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Hell on Wheels


            Commander Sisko has been assigned to the remote Starfleet outpost, space station Deep Space 9, where he has to oversee the recovery of the Bajoran people who are at the tail end of a lengthy war with a neighbouring race called The Cardassians. The discovery of a stable wormhole within Bajoran space suddenly turns the quiet station into a strategic centre for the whole galaxy, making the typical domestic and cultural issues that Sisko normally has to navigate through, take second place to fears of a new race from the other side of the galaxy. This new race appears to be more powerful than anything Starfleet and the Federation have encountered before. Although on the surface they neither appear aggressive nor peaceful, their might becomes a concern for Starfleet as their presence could eventually upset the current fragile peace already existing between the resident alien super powers, by them trying to gain an additional strategic foothold there.
    

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The Murdoch Mysteries

Remarkably Bright Creatures


            After failing to qualify for the 1974 World Cup, England manager Alf Ramsey is sacked and replaced by Don Revie, the highly successful manager of Leeds United. Revie is replaced at Leeds by Brian Clough, a former manager of Derby County and a fierce critic of Leeds's style of play under Revie. Much attention is called to the fact that Clough's longtime assistant, Peter Taylor has not joined him at Leeds, and Clough claims in an interview to Yorkshire Television that the team cannot possibly have been happy under Revie, due to the violent and physical nature of their game.The roots of Clough's conflict with Revie are depicted as happening in a 1967 FA Cup match between Leeds, who were then leading the First Division (though they did not win it that season) and Derby, who were struggling near the bottom of the Second Division. Clough assumes Revie to be a similar man to himself, owing to the fact that they grew up in the same part of Middlesbrough; come the day of the match however, Revie either ignores Clough or fails to make him out in the crowd upon entering Derby's Baseball Ground stadium. The match proves to be a tough affair, and despite their best efforts Derby lose 20 to Leeds. Clough initially blames the brutality of the Leeds players, but he and Taylor recognise that their side simply aren't good enough on a technical level and so remedy the problem by signing veteran Dave Mackay, along with several other young players. The club's frugal chairman, Sam Longson is extremely anxious about the investment and more so the fact that Clough didn't bother to consult him about signing Mackay. However, Derby win the Second Division title in 1969, and the following season once more face up to Leeds, the defending First Division champions... and promptly lose 50.Back in the storyline's "present," Clough almost immediately alienates his Leeds players by telling them that they can throw away all their medals and trophies, because "[they] never won any of them fairly." The season starts with a Charity Shield match against FA Cup winners Liverpool, which is widely anticipated as both the final match of legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly and Clough's first match in charge of Leeds. However, the event is quickly marred when Leeds's captain, Billy Bremner gets into a violent on-pitch fight with Liverpool player Kevin Keegan, which results in both players being sent off, and in turn causes them to throw their shirts off and walk off the pitch bare-chested in protest. Leeds end up losing the match on penalties, but a more serious consequence is that Bremner is given a two-month suspension from all competitions, meaning that Leeds will have to start the season without their influential captain.Returning to Clough's time at Derby, despite his continuing clashes with Longson over spending on players, the club win their first ever League championship in 1972, meaning a European Cup campaign the following year, which eventually sees them reach the semi-finals in a tie versus Juventus. Longson suggests that Clough rest his senior players in the match before; however this happens to be against Leeds, and Clough selects his best squad out of sheer pride and determination to beat Revie. This decision backfires after a particularly crunching match gives Derby a massive injury list. After the match, Bremner approaches Clough and sarcastically tells him "Good luck in Europe." Juventus quickly send them packing from the European Cup, giving Clough a chance to publicly lambast Longson. Later that year, after Taylor suffers a heart attack, Clough decides to try and secure his position by offering up his and Taylor's resignations. To his horror however, the club's board call his bluff and not only terminate their contracts, but ban them from ever setting foot in the Baseball Ground again (although Clough still sneaks into their next match as a supporter anyway). Clough is confident that the board will come to their senses and re-instate him and Taylor, but Dave Mackay is appointed manager instead, and the appointment of the popular former player mollifies the Derby fans and extinguishes any hope Clough has of getting his job back.Subsequently, he and Taylor are offered jobs as manager and assistant respectively of Brighton & Hove Albion, and they agree to take the jobs after having a holiday in Majorca which Brighton's chairman pays for. During the holiday however Clough is approached by representatives of Leeds and agrees to take over there. Taylor on the other hand prefers the prospect of Brighton, knowing that whatever Clough achieves at Leeds it will still be with Revie's team, and after a fierce argument the two go their separate ways, with Clough taking over at Leeds and Taylor becoming Brighton manager.Without their captain, and also suffering from major differences of opinion with Clough, Leeds suffer a horrendous start to the season and look to be in danger of relegation only one season after winning the title. After Bremner and the players air their grievances to the board, the club decides to terminate Clough's contract - although not before he forces them to pay a huge severance package.Afterwards, Clough agrees to do another interview with Yorkshire Television, and this time Revie is there to have his say, bringing the two face to face at last. Clough accuses Revie of being cold-hearted and fundamentally dishonest, both as a person and a football manager, and Revie in turn brands Clough inflexible and egocentric. Clough also brings up the subject of Revie's failure to acknowledge him in the 1967 FA Cup match, and Revie claims to have not known who exactly the rookie manager was at the time (a doubtful claim considering that Revie was known for meticulously researching every opponent his team faced). After the interview ends, Clough drives down to Brighton to patch things up with Taylor.In the film's epilogue, the audience is told that Don Revie proved a complete failure as an England manager, and afterwards never worked in football in his home country again, spending the rest of his career working in the Middle East. Brian Clough and Peter Taylor meanwhile reunited at Nottingham Forest, where he repeated his prior achievements with Derby by taking them up and winning the First Division, and this time bettered both Revie and his own spell at Derby by winning two European Cups in succession. The film ends by branding Clough "the best manager that the English national side never had." [D-Man2010]
    

