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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Die Hard Trilogy (6 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Irons
  • Bruce Willis
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • John McTiernan
  • William Sadler
  • Bonnie Bedelia
Release date: 2004-10-25
Run time: 367 min.
Creator: William Sadler
RRP: £34.99
Price: £25.00

Review Die Hard Trilogy (6 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [1988] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves [DVD] [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Bartlett
  • Stuart Pankin
  • Rick Moranis
  • Bug Hall
  • Eve Gordon
  • Dean Cundey
Release date: 2002-09-23
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Nell Scovell
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.73

Review Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves [DVD] [1997] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / XXX (Xtreme Edition) [DVD] [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Asia Argento
  • Vin Diesel
  • Rob Cohen
  • Samuel L. Jackson
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Samuel L. Jackson
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.41

Review XXX (Xtreme Edition) [DVD] [2002] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Coffy [DVD] [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Allan Arbus
  • Jack Hill
  • Booker Bradshaw
  • Robert DoQui
  • Pam Grier
  • William Elliott
Release date: 2003-07-07
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Samuel Z. Arkoff
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.13

Review Coffy [DVD] [1974] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Robotech / Robotech - The Shadow Chronicles (2006) [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Yuri Lowenthal
  • Richard Epcar
  • Eddie Frierson
  • Melanie MacQueen
  • Tommy Yune
  • Mark Hamill
  • Dong-Wook Lee
Release date: 2007-07-23
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Ford Riley
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.42

Review Robotech - The Shadow Chronicles (2006) [DVD] / Robotech:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Cold Mountain [DVD] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Brendan Gleeson
  • Renée Zellweger
  • Anthony Minghella
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Jude Law
  • Nicole Kidman
Release date: 2004-07-05
Run time: 152 min.
Creator: Nicole Kidman
RRP: £20.99
Price: £2.00

Review Cold Mountain [DVD] [2004] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Cold Mountain, freely adapted from Charles Frazier's beloved bestseller, boasts an impeccable pedigree as a respectable Civil War love story, offering everything you'd want from a romantic epic-except a resonant emotional core. Everything in this sweeping, Odyssean journey depends on believing in the instant love that ignites during a very brief encounter between genteel, city-bred preacher's daughter Ada (Nicole Kidman) and Confederate soldier Inman (Jude Law), who deserts the battlefield to return, weary and wounded, to Ada's inherited farm in the rural town of Cold Mountain, North Carolina. In an epic (but dramatically tenuous) case of absence making hearts grow fonder, Inman endures a treacherous hike fraught with danger (and populated by supporting players including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and others) while the struggling, inexperienced Ada is aided by the high-spirited Ruby (Renée Zellweger), forming a powerful farming partnership that transforms Ada into a strong, lovelorn survivor. The film's episodic structure slightly weakens its emotional impact, and it's fairly obvious that director Anthony Minghella is striving to repeat the prestigious romanticism of his Oscar-winning hit The English Patient. For the most part it works, especially in the dynamic performances of Zellweger and Kidman, and the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is recreated with violent, percussive intensity. Those who admired Frazier's novel may regret some of the changes made in Minghella's adaptation (the ending is particularly altered), but Cold Mountain remains a high-class example of grand, old-fashioned filmmaking, boosted by star power of the highest order. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Uca / Jaws 4 - The Revenge [DVD] [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Lorraine Gary
  • Lance Guest
  • Michael Caine
  • Mario Van Peebles
  • Karen Young
  • Joseph Sargent
Release date: 2009-04-06
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Peter Benchley
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.88

Review Jaws 4 - The Revenge [DVD] [1987] / Uca:

One would think that after the aquatic horror of the previous three Jaws films the remnants of the beleaguered Brodie family would be happily nursing their hydrophobia somewhere in Kansas. However, in Jaws 4-The Revenge, we find that Ellen (Lorraine Gary) is still living on a tiny island and her eldest son Michael (Lance Guest) has become, of all things, a marine biologist. Even when yet another giant shark slaughters her younger son, all Ellen can do to take her mind off it is go to the Bahamas and gaze at the sea. There she embarks on a romantic affair with salty sea-pilot Hoagie (a nice turn from Michael Caine), but this peace is shattered as the shark begins to target her grandchildren and friends. Where this monster-with-a-grudge comes from, bearing in mind that the sharks in each of the previous films got blown up or electrocuted, is something of a conundrum. But logic is clearly not a concern in a script that demands only that this film should bear some tenuous relation to its predecessors. The ghost of the far-superior original looms large here-in the form of Ellen's flashbacks (which actually use footage from the earlier films), scenes that overtly refer to moments from the series (Michael's son mimics him at the dinner table, as Michael once did to his own father) and a set littered with conspicuously large photos of Roy Scheider. There are nice touches-Michael and his Jamaican partner Jake (Mario Van Peebles) fit the shark with a heart monitor which lets off an eerie blipping sound when it approaches, it is nice to see a romance between more "mature" characters portrayed so warmly and when the maternal Ellen forms the resolve to protect her family it even looks like she may briefly become a sort of geriatric Ripley character (à la Aliens). But with a shark that has never looked more rubbery, set pieces that lack suspense and invention and a short running time (only 86 minutes) it is hard to shake off the sensation that this is a made-for-TV film. Those wanting a dose of tongue-in-cheek killer-creature action would be better off avoiding this wet fish and taking in a Jaws rip-off with a little more bite, such as Deep Blue Sea or Deep Rising. [+]
-Paul Philpott.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 2 disc Special Edition [DVD] [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Stuart Townsend
  • Tony Curran
  • Sean Connery
  • Jason Flemyng
  • Stephen Norrington
  • Peta Wilson
Release date: 2004-02-16
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Kevin O'Neill
RRP: £22.99
Price: £1.83

