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"The Disaster Artist" is based on the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult-classic disasterpiece 'The Room' ("The Greatest Bad Movie of All Time").

Director and star James Franco transforms the true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau - an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable - into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.

Samson and Delilah's world is small - an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.

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Revealing a surprising side to the world painted by Jane Austen and the Brontes, this moving drama tells of the passionate and dramatic life of Anne Lister, Britain's first modern lesbian. "I was not born to live alone.

I must have someone with me and in loving and being loved, I could be happy" Maxine Peake delivers a remarkable and heartfelt performance as Anne Lister, an early 19th century Yorkshire landowner whose deciphered journals reveal the agonies and ecstasies behind her scandalous lifestyle... A landowning gentlewoman who defied convention, Anne Lister follows her passion in pursuing and seducing the beautiful Mariana. However just as their exhilarating, illicit affair threatens to scandalise society, Mariana chooses to marry the older but wealthy Charles Lawton. A distraught Anne, denied the love of her soul mate, is forced to look elsewhere for the passion she craves. In her remarkable struggle to survive Anne discovers new depths that test her spirit and the fortitude of her convictions.

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A young copywriter at Pym's Publicity Ltd. falls down the staircase and is fatally injured. Before his fall the copywriter had notified his boss that something more dire than just bad copy has infiltrated the ad agency.

The owner hires detective Death Bredon Wimsey in disguise, who poses as an adman taking over the dead man's job. As Bredon, Wimsey writes snappy headlines, banters with the typists and carouses with highborn lowlifes in his free time. All the while piecing together a web of nefarious criminals that has ensnared both the wicked and the weak

Hailed as "Michael Moore's most powerful film yet" (Sophia A. McClennen, Salon), 'Fahrenheit 11/9' is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. It will explore the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How the f**k did we get here, and how the f**k do we get out?

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The enduring character of Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Rose was first introduced in The Odd Man and It's Dark Outside, Granada's cult crime series of the early '60's, and this sequel sees the acerbic detective emerging from a restless retirement to take on another set of cases.

In addition to writing his memoirs and tending his cottage garden on the south coast, Mr. Rose (William Mervyn) finds plenty to keep him occupied. This third and final series sees him tackling crimes ranging from blackmail to murder, art theft to protection rackets, aided by new assistant Robert Trent (Eric Woofe), a number of former colleagues and, on occasion, former villains.

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Dorothy McNab is a prickly American authoress who shares a Chelsea flat with her English butler Robert Hiller, a quintessential Gentleman's Gentleman. It's never long before the sparks fly, however, as New Money inevitably c lashes with The Old School Tie...

A classic BAFTA-nominated sitcom which ran for four series, 'Two's Company' pairs the talents of Emmy Award-winning American actress Elaine Stritch and RSC stalwart Donald Sinden. This release contains every episode of all four series from 1975 to 1979, and includes the 1976 Christmas Special.

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Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore is back with 'Where to Invade Next', a provocative and hilarious comedy in which Moore will stop at nothing to figure out how to actually make America great again. Just in time for election season, America's favourite political provocateur.

Michael Moore, is back with his new film, 'Where to Invade Next'. Honoured by festivals and critics groups alike, 'Where to Invade Next' is an expansive, hilarious, and subversive comedy in which the Academy Award-winning director confronts the most pressing issues facing America today and finds solutions in the most unlikely places. The creator of 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and 'Bowling for Columbine' has returned with an epic movie that's unlike anything he has done before - an eye-opening call to arms to capture the American Dream and restore it in, of all places, America.

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Richard Griffiths and Benjamin Whitrow give hilarious performances as Jack and Hugo - the co-directors of an upmarket wine merchants that is decidedly on its uppers! Congenitally work-shy, the two perpetual partygoers get a considerable shock when the company accountant unexpectedly dies and they

discover that they're completely strapped for cash! When the bank installs a troubleshooter to save them from bankruptcy they're faced with the ghastly realisation that they may well have to stop partying and start working for a living...

