Apollo 13 is a breathtaking adventure that tells the true and remarkable story of courage, faith and ingenuity in a race to bring a group of heroic astronauts home when their spacecraft is damaged thousands of miles from Earth. Tagline:"Houston, we have a problem"...
Interviews with Johnny Goodman and Sue Lloyd. Extensive image gallery. PR image gallery with surviving music soundtrack. Trailers and links for feature film version. On set news footage at Elstree studios. Commercial Break Bumpers. Foreign titles. Script PDFs. Press Booklet PDF. Commemorative Booklet.
Chipmunk singing sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore are back for an encore in this hilarious "squeakquel" packed with more music, more action, and more nutty fun for the whole family! When a concert mishap lands Dave (Jason Lee) in the hospital, the Chipmunks take a break from superstardom and enrol in school to fit in with kids their age. But they soon face some stiff competition when they meet the Chipettes — a beautiful, talented trio of chipmunks discovered by Ian (David Cross), the boys' evil...
Join Bob and his winning team for some of your favourite episodes! This Special Sports-theme edition sees the team playing football, tennis and golf, as well as working together to get the job done! Episodes Comprise: - Eskimo Bob - One Shot Wendy - Bob On the Run - Wendy's Big Match - Wendy's Tennis Court - Lofty the Football Star - Pilchard Has a Ball - Dizzy Scores a Goal
In this all new feature length special, Bob the Builder and his team of machines travel to the Winter Games in snowy Bobblesberg. Their job is to build a log cabin for the Bobsville Mayoress but a huge snow storm hits and leaves the event building machines stranded en route. Team Leader Scoop is joined by brand new characters Benny and Zoomer for their biggest ever challenge. This star studded adventure features Winter Games TV commentators Sue barker, John Motson and also Jana as the games organiser...
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In Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Oscar®-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears when she’s needed the most and wanted the least in the next chapter of the hilarious and heartwarming fable that has enchanted children around the world. In the latest installment, Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once...
Meet a dewy-eyed ingenue, a gee-whiz tenor, stuck-up stars, hard-up producers, brassy blondes and "shady ladies from the 80s". They're all denizens of 42nd Street, belting out ageless Harry Warren/Al Dubin songs and tapping out Busby Berkeley's sensational Depression - lifting production numbers. The put-on-a-show plot spins merrily, full of snappy banter and new faces Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers. The show-stopping numbers (Shuffle off to Buffalo, You're Getting to Be a Habit with...
Catch the season where things really start to sizzle. As the Walsh twins (Jason Priestly and Shannen Doherty) learn their way around a town where kids grow up fast, their friends Dylan (Luke Perry), Andrea (Gabrielle Carteris) and David (Brian Austin Green) experience the highs and lows of love, lust, and loss.
The first eight episodes from the third season of the Disney Channel tween drama series. Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus) has a fabulous secret: by day, she is just the girl next door, but after dark, she is Hannah Montana, the world-famous pop star. Episodes are: 'He Ain't a Hottie, He's My Brother', 'Ready, Set, Don't Drive', 'Don't Go Breakin' My Tooth', 'You Never Give Me My Money', 'Killing Me Softly With His Height', 'Would I Lie to You, Lilly?', 'You Gotta Lose This Job' and 'Welcome to the Bungle...
Commentary from director Jan De Bont. Deleted and alternative scenes with optional commentary from the director. Gerard Butler's screen test. 'Training' featurette (9 mins). 'Vehicles And Weapons' featurette (4 mins). 'Stunts' featurette (10 mins). 'Visual Effects' featurette (11 mins). 'Scoring' featurette (5 mins). 'Did My Time' music video from Korn. 'Hearts Go...' music video from the Davey Brothers. Original Theatrical Web Site Archive. Widescreen Version Enhanced for 16:9 TVs. English...
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This season of Murder, She Wrote, the eleventh, was the penultimate season of the long running detective drama series, which starred Angela Lansbury as mystery author Jessica Fletcher, who lives in Manhattan and visits Cabot Cove at weekends. There were 21 episodes in the eleventh season, one of which "Amsterdam Kill" was filmed with the tenth season but didn't air until the eleventh season. The Region 1 set of the eleventh season included two Season 12 episodes as bonus features. Hopefully they...
