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Review 20th Century Fox / Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stuart Whitman
  • Alberto Sordi
  • Ken Annakin
  • James Fox
  • Sarah Miles
  • Robert Morley
Release date: 2004-03-16
Run time: 137 min.
Price: £3.54

Review Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Warner Home Video / Space Cowboys [Blu-ray] [2000] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Cybulski
  • James Cromwell
  • Loren Dean
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Blair Brown
  • Barbara Babcock
Release date: 2006-09-26
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Lennie Niehaus
Price: £11.38

Review Space Cowboys [Blu-ray] [2000] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:

Space Cowboys is a slice of cornball Americana that's so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and co-star Clint Eastwood manages to turn what might have been ludicrous into a jubilant tribute to age and experience, and Space Cowboys succeeds as two movies in one-a comedy about retired pilots given one last shot at glory and an Apollo 13-like thriller with all the requisite heroics. With a dream cast of Hollywood vets playing old farts described in tabloids as "The Ripe Stuff", the movie jumps from a 1958 prologue (establishing their lost bid for space travel) to 40-plus years later, when the retired Air Force aces (Eastwood, James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones) volunteer to rescue a falling Russian satellite that only Eastwood's character can repair. It turns out that Russkie bird is a Cold War leftover equipped with live nuclear warheads, and the movie revs up to a rousing climax in which our heroes prove their mettle. But first the comedy: watching these codgers struggle to pass NASA's physical tests is a total hoot, with running gags about wrinkles, dentures, and oysters for sagging libidos. (Sutherland is the scene-stealer, but they're all having a blast. ) Once in space, the movie gets down to business, and the visual-effects wizards at Industrial Light and Magic provide stunning vistas from Earth's orbit; a shot looking down at the boot of Italy is particularly beautiful. A sub-plot involving a weasely NASA administrator (James Cromwell) is rather perfunctory, but it hardly matters. Space Cowboys earns its wings, once again demonstrating Eastwood's comfort with any genre he chooses. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. [+]
com On the DVD: Even though it boasts no sub-title like "Special Edition," this DVD has some of the nicest extras you'll want to see. There's nearly an hour of behind-the-footage material, all of it superior made-for-cable featurettes so often included on DVDs. The technicians divulge little tricks of the trade, revealing more computer effects in the film than you think. Longtime Eastwood editor Joel Cox provides insight into the director's work routine. The highlight, though, is an extended version of the four principle's appearance on The Tonight Show with Leno providing some interesting comments on how he chooses what films will "appear" on his show. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount / The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rodger Bumpass
  • Clancy Brown
  • Mary Jo Catlett
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Lawrence Douglas
Release date: 2005-03-01
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Gregor Nabholz
Price: £3.64

Review The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Johnny English/Thunderbirds [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • John Malkovich
  • Rowan Atkinson
  • Natalie Imbruglia
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Peter Hewitt
  • Bill Paxton
  • Ben Miller
Release date: 2008-03-10
Run time: 175 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.96

Review Johnny English/Thunderbirds [2003] / Universal Pictures UK:

Johnny English Johnny English, a spy spoof that skewers the genre with Rowan Atkinson's trademark brand of veddy-British slapstick. It's a bit half-baked as a wannabe franchise, but Atkinson's creation of a new screen persona is just promising enough to warrant a sequel, despite critics' complaints that Austin Powers had already exhausted the spy-spoof's potential. Poppycock! Atkinson's gift for physical and, in this case, even verbal humor will surely please his devoted fans, even when a rather tepidly comedic screenplay prevents the British funnyman from reaching new heights of absurdity. As bumbling superspy Johnny English, who gains top-level MI-7 clearance after inadvertently causing a colleague's demise, Atkinson breathes life into gags that are too familiar to earn such an amusing revival. With John Malkovich as a smarmy Frenchman determined to overthrow the British monarchy, and Natalie Imbruglia as Johnny's comely comrade-in-arms, this slight but enjoyable comedy gives Atkinson plenty of opportunity to mug it up as only he can. -Jeff Shannon Thunderbirds 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.

