As a young couple discuss the idea of giving up smoking, the sounds of a neighbouring argument spill into their flat. The argument makes them question their own marriage, while doing nothing about the neighbouring situation.
Meanwhile, a young teenager argues with his mother as he tries to sneak out to a party with friends. His mother blackmails him into staying home, using his guilt against him.
A long English summer and Katie is bored. As a last resort she seeks out sherry and companionship from Dorothy, her grandmother. Dorothy wants to go home though and the two form an unlikely alliance whose days are numbered.
It's ‘vege-mania’ in Wallace and Gromit’s neighbourhood and our intrepid chums are cashing in as elite pest-control duo Anti-pesto. With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming!
But running a 'humane' pest control outfit has its drawbacks. Wallace and Gromit's home is brimful of captive bunnies and Gromit's daily task of feeding the ever-expanding population is second only to his job of feeding his master: with all their recent success, Wallace has been over-indulging in his beloved cheese and Gromit is struggling to keep him on a strict vegetable diet. True to form, Wallace resorts to technology to cure all his problems with 'the Mind-manipulation-o-matic', a simple brain-altering device.
All is well until an unexplained, nocturnal, veg-ravaging rabbit monster begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots. Soon the townsfolk are in uproar and the fate of the competition lies in the balance, until beautiful heiress and vegetable competition hostess Lady Tottington, impressed with Wallace’s humane methods, commissions Anti-pesto to apprehend the beast and save the day. Wallace's aspirations rise - this is just the sort of client he's dreamed of.
'Using photography, interviews, film and music my work at the Royal Marsdey Cancer Hospital in London has tried to explore the lives of people with cancer. Within a theme of humility and a struggle for meaning, I would meet with patients and film them. Together we would find a narrative that, for them, said something of their experience.'
This film is a result of this work.
Terrified of holding the 'worst-ever party', the over-honest and over-obsessive Lance faces his fear when his parents go away for a dirty weekend. He and porn-addicted best mate Henry plan the party, the only problem being that they are each planning different parties. When Steph, Lance's perfect woman, turns up with the man-eating Abby and the man-hating Heather (plus some unexpected gatecrashers) and when Henry's plan kicks in, Lance sees his dreams painfully fall apart as the worst-ever party gets progressively worse. But is there light at the end of a very dark tunnel?
We've seen Trainspotting. We've seen Twin Town. We've seen the gritty social dramas. But set in the definitively middle-class 'Royal Tunbridge Wells Spa Town', We've got the Toaster shows a different Britain from the urban and social decay portrayed in most home-grown pictures. It's a comedy that lovingly skits middle England.
Toaster is as much about what happens before and after a party as what happens during one. The sleep-over. The clean-up. The neighbours. The parents. The myth. The way it can change your life for better and for worse.
While in Rotterdam trying to salvage his failing business, former SBS undercover agent Brett Gunner receives information that his wife and children have been abducted. In order to free his family he is forced back into the world of espionage and sleaze. All is not as it seems, as his friend and former boss Calhoun lies dying after being shot. Before he dies he divulges to Brett the sinister truth. It soon becomes apparent that he is being used and manipulated by former Q5 operatives in their plot to flush out the drug syndicate run by femme fatale Jo Moran. She in turn is aided by her henchman, sexual deviant Fyodor Savic, who ends up entrapping Brett in a compromise between right and wrong. With the final explosive climax on the cliffs overlooking the sea, all the pieces fall into place.
Slim O'Rafferty, the tired old cowboy, needs to pass his compulsory annual eye-test in order to continue riding his horse. The chief optician's deputy has other ideas.
Satan visits his psychoanalyst for advice on marketing Hell as the 'place to be'. His analyst is initially reluctant to comply but eventually realises that he is has been having a bad dream and when he finally awakes the devil has become a Bishop.
Lanny Morris and Vince Collins are the country's hottest entertainment duo. They're knee deep in all the wealth and power that comes with such fame. That is, until a beautiful girl turns up naked and dead in the pair's hotel suite after a night of wild partying. Journalist Karen O'Connor's quest to uncover the facts leads her into an emotional and sexual relationship that proves impossible to break, even when the horrible truth of past actions is revealed.
More than 3,000 insects appear in this film each for a single frame. As the colours glow and change across their bodies and wings it is as if the genetic programme of millions of years is taking place in a few minutes. It is a rampant creation that seems to defy the explanations of evolutionists and fundamentalists. It is like a mescalin dream of Charles Darwin's.
Based on true events, Why Me? is a poetic short film that delves into the emotional world of an 11-year-old, known only as Boy, who goes through a painful awakening when he discovers that there is no such thing as the 'perfect' family.