Multiple Oscar-winner Sir Michael Caine stars in the first leading role of his career as Harry Palmer, a stubbornly insolent sergeant working for the Ministry of Defence who is transferred to an elite counter-intelligence unit. Palmer is less than thrilled when he finds out he is replacing a murdered agent but he has no choice other than to take the job when his boss effectively blackmails him with knowledge of his previous indiscretions in Berlin. Twist follows twist as Palmer and the rest of the...
Comedy superstar Steve Martin (Bringing Down The House) and film favourite Bonnie Hunt (Jerry Maguire) team up in this hilarious tale of two hard-working parents trying to manage careers and a household - amid the chaos of raising twelve rambunctious kids! With a crowd-pleasing supporting cast, including rising young stars Hilary Duff and Piper Perabo, this heart-warming hit comedy delivers super-sized fun and laughs by the dozen!
A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present in George Lucas' THX 1138, starring Robert Duvall as a man whose mind and body are controlled by the government. THX makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime.
Dave Allen was an alternative comedian before the phrase existed, an innovator who set the agenda for comedy and comedians for more than 30 years. Here is his personal choice of sketches, gags and monologues that wickedly target the foibles of our age. With suit, a stool and a glass of something he was in his element, reflecting laconically on such diverse subjects as sex, the Irish and God, traffic, smoking, the Bible, life, and death. It's a vintage display from unique raconteur, a man who observed...
Singers this gifted emerge only rarely. But while North America and Britain have surrendered to the magical sound of Celine Dion, only a lucky few have witnessed her live in person. So take a front row seat at Quebec's Le Theatre Capitole as the young French-Canadian unleashes that glorious voice both on hot dance tracks and heart-stopping ballads from her three English-language albums, in particular the multi-platinum The Colour Of My Love. Throughout a concert-length program featuring guests Peabo...
937 Jewish Germans believe they are offered a safe haven in Havana, Cuba. They depart Hamburg in high spirits looking forward to their new life away from the sinister clutches of the Third Reich. Some are concentration camp victims, others survivors of the 'The Night of Broken Glass'. Some want to join relatives in Cuba, others are wealthy enough to afford the journey but leave behide in order to escape the Nazi genocide. The passengers are unaware that the voyage is a sham, simply one of Josef Goebbels...
Henry Willows is a middle-aged divorcee happily living alone. His life is disrupted when his teenage son Matthew decides, after seven years apart, that it's time he got re-acquainted and moves in. Sadly, Henry has never seen himself as the typical loving parent ... John Thaw and Reece Dinsdale star in Eric Chappell's comedy about the difference in age, taste and backgrounds that arise between father and son and the confrontations they can cause. EPISODES: A New Life Bad Apples All You Need...
To lonely high school outsider Dinky Bossetti (Winona Ryder, Heathers), Clyde, Ohio seemed like the dullest place on Earth... until Roxy Carmichael announced she was coming back to town. Fifteen years ago, Roxy ditched this little town and went on to become rich and famous. She left behind a trail of broken hearts - most notably that of Denton Webb (Jeff Daniels, Dumb and Dumber), a local contractor who's never quite gotten over his first wild love. He alone knows that Roxy gave birth to a baby that...
Digging into Tomb Raider: In-depth cast and crew interviews featuring Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, director Simon West and more. Crafting Lara Croft: Angelina Jolie's physical training for the role. The Stunts Of Tomb Raider. Visual Effects Of Tomb Raider: 8 Amazing sequences. Are You Game: A look at the Tomb Raider game phenomenon. Commentary By Director Simon West. 4 Deleted Scenes. Alternate Main Title Sequence. U2 Music Video "Elevation" Tomb Raider Mix. Tomb Raider Timeline. Tomb Raider...
The "Italian Stallion" rediscovers his roots in this exciting, thrill-packed drama that reunites Sylvester Stallone with the Oscar-winning director of the original Rocky. Upon returning home from his latest triumph, Rocky Balboa (Stallone) learns that all his money has been lost by an unscrupulous financial advisor. To make matters worse, his fight-related injuries force his retirement from the ring. So Rocky, his wife Adrian (Talia Shire) and his son Rocky Jr. (Sage Stallone) move to their old...
Eli and his sister Nellie are an odd pair - he is an ageing bachelor with a reputation for being one for the ladies; she, on the other hand, has no reputation at all when it comes to romance. When their father dies, leaving them a run-down pickle factory and a load of problems, not only do Eli and Nellie have to come to terms with their new-found staff, harder still they must come to terms with each other. The comic team of Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker take on the roles of Eli and Nellie. Episodes...
