Firefly - Season One
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Joss Whedon
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small, spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.
24 Hour Party People
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography
Year: 2002
Country: UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Steve Coogan, Lennie James, Andy Serkis, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Martin Hancock, Ron Cook
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to...
Black Books - Season Three
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2002
Country: UK
Director: Dylan Moran
Starring: Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig, Rosie Day, Paul Beech
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black (Dylan Moran) is back for a third season. Black Books concerns the musings, doings and time-frittering techniques of raddled proprietor Bernard Black (Dylan Moran), his shy, multi-challenged assistant, Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey) and their under achieving friend, Fran Katzenjammer (Tamsin Greig). This dubious trio form a family of sorts to protect each other from the realities of modern London, but nothing can protect them from each other.
Ed - Season Three
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
Starring: Josh Randall, Julie Bowen, Tom Cavanagh
Available Quality: DivX
Ed received casting, writing, and directing Emmy nominations in 2001. Tom Cavanagh received a Golden Globe nomination and a TV Guide Award for his work on the program.In 2004, despite a campaign by fans to keep the series on the air, NBC cut the show from their lineup because of poor ratings.
The Wiggles: Wiggle Bay
Year: 2002
Country: Australia
Director: Nicholas Bufalo
Starring: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Paul Paddick, Greg Page, Corinne O'Raffers, Andrew McCourt
Available Quality: DivX
Wiggle Bay: When The Wiggles and their friends sailed into Wiggle Bay they were looking forward to a picnic by the sea. They found a magic shell, a curious note and Magdalena the beautiful mermaid! They also found they had a mystery to solve. Join The Wiggles when they solve the mystery and return the golden key to its rightful owner. Its a lot of fun and theres lots of music and dancing at Wiggle Bay!
The Drew Carey Show - Season Eight
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Bruce Helford, Drew Carey
Starring: Diedrich Bader, Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles
Available Quality: DivX
The first season's opening credits consisted of a caricature of Careyconsisting of his face and a yellow tiesinging the Robert McGuire-penned "Moon Over Parma". The song was trimmed for the opening sequence, and the reference to Eastlake in the line "Guide her to Eastlake underneath your silvery light" was changed to a reference to Cleveland.
Lisa Lampanelli: The Queen of Mean
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Theodore Brown
Starring: Lisa Lampanelli
Available Quality: DivX
In clubs and theatres across the country, Lisa Lampanelli calls audience members colored, queer, bald, fat, and old. Do they get offended? Angry? No! They laugh uncontrollably and demand to know when she'll be back in town. After watching this hour-long concert--filmed live at Rascal's Comedy Club in West Orange, New Jersey--you'll see why! A cross between Don Rickles, Archie Bunker, and a vial of estrogen, Lisa lives up to her three favorite F-words: "Fierce, Funny, and Fearless"! She's got a bawdy personality, all-out honesty, and the insult comic's most essential quality--undeniable likeability.
Kath & Kim - Season One
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2002
Country: Australia
Director: Gina Riley, Jane Turner
Starring: Jane Turner, Gina Riley, Glenn Robbins
Available Quality: DivX
Kath & Kim is a Logie Award-winning character-driven Australian television situation comedy series. The series was created by, and is written by Jane Turner and Gina Riley who play the title characters: a suburban mother and daughter with a dysfunctional relationship. The series main characters consist of Kath Day-Knight, a cheerful 50-year-old woman, her self-indulgent daughter Kim Craig, Kath's boyfriend and second husband, the metrosexual Kel Knight, as well as Kim's estranged husband Brett Craig and her lonely, overweight "second best friend" is Sharon Strzelecki. The series is set in the fictional suburb Fountain Lakes in Melbourne. It i...
The Fairly OddParents - Season Two
Genres: Comedy, Family, Animation
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Butch Hartman
Starring: Tara Strong, Daran Norris, Susanne Blakeslee
Available Quality: DivX
Timothy Tiberius "Timmy" Turner is a 10-year-old boy who lives in the fictional town of Dimmsdale, California (although it's said in the show the town is located in the real-world Imperial County) with his dim-witted parents, who almost never pay attention to him. His life is constantly miserable because his parents are rarely home, he is babysat and bullied by Vicky, a 16-year-old torturous babysitter, he is bullied daily, and is tormented by his teacher, Mr. Crocker. But everything changes when he receives two fairy godparents: Cosmo, Wanda, and later their son, Poof. Timmy learns that his fairy godparents are capable of granting him any wi...