The Damned United


            Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler), a Philadelphia engineer, witnesses the rape and murder of both his wife and five-year old daughter at the hands of two burglars who break in his house: Clarence J. Darby (Christian Stolte) and accomplice Rupert Ames (Josh Stewart), leaving Shelton emotionally scarred. He is told by career-minded prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) that the case was compromised by a bungled forensic investigation and Shelton's testimony cannot incriminate either man because he blacked out during the incident. Rice, interested in maintaining his 96% conviction rate, makes a secret deal with Darby: in return for pleading guilty to third-degree murder, he will provide testimony that will send Ames to death row for what is, essentially, a robbery charge. Shelton is left feeling betrayed.Ten years later. Ames is executed via lethal injection. Due to an alteration in the chemicals, he dies in agonizing pain. Initial evidence leads to Darby, who is alerted to approaching police by a mysterious caller who tells him where a pistol he can use to his advantage is. The caller tells him if he wants to escape the police, he will come to where he is. At the meeting place, Darby realizes that the caller and his savior is none other then Shelton. Darby tries to shoot him with the pistol, only to be discover it is a trick gun, injecting him with tetrodotoxin, paralyzing him, but leaving him fully conscious. After restraining him and making preparations to ensure his prolonged awareness, Shelton slowly tortures and dismembers Darby, saying the words Darby told him 10 years before: "You can't fight fate." It is later revealed that Darby was found in 25 pieces, and after an investigation, Rice and his team suspect Shelton.The next day, a local SWAT unit bursts into Shelton's house to find him waiting for them, and he doesn't resist arrest. In an interrogation cell at the jail, Rice covertly congratulates him for removing Darby from society, then asks for a confession. By all appearances co-operative, Shelton offers a full confession in exchange for a deluxe mattress in his cell; Rice reluctantly agrees. At his hearing, Shelton opposes a motion to deny himself bail, citing obscure legal precedents. Judge Laura Burch (Annie Corley), who also presided at Ames' trial, agrees, but Shelton launches into a tirade against the court's preference for legal technicalities over justice. He is removed for contempt of court.After receiving his mattress and delivering the confession, in which he confesses not only to killing Darby but also to having altered the lethal injection chemical that made Ames' death agonizing, Shelton bargains to give the location of Bill Reynolds (Richard Portnow), Darby's attorney, who was reported missing three days before, in return for an expensive steak dinner from Del Frisco's to be delivered at precisely 1 p.m., along with his iPod. Warden Inger (Gregory Itzin) demands multiple precautions, resulting in the food arriving at Shelton's cell eight minutes late. Rice and Detective Dunnigan (Colm Meaney) find Reynolds buried alive and only minutes dead, with Inger's delay causing him to suffocate, his oxygen tank having been set to shut down at 1:15. Dunnigan explains that because Shelton received his lunch at 1:08, they were 7 minutes late instead of getting to Reynolds in time to save him.Shelton and his cellmate, who had threatened to hurt him if he refused to share, eat the steak dinner together. Shelton then murders him by using the steak T-bone as a knife. He is sent to solitary confinement. Rice's assistant, Sarah Lowell (Leslie Bibb), finds evidence of contract payments to Shelton from the Department of Defense, so the head D.A. Jonas Cantrell (Bruce McGill) takes Rice to meet a CIA operative Bray (Michael Kelly) who worked with Shelton. They learn Shelton was once a CIA "brain" working in a black ops think tank on unconventional methods of killing targets. Bray tells them to assume that he can see them and hear them at all times, he is always watching. He also warns them that he's only in jail because he wants to be in jail, and that each thing he does has a deeper meaning. When Rice asks how they should deal with Shelton, Bray advises them to "walk into his cell and put a bullet in his head", otherwise they cannot stop him. As he leaves he says, "If Clyde wants you dead... you're dead".Rice and Cantrell convince Judge Burch to violate Shelton's civil rights and restrict his visting privileges. Minutes later, Judge Burch answers a cell phone which explodes, killing her instantly. At the prison, Rice confronts Shelton, who says these killings are not about revenge but about the failure of the justice system. Unless he is released with all charges dropped by 6:00 a.m . tomorrow, he will kill "everyone."Members of the DA's staff congregate until 6:00 a.m.. They are sent home, but bombs planted underneath their cars go off and kill those inside, including Sarah. Shelton was still incarcerated, so Rice assumes he is using an accomplice outside to help.At Sarah's funeral, an unseen man wearing black clothing powers up a remote controled drone armed with a rocket launcher and a .50 caliber machine gun. The kills Cantrell as he is riding in a SUV with security detail. Rice is appointed acting District Attorney by the uptight mayor (Viola Davis) whom is angry at Rice for his failure to protect everyone. While looking for evidence that Shelton may have accomplices working for him, Rice receives information that points to Shelton owning a small disused garage next to the prison. Rice and Detective Dunnigan arrive at the garage and while looking around, they find a tunnel system leading to all the solitary confinement cells, along with a large supply of armaments. Apparently over the past 10 years, Shelton had dug the tunnel system from his garage to the prison and when it was finished, he deliberately had himself arrested and sent to solitary confinment in order to sneak out of the prison to carry out his killings undetected and all by himself, and then sneak back into his cell the very next day. Dunnigan opens a small hole and finds that it leads to Shelton's cell, which is empty.Disguised as a janitor, Shelton plants a cell phone activated napalm bomb in City Hall, planning to kill the mayor and anyone attending her meeting. Rice, Dunnigan and Detective Garza (Michael Irby) infiltrate the 5th floor and find the bomb directly under the 6th floor, where the mayor is situated at a security meeting. Garza attempts to disarm the bomb, but is unsuccessful and warns them to leave it alone. The three men then decide not to tell the mayor what is going on, as Shelton will be watching and will detonate the bomb with any sign of detection. They then decide what to do with the bomb.Upon returning to his cell through the underground tunnel, Shelton discovers Rice there waiting for him. Shelton offers one last deal, but Rice says that he no longer makes deals with murderers, which Shelton appreciates. Rice says to Shelton that if he detonates the bomb, "It's a decision you'll have to live with for the rest of your life." With his wife and daughter long dead and feeling that he has nothing to live for anymore, Shelton decides to detonate the napalm bomb anyway, but as Rice exits and locks the cell, he calmly says ," Like I said, it's a decision you'll have to live with for the rest of your life, which I think now is about 25 seconds". He then begins to flee the building. At the same time, Detective Dunnigan seals the hatch in the back of the cell to ensure Shelton doesn't escape. Shelton realizes that the bomb was placed under his cot, but merely smiles and stares thoughtfully at a bracelet his daughter had made for him which says "DADDY". The cell explodes, with the last shot of Shelton alive being of him looking up with an almost satisfied expression.In the final scene, Rice is seen attending his own daughter's music recital, an event he had previously put off due to work. He rises with the crowd as they cheer her on after the performance.
    

