The plot of Failure to Launch is utterly implausible, yet the movie is thoroughly fun. Tripp (laid-back Matthew McConaughey, Sahara, Dazed and Confused) is a 35-year-old man who still lives with his parents (Kathy Bates, Misery, and ex-quarterback Terry Bradshaw)--and they aren't happy about it. Eager to get him out of the nest, they hire Paula (Sex and the ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Justin Bartha, Kathy Bates, Zooey DeschanelDirected By: Tom Dey
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Frances O'Connor, Claire Hackett, Adam Cooper, Hugh Bonneville, Eileen AtkinsDirected By: Tim Fywell
This Swan Lake was the unexpected popular hit of 1996, when radical choreographer Matthew Bourne took Tchaikovsky's traditional ballet by the scruff of the neck and reworked it with a myriad of modern influences and themes to astonishing effect. Seldom have the dark psychological riptides at the heart of so many classical ballets been so brilliantly exposed. The Prince (Scott Ambler) is a ...
Manufacturer: Warner Music VisionStarring: Adam Cooper, Scott Ambler, Fiona Chadwick, Barry Atkinson, Emily PiercyDirected By: Matthew Bourne, Peter Mumford
The 2004 version of Around the World in 80 Days is an entertaining hodge-podge of adventure, comedy, and scenery from across the globe. Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan, 24 Hour Party People), an obsessively precise inventor, bets that he can circumnavigate the planet in 80 days--considered impossible in the Victorian era. In this version, Jackie Chan plays a Chinese peasant who retrieves ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Kathy Bates, Robert FyfeDirected By: Frank Coraci
The Terry Thomas of children's television returns to the screen in Boom, Boom! The Best Of The Original Basil Brush Show. The raffish star, with his distinctive laugh, trademark tweeds and enduring catchphrase, was created in 1963, diligently learning his trade before hitting the big time in the 1970s in his own show. The cheeky vulpine host went on to vex a succession of "Mr"s with his ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Ivan Owen, Roy North, Derek Fowlds, Howard Williams, Cilla BlackDirected By: Brian Penders, Johnny Downes, Robin Nash
Aimed directly at a mainstream audience, The Patriot qualifies as respectable entertainment, but anyone expecting a definitive drama about the American Revolution should look elsewhere. Rising above the blatant crowd pleasing of Stargate, Independence Day and Godzilla, director Roland Emmerich crafts a marvellous re-creation of South Carolina in the late 1770s (aided ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris CooperDirected By: Roland Emmerich
Manufacturer: MagnoliaStarring: Vincent Pastore, Michael Gibney, Paul DeAngelo, Jonathan Tiersten, Isaac HayesDirected By: Robert Hiltzik
A genuinely epic achievement, the 10-part World War II drama Band of Brothers is a television series that makes big-screen Hollywood war movies look small in comparison. Based on the book by historian Stephen Ambrose, the series follows the US 101st Airborne Division's "Easy" E-Company from initial training through D-Day and across Holland, Belgium, Germany and Austria until the end of the ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: John Adams, James Alley Jr., Brendan Carr, Lynn 'Buck' Compton, Dominic Cooper
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Michael Michele, Shalom Harlow, Bebe NeuwirthDirected By: Tom Dey, Donald Petrie
