Meet Tony Stark, a popular and influential billionaire playboy who, gifted with phenomenal scientific genius, built Stark enterprises into a cutting-edge, multinational industrial giant. After being gravely injured in an accidental explosion, during a scientific experiment gone awry, Stark is captured by the powerful villain, the Mandarin, a demented genius who plans to use Stark and his skills in a devious scheme to take over the world. Stark attempts to escape, but is attacked by the Mandarin and his forces. Barely clinging to life, he designs a heavily equipped suit of high-tech armor with Jet-powered boots and blaster gloves. Wearing this suit, Stark becomes Iron Man, an armored avenger ready to crush any evil force that dares to get in his way. Iron Man faces the challenge of defeating the nearly overwhelming evil of the Mandarin and his corrupt gallery of rogues. Fighting with honor, justice, an Iron fist and a will to match, Iron Man cannot lose.
This classic anthology science fiction series, created by Irene Shubik, was daring, ambitious and inventive, drawing from writers of the calibre of Frederik Pohl, E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and John Wyndham. The cream of British television talent was recruited to bring these tales to the small screen. Dramatists such as J. B. Priestley and Leon Griffiths, directors such as Philip Saville and Rudolph Cartier, visionary designers, including Ridley Scott, and actors of the calibre of Yvonne Mitchell, George Cole, Rachel Roberts and David Hemmings.The results were spectacular: a consistently demanding exploration of science fiction with some of the most memorable television productions ever staged. This seven-disc video box set collects all 20 surviving episodes from the four original series, along with an extensive and comprehensive collection of extra features including four episode reconstructions, an incomplete episode, audio commentaries, stills galleries, an interview with director James Cellan Jones, and a newly created 42-minute documentary with original cast and crew members and rarely seen fragments from lost episodes.
Young Philip Pirrip (Christopher Guard) - universally known as Pip - encounters escaped convict Magwitch (John Tate) in a deserted graveyard, and helps him find food and escape his shackles. When his kindness is later rewarded by an unexpected inheritance, the adult Pip (Gary Bond), surrounded by home comforts, grows mean and arrogant - and smitten with the aloof Estella (Francesca Annis). Maxine Audley plays vindictive recluse Miss Havisham, who has raised Estella to distrust all men; Neil McCarthy and Richard O'Sullivan are Pip's steadfast friends Joe Gargery and Herbert Pocket; and Peter Vaughan is the fearsome and highly effective lawyer Jaggers. The cast also includes Hannah Gordon as Pip's confidante Biddy, Norman Scace as Joe's pompous uncle Pumblechook, Shirley Cain as Pip's hot-tempered sister Georgiana ('Mrs Joe'), and Ronald Lacey as the shadowy Orlick.
Mighty Thor is cast down to earth wielding a mystic battle hammer named Mjolnir, too heavy for anyone unworthy of its great powers. This weapon, blessed with several enchanted qualities, allows Thor to summon elements of thunder, lightning, wind and rain; travel through other dimensions; and transform in and out of a mortal state. Thor's jealous and deceitful half brother Loki, the Lord of Lies, despises the Mighty Super Hero and tries mercilessly to sabotage his brother by casting villains and demons down to earth to destroy him, always to no avail. As the battles between good and evil, mortal and immortal, elevate to the outrageous, mighty Thor must call upon all of his fantastic abilities to save the planet from destruction.
Take a walk on the dark side of justice! When innocent citizens commit crimes across Metropolis and Gotham City, the Justice League suspects an otherworldly cause. Batman turns to John Constantine, who quickly learns he'll need help from Zatanna, Deadman, Etrigan the Demon and a wild card upon whom even he is hesitant to call.
From executive producer Bruce Timm and based on the acclaimed DC Comics graphic novel, "Batman: The Killing Joke" is a journey into the dark psyche of the Clown Prince of Crime. Follow his humble beginnings as a struggling comic to the fateful encounter with the Dark Knight that changed everything. Now escaped from Arkham Asylum, The Joker sets out to prove that one bad day can make anyone just as insane as he is. With The Joker's sights set on Commissioner Gordon, can Batman stop the demented plan in time? Featuring a gripping prologue spotlighting Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) and featuring the return of Kevin Conroy as Batman, Mark Hamill as The Joker and Tara Strong as Batgirl, witness the birth of a super villain, the fortitude of a hero and the punchline that will leave you speechless!
From the imagination of Marvel Comics' Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, The Incredible Hulk takes its first step from the page to the small screen! Aired as part of the 1966 Marvel Super Heroes Tv Series, the awesome beast is revealed is his original form - animated directly from the comic book pages. This 2-Dvd box set brings together the complete original Hulk animated series for the first time. Scientist Dr Bruce Banner oversees the detonation of an experimental gamma bomb. Just before the explosion a teenager, Rick Jones, strays in the danger area, Dr Banner saves the boy but is blasted with a full dose of gamma rays, that night he undergoes the very first transformation into the super-strong, sometimes near-mindless brute known as the Hulk.
