Employs a huge ensemble of comedy stalwarts, assembled by an eccentric hotelier to race from Las Vegas to New Mexico for a $2 million jackpot. With a backstage gambling subplot, the movie has almost as many highlights as clunkers, with easy gags and traditional slapstick that wil...
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"From 1953 to 1959, Edward R. Murrow informally welcomed television viewers into the homes of the twentieth century's most well-known stars. Utilizing perhaps the simplest set in television--a chair, a table, an ashtray and a picture window--, Murrow greeted two guests a week in ...
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to live in a rural farmhouse with her father. She tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother. Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with her life cha...
A suburban community is shaken to the core when a pair of foster teenagers mysteriously disappear, uncovering a darkness hiding in plain sight. Tension builds, lives intersect and uncomfortable truths are exposed as the community races against time to save their youth in this cri...
Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster home...
A biography of C.T. Studd, a wealthy Englishman who became famous for his missionary work in Central Africa.
When Jill Laity inherits a cottage and some land in Cornwall, she decides to set up a garden centre with the help of her friend Judy. But tensions mount when she refuses to sell part of the land to neighbouring farmer Brandon Trelease, a widower with a young son. When Judy leaves...
"Virginia (Ginny) Shaw comes to Cornwall to research her family history and realises her relationship with Phil is over. She meets the charismatic Greg and gets drawn into his world of sea and surfing. At a fancy-dress party, however, their friendship is tested when Ginny upsets ...
Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe ...
Employs a huge ensemble of comedy stalwarts, assembled by an eccentric hotelier to race from Las Vegas to New Mexico for a $2 million jackpot. With a backstage gambling subplot, the movie has almost as many highlights as clunkers, with easy gags and traditional slapstick that wil...
Recently divorced archaeologist Jo Kingston comes home to Cornwall with her daughter Sophie to live with her father. When her old 'flame', Nick Angove, is injured on a dig Jo takes over, but faces fierce resentment from him. Then, intriguingly, human bones are found and the polic...
In Rear window, A photographer confined to his room with a broken leg suspects a murder has been committed in a nearby apartment. Vertigo is an elaborately constructed murder story and a fascinating study in sexual obsession. A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a c...
"A riveting, sharply observed and thoroughly modern police procedural featuring a stellar but unlikely female detective team, perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Deborah Crombie Detective Constable Janet Scott is subtle and reliable, a diplomatic thinker with a wry sense of hu...
Cult Writers handpicks 50 notable figures from the modern world of literature and explores how they use language as a form of provocation.
A century after Alfred Hitchcock's first film, he remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his vast body of work and legacy hold up in today's society? Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The...