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Review 20th Century Fox / Guns at Batasi [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Leyton
  • Jack Hawkins
  • John Guillermin
  • Flora Robson
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Mia Farrow
Release date: 2006-05-23
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Robert Holles
Price: £6.48

Review Guns at Batasi [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Entertainment in Video / All About The Benjamins [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Epps
  • Ice Cube
  • Tommy Flanagan
  • Eva Mendes
  • Carmen Chaplin
  • Kevin Bray
Release date: 2002-09-30
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Ronald Lang
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.96

Review All About The Benjamins [2002] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Televista / Raid on Entebbe [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Horst Buchholz
  • Martin Balsam
  • Irvin Kershner
  • John Saxon
  • Peter Finch
  • Sylvia Sidney
Release date: 2007-07-03
Run time: 113 min.
Price: £11.41

Review Raid on Entebbe [1977] / Televista:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / El Mariachi / Desperado [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Antonio Banderas
  • Carlos Gallardo
  • Consuelo Gómez
  • Robert Rodriguez
  • Salma Hayek
  • Joaquim de Almeida
Release date: 1999-11-01
Run time: 181 min.
Creator: Elizabeth Avellan
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.97

Review El Mariachi / Desperado [1996] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Before Robert Rodriguez' El Mariachi, Mexicans in North American action films were typically maids, drug dealers or prison inmates. Even if the Cisco Kid was a friend of yours, you handled a dust cloth or a Mac-10 if you lasted in Hollywood longer than a New York minuto. But when El Mariachi crossed the border in 1992, things changed. Granted, it still involved a drug lord in a shoot-em-up but this time the good guy was a Mexican. Austin-based Rodriguez made El Mariachi for a fistful of pesos and a little help from his friends. He wrote, directed, coproduced, edited and operated the camera. Plus, he assembled a cast that had never acted before to work por nada. Desperado continues the outrageous action adventure. Working with a much bigger budget, Rodriguez returns the nameless mariachi to non-stop action. Again thrust into a world he never made, the hero takes his guitar-case arsenal deep into the criminal labyrinth of Bucho (Joaquim de Almeida), el gran chingon of the Mexican drug lords. [+]
With an amigo (Steve Buscemi) and a beautiful bookstore owner (Salma Hayek), el mariachi confronts an outrageous cast along the way, including a bartender (Cheech Marin), a drug-deal, pick-up guy (Quentin Tarantino) and the original mariachi (coproducer Carlos Gallardo) as a new-found compa'. Antonio Banderas has the lead this time, and if he's not quite up to the challenge, it's probably because he's Spanish, not Mexican, a distinction not lost by anyone raised on what the popular media now calls "ethnic food. " That said, Desperado is not to be missed. Using intelligence, romance and humour-as well as plenty of explosive, surreal violence-Rodriguez again showcases the timeless struggle between the forces of darkness and light. And, in the process, he's recasting the mould for the contemporary action hero-kids now argue about who gets to play the Mexican. -Stephan Magcosta, Amazon. com.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Blue Thunder [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Malcolm McDowell
  • John Badham
  • Daniel Stern
  • Warren Oates
  • Candy Clark
  • Roy Scheider
Release date: 2007-03-19
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.43

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Review Cinema Club / The Doug McClure Fantasy Adventure Triple Pack
Actors & Directors
  • Doug McClure
Release date: 2005-03-21
Run time: 265 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £15.32

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Review MGM Entertainment / The Great Escape - Special Edition (England flag & temporary tattoos) [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Angus Lennie
  • Steve McQueen
  • Gordon Jackson
  • Nigel Stock
  • David McCallum
  • John Sturges
Release date: 2006-05-22
Run time: 172 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.99

Review The Great Escape - Special Edition (England flag & temporary tattoos) [1963] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Prism Leisure / Blown Away [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Brenton Spencer
  • Nicole Eggert
  • Corey Feldman
  • Kathleen Robertson
  • Corey Haim
  • Jean LeClerc
Release date: 2002-07-29
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Robert C. Cooper
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.96

Review Blown Away [1993] / Prism Leisure:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Smokin' Aces/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Carnahan
  • Alicia Keys
  • Jeremy Piven
  • Guy Ritchie
  • Jason Bateman
  • Ben Affleck
  • Nick Moran
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 216 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.86

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Fast And The Furious [HD DVD] [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Rick Yune
  • Jordana Brewster
  • Vin Diesel
  • Michelle Rodriguez
  • Rob Cohen
  • Paul Walker
Release date: 2007-02-12
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.90