There's a fresh helping of high jinx and mishaps for Robin and Vicky as they continue the struggle to run their bistro business, occasionally helped (but mostly hindered) by Vicky's overbearing father and their disaster-prone, one-armed dishwasher Albert Riddle. This complete third series contains all 13 episodes, originally transmitted in 1978.
With Rowan Atkinson's hysterically funny visual comedy and verbal gymnastics, Pamela Stephenson's razor-sharp impressions and Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones' naturalistic humour, the Not The 9 'Clock News team became the most talked-about comedy quartet in Britain in the early 1980s. This selection of zany gags, spoof pop songs and red-hot topical satire includes such classic sketches as McEnroe's Breakfast, Rowan Walks into a Lamppost, Not the Parrot Sketch, Hollywood Salutes Solidarity, I Like...
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Legendary Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter stars in all six of his spectacular shows from the 70s and 80s. These highly-popular, big-budget extravaganzas featured some of his most fondly-remembered impersonated characters, such as Glandy Jackson, Benny Pill, Chic Gable, John Bitumen and Bruce Forsdyke. Not only did his shows win multiple BAFTAs, but Baxter himself has been the recipient of a lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards. Episodes Comprise - The Stanley Baxter Big Picture...
Pre-dating television favourites Casualty and Holby City by decades, Emergency - Ward 10 was Britain's first medical soap opera. Initially thought of as a filler programme, the twice-weekly serial rapidly became a favourite with the nation's viewing public. Between 1957 and 1967 it regularly pulled in audiences in excess of 15 million and spawned two spin-off programmes and a feature-film adaptation. Set in the fictitious Oxbridge General Hospital, Emergency - Ward 10 concentrated as much on the...
Set your course for the adventure of a lifetime as Disney unlocks the mystery to the legendary lost empire of Atlantis in this thrilling, imaginative animated epic! Driven to find the sunken mythical kingdom, a young adventurer named Milo discovers an ancient journal with clues to its hidden location. Along with a skilled yet quirky group of explorers led by the confident Commander Rourke, Milo boards the Ulysses, an amazing state-of-the-art submarine, for a risky expedition to teh bottom of the...
Working in part from firsthand histories and adding his extraordinary sense of image and human drama, Malick crafts a spellbinding tale of the Jamestown settlement, of cultures connecting and of deadly consequences when connections fray. Capt. John Smith (Colin Farrell), Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher), John Rolfe (Christian Bale): you know the names. But you could never experience the visceral power of the stories behind those names until now.
Underground Masquerade Sleet and Dingo plan to collect the taxes owed to Robotnik from the Duke of Velcronica but keep it for themselves. To avoid the wrath of Robotnik, Sleet and Dingo infiltrate the Underground to corral Maniac and friends to commit the crime and take the blame. The scheme is moving along well for the duo until they are caught on tape by Max, Manic's friend, who stops the deviant Sleet and Dingo enabling the Duke to keep his money. Tangled Webs The sinister Robotnik blackmails...
StarTrax Karaoke is firmly established as the UK's best loved range of karaoke albums, with more than half a million copies sold across the 40+ titles available. There are now 14 StarTrax Karaoke DVD titles available, all of which feature easy-to-read onscreen lyrics. There are full guide vocals to help you learn the songs and karaoke versions to sing back against. There is also a Chorus Skip facility, which will allow you to go straight to the main sing-a-long part of the song. The audio content...
Commentary with director Simon West. Digging into Tomb raider. Crafting Lara Croft. The visual effects of Tomb raider. The stunts of Tomb raider. Are you game. Deleted scenes. U2 Elevation (music video). Alternate main title. Teaser trailer. Theatrical trailer.
Her name is Kurau, and in a world of mercenary agents, she's the cream of the elite; a master martial artist and thief so skilled that no secret or objective is beyond her grasp. The greatest secret of all, however, is the one Kurau conceals inside herself: The freak result of a disastrous experiment with a new kind of energy, Kurau's body has been fused with a binary alien life form called the Rynax. Every second Kurau lives is lived twice, one alien sharing her consciousness, the other still waiting...
Cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his faithful dog Gromit have started a new bread baking business, 'Top Bun', with 62 West Wallaby Street now a bakery complete with ovens, robotic kneading arms and an old-fashioned windmill on the roof. Business is flourishing at Top Bun, but it's not due to Gromit's skills with dough; somebody has killed 12 other bakers in town. Not that Wallace is worried. He's dough-eyed in love with Piella Bakewell, former star of the Bake-O-Lite bread commercials. While they...