How It's Made - Season Six
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2002
Country: Canada
Director: Brooks T. Moore, Lynne Adams, Lynn Herzeg
Starring: Lynne Adams, Brooks T. Moore, Lynn Herzeg
Available Quality: DivX
Additionally, a different voice-over track is recorded for U.S. audiences by Brooks T. Moore (Seasons 1-8, 20012007, 2008present) or Zac Fine (20072008). The main difference in the versions is that the U.S. host gives units of measurement in United States customary units instead of metric units. At one point in the U.S. run, a subtitled conversion was shown on-screen over the original narration instead.
Will & Grace - Season Five
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: David Kohan, Max Mutchnick
Starring: Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Eric McCormack
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
During the third season of the show, it is revealed through flashback scenes that Will and Grace first met at Columbia University in 1985, living across the hall from one another in a dorm. They instantly connected and soon began dating. Later, Jack, who was still in high school, crashed a Dorm Party held by Will, after which Jack accuses Will of being in denial about his sexual orientation. Will proposes marriage to Grace to postpone sleeping with her, but finally comes out to her. Grace throws him out of her family's house and they do not speak for a year (Grace having moved off campus), but they accidentally ran into each other again on Th...
Still Game - Season One
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2002
Country: UK
Director: Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Paul Riley
Starring: Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Paul Riley
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
Life or Something Like It
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, James Gammon, Melissa Errico, Tony Shalhoub, Gregory Itzin, Lisa Thornhill
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
A reporter, Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie), interviews a psychic homeless man (Shalhoub) for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead, he tells her that her life has no meaning, and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...
The Quiet American
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Year: 2002
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Australia, France
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Holmes Osborne, Michael Caine, Rade Serbedzija, Brendan Fraser, Robert Stanton, Tzi Ma, Ferdinand Hoang
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Saigon, 1952, a beautiful, exotic, and mysterious city caught in the grips of the Vietnamese war of liberation from the French colonial powers. New arrival Alden Pyle, an idealistic American aid worker, befriends London Times correspondent Thomas Fowler. When Fowler introduces Pyle to his beautiful young Vietnamese mistress Phuong the three become swept up in a tempestuous love triangle that leads to a series of startling revelations and finally - murder. Nothing, and no one, is as it seems, in this adaptation of Graham Greene's classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the American war in Vietnam.
George Lopez - Season One
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Robert Borden, Bruce Helford, George Lopez
Starring: Valente Rodriguez, George Lopez, Belita Moreno
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
George Lopez (also known as The George Lopez Show) is an American sitcom starring comedian George Lopez. The show originally aired on ABC from March 27, 2002, to May 8, 2007.
Shottas
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Cess Silvera
Starring: Wyclef Jean, Paul Campbell, Louie Rankin, Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Screechie Bop, San San
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
In the tradition of Scarface and The Harder They Come, Shottas is an unapologetic raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs (Kymani Marley) and Wayne (Spragga Benz) take on the "shotta" (Jamaican term for gangster) way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the U.S., where they begin a ruthless climb from the bottom to the glittering top of a criminal enterprise in a Miami filled with fast cars and gorgeous women. The two men remain fiercely bound by their shottas loyalty as they aggressively take control of the Jamaican underworld.
Secretary
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Steven Shainberg
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Oz Perkins, James Spader, Stephen McHattie
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.
Solaris
Genres: Romance, Drama, Mystery
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis, John Cho, Lauren Cohn, Michael Ensign, George Clooney, Natascha McElhone
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Upon arrival at the space station orbiting an ocean world called Solaris a psychologist discovers that the commander of an expedition to the planet has died mysteriously. Other strange events soon start happening as well, such as the appearance of old acquaintances of the crew, including some who are dead.
Unfaithful
Year: 2002
Country: Germany, USA, France
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Diane Lane, Kate Burton, Richard Gere, Margaret Colin, Olivier Martinez, Michelle Monaghan, Erich Anderson
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she's approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her...
The Wild Thornberrys - Season Five
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Gabor Csupo, David Silverman, Arlene Klasky, Steve Pepoon, Stephen Sustarsic
Starring: Tim Curry, Lacey Chabert, Jodi Carlisle
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Voiced by Lacey Chabert, Eliza is a young girl, who (unknown to most) gained the ability to speak with animals after an encounter with an African shaman (as shown in the episode "Gift of Gab").Despite her best intentions, Eliza's stubborness that she's always right leads her strong desire to help to become destructive. Eliza is portrayed as a geek by her extensive zoological knowledge and her glasses, braces and by occasionally standing pigeon-toed. She has freckles and long red-orange hair that is usually worn in pigtails like Pippi Longstocking, and occasionally a ponytail. She also has a companion-monkey (chimpanzee) like Pippi Longstockin...