Law Abiding Citizen

Alice


            Cameron Poe (Nicholas Cage), a honorably discharged United States Army Ranger, is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of an innocent but drunk bar customer while trying to defend his pregnant wife Tricia (Monica Potter) from him, and sentenced to seven to ten years by a bias judge. During his time in prison, he communicates with his wife and daughter while taking time to better himself.Eight years later, Poe is released on parole, and is scheduled to be flown back to Alabama on the same day as his daughter Casey's seventh birthday. Poe is arranged transport on the "Jailbird", a C-123 airplane, along with a fellow prisoner Mike "Baby-O" O'Dell (Mykelti Williamson). This prison transfer flight is being used by U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin (John Cusack) to transport a number of notorious violent criminals to a new supermax prison. These include William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford (Nick Chinlund), convicted of murdering his wife's entire family after he caught her in bed with another man; Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones (Ving Rhames), a black supremacist who bombed an NRA meeting claiming that "they represented the basest negativity of the white race," then wrote a New York Times bestseller from prison that apparently is getting a movie adaptation starring Denzel Washington; Johnny "23" Baca (Danny Trejo), a serial rapist; Joe "Pinball" Parker (Dave Chappelle); and perhaps the most violent criminal in the prison system, Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich), who's served time for kidnapping, robbery, murder, and extortion, shanked 11 inmates, incited three prison riots, and escaped from prison twice, and likes to brag that he's killed more men than cancer.Prior to the flight, Larkin is approached by DEA agent Duncan Malloy (Colm Meaney), who asks to put undercover agent Willie Sims (José Zúñiga) on board the plane to get more information out of drug lord Francisco Cindino, before he is incarcerated in the new prison. Larkin acquiesces but insists the agent go aboard unarmed, but Malloy is able to sneak Sims a gun during the boarding pat-down.Shortly after the flight takes off, Jones and Grissom are able to free themselves with the help of a distraction by another prisoner, Pinball Parker (Dave Chappelle) setting the inmate next to him on fire. The prisoners quickly subdue the guards and Cyrus heads up to the cockpit and quickly kills the co-pilot who came out to settle the riot. Cyrus seizes the copilot's pistol, then quickly takes control of the cockpit to prevent the pilot from reporting the riot and telling the next control center that a small disturbance occurred but is under control. As Pinball is uncuffing the prisoners, Sims attempts to threaten Grissom with Pinball as his hostage, but Poe, recognizing that Sims is at a disadvantage since his hostage is a worthless prisoner like Pinball, attempts to talk the agent out of it; Sims ignores the advice and is killed.As Cyrus organizes the other prisoners to prepare for a scheduled landing in Carson City in order to meet the required number of prisoners being transferred, Pinball informs Cyrus that some of the prisoners that were scheduled to get off were killed during the takeover. Poe initially decides to get off hoping to expose the takeover, but reconsiders when he discovers they are placing tape over the mouths of the transferees who are getting off as a precaution and the pilot is transferred off in his place. His main reason for staying is that O'Dell is a diabetic and the injection needles for his insulin were damaged in the takeover and are unusable so he needs to find a way to help him. Also, Johnny 23 is after the only female guard on the plane, Sally Bishop, despite the fact that Cyrus (who also shares a strong disgust towards rapists) has threatened to kill Johnny if he attempts to rape her. Poe spots a recording device on Sims' body; he transfers it to one the guards that are being substituted for dead prisoners hoping it would attract the attention of the guards on the prison bus.Upon landing to refuel and pick up more prisoners to take them to freedom, Cyrus ensures that the prison transfer goes smoothly. Among the new prisoners boarding are drug lord Francisco Cindino (Jesse Borrego), the mastermind of the escape (and who Sims was sent to interrogate), transvestite serial killer Ramon 'Sally Can't Dance' Martinez (Renoly Santiago), their new pilot, "Swamp Thing" Williams (M. C. Gainey) and cannibal serial killer Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) known as "The Marietta Mangler". Grissom instructs Pinball to hide the plane's transponder, and despite Poe's efforts, the plane leaves Carson City without problems even though the guards on the prison bus discover the true identity of the prisoners on the bus and backup arrives too late because the prisoners spotted their vehicles approaching the runway. Around that time Larkin discovers the plans for the plane's takeover in Cyrus's old jail cell and narrowly avoids getting killed on his way out when one of the guards disregards his advice and opens a small cigar box that has a bomb