Down-and-out former professional Ping-Pong phenomenon Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) is sucked into a maelstrom when FBI Agent Rodriguez (George Lopez) recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and recapture his former glory, and to smoke out his father's (Robert Patrick) killer - one of the FBI's Most Wanted, arch-fiend Feng (Christopher Walken). But, after two decades out of the game, Randy can't turn his life around and avenge his father's murder without a team of his...
Adventurer Bear Grylls shows how to survive in Scotland's Cairngorm National Park. Half a million people visit to walk in the glens or climb in the mountains but few realise it's classed as an Artic landscape. Thirty tourists die every year. Bear shows how navigate using ice formations and moss growth, and tests snow slopes for avalanche potential. He uses moss to purify water, and skins a red deer for shelter. For food, he traps and cooks a rabbit. Bear crosses deep marshes which can swallow a man...
In a world where mankind has been wiped out by germ warfare, Los Angeles is the desolate playground of the sole survivor of the tragedy. Robert Neville (Heston) spends his sunny L.A. days gunning his convertible around town foraging for supplies, but at night he flees to the safety of his barricaded penthouse, high above the streets and the other "survivors". After sunset the streets belong to the "Family"; nocturnal, plague-ravaged victims of the germ war, out to destroy all things modern - and...
Tracklisting: - Rhinestone Cowboy - Galveston - By the Time i Get to Phoenix - Try a Little Kindness - Witchita Lineman - Gone Gone Gone - Walkin' in the Sunshine - On a Good Night - True Grit - The Hand That Rocks the Cradle - I Remember You - I'm a One Woman Man - Orange Blossom Special - Highway Man - The Streets of London - Thing Called Love - Southern Nights - William Tell Overture - Good Vibrations - California Girls - Fun Fun Fun - I Get Around - Surfin' Usa - Incidental Music - Amazing Grace...
Over the centuries, explorers traded tales of a lost civilisation amid the dense Amazonian rainforest. Scientists dismissed the legends as exaggerations, believing that the rainforest could not sustain such a huge population-until now. A new generation of explorers armed with 21st-century technology has uncovered remarkable evidence that could reinvent our understanding of the Amazon and the indigenous peoples who lived there. Using CGI and dramatic re-creations, National Geographic re-imagines the...
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Novice (and failing) stand-up Duncan Thicken welcomes back the chain-smoking, 'bag o'shite' Paul Calf and his 'dead sophisticated' sister for a live performance. Pauline's had her hair done, her belly pierced and a misspelt Chinese tattoo; while Paul has a new girlfriend Cheryl Denton (played by Karen Taylor) and has souped-up his mum's disability buggy. There are also some surprises: Paul treats us to a love song while Pauline performs an excerpt from her one-woman show, 'floss - The Story of Florence...
Ancient Arabic literature classifies love into seven different shades.... Hub... their eyes meet, it is like a touch... a spark... Attraction. Uns... the touch of the eyes was as if, it was Infatuation Ishq... the flame of her body is felt, his breath starts igniting... Love. Aqidat... Reverence... she touches him like whisper, as if silence is mixed in her eyes... he prays, knelt down on the floor, a little consciously & a little unconsciously... Ibadaat.... he is entangled on her path... entangled...
Two girls drive their boyfriends, Bud and Doyle, to what appears to be a futuristic shopping mall in the desert. The 'mall' is really a controlled environment run by scientists. Bud and Doyle manage to disrupt life in the 'Bio-Dome' and get locked in. Their futures look bleak without cigarettes, booze or fast food until their sights fall on two gorgeous eco-babes...
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Consists of Alabama, Texas, Alaska and The Inside Story.This programme makes up the first part of Season 4 Born Survivor which will be released in its entirety later on in the year.
Wild. Untamed. Legendary. If you loved the wild west adventures of Lonesome Dove, hitch your wagon to Buffalo Girls! Based on Larry McMurtry's best-selling novel, Buffalo Girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' rugged cowgirl, is searching not only for her long-lost daughter, but the Wild West she once knew. Jane's unforgettable adventure traverses plains, mountains and continents...