Review The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 2 disc Special Edition [DVD] [2003] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The heroes of 1899 are brought to life with the help of some expensive special effects in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. From the pages of Victorian literature come Captain Nemo, Dr Jekyll (and his alter ego Mr Hyde), Dorian Gray, Tom Sawyer, the Invisible Man, Mina Harker (from Dracula), and the hunter Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery), all assembled to combat an evil megalomaniac out to conquer the world. It's hardly an original plot, but perhaps that's fitting for a movie sewn together like Frankenstein's monster. It rushes from one frenetic battle to another, replacing sense with spectacle-Nemo's submarine rising from the water, a warehouse full of zeppelins bursting into flame, Venice collapsing into its own canals. It's flashy, dumb, and completely incoherent. Fans of the original comic book will be disappointed. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Manga Entertainment / Panda Go Panda! [DVD] [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Isao Takahata;Hayao Miyazaki
Release date: 2009-07-06
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.98

Review Panda Go Panda! [DVD] [1972] / Manga Entertainment:


Review Elstree Hill / The James Cagney Collection: Time Of Your Life / Blood On The Sun / Great Guy [2007] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • James Cagney
Release date: 2007-10-15
Run time: 258 min.
Creator: James Cagney
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.44

Review The James Cagney Collection: Time Of Your Life / Blood On The Sun / Great Guy [2007] [DVD] / Elstree Hill:


Review Warner Home Video / Point Blank [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Lee Marvin
  • Lloyd Bochner
  • Carroll O'Connor
  • John Boorman
  • Keenan Wynn
  • Angie Dickinson
Release date: 2005-07-05
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Alexander Jacobs
Price: £7.93

Review Point Blank [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Warner Home Video:

Point Blank’s hero, Walker (Lee Marvin), strides through Los Angeles with the steely stare of a stone-cold killer, or perhaps a ghost. Betrayed by his wife and his best friend, who gun him down point-blank and leave him for dead after a successful heist, Walker blasts his way up the criminal food chain in a quest for revenge. Did he survive the shooting, did he return from the grave, or is it all a dying dream? The question is left in the air in John Boorman's modern film noir, a brutal revenge thriller based on Richard Stark's novel, set in the impersonal concrete and steel canyons of Los Angeles and the eerily empty cells of Alcatraz. Walker kills without remorse, guided by shadowy "informant" Keenan Wynn, whose own agenda is carefully concealed and assisted by Angie Dickinson as he desperately searches for someone, anyone, who can just give him his money. But if Walker is an extreme incarnation of the revenge-driven noir anti-hero, the modern syndicate has been transformed into a world of paper jungles and corporate businessmen: an alienating concept for the two-fisted, gun-wielding gangster. Boorman creates a hard, austere look for the film and scatters flashes of painful memory throughout the story, grafting the New Wave onto old genres with confidence and style. Haunting and brutal, Point Blank remains one of the most distinctive crime thrillers ever made. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Showdown In Little Tokyo [DVD] [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Toshirô Obata
  • Tia Carrere
  • Brandon Lee
  • Mark L. Lester
  • Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Dolph Lundgren
Release date: 2001-06-18
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Stephen Glantz
RRP: £13.99
Price: £2.08

Review Showdown In Little Tokyo [DVD] [1991] / Warner Home Video:

Showdown in Little Tokyo is a 1991 martial arts action comedy which, in pitting Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee as LA cops against Japanese drug dealers, plays like a B-movie Tango and Cash or Lethal Weapon 2 (both released just two years before). Between career highs in Rocky IV (1985) and Universal Soldier (1992) it looked as if Lundgren might make it big at the box-office, and clearly wanting to be the new Schwarzenegger he is here directed by Mark L Lester, who had earlier helmed Arnie's Commando (1985). In the event both actor and director headed for straight-to-video territory. The 75-minute running time suggests the studio lost confidence and seriously cut the movie though, as the space between the action is filled with nothing but cringe-inducing dialogue, thriller clichés and Lundgren "romancing" Tia Carrere, it still makes sense. Basing its title on John Carpenter's 1986 fantasy-comedy Big Trouble in Little China and anticipating Rush Hour (1998), Showdown in Little Tokyo alternates between crude tongue-in-cheek moments and action so ludicrous it's unintentionally hilarious. A camp disaster which simply defies belief, this is stupidly entertaining so-bad-its-good six-pack entertainment. On the DVD: There are no extras other than the trailer. The anamorphically enhanced 1. 77:1 image offers a good transfer of a grainy print. The stereo sound is clear but for a modern action film seriously lacks impact: gunshots sound like a paper bag popping. [+]
-Gary S Dalkin.

