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28 WEEKS LATER, the follow up to the hugely successful 28 Days Later, picks up six months after the rage virus has annihilated the British Isles. The US Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin…but they could not be more wrong.  As the first wave of refugees arrive, and a family is reunited, a terrible secret is revealed:  The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever.

ROBERT CARLYLE, ROSE BYRNE, JEREMY RENNER, JEREMY RENNER, CATHERINE MCCORMACK, MACKINTOSH MUGGLETON, IMOGEN POOTS & AIDRIS ELB

According to Section 6 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 the occupation of empty property in the UK is not illegal. In London there are more than 13.000 people living in squats. These are 6 episodes of 6 different London based squats and their inhabitants. 6 stories of life in the city – stories of struggle, celebration, creativity, resignation, fear and hope.
 

It tells the story of the Aberfan disaster which took place on Friday, 21 October 1966, at 09:15 at colliery waste tip number 7. The film follows the events leading up to and after the disaster when The coal waste tip slid down Merthyr Mountain. As it collapsed, it destroyed twenty houses and a farm, before going on to demolish virtually all of Pantglas Junior School and part of the separate adjacent senior school. The pupils had just left the assembly hall, where they had been singing "All Things Bright and Beautiful", when a great noise was heard outside. Had they left for their classrooms a few minutes later, the loss of life would have been significantly reduced, as the classrooms were on the side of the building nearest the landslide. In total 144 people were killed, 116 of whom were children mostly between the ages of 7 and 10. Five teachers were also killed in the accident. Only a handful of children were rescued from the rubble.

Absolution is a thrilling, moving black comedy; an alchohol-fuelled road movie about two wayward men (Dan, a failing British rock singer and Dean, an American Gulf war veteran) as they check themselves out of rehab and drive across Spain to collect Dan's dead father's body and find absolution for the wrongs of their lives.
 

Visual experimentation using After Effects.

When several escapes at an German pow camp go wrong, the prisoners begin to think, that there is an informer revealing their plans to the enemy. Then Lt Ainsworth, an artist in civvie street, invents a model head of a fictious prisoner, who can take the place of an escaper, when the men march back from the bath house, which is situated outside the camp.
 

Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester, Michael Balfour, Guy Middleton, Paul Carpenter, Moultrie Kelsall, Eddie Byrne, Geoffrey Hibbert, Peter Jones, Frederick Valk, Anton Diffring, Frederick Schiller, Walter Gotell.

Comedy based on true events. In 1995 a piece of top-secret military film from Roswell in 1947 that showed the autopsy of an Alien being was broadcast around the globe. The film is brought to the attention of the world by best friends Ray (Declan Donnelly) and Gary (Anthony McPartlin). A media frenzy ensues which catapults Ray and Gary into the limelight, but the two friends are hiding an even bigger secret and go to extreme lengths to keep it.

Anthony McPartlin, Bill Pullman, Declan Donnelly, Morwenna Banks, Gotz Otto, Harry Dean Stanton, Nichole Hiltz, Jimmy Carr, John Cater, Omid Djalili.

Alpha Male is the story of family life. It is a film about the force of personality, family politics, repressed emotions, great love and devastating loss. A drama staring Danny Huston as a dying industrialist whose neurotic family are trying to cope with his passing.
 

Patrick Baladi, Arthur Duncan, Christopher Egan, Jennifer Ehle, Stirling Gallacher, Mark Heap, Ellis Hollins, Danny Huston, Katie Ann Knight, Jemma Powell, Eugene Simon, Ewan Stewart, Trudie Styler, Amelia Warner, Mark Wells.

Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It brings one of Shakespeare's most accessible plays to life for HBO audiences. Stylishly set among Westerners living in 19th century Japan, the play tells the tale of Rosalind, daughter of a banished Duke, who is forced to flee the court and enter the Forest of Arden when her uncle threatens to have her killed. Accompanied by her cousin Celia, Rosalind disguises herself as a man for safety's sake. The disguise comes in handy when Rosalind tests the devotion of her noble admirer Orlando, another exile, and teaches him lessons of the heart. Some of the Bard's most poetic language flows as a merry and melancholy series of misunderstandings, gender confusions, and mistaken identities unfolds amidst court exiles and forest natives. With Rosalind's wit leading the way, the forces of true love and justice eventually triumph.
 
