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Review Warner Home Video / Mutiny On The Bounty [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Marlon Brando
  • Lewis Milestone
  • Richard Harris
  • Trevor Howard
Release date: 2007-07-09
Run time: 178 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.79

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Review Boulevard Entertaiment / The Chronicles Of Riddick - Dark Fury
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Chung
  • Vin Diesel
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 33 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.18

Review The Chronicles Of Riddick - Dark Fury / Boulevard Entertaiment:

Taking its cue from The Animatrix, Dark Fury is part of a new trend of bridging theatrical sequels. As an official product of a franchise, the 35-minute anime benefits from having the original actors voice the characters, including Vin Diesel as Riddick. This story opens with the new action hero and the two other survivors of Pitch Black already caught by a giant spaceship filled with dread. The sinewy leader has a unique-and creepy-jail for master villains and she has her sights set on Riddick. The film-indeed the series-is indebted to animator Peter Chung, who brings his techno style from his Aeon Flux series. His smooth animation for Riddick doesn't reinvent the character as much as give him a new, appealing fluidity. As anime goes, there's nothing really new here-plenty of action, cool killers, and dramatic spurts of blood-but it's a building block for how this genre might enliven movie series and sequels in the future. -Doug Thomas.

Review Simply Media / Bomber Harris [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Sophie Thompson
  • Robert Hardy
  • John Thaw
  • Frederick Treves
  • Michael Darlow
  • Bernard Kay
Release date: 2002-11-04
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Don Shaw
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.45

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Review Touchstone Home Video / The Alamo [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Dennis Quaid
  • Jason Patric
  • Emilio Echeverria
  • Billy Bob Thornton
  • John Lee Hancock
  • Patrick Wilson
Release date: 2004-12-27
Run time: 131 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.38

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Review Universal Pictures UK / King Kong vs Godzilla
Actors & Directors
  • Ishiro Honda
Release date: 2006-04-10
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.65

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Review Warner Home Video / Superfly [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Sheila Frazier
  • Julius Harris
  • Carl Lee
  • Gordon Parks
  • Charles McGregor
  • Ron O'Neal
Release date: 2006-04-10
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.35

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Review MGM Entertainment / To Live And Die In L.A. [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Willem Dafoe
  • William Friedkin
  • William L. Petersen
  • Darlanne Fluegel
  • Dean Stockwell
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.31

Review To Live And Die In L.A. [1985] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The 6th Day [Blu-ray] [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Rooker
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Michael Rapaport
  • Roger Spottiswoode
  • Wendy Crewson
  • Tony Goldwyn
Release date: 2008-04-07
Run time: 123 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.00

Review The 6th Day [Blu-ray] [2000] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Mad Max [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Joanne Samuel
  • Steve Bisley
  • Hugh Keays-Byrne
  • George Miller
  • Tim Burns
  • Mel Gibson
Release date: 2006-06-01
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: James McCausland
RRP: £13.99
Price: £2.45

Review Mad Max [1979] / Warner Home Video:

The story of Mel Gibson's stately anti-hero begins in Mad Max, George Miller's low-budget debut, in which Max is a "Bronze" (cop) in an unspecified post-apocalyptic future with a buddy-partner and family. But, unlike most films set in the devastated future, Mad Max is notable because it is poised between our industrialised world and total regression to medieval conditions. The scale tips towards disintegration when the Glory Riders burn into town on their bikes like an overcharged cadre of Brando's Wild Ones. Representing the active chaos that will eventually overwhelm the dying vestiges of civil society they take everything dear to Max, who then has to exact due revenge. His flight into the same wilds that created the villains artfully sets up the morally ambiguous character of the subsequent films. -Alan E Rapp, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Bourne Ultimatum [HD DVD] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Matt Damon
Release date: 2007-12-10
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.99

Review Bourne Ultimatum [HD DVD] [2007] / Universal Pictures UK:

There's no getting around it: there was simply no better summer blockbuster in 2007 than the astonishing The Bourne Ultimatum. It's a film that defies expectations in many ways. Firstly, it's a third entry in a trilogy that by some distance in the best in an already-compelling franchise. Secondly, whenThe Bourne Ultimatum kickstarts with a ferocious energy and pace, you sit there and rightly expect it not to keep the momentum going. But it does. And does it astonishingly well. Just witness the breathless sequence through Waterloo Station, convince yourself that the film has peaked then, then go and watch them top it later on in the movie. The film itself has many trump cards, not least its leading man. Matt Damon fits the character of reluctant lead Jason Bourne perfectly, but the trick is to give him some excellent supporting players to work against. Thus, The Bourne Ultimatum also stars the excellent pair of David Straitharn and a returning Joan Allen, along with Albert Finney, Paddy Considine and Julia Stiles too. [+]
But the hidden hero of The Bourne Ultimatum is director Paul Greengrass. Arguably one of the most interesting and talented directors working today (he was rightly Oscar-nominated for his haunting United 93), Greengrass has fashioned a genuinely thrilling action thriller, that bursts with an energy and relentlessness that you simply have no right to expect. That he also managed to wrap up the story Jason Bourne's quest for his identity in the midst of it is all the more astonishing. A terrific end to an already-impressive trilogy, there's little else ot say about The Bourne Ultimatum, which is simply a near flawless piece of blockbuster entertainment. Put simply: don't miss this movie. -Simon Brew.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Layer Cake/Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Actors & Directors
  • Matthew Vaughn
  • Brad Pitt
  • Nick Moran
  • Daniel Craig
  • Guy Ritchie
  • Vinnie Jones
  • Jason Statham
Release date: 2006-10-02
Run time: 310 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.10

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Review Prism Leisure / The Eagle Has Landed [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Treat Williams
  • John Sturges
  • Larry Hagman
  • Maurice Roeves
  • Judy Geeson
  • Michael Caine
Release date: 2005-07-25
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.44

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Review Warner Home Video / The Whole Ten Yards [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Willis
  • Amanda Peet
  • Howard Deutch
  • Matthew Perry
Release date: 2005-01-17
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £2.21

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Mission Impossible 3 (2 Disc Collectors Edition) [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Billy Crudup
  • Tom Cruise
  • Jeffrey Abrams
  • Laurence Fishburne
  • Ving Rhames
  • Sasha Alexander
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £1.23

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Charlie's Angels/Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph McGinty
  • Matt Le Blanc
  • Demi Moore
  • Cameron Diaz
  • Jaclyn Smith
  • Luke Wilson
Release date: 2003-11-17
Run time: 200 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £6.24

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Review Uca / Mercury Rising [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Kim Dickens
  • Chi McBride
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Miko Hughes
  • Harold Becker
  • Bruce Willis
Release date: 2008-01-15
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Ryne Douglas Pearson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.35

Review Mercury Rising [1998] / Uca:

Take off your thinking caps and toss 'em in a corner, 'cos you won't need 'em when you're watching this deliriously dumb thriller from 1997. Bruce Willis stars as a demoted FBI agent who comes to the aid of an autistic boy whose mind holds a potentially deadly secret. It seems that by gazing on a puzzle magazine and making order out of a hidden system of numbers, the 9-year-old autistic boy (Miko Hughes) has accidentally deciphered a sophisticated top-secret government code. This makes him the prime target of the ruthless bureaucrat (Alec Baldwin, in one of his silliest roles) and Willis comes to the rescue. This formulaic thriller sets up this plot with a lot of entertaining urgency but you can't give any thought to Mercury Rising or the whole movie collapses under the weight of its own illogic and nonsense. The redeeming values are the performances of Willis, young Hughes and newcomer Kim Dickens as a woman who agrees (perhaps too easily, it seems) to aid Willis in his plot to out manoeuvre the bad guys. Mercury Rising is not a waste of time compared to other formulaic thrillers but its entertainment value depends on how much you enjoy being smarter than the movie. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Uca / Last Action Hero [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Austin O'Brien
  • Art Carney
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • John McTiernan
  • F. Murray Abraham
  • Charles Dance
Release date: 2004-03-08
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Zak Penn
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.00