Review The Fast And The Furious [HD DVD] [2001] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Momentum Pictures / Universal Soldier [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Ally Walker
  • Ed O'Ross
  • Jerry Orbach
  • Dolph Lundgren
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Roland Emmerich
Release date: 2001-05-28
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £7.50

Review Universal Soldier [1991] / Momentum Pictures:

Universal Soldier offered director Roland Emmerich and screenwriter Dean Devlin their first venture before going on to make a mountain of money as the creators of Independence Day and Godzilla. Teaming up for this action flick disguised as a science fiction thriller, muscle hunks Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren play embattled Vietnam soldiers who kill each other in combat. They are subsequently revived 25 years later as semi-android "UniSols" in a high-tech army of the near future. Their memories were supposedly wiped clean, but flashbacks occur to remind them of their bitter hatred (Lundgren committed wartime atrocities; Van Damme had tried to stop him) and the warriors resume their tenacious battle while a journalist (Ally Walker) uncovers the truth about the secret UniSol program. With energy to spare, the standard action sequences are adequate for anyone with a short attention span. And besides, with Van Damme and Lundgren in the lead roles, who needs dialogue? -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Uca / Tremors/Tremors 2 - Aftershocks/Tremors 3 - Back To Perfection
Actors & Directors
  • Helen Shaver
  • Susan Chuang
  • Christopher Gartin
  • Fred Ward
  • Ron Underwood
  • Brent Maddock
  • S.S. Wilson
  • Michael Gross
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 207 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.83

Review Tremors/Tremors 2 - Aftershocks/Tremors 3 - Back To Perfection / Uca:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Mission: Impossible 3 [HD DVD] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeffrey Abrams
  • Tom Cruise
Release date: 2006-11-27
Run time: 125 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £4.71

Review Mission: Impossible 3 [HD DVD] [2006] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Flight Of Fury [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Angus MacInnes
  • Steven Seagal
  • Alki David
  • Gary Cooper
  • Steve Toussaint
Release date: 2007-04-16
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.00

Review Flight Of Fury [2007] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Anyone who seeks out a Steven Seagal movie has certain expectations: Bone-crunchingly brutal martial arts action; spiritual or ecological wisdom uttered in Seagal's hoarse monotone; and one long relentless scowl. Flight of Fury fails to deliver on all counts. Seagal plays an ex-military guy who's the only man who can retrieve a stolen stealth fighter. So he goes to Afghanistan, where he teams up with a sexy agent of some kind (Ciera Payton, making her cinematic debut) to shoot a lot of Afghan mercenaries and fly away. The only plausible explanation for this movie's existence is that Seagal and his producers bought some stock footage of jet fighters and decided to build a story around it. The action scenes are murky, brief, and edited to compensate for Seagal's increasing bulk. The rote dialogue-co-written by Seagal-is recycled from a dozen other action movies. And Seagal can't even muster the energy to frown, let alone scowl. This inert lump of a movie is the latest in a series of clumsy, incompetent, straight-to-video clunkers from Seagal, who is cynically squeezing every dollar he can out of his long-suffering fanbase. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Assault On Precinct 13 [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Darwin Joston
  • Tony Burton
  • Martin West
  • Austin Stoker
  • John Carpenter
  • Laurie Zimmer
Release date: 2001-05-28
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Steve Fine
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.50

Review Assault On Precinct 13 [1976] / Universal Pictures UK:

John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13 is a riveting low-budget thriller from 1976, in which a nearly abandoned police station is held under siege by a heavily armed gang called Street Thunder. Inside the station, cut off from contact and isolated, convicts heading for death row and the cops must now join forces or die. That's the basic plot, but what Carpenter does with it is remarkable. Drawing specific inspiration from the classic Howard Hawks Western Rio Bravo (which included a similar siege on disadvantaged heroes), Carpenter used his simple setting for a tense, tightly constructed series of action sequences, emphasising low-key character development and escalating tension. Few who've seen the film can forget the "ice cream cone" scene in which a young girl is caught up in the action by patronising a seemingly harmless ice cream van. It's here, and in other equally memorable scenes, that Carpenter demonstrates his knack for injecting terror into the mundane details of daily life, propelling this potent thriller to cult favourite status and long-standing critical acclaim. From this Carpenter went on to make the original Halloween, one of the most profitable independent films of all time. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Vci Video / The Fighting Sullivans [1944]
Actors & Directors
  • Lloyd Bacon
  • Thomas Mitchell
  • Anne Baxter
  • Edward Ryan
  • Trudy Marshall
  • Selena Royle
Release date: 2005-11-22
Run time: 112 min.
Price: £13.14