hidden inside it.After Larkin and Malloy discover what happened, Larkin having heard about Poe from one of their guards suspects Poe is on their side. Malloy, against Larkin's advice, immediately takes off to follow the plane's transponder, which unknown to him was snuck aboard a sightseeing plane. Poe, along with Jones, go into the hull to determine the cause of the plane's slow speed and find that Pinball's body is lodged in the landing wheel compartment, having missed the plane taking off. Poe takes the opportunity to write a message on Parker's shirt to Larkin and pushes the body out of the plane, where it lands in the middle of traffic in Fresno, California.Larkin has a meeting with Trisha and Casey to determine why Poe chose to stay on the plane, when a call comes in from Fresno police and Larkin is quickly made aware of the message. Larkin recognizes that the prisoners' plane is headed in the opposite direction to the disused Lerner Airfield. Unable to convince Malloy of this information over the radio, he borrows Malloy's Corvette to make it to the field before the plane can land, calling in the National Guard and other forces to help secure the airfield.Aboard the plane, Poe attempts to keep his identity secret, killing Bedford when he discovers Poe's parole letter in the personal belongings in the hull. Poe learns from Grissom that Cindino is promising that once they land at Lerner, another plane will be waiting for them to help them gain asylum in "non-extradition territory".The plane lands at the airfield, running aground, but no plane seems to be waiting for them; while the rest of the prisoners are forced by Grissom to dig out the plane (after Poe warns him about trusting Cindino, based on what he heard about Cindino's past treachery), Poe explores the field to try to find an injection needle for O'Dell's insulin whom is going into diabetic shock. Larkin, also on the field, happens upon the plane that Cindino promised, finding that Cindino has double-crossed Grissom and trying to flee on his own and helps rescue Poe from Cindino's henchmen who are there waiting for their boss. Larkin and Poe briefly meet and discuss the situation before Poe leaves to find an injection needle. Cindino slips away from the other prisoners to board his plane and has his pilot take off. Larkin is able to disable the plane, and the crash alerts Grissom, who throws a lit match at the fuel leaking from Cindino's plane, starting a fire and burning Cindino alive.The prisoners observe that armed forces are advancing on the field, and upon Cyrus discovering the small arsenal hidden in the bottom of the plane (and Bedford's body), they set up an ambush trap for the forces. Larkin goes off to help stop the troops from being massacred by reactivating an old unused plow and using it to create a makeshift bulletproof shield, while Poe manages to find an injection needle and returns to the plane to give O'Dell his insulin and manages to stop Johnny from raping Bishop. As the troops overrun the trap, Grissom and the remaining prisoners return to the plane and take off, despite damage to the plane and before Poe could escape with O'Dell and Bishop.Grissom soon discovers Poe's true identity after Jones found Poe's parole letter. After shooting O'Dell in the stomach who tried to take the blame, Cyrus prepares to kill Poe. Malloy, having recognized that Larkin was telling the truth earlier upon encountering the sightseeing plane has tracked down the Jailbird. He has his helicopter pilot open fire on it and disables one of the engines, causing the plane to lose fuel. With Grissom and the others distracted, shooting from the aircraft's ramp at the helicopters, Poe gains control of the cockpit after hand-to-hand combat with prisoners in his path and orders not to fire. When Larkin in a second helicopter, tells Malloy about Poe's identity as a parolee, Malloy orders "hold fire" and joins forces. Attempting to land the aircraft at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, the crippled Jailbird is forced to crash land on "The Strip".The landing causes injuries and fatalities among the inmates while also causing massive destruction along "The Strip" until it comes to a halt in the lobby of the Sands Hotel. Amid the chaos, Poe is thanked by both O'Dell and Bishop for his help as the police arrest the surviving prisoners. Grissom, Jones, and "Swamp Thing" escape on a fire truck. Larkin and Poe see them trying to flee, pursue them on motorcycles, eventually killing all three escapees; Jones being hit by Poe's motorbike, Swamp Thing hurtling through the windshield and being run over after Larkin floods the inside of the fire truck with water from the fire hose, and Cyrus, being beaten by Poe, handcuffed to the fire ladder, and then sent flying after the truck crashes leaving Cyrus to be crushed by a pile driver in a nearby construction site. Poe is finally able to reunite with his loving wife and daughter, who have been brought by Larkin to meet him.In the final scene, a croupier at a craps table in one of the Vegas casinos asks a new shooter if he feels lucky. The shooter, Garland Greene (whom is the only prisoner who escaped), takes the dice, sips a margarita and replies without a smile.
    

