steveh's - Steve's rental picks List

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After 6-year-old Andy Barclay's (Alex Vincent) babysitter is violently pushed out of a window to her death, nobody believes him when he says that "Chucky", his new birthday doll, did it! Until things start going terribly wrong...dead wrong.

And when an ensuing rampage of gruesome murders lead a detective (Chris Sarandon) back to the same toy, he discovers that the real terror has just begun...the deranged doll has plans to transfer his evil spirit into a living human being - young Andy!

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Bishop, Q, Raheem and Steel are from the hood, they're drifting through life spending their days cutting school, fighting and shoplifting for fun. Q dreams of becoming a DJ but Bishop has other ideas. He buys a gun and is soon making plans for his crew to rob the local store.

But things don't go to plan and their lives are changed forever.

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I'm Alan Partridge is a British comedy series written by and starring British actor and comedian Steve Coogan.

With writing credits also going to Peter Baynham and Armando Ianucci the series follows Alan Partridge, a failed TV presenter now hosting a radio chat show on a small local station in Norwich. The series has garnered a huge cult following and inspired not only a book but also a feature film and rebooted the television series.

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The Carry On Team go ape crazy in darkest Africa as Professor Inigo Tinkle (Frankie Howerd) and his clumsy sidekick, Claude (Kenneth Connor), embark on a bird fancying expedition.

Primitive passions are unleashed, a forgotten tribe of gorgeous, man-hungry females is encountered and a loin-clothed, vine-swinging jungle boy (Terry Scott) is the unlikely hero in this riotous romp. Sid James as the fearless white hunter Bill Boosey, Joan Sims as the naughty Lady Bagley, and Charles Hawtry as Tonka - the father of countless, happily go native for this classic Carry On.

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The bar where everyone knows your name, the long running American sitcom Cheers that follows the bar staff and patrons of a bar in Boston.

Eleven long seasons tell the story of bartender Sam (Ted Danson) and his series of failed relationships, including the long running on-again off-again romance with graduate student come cocktail waitress Diane (Shelley Long). The show also included recurring appearances from other well known characters included a famous psychiatrist named Frasier Crane (Frasier).

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Supercool mobster Mark (Chow Yun Fat) is a man of honour in a world of crime. His partner Ho (Ti Lung) is having second thoughts because kid brother Kit (Leslie Cheung) is an ambitious cop. Kit remains blissfully ignorant until Ho is double-crossed, their father is murdered and Ho is imprisoned.

Mark swears to avenge his friend, but his right leg is shattered in the ensuing shoot out, a legendary scene of sensationally choreographed gunplay. When Ho leaves the slammer he find the crippled Mark reduced to scrubbing dirt off the boss's stretch limo. Both are determined to go straight, but neither Kit nor the crimelords are done with them yet. Finally, Mark, Ho and Kit must face their destiny in a blazing crosfire of conflicting loyalties and hot lead. Who will survive.....?

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From John Woo, the director of Hong Kong movie classics including Bullet in the Head and The Killer comes this explosive sequel to his revered action thriller A Better Tomorrow. Once again starring the legendary Chow Yan Fat, called back into action to help out Triad boss Dean Shek.

Along for the bullet ballet is Ti Lung and Leslie Cheung to ensure maximum carnage in a film that easily challenges the body count orgy of any previous John Woo heroic bloodshed movies. This isn't the Hollywood-sanitized Woo you'll soon find out from a film that sears the brain with outrageously delivered shootouts. Outstanding amongst the glorious gunplay is Chow Yun Fat who is easily the coolest man with a grenade ever to grace the silver screen. Pull up your eyeballs to the screen and just try to keep up with the blood spray as you witness the true gangster classic that is A Better Tomorrow II.

Haunted by a guilty past, undercover cop Ko Chow (Chow Yun-fat) infiltrates a violent criminal gang, but when a daring heist turns into a bloodbath, questions ) of his loyalty are raised, and compulsion takes him to the very edge of reason.

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This time the jokes are really ancient! Roland Crump, (Kenneth Williams) and Anna Vooshka (Elke Sommer) are eminent archaeologists excavating a Roman Town that just happens to lie beneath a caravan site at the height of the summer season.

Surrounding the distinguished diggers are holiday pals Ernie and Fred (Windsor Davies and Jack Douglas) who have their sights set on the local beauty spots - the female campers - and Carry On favourites Joan Sims, Peter Butterworth and Bernard Bresslaw who are on hand to fuel the 'in-tents' humour.
In Carry On Behind, the team leave no stone unturned in their ruthless pursuit of laughter!

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One of the most outlandish of professional wrestlers, Khosrow Vaziri - a.k.a. The Iron Sheik - is now, at 72, the most outrageous personality on Twitter, a man who routinely shocks even Howard Stern. The story behind the oversized personality is raw, touching, emotional and almost unbelievable.

"The Sheik" tells the real life story of "The Iron Sheik" and how he started as an impressive athlete from Iran who built his occupation in America as a professional wrestler. He was banned from the WWF at the height of this career after being busted for cocaine. His life spiralled out of control after his arrest and the death of his oldest daughter, Brooke. Handicapped and on the verge of divorce, a family friend got his life back on track and The Iron Sheik stepped back into the limelight as a social media God. "The Sheik" has a very positive, touching ending.

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Jessica Harper stars as Suzy Banyon, a young American ballet dancer who arrives at a prestigious European dance academy run by the mysterious Madame Blanc (Joan Bennett) and Miss Tanner (Alida Valli).

But when a series of bizarre incidents and horrific crimes turn the school into a waking nightmare of the damned, Suzy must escape the academy's unspeakable secret of supernatural evil.

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After serial burglar Maurice Faugel (Serge Reggiani) is released from his latest stint behind bars, he quickly returns to his criminal ways and plans a robbery with Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Rémy (Philippe Nahon).

After murdering an old associate in retaliation for the killing of his former girlfriend, Maurice becomes racked with suspicion and distrust of everyone around him amid rumours that Silien has become a police informant. When Maurice and Rémy carry out a robbery of their own, the police quickly close in on them and Maurice begins to unravel the deadly web of deceit that has formed around him.

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Spitting Image is a Brisih comedy sketch show in which puppet caricatures of politicians, celebrities and public figures were used to poke fun at their real life counterparts and their behaviour and public image.

The series won several awards and ran for over ten years and will always be remembered for the infamous Margaret Thatcher and her "vegetables" sktch.

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'Born To Boogie' is the Ringo Starr-directed 1972 film that captures Marc Bolan and T. Rex at the height of their popularity, as 'T. Rextasy' swept the nation. Centred around the band's famous Wembley Empire Pool concerts, the film includes a legendary jam session with T.

Rex joined by Ringo Starr and Elton John, and a mad hatter's tea party with Catweazle. With extra features, annotation by Mark Paytress and previously unpublished Keith Morris photos, 'Born To Boogie' is the ultimate film of Marc Bolan and super-stardom in the early 1970's.

With a golden ticket young Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) wins a tour of the factory of wily mogul Wonka (Gene Wilder) and run by his Oompa-Loompa crew. There Charlie, his Grandpa Joe (Jack Albertson) and others discover a kind heart is a finer possession than a sweet tooth.