Review Tai Seng / The Chinese Feast [1996] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hark Tsui
  • Kar-Ying Law
  • Peter Lai
  • Anita Yuen
  • Peter Pau
  • Shun Lau
Release date: 2002-11-26
Run time: 110 min.
Price: £4.90

Review The Chinese Feast [1996] (NTSC) / Tai Seng:


Review 20th Century Fox / Kung Pow! Enter the Fist [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leo Lee
  • Lung Fei
  • Tad Horino
  • Philip Tan
  • Steve Oedekerk
  • Steve Oedekerk
Release date: 2002-07-23
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Paul Marshall
Price: £2.24

Review Kung Pow! Enter the Fist [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

A shamelessly low-brow parody, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a scrambling of footage from the 1975 Hong Kong martial arts epic Tiger & Crane Fist with new material shot by director Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls) in which he doubles for original star Jimmy Wang Yu. Following the style set by Woody Allen in What's Up Tiger Lily?, Oedekerk also dubs all the voices, rendering the basic revenge story even more formulaic and ridiculous. The villain turns out to be working for flying saucers manned by French aliens (!) and the Chosen One hero has an odd habit of using animals as weapons (gopher nunchakas, squirrel padding) and, in the stand-out scene, doing a full-on Matrix/Crouching Tiger battle with an extremely agile killer cow. A lot of the film is just dumb, but it still manages to beat laughs out of you with its relentless goofiness. Though it might seem an ego trip for Oedekerk, he is actually a likeable leading man, pulling funny faces and deliberately dubbing even his own voice badly. On the DVD: Kung Pow: Enter the Fist on disc includes an animated draft of the kung fu cow scene, with special effects elements shown pre-mixing. There are also several deleted sequences and a director's cut of one extended fight scene. -Kim Newman.

Review Paramount / The Assassination Bureau [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Telly Savalas
  • Diana Rigg
  • Oliver Reed
  • Basil Dearden
  • Philippe Noiret
  • Curd Jürgens
Release date: 2004-07-13
Run time: 109 min.
Price: £41.95

Review The Assassination Bureau [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Tango Entertainment / Little Ghost [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Linda Shayne
  • James Fitzpatrick
  • Kristina Wayborn
  • Luc Leestemaker
  • Sally Kirkland
  • Trishalee Hardy
Release date: 2006-05-08
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Cynthia Millar
Price: £1.07

Review Little Ghost [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tango Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox / Naked Killer [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Madoka Sugawara
  • Chingmy Yau
  • Wai Yiu
  • Clarence Fok Yiu-leung
  • Simon Yam
  • Carrie Ng
Release date: 2003-07-22
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £3.61

Review Naked Killer [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

There actually is no naked killer in Naked Killer but that's about all this mad, adults-only comic book action rollercoaster is missing. Flirty, feral Chingmy Yau gives an abusive jerk an impromptu vasectomy in front of cop Simon Yam, an impotent detective who vomits whenever he draws his gun. He's tracking a series of sex murders where all the male victims are missing their private organs when he falls in love with chief suspect Chingmy. She's subsequently recruited by the real killer, a hit-woman who targets rapists at large and practises on drooling sex-mad psychos chained up in the attic. When they finally head out for the real thing, they take out victims in a display of mid-air somersaults, cracking whips, flying ropes and flashing guns. This kind of foreplay attracts the lustful attentions of rival assassin Carrie Ng, a lesbian killer ready to abandon her purring sex kitten for the savage Chingmy. This is one of the most energetically gonzo Hong Kong logic-bombs ever made, a crazy melodrama that revels in absurd extravagance, sick humour (you may never eat link sausage again) and pure adrenaline driven displays of gymnastic action and orgiastic gunplay. Incoherence is a small price to pay for such guilty delights. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Sterling Entertainment Group / Kidnapped [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Kitchen
  • Brian Blessed
  • Patrick Malahide
  • Ivan Passer
  • Brian McCardie
  • Armand Assante
Release date: 2004-08-17
Run time: 180 min.
Price: £3.11

Review Kidnapped [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sterling Entertainment Group:


Review Touchstone / Disney / Wild Hogs [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Lawrence
  • Walt Becker
  • William H. Macy
  • Ray Liotta
  • Tim Allen
  • John Travolta
Release date: 2007-08-14
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £14.20

