Single-mother Sandra (Clare Dunne) escapes her abusive partner with her two young children, only to find herself trapped in temporary accommodation. After months of struggling, she draws inspiration from one of her daughter’s bedtime stories and hits upon the idea of self-building an affordable home. She finds an architect who provides her with plans and is offered land by Peggy (Harriet Walter), a woman she cleans for. Aido (Conleth Hill), a building contractor, appears willing to help too. But as her past rears its head, in the form of Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson), her possessive ex, and as bureaucrats fight back against her independent spirit, will Sandra be able to rebuild her life from the ground up?
佩内洛普(克里斯蒂娜•里奇 饰)出生在贵族家庭,可是她的家族被诅咒了她一出生便有着一个猪鼻子。佩内洛普对自己的样貌感到十分的自卑,她羞于与一切人交往,要想解除这个诅咒,便要得到一个出自真爱的吻,才能让佩内洛普恢复美貌。 女儿长大了,佩内洛普的父母极力张罗她的婚事,佩内洛普也想找到个真正爱她的人解除魔咒。可是每个看到佩内洛普真面目的男子都落荒而逃,令佩内洛普与父母都感到十分难堪与沮丧。 以往,每个见过佩内洛普真面目的男生都签约保证不会向外界透露这个秘密。可是某贵族继承人却走漏了风声。记者雷蒙当年想得知佩内洛普的真面目,却让佩内洛普的母亲击伤了右眼,此时他要与贵族继承人合作,雇人假扮相亲者与佩内洛普见面,以拍到她的真面目。但被雇佣的麦克斯(詹姆斯•麦卡沃伊 饰)是个没落贵族,佩内洛普误以为他不在乎自己的面貌,备受感动。实际上麦克斯从未见过佩内洛普,两人隔着一块玻璃相处良久后彼此吸引住了,但他碍于与佩内洛普的身份相差甚异,默默离开了。 最后佩内洛普又能否找到真爱,得到真爱之吻解除恶毒的魔咒呢?
Flung together at a New Year’s Eve party, Minnie (Cookson) and Quinn (Laviscount) quickly realize they share a connection- they were born on New Year’s Day of the same year, in the same London hospital, one minute apart. Minnie grew up convinced that this mysterious Quinn – born first – stole the name her mother planned for her, and with it all her luck, setting her on a path of misfortune. Horrified at the misunderstanding, Quinn is set on making amends. But is it Quinn or is it fate that is scheming to bring the two together?
在这部扣人心弦的足球系列纪录片中,国际巨星携手当地足球明星驰骋赛场,彻底改变了联赛的2023-2024赛季
A sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay, a stranger whom she has picked up in the subway and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual. The man, who, at first seeing no reason to resist the girl's advances, perceives too late that he is being used by her, drops his "white" disguise, and launches a wild and bitter counterattack on her and on the entire white race. Written by alfiehitchie
Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.
英国广播公司 (BBC) 对豪华百货公司哈罗兹 (Harrods) 前老板穆罕默德·阿尔法耶德 (Mohamed al Fayed) 的严重性虐待指控进行了令人震惊的调查。这样的节目自几天前在 BBC2 播出以来就充斥着英国新闻,很难对其进行回顾。当然,正如标题所表明的那样,它是对最近去世的埃及亿万富翁穆罕默德·阿尔法耶德(Mohammed Al-Fayed)掠夺性性习惯的毫无保留的揭露,穆罕默德·阿尔法耶德曾是伦敦哈罗德百货公司和丽兹酒店的所有者。巴黎,富勒姆足球俱乐部主席,当然也是多迪的父亲,多迪与他当时的女友威尔士王妃戴安娜在同一场车祸中丧生。
到千年之交时,一种名为“虚拟现实”的技术将得到广泛应用,它能使人进入一个由电脑创造出来的、如同想象力般无限丰富的虚幻世界,它的创造者预测这种技术将为人类社会的发展发挥无数积极的作用,而有些人则担心它会被一些人利用,成为一种控制人类思想的新方法。 在美国一间“虚拟空间工厂”,安吉罗·拉瑞博士正在致力于研究一种能够迅速提高人类智商的“5号计划”。在过去的5年时间里,安吉罗博士的研究对象是几只精心挑选出来的猩猩,试验已经证明,猩猩在虚拟空间的刺激下,智商已经明显提高。可“虚拟空间工厂”的负责人蒂姆斯受到幕后投资人的指使,一直鼓动安吉罗博士通过这种方法对猩猩的原始暴力中枢神经进行刺激,以此来提高它们的攻击性,最终制造出比武器更厉害的东西。安吉罗坚定地拒绝了那些战争流氓的痴心妄想,于是投资人拒绝继续投资,安吉罗也因此遭遇了停职的困境。 安吉罗不愿放弃“虚拟空间”项目的研究,但却苦于没有研究对象,一个偶然的机会,除草人乔布出现在了安吉罗的面前。乔布患有先天性的智力缺陷,从小就被神父收养的他受尽了周围人的欺侮和白眼,只有邻居家的小孩彼得愿意跟他交朋友。但乔布天生乐观善良,安吉罗决心让乔布参与试验。 安吉罗对乔布的实验和训练进行了仅仅一个月,乔布的智商就增长了4倍,这一惊人的结果令安吉罗充满了信心,但与此同时问题也出现了,家里的研究设备已经无法满足随后的研究需要,安吉罗只好求助于蒂姆斯,希望能偷偷借用“虚拟空间工厂”的中心实验室继续对乔布的实验。蒂姆斯一方面爽快答应,另一方面却向幕后投资人告了密。 随着研究的深入,安吉罗发现乔布在提高智商的同时,也显露出了一些超出他预想的迹象,比如暴力倾向,于是他果断地中止了实验。经过调查安吉罗发现,乔布正在的注射的药物并不是自己之前配制的,而是一种直接刺激人的暴力中枢神经的药物,原来是蒂姆斯暗中调换的药物。 事实上此时的乔布已经拥有了一种“用思想控制物质”的神奇力量,他甚至借助这种力量烧死了表面仁慈、内心阴暗的神父,一直虐待他唯一的朋友彼得的父亲也没有得到好结果。安吉罗此时才意识到自己可能害了乔布,他努力说服乔布停止进入虚拟空间。但乔布已经失去了理智,他的智商甚至已经超越了安吉罗,并自行进行着实验,更令安吉罗始料不及的是,乔布正企图利用虚拟空间来获得控制整个世界的力量。紧要关头,安吉罗将炸弹安放在了中心实验室,想以此来阻止乔布进入虚拟空间。不甘失败的乔布拒绝离开实验室,在爆炸声中实验室瞬间成了一片废墟。
A heartwarming homage to the lo-fi fantasy films of the 80s and a comic adventure that both fulfills and subverts the expectations of what a fantasy universe can be.
It had been a crisp September morning like so many others. And then it was not. Days of innocence would fade to mere memory. Forces from afar would see to that. An explosion of evil would violate sacred shores and carve a path of death and destruction. America would never again be the same. Despite the horror, the untold stories of resilience and unity from survivors and loved ones pay tribute to hope amid tragedy.