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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Ferris Bueller's Day Off [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Mia Sara
  • Alan Ruck
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Jennifer Grey
  • Jeffrey Jones
  • John Hughes
Release date: 2000-07-31
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Tom Jacobson
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.93

Review Ferris Bueller's Day Off [1987] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Like a soda pop left open all night, Ferris Bueller's Day Off seems to have lost its effervescence over time. Sure, Matthew Broderick is still appealing as the perennial truant, Ferris, who takes one memorable day off from school. Jeffrey Jones is nasty and scheming as the principal who's out to catch him. Jennifer Grey is winning as Ferris' sister (who ends up making out in the police station with a prophetic vision of Charlie Sheen). But there's a definite sense that this film was of a particular time frame: the 80s. It's still fun, though. There's Ferris singing "Twist and Shout" during a Chicago parade, and a lovely sequence in the Art Institute. But don't get it and expect your kids to love it the way you did. Like it or not, it's yours alone. -Keith Simanton, Amazon. [+]
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Review Uca / The Sting [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Shaw
  • Ray Walston
  • Paul Newman
  • Robert Redford
  • George Roy Hill
  • Charles Durning
Release date: 2003-08-11
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: David S. Ward
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.75

Review The Sting [1973] / Uca:

Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who had previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969. Set in 1936, The Sting features a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who find themselves in a high-stakes game against the master of all cheating mobsters (Robert Shaw) when they set out to avenge the murder of a mutual friend and partner. Using a bogus bookie joint as a front for their con of all cons, the two feel the heat from the Chicago Mob on one side and encroaching police on the other. But in a plot that contains more twists than a treacherous mountain road, the ultimate scam is pulled off with consummate style and panache. It's an added bonus that Newman and Redford were box-office kings at the top of their game, and while Shaw broods intensely as the Runyon-esque villain, The Sting is further blessed by a host of great supporting players including Dana Elcar, Eileen Brennan, Ray Walston, Charles Durning, and Harold Gould. Thanks to the flavourful music score by Marvin Hamlisch, this was also the movie that sparked a nationwide revival of Scott Joplin's ragtime jazz, which is featured prominently on the soundtrack. One of the most entertaining movies of the early 1970s, The Sting is a welcome throwback to Hollywood's golden age of the 30s that hasn't lost any of its popular charm. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Cinema Club / Ever Decreasing Circles - The Complete Collection
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Briers
  • Peter Egan
  • Penelope Wilton
Release date: 2007-04-30
RRP: £49.99
Price: £19.75

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Only Fools and Horses - To Hull and Back [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Buster Merryfield
  • Jane Thompson
  • Nicholas Lyndhurst
  • David Jason
  • Kenneth MacDonald
Release date: 2001-11-12
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.44

Review Only Fools and Horses - To Hull and Back [1981] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Uca / Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Sting
  • Vinnie Jones
  • Jason Flemyng
  • Guy Ritchie
  • Brad Pitt
  • Steven Mackintosh
Release date: 2008-06-02
Run time: 205 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.99

Review Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels [1998] / Uca:


Review 4 Front Video / Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • John Mills
  • Harris Yulin
  • Rowan Atkinson
  • Pamela Reed
  • Peter MacNicol
  • Mel Smith
Release date: 2001-12-24
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Robin Driscoll
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.34

Review Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie [1997] / 4 Front Video:

Translating Rowan Atkinson's Mr Bean character from British television to the big screen takes a bit of a toll, but there are some hilarious sequences in this popular comedy. The eponymous Bean, a boy-man twit with a knack for getting into difficult binds (and then making them worse and worse and worse), is a London museum guard who is sent to Los Angeles in the company of the famous painting Whistler's Mother. He's mistaken as an art expert by the well-meaning curator (Peter MacNicol) of an LA museum, but Bean's famously eccentric behaviour soon causes the poor guy to almost lose his family and job. The insularity of Bean's TV world is sacrificed in this film, and that change diminishes some of the character's appeal. But Atkinson is a man naturally full of comedy, and he doesn't let his fans down. -Tom Keogh.

