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Review Warner Home Video / The Valley Of Gwangi [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Freda Jackson
  • Gila Golan
  • Jim O'Connolly
  • Richard Carlson
  • Laurence Naismith
  • James Franciscus
Release date: 2004-01-26
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.37

Review The Valley Of Gwangi [1969] / Warner Home Video:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Bad Boys 2 [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Will Smith|Martin Lawrence
  • Michael Bay
Release date: 2004-02-23
Run time: 141 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £1.96

Review Bad Boys 2 [2003] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Bad Boys II fulfils every audience expectation and then some: no-one goes to a movie directed by Michael Bay for delicacy and grace; you go because Bay (Armageddon, The Rock) knows how to make your bones rattle during a high-speed chase when a car flips over, spins through the air and smacks another car with a visceral crunch. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence may be mere puppets amid all this burning rubber and shrieking metal, but they actually provide a human core to the endless cascade of car wrecks and gunfights. Their easy rapport makes their personal problems-a running joke is Lawrence's attempts at anger management-as engaging as the sheer visual hullabaloo of bullets and explosions. The plot is recycled nonsense about drug lords and dead bodies being used to smuggle drugs, but the orchestration of violence is symphonic. If that's your thing, then this is for you. -Bret Fetzer.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Big Blue [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Luc Besson
  • Rosanna Arquette
  • David Brisbin
  • Jean-Marc Barr
  • Andreas Voutsinas
  • Marc Duret
Release date: 2003-06-30
Run time: 163 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £36.75

Review The Big Blue [1988] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

A hit in Europe but a flop in the US-where it was trimmed, rescored, and given a new ending-Luc Besson's The Big Blue has endured as a minor cult classic for its gorgeous photography (both on land and underwater) and dreamy ambiance. Jean-Marc Barr is a sweet and sensitive but passive presence as Jacques, a diver with a unique connection to the sea. He has the astounding ability to slow his heartbeat and his circulation on deep dives, "a phenomenon that's only been observed in whales and dolphins until now," remarks one scientist. Kooky New York insurance adjuster Joanna (Rosanna Arquette at her most delightfully flustered and endearingly sexy best) melts after falling into his innocent baby blues, and she follows him to Italy, where he's continuing a lifelong competition with boyhood rival Enzo (Jean Reno in a performance both comic and touching). Besson's first English-language production looks more European than Hollywood, and it suffers from a tin ear for the language. At times it feels more like an IMAX undersea documentary than a drama about free divers, but the lush and lovely images create a fairy tale dimension to Jacques's story, a veritable Little Merman. More dolphin than man, he's so torn between earthly love and aquatic paradise that even his dreams call him to the sea (in a sequence more eloquent than any speech). Besson has expanded the film by 50 minutes for his director's cut, which adds little story but slows the contemplative pace until it practically floats in time, and has restored Eric Serra's synthesizer-heavy score, a slice of 1980s pop that at times borders on disco kitsch. Most importantly, he has restored his original ending, which echoes the fairy tale he tells Joanna earlier in the film and leaves the story floating in the inky blackness of ambiguity. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. [+]
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Review 4 Front Video / The Battle Of Midway [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • James Coburn
  • Jack Smight
  • Charlton Heston
  • Glenn Ford
  • Hal Holbrook
  • Henry Fonda
Release date: 2005-05-02
Run time: 128 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.89

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Review Warner Home Video / Masters of the Universe [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Courteney Cox
  • Meg Foster
  • Dolph Lundgren
  • Frank Langella
  • Billy Barty
  • Gary Goddard
Release date: 2001-10-23
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £3.91

Review Masters of the Universe [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Blood Diamond (2 Disc Special Edition) [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Zwick
  • Basil Wallace
  • Michael Sheen
  • Djimon Hounsou
  • Jennifer Connelly
  • Leonardo Di Caprio
Release date: 2007-06-18
Run time: 138 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £4.00

Review Blood Diamond (2 Disc Special Edition) [2006] / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Rob Cohen
  • Nancy Kwan
  • Jason Scott Lee
  • Robert Wagner
  • Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Michael Learned
Release date: 2003-07-21
Run time: 114 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.50

Review Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story [1993] / Universal Pictures UK:

This enjoyable and touching biography of martial-arts film star Bruce Lee stars Jason Scott Lee (no relation), an actor with a lively face and natural intensity, who makes every moment of this film compelling. Directed by Rob Cohen, Dragon traces Bruce Lee's slow rise over myriad obstacles-most of them race-based-to become an international superstar in films. Lee's origins are oddly set in San Francisco instead of his real home in Seattle, but then again there is plenty of artistic license going on as Cohen explores the actor's psyche through some powerful fantasy sequences. Lauren Holly is good as Lee's wife, Linda (whose book about her late husband inspired this movie). A scene involving Bruce's rescue of son Brandon (who died in a film-making accident in 1993) from a murderous spirit is plain spooky. The special-edition DVD release has a widescreen presentation, director interview, featurette, screen tests, closed captioning, optional French soundtrack and Spanish subtitles. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com -This text refers to the VHS edition of this video.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Sahara [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Matthew McConaughey
  • Steve Zahn
  • Penelope Cruz
  • Breck Eisner
Release date: 2005-08-22
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £0.58

Review Sahara [2005] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

It took more than 25 years for another Clive Cussler novel to come to the screen after the financial and critical disaster of Raise the Titanic. Based on Cussler's oddly landlocked adventure, Sahara finds the author's hero, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey)-a sort of all-American, high seas variation of James Bond-in Africa looking for a Confederate ironclad ship that impossibly might have ended up there. Soon he and his faithful sidekick Al Giordino (Steve Zahn) are lost in another adventure, discovering a deadly contaminate being tracked by a beautiful doctor (Penelope Cruz). The results are checkered: there's no one outstanding sequence, but the action is enjoyably varied, while the thrills are mild yet not bombastic or gratuitous. The cast are all adept in their roles, yet the only one who sparkles is the scene-stealing Zahn, cast against type; McConaughey, who also produced, knows he might be starting a franchise character and plays it safe. He's never as dangerous as Cussler's hero is on the page (except in his introduction), and in fact, the whole movie plays towards comedy, infused by a soundtrack of 70s FM radio monsters. Cussler fanatics may not like this lighter fare, especially with the archeological portion (a Cussler strong point) not fully embraced, but with a very, very likable cast and colorful settings, Sahara is a kindler, gentler action film that has all the elements in place for a better, more memorable franchise if anyone cares to attempt it. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

Review Prism Leisure Corporation / Who Dares Wins [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Lewis Collins; Judy Davis; Richard Widmark; Edward Woodward; Robert Webber; Tony Doyle; John Duttine; Kenneth Griffith; Rosalind Lloyd; Ingrid Pitt; Norman Rodway; Maurice Roëves; Bob Sherman; Albert Fortell; Mark Ryan
  • Ian Sharp
Release date: 2003-01-06
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.90

Review Who Dares Wins [1982] / Prism Leisure Corporation:

In an uncanny piece of art imitating life, Who Dares Wins came out in 1982 just after the infamous storming of the Iranian Embassy by the legendary British Special Air Services (SAS) unit. The plot builds up to that unshakeable image of black-clad troops abseiling the front of a stately home and smashing through the windows, and pays off expectations with a thrilling finale. Anyone expecting two hours of military instruction will be disappointed however. After the opening 10 minutes with the troops, the almost James-Bond-like story follows Lewis Collins (riding high in those days after TV's The Professionals) as he infiltrates a radical anti-Nuclear society. Operation: Destroy requires him to go undercover with their potentially insane leader Frankie (Judy Davis), ignoring his wife and child. The period detail is often the film's most entertaining feature as Collins tours across 1980s London constantly eluding spies on his tail. Apart from the endless permed hairdos and the fact that the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament hasn't got much to demonstrate about these days, there's the fashions and low-tech gadgetry to enjoy. In the US the film was called The Final Option. The DVD includes a photo gallery, and a history of the SAS. -Paul Tonks.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Starship Troopers Trilogy (Starship Troopers/Starship Troopers 2 - Hero Of The Federation/Starship Troopers 3 - Marauder) [Blu-ray] [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Amanda Donohoe
  • Paul Verhoeven
  • Casper Van Dien
  • Bill Brown
  • Ed Neumeier
  • Jolene Blalock
  • Phil Tippett
  • Marnette Patterson
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 313 min.
RRP: £59.99
Price: £28.95

Review Starship Troopers Trilogy (Starship Troopers/Starship Troopers 2 - Hero Of The Federation/Starship Troopers 3 - Marauder) [Blu-ray] [1997] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Tank Girl [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Ice-T
  • Jeff Kober
  • Naomi Watts
  • Rachel Talalay
  • Lori Petty
  • Don Harvey
Release date: 2001-06-25
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.65