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The Gardeners of Eden This film follows the Eden horticultural year and its 60 strong gardening team. Filmed both inside the Biomes and outside, in the large and fast-maturing gardens, it follows Eden's extreme gardening - abseiling, aerial pruning and jungle plant management, its vast planting and display projects like Bulb Mania and the appliance of science in cutting-edge pest control and quarantine techniques. The Gardeners of Eden - Growing Pains An engaging and intimate portrait following...
There is a legend of a treasure that claims all who seek it... Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy . But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt. Soon the three are in for the ride of their lives as they cross the blistering North African terrain, pitting their skills against ruthless enemies bent on world destruction. In a race...
One of the most iconic figures in rock history, Dewey Cox had it all: the women, the friends and the rock 'n' roll life-style Bust most of all, he had the music that transformed a dimwitted country boy into the greatest American rock star who ever lived. An inspired send-up of every musical biopic ever made, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is proof that when it comes to hard rocking, living and laughing, a hard man is good to find.
Cast and Crew Biographies. The Myth Of The Eiger Northface. Timeline Of Attempts On The Eiger. Interview With Philip Stoelzl and Kolja Brandt. Making Of. Deleted Scenes. Visual Effects. Theatrical Trailer. UK Exclusive Trailer.
The Documentary: Paul, Steve Cradock (Guitar), Damon Minchella (Bass), Steve White (Drums) and Jan 'Stan' Kybert (Producer) chat about writing and recording the album. Also with fantastic studio performances including Roll Along Summer, Bring Back The Funk, Savages and The Pebble and The Boy. The Interview: The complete Paul Weller interview. The Gig Live From The 100 Club: From The Floorboards Up Broken Stones Wild Blue Yonder (Previously Unreleased) Paper Smile Blink And You'll Miss It...
Summer, 1936. Bearing the expectations of a nation and their Fuhrer, two climbers set out to be the first to conquer the "last great problem of the Alps". But soon their ascent becomes a race for survival, threatened by injury and storms of unimaginable fury. Before long, their quest becomes a pusle-pounding race against both time and the awesome forces of nature. Shot through with scenes of gut-wrenching peril rivaling those of Touching The Void, Northface is a powerful, breathtaking tale of human...
James Bond (Roger Moore) may have met his match in Octopussy (Maud Adams), an entrancing beauty involved in a devastating military plot to destroy detente. From the palaces of India to a speeding circus train in Germany and a mid-air battle on the wing of a high-flying jet, only Agent 007 can stop the nightmarish scheme!
Supermodel and screen star Elle Macpherson teams up with Karen Voight to produce an exercise programme that works as hard as you. The Body Workout takes the boredom out of bending, stretching, toning and lifting. - Just 45 minutes of muscle movement and aerobic exercise. - Athletically inspired to work for all body types. - Cardiovascular circuit routine that fights flab, firms up flesh and moulds muscle tone. - Builds strength and stamina with repetition. - Easy to use - all you need is a small...
It's been emotional. It's been gripping. But most of all it's been completely hilarious. 21 years after first appearing on our screens, audiences (which have reached 24 million) are still devoted to the antics of Del and Rodney and their muckers. But what is it about this Peckham posse that makes their marketplace wheelings and dealings so endearing to generations? Who would know better than the show's writer and the cast..? For the first time ever John Sullivan, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst...
The Professor's first movie and his toughest puzzle yet! The Professor receives a letter from his old student, the famous opera diva Janice Quatlane who will soon perform at the legendary Crown Petone Opera House. She sends Layton two tickets and invites him to attend as her special guest. Meanwhile, a rash of disappearances hits London. Two young school girls are the latest victims and the Professor suspects it's related to the strange things that are happening at the theatre. As Layton's assistant...
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Rob Reiner directs this enchanting romantic comedy about a boy who wants a girl and a girl who wants a man. The boy is Gib (John Cusack) who is out to find 'The Sure Thing'. A no questions asked, no strings attached, no guilt involved, 100% safe bet. The girl is Alison (Daphne Zuniga), who likes her men to be mature, prefers an early night to a party and wants to go and see her tea drinking fiance. This disparate couple are off to LA - together. Both in search of romance, but not with each other...
Episode One Roger Dervish is back, as usual patching up his team and now patching up his marriage... Episode Two A needle match! Ball tampering? Rule bending? Ungentlemanly behaviour? It's not cricket! Or is it... Dervish and Co are back at the crease. Episode Three It's Saturday and Roger is beside himself with worry - Mim is ill but who shall make the team teas? Episode Four After an untimely occurrence which upsets all the team, Roger starts to re-evaluate his life. Episode Five Some unlikely...
