Forty-something Hildy is in crisis. Her father is in a home. Her mother has moved in and shows no sign of leaving. Her son is a recovering drug addict, on...... more

Forty-something Hildy is in crisis. Her father is in a home. Her mother has moved in and shows no sign of leaving. Her son is a recovering drug addict, on methadone and hugely overweight. And her ex-husband persuades her to have sex one more time - only for them to be interrupted in flagrante by his new lover.

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Forty-something Hildy is in crisis. Her father is in a home. Her mother has moved in and shows no sign of leaving. Her son is a recovering drug addict, on...... more

Forty-something Hildy is in crisis. Her father is in a home. Her mother has moved in and shows no sign of leaving. Her son is a recovering drug addict, on methadone and hugely overweight. And her ex-husband persuades her to have sex one more time - only for them to be interrupted in flagrante by his new lover.

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The handsome, macho David is a closeted British construction worker who visits Soho for casual sex. A riveting character study of one man's...... more

The handsome, macho David is a closeted British construction worker who visits Soho for casual sex. A riveting character study of one man's conflict between his repressed sexuality and a passionate love for another man; this uncompromising examination of sexual identity and the bonds of friendship powerfully traces the tumultuous journey towards self-acceptance and coming out. The handsome, macho David (Steve John Shepherd, from the BBC's critically acclaimed cult series "This Life") is a construction worker for his father's building firm in South London. Visiting trendy Soho for casual sexual encounters, David is unable to admit to himself or anyone else that he is gay. That includes Theo (John Simon), his good-looking, straight best mate whom David secretly loves. Inseparable since childhood, they've always been there for each other. That is until Theo moves in with his new girlfriend Hannah (Laura Fraser), putting a strain on David and Theo's friendship. It takes an appearance on the TV show "Forgive and Forget" to set David on the right path to accepting both himself and Theo's new relationship. Sexual tensions build and secrets are bared in this insightful, hard-hitting drama. Three reasons to buy this film: 1) very real portrait of a closeted young man; 2) there is no stinting on the sex scenes; 3) the anger and testosterone can practically be felt in this powerful lead performance from Steve John Shepherd. [Description suggested by FreelancerFR]

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Deleted Scenes, Documentary,...... more

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Deleted Scenes, Documentary, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Music Video, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Soho: The Heart of London's sex industry. Stanley (Danny Dyer) rules this dark and sleazy world, employing hustler and pimp Woody (Robert Cavanah) as his right hand man. But Woody is having one of the worst weeks of his life, topped off when one of his girls (Barbara Nedeljakova) goes missing. Now, with a gangland turf war escalating, Woody finds himself on the run through the seedy Soho underworld and questioning his whole life - a life he now finds spiralling brutally out of control& Featuring an explosive cast (including Billy Boyd, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Martin Compston and Robert Fucilla), Pimp is a sexy, exciting and action-packed look at the darker side of London's glamorous and dangerous nightlife. Special features include: 'Making of' Documentary; Deleted Scenes and Stagger Rats Music Video. ...Pimp

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An epic saga stretching from 1964 to 1995, Our Friends in the North follows the lives of four young people in North-East England. Nicky Hutchinson (Christopher...... more

An epic saga stretching from 1964 to 1995, Our Friends in the North follows the lives of four young people in North-East England. Nicky Hutchinson (Christopher Eccleston) is initially courting Mary Soulsby (Gina McKee) but the relationship cools when it takes second place to his campaigning for Harold Wilson's Labour Party. She weds Tory Tosker Cox instead, but their marriage is a miserable one, living in a rot-infested high rise block built following a dubious new housing scheme. Meanwhile, "Geordie" Peacock, finally tiring of his drunken, abusive father, headbutts him and hitches down to London, where he ends up working for a surrogate "family" led by Malcolm McDowell's flash Soho sex club baron. Over the years, the paths of these characters intertwine, diverge then cross again, albeit occasionally stretching the bounds of plausible coincidence. The drama takes place against the backdrop of local authority and police corruption in the 60s, the radical far-left militancy of the early 70s, Thatcher's election, the 1984 miner's strike and the subsequent "murder" of Northern communities. What's brilliant about Our Friends is its melding of the personal and the political, with the soap opera of family estrangement played out against a backdrop of social decline. Peter Vaughn, playing Nicky's Dad as a former Jarrow marcher stricken by Alzheimer's, is especially poignant. If you didn't see this the first time, do so now. On the DVD:Our Friends in the North has a bonus disc featuring a discussion with writer Peter Flannery and the producers and directors in which the making of the programme is revealed to have been as epic and protracted a saga as the drama itself. There are interviews also with stars Christopher Eccleston and Gina McKee. --David Stubbs

