Author Archives for Ken Cooper

New Guard, The


This is a mixture of footage from Test and One Day Internationals that features the batting prowess of these two great Australian cricketers and the wicketing of Gilchrist. There are no fewer than 15 innings on show where they each made a century and the various merits of each innings is discussed with the player […]

The Battle for the Tasman


The premise for this DVD is that there have been some stirring battles for dominance in One Day Internationals held between Australia and New Zealand over many years. They may be right and there were plenty of tight games but to cricket purists I wonder whether anyone is going to get all that excited about […]

Walking Tall Rental


The Rock, perhaps better known for his wrestling for the World Wrestling Federation, and also known for his acting in The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King, plays a Special Forces soldier returning home after 8 years away. His sleepy little mill town has undergone significant change while he was off fighting and the town […]

Loose Cannons


Mack Stern is a misfit cop in Washington who is assigned yet another misfit, Ellis Fielding, to help him on a difficult case. A series of related murders brings the two together, Mack because he is a streetwise hardened homicide veteran and Ellis because he has incredible powers of deduction. Ellis has a chequered recent […]

Sunset


The movie is set in 1929 at a time when the talkies were just beginning to replace the silent movies and mixes a little fact with plenty of fiction. The story centres on Tom Mix who was a huge star of Westerns at that time and an ageing Wyatt Earp, note American lawman famous for […]

Airport Terminal Pack (Airport/Airport 1975/Airport 77/Concorde)


Arthur Hailey wrote the first of the flight-related disaster books and inspired this series of movie that begins with the simply-named Airport which first appeared in 1969. Set at the fictitious Lincoln International Airport in the US, the drama centres around the major storm that has snowed the airport runways, creating maintenance havoc and leading […]

2004 Tour de France Highlights


This is a selection of the highlights from the 2004 Tour de France, the other race that stops a nation. The Tour starts in Belgium and winds its way into and around the French country side until after nearly three weeks and over 3000 kilometres the boys ride up the Champs Elysees to the plaudits […]

Flash Gordon


Flash Gordon was a 1950s comic book hero who saved the world from the evil Ming the Merciless. There was a series of some episodes put together for the big screen but this is the first time Flash makes it to a full-length feature film. And it?s a pity it did so as Flash was […]

Stork


In the extras we get to hear that this was one of the first Ocker comedies, a film that grew out of a play put on at the famous La Mama live theatre in Melbourne. David Williamson, the writer, was at that stage an unknown who went on to bigger and better things. Most of […]

The Best of Not the Nine O?clock News Volume 2


This a collection of sketch comedy form this fairly famous British comedy show that swept all before it in the UK and some other parts of the world back in the 70s. The actors all went on to bigger and better things with Atkinson probably the stand out for his Mr Bean series while I […]

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