Review Last Action Hero [1993] / Uca:

John McTiernan (The Hunt for Red October) imaginatively directs this action comedy, which is an interesting failure with some fascinating ironies that make it well worth seeing. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays both a character named Jack Slater-a fictional cop hero who exists only in the movies (ie, the movies seen by the characters in this movie) and the actor who plays Jack Slater in the real world (ie, in the movie we're actually watching). McTiernan's hall-of-mirrors effect is fun, though Last Action Hero never quite identifies itself as a pure action movie, science fiction, a kid's movie, or anything else. (The expensive film suffered at the box office as a result and was roundly criticised for this ambivalence. ) What lingers in the memory, however, is Schwarzenegger, playing himself, being confronted by Slater for having created an alter ego for film in the first place. It's a provocative moment: how often have we seen a major star blatantly wrestle with his actor's legacy in this way? -Tom Keogh.

Review Warner Home Video / Blood Work [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Wanda De Jesus
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Tina Lifford
  • Anjelica Huston
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Jeff Daniels
Release date: 2003-06-30
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Michael Connelly
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.49

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Angelina Jolie
  • Gerard Butler
  • Chris Barrie
  • Jan de Bont
  • Noah Taylor
  • Ciarán Hinds
Release date: 2004-02-02
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Steven E. de Souza
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.60

Review Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life [2003] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life may be an improvement on its 2001 predecessor, but its appeal is mostly aimed at fans of the video games that inspired both movies. That pretty much leaves you with some fun but familiar action sequences, and the ever-alluring sight of Angelina Jolie (reprising her title role) as she swims, swings, kicks, shoots, flies, jet-skis, motorcycles, and free-falls her way toward saving the world, this time by making sure that a grimacing villain (Ciaran Hinds) doesn't open Pandora's Box (yes, the actual mythological object) and unleash a deadly plague that will "weed out" the global population. Exotic locations add to Jolie's own coolly erotic appeal, but we're left wondering if this franchise has anywhere else to go. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / El Dorado [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Howard Hawks
  • Paul Fix
  • Charlene Holt
  • Robert Mitchum
  • John Wayne
  • James Caan
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 121 min.
Creator: Leigh Brackett
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.23

Review El Dorado [1967] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

El Dorado doesn't quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks' greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed picture, made near the end of Hawks' marvellous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun mixed up in a range war; Robert Mitchum is Wayne's old pal, now a sheriff in the midst of a hopeless drunken bender. James Caan, in one of his first sizable roles, plays a kid who can't shoot straight and wears a funny hat (every character in the movie makes fun of this hat). As the plot moves along, it begins to resemble Rio Bravo rather closely ("I steal from myself all the time", Hawks was fond of admitting). But in El Dorado the heroes are a bit older, their powers a bit weaker; at the end Wayne must revert to a bit of subterfuge in order to get the drop on the steely gunslinger (ice-cold Christopher George) he needs to put down. As relaxed as the movie is, Hawks and Wayne and company are in good spirits, with plenty of broad humour and easy camaraderie on display. Hawks and Wayne would make just one more film, the disappointing Rio Lobo, before ending their fruitful partnership. -Robert Horton.

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Mutiny On The Bounty [1962], The Chronicles Of Riddick - Dark Fury, Bomber Harris [1989], The Alamo [2004], King Kong vs Godzilla, Superfly [1972], To Live And Die In L.A. [1985], The 6th Day [Blu-ray] [2000], Mad Max [1979], Bourne Ultimatum [HD DVD] [2007], Layer Cake/Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, The Eagle Has Landed [1977], The Whole Ten Yards [2004], Mission Impossible 3 (2 Disc Collectors Edition) [2006], Charlie's Angels/Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle [2000], Mercury Rising [1998], Last Action Hero [1993], Blood Work [2002], Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life [2003], El Dorado [1967]

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