Con Air

This Is My Father


            A local radio station in Norwich, North Norfolk Digital, has been bought out by a multinational conglomerate and is about to be re-branded as "Shape", with staff members facing redundancies. DJ Alan Partridge is unconcerned about the change but fellow DJ Pat Farrell (Colm Meaney) fears for his job, and pleads with Alan to gatecrash a board meeting and persuade the new owners not to get rid of him. When Alan inadvertently discovers it is either Pat or himself that must go, he betrays Pat, writing "JUST SACK PAT" on the meeting room flipchart. Pat is later asked to leave.That evening the new owners of the station host a party and while Alan is outside with his assistant Lynn (Felicity Montagu), Pat enters the station with a shotgun and holds the staff hostage. Alan returns to the party and is shot at by Pat. Escaping and commandeering a car he heads to the nearest police station (just over the road) to report events. The police press Alan into service as a negotiator, establish a command centre in a nearby school and send him back into the station to speak to Pat.Alan builds an uneasy rapport with Pat, who explains that he just wants his job back, and together with Alan's co-presenter Sidekick Simon (Tim Key) they continue to host an on-off radio show during the siege. Alan hallucinates several times about being a hero and ending the siege, but cannot bring himself to grab Pat's gun. As the siege becomes national news, Lynn is persuaded to ditch her frumpy style for a TV interview and Alan's ego swells due to his pivotal role. He steals a kiss from a co-worker named Angela who caught his eye earlier in the day (Monica Dolan).Alan accidentally locks himself out of the building and loses his trousers whilst trying to get back in through a window. The police realise he is ineffective as a negotiator and instead try to send in an undercover officer disguised as a pizza delivery man, but Alan interrupts and takes the pizzas in himself. Once inside, he discovers a taser in one of the boxes, and an argument erupts between the hostages during which the police burst in. Pat manages to escape with Alan and Alan's faithful Geordie friend Michael (Simon Greenall) in the stations tour bus.
While on the tour bus Pat and Alan continue to host the ongoing radio show, and it seems as if they trust one another again. But when looking at a photo of the radio management, Pat notices Alan's "JUST SACK PAT" on the flipchart in the background, and recognising his handwriting deduces Alan was behind his redundancy. Alan hides in the tour bus portaloo and escapes under the bus in the septic tank.The final scene takes place on Cromer Pier where Pat faces off with Alan and the police. Michael tries to distract Pat by throwing himself off the pier (to no effect), and Pat explains he is depressed due to the death of his wife. Unable to shoot himself with the long-barreled shotgun, Pat gives the gun to Alan, who throws the weapon aside and is shot in the leg as it goes off, and also accidentally shot in the shoulder by a police sniper. Lynn arrives thinking Alan is dead but a paramedic assures him he will be fine.The film ends with Alan returning to North Norfolk Digital along with the (somewhat shell-shocked) Sidekick Simon and a weekly call-in from Pat who has now been jailed. Alan has also formed a relationship with mother-of-two Angela and is seen driving off on holiday with her and her two boys, towing a boat on a trailer bearing the legend "Alpha Papa".
    

Alan Partridge

The Driver

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

One Chance

Tolkien

Parked

The Van

Will

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

The Journey


            Two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival. Set in 1960's Ireland.
    

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

Bring Them Down


            A young boy from the United States is sent to Ireland to live with his grandfather after the lad's parents are killed in an accident. Between learning to help out on the farm and adjusting to the slower pace of life in rural Ireland, the boy's new life is not always easy for him, especially after he becomes friends with a girl whose family has long held a grudge against his grandfather. But the boy learns important lessons about love, loyalty, and self-discipline when he begins working with grandfather's sheepdogs.
    