Review Warner Home Video / Big Bang Theory - Season 1 [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Parsons
  • Johnny Galecki
  • Kaley Cuoco
Release date: 2009-01-12
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.98

Review Big Bang Theory - Season 1 [2007] / Warner Home Video:

The delightful sitcom The Big Bang Theory revolves around a character type rarely seen on television: the alpha geek. Physicists Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) get their lives shaken up when an attractive young woman named Penny (Kaley Cuoco) moves in to the apartment across from theirs. The key to the show, though, is not that they both fall haplessly in love-Leonard does, but Sheldon remains impermeably aloof and caustic about anything resembling romance or human relationships in general. While the push and pull of Leonard's yearning for Penny motivates much of the series' ongoing plot, the show's real drive comes from Sheldon's fantastic combination of obsessive-compulsive neurosis and grandiose obliviousness. He's a brilliant comic creation, imperious and dorky, a seamless collaboration of clever writing and an inspired performance by Parsons. Whether Sheldon loses his job for insulting his new boss, or finds his ego bruised by a child prodigy, or finds himself unable to bear being part of a lie that Leonard has told, he attacks the world with a relentless need to assert his supremacy-and the results are deeply funny. The triumph of The Big Bang Theory is that everyone is written with genuine affection. What could have been a lifeless parade of stereotypes becomes instead a charming collision of cultures. The familiar stuff (computer games, comic books, social incompetence) has the grit of specificity. The show understands the difference between Halo and Halo 3, knows what the Bottle City of Kandor is, and grasps the infinite variety of ways in which a conversation can go terribly awry. [+]
Kudos as well to supporting players Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar, who bring their own variations on geekiness to the table, and to great appearances by some of Galecki's former cohorts on Roseanne: Sara Gilbert as geekette Leslie and Laurie Metcalf as Sheldon's fundamentalist mother. All in all, one of the most winning sitcoms in years. -Bret Fetzer.

Review MGM Entertainment / Benny And Joon [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Johnny Depp
  • Oliver Platt
  • Jeremiah S. Chechik
  • Julianne Moore
  • Aidan Quinn
  • Mary Stuart Masterson
Release date: 2001-07-23
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Barry Berman
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.70

Review Benny And Joon [1993] / MGM Entertainment:

Longing for a romantic Hollywood film that will make your heart leap but not have you reaching for the sick bucket? Try Benny & Joon. Few mainstream US films manage to walk the thin line between emotion and schmaltz, but here is one film that pulls it off admirably. In the wrong hands the concept of marrying love and mental illness could have been a disaster but, as with the low-budget British film Some Voices, Benny & Joon manages to extract genuine humour and warmth from the subject. As the brother and sister of the title, the relationship between Aidan Quinn and Mary Stuart Masterson is central to the story, Benny desperately trying to keep home and job together while looking after the sick Joon. Their lives take an unexpected turn with the arrival of Sam, a brilliantly comic turn by Johnny Depp, as gradually the characters learn that the happiness that all thought beyond them is within their grasp. Depp adds yet another character to his liturgy of slightly odd outsiders but plays it with such panache, this time drawing heavily on Buster Keaton, that you cannot help but fall for him. Indeed, there is not a single character here that you would not wish well. On the DVD: The usual scene selection and a very clear audio track, given the film's musical moments a huge boost. Few will probably be able to resist The Proclaimers' "(I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles" which opens the film. Excellent picture quality too. [+]
-Phil Udell.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Moonlighting - Complete Seasons 1 and 2
Actors & Directors
  • Rebecca Stanley
  • Allyce Beasley
  • Cybill Shepherd
  • James Karen
  • Bruce Willis
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 1152 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £13.50

Review Moonlighting - Complete Seasons 1 and 2 / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Glamorous Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) is an ex-model with a problem-her accountant just ran off with her money. Granted, he did leave her with a few broken-down businesses. One happens to be a detective agency run by charming loudmouth David Addison (Bruce Willis). Her attempt to shutter the agency fails when they stumble across a crime and David convinces Maddie to help him solve it. And with that, one of television's most popular partnerships was born. Moonlighting made a star out of newcomer Willis and turned Shepherd (Taxi Driver), who had already found fame through fashion and film, into a bona fide TV star. Created for TV by Glenn Gordon Caron (Remington Steele), the romantic comedy/detective drama was a mid-season replacement that quickly became a hit. There were only six episodes in the first season, including the two-part pilot, but 18 were produced for the second. The first two seasons attracted an eclectic array of guest stars, including Tim Robbins ("Gunfight at the So-So Corral") and Whoopi Goldberg ("Camille"), who earned an Emmy nomination for her performance. The most notable guest was surely Orson Welles, who introduces the black and white noir spoof "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice". [+]
It would be his final TV appearance. Moonlighting ran for three more years. While the Emmy-winning Willis would abandon TV for the big screen, Shepherd found subsequent small screen success with Cybill. Caron, meanwhile, would launch another mid-season replacement series which became a surprise hit: NBC's Medium with Patricia Arquette. -Kathleen C. Fennessy, Amazon. com.