As You Like It is Branagh's fifth directorial screen adaptation of Shakespeare, joining 2000's Love's Labour's Lost, 1996's Hamlet, 1993's Much Ado About Nothing, and 1989's Henry V. Perhaps our generation's most celebrated interpreter of the Bard, Branagh has been likened to Laurence Olivier for his imaginative renderings of Shakespeare, both as an actor and director.
 
For Branagh, the idea of making a movie version came to him while playing Touchstone, the court fool, in repertoire in the mid-'80s (the role here is played by Alfred Molina). "As You Like It is a classic feel-good romantic comedy," explains Branagh, "and I've seen it have a delirious effect on audiences. The combination of light and shade means that Shakespeare's comedies are often as beautiful and moving as the tragedies."
As You Like It features a superb cast that includes Romola Garai (Vanity Fair), Bryce Dallas Howard (Spider Man 3), Kevin Kline (Oscar®-winner for A Fish Called Wanda), Adrian Lester (Hustle), Janet McTeer (Songcatcher), Alfred Molina (The DaVinci Code, Spider-Man 2), David Oyelowo (The Last King of Scotland, HBO Films' upcoming Five Days) and Brian Blessed (I, Claudius).
 
A co-production of HBO Films and BBC Films, As You Like It was shot at London's Shepperton Studios and (for four weeks) at Wakehurst Place, a park that dates from the 13th century and is in an area of outstanding natural beauty in West Sussex. Benefiting from several different styles of garden and a dramatic ravine stuffed with Asian woodland plants, it is the perfect location for the Forest of Arden scenes. Incredibly, it has never been seen before on film.
 

 KEVIN KLINE, BRYCE HOWARD, JIMMY YUILL, DAVID OYELOWO, ADRIAN LESTER, BRIAN BLESSED, ROMOLA GARAI, ALFRED MOLINA, SACHA BENNETT, JONATHAN BROADBENT, PAUL CHAN, JANET MCTEER, YEE TSOU, ALEX WYNDHAM, YOUKI YAMAMOTO

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination, and Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will colour her entire life.

Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave, Juno Temple, Nonso Anozie, Andrew Appleyard, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michelle Duncan, Ben Harcourt, Jack Harcourt, Daniel Mays, Thomas Rooke, Richard Sutton, Charlie von Simson, Felix von Simson.

The space race has been dominated for decades by two rival superpowers, but just when they thought they were alone, a new force has arrived. Britain has developed an amazing space exploration buggy that might solve the planets energy problems

Martin Kemp, Chris Barrie, Dennis Waterman, Brian Blessed, Alison King

The band BLACK WIDOW, is an up and coming rock band from the North of England.  They showcase their music for record companies in 1992 to wide acclaim.  After the show, the celebration ends in a brawl where ANDY (Kenny Richards) is left with a ripped and bloodied right hand and robbing them of the contract they thought they had. LLOYD  (Drew Taylor), eager to make his mark sells the band short by signing ROBIN (David John), as a solo artist.  The band splits with ill feelings. Bad management hampers Robins climb to fame, causing his career to be brief and leaving him bankrupt.
 
Time passes and it is now 2002. ANDY, is now married to JENNA (Amanda Elizabeth), and is working solo, performing at low profile clubs and pubs, barely making ends meet.  He signs with STUART CHAPMAN (Wayne Baxter) and the work takes him away from home.  JENNA cannot cope and asks him to leave.
 
Drink and depression takes over ANDY, and only till a conversation with LAWRENCE (Cliff Ford), and a rather weird meeting with a tramp on the pier, does ANDY take stock of his life and try to change things around.
 
KELLY (Jennifer Lynn), a 15yr old girl, from a broken home and growing up far too fast, returns home to her mother in Scarborough after a holiday at her fathers (supposedly).  She doesn’t count on the 19 year old PAUL (Mark-Allan Pilgrim), following her home, not wanting things to be over till he’s ready.
 
Snowy Falls, an extremely rough and run down club with a clientele to match, is the place where ANDY finds the strength to reform the band again.  The whole of the club are 'Queen' fans and won’t let him leave intact if he doesn’t sing a 'Queen' song. He manages to sing Bohemian Rhapsody, with a little help from RICHARD (Steve Draper) and SAM (Ben Windsor) and 4 bouncers that become the most unusual of backup singers.
 
STUART CHAPMAN, the bands new manager, makes the band face the truth that they need ROBIN back on board, as they’re now too old to market, but with ROBIN, they can go for the nostalgia value that is back in vogue.  They agree, and now all they have to do is get on.
 