Owd Bob


            The film opens as tube driver Paul Callow (Mackenzie Crook) accidentally runs someone down with his train. A few days later, he has the misfortune to have another one-under. His colleagues tell him about a little known rule at London Underground. The one no-one talks about. THREE under within a month, and you're OUT... earning yourself 10 years salary in one lump sum. This is an attractive proposition for someone with heavy debts and a yearning to escape the stresses of the big city to write a novel.Paul sets about trying to find someone prepared to die under his train by Monday morning.Not easy. But the search he embarks on is both hilarious and emotional.How do you approach a complete stranger and ask him if he fancies dying under your train!?After many failed and excruciatingly embarrassing approaches; he comes across Tommy Cassidy (Colm Meaney) attempting to jump off Holborn Viaduct.To Paul's amazement, Tommy agrees to his outrageous proposal. The incentive? Enough money for a last weekend to tie up the loose ends of his life. Once it's agreed, Tommy is determined to go through with it: A deal is a deal.With a new suit and a hired car, Tommy travels to the Lake District via Liverpool so that he can try and reconcile things with his wife, Rosemary (Imelda Staunton) whom he walked out on 8 years ago, and his feisty daughter Frankie (Gemma Arterton). And Paul tags along to protect his investment.We encounter a host of other characters on the way including the Callaghans, (Annette Badland) and (Gary Lewis), who have something that Tommy needs which leads to a very slippery situation; Mary, (Kerry Katona) an angry mistress; Vic (Mark Benton) a fellow tube-driver and expert on the Three and Out Rule; and Maurice, (Sir Antony Sher) a French chef with culinary designs of a very unusual nature.As the film progresses, Paul and Tommy each find something that has eluded them both for years - true friendship. Tommy also has to deal with the inevitable wrath of his wife, who for the past 8 years thought he was dead; as well as his daughter Frankie who wishes he was! Its a life-changing weekend for all concerned.On Monday morning, they are back to the reality of the deal they struck. And a deal is a deal.But can they go through with it?
    

A Deal Is a Deal

A Lobster Tale

The Perfect Stranger

Pixie

The Singapore Grip

Covert One: The Hades Factor

Stand Off

Re-Creation

Turning Green

The Hot Potato

No Way Up


            A BELFAST STORY explores life after terrorism. Set in a city which has weathered hundreds of years of hatred, 30 years of bombs, and a war without winners, just victims. A new era brings new risks. There is peace, but that can also be deadly.Colm Meaney stars as a man weary of doing right. Times are changing, car bombs are less common and terrorists find themselves out of work, but old habits die hard. And while most go quietly into the night, he must find the few who wont comply. Haunted by his own past failures, he knows that he may only get one last chance to repeat the same mistake, and this time, the blood will be on his hands.When a series of murders awaken dormant memories, many fear the worst. A greying assassin has stopped walking his son to school, purely precautionary. And his old comrades are also refusing to die gracefully. Someone is laying plans for the future, but first they must secure the present.Gripping characters, fiercely intelligent action, and deadly consequences... A BELFAST STORY is a film about the passing of a way of life... and the dangers that brings, because in Ireland:Someone always has to buy the last round...
    

A Belfast Story

Unnatural Causes

Alleged

The Secrets of Emily Blair

Confession


            The Yank is a satirical comedy on Irish AMERICA. It confronts the "paddywhackery" that sweeps the U.S. like a shamrock hurricane every St. Patrick's Day,and Half Way to St. Patrick's Day and....so forth....in a playful, subtle way. Tom Murphy is a metaphor for Irish America (Murphy is also the name used in jokes by Irish comedians such as Hal Roach and Noel Ginnity). He is clueless about Irish history, literature, etc. His view of Ireland comes from The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne, which is the same view his family has. Tom gets his first visit to Ireland when he attends his friend, Marty's, wedding. His family in the U.S. see this as an opportunity for Tom to find a "true Irish girl" in the land where their ancestors came from. He also gets to meet his distant relation, played by Colm Meaney, who teaches him a thing or two about Ireland of the past and the Ireland of today.
The expectations Tom's family puts on him to find an Irish wife cause him to search his heart. He loves his family and wants to find a woman who shares the things that he values, such as music, love and loyalty. He eventually finds those qualities in someone but she's not Irish....she's Greek. Tom chooses to defy those expectation and listen to his own heart, deciding to give a possible relationship with Vanessa a try.
He also learns that Ireland is not the mythical land of old movies, but a thriving, proud member of the European community.
    