Review Wild Hogs [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import] / Touchstone / Disney:


Review Venevision / Malabana [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Guido Giansoldati
Release date: 2007-04-17
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £6.74

Review Malabana [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Venevision:


Review 20th Century Fox / Kung Pow! Enter the Fist [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Oedekerk
  • Leo Lee
  • Steve Oedekerk
  • Tad Horino
  • Philip Tan
  • Lung Fei
Release date: 2002-07-23
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Paul Marshall
Price: £3.25

Review Kung Pow! Enter the Fist [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

A shamelessly low-brow parody, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a scrambling of footage from the 1975 Hong Kong martial arts epic Tiger & Crane Fist with new material shot by director Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls) in which he doubles for original star Jimmy Wang Yu. Following the style set by Woody Allen in What's Up Tiger Lily?, Oedekerk also dubs all the voices, rendering the basic revenge story even more formulaic and ridiculous. The villain turns out to be working for flying saucers manned by French aliens (!) and the Chosen One hero has an odd habit of using animals as weapons (gopher nunchakas, squirrel padding) and, in the stand-out scene, doing a full-on Matrix/Crouching Tiger battle with an extremely agile killer cow. A lot of the film is just dumb, but it still manages to beat laughs out of you with its relentless goofiness. Though it might seem an ego trip for Oedekerk, he is actually a likeable leading man, pulling funny faces and deliberately dubbing even his own voice badly. On the DVD: Kung Pow: Enter the Fist on disc includes an animated draft of the kung fu cow scene, with special effects elements shown pre-mixing. There are also several deleted sequences and a director's cut of one extended fight scene. -Kim Newman.

Review Warner Home Video / Space Cowboys [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Cybulski
  • James Cromwell
  • Barbara Babcock
  • Loren Dean
  • Blair Brown
  • Clint Eastwood
Release date: 2001-04-17
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Lennie Niehaus
Price: £4.43

Review Space Cowboys [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Space Cowboys is a slice of cornball Americana that's so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and co-star Clint Eastwood manages to turn what might have been ludicrous into a jubilant tribute to age and experience, and Space Cowboys succeeds as two movies in one-a comedy about retired pilots given one last shot at glory and an Apollo 13-like thriller with all the requisite heroics. With a dream cast of Hollywood vets playing old farts described in tabloids as "The Ripe Stuff", the movie jumps from a 1958 prologue (establishing their lost bid for space travel) to 40-plus years later, when the retired Air Force aces (Eastwood, James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones) volunteer to rescue a falling Russian satellite that only Eastwood's character can repair. It turns out that Russkie bird is a Cold War leftover equipped with live nuclear warheads, and the movie revs up to a rousing climax in which our heroes prove their mettle. But first the comedy: watching these codgers struggle to pass NASA's physical tests is a total hoot, with running gags about wrinkles, dentures, and oysters for sagging libidos. (Sutherland is the scene-stealer, but they're all having a blast. ) Once in space, the movie gets down to business, and the visual-effects wizards at Industrial Light and Magic provide stunning vistas from Earth's orbit; a shot looking down at the boot of Italy is particularly beautiful. A sub-plot involving a weasely NASA administrator (James Cromwell) is rather perfunctory, but it hardly matters. Space Cowboys earns its wings, once again demonstrating Eastwood's comfort with any genre he chooses. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. [+]
com On the DVD: Even though it boasts no sub-title like "Special Edition," this DVD has some of the nicest extras you'll want to see. There's nearly an hour of behind-the-footage material, all of it superior made-for-cable featurettes so often included on DVDs. The technicians divulge little tricks of the trade, revealing more computer effects in the film than you think. Longtime Eastwood editor Joel Cox provides insight into the director's work routine. The highlight, though, is an extended version of the four principle's appearance on The Tonight Show with Leno providing some interesting comments on how he chooses what films will "appear" on his show. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox / Die Hard With a Vengeance [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • Graham Greene (II)
  • Bruce Willis
  • Colleen Camp
  • John McTiernan
  • Jeremy Irons
Release date: 2005-02-01
Run time: 131 min.
Price: £10.91