LLOYD JENKINS, hearing of the band reforming in its original line-up, tries to muscle in on the action.  Going behind their backs and over STUART’S head, to try to prove to the band that he is the one they need to make it big. 
 
With a little help from TONY PEERS (or MICHAEL WINNER) STUART, gets the band their chance to perform in front of some record companies, to showcase their new image and style.  It is at the showcase where a drunken PAUL tries to abduct KELLY.  LLOYD shows up with a major record label that he has signed on behalf of the band (without their knowledge) and all hell breaks loose.  Following the showcase, when everyone has left and the band have their recording contract (with STUART); KELLY and TRACY (Nicole Windsor) are waiting for KELLY’S MUM (Veronica Fairhurst), when a drunken and humiliated PAUL drives his car towards KELLY.  LLOYD sees this and runs toward her shouting, some band members walk outside and see the commotion and run toward her also.  The car connects; four people are down one of them dead, but which one?  It all makes for a breathtaking finale

Kenny Richards, Amanda Elizabeth, Jennifer Lynn, Veronica Fairhurst, David John, Drew Taylor, Steve Draper, Ben Windsor, Dee Mehmett, Wayne Baxter, Roderick O'Mullane, Cliff Ford, Henry Moncrief, Mark-Allan Pilgrim, George Ansell, Reggie Russell, Kathryn Kyr, Katie Bell, Nicole Windsor, Lightning Bear.

Imagine having the audacity to undertake various crazy and hair-raising stunts in order to win the coveted title of having the biggest Balls of Steel. A team of comedians and performers did just that; humiliating huge Hollywood stars, testing their pain thresholds and carrying-out pranks which would make even the fearless of us squirm.

The opportunity to re-live some of the most hilarious moments from the first series is here, as The Best of Balls of Steel is released on DVD on 5th February.

The special guests are keen to prove themselves to host Mark Dolan (The Richard Taylor Interviews) and a studio audience by performing death-defying stunts, holding their nerve during hidden camera set-ups or acting juvenile and stupid in the presence of celebrities. Footage includes Mischa Barton and Matt Dillon being stunned with an electric pen, as well as Danny Glover keeping his cool whilst being interviewed with a dildo shaped microphone.

Special guests include Alex Zane, the Dirty Sanchez boys, Olivia Lee and New Zealand’s number one stuntman Randy Cambell.

The DVD also features 60 minutes of exclusive extras and never-seen-before material. This includes specially-recorded highlights by Mark Dolan where he introduces his six favourite stunts from the series as well as previously unseen footage of the laugh-out-loud Lying Game with unsuspecting contestant Ranj, and The Pain Men’s bleach drinking stunt (not for the faint hearted!)

Mr Bean is heading to the South of France for a simple holiday in the sun. His voyage from London to the Riviera soon transcends into one of mischief and mayhem as he inadvertently creates havoc wherever he goes culminating in an unscheduled and riotous screening of his own video diary at the Cannes Film Festival.

Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe, Jean Rochefort, Karel Roden, Pierre-Benoist Varoclier.

The Best Man is based on the critically acclaimed stage play by Glyn Maxwell.
 
It tells the story of Bailey, the best man at his oldest friend’s wedding. In his search for anecdotes to embellish his speech, Bailey has stumbled across a secret so shocking it changes everything. Today, sitting at the top table, he feels light headed. It’s time for his speech. Just what does he know? And how much will he reveal?
 
Moving between the fraught wedding reception and the darkest moments from their past, The Best Man is a tale of love and cheating... with a sting.

Danny Swanson, Lou Wallace, John Alastair, Olivia Wybraniec, Jamie Mitchell.

When one of London's brightest and most successful sculptors loses the plot at his own smash, sell out exhibition by thumping an equally prestigious broadsheet art critic, he decides it's time to leave and head for the hills.

Taking his young wife and family to their holiday home in a small village atop a hill in Southern France where he hopes to find some rest, peace and inspiration in their idyllic surroundings.

Fat chance!

One by one, like so many circus performers, the hedonistic, curious, sycophantic, spiteful and relentless London art world descends on them, desperate to know what our hero is up to, they come face to face with the locals who are not as set in their slow, village ways as might first appear.

As the hounds circle their prey the locals decide it's time their beloved adopted son needs some canny gallic assistance and so the local French resistance reconvenes after decades of quiet drinking, eating and playing petanque preparing, once again, for the call to arms!