My Not So Irish Bride


            The film opens in a salt mine in Switzerland in 1948. The miners are preparing explosives to blast new tunnels (and handling them none-too-carefully). It's ten minutes past six (ten minutes past finishing time), and the mining crew wants to go home. However Supervisor Frisch (Adrian Pintea)is determined that one last tunnel will be uncovered before he will let the crew leave. In this last tunnel the miners uncover a "bridal chamber" or small grotto filled with enormous green and blue gems. As the supervisor stands in the entrance of the grotto exclaiming in glee, a giant beetle descends from the ceiling. It is very similar to a stag beetle, but with an extra horn (like a triceratops version of a stag beetle). The beetle impales Frisch with its mandibles as more beetles swarm out of the grotto. The miners flee in horror, staggering back along the tunnels to the lift and getting picked off by the beetles as they go. One miner makes it to the lift which will take him to the surface; however at the last minute a beetle slices through his leg with its jaws, and he rolls in agony on the floor of the lift. He starts it though, and as he ascends, the detonator to the previously mentioned explosives is depressed by a hand, and the mine explodes, making the lift rock and sway. (It is unclear who blows it up. The miner on the lift does not have access to the detonator, however it is not clear who remains alive below to depress the detonator).We cut to a European forest scene, where John Palmer (Christopher Atkins) and his wife Samantha (Angela Featherstone) are at the end of a day spent guiding rich tourists through caves, assisted by their children Miles (Stevie Mitchell) and Emily (Chelan Simmons). Miles is 14ish and gung-ho keen, and Emily is 16-ish, whiny and reluctant(however when John tells Emily to head an hour back to the cave system to get a forgotten belaying rope she is prepared to do so!) We establish that Emily wants to be rich rather than work for rich people. The family is anticipating a much-needed family break in Greece.Meanwhile, in Switzerland, a wheel-chair bound white-haired old man in a fetching lakeside lodge is being pressured by the menacing Marcel (David Palffy) and his hired goons to sign an agreement. When he refuses these guys don't mess around, and chop off his hand (squirting blood pack etc). After some screaming he is permanantly silenced, and Stephan (the rather dishy Christian Popa) is detailed to dispose of the body by the lake. (The implication is that this is the remaining miner from the salt mine, who escaped in the lift).Before the Palmer family make it to Greece they are approached by Marcel, who wants John to guide his party into abandoned Swiss salt mine while his family enjoy a relaxing break in Marcel's beautiful lakeside lodge. Although Emily is whiny and dissapointed, John decides he can't pass up the money, and they all head to the lodge.Stephan is going to stay behind with Miles, Emily and mom Samantha, while John takes Marcel, financial backer Vincent (the reliable Colm Meaney), the beautiful Sophie (Monica Birladeanu), and hired goons Hanz (Marius Chivu) and Carlo (Tudor Vlad Jipa) into the mine. Accordingly they all set out the next morning, after locating a back entrance to the mine on a map (which Marcel has taken from the old man).The mine entrance is an easily-found square hole with a wooden cover hidden by a few leaves. A ladder goes down into the earth, and at the bottom is a lightswitch. John flicks this and lightbulbs go on all through the mine (apparently it is still wired into the town lines, and the explosion did nothing to damage the wiring). So all the rest of the action underground takes place in well lit, open, and quite picturesque tunnels, reminiscent of early Star Trek sets. The group also finds a working electric lift, and head down into the depths of the mine.As the party head into the mine they find a yawning chasm, however they simply shoot a piton into the roof with a rocket-gun and swing across on an attached rope (Hanz is worried that it won't hold his substantial weight). Whenever they come across a rockfall Hanz and Carlo unsling these laser guns that shoot a blue light pulse and apparently pulverize rock (John reminds them not to shoot too high or they will bring the whole mine down).As they work through the mine we see that meanwhile Miles has decided he's big enough to follow Dad, and has headed into the mine behind them, apparantly to grab one chunk of rock salt and get out. However as he descends the initial ladder it breaks and he is unable to return to the surface (not that he tries). He follows the main group of cavers about 10-15 minutes behind.Meanwhile, back at the lodge, Stephan and Emily are flirting outrageously, despite Mom's earnest attempts to get them both out into the fresh air to enjoy some hiking. Emily and Mom ask Stephan about a framed picture of an old man (chopped-off-hand guy) but Stephan answers that he doesn't know who that is. They realise that Miles is not at the lodge and Mom finally gets the lovebirds to head out into the forest with her to look for him. Neither Emily or Samantha know the caving team's plan or proposed route, nor do they have a copy of the map. They seperate and Mom goes alone to the lake edge, where she finds lying on the rocky shore the body of the old man whose photograph she has found in the lodge (Apparently when Marcel told Stephan to get rid of the body at the lake this didn't involve burying the body close to the lake, or dumping it in the lake with weights attached, but instead simply leaving it at the water's edge).Back in the mine, as Hanz is lasering through a rockfall, Carlo and Marcel start to argue. Carlo goes over the edge of the ledge and ends up hanging by his hands. Naturally Marcel won't be questioned and rather than help Carlo up, he steps on his hands sending Carlo screaming down into an abyss. As Carlo lies, injured, at the bottom of the chasm he gets his lighter out to look at his surroundings (no lightbulbs down here), giving us enough faint illumination to see a giant beetle enter the shot and eviscerate him. Marcel tells the others that Carlo fell, and they rush to help him. Shining a torch into the pit the crew sees Carlo's intestines. This does not appear to them to be an unexpected outcome for a fall, however John is shaken, and wants to quit. Marcel insists they expected losses and they will continue on. At this moment Stephan radios Marcel to tell him Miles is missing. Emily asks to talk to John, who reassues her Miles is probably (?) fine. Marcel explains to John that if he argues with him, he will tell Stephan to kill Emily and Samantha. In French Marcel tells Stephan to take the women back to the lodge and tie them up. Back up in the woods we see Emily smile lovingly at Stephan as he receives this instruction and evilly narrows his eyes, however Mom a) speaks French and b) just found the dead body. Unbeknown to us she has snuck up behind Stephan and brains him with a branch. He collapses unconscious. Mom fills