"Together" (2025) Horror Running Time: 102 minutes Written & directed by: Michael Shanks Featuring: Dave Franco and Alison Brie Tim: "It's called diazepam now! It works quicker if you snort it!" Together is a 2025 body-horror film directed by Michael Shanks, starring real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Francoas Millie and Tim — a long-term couple whose relationship is already strained …
“Hacks Series 1 - 3” (2021 - 2024) Television Series / Comedy Twenty Seven Episodes Created by: Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky Featuring: Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Megan Stalter, Paul W. Downs, Rose Abdoo and Mark Indelicato Ava: [during the heated exchange that takes place the first time Ava and Deborah meet] …
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"Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger " (1977) Fantasy Running Time: 113 minutes Written by: Beverley Cross Directed by: Sam Wanamaker Starring: Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting, Jane Seymour and Patrick Troughton Melanthius: "Extraordinary, a normal babboon wouldn't have reconised its reflection and attacked it thinking it was another babboon." Ray Harryhausen’s final Sinbad adventure, Sinbad and …
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"Rain Man" (1988) Drama Running Time: 135 minutes Written by: Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass Directed by: Barry Levinson Featuring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise and Valeria Golino Charlie: "What you have to understand is, four days ago he was only my brother in name. And this morning we had pancakes." At its heart, Rain Man remains a deeply affecting …
“Are You Being Served? Series 1 - 10” (1972 - 1985) Television Series / Comedy Seventy Episodes Created by: Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft Featuring: Mollie Sugden, Trevor Bannister, Frank Thornton, John Inman, Wendy Richard, Arthur Brough, Nicholas Smith, Larry Martyn, Harold Bennett, Arthur English and James Hayter Mrs. Slocombe: [removes her gas mask] "What about this …
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"Bewitched: Seasons 3 & 4" (1966 - 1968) Comedy / Television Sixty Episodes Created by: Sol Saks Featuring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Dick Sargent and David White Uncle Arthur: [to Endora] "When I think of you as a blood relative, I long for a transfusion." The gradual high-definition restoration of Bewitched has been one of …
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"Bewitched: Seasons 5 & 6" (1968 - 1970) Comedy / Television Sixty Episodes Created by: Sol Saks Featuring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Dick Sargent and David White Uncle Arthur: [to Endora] "When I think of you as a blood relative, I long for a transfusion." With the high-definition restoration of Bewitched continuing across its later …
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"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Series One" (1962) Mystery / Television Running Time: 3000 minutes Created by: Alfred Hitchcock Featuring: James Mason, Robert Redford, Vera Miles, Peter Falk, Jayne Mansfield, Angie Dickinson, Tony Randall, John Forsythe, Peter Graves, Gene Barry, William Conrad, Bob Crane, Dean Stockwell, Diana Dors, Dabney Coleman, Gig Young, Christopher Lee, Martin Landau, …
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“Upstart Crow Series 1 - 3” (2016 - 2020) Television Series / Comedy Twenty Two Episodes Created by: Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith Featuring: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith Edward: "Hello, hello. What's going on? What's all this shouting? We'll have no trouble here." When The League of Gentlemen first aired on the …
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“Doctor Who - Season One” (2024) Television Series Sci-Fi Eight Episodes Written by: Russell T Davies Featuring: Ncuti Gatwa Ruby Sunday: "Who are you?" The Doctor: "I'm the Doctor!" The arrival of Doctor Who: Season 1 (2024) on Blu-ray marks a pivotal moment in the show’s long and often tumultuous history. After the 60th anniversary specials successfully reignited global …
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"In Which We Serve" (1942) Drama Running Time: 115 minutes Written by: Noël Coward Directed by: David Lean Starring: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles and Celia Johnson Mrs. Alix Kinross: [Christmas dinner toast] "Ladies and gentlemen. I'll begin by taking my husband's advice and wishing you all a very happy Christmas. I'm sure Elizabeth and June …
"This Happy Breed" (1944) Drama Running Time: 115 minutes Written by: David Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan Directed by: David Lean Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway and John Mills Frank Gibbons: "She didn't pass on, pass over, or pass out! She died!" David Lean’s This Happy Breed may not have the sweeping romantic grandeur of Brief Encounter or …
"Blithe Spirit" (1945) Drama Running Time: 96 minutes Written by: David Lean and Ronald Neame Directed by: David Lean Starring: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond and Margaret Rutherford Charles Condomine: "It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." David Lean’s Blithe Spirit remains one of the most curious entries in …
"Oh, Canada" (2024) Drama Running Time: 95 minutes Written & Directed by: Paul Schrader Starring: Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, Victoria Hill, Michael Imperioli, Penelope Mitchell and Kristine Froseth Cornel: "All creation starts with a single cell of energy that explodes with a bang and becomes the universe. Cancer starts the same way. A single rogue …
"Malcolm X" (1992) Drama Running Time: 202 minutes Written by: Arnold Perl and Spike Lee Directed by: Spike Lee Featuring: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo and Spike Lee Malcolm X: "You may be shocked by these words, but I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass and …
"In the Heat of the Night" (1967) Drama Running Time: 110 minutes Written by: Stirling Silliphant Directed by: Norman Jewison Featuring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates and Lee Grant Chief Gillespie: "Just once in my life, I'm gonna own my temper. I'm telling you that you're gonna stay here. You're gonna stay here if I have …
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"The Hurt Locker" (2008) Drama Running Time: 131 minutes Written by: Mark Boal Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow Featuring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse and Guy Pearce Opening Quote by Chris Hedges: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt …
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"Brief Encounter" (1945) Drama Running Time: 87 minutes Written by: Noël Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean and Ronald Neame Directed by: David Lean Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey and Cyril Raymond Laura Jesson: "It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading." Few …
"Great Expectations" (1946) Drama Running Time: 118 minutes Written by: David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame Directed by: David Lean Starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Anthony Wager and Jean Simmons Mr. Jaggers: "Now, Pip: put the case that this legal advisor has often seen children tried at the criminal bar. Put …
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"Oliver Twist" (1948) Drama Running Time: 116 minutes Written by: David Lean and Stanley Haynes Directed by: Stanley Haynes Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies, Anthony Newley and Diana Dors Mr. Bumble: "Cry your hardest now, it opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes and softens down the temper. So cry away." …
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