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Review Tartan / A Bittersweet Life [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Mina Shin
  • Yeong-Cheol Kim
  • Ji-Woon Kim
  • Byung-Hun Lee
Release date: 2006-04-24
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.60

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Fight Club - Two Disc Set (1999)
Actors & Directors
  • Helena Bonham Carter
  • Zach Grenier
  • Meat Loaf
  • Edward Norton
  • David Fincher
  • Brad Pitt
Release date: 2000-11-06
Run time: 134 min.
Creator: Jim Uhls
RRP: £24.99
Price: £13.49

Review Fight Club - Two Disc Set (1999) / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

All films require a certain suspension of disbelief, Fight Club perhaps more than others; but if you're willing to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed protagonist, a man going through life on cruise control, feeling nothing. To fill his hours, he begins attending support groups and 12-step meetings. True, he isn't actually afflicted with the problems, but he finds solace in the groups. This is destroyed, however, when he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), also faking her way through groups. Spiralling back into insomnia, Norton finds his life is changed once again, by a chance encounter with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), whose forthright style and no-nonsense way of taking what he wants appeal to our narrator. Tyler and the protagonist find a new way to feel release: they fight. They fight each other, and then as others are attracted to their ways, they fight the men who come to join their newly formed Fight Club. Marla begins a destructive affair with Tyler, and things fly out of control, as Fight Club is transformed into a nationwide fascist group. The depiction of violence in Fight Club is unflinching, but director David Fincher's film is captivating and beautifully shot, with camerawork and effects that are almost as startling as the script. [+]
The movie is packed with provocative ideas and images-from the satirical look at the emptiness of modern consumerism to quasi-Nietzschean concepts of "beyond good and evil"-that will leave the viewer with much food for thought to take away. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has a great sense of humour too. Even if it leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort this is a movie that you'll have to see again and again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in. -Jenny Brown, Amazon. com.

Review Dnc Entertainment / The Mechanik [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Dolph Lundgren
  • Ben Cross
  • Dolph Lundgren
Release date: 2008-07-21
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.99

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Review Gunslinger Girl / Gunslinger Girl - The Complete Box Set [2003]
Release date: 2007-05-21
Run time: 325 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £19.36

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Review Buso Renkin / Buso Renkin Vol.2
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £12.90

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Starsky And Hutch - Series 3 - Complete [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Bernie Hamilton
  • Antonio Fargas
  • David Soul
  • Paul Michael Glaser
Release date: 2005-02-28
RRP: £34.99
Price: £10.35

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Where No Vultures Fly - Ealing [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Watt
  • Harold Warrender
  • Anthony Steel
  • Dinah Sheridan
Release date: 2009-01-26
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.69

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Longest Day - Single Disc Edition [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew Marton
  • Ken Annakin
  • John Wayne
  • Henry Fonda
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Bernhard Wicki
  • Robert Ryan
  • Richard Burton
  • Darryl F. Zanuck
Release date: 2003-10-13
Run time: 168 min.
Creator: James Jones
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.17

Review The Longest Day - Single Disc Edition [1962] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

After seeing Saving Private Ryan, this epic tale about the Normandy invasion will look sanitised. But in its re-creation of events leading to the epochal battle, The Longest Day is captivating and grand, and the parade of famous actors who cross the screen naturally give the already charged action even more of a boost. Three directors worked on it: Ken Annakin (Battle of the Bulge), Andrew Marton (Crack in the World) and Bernhard Wicki (this film being his only credit). -Tom Keogh The Longest Day is Hollywood's definitive D-day movie. More modern accounts such as Saving Private Ryan are more vividly realistic, but producer Darryl F Zanuck's epic 1962 account is the only one to attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful day from all perspectives. From the German high command and front-line officers to the French Resistance and all the key Allied participants, the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own authoritative book, is as factually accurate as possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and Richard Burton, to name a few) makes for an uneasy mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power, however, and the film falls a little flat for too much of its three-hour running time. But the set-piece battles are still spectacular, and if the landings on Omaha Beach lack the graphic gore of Private Ryan they nonetheless show the sheer scale and audacity of the invasion. -Mark Walker.

Review 20th Century Fox / The Hot Rock [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Moses Gunn
  • Paul Sand
  • Robert Redford
  • Ron Leibman
  • Peter Yates
  • George Segal
Release date: 2003-05-20
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £5.53

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Review Pickwick / Wagon Train
Release date: 2006-08-14
Run time: 148 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.75

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Red Scorpion [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • T.P. McKenna
  • Carmen Argenziano
  • Dolph Lundgren
  • M. Emmet Walsh
  • Al White
  • Joseph Zito
Release date: 2004-06-28
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Robert Abramoff
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Daredevil (Director's Cut) / Elektra [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Garner
  • Colin Farrell
  • Rob Bowman
  • Mark Steven Johnson
  • Michael Clarke Duncan
  • Terence Stamp
  • Ben Affleck
Release date: 2005-05-30
Run time: 128 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £3.83

Review Daredevil (Director's Cut) / Elektra [2003] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Air America [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Lane Smith
  • Roger Spottiswoode
  • Nancy Travis
  • Mel Gibson
  • Robert Downey Jr
  • David Marshall Grant
Release date: 2008-08-04
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.07

