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Review MGM Entertainment / Quigley Down Under [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Wincer
  • Ron Haddrick
  • Laura San Giacomo
  • Chris Haywood
  • Tom Selleck
  • Alan Rickman
Release date: 2003-07-21
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: John Hill
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.99

Review Quigley Down Under [1990] / MGM Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Rocky 3 [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Sylvester Stallone
  • Talia Shire
  • Sylvester Stallone
  • Carl Weathers
  • Burgess Meredith
  • Tony Burton
Release date: 2007-01-15
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.79

Review Rocky 3 [1982] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Six Million Dollar Man - Series 2 - Complete
Actors & Directors
  • Farrah Fawcett
  • Lee Majors
  • Richard Anderson
  • Lindsay Wagner
Release date: 2006-10-23
RRP: £34.99
Price: £16.50

Review The Six Million Dollar Man - Series 2 - Complete / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Bad Taste [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Minett
  • Terry Potter
  • Pete O'Herne
  • Peter Jackson
  • Craig Smith
  • Peter Jackson
Release date: 2005-11-01
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Tony Hiles
RRP: £9.99
Price: £11.99

Review Bad Taste [1989] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review MGM Entertainment / Bond Remastered - Live And Let Die (1-disc) [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Yaphet Kotto
  • Clifton James
  • Roger Moore
  • Bernard Lee
  • Jane Seymour
  • Guy Hamilton
Release date: 2007-03-12
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.19

Review Bond Remastered - Live And Let Die (1-disc) [1973] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Executive Decision [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Halle Berry
  • Kurt Russell
  • Oliver Platt
  • John Leguizamo
  • Stuart Baird
  • Steven Seagal
Release date: 1999-05-24
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Spencer Franklin
RRP: £13.99
Price: £1.92

Review Executive Decision [1996] / Warner Home Video:

Steven Seagal gets killed during the first 20 minutes of this enjoyable thriller, so Executive Decision scores points for ingenuity because it immediately improves when you realise that Seagal's role is just a heroic cameo. That leaves Kurt Russell to star as an American intelligence expert who (due to Seagal's untimely demise) finds himself leading a strike force against Islamic terrorists who have seized in-flight control of a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers. It's not all that different from Air Force One, but the formula story perks right along with considerable suspense as Russell's cohorts (Oliver Platt, Joe Morton) try to defuse a chemical bomb that could wipe out (you guessed it) the entire Eastern seaboard. John Leguizamo plays one of the US commandos attempting to stop the violent hijackers and Halle Berry co-stars as a flight attendant who risks her life to assist Russell's rescue team. As action movies go, Executive Decision marked an impressive directorial debut for veteran film editor Stuart Baird. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Warner Home Video / Superman - Vol. 1 - Last Son Of Krypton [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce W. Timm
  • Curtis Geda
  • Timothy Daly
  • Scott Jeralds
  • Malcolm McDowell
  • Dan Riba
  • Dana Delany
  • Clancy Brown
Release date: 2005-03-21
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.00

Review Superman - Vol. 1 - Last Son Of Krypton [1996] / Warner Home Video:


Review Acorn Media / Larry McMurtry's Streets Of Laredo [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Sargent
  • Sissy Spacek
  • James Garner
  • Sam Shepherd
  • Randy Quaid
  • Ned Beatty
Release date: 2005-06-13
Run time: 252 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £5.97

Review Larry McMurtry's Streets Of Laredo [1995] / Acorn Media:


Review Robotech / Robotech - The Shadow Chronicles (2006)
Actors & Directors
  • Dong-Wook Lee
  • Melanie MacQueen
  • Richard Epcar
  • Eddie Frierson
  • Mark Hamill
  • Tommy Yune
  • Yuri Lowenthal
Release date: 2007-07-23
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Ford Riley
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.29

Review Robotech - The Shadow Chronicles (2006) / Robotech:


Review Universal Pictures Video / Tuxedo, The [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Jackie Chan
  • Kevin Donovan
  • Debi Mazar
  • Jason Isaacs
  • Ritchie Coster
  • Jennifer Love Hewitt
Release date: 2003-08-04
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Phil Hay
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.44

Review Tuxedo, The [2003] / Universal Pictures Video:

Jackie Chan looks spiffy in The Tuxedo, but the movie needs a tailor. No Jackie Chan movie could be a total misfire, however, and he's charmingly self-effacing here as a hapless chauffeur who inadvertently replaces his injured super-agent boss (Jason Issacs) and foils a madman (Ritchie Coster) who plans to infect the world's water supply and reap a fortune selling pure bottled water. Jackie's a bumbling superhero after donning his boss's high-tech, Inspector Gadget-like tuxedo (it even has a "Mambo" setting), and curvaceous co-agent Jennifer Love Hewitt coaches him in crime fighting while closing in on the bad guys. It's all as routinely ridiculous as it sounds-Jackie's faux James Brown act is the only real highlight-and as critic Roger Ebert observed, the climax hinges on an insect queen that doesn't exist in nature! So, while Jackie and Jennifer provide a few moments of stellar stunts and random amusement, you can blame this mess on screenwriters who didn't do their homework. -Jeff Shannon.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who : Infinite Quest - Complete Animated BBC Series
Actors & Directors
  • David Tennant
Release date: 2007-11-05
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.55

Review Doctor Who : Infinite Quest - Complete Animated BBC Series / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Lionsgate / James Clavell's Noble House [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Tia Carrere
  • Deborah Raffin
  • Gary Nelson
  • Keith Bonnard
  • Ben Masters
Release date: 2008-03-25
Run time: 355 min.
Creator: James Clavell
Price: £9.09

