A twisted, cautionary tale exploring the dangers of the modern advertising world's 'quick fix' mentality. When a potential cure to Grandma's fears presents itself on television, she hopes for an easy escape from her horrible, haunting visions. 'Hyper Therapy' may hold the answer to her phobias, and be able to get rid of the butterflies in her stomach, but at what cost? Can the cure possibly be worse than the symptoms? Remember, fear is there for a reason!
When Candy Connor and Randy Bush, celebrated Californian self-help gurus, come to London to launch their bestselling book ‘Are You Ready For Love? How To Find Love in Three Days’, they choose three single Brits for a publicity stunt to prove that their advice works.
Luke, Barry and Melanie are the three unlucky-in-love hopefuls who pay good money to take part in Candy and Randy’s promotional promise.
Luke, a self-confessed ‘Monster Lover’, is a 38-year-old ageing pop star who relies on his status as a one-hit wonder to attract one-night stands. He is in desperate need of help to find a real relationship.
Barry, a 35-year-old Jewish dentist, is a perfectionist with high expectations for his perfect partner. He turns to Candy and Randy in a last attempt to avoid his domineering mother’s match-making scheme.
Melanie, a 32-year-old photographer, is a hopeless romantic looking for ‘The One’. Always seeming to find the wrong one, she believes that Candy and Randy will help her to find true love.
These three single Brits have just 72 hours to find love by following the advice given to them by the Californian gurus and their new book. Throughout this three-day period, their every move is filmed by roving cameras who are documenting their success for a promotional television programme to be shown at a press conference after the three days are up.
The film follows the rise of punk rock duo 'Selfish Cunt' from their early gigs burning Union Jacks in protest at the war in Iraq, through critical recognition in the mainstream press to recording in New York and finally a concert at London's Brixton Academy. The film questions whether punk rock can be reinvented in the 21st century, whether performance can ever be political and what it really is that lead singer Martin Tomlinson is so angry about. The film paints a picture of London's underground art scene as it collides with the mainstream and questions whether any of these categories really mean anything at all.
An errant father and his young son are thrust together unwillingly to perform a grim family task. Granddad has died, and the son and grandson have been entrusted with scattering the ashes at his beloved Anfield Stadium. But nothing in this family ever goes to plan, and the boy is left with a problem on his hands.
When Ellen Cole goes undercover at a mental asylum to rescue her brother she is unaware that she is about to encounter her worst nightmares, for St. Mariah's hospital for the criminally insane holds a dark secret. Deep in the dark recesses of the asylum vampires have been caged for experiments but on this festive night the vampires will rise to draw blood again. Whilst in the hospital ballroom the Christmas party guests are blissfully unaware of the horror heading straight for them. With only the help of a pathological killer and a whimsical police bobby can Ellen escape the insanity of the asylum, the battle is on.
The Celts need to seek a new hero to help them fight the raiding Angles.
Fingal, the Celtic hero, betrayed to the Angles led by Aeric The Axe, is murdered. Meanwhile, Roderich, the governor of Strathclyde, preparing to make himself a king by marrying the daughter of the king of Ulster, Langoreth O' Neill, has his own daughter Melangall, a disappointment to him, banished to the farm of a serf in the loch lands.
Fingal's daughter Ethne, with the aide of retainer Domlec, sets off after the Angles to avenge her father and seek help from the Picts. However, the Angles are having their own difficulties - their ship has been stolen by a Friesian merchant Aldric who had been kept captive by Aeric. When the ship is struck and sunk by a loch monster, Aldric and slave girl Hretha determine to have their revenge on Aeric.
To complicate matters, double-dealing Tudwal, the betrayer of Fingal, in exchange for the chance to marry Roderich's daughter Melangall, also sets off to find Aeric and kill him. Roderich, meanwhile, left behind to negotiate his marriage terms, finds himself agreeing that once married to Langoreth and proclaimed king, she will set off to Rome for good with her monk Oran, and be supported by Roderich for the rest of her life.
Finally, Roderich's retainer, Dyfnwal, the gentle giant who Melangall loves, realises that unless he does something to straighten matters out, the country will sink further into ruin.
A criminal comedy drama for young viewers, Bad Brown Owl is nine minutes of adventure, intrigue and a spectacular heist. But can new Brownie member, Rosie, thwart Bad Brown Owl's evil plans of robbery, save her sister and keep the Brownie law?
Bata-ville is a bittersweet documentary record of a coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire in Zlín in the Czech Republic. Against the backdrop of regeneration in their local communities, former employees of the now-closed UK shoe factories in East Tilbury (Essex) and Maryport (Cumbria) are led on a journey that begins as a free holiday but soon becomes an opportunity for a collective imagining of what entrepreneur Tomas Bata's maxim 'We are not afraid of the future' means for them in 21st- century Britain.
Inspired by the contrast between the idealism of Bata and the more recent industrial decline of East Tilbury and Maryport, host/directors Pope and Guthrie lead this unorthodox coach party on a journey through Bata's legacy.
