'Johnny and the Bomb' is the perfect example of the BBC actually using our licence fee money to produce excellent entertainment instead of squandering it on dreary soaps and repetitive music competitions.
This television teen drama, based on Terry Pratchett's novel, centres the whirl-wind adventure thirteen-year-old Johnny and his friends are drawn into when they help a seeming...
When the writer Sir Terry Pratchett died in 2015, he was working on one last story - his own. But Terry's Alzheimer's meant he never got to finish it.
This poignant and humorous film starring Paul Kaye as Terry finally tells the story of this hugely popular author, creator of Discworld, whose books have sold over 85 million copies worldwide. Back in Black reveals Terry's road t...
在名为Ankh-Morpork的城市里,现代科技取得了极大的进步。人们渐渐忘却传统的邮政系统,转而倾向于更加便利快捷的互联网络Clarks。但是Clarks并不稳定,由于系统经常崩溃,导致网络传输的速度越来越慢。Ankh-Morpork的领主维提奈瑞(Charles Dance 饰)无法继续忍受Clarks的专横和缓慢,他决定服刑业已崩溃的传统邮政系统。维提奈瑞将复兴邮政的最佳人选锁定在莫瑞斯特·范·李维格(Richard Coyle 饰)的身上。这是一个头脑精明、狡猾非常的小骗子。维提奈瑞在即要关头就下了即将被绞死的莫瑞斯特,并委命他为邮局的局长。莫瑞斯特逃跑不能,不得已带领一帮老弱残兵与Clarks展开了对抗……
本片根据Terry Pratchett的同名小说改编。
1948年出生的Terry Pratchett是英国最著名的畅销书作家之一。他的奇幻系列小说《碟形世界》(Discworld)广受欢迎,曾于2003年网络票选百大科幻作品时排名第九,高于《发条橙子》(Orange Clockwork),与《魔戒》同样名列前茅。截至今日,他的小说在全世界范围内共售出5千万本(套/部)。有人曾称赞说,《碟形世界》堪比奇幻界的《银河系漫游指南》。《Discworld》系列目前已出版到第三十二本,无论想像力、内涵还是搞笑的本领均令人震惊。《魔法光芒》(The Colour Of Magic)是《碟形世界》系列的第一部,发表于1983年。
这是该系列第一次被搬上电视银屏,由英国天空电视一台制作并播出。
英国著名作家Terry Pratchett患上了阿兹海默症,逐渐丧失写作能力的人生对他来说毫无生存价值,于是他开始思考自愿选择结束生命的可能性,走访了曾经选择过或正在决定安乐死的几个对象并拍下了这部纪录片。片中你将亲眼目睹死亡。
Masklin is a four inches high Gnome whom along with his family lives in the wilderness of the outside world and struggles for survival. Masklin and his family embark on a adventure when Masklin and his family stowaway on-board a truck, the truck transports them to a superstore -- Arnold Bros. (Est. 1905) where Masklin and his family discover a colony of Gnomes living within the...