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Actors & Directors
  • Oded Davidoff
  • Alon Abutbul
  • Dalit Kahan
  • Poly Reshef
  • Tzahi Grad
  • Yael Hadar
Release date: 2005-12-20
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Ofer Meri
Price: £12.13

Review Clean Sweep [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sisu Home Ent.:


Review Tai Seng / Treasure Hunt [1994] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Chien-lien Wu
  • Jeffrey Lau
  • Philip Kwok
  • Han Chin
  • Chia Hui Liu
  • Yun-Fat Chow
Release date: 2006-01-24
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £7.66

Review Treasure Hunt [1994] (NTSC) / Tai Seng:


Actors & Directors
  • Eli Wallach
  • Lainie Kazan
  • Abraham Polonsky
  • Jane Birkin
  • David Opatoshu
  • Yul Brynner
Release date: 2004-06-29
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £7.35

Review Romance of a Horsethief [1977] / Vidtape:


Review Tai Seng / God of Gamblers II [1991] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ng Man Tat
  • Andy Lau
  • Wong Ching
  • Ng Mang-Tat
  • Stephen Chow
Release date: 2004-09-21
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Lowell Lo
Price: £27.97

Review God of Gamblers II [1991] (NTSC) / Tai Seng:


Review Universal Studios / The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Piper Perabo
  • Des McAnuff
  • Robert De Niro
  • Randy Quaid
  • Rene Russo
  • Jason Alexander
Release date: 2001-02-13
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £2.72

Review The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle suffers from a problem common among live-action movies that are based on beloved cartoon characters-the humans are never as flexible, unpredictable, or just plain goofy as their animated counterparts. In this blend of animation and live action, Rocky and Bullwinkle remain animated characters (trapped in our reality), while Boris and Natasha (Jason Alexander and Rene Russo), along with their boss, Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro), are transformed from cartoons to human reproductions when they escape from rerun land. They've come to our world to take it over; the FBI springs Rocky and Bullwinkle from the second dimension to stop them. But the writing in Kenneth Lonergan's script lacks the throw-away flair of the jokes that characterised Jay Ward's much-beloved animated series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Part of the problem is that Russo, Alexander and De Niro are so obviously working at acting cartoonish, instead of simply being cartoons. And part is that the script rarely comes up with the kind of wonderful wordplay in which Ward specialised. The moose, as usual, gets all the best lines, but they're too few and far between to salvage this underachieving summer film. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount / The Golden Child [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Charlotte Lewis
  • Michael Ritchie
  • Charles Dance
  • Victor Wong (III)
  • J.L. Reate
Release date: 1999-03-09
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £3.06

Review The Golden Child [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Geneon / Deadly Game [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • William Katt
  • Carol Alt
  • Jeffrey Reiner
  • Tim Matheson
  • Catherine Oxenberg
  • Ryan DeBoer
Release date: 2000-09-26
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £7.80

Review Deadly Game [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Geneon:


Review Warner Home Video / The Crimson Pirate [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eva Bartok
  • James Hayter
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Torin Thatcher
  • Robert Siodmak
  • Nick Cravat
Release date: 2003-07-01
Run time: 104 min.
Price: £15.97

Review The Crimson Pirate [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Dimension / Jet Li's The Enforcer [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jet Li
  • Anita Mui
  • Tsue Miu
  • Corey Yuen
Release date: 2000-04-25
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £35.07

Review Jet Li's The Enforcer [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Dimension:


Review Warner Home Video / Flipper [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James B. Clark
  • Luke Halpin
  • Jane Rose
  • Chuck Connors
  • Joe Higgins
  • Connie Scott
Release date: 2004-08-24
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £4.46

Review Flipper [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review St. Clair Entertainment / High Risk [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Sergio Calderon
  • Ernest Borgnine
  • Álvaro Carcaño
  • James Brolin
  • Stewart Raffill
  • Gerardo Cepeda
Release date: 2004-03-16
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Mark Snow
Price: £3.60

Review High Risk [1981] / St. Clair Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / The Adventures of Pluto Nash [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Ron Underwood
  • Jay Mohr
  • Joe Pantoliano
  • Rosario Dawson
  • Randy Quaid
Release date: 2002-12-24
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £2.26

Review The Adventures of Pluto Nash [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

The Adventures of Pluto Nash was shelved for nearly two years, and when it was finally released, hardly anyone noticed. In the interim, Eddie Murphy made the marginally better Showtime and started fishing for a career revival that wasn't a sequel to his previous hits. In the satirical, lunar-colony hash of Pluto Nash, Murphy's a variant of Casablanca's Rick Blaine in the year 2087, happily running the moon's hottest nightclub, refusing a buyout offer from a greedy gambler, and suffering the consequences with his sidekick robot (Randy Quaid in yet another thankless role) and newest employee (Rosario Dawson, before doing similar time in Men in Black II). A visual hybrid of Total Recall and A. I. , this nearly laughless comedy would be a total write-off if it weren't for Murphy's stalwart attempt to jump-start the flagging humour. He's got the chops of a superstar, but only when his collaborators are on the same page. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Warner Home Video / City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Weiland
  • Jack Palance
  • Jon Lovitz
  • Patricia Wettig
  • Billy Crystal
  • Daniel Stern
Release date: 2003-04-01
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £2.79

Review City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Maynard James Keenan / Bikini Bandits Save Christmas [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2004-10-26
Run time: 63 min.
Price: £6.00

Review Bikini Bandits Save Christmas [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Maynard James Keenan:


Review Sterling / The Polar Bear King [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ola Solum
  • Helge Jordal
  • Maria Bonnevie
  • Jack Fjeldstad
  • Tobias Hoesl
  • Ulrich Faulhaber
Release date: 2003-05-07
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Geir Bohren
Price: £2.40

Review The Polar Bear King [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sterling:


Review Cannonball Run / Cannonball Run Europe: The Great Escape (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-04-26
Run time: 135 min.
Price: £6.71

Review Cannonball Run Europe: The Great Escape (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Cannonball Run:


Review 20th Century Fox / True Lies [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Tom Arnold
  • James Cameron
  • Charlton Heston
  • Bill Paxton
Release date: 1999-05-25
Run time: 140 min.
Price: £4.49

Review True Lies [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

From The Terminator to Titanic, you can always rely on writer-director James Cameron to show you something you've never seen on the big screen before. The guy may not consistently pen the most scintillating dialogue in the world (and, especially in this movie, he doesn't seem to have a particularly high regard for women), but as a director of kinetic, push-the-envelope action sequences, he is in a class by himself. In True Lies, the highlight is a breathtaking third-act jet and car chase through the Florida Keys. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a covert intelligence agent whose wife of 15 years (Jamie Lee Curtis) finally finds out that he's not really a computer salesman and who becomes mixed up in a case involving nuclear arms smuggling. Tom Arnold is surprisingly funny and engaging as Schwarzenegger's longtime spy partner, and Bill Paxton is a smarmy used-car salesman whom Arnold thinks is having an affair with his wife. Purely in terms of spectacular action and high-tech hardware, True Lies is a blast. -Jim Emerson, Amazon. com.

Review Televista / Superbug Super Agent [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Heidi Hansen
  • George Goodman
  • Rudolf Zehetgruber
  • Rudolf Zehetgruber
  • Robert Mark
Release date: 2007-09-11
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £8.93

Review Superbug Super Agent [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Televista:


Review Tai Seng / High Risk [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charlie Yeung
  • Chingmy Yau
  • Jacky Cheung
  • Kelvin Wong
  • Jet Li
  • Jing Wong
Release date: 1997-12-17
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £6.62

Review High Risk [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tai Seng:

Jet Li can always be relied upon when it comes to action movies, and Meltdown is no exception. No surprises with the story line: Kit Li witnesses his wife blown up in a gangster attack masterminded by the nefarious Doctor, only to be confronted by the same "no risk, no reward" gangster two years later, now aiming to steal the Russian crown jewels from a hotel complex. The shadow of Die Hard falls heavily across the action, with its skyscraper stunts and marauding helicopter, given an appropriate twist by the high-velocity martial-arts sequences and director Wong Jing's stylish take on the high-tech metropolis that is Hong Kong. Jackie Cheung adds a comic element as Frankie Lane, the action-movie star seemingly past his sell-by date, and Kwan Sau Mei's Doctor is the epitome of suave nastiness. On the DVD: Meltdown on disc has a 1. 85:1 widescreen picture that reproduces the plethora of monochrome conference rooms and exploding glass panels with dizzying clarity. This release comes ready dubbed into English-don't check the synchronisation too often and you'll hardly notice-with subtitles in 12 languages. The photo gallery is enlivened with Jet Li trivia, while the filmographies are unusually frank about the commercial nature of the Hong Kong film industry in general and Wong Jing's contribution in particular. But done with this degree of panache, films such as Meltdown are never less than 110# entertainment. -Richard Whitehouse.

Review Columbia TriStar / Stuart Little [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael J. Fox
  • Geena Davis
  • Nathan Lane
  • Rob Minkoff
  • Jonathan Lipnicki
  • Hugh Laurie
Release date: 2000-04-18
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £16.95

Review Stuart Little [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

This live-action version of EB White's novel doesn't have quite the magic of, say, Toy Story. Instead of entertainment the whole family can be enthralled with, Stuart Little is squarely aimed, and successfully so, at the four to 10-year-old viewer. Does this make it a bad family film? Not in the slightest. The gee-whiz visual effects (created by original Star Wars wizard John Dykstra) and the film's ebullient wholesomeness make this a welcome addition to the home library. In EB White's world, it's hardly surprising that human parents would adopt "outside their species". The smooth-talking mouse Stuart (voiced by Michael J Fox) seems the perfect new child for parents Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie, especially with an adorable wardrobe of very small sweaters and pants. Stuart has more difficulty fitting in with the Little's family cat, Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane, who also deftly voiced Timon in director Rob Minkoff's last feature, The Lion King). The simple story deals with Stuart trying to fit in with his new life, including big brother George (Jerry Maguire's scene-stealing Jonathan Lipnicki). And of course there's an adventure when Snowbell's schemes put Stuart into real danger from the devious plans of an alley cat named Smokey (voiced by Chazz Palminteri). Brisk-85 minutes-amusing and tolerably cute, Stuart Little stands tall. [+]
Two curios: The effects are so cleanly done that we could call Stuart the first successfully computer-animated actor, and the screenplay was co-written by M Night Shyamalan, who made bigger waves in 1999 writing and directing The Sixth Sense. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

Models & Brands:
Clean Sweep [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Treasure Hunt [1994] (NTSC), Romance of a Horsethief [1977], God of Gamblers II [1991] (NTSC), The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Golden Child [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Deadly Game [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Crimson Pirate [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Jet Li's The Enforcer [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Flipper [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), High Risk [1981], The Adventures of Pluto Nash [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bikini Bandits Save Christmas [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Polar Bear King [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cannonball Run Europe: The Great Escape (REGION 1) (NTSC), True Lies [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Superbug Super Agent [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC), High Risk [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Stuart Little [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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