Review James Clavell's Noble House [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Mvm / Samurai Champloo - Vol.1-7 - Complete [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Shinichiro Watanabe
Release date: 2007-09-10
Run time: 624 min.
RRP: £59.99
Price: £27.03

Review Samurai Champloo - Vol.1-7 - Complete [2004] / Mvm:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Catherine Sutherland
  • Jon Simanton
  • Hilary Shepard
  • David Winning
  • Jason David Frank
  • Shuki Levy
  • Kai Doi
Release date: 2004-04-26
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Shell Danielson
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.97

Review Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie [1997] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Playback / Quantum Leap - Series 2
Actors & Directors
  • Cynthia Bain
  • Dean Stockwell
  • Sloan Fischer
  • Anita W. Addison
  • Billy Burdin
  • Aaron Lipstadt
  • Alan J. Levi
  • Scott Bakula
  • Andy Cadiff
  • Bob Hulme
Release date: 2005-10-31
Run time: 990 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £13.49

Review Quantum Leap - Series 2 / Playback:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Flight Of Fury [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Angus MacInnes
  • Steve Toussaint
  • Steven Seagal
  • Alki David
  • Gary Cooper
Release date: 2007-04-16
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.10

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 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Independence Day - Definitive Edition [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Pullman
  • Randy Quaid
  • Mary McDonnell
  • Roland Emmerich
  • Will Smith
  • Jeff Goldblum
Release date: 2007-09-24
Run time: 147 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.98

Review Independence Day - Definitive Edition [1996] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes-played by Will Smith-just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County. ) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. - Tom Keogh.

Review MGM Entertainment / Death Warrant [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Cynthia Gibb
  • Art LaFleur
  • George Dickerson
  • Deran Sarafian
  • Robert Guillaume
Release date: 2001-07-09
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: David S. Goyer
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.98

Review Death Warrant [1990] / MGM Entertainment:

In 1990, Death Warrant was one of several back-to-back action movies that suddenly made Jean Claude Van Damme's name a rival to Stallone's and Schwarzenegger's. Its distinction from the likes of Cyborg or Double Impact is in its firm grounding in reality. In fact, Los Angeles County Jail couldn't seem more harshly real. That's where Detective Burke finds himself going undercover to investigate a string of mysterious (and politically embarrassing) deaths. Of course, the prison environment is ideally suited to Van Damme's strengths, where he elicits sympathy as the innocent abroad during one fight sequence after another. Lots of colourful secondary characters are along for the ride, such as the enigmatic Priest, tough-as-nails peanut-shucking Sergeant DeGraf and Burke's arch nemesis, the Candyman (Patrick Kilpatrick). There's an admirable attempt at portraying the action with some panache. Light and shadow is used to good effect and every kickbox move is punctuated by a double cut. Although the script dispenses with the essential Van Damme elements in the opening seconds (he lost a partner / he's from Canada / he can kickbox), this is definitely an above-average Van Damme flick. On the DVD: The bare-bones transfer offers an occasionally grainy picture in 1. [+]
85:1 ratio and a three-channel surround soundtrack. The only extra off the static menu is the original theatrical trailer. -Paul Tonks.

Review Spider-Man / Spider-Man Trilogy Deluxe Box Set [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Raimi
  • Tobey Maguire
  • Kirsten Dunst
Release date: 2007-10-15
Run time: 371 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £9.54

Review Spider-Man Trilogy Deluxe Box Set [2002] / Spider-Man:

The first Spider-man introduces us to Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), and covers the genesis of the infamous superhero. Set against Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin, it's a deft, impressive and entertaining blockbuster, albeit one that takes a little longer than you'd like to get motoring. Spider-man 2 is the business, though. This is the one with Alfred Molina's stunning Doctor Octopus, although he has to share the screen with the title character contending with his dual life, and the effect on his relationship with Mary-Jane (Kirsten Dunst). It could have gone wrong, but it's so tightly put together that it's one of the very best blockbusters of recent times. Spider-man 3, inevitably, can't quite match the standard set, but you can't fault it for ambitious. Mixing in Topher Grace as Venom, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman and James Franco as the new Green Goblin, it's a lot to fit into one film, and that's what bogs things down. However, when it does hit its stride, Spider-man 3 is a rip-roaring ride in its own right. -Jon Foster.

Review Studio Gonzo / Afro Samurai -- Director's Cut Edition [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Fuminori Kizaki
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • Ron Perlman
  • Kelly Hu
Release date: 2007-10-15
Run time: 175 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £15.52

Review Afro Samurai -- Director's Cut Edition [2007] / Studio Gonzo:


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Quigley Down Under [1990], Rocky 3 [1982], The Six Million Dollar Man - Series 2 - Complete, Bad Taste [1989], Bond Remastered - Live And Let Die (1-disc) [1973], Executive Decision [1996], Superman - Vol. 1 - Last Son Of Krypton [1996], Larry McMurtry's Streets Of Laredo [1995], Robotech - The Shadow Chronicles (2006), Tuxedo, The [2003], Doctor Who : Infinite Quest - Complete Animated BBC Series, James Clavell's Noble House [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Samurai Champloo - Vol.1-7 - Complete [2004], Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie [1997], Quantum Leap - Series 2, Flight Of Fury [2007], Independence Day - Definitive Edition [1996], Death Warrant [1990], Spider-Man Trilogy Deluxe Box Set [2002], Afro Samurai -- Director's Cut Edition [2007]

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