It was always going to be a risk for the BBC to revamp Doctor Who--few television programmes inspire as much rabid and cultish adoration. With the 2005 series, however, the BBC have really outdone themselves. Their updated Doctor Who is a revelation: a cult science fiction series that has real mass appeal, and works for both children and their parents. Christopher Eccleston is an ...
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Billie Piper, Christopher Eccleston, Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke, John Barrowman
Season 1 Arguably the most talked-about television show of the 2006-2007 season, the Emmy-nominated fantasy Heroes gives viewers blends comic book-style adventure with plotting and characters as rich and layered as any graphic novel or drama series. Creator Tim Kring's premise is deceptively simple - ordinary individuals in locations around the globe discover that they have, for ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Hayden Panettiere, Greg Grunberg, Malcolm McDowell, Masi Oka, Ali LarterDirected By: Adam Kane, Greg Beeman, Donna Deitch
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Cate Blanchett, Eric Cantona, Angus Deayton, Clive Owen, Samantha MortonDirected By: Shekhar Kapur
Contains 28 Days Later and the sequel 28 Weeks Later 28 Days Later--Anti-vivisection activists make a very bad judgement call and release an experimental monkey infected with "rage". 28 Days Later..., as the title has it, bicycle messenger Cillian Murphy wakes up from a post-traffic accident coma in a deserted London hospital, ventures out to find the city ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Cillian Murphy, Catherine McCormack, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold PerrineauDirected By: Danny Boyle, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall, Christopher Eccleston, Delroy LindoDirected By: Dominic Sena
A welcome throwback to the spooky traditions of Jack Clayton's The Innocents and Robert Wise's The Haunting, Alejandro Amenábar's The Others favours atmosphere, sound, and suggestion over flashy special effects. Set in 1945 on a fog-enshrouded island off the British coast, the film begins with a scream as Grace (Nicole Kidman) awakens from some unspoken horror, perhaps arising ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann, James BentleyDirected By: Alejandro Amenábar
It's hard to remember a science fiction series that has hit so big so quickly. Yet by the end of the first series of Heroes, it feels--for all the right reasons--that the show's been around for longer than it has, such is the huge amount of success it's enjoyed. The setup is simple, yet undeniably intriguing. It essentially tells the stories of a series of people who discover they ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures VideoStarring: Jack Coleman, Greg Grunberg, Hayden Panettiere, Eric Roberts, Ashley CrowDirected By: Adam Kane, Allan Arkush, Greg Beeman, Jeannot Szwarc, John Badham
One of the big Elizabethan-era films of 1998, Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth serves up a brimming goblet of religious tension, political conspiracy, sex, violence, and war. England in 1554 is in financial and religious turmoil as the ailing Queen "Bloody" Mary attempts to restore Catholicism as the national faith. She has no heir, and her greatest fear--that her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Richard AttenboroughDirected By: Shekhar Kapur
The return of The Master has been one of the many recent triumphs of Doctor Who. And with this, the final single DVD release of season three of the show, the three concluding episodes deliver John Simm's majestic take on one of the Doctor's deadliest and oldest enemies. These three episodes also see Torchwood's Captain Jack Harkness rejoining the Tardis, and along with the ...
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Paul Kasey, Freema Agyeman, Catherine Tate