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An epic saga stretching from 1964 to 1995, Our Friends in the North follows the lives of four young people in North-East England. Nicky Hutchinson (Christopher...... more

An epic saga stretching from 1964 to 1995, Our Friends in the North follows the lives of four young people in North-East England. Nicky Hutchinson (Christopher Eccleston) is initially courting Mary Soulsby (Gina McKee) but the relationship cools when it takes second place to his campaigning for Harold Wilson's Labour Party. She weds Tory Tosker Cox instead, but their marriage is a miserable one, living in a rot-infested high rise block built following a dubious new housing scheme. Meanwhile, "Geordie" Peacock, finally tiring of his drunken, abusive father, headbutts him and hitches down to London, where he ends up working for a surrogate "family" led by Malcolm McDowell's flash Soho sex club baron. Over the years, the paths of these characters intertwine, diverge then cross again, albeit occasionally stretching the bounds of plausible coincidence. The drama takes place against the backdrop of local authority and police corruption in the 60s, the radical far-left militancy of the early 70s, Thatcher's election, the 1984 miner's strike and the subsequent "murder" of Northern communities. What's brilliant about Our Friends is its melding of the personal and the political, with the soap opera of family estrangement played out against a backdrop of social decline. Peter Vaughn, playing Nicky's Dad as a former Jarrow marcher stricken by Alzheimer's, is especially poignant. If you didn't see this the first time, do so now. On the DVD:Our Friends in the North has a bonus disc featuring a discussion with writer Peter Flannery and the producers and directors in which the making of the programme is revealed to have been as epic and protracted a saga as the drama itself. There are interviews also with stars Christopher Eccleston and Gina McKee. --David Stubbs

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Deleted Scenes, Documentary,...... more

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Deleted Scenes, Documentary, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Music Video, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Soho: The Heart of London's sex industry. Stanley (Danny Dyer) rules this dark and sleazy world, employing hustler and pimp Woody (Robert Cavanah) as his right hand man. But Woody is having one of the worst weeks of his life, topped off when one of his girls (Barbara Nedeljakova) goes missing. Now, with a gangland turf war escalating, Woody finds himself on the run through the seedy Soho underworld and questioning his whole life - a life he now finds spiralling brutally out of control& Featuring an explosive cast (including Billy Boyd, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Martin Compston and Robert Fucilla), Pimp is a sexy, exciting and action-packed look at the darker side of London's glamorous and dangerous nightlife. Special features include: 'Making of' Documentary; Deleted Scenes and Stagger Rats Music Video. ...Pimp

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'I swore by Elvis and all the saints that this last teenage year of mine was going to be a real rave. Yes, man, come whatever, this last year of the teenage...... more

'I swore by Elvis and all the saints that this last teenage year of mine was going to be a real rave. Yes, man, come whatever, this last year of the teenage dream I was out for kicks and fantasy' London, 1958. A new phenomenon is causing a stir: the teenager. In the smoky jazz clubs of Soho and the coffee bars of Notting Hill the young and the restless - the absolute beginners - are revolutionising youth culture and forging a new carefree lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Moving in the midst of this world of mods and rockers, Teddy gangs and trads., and snapping every scene with his trusty Rolleiflex, is MacInnes' young photographer, whose unique wit and honest views remain the definitive account of London life in the 1950s and what it means to be a teenager. In this twentieth century cult classic, MacInnes captures the spirit of a generation and creates the style bible for anyone interested in Mod culture, and the changing face of London in the era of the first race riots and the lead up to the swinging Sixties...

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It's 1975, a violent villain named ' The Spaniard' controls a criminal empire in Soho. He runs Club Bohemia, and a couple of sex joints called...... more

It's 1975, a violent villain named ' The Spaniard' controls a criminal empire in Soho. He runs Club Bohemia, and a couple of sex joints called Pinky's - nestled in the brash and seedy heartland of London. The jostling streets are a parade of flares and long hair, the glam sounds of Bowie and T-Rex float out from the bars , Harold Wilson is in power, and everyone wants to fly to the moon. The Spaniard is a fixer. Whatever takes your fancy, he procures it. Teenage girls, rent-boys, LSD - the list is endless. Those queuing for his services include the right honourable Lord Fitzpatrick - cousin to the queen and the very slick and highly ambitious deputy prime minister. He is living the high live, sharp suits, flash cars, and a beautiful blonde on his arm. But The Spaniard is making too many enemies, treading on too many toes, it is only a matter of time before bloody chaos ensues. Leap forward 30 years to 2005, Pepe and his mate Samir are immersed in hedonistic club life. Dropping E's and cruising from one sexual encounter to another. Until one day Pepe's mother dies, leaving him with a shocking legacy, and a disturbing and dangerous destiny.

