1999 and Sierra Leone is in the midst of civil war, the rebels infamously using an army of indoctrinated children to do their genocidal work. In the midst of this bloodshed two unlikely men are drawn together, one a desperate father whose son has become a rebel soldier, the other a self-serving white Rhodesian mercenary in search of an immense uncut diamond. The two are bound together by their wildly divergent, but inextricably linked, quests and it is here that the action of the film lies as th
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DISTRICT 9 (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
Set in Johannesburg (more than a welcome change to the usual formulaic Hollywood paradigm whereby LA or New York are not only the backdrop for disaster but act too as the centre-point of planet Earth), An ominous mothership hovers above Johannesburg containing an alien race of insectoid refugees. Derogatively referred to as 'Prawns' by humans they are cordoned off in an apartheid-esque fashion and forced to live a desolate and slum-like existence in the titular District 9. While forcibly relocat
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ROME SEASON 1 DISC 1 (2005)
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400 years after the Republic's birth Rome has become the wealthiest city in the world, home to over 1 million people and the epicentre of one of the greatest empires history has ever known, but with this phenomenal success has come corruption and excess, the very principles of Rome's founding fathers are under threat and its time as a Republic is drawing to a close. Rome is a magnificent and full blooded dramatisation of the Empire's rebirth.
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ROME SEASON 1 DISC 2 (2005)
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400 years after the Republic's birth Rome has become the wealthiest city in the world, home to over 1 million people and the epicentre of one of the greatest empires history has ever known; but with this phenomenal success has come corruption and excess, the very principles of Rome's founding fathers are under threat and its time as a Republic is drawing to a close. Rome is a magnificent and full blooded dramatisation of the Empire's rebirth.
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ROME SEASON 1 DISC 3 (2005)
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Episode 7: Pharsalus; once again Caesar and Pompey find their fortunes reversed; Atia enlists Octavia to ask another favour of Servilia.
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ROME SEASON 1 DISC 4 (2005)
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Episode 9: Utica; Caesar returns to Rome in triumph; Vorenus braces for a showdown; Servilia attempts to unearth a secret about Caesar.
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ROME SEASON 1 DISC 5 (2005)
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Episode 11: The Spoils; while Pullo descends into Rome's netherworld Vorenus reaps the rewards of his allegiance to Caesar.
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ROME SEASON 2 DISC 1 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Taking off exactly where Season 1 finished. Passover; Caesar is dead, but Mark Antony is still alive and is convinced by Octavian, via Atia, to stay in Rome. Caesar's will is read out and Octavian and Antony have a quarrel. Friends, Romans, Countrymen Lend Me Your Ear.... (they left that bit out).... and Son of Hades; Lucius Vorenus takes a walk on the dark side.
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ROME SEASON 2 DISC 2 (2005)
Certification18 Our Rating
These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero; Marcus Agrippa has come to Rome on Octavius's behalf to negotiate with Cicero and Vorenus continues his dark reign over the Aventine. Antony tries to bully Cicero in to handing over Gaul to him, but Cicero baulks and flees to join Octavian. Testudo et Lepus; Octavian's forces defeat, but do not wipe out, Antony's. Vorenus and Pullo rescue the former's children and Brutus and Cassius's forces in Asia Minor grow stronger.
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ROME SEASON 2 DISC 3 (2005)
Certification18 Our Rating
Heroes of the Republic; Octavian returns to Rome and tries to seize power but risks defeat by the scheming Cicero. Octavian and Antony ally against Brutus and Cicero. Philippi; the battle of Philippi takes place.
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