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Do you want to know how much Simon Cowell pays publicist Max Clifford? Or what the PR guru does to protect one of his influential clients who enjoys sex in public places? Would you like to know what Samuel L Jackson, Clint Eastwood, Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes think about celebrity culture and their fans? Or how about learning how to make a quick £600 for a fake story that a reporter is too lazy to substantiate? All is revealed in STARSUCKERS (12), the highly controversial documentary about a media obsessed by celebrity which Max Clifford tried to ban, available to rent and buy on 12th April 2010, RRP £14.99, courtesy of Network Releasing.

 

Previously unseen bonus footage available exclusively on this DVD includes some tongue-in-cheek interviews with 50 Cent, Samuel L Jackson, Keira Knightley, Clint Eastwood, Emma Watson, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Chris Noth, Jennifer Tilly, William Moseley, Eddie Izzard and Ralph Fiennes talking and their relationship with fame and their fans.

 

From Chris Atkins, the director of BAFTA-nominated TAKING LIBERTIES, STARSUCKERS is a fascinating journey into the dark underbelly of modern media, uncovering the real reasons for our addiction to fame and blowing the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it as well as members of the public that are duped by the media machine.

 

A covert operation filmed over a 2 year period, the film uses a combination of previously unseen footage, undercover reporting and stunts that fool the public and the media alike as well as animation to reveal the toxic effect that the media is having on all of us including our children. It also argues how truth has become a distant memory in some modern news reporting and presentation, and climaxes with shocking revelations about Live 8.

 

Special Features
• Audio commentary with director Chris Atkins and producer Christina Slater
• 8 page companion booklet written by Chris Atkins
• 100 minutes of previously unseen video footage of celebrity interviews

Kedar Williams-Stirling .... Junior 
Ashley Bashy Thomas .... Rager  
Adam Deacon .... Kickz  
Michael Socha .... Craze 

Jan Uddin .... Sweet Boy  
Kaya Scodelario .... Tasha   
Jennie Jacques ..... Ree Ree   
Rheanne Murray ... Lexy  
Jerome Holder .... .Tugz   

Colin Salmon .... Boogie   
Luke de Woolfson .... Whisper   

Terry Stone .... Papa   
Robbie Gee .... Beano   

Robert Fucilla .... Breezer   
Eddie Kadi .... Reggy 

From the distributor who brought you KiDULTHOOD comes the hottest, most controversial, action-packed thriller of the year.

 
My name is Junior and I live in the squalor. London, 2015, roads gone to shit.  Gangs taken over, shottas rule the blocks, streets proper sticky.  If you ain't one of us, you're a victim, so gotta stay sharp these days, and know heads. You don't see guns or drugs on roads no more, munchies taken over.   That's what mans need, that's what mans want.  So that's how I make my living, selling munchies.  Me, my mandem the Paper Chaserz, and our pitbull Dutty who keep his eye out, cos roads physical these days, no long ting. This is my story, about me, my brother, our gang, and a badman named Tugz.  How I gotta decide, take revenge, or escape. Cos some days you wake up and know it could be you getting killed today. then some days you wake up and think - today it could be me doing the killing. When you living in the squalor, sometimes you just gotta look for the beauty.

 
Featuring hot grime artist Bashy, Adam Deacon (KiDULTHOOD, AdULTHOOD) and Kaya Scodelario (Skins), and exclusive live performances from Tempa T and D Double E, Shank is an adrenaline-fuelled look at the way we could be in 2015, and the first must-see film of 2010.

Cillian Murphy .... Michael McCrea   

Brendan Gleeson .... Darren Perrier   

Jim Broadbent .... Jim McCrea  
Domhnall Gleeson .... Clifford   
Jodie Whittaker .... Brenda    
Andrew Simpson .... 26 Teen 2    
Padraic Delaney .... Shamie   
Natalie Britton .... Catherine  
Chris Newman .... Teen Joyrider 

Michael FitzGerald .... Garda 

Rick Crawford .... King Bill  
Brendan Dempsey .... Victor  
Wuzza Conlon .... Blaise 

John Banks .... Dog Handler 

Daniel Parker .... Gang Member & Dog Handler 

Glenn Speers .... Lar - clamper 2  
Chantal Dias .... Young Gangster  
Tony Jeeves .... Dog Handler    
Roarke Alexander .... Gang Member/Dog Handler    
Marco Amaral .... Dog Handler/Gang Member    
Shane Flanagan .... Dog Handler

Michael owes money to Dublin’s meanest gangster, Darren Perrier. When the debt is called in Brenda, Michael’s recently “dumped” and suicidal best friend, accidentally shoots dead one of his goons. To make matters worse Michael’s estranged father, Jim, arrives just in time to witness the scene. With a bounty on their heads Michael, Jim and Brenda flee to the mountains.