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Twin Dragons [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Jackie Chan
  • Maggie Cheung
  • Hark Tsui
  • Ringo Lam
  • Philip Chan
  • Teddy Robin Kwan
  • Anthony Chan
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Yik Wong
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.13

Review Twin Dragons [1999] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

For 1992's Twin Dragons Jackie Chan resurrects the old Corsican Brothers chestnut of identical twin brothers separated at birth who meet up as adults and discover that they share more than blood ties. Poor boy Chan is a mechanic and race-car driver whose black-market activities have made him the target of some nasty mobsters, while jet-setting Chan is a world-famous conductor back in Hong Kong for a concert. In the same vicinity for the first time in years, they can suddenly feel each other's pain, and more. As one Chan jumps a jet boat for a wild escape, the other becomes a victim of the furious ride, thrown around a posh restaurant while drenching his date with drinking water. The whole thing is overloaded with silly slapstick, Chan's incessant mugging and cartoonish mistaken-identity gags as the boys swap girlfriends and dance. But wade through the crude comedy and you're rewarded with a gymnastic free-for-all climax in a car-testing workshop, where Chan leaps over, under and through cars while taking on an army of gangsters before split-screen brothers team up for a bit of marionette martial arts. Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam co-direct, Tsui taking the comedy and Lam handling the action, and John Woo makes a cameo as a priest in the wedding finale. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Sylvia Scarlett [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Aherne
  • George Cukor
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Cary Grant
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.29

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Review Goldhil / Little House on the Prairie: Season 9 [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Karen Grassle
  • Maury Dexter
  • Michael Ray Rhodes
  • Victor French
  • Michael Landon
  • Joseph Pevney
  • Michael Landon
  • Melissa Gilbert
  • Sidney Greenbush
  • Lindsay Greenbush
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 1020 min.
Creator: Arthur Heinemann
Price: £17.00

Review Little House on the Prairie: Season 9 [1974] / Goldhil:


Review Warner Home Video / Ocean's Eleven [HD DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Matt Damon
  • Julia Roberts
  • Brad Pitt
  • Steven Soderbergh
  • George Clooney
  • Andy Garcia
Release date: 2007-11-05
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £25.99
Price: £6.75

Review Ocean's Eleven [HD DVD] / Warner Home Video:

Ocean's Eleven improves on the 1960's Rat Pack original with supernova casting, a slickly updated plot and Steven Soderbergh's graceful touch behind the camera. Soderbergh reportedly relished the opportunity "to make a movie that has no desire except to give pleasure from beginning to end", and he succeeds on those terms, blessed by the casting of George Clooney as Danny Ocean, the title role originally played by Frank Sinatra. Fresh out of jail, Ocean masterminds a plot to steal $163 million from the seemingly impervious vault of Las Vegas's Bellagio casino, not just for the money but to win his ex-wife (Julia Roberts) back from the casino's ruthless owner (Andy Garcia). Soderbergh doesn't scrimp on the caper's comically intricate strategy, but he finds greater joy in assembling a stellar team (including Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and Carl Reiner) and indulging their strengths as actors and thieves. The result is a film that's as smooth as a silk suit and just as stylish. -Jeff Shannon On the DVD: Ocean's Eleven on disc is hardly swarming with special features, but just like all good heists it's quality not quantity that counts. The cast commentary is lively and it's nice to hear intelligent comments coming from Hollywood's big league for a change. However, it's the director and writer's commentary that is the real gem; it's funny, enlightening and most of all it allows Ted Griffin to put the case forward for all screenwriters across the world as to the importance of their craft. The main feature has an impressive transfer of sound and visuals, making the suits sharper and David Holmes' soundtrack even funkier. -Nikki Disney.

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Guns at Batasi [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), All About The Benjamins [2002], Raid on Entebbe [1977], El Mariachi / Desperado [1996], Blue Thunder [1983], The Doug McClure Fantasy Adventure Triple Pack, The Great Escape - Special Edition (England flag & temporary tattoos) [1963], Blown Away [1993], Smokin' Aces/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, The Fast And The Furious [HD DVD] [2001], Universal Soldier [1991], Tremors/Tremors 2 - Aftershocks/Tremors 3 - Back To Perfection, Mission: Impossible 3 [HD DVD] [2006], Flight Of Fury [2007], Assault On Precinct 13 [1976], The Fighting Sullivans [1944], Twin Dragons [1999], Sylvia Scarlett [1935], Little House on the Prairie: Season 9 [1974], Ocean's Eleven [HD DVD]

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