It's batter up at Belle Reve, and that can only mean that Amanda Waller, the penitentiary's cold and calculating warden, has a mission only the damned will take on. It's time to unleash Task Force X again, stacked with seasoned vets such as Deadshot, Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang and Harley Quinn. These crafty criminals are joined by newcomers Copperhead and the martial arts master Bronze Tiger! With the target being a mystical object so powerful they're willing to risk their own lives to steal it, there's sure to be a collision of chaos, gunfire and attitudes. So, get packed for a raging road trip with the Suicide Squad!
The Marvel Cinematic Universe expands into the cosmos when brash space adventurer Peter Quill steals a coveted orb and becomes the object of a relentless bounty hunt. To evade his enemies, Quill forges an uneasy truce with Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon; Groot, a tree-like humanoid; the deadly assassin Gamora; and the revenge-driven Drax. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb, he must rally his ragtag band of misfits for a desperate battle that will decide the fate of the galaxy.
When a good cop (Peter Weller) gets blown away by some ruthless criminals, innovative scientists and doctors are able to piece him back together as an unstoppable crime-fighting cyborg called "RoboCop". Impervious to bullets and bombs, and equipped with high-tech weaponry, RoboCop quickly makes a name for himself by cleaning up the crime-ridden streets of violence-ravaged Detroit. But despite his new hardened exterior, RoboCop is tormented by scraps of memories of his former life, and relives vivid nightmares of his own death at the hands of the vicious killers. Now he is out to seek more than justice...he wants revenge!
Welcome to Gotham City's heart of darkness. At the center of the shadows rises Arkham Asylum, a festering depository of the vile, the dangerous and the delirious, with an ever-growing population courtesy of the Dark Knight. But when Batman foils the Riddler's latest caper and a crucial piece of evidence needs to be secretly recovered from Arkham, the solution comes from an unexpected source: a covert government strike team assembled from Gotham City's underworld. The assassin Deadshot leads the Suicide Squad: Harley Quinn, Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang, King Shark and Black Spider, a roster of rogues who know Arkham Asylum and its residents all too well. Get ready for an all-out assault as Batman faces a fearless legion of criminals with nothing to lose. Some will live, some will die and some just want revenge. It's an unadulterated adventure through the criminal mind in the latest DC Universe animated movie.
Sentinels swarm. Smith Clones. Neo Flies...but perhaps not even a Chosen One gifted with astonishing new powers can stop the advance of the Machines. Neo. Morpheus. Trinity. They're back for the powerful second chapter of The Matrix trilogy, and exciting new allies join them in the struggle against foes who are cloned, upgraded and closing in on humanity's last enclave. Back, too, are the Wachowski Brothers and producer Joel Silver, expanding their vision with a spectacle that rocks the senses, probes the heart and shapes filmmaking's tomorrows. What is The Matrix? The question is not yet fully answered. And it leads to another: Who created The Matrix? The answers lead to more worlds of bold possibility - and to a destiny that passes from revelations to Revolutions.
Perception: The Everyday World is Real. Reality: That World is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence that control us. Mind blowing stunts. Techno-slamming visuals. Megakick action. Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne lead the fight to free humankind in 'The Matrix', the cyber thriller that you will watch again and again.
Who Will Stand Against the Man of Steel? When his world is shattered by tragic events set in motion by the diabolical Joker, Superman becomes hell-bent on enforcing peace...at any cost. The Man of Steel begins a reign of tyranny that can only be stopped by one hero: Batman.The splintered Justice League divides its ranks as the two former allies wage a deadly battle for freedom. In this alternate world of chaos, loyalties are tested, and the line between friend and foe blurs. Based on the critically acclaimed video game and graphic novel, Injustice unleashes an all-out war fought by DC's mightiest. Can the world survive?
Marcus Clarke's epic novel depicting the horrors and degradation of the Australian penal system is one of the great classics of Australian literature and the subject of this classic 3 part inini-series. Disinherited and driven from his home in England when he discovers the secret of his true parentage, young Richard Devine (Colin Friels) changes his name to Rufus Dawes but is then falsely accused of murdering his real father. Transported to the notorious Port Arthur in Van Diemen's Land "for the term of his natural life", Dawes is gradually transformed from the bright and witty young Englishman into a hardened and desperate convict. He is unafraid to attempt the most daring escapes or brutal clashes with fellow prisoners and his jailers - including the cruel Lt. Maurice Frere (Rod Mullinar) or the troubled Reverend North (Anthony Perkins). "Dawes'" last hope for vindication is his passion for y Sylvia (Penelope Stewart), daughter of prison Commandant, Major Vickers (Patrick Macnee). That hope is put to the ultimate challenge by Sylivia's own dark secrets.
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