This is a story about art, artists, passion, the creative process, food, wine and the clash of two cultures under the sun. It is awash with symbolism, drink, greed and overindulgence, it is Jarman-esque amongst the huge lunch scene and starkly minimalist in the black & white scenes of love and lust as the differences between two great nations are celebrated in and on the bodies and minds of the other. It is about great art, great artists and the machine that needs them but looks forward to the day they die.

It is the story of two women, two friends, a wife, an ex, starkly different women who both love the same man and still do….but flatly refuse to let that stop them having fun.

Finally, however, this is about a man. An artist. It is about his inspiration, the women that influence him, the outlets for his passion and an exploration of the two sides of him, up, down and inside out.
 
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A dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind.

Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society.
 
Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken - a blind educator and adventurer who established the first school for the blind in Lhasa, the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest.
 
Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students Kyila, Sonam Bhumtso, Tashi, Gyenshen, Dachung and Tenzin to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before.

The resulting 3-week journey is beyond anything any of them could have predicted.

BLUE BLOOD follows five Oxford University students who leave behind their books and pencils to prepare themselves for a bloody fistfight. In a tradition that dates back more than 100 years, Oxford University closes its doors once a year to settle its bitter rivalry against Cambridge University once and for all.

A story as much about sports and personal determination as it is a social commentary; BLUE BLOOD reveals a side of the Oxford student that is virtually unknown. BLUE BLOOD’s subjects, a fine artist, astrophysicist, philosopher, mathematician and biochemist, learn to overcome their natural inclinations in a brutal process of self-discovery. The culmination is dramatic. In an ancient hall, packed to the rafters with 2000 bloodthirsty students, the bell rings for round one of the Oxford v. Cambridge Varsity Boxing Match.

The soundtrack is a distinguishing feature of “Blue Blood” – featuring the following tracks, all approved personally by the artists concerned.

"Disposable Heroes" - Metallica
"Shine A Light" - The Rolling Stones
"Karma Police" - Radiohead
"Looking Down The Barrel" - The Beastie Boys
"Evergreen" - Faithless
"My Weakness" – Moby
"Tangled Up In Blue" - Bob Dylan
"Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta" - Ghetto Boys

Des Brackett, Chris Kavanagh, Fred Brown, Charlie Ogilvie, Justin Bronder, James Boyle.

Control tells the story of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the influential late Seventies band Joy Division and the music, relationships and events that lead up to his suicide.
 
the members of Joy Divison later regrouped to form New Order.

Sam Riley ...Ian Curtis   
 Samantha Morton ... Deborah Curtis    
 Craig Parkinson ... Tony Wilson   
Other credited cast listed alphabetically
 Joe Anderson ... Peter Hook   
 Nigel Harris ... Tramp    
 Nicola Harrison ... Corrine Lewis   
 Toby Kebbell ... Rob Gretton   
 Alexandra Maria Lara ... Annik Honoré  
 Matthew McNulty ... Nick Jackson   
 Ben Naylor ... Martin Hannett   
 James Anthony Pearson ... Bernard Sumner   
 Tim Plester ... Earnest Richards  
 Robert Shelly ... Twinny   Andrew Sheridan ... Terry Mason   
 Harry Treadaway ... Stephen Morris 

Day 2 is an abstract look at the events of 24 hours, for a man trying to come to terms with his place in the world. Questions are asked but not answered, problems are posed but not solved. The split screen effects that run throughout, add to the unease of the events and allow the viewer to immerse themselves, in the life of our on screen friend, as he reaches the end of another day

Gareth Crook

Death At A Funeral follows the comic twists and turns as a family gather for the funeral of their father.  Brothers Daniel (Matthew Macfadyen) and Robert (Rupert Graves) are at each other’s throats until a mysterious guest from their father’s past threatens to unveil an earth-shattering family secret.  As the brothers struggle to hide the truth from their family and friends, riotous mayhem and a hilarious sequence of events ensue, resulting in what sets out to be a dignified private affair turning into the mother of all funerals that no guest will soon forget.

JANE ASHER
EWEN BREMNER
PETER DINKLAGE
DAISY DONOVAN
PETER EGAN
RUPERT GRAVES
KEELEY HAWES
MATTHEW MACFADYEN
KRIS MARSHALL
ANDY NYMAN
ALAN TUDYK
PETER VAUGHAN
THOMAS WHEATLEY