Jill Gascoine stars as tough, no-nonsense female cop Maggie Forbes. Made at a time when there were very few ranking female officers in the police force, The Gentle Touch not only showed police procedure within a Metropolitan Police CID unit but also allowed insight into how a woman might cope with such a role in what was very much a man's world. Instantly successful with the public, The Gentle Touch ran for five years before spinning off into another series - C.A.T.S. Eyes. Following the continuing...
The world's tallest building is skyscraping testimony to ingenuity and innovation. In the hands of "Master of Disaster", film producer Irwin Allen, it's also the world's tallest matchstick. An all-star cast gathers for this tall story of lofty dimensions: eight Academy Award nominations and three Oscars. On the night of the building's dedication, fire erupts, trapping people on the upper floors...and igniting multiple tales of heroism and loss involving a firefighter, an architect and others caught...
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Cannons thunder, blades clatter and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's incomparable music swirls and flourishes in The Sea Hawk. In one of his best roles, Errol Flynn plays Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe, who commandeers a 40-gun galleon, endures captivity, then boldly escapes to warn England of Spain's armada. Working on his 10th of 12 movies with Flynn, Michael Curtiz masterfully directs the film's blend of royal intrigue and derring-do heroics - made on a then lavish $1.7 million-scale that included construction...
Neon nights, tumbling dice leggy showgirls - it's Vegas, baby, and you ain't nothing but a hound dog if the glittery thought of it doesn't have you belting out Viva Las Vegas! In one of his most popular movies, Elvis Presley teams with Ann-Margret in the fun captial of America. He's a Grand Prix driver, she's a hotel swimming instructor and radiators are on overboil from their first meeting. Veteran director George Sidney, who guided Ann-Margret in the prior year's Bye Bye Birdie, combines the hormonal...
Sooner or later the truth must be told. Oscar Novak will finally come out of the closet and declare before friends, parents, the cosmos and the 11 o clock news that he is, well, straight. Or will he? Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell and Dylan McDermott are the entango'd threesome of this hip, out-and-out (and outed!) gender bender also starring Oliver Platt. A business tycoon (McDermott) who wrongly thinks Oscar (Perry) is gay asks him to spy on his girlfriend (Campbell). Oscar, unwilling to hurt his...
Michael Palin continues his series of epic journeys, this time crossing the Sahara - an environment as alien and hostile as any on earth. But instead of emptiness, the Sahara reveals a vast range of peoples, cultures and landscapes with a rich and unique history. The journey begins in Morocco, where Michael must traverse nature's gateway to the Sahara - the beautiful Atlas mountains. Slowly, the mountains give way to the arid Sahara and its thousands of miles of sand, stone, ferocious winds and vast...
Jonny Lee Miller is unforgettable in this inspiring film based on the remarkable true story of world champion cyclist Graeme Obree. Despite modest beginnings and a lifelong battle with bipolar disorder, this tenacious and resourceful competitor pedaled his way into sports history. In 1993, Obree designed and built a bicycle from scrap metal and washing machine parts. Pitted against top competitors in a high-profile race, he broke the world record - only to be stripped of his title later in a storm...
Once upon a time 'Jack and the Beanstalk' was a fairy tale, but for Jonathan William Von Hapsburg Robinson (Jack, for short), it's a part of his history - a giant secret buried in the Robinson family closet for centuries. In order to undo the ancient family curse, Jack must return to a different place and time, to a fantastic world where fairy tales come true. Here, a handful of beans really can produce magic, a goose really can lay a golden egg, and a beanstalk does indeed reach into the heavens...
Echoing Downfall's contemplation of the darkest period in Germany's history, Sophie Scholl is a heartbreaking drama based on real life events and the activities of the White Rose resistance group. Munich, 1943. A group of students, including siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, instigate passive resistance in an attempt to overthrow the Nazi regime. Sophie and Hans are arrested for disturbing leaflets and an intense psychological duel ensues in the interrogation room between Sophie and Gestapo officer...