Emily in on the Marcel-&-Stephan-are-evil-guys deal, takes Stephan's gun and radio, and they head into the woods to keep looking for Miles.Back in the mine, crawling though a narrow tunnel John examines holes bored in the roof about 4-5 inches in diameter, and explains that these were not man-made. As the team examine them swarms of small beetles cascade forth from them, sending them all tumbling for the tunnel exit, and giving Sophie a chance to scream a lot. As they exit the tunnel and progress through the mine we see that the giant stag beetles are now homing in on them, crawling around the tunnel ceilings, and eventually showing themselves to the cavers, who are luckily all armed with handguns and rifles, not to mention the laser guns. John seems to take the giant beetles remarkably calmly, and counters the team's disbelief by explaining that ancient Egyptians depicted in their art giant beetles as large as humans, which guarded the underworld. John shoots one beetle with a rescue beacon from the rocket gun. The beacon lodges in its side, beeping. This will in future give the team at least two minute's warning of beetle attack as the beeping grows closer.The beetles have also found Miles. As they track him he hangs by his fingers from the same ledge that Carlo fell from. Eventually he too falls, and discovers Carlo's body, however he escapes the beetles and heads deeper into the lower levels of the mine.Marcel is also taking the team into the lower levels in search of the jewelled grotto, which he is determined to find. Various beetle melees ensue. Miles finds the group (this involves an Indiana Jones-esque incident with a rope bridge) and Marcel kills Vincent because he is too sympathetic to John. The mine shakes and heaves a bit, as if in an earthquake.One such upheaval splits open a hole between the mine and the forest above, just as Samantha and Emily are walking by, looking for Miles. Beetles pour out. Samantha empties a few rounds into the beetles and then the girls scamper back through the forest to the lodge. There they think they are safe, and make no attempt to board up windows etc. They hear noises outside the front door, and Mom heads over to give the beetles some more slugs, but, aha! a blood-covered Stephan flings open the door and knocks Mom down; grabbing the gun the girls are his prisoners once more. He stands in front of the window to get a bead on both women and naturally a giant beetle smashes through the window and crushes Stephan in its jaws, severing his upper torso from his legs, rather messily. Emily screams and panics a lot and doesn't want to leave the house, however as the beetles break through all the windows Samantha convinces her they have to go, and indeed as they run off we see the lodge is covered in beetles. Every time they pause in their flight the beetles catch up. They consider shelter in some kind of hut but droves of beetles swarm over the roof. Throughout this they cannot radio the cavers as they fear if Marcel knows they are not Stephan's prisoner he will kill John.Meanwhile, the team, now consisting of Marcel, Hanz, Sophie, John and Miles, finally find the grotto. Marcel starts stuffing jewels into his backpack, and John locates a breeze blowing through a rockfall on the other side of the grotto. As Marcel fills his bag with booty the others dig out the tunnel. The team hear the beeping beacon beetle and know another attack is coming soon, so they all scamper out the cleared hole ...except for Marcel who is collecting gems. He finally decides he has enough, and prepares to climb through to join them. However now the breeze shows the way out John and Miles are redundant, and he doesn't appear to ever have liked Sophie very much. Marcel aims his pistol at Sophie, and John stands in front of her to block the shot. Marcel doesn't care who he shoots first, and prepares to fire...however he probably should have actually got out of the grotto first as a beetle attacks, impaling Marcel fatally. His shot goes astray and hits Hanz - a belly wound. Hanz insists on staying behind with the last laser gun to fight off the approaching beetles and covering the escape of Miles, John and Sophie. Before leaving John grabs Marcel's backpack from where it hangs on a rocky outcrop at the grotto's entrance. Hanz holds off the beetles for a short time until his laser pack runs out of power, then the beetles swarm over him and presumably tear him apart (no gory detail shown however).On the surface Samantha and Emily, persued by beetles, head to the original mine entrance in the hope that this is where Miles has gone.John, Sophie and Miles find a large cavern filled with red root-like vines (like the red weed from War of the Worlds) and lots of eggs (like chicken eggs, standing on end). To one side of the chamber is a small oval hole through which daylight filters. Many large beetles stand on the walls, and a mass of smaller beetles swarm in one corner. Miles explains that this is where the queen beetle lives, and that the others will leave the cavers alone if there is any chance that attacking them will damage the eggs.The trio head for the light, carefully stepping over and around the eggs. John holds Sophie's hand, but it is useless to try to keep her upright as she inevitably falls and lands on a big patch of eggs. They squish stickily on her back. The guard beetles move agitatedly and the queen beetle rears up from underneath the pile of smaller nurse beetles. John reashes into Marcels backpack and pulls out a large number of explosives. He and Miles prepare these (it seems to take some time). Above, in the old mine buildings, Emily and Samantha are under heavy attack from the beetles, and are getting desperate. It is clear they will not be able to hold them off much longer (standing in the middle of an open latticework of girders doesn't help). The use the radio to call Dad (it is unclear to what purpose this is - to say goodbye?)
At this exact moment John shoots some form of explovise charge into the body of the queen using the rocket gun (it doesn't go off though). The queen squeals and all the beetles rush to tend to her. As John answers the women's radio call, the queen's distress call is transmitted to all the attackjing beetles above ground,and they immediately stop attacking and swarm down the original mineshaft entrance to assist the queen. John and Miles distribute the other explosive charges around the cavern and then the trio make a break for the exit. As they scramble for the surface John sets off the explosive charges by remote, and, as the queen and her eggs explode, the remnants of the team at last burst out into daylight, to be reunited with Mom and Emily.Sophie has Marcel's backpack, and she takes out one large gem for herself, and throws the rest to John with a smile. As Sophie walks off the Palmer family hug. John looks at all the jewels in the backpack and reminds Emily that she always wanted to be rich. With much grinning and tousling of hair the family start to walk off.End Credits!
    

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