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Legendary Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter stars in all six of his spectacular shows from the 70's and 80's.

These highly-popular, big-budget extravaganzas featured some of his most fondly-remembered impersonated characters, such as Glandy Jackson, Benny Pill, Chic Gable, John Bitumen and Bruce Forsdyke. Not only did his shows win multiple BAFTA's, but Baxter himself has been the recipient of a lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards.

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Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic BBC adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L Sayers. Lord Peter Wimsey attends the wedding of Sir Charles Thorpe's son at which an extremely valuable emerald necklace belonging to Lady Wilbraham is stolen.

Thanks to Wimsey's quick thinking the culprits are apprehended although the whereabouts of the jewels remain a mystery. Many years later, when a mutilated, unidentified corpse is found in the grave of the recently deceased Lady Thorpe. Wimsey investigates and becomes embroiled in an attempt to recover the necklace which was stolen many years before.

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Feature is a classic of screen history and as uproariously funny today as it was seventy years ago. This film introduced Groucho's African lecture ("One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas, I don't know...

") and the card game which Harpo and Chico play with the wealthy society woman Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont).

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Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Rose (played by William Mervyn), was first introduced in 'The Odd Man' and 'It's Dark Outside', Granada's cult crime series of the early '60s, and this sequel sees the acerbic detective taking on a further selection of intriguing cases alongside Donald Webster as his

enigmatic manservant, John Halifax; this series also features guest turns from Barbara Shelley, Tenniel Evans and Robert Urquhart. Mr. Rose has now retired from the force to cultivate his cottage garden and concentrate on writing his memoirs. But a number of people have good reason to fear Rose s vast personal collection of case files. A veritable library of crime, it contains a wealth of incriminating detail that villains and former colleagues alike would rather remain unpublished. Time may have mellowed Mr. Rose, but he s as sharp as ever as he deals with their attempts to stop him revealing all...

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Pretty Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray) has her pick of men. There's her boyfriend, the sophisticated Victor (Eric Portman), and now there's Jack... He's the humble bus conductor who comes to her rescue after the bus stalls and delays her journey by an hour.

She was on her way to meet Victor at the Hampstead Heath fairground and Jack gallantly escorts her there. Sparks fly between the pair as they share ice cream and enjoy the fair while keeping an eye out for Victor. When they finally reunite, Anne and Victor head for home at the same time a young woman is found dead on the Heath. She appears to be the latest victim of The Strangler', a notorious serial killer who has already struck five times before. With Jack seen storming away from the scene and Victor's handkerchief found near the body, the police seize both men to appear in the lineup of potential suspects. A crazed game of cat and mouse ensues and Anne soon finds herself in serious danger. The police are up against time in this race to draw the threads together - but in the end, which neck will they close around? Will the police get their killer before he gets Anne?

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Written by Johnny Speight creator of 'Till Death Us Do Part' and based on an idea by Spike Milligan, 'Curry and Chips' proved to be one of the most controversial situation comedies ever made.

Originally screened in 1969, the series featured Milligan as Kevin O'Grady, a man of mixed Asian and Irish descent who has just started his new job at Lillicrap Ltd, manufacturer of cheap novelty items and seaside souvenirs. Inevitably, he soon becomes the butt of jokes from his resoundingly intolerant workmates. Speight's determined attempt at confronting racism with its own conventions polarised critical opinion, although it was extremely popular with the viewing public and ended up in the ITV Top Ten. Co-starring with Milligan was long-term friend, writing partner and comedy legend Eric Sykes as shop foreman Arthur Blenkinsop. Kenny Lynch, Norman Rossington and Geoffrey Hughes played their narrow-minded workmates. Reflecting the widespread and overt prejudices of its time, 'Curry and Chips' attempted to confront bigotry in daily life by caricaturing it. Exploring similar territory to Johnny Speight's earlier and highly successful 'Till Death Us Do Part' 'Curry and Chips' will inevitably shock modern audiences in its language and single-minded focus on race.