Review Tank Girl [1995] / MGM Entertainment:

In Tank Girl, director Rachel Talalay's aggressively hip adaptation of the cult comic book, it is 2033 and the earth has been clobbered by a comet; civilization has been destroyed, and it hasn't rained in 11 years. Nearly all the water on the planet is controlled by the evil Water and Power Company, which is in turn controlled by the even more evil Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell). Who stands in the way? Mysterious mutants called the Rippers and, of course, Tank Girl. Lori Petty plays the eponymous, wisecracking, defiant heart of the movie as kind of an inner child gone wild. Unfortunately Petty can't quite carry a movie on her own-her zingers frequently fall flat and she seems to be continually worried that we still like her. Luckily there's Naomi Watts as Jet Girl to save the day: smart, shy and inherently way more appealing than Tank Girl. For all it lacks, Tank Girl is visually an eye-popper, worth watching for the insane set and costume designs alone. -Ali Davis, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Die Hard With A Vengeance (Two Disc Collector's Edition) [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • John McTiernan
  • Bruce Willis
  • Jeremy Irons
  • Colleen Camp
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • Graham Greene
Release date: 2002-03-25
Run time: 135 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.25

Review Die Hard With A Vengeance (Two Disc Collector's Edition) [1995] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Shinobi [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Odagiri
  • Tomoka Kurotani
  • Shimoyama Ten
  • Yukie Nakama
Release date: 2008-02-11
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.21

Review Shinobi [2006] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Starship Troopers Trilogy (Starship Troopers/Starship Troopers 2 - Hero Of The Federation/Starship Troopers 3 - Marauder) [Blu-ray] [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Marnette Patterson
  • Jolene Blalock
  • Phil Tippett
  • Paul Verhoeven
  • Bill Brown
  • Ed Neumeier
  • Casper Van Dien
  • Amanda Donohoe
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 313 min.
RRP: £59.99
Price: £28.95

Review Starship Troopers Trilogy (Starship Troopers/Starship Troopers 2 - Hero Of The Federation/Starship Troopers 3 - Marauder) [Blu-ray] [1997] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Sahara [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Penelope Cruz
  • Matthew McConaughey
  • Steve Zahn
  • Breck Eisner
Release date: 2005-08-22
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £0.58

Review Sahara [2005] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

It took more than 25 years for another Clive Cussler novel to come to the screen after the financial and critical disaster of Raise the Titanic. Based on Cussler's oddly landlocked adventure, Sahara finds the author's hero, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey)-a sort of all-American, high seas variation of James Bond-in Africa looking for a Confederate ironclad ship that impossibly might have ended up there. Soon he and his faithful sidekick Al Giordino (Steve Zahn) are lost in another adventure, discovering a deadly contaminate being tracked by a beautiful doctor (Penelope Cruz). The results are checkered: there's no one outstanding sequence, but the action is enjoyably varied, while the thrills are mild yet not bombastic or gratuitous. The cast are all adept in their roles, yet the only one who sparkles is the scene-stealing Zahn, cast against type; McConaughey, who also produced, knows he might be starting a franchise character and plays it safe. He's never as dangerous as Cussler's hero is on the page (except in his introduction), and in fact, the whole movie plays towards comedy, infused by a soundtrack of 70s FM radio monsters. Cussler fanatics may not like this lighter fare, especially with the archeological portion (a Cussler strong point) not fully embraced, but with a very, very likable cast and colorful settings, Sahara is a kindler, gentler action film that has all the elements in place for a better, more memorable franchise if anyone cares to attempt it. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / The Philadelphia Experiment [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Allen
  • Stewart Raffill
  • Michael Pare
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.72

Review The Philadelphia Experiment [1984] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Spider-Man [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Raimi
  • Tobey Maguire|Willem Dafoe|Kirsten Dunst|James Franco
Release date: 2002-11-25
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £1.00