Review Die Hard With a Vengeance [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

The second sequel to the mould-making action film Die Hard brings Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) to New York City to face a better villain than in Die Hard 2. Played by Jeremy Irons, he's the brother of the Germanic terrorist-thief Alan Rickman played in the original film. But this bad guy has his sights set higher: on the Federal Reserve's cache of gold. As a distraction, he sets McClane running fool's errands all over New York-and eventually, McClane attracts an unintentional partner, a Harlem dry cleaner (Samuel L Jackson) with a chip on his shoulder. Some great action sequences, though they can't obscure the rather large plot holes in the film's final 45 minutes. -Marshall Fine.

Review Warner Home Video / Ocean's Eleven [Blu-ray] [2002] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • George Clooney
  • Steven Soderbergh
  • Matt Damon
  • Holly Marie Combs
  • Michael de Lano
  • Don Cheadle
Release date: 2008-04-29
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: David Holmes
Price: £11.34

Review Ocean's Eleven [Blu-ray] [2002] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:

Ocean's Eleven improves on 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 originated 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. Although the DVD-ROM feature is simply a game of computer blackjack, the cast list simply that and the HBO special just a standard Hollywood promo, the two refreshing and honest commentaries more than compensate. 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.

Review Clear Vision Ltd / Due South - Seeing Is Believing / Spy Vs Spy [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Di Marco|Paul Lynch|Paul Gross|Callum Keith Rennie
Release date: 1998-07-06
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.98

Review Due South - Seeing Is Believing / Spy Vs Spy [1998] / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Eagle Vision USA / Baby Snakes: Starring Frank Zappa [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Diva
  • Terry Bozzio
  • Ron Delsener
  • Angel
  • Adrian Belew
Release date: 2003-12-09
Run time: 164 min.
Creator: Richard Pearce
Price: £7.74

Review Baby Snakes: Starring Frank Zappa [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Eagle Vision USA:


Review Miramax / Confessions of a Dangerous Mind [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Adams
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Carlos Carrasco
  • Robert John Burke
  • George Clooney
  • Dick Clark
Release date: 2003-09-09
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Alex Wurman
Price: £3.04

Review Confessions of a Dangerous Mind [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:

Showbiz autobiographies don't come any stranger than Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, a fractured kaleidoscope of film styles-from sitcom to paranoid horror-accompanied by an infectious musical mosaic. It's based on a memoir by Chuck Barris-the mastermind behind The Dating Game (the format we know in the UK as Blind Date) and The Gong Show-which interweaves a fairly straight account of his toils in the television industry with outrageous fictions about his secret life as a CIA hit man. First-time director George Clooney takes Barris' bizarre book and-working with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who similarly mutated the truth in Adaptation-makes an extraordinary picture, with an awards-quality performance from Sam Rockwell as Barris. Clooney takes the secondary role of Barris' enigmatic boss, and there's sterling work from Drew Barrymore as Barris' ditzy regular girlfriend and Julia Roberts as an espionage dragon lady. It's an acidly witty film that consistently turns the tables on its hero and the audience. Priceless tiny gags include: a silent Brad Pitt and Matt Damon as contestants of The Dating Game and Barris coming up with the idea for a TV quiz show while half-listening to a CIA instructor explaining torture techniques. -Kim Newman.

Review Warner Home Video / Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Wayne Grayson
  • Scottie Ray
  • Dan Green (III)
  • Hatsuki Tsuji
  • Eric Stuart (III)
  • Frank Frankson
Release date: 2004-11-16
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £2.75

Review Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Space Cowboys [Blu-ray] [2000] [US Import], The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Johnny English/Thunderbirds [2003], The Chinese Feast [1996] (NTSC), Kung Pow! Enter the Fist [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Assassination Bureau [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Little Ghost [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Naked Killer [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Kidnapped [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wild Hogs [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import], Malabana [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Kung Pow! Enter the Fist [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Space Cowboys [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Die Hard With a Vengeance [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ocean's Eleven [Blu-ray] [2002] [US Import], Due South - Seeing Is Believing / Spy Vs Spy [1998], Baby Snakes: Starring Frank Zappa [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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