Tracklisting: 1. Programme start 2. Macarthur Park 3. This Time I Know It's for Real 4. I Feel Love 5. On the Radio 6. Someone to Watch Over Me 7. If There Is Music There 8. No More Tears (Duet with Tina Arena) 9. Riding Through the Storm 10. Don't Wanna Work 11. Nobody 12. Dim All the Lights 13. She Works Hard for the Money 14. Bad Girls 15. Hot Stuff 16. My Life 17. Last Dance 18. End credits
Your favourite Bionicle heroes come to life in this thrilling, all-new movie adventure filled with action and excitement! Mata Nui, once a great and powerful ruler, finds himself in a remote wasteland of scrap parts and burnished metals. After winning a dangerous Glatorian battle, he's asked to help fight the local villagers' real enemies: the evil Skrall and Bone Hunters. Together with a brave band of Glatorians and Agori, Mata Nui embarks on an epic adventure to imaginative new lands where exciting...
Brad Davis, Sharon Stone and Adam Ant star in this action-packed thriller about a ruthless killer out for revenge and a shoot-from-the-hip cop that's the object of his deadly obsession. LAPD detective Johnny Modane's world is shattered when his father is brutally murdered. Determined to avenge his father's death, Johnny puts his career and his sanity on the line in an all-out effort to bring the killer to justice. But his road to satisfaction is littered with some very familiar and deadly characters...
After 25 years of marriage, mother-of-five Caroline decides to go back to work. Her husband Donald would like her to work part-time in their home town but instead she gets a job in London as an Editorial Director for an American company which takes over the company that Donald works for and they find themselves working together. However, an unwritten rule at the company states that married couples cannot work together...
Daphne Pegg, finding herself disappointed in love, walks out on her non-relationship with her boss in Bolton and relocates to London. While she is on her way to start her new life, newly divorced antiques dealer Roland Moody has also decided to make the same move. What neither of them anticipates is that a shady estate agent has leased the same flat to both of them... putting them on a collision course to a situation which is, by turns, infuriating, hilarious, and - albeit on very rare occasions...
Tracklisting: 1. Peggy Sue - The Crickets, Albert Lee and Brian May 2. Maybe Baby - The Crickets, Albert Lee and Brian May 3. I Fought The Law - The Crickets, Albert Lee and Brian May 4. Oh Boy - The Crickets, Albert Lee and Brian May 5. That'll Be The Day - The Crickets, Albert Lee and Brian May 6. The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt - Hank Marvin & Ben Marvin 7. Sleepwalk - Hank Marvin & Ben Marvin 8. Apache - Hank Marvin & Ben Marvin 9. I'm On My Way - Theresa Andersson 10. Country Boy - Albert...
From transmission towers in Germany come taunting broadcasts: "People of Britain, greetings from the Third Reich. This is the voice you have learned to fear - this is the Voice Of Terror." The entire nation is close to panic, in London the "Intelligence Inner Council" call in Holmes who suggests that the transmissions are a mere prelude, a smoke screen, to cover a more diabolical plan. On the first night of their enquiry, Holmes and Watson find a dying man on their doorstep. His last words sends...
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A story of rival clans, hidden gold and a princess in distress, The Hidden Fortress is a thrilling mix of fairy story and samurai action movie. It was Kurosawa's first film shot in the widescreen process of Tohoscope, and he exploited this to the full in the film's rich variety of landscape locations, including the slopes of Mount Fuji.
Dr. Eric Vornoff recruits twelve men for an experiment to create a race of atomic supermen. Assorted police, reporters and a rubber octopus conspire to ensure fails - it just has to be another of Ed Wood's masterpieces.
Instructional dance series, presented by world class champions, which teaches the basics of ballroom dancing to both beginners and those who want to improve their techniques. This programme focuses on the samba.
Apeerless filmmaker of substance and scale, David Lean directs Boris Pasternak's tumultuous tale of Russia divided by war and hearts torn by love. Epic images abound: revolution in the streets, an infantry charge into no-man's-land, the train ride to the Urals, an icebound dacha.
Of the 2,290 people who have climbed Mount Everest only 19 have made it via the notorious West Ridge. 21 have died trying. This brand new and exclusive five part documentary series captures the enthralling journey of a 21 person British Army team taking on one of the toughest mountaineering challenges in the world - to climb the treacherous West Ridge of Mount Everest. If they succeed, they will make mountaineering history, by becoming the first British climbers to do so, but to get there they will...
From the team behind the multi-award-winning "The Blue Planet" comes this epic series celebrating the Earth as never before. Embracing the world's incredible landscapes and fascinating wildlife, "Planet Earth" takes the definitive look at the diversity of our planet. Four years in the making, with a budget of unprecedented proportions, "Planet Earth has stretched theboundaries of natural history television. High definition, revolutionary ultra-high speed cameras and detailed images from the air...