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The Eyewitness, another admirably paced and plotted thriller from Stephen Leather, delves into ethnic genocide in the Balkans and the murky world of global...... more

The Eyewitness, another admirably paced and plotted thriller from Stephen Leather, delves into ethnic genocide in the Balkans and the murky world of global prostitution. Jack Solomon, an ex-London vice squad detective, works for the International War Dead Commission in the former Yugoslavia. His job is identifying the victims of the ethnic atrocities "to put names to the dead" and, where necessary, pass cases on to the War Crimes Tribunal. In three years this cigarette-smoking investigator has seen a lot of terrible things, but when a van containing the bodies of 26 Kosovar Albanians, most from the same family, is pulled out of the river, something inside him snaps. He believes that one of the family, a young woman called Nicole, not only survived but also witnessed the murders. Jack sets out to find her. Ordered off the case by his number-crunching boss, he seeks the help of Dragan, a beer-swilling Bosnian cop. Convinced that Nicole has become a prostitute, Jack starts trawling the brothels. After a run in with Petrovic, a local hood, he discovers that she's now working as a call girl in London. Solomon heads back home but finds things have changed; Albanian gangsters have muscled in on Soho and the Internet has revolutionised the skin trade. With the Russian Mafia, Sasha, a Serbian super-pimp, and Inga, one of his sex slaves, on Jack's tail, tracking Nicole down proves more difficult than he had first surmised. However, as Leather's surprising denouement confirms, where the Balkans are concerned you can never be too sure who your friends are, or who is really innocent or guilty. --Travis Elborough

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Kick back and relax as Steve returns to the busy streets of London to find real women off the street who are happy to talk openly about their fantasies. Some...... more

Kick back and relax as Steve returns to the busy streets of London to find real women off the street who are happy to talk openly about their fantasies. Some women are all too happy to help Steve really get the picture! Scene 1: Two gorgeous Easter European art students get down in Chelsea. Scene 2: Steve persuades two athletic girls (a blonde and brunette) to take him back to their East London loft for some fun. Scene 3: Wandering around Notting Hill Steve starts chatting with a feisty young businesswoman who reluctantly tells him her fantasy: to have sex with a stranger in the back of a black cab. Watch to see what happens! Scene 4: Steve spies a gorgeous, voluptuous girl in a... more » trendy Soho Salon. He takes his chance, goes in and starts talking to her. They suddenly disappear downstairs but not without the camera crew! Scene 5: Steve finds a young French photographer who invites him back to her bohemian apartment. `This movie will do wonders for your sex life...' Daily Sport 'It's stylish, natural and sexy...genuinely erotic.' Scarlet Magazine

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Discovering that they emerged from a scene based around the notorious Intrepid Fox pub in London's Soho might give you the wrong impression of Orange...... more

Discovering that they emerged from a scene based around the notorious Intrepid Fox pub in London's Soho might give you the wrong impression of Orange Goblin. Given that establishment's history, you'd expect them to be either sleazy glam-merchants obsessed with dirty sex and tainted glamour, or old school punks--angry, uncompromising and wholly unoriginal. Thankfully, they're a far more challenging and entertaining proposition. They're possessed of the driving, rolling impetus of Led Zeppelin, the instrumental theatrics of Deep Purple and, occasionally, the hip-grinding sensuality of Free. It's as if, like Soundgarden before them, they're customising the early 70s for effective use today and they too are marked heavily by Black Sabbath. Thus "Scorpionica" is like a hi-tech "Sabbra Caddabra", "Turbo Effalunt (Elephant)" is a more chaotic "Symptom Of The Universe", while "Hot Magic, Red Planet" begins as a psychedelic freak-out and gradually slows into a pounding, pulverising simplification of "Electric Funeral". Extremely heavy, naively spirited, forward-looking but respectful of music past, Orange Goblin are like a new Cult for a new decade. --Dominic Wills

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'I swore by Elvis and all the saints that this last teenage year of mine was going to be a real rave. Yes, man, come whatever, this last year of the teenage...... more

'I swore by Elvis and all the saints that this last teenage year of mine was going to be a real rave. Yes, man, come whatever, this last year of the teenage dream I was out for kicks and fantasy' London, 1958. A new phenomenon is causing a stir: the teenager. In the smoky jazz clubs of Soho and the coffee bars of Notting Hill the young and the restless - the absolute beginners - are revolutionising youth culture and forging a new carefree lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Moving in the midst of this world of mods and rockers, Teddy gangs and trads., and snapping every scene with his trusty Rolleiflex, is MacInnes' young photographer, whose unique wit and honest views remain the definitive account of London life in the 1950s and what it means to be a teenager. In this twentieth century cult classic, MacInnes captures the spirit of a generation and creates the style bible for anyone interested in Mod culture, and the changing face of London in the era of the first race riots and the lead up to the swinging Sixties...