Review Spider-Man [2002] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Marvel Comics fans have been waiting for this big-screen Spider-Man since the character made his print debut in 1962, which attaches impossible expectations to a film that rates as a solid success without breaking out of the spandex ghetto in the way that Batman Returns or X-Men did. Tobey Maguire is ideally cast as speccy Peter Parker, a high school swot with personal problems. The suit and effects take over when he gets bitten by a genetically engineered (i. e. , no longer radioactive) spider and transforms into a web-swinging superhero who finds that these super-powers don't really help him get close to the girl next door (Kirsten Dunst) or protect his elderly guardian (Cliff Robertson) from random violence. The villain of the peace is Peter's best friend's industrialist father (Willem Dafoe) who has dosed himself on an experimental serum which makes him go all Jekyll-and-Hyde and emerge as the cackling Green Goblin, who soon gets a grudge against Spider-Man. Sam Raimi gives it all a bright, airy, kinetic feel, with wonderful aerial stuff as Spider-Man escapes from his troubles by swinging between skyscrapers, and the rethink of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's origin story is managed with a canny mix of faithfulness (JK Simmons' as the crass editor JJ Jameson is the image of the comic character) and send-up (after a big introduction, Spider-Man finally appears in a really rubbish first attempt at a spider costume). Maguire and the impossibly sweet Dunst make it work as a hesitant teen romance, but somehow the second half, which brings on the villain to give the hero someone to fight, is only exciting when it wants to be affecting too. -Kim Newman On the DVD: Spider-Man's two-disc offering is nothing out of the ordinary, but fans will find some gems here including Stan Lee's thoughts, a gallery of comic cover art and profiles on the baddies. The two commentaries (cast and crew, and Special Effects) both have long periods with pauses, but the special effects guys are full of insight. [+]
The DVD-ROM section offers some of the more exciting features, including three comics transferred onto your computer, page by page, although be aware that the "Film to Comic" comparison is not for the original but for the new comic of the film. As you would expect from a blockbuster superhero film, the sound and vision are immaculate. -Nikki Disney.

Review MGM Entertainment / Terror on the Britannic (Juggernaut)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Harris
  • Richard Lester
  • Omar Sharif
  • Ian Holm
  • David Hemmings
  • Anthony Hopkins
Release date: 2005-05-23
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.95

Review Terror on the Britannic (Juggernaut) / MGM Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) / Danger Diabolik [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • John Phillip Law
  • Mario Bava
  • Marisa Mell
  • Terry Thomas
  • Michel Piccoli
  • Adolfo Celi
Release date: 2007-08-13
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.36

Review Danger Diabolik [1968] / Paramount Home Entertainment (UK):


Review Universal Pictures Video / Thunderbirds [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Alex Barringer (III)
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Brady Corbet
  • Debora Weston
  • Soren Fulton
  • Lou Hirsch
Release date: 2006-05-08
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.38

Review Thunderbirds [2004] / Universal Pictures Video:

The deep love that young boys feel for planes, cars, and gadgets is the driving energy of Thunderbirds, a live-action movie based on the British puppet TV show of the 1960s. Bill Paxton (Near Dark, One False Move) plays Jeff Tracy, billionaire ex-astronaut, who's turned his family of heroic sons into a crack rescue squad, zooming to danger and saving people using super-sophisticated vehicles. The youngest boy (Brady Corbet) hasn't yet joined the team and resents every moment he's not in uniform-but he gets his chance when a malevolent villain called the Hood (Ben Kingsley, slumming a bit from Gandhi and Sexy Beast) traps the rest of the family on a crippled space station and turns the Thunderbird vehicles to his evil purposes. Expect bright colors, clumsy dialogue, and a less-than-thrilling plot, but many kids will enjoy the fantasy of a secret island, rocket ships, and flying cars. -Bret Fetzer.

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The Valley Of Gwangi [1969], Bad Boys 2 [2003], The Big Blue [1988], The Battle Of Midway [1976], Masters of the Universe [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Blood Diamond (2 Disc Special Edition) [2006], Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story [1993], Sahara [2005], Who Dares Wins [1982], Starship Troopers Trilogy (Starship Troopers/Starship Troopers 2 - Hero Of The Federation/Starship Troopers 3 - Marauder) [Blu-ray] [1997], Tank Girl [1995], Die Hard With A Vengeance (Two Disc Collector's Edition) [1995], Shinobi [2006], Starship Troopers Trilogy (Starship Troopers/Starship Troopers 2 - Hero Of The Federation/Starship Troopers 3 - Marauder) [Blu-ray] [1997], Sahara [2005], The Philadelphia Experiment [1984], Spider-Man [2002], Terror on the Britannic (Juggernaut), Danger Diabolik [1968], Thunderbirds [2004]

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