Strap yourself in for four cross-country capers with a holiday twist! En route to Florida, Freddy runs into a real Monster Truck at a championship stock car race in Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters. It's a scream when rock band KISS plays Banning Junction's 100th Anniversary Halloween Party in A Scooby-Doo Halloween. In A Scooby-Doo Christmas, Scooby-Doo and crew set out to melt the ferocious Frosty and save the day. the scares never end at the world's biggest mini golf course, where reigning champ...
The Platters were one of the top vocal groups of the 1950's, selling 53 million records and being among the first doo-wop groups to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame (1990). Tracklisting: - The Platters: - Only You - He's Mine - My Prayer - Twilight Time - Red Sails in the Sunset - Harbour Lights - The Great Pretender - Sixteen Tons - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Coasters: - Yakety Yak - Young Blood - Rock 'n Roll - Poison Ivy - Little Egypt - Charlie Brown
Get Ready for some horse-ridin', gun-totin', whiskey-drinkin' fun in this digitally remastered collector's edition of Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado, featuring a never-before-seen documentary with interviews from cast and crew! The spirited Western stars Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, and Danny Glover as four unwitting heroes who cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt...
Shot at the Atlantis hotel in the Bahamas, Gloria Estefan's Live In Atlantis features the hits "Coming Out Of The Dark," "Oye," and "Mi Tierra." The DVD also contains medleys of such hits as "Conga /1-2-3/ Get On Your Feet? Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" and songs from the Grammy Award winning CD "Alma Caribena," featuring guest performances by Celia Cruz, Marc Anthony and Jose Feliciano...
Robbie Coltrane stars as Fitz, a brilliant but flawed, wise-cracking criminal psychologist who looks behind the evidence of a murder to discover what lies within the criminal mind. Schoolgirl Joanna Barnes, a member of a religious cult, is having an affair with the married leader of the group, Kenneth Trant. When confronted about it, he and the other leaders abduct her and the police reluctantly call in Fitz to help find her. Discovering that Joanna is pregnant by Trant, his wife and sister, trying...
Join the original crew of the good ship Vital Spark on their precarious voyage of life through the uncharted seas of change. Or, more precisely - up and down the Clyde. In A Drop o' the Real Stuff wily Captain Para Handy gets the crew involved in whisky smuggling, and in Bad Luck Cargo, never the one to miss an opportunity, the Cap'n takes possession of an unwanted headstone with a view to making a killing on the resale. It's near mutiny when the crew of the Vital Spark are invited to the wedding...
The entire fourth season of the animated comedy series in which a milkshake, a floating order of fries and a meatball become superheroes who protect the future of the world - when they feel like it.
Created and written by Johnnie Mortimer and Brain Cooke (GEORGE AND MILDRED, ROBIN'S NEST), MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE was a phenomenally successful comedy for ITV, running for six series in total, spinning off two further shows and making household names of stars Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomset. The Last Picture Show: Robin and Jo are to star in Chrissy's black and white home movie. Larry and Mr. Roper are more interested in a colour film, and the colour is blue. Right Said George...
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Penniless husband, Tom Jeffers looks like he is losing his scatterbrained wife, Gerry to multi-millionaire John D Hackensacker when she walks out on him and heads for fun and sun in Palm Beach, Florida. They become involved with any number of outrageous characters, played by many of the Sturges regulars in hilarious cameos. The witty, sparkling dialogue, poking merciless fun at, amongst other targets, money and sex, is unforgettable.
OK I admit I was one of those who thought Daniel Craig wouldn't be a convincing Bond. I now have to eat my words as he is utterly superb and without doubt the best Bond, in my opinion. He gives the role credulity as he is totally believable in every way, from the opening sequence where he is not prepared to lose his man, through the love scenes, to the outsmarting of the opposition. Plus, for the ladies, THOSE swimming shorts! A great story with stunning action sequences and some good special...
Jacques Offenbach's masterful and colourful operetta is an audacious recounting of a mythical tale of Gods and mortals and one fateful, amourous battle raging between them. Offenbach's immensely popular works were the precursor to the modern musical and although thought of as an opera, "Orpheus..." climaxes in a conspicuous, but wholly rousing rendition of its most infamous number - the 'Can Can'. Married to Orpheus, mortal son of Apollo, Eurydice is embroiled in an affair with Aristaeus, really...
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