamer Hassan
co-star.
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Japanese comedy drama
starring Masahiro Motoki
as Daigo Kobayashi, a
professional cellist who
loses his job when his
orchestra disbands. He
and his wife Mika (Ryoko
Hirosue) move back into
his childhood home and he
begins to look for work.
When he answers a
classified advert
entitled 'Departures',
he assumes it is for a
travel agency; it is in
fact an undertakers. To
the bemusement of his
wife and friends, Daigo
throws himself into his
unusual new work with
pride and vigour, and
learns a lot about life,
death and love in the
process.
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It's one of man's
greatest endeavours: to
control the weather. But
what if fantasy became
reality? What would it
mean for the human race?
Who would have control of
this immense power? In
this BBC science-based
thriller - from the team
behind 'Supervolcano' - a
group of scientists are
asked to do just that.
What happens if they
succeed? Where can
hurricanes be diverted
to? Who decides who lives
and who dies? Events take
a sinister twist when an
unidentified US agency
hacks into the team's
computer and creates a
disaster of unprecedented
scale: a superstorm
heading for New York...
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Another classic Hammer
film, shot in Israel and
based on H. Rider
Haggard's fantasy novel.
While on an expedition,
Major Horace Holly (Peter
Cushing) and his team
discover the secret
kingdom of Ayesha (Ursula
Andress) - she who must
be obeyed. Condemned to
eternal life, Ayesha
wishes Holly's colleague
to join her in her
eternal existence;
believing him to be the
reincarnation of her
former lover, an
Egyptian high priest whom
she murdered two thousand
years ago.
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Psychological thriller
with Mena Suvari involved
in a gruesome hit-and-run
accident that threatens
to derail her future.
After a hard night
partying and too much
drink, retirement-home
carer Brandi (Suvari)
decides to drive back
home. Crossing town, she
hits newly homeless
down-and-out Tom (Stephen
Rea), causing him to
smash head first through
her windscreen, leaving
him impaled on the broken
glass. In a state of
panic, Brandi drives
home, promising to take
Tom, now conscious, to
hospital. But when she
realises that the
accident could destroy
her chances of promotion
and consequently her
future, she decides to
leave Tom in the garage
to die, when she can
then dispose of the body
with the help of her
drug-dealer boyfriend.
Bleeding to death, Tom
realises what's happening
and that he needs to
escape - and fast.
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Psychological thriller
with Mena Suvari involved
in a gruesome hit-and-run
accident that threatens
to derail her future.
After a hard night
partying and too much
drink, retirement-home
carer Brandi (Suvari)
decides to drive back
home. Crossing town, she
hits newly homeless
down-and-out Tom (Stephen
Rea), causing him to
smash head first through
her windscreen, leaving
him impaled on the broken
glass. In a state of
panic, Brandi drives
home, promising to take
Tom, now conscious, to
hospital. But when she
realises that the
accident could destroy
her chances of promotion
and consequently her
future, she decides to
leave Tom in the garage
to die, when she can
then dispose of the body
with the help of her
drug-dealer boyfriend.
Bleeding to death, Tom
realises what's happening
and that he needs to
escape - and fast.
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British drama starring
Richard Greene and Eva
Bartok. Air stewardess
and East German refugee
Karin (Bartok) finds
herself back in her
hometown of Dresden when
the London-Berlin flight
she is working on is
forced down. She is then
used by the Stasi to find
her wanted brother,
Pieter (George Mikell).
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A classic study in
obsession from Alfred
Hitchcock. After his fear
of heights indirectly
causes the death of a
colleague, San Francisco
cop Scottie (James
Stewart) retires. He is
subsequently hired by
magnate Gavin Elster to
follow his wife,
Madeleine (Kim Novak),
as Elster says he fears
for her life. Scottie
becomes bewitched by
Madeleine, falling in
love with her after
saving her from a suicide
attempt. Then, when
Scottie's vertigo
prevents him saving
Madeleine from a second
attempt to kill herself,
he becomes obsessed with
recreating the dead
woman's image.
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50 episodes of the
popular 1950s British
television sitcom about a
group of hopeless
National Service
conscripts assigned to
the Surplus Ordnance
Department. Follow the
fortunes of Alfie Bass,
Charles Hawtrey, Frank
Williams, Dick Emery and
Bernard Bresslaw, as
they try to serve out
their time in the
National Service by doing
as little as they
possibly can, much to
the annoyance of
Regimental Sergeant Major
Bullimore (William
Hartnell).
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All three episodes of the
BBC crime drama
mini-series set in
London's Ugandan
community. Shaun Parkes
stars as Scotland Yard
detective Moses Jones,
who - along with his
young assistant Dan
Twentyman (Matt Smith) -
is assigned to
investigate after a
mutilated body is found
in the Thames that
appears to be the product
of a witchcraft killing.
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