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It's 1975, a violent villain named ' The Spaniard' controls a criminal empire in Soho. He runs Club Bohemia, and a couple of sex joints called...... more

It's 1975, a violent villain named ' The Spaniard' controls a criminal empire in Soho. He runs Club Bohemia, and a couple of sex joints called Pinky's - nestled in the brash and seedy heartland of London. The jostling streets are a parade of flares and long hair, the glam sounds of Bowie and T-Rex float out from the bars , Harold Wilson is in power, and everyone wants to fly to the moon. The Spaniard is a fixer. Whatever takes your fancy, he procures it. Teenage girls, rent-boys, LSD - the list is endless. Those queuing for his services include the right honourable Lord Fitzpatrick - cousin to the queen and the very slick and highly ambitious deputy prime minister. He is living the high live, sharp suits, flash cars, and a beautiful blonde on his arm. But The Spaniard is making too many enemies, treading on too many toes, it is only a matter of time before bloody chaos ensues. Leap forward 30 years to 2005, Pepe and his mate Samir are immersed in hedonistic club life. Dropping E's and cruising from one sexual encounter to another. Until one day Pepe's mother dies, leaving him with a shocking legacy, and a disturbing and dangerous destiny.

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The Eyewitness, another admirably paced and plotted thriller from Stephen Leather, delves into ethnic genocide in the Balkans and the murky world of global...... more

The Eyewitness, another admirably paced and plotted thriller from Stephen Leather, delves into ethnic genocide in the Balkans and the murky world of global prostitution. Jack Solomon, an ex-London vice squad detective, works for the International War Dead Commission in the former Yugoslavia. His job is identifying the victims of the ethnic atrocities "to put names to the dead" and, where necessary, pass cases on to the War Crimes Tribunal. In three years this cigarette-smoking investigator has seen a lot of terrible things, but when a van containing the bodies of 26 Kosovar Albanians, most from the same family, is pulled out of the river, something inside him snaps. He believes that one of the family, a young woman called Nicole, not only survived but also witnessed the murders. Jack sets out to find her. Ordered off the case by his number-crunching boss, he seeks the help of Dragan, a beer-swilling Bosnian cop. Convinced that Nicole has become a prostitute, Jack starts trawling the brothels. After a run in with Petrovic, a local hood, he discovers that she's now working as a call girl in London. Solomon heads back home but finds things have changed; Albanian gangsters have muscled in on Soho and the Internet has revolutionised the skin trade. With the Russian Mafia, Sasha, a Serbian super-pimp, and Inga, one of his sex slaves, on Jack's tail, tracking Nicole down proves more difficult than he had first surmised. However, as Leather's surprising denouement confirms, where the Balkans are concerned you can never be too sure who your friends are, or who is really innocent or guilty. --Travis Elborough

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This exciting Vocalion release brings together the original soundtracks from three classic 1970s British soft-core sex films, each of which starred...... more

This exciting Vocalion release brings together the original soundtracks from three classic 1970s British soft-core sex films, each of which starred 1970s glamour-puss Fiona Richmond, the then girlfriend of self-proclaimed King of Soho, Paul Raymond. This X-rated trilogy was directed by library music legend James Clarke, the man responsible for some of the finest - and funkiest - compositions in the catalogues of publishers such as KPM, Amphonic Music and Bruton Music. The disc kicks off with James's beautiful, colourful score for 1977's 'Hardcore', which purported to tell the lascivious life story of Fiona Richmond. The music ranges from the most exquisite romantic orchestral material (Tale of Two Girls, Tricky Hand) to Fender Rhodes-laden jazzy funk (Heavy Keyboard, Fruity and On Stage), all performed by a star-studded line-up of British session musicians including Barry Morgan (drums), Herbie Flowers (bass guitar), Steve Gray (keyboards) and Tristan Fry (percussion). The disc is completed by various cues from Steve Gray's hauntingly beautiful score for 1975's 'Exposé', which also starred Udo Kier and Linda Hayden, and a suite of music drawn from James Clarke's lush, orchestral score for 1977's 'Let's Get Laid!', which paired Fiona Richmond with sex comedy star Robin Askwith. This is the first time that any of this music has been commercially released, and all of it has been expertly remastered from the original analogue stereo tapes, for that trademark Vocalion crystal-clear sound. The accompanying booklet contains fascinating liner notes by James Clarke, as well as rare unseen photographs and original promotional material connected with the films.

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