Review Warner Home Video / Tequila Sunrise [DVD] [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Raul Julia
  • Michelle Pfeiffer
  • Mel Gibson
  • J.T. Walsh
  • Kurt Russell
  • Robert Towne
Release date: 1998-09-25
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Tom Shaw
RRP: £13.99
Price: £1.96

Review Tequila Sunrise [DVD] [1989] / Warner Home Video:

Robert Towne is one of Hollywood's most celebrated screenwriters, but because his directorial efforts have been few and far between, anticipation was high when this star-powered crime story was released in 1988. Critical reaction was decidedly mixed, but there's plenty to admire in this silky, visually seductive film about a drug dealer (Mel Gibson) whose best friend from high-school (Kurt Russell) is now working for the Los Angeles sheriff's drug detail. Their personal and professional conflicts are intensified by their love for the same woman, a waitress (Michelle Pfeiffer) at the Italian restaurant they both frequent. There's a big deal going down with a drug lord (the late Raul Julia), but as it twists and turns, Towne's story is really more about personal loyalties and individual honour. And even if it doesn't quite hold together, the movie's got a fantastic look to it (courtesy of the great cinematographer Conrad Hall), and the three stars bring depth and dimension to their well-written roles. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Warner Home Video / Shark In Venice [DVD] [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Baldwin
  • Danny Lerner
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Stephen Baldwin
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.75

Review Shark In Venice [DVD] [2008] / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Beverly Hills Cop [DVD] [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Lisa Eilbacher
  • Martin Brest
  • Judge Reinhold
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Ronny Cox
  • John Ashton
Release date: 2002-05-13
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Danilo Bach
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.43

Review Beverly Hills Cop [DVD] [1985] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

While its sequels were formulaic and safe, the first Beverly Hills Cop set out to explore some uncharted territory and succeeded. A blend of violent action picture and sharp comedy, the film has an excellent director, Martin Brest (Scent of a Woman), who finds some original perspectives on stock scenes (highway chases, police rousts) and hits a gleeful note with Murphy while skewering LA culture. Good support from Judge Reinhold and John Ashton as local cops not used to doing things the Detroit way (Murphy's character hails from the Motor City). Paul Reiser has a funny, brief moment at the beginning and Bronson Pinchot makes an hilarious impression in a great, never-to-be-duplicated scene with the star. -Tom Keogh.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / Survive Style 5+ [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Kyôko Koizumi
  • Gen Sekiguchi
  • Reika Hashimoto
  • Tadanobu Asano
  • Ittoku Kishibe
  • Hiroshi Abe
Release date: 2006-05-29
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Ryoichi Fukuyama
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.87

Review Survive Style 5+ [DVD] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review Five Star Entertainment / The Beastmaster [DVD] [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • John Amos
  • Rip Torn
  • Tanya Roberts
  • Marc Singer
  • Don Coscarelli
  • Joshua Milrad
Release date: 1999-11-15
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Paul Pepperman
RRP: £18.99
Price: £29.69

Review The Beastmaster [DVD] [1982] / Five Star Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Batman Returns - Special Edition [DVD] [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Christi Conaway
  • Christopher Walken
  • Michael Keaton
  • Danny De Vito
  • Tim Burton
  • Pee-Wee Herman
Release date: 2005-10-21
Run time: 121 min.
Creator: Christi Conaway
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.80

Review Batman Returns - Special Edition [DVD] [1992] / Warner Home Video:


Review Ilc Prime / The Panic In Needle Park [DVD] [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Kiel Martin
  • Al Pacino
  • Kitty Winn
  • Richard Bright
  • Jerry Schatzberg
  • Alan Vint
Release date: 2002-09-30
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: John Gregory Dunne
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.95

Review The Panic In Needle Park [DVD] [1971] / Ilc Prime:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Tweenies: Night-Time Magic [DVD] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Carr
  • Justin Fletcher
  • Bob Golding
  • Samantha Dodd
  • Colleen Daley
  • C.H. Beck
Release date: 2003-10-27
Run time: 59 min.
Creator: Justin Fletcher
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.97

Review Tweenies: Night-Time Magic [DVD] [1999] / 2 Entertain Video:


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