steveh's - Steve's rental picks List

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The Academy Award - winning "Woodstock" by wide consensus the best concert film ever made, has never looked or sounded better than in this director-approved edition with its sights restored and its sounds revitalixed.

Best of all, 40 minutes of previously unseen footage has been incorporated into the film by director Michael Wadleigh. Seen in its ground-breaking widescreen multi-image format, it's a once-in-a-lifetime celebration that captured its era like no other movie before or since.

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The USA, the land of hip hop music and making it big, gave birth to the Californian duo Silibil n' Brains, a partnership set to hit the big time and take the music industry by storm. However, what the hordes of fans, high-up execs and people from all over the world didn't know was...

it was all a hoax! A story of made-up identity, cover-ups and desperation tells us how two down to earth Scottish lads became the face of American hip hop, tearing their lives apart as they are thrust from the Highlands straight into the limelight. Showing us how to fake it with style, The Great Hip Hop Hoax is the step by step of how to get rich, or how you have to try lying...

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A collection of classic Laurel and Hardy shorts and films, with Stan and Ollie finding themselves - mostly - on the wrong side of the law. Includes their first starring feature film, "Pardon Us", in which they are sent to prison for breaking the prohibition laws.

Plus the silent short "Battle of the Century" - famous for using over 3,000 creampies in the film's climactic pie fight. Also features 45 Minutes "From Hollywood", the first Hal Roach film in which both Laurel and Hardy appeared and casts Oliver Hardy as a hotel detective. In "Oliver the Eighth" regular foil Mae Busch is at her best as a homicidal maniac!

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As a psychotic thug devoted to his hard-boiled ma, James Cagney - older, scarier and just as electrifying - gives a performance to match his work in 'The Public Enemy' as 'White Heat's's' cold-blooded Cody Jarrett.

Bracingly directed by Raoul Walsh, this fast-paced thriller tracing Jarrett's violent life in and out of jail is also a harrowing character study. Jarrett is a psychological time bomb ruled by impulse. He murders a wounded accomplice and revels in the act. He neglects his sultry wife (Virginia Mayo) and adores his doting mother. It is among the most vivid screen performances of Cagney's career, and the excitement it generates will put you on top of the world!

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Fields attempts to sell a film script, describing an air trip during which he bails out in pursuit of a lost bottle of booze. In the mountains, he meets the eccentric Mrs. Hemoglobin and her sheltered daughter. The prospect of marrying Mrs.

Hemoglobin prompts Fields to escape but he returns on learning she is wealthy. The producer rejects the script and Fields decides to leave Hollywood. His niece insists on joining him but Fields, misunderstanding a woman’s requirement to get to maternity hospital, embarks instead on a wild car chase.

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In 1972, Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, recorded an album of gospel music at The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. The result, "Amazing Grace", went on to become one of the biggest albums of Aretha Franklin's career and one of her most beloved works.

Music lovers won't want to miss this thrilling film, which is both an extraordinary look at a key moment in American cultural history, and an invaluable record of one of the world's greatest artists doing what she did best.

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The third film from the Academy Award and BAFTA-winning team behind 'Senna' and 'Amy', 'Diego Maradona' is constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage from Maradona's personal archive with the full support of the man himself. On the pitch, Diego Maradona was a genius.

Off the pitch, he was treated like a God. The charismatic Argentine loved a fight against the odds and led Napoli to their first-ever title. It was the stuff of dreams. But there was a price...Diego could do as he pleased while performing miracles on the pitch but, as time passed, darker days closed in.

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In the summer of 1995 Bobby Robson was diagnosed with cancer and given just months to live. Miraculously, less than a year later Robson was managing the legendary FC Barcelona - their motto: 'More Than a Club'. But Bobby Robson was more than a manager.

Via the Hand of God, Gazza's tears and England's greatest World Cup abroad, to European glory with Ipswich Town and titles in Europe's top leagues, including a Barcelona treble, Robson overcame the most extreme challenges before a career like no other came full circle when he returned to 'save' his beloved Newcastle. Starring an A-list cast (Mourinho, Guardiola, Ronaldo, Gascoigne, Shearer, Lineker and Sir Alex Ferguson), never-before-seen archive and emotional testimony from Lady Elsie Robson, this is the definitive portrait of one of sport's most inspirational and influential figures.

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It all began in a Brooklvn precinct known as The Seven Five in the late 1980s. Brooklyn, New York was the murder capital of America and ground zero for the crack cocaine epidemic.

One man led his crew on a rampage through the streets of East New York, robbing drug dealers at gunpoint, stealing countless kilos of cocaine and hundreds of thousands dollars in cash. His name was Officer Michael Dowd, a New York City cop, and his arrest in 1992 led to the largest police corruption scandal in New York City history. This is his story.

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Legendary producer-director Howard Hawks teams with two equally legendary stars, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, in this classic Western drama.

Mitchum plays to perfection an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked "businessmen". 'The Duke' gives an equally adept performance as the sheriff's old friend who knows his way around a gunfight.

Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul) fascinated with an old hilltop house; a suave antiques dealer (James Mason) whose expertise goes beyond bric-a-brac; and the dealer's mysterious, pale-skinned "partner" (Reggie Nalder) in ''Salem's Lot' - a blood-curdling shocker based on King's novel and directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist).

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The speakeasy era never roared louder than in this gangland chronicle that packs a wallop under action master Raoul Walsh's direction.

Against a backdrop of newsreel-like montages and narration, it follows the life of jobless war vetran Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney) who turns bootlegger, dealing in 'bottles instead of battles'. Battles await eddie within and without his growing empire. Outside are territorial feuds and gangland bloodlettings. Inside is the treachery of double-dealing associate (Humphrey Bogart). It would be 10 years before Cagney played another gangster (in White Heat), a time in which gangster movies themselves became rare. 'He used to be a big shot'. Panama Smith (Gladys Goerge) says at the finale, marking Bartlett's demise...and signalling the end of Hollywood's focus on the gangster era.

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Peep Show is a British comedy series created by and starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as flatmates Mark and Jeramey. The series uses a unique first person photography style and depicts the exploits of socially awkward Mark and sex-obsessed casual drug addict Jeramey.

The series ran for several seasons and details the development of both Mark and Jeremey's problematic sex lives.

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There's $2 million dollars in a suitcase on a desk in an apartment in Chicago...Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) launders money for the mob. Violet (Jennifer Tilly) is his alluring Mafia Moll. Corky (Gina Gershon) is an ex-con who just got out of the joint.

What's the last thing that could come between a sleazy wise guy like Caesar and all that money? A couple of women with bodies to die for and brains to match. They become engulfed in a physical attraction that spurs them to relieve Violet's boyfriend of the $2 million in cash. Corky and Violet are about to learn the meaning of trusting someone with your life. And Caesar? He's about to learn a little something about women. In the end, it all comes down to one question…Who can you trust?

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'Impact Partners', in association with 'Vulcan Productions' and 'CNN Films', present 'Pandora's Promise', the groundbreaking new film by Academy-Award - nominated director Robert Stone. The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster.

But what if we've got nuclear power wrong? An audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival, 'Pandora's Promise' asks whether he one technology we fear most could save our planet from a climate catastrophe, while providing the energy needed to lift billions of people in the developing world out of poverty. In his controversial new film, Stone tells the intensely personal stories of environmentalists and energy experts who have undergone a radical conversion from being fiercely anti to strongly pro-nuclear energy, risking their careers and reputations in the process.