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Review Momentum Pictures / Mercenary for Justice [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Luke Goss
  • Don E. Fauntleroy
  • Steven Seagal
  • Jacqueline Lord
Release date: 2006-07-24
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.38

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Review MGM / Jack the Giant Killer [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Don Beddoe
  • Judi Meredith
  • Nathan Juran
  • Walter Burke
  • Kerwin Mathews
  • Torin Thatcher
Release date: 2004-04-06
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £6.59

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Review Entertainment in Video / Operation Condor [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Eva Cobo
  • Jackie Chan
  • Jackie Chan
  • Shôko Ikeda
  • Aldo Sambrell
  • Carol 'Do Do' Cheng
Release date: 2001-11-19
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Edward Tang
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.90

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Review Uca / The Messenger - The Story of Joan Of Arc [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Milla Jovovich
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Tchéky Karyo
  • Faye Dunaway
  • John Malkovich
  • Luc Besson
Release date: 2005-08-01
Run time: 155 min.
Creator: Andrew Birkin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.63

Review The Messenger - The Story of Joan Of Arc [2000] / Uca:

Over the years, many film directors have attempted to tell the story of legendary 15th-century heroine Joan of Arc, a simple country girl who claimed she was inspired by God to lead the French troops in a victorious assault on the mighty English army. Luc Besson's 1999 epic might not be the best version of her life, but it's certainly the biggest. The movie cost a reported $60 million. Even if you are terminally unimpressed by the scale of such recent blockbusters as Gladiator, your eyes will pop out at the sheer number of bodies (living and dead) that Besson has assembled for the dynamic battle scenes. The lavish sets and costumes are almost equally gobsmacking, though neither will show to maximum advantage on the small screen. That's a pity because size is the only thing Joan of Arc really has going for it-as a human drama, it falls completely flat. The historical Joan was eventually made a saint by the Catholic Church, and earlier biopics tended to treat her celestial visions as literal fact. It was probably a mistake for Besson and his co-screenwriter Andrew Birkin to take a more psychological approach and present them as figments of her hysterical imagination. It makes it hard to work up the necessary empathy when the spectacle revolves around a confused and neurotic babe who couldn't organise a Tupperware party, let alone a vast military campaign. Milla Jovovich (the star of Besson's previous The Fifth Element and formerly his wife) doesn't help matters with her shrill and amateurish performance. [+]
But a couple of the supporting players are passably amusing-John Malkovich camps it up energetically as Charles, the dispossessed French king whom Joan reinstates, while Faye Dunaway wears outlandish headgear and carries on like a science-fiction creation in the role of his scheming mother-in-law. (The less said the better about Dustin Hoffman's pompous turn as Joan's personified conscience. ) Besson keeps to the same glossy visual style even when the Maid is burning at the stake, but it isn't enough to prevent this empty shell of a movie from being a colossal yawn. -Peter Matthews.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Lock, Stock TV [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Lisa Rogers (II)
  • Nick Brimble
  • Richard Hards
  • Christopher Adamson
Release date: 2000-11-06
Run time: 450 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £11.00

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Review DD Home Entertainment DD.20677 / Appointment In London [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • Bill Kerr
  • Dinah Sheridan
  • Bryan Forbes
  • Ian Hunter
  • Philip Leacock
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.65

Review Appointment In London [1952] / DD Home Entertainment DD.20677:

In 1943, the RAF Bomber Offensive against Nazi Germany is at its height. Night after night, the young crews of the Lancasters of RAF Bomber Command fly some of the most dangerous missions of the entire war. Their chances of surviving their tour of duty - just one in three. Wing Commander Tim Mason (Dirk Bogarde) has flown 89 missions. He has just one more combat raid to fly before he is rotated to the safety of a desk job. But confidence in Mason is waning amongst his superior officers. They think he's no longer fit to carry on and ground him prematurely. Mason defies orders and takes off on one last dangerous raid. As he flies into the bursting shrapnel and web of searchlights over his target, Mason believes he is certain to face court martial on his return, but the outcome of his actions are very different to those he believes he faces. Often compared with 'Angels One Five' for its realism (veterans of Bomber Command were consulted during the production at every stage), this is one of the finest films ever made about wartime Bomber Command and its young crews who were asked to fly in the face of insurmountable odds.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The War Lover [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Philip Leacock
  • Robert Wagner
  • Shirley Anne Field
  • Michael Crawford
  • Steve McQueen
  • Gary Cockrell
Release date: 2003-06-16
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: John Hersey
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.70

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A Bittersweet Life [2005], Fight Club - Two Disc Set (1999), The Mechanik [2005], Gunslinger Girl - The Complete Box Set [2003], Buso Renkin Vol.2, Starsky And Hutch - Series 3 - Complete [1977], Where No Vultures Fly - Ealing [1951], The Longest Day - Single Disc Edition [1962], The Hot Rock [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wagon Train, Red Scorpion [1988], Daredevil (Director's Cut) / Elektra [2003], Air America [1990], Mercenary for Justice [2006], Jack the Giant Killer [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Operation Condor [1990], The Messenger - The Story of Joan Of Arc [2000], Lock, Stock TV [2000], Appointment In London [1952], The War Lover [1962]

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