 

On the run with his eccentric father, who’s convinced he’ll die the next time he sleeps, and an increasingly morose Brenda, Michael is about to lose his mind. But as the net tightens and the helter-skelter chase reaches its climax he is forced to forgive his father and confront his true feelings for Brenda. With every hard man in Dublin on their trail it looks like Michael won’t make it through the next 24 hours; however, The Grim Reaper and a gang of savage dogs have a funny way of intervening.

Ewan McGregor .... The Ghost  

Jon Bernthal .... Rick Ricardelli   

Kim Cattrall .... Amelia Bly   

Pierce Brosnan .... Adam Lang    
Tim Preece .... Roy 

James Belushi .... John Maddox   

Olivia Williams .... Ruth Lang   

Timothy Hutton .... Sidney Kroll    
Anna Botting .... SKY TV Newsreader   

Tom Wilkinson .... Paul Emmett    
Yvonne Tomlinson .... Stewardess    

Eli Wallach .... Vineyard old man    
Milton Welch .... Taxi Driver    
Tim Faraday .... Barry 

Alister Mazzotti .... Protection Officer 

Based on Robert Harris’ acclaimed novel, THE GHOST is the story of a ghostwriter hired to take over writing the memoirs of one former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan, JAMES BOND, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR), after the ex-Prime Minister’s first co-writer dies in an accident. Soon after the Ghost accepts the assignment, a high-ranking British official accuses Lang of illegally seizing suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by CIA, a war crime.

 

The controversy brings reporters and protesters swarming to the Martha’s Vineyard mansion where Lang is staying with his wife, Ruth (OLIVIA WILLIAMS) and his media-handler turned mistress, Amelia (Kim Cattrall SEX AND THE CITY, MY BOY JACK). As The Ghost works, he begins uncover to clues revealing the previous writer may have pieced together a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA, and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind.

 

From acclaimed director Roman Polanski (OLIVER TWIST, THE PIANIST, CHINATOWN) and resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and intriguing political thriller charts one man’s determination to discover the truth and to tell it, if necessary, from beyond the grave.

Frank Boyce .... Barman  
Lorenzo Camporese .... Alex   
Cyrus Desir .... Dealer   
Peter Ferdinando .... Tony   
Lucy Flack .... Prostitute   
Ian Groombridge .... CID Detective    
Ricky Grover .... Paul   
Ian Kilgannon .... TV License inspector  
Neil Maskell .... Mike Hemmings   
Mark Mooney .... Tan shop owner    
Vicky Murdock .... Dawn    
Francis Pope .... Smudger   
George Russo .... Mackey   
Kerryann White .... Lisa 

A week in the life of Tony, an alienated psychopath with severe social problems, an obsession for action films and a horrible moustache. Unemployed and unemployable, Tony prowls the streets, his nervous attempts to make human connections invariably rebuffed by laughter or contempt. Occasionally he snaps, and violence is the result…
 
Gerard Johnson’s dark, brutal, bleakly amusing psychological thriller has already drawn favourable comparisons to John McNaughton’s seminal Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and features a star-making lead performance from Peter Ferdinando as the title character - probably the most alarming cinematic anti-hero since Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle.

Chris Morris' "Four Lions" is a funny, thrilling comedy that illuminates modern jihadism through the prism of farce. It understands jihadists as human beings. And it understands human beings as innately ridiculous. What "This Is Spinal Tap" did for heavy metal and "Dr Strangelove" the Cold War, "Four Lions" does for the modern face of terrorism.

 

In a British city, four men have a secret plan. Omar (Riz Ahmed) is disillusioned about the treatment of muslims around the world and is determined to become a soldier. This is the most exciting idea Waj (Kayvan Novak) has ever heard. Better still it’s a no brainer because Omar does his thinking for him. Opposed to Omar and everyone else on earth is the white islamic convert Barry (Nigel Lindsay). He’d realize he joined the cell to channel his nihilism - If he had half the self knowledge of a duck. Faisal (Adeel Akhtar) is the odd man out. He can make a bomb – but he can’t blow himself up just now coz his sick dad has “started eating newspaper”. Instead he’s training crows to fly bombs through windows. This is what Omar has to deal with. They must strike a decisive blow on their own turf but can any of them strike a match without punching himself in the face?

 

“Four Lions” plunges us beyond seeing these young men as unfathomably alien. It undermines the folly of just wishing them away or, even worse, alienating the entire culture from which they emerge. The film is neither pro nor anti religious. The jokes fly out of the characters’ conflicts, excesses and mistakes. Crackling with wit and tension, “Four Lions” is the essential response to our failure to engage with reality and a high toast to the idea that laughter is better than killing.