Review Real Talent / Stewart Lee '41st Best Stand Up Ever' [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Stewart Lee
  • Michael Cumming
Release date: 2008-07-28
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.88

Review Stewart Lee '41st Best Stand Up Ever' [2008] / Real Talent:


Review Lions Gate Home Entertainment / Weeds - Series 2 - Complete [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Nealon
  • Elizabeth Perkins
  • Romany Malco
  • Justin Kirk
Release date: 2008-01-07
Run time: 269 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £4.99

Review Weeds - Series 2 - Complete [2006] / Lions Gate Home Entertainment:


Review Entertainment in Video / Wedding Crashers - Uncorked [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Vince Vaughn
  • Owen Wilson
  • David Dobkin
  • Rachel McAdams
  • Isla Fisher
  • Christopher Walken
Release date: 2005-12-26
Run time: 247 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.98

Review Wedding Crashers - Uncorked [2005] / Entertainment in Video:

The surprise comedy smash of 2005, Wedding Crashers has a resolutely simple set up. You take Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, cast them as a pair of thirtysomethings who spend their weekends gatecrashing weddings, and put them in search of female company while they're there. The clue really is in the title. Yet there are several elements that make the film a little bit special. First and foremost, there's the cast. Vaughn and Wilson are clearly having a whale of a time here, and it's on screen for all to see. Even in the moments where the script doesn't quite measure up, the duo have the energy and presence to keep the film ticking over. It's great too to see them backed up well by the likes of Jane Seymour and Christopher Walken, both of whom are on fine form here. The film is also not shy of significant belly laughs, with plenty of comedic moments of note to enjoy. Granted, you'd be hard-pushed to call it high brow comedy, but that's missing the point. [+]
Wedding Crashers is an accessible, highly entertaining way to spend a couple of hours, and has no pretensions otherwise. And that's its strength. In short, good, funny, energetic entertainment, and it's got healthy rewatch potential too. -Simon Brew.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Winnie The Pooh - A Very Merry Pooh Year [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Cummings
  • Michael Gough
  • Ken Sansom
  • Thomas Delauney
  • Bob Joles
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 61 min.
Creator: Ted Henning
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.40

Review Winnie The Pooh - A Very Merry Pooh Year [2002] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review 4dvd / Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Kay
  • Peter Kay
  • Patrick McGuinness
  • Tony Mooney
  • Lisa Hammond
  • Craig Cheetham
Release date: 2005-10-03
Run time: 144 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.49

Review Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere / 4dvd:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Little Britain - Series 3 (2 Disc Set) [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • David Walliams
  • Anthony Head
  • Tom Baker
  • Matt Lucas
  • Paul Putner
Release date: 2006-09-11
Run time: 29 min.
RRP: £21.99
Price: £2.92

Review Little Britain - Series 3 (2 Disc Set) [2003] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Goonies [Blu-ray] [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Josh Brolin
  • Jeff Cohen
  • Richard Donner
  • Sean Astin
  • Kerri Green
  • Corey Feldman
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Chris Columbus
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.98

Review The Goonies [Blu-ray] [1985] / Warner Home Video:

You may be surprised to discover that the director of the Lethal Weapon movies and scary horror flick The Omen, Richard Donner, also produced and directed this classic children's adventure (which, by the way, was written by Donner's screen-wizard friend Steven Spielberg). Then again you may not. The Goonies, like Donner's other movies, is the same old story of good versus evil. It has its share of bad guys (the Fratelli brothers and their villainous mother), reluctant-hero good guys (the Walsh bothers and their gang of friends), and lots of corny one-liners. Like in an old-fashioned Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew plot, the Goonies need to solve a problem: a corrupt corporate developer has bought out their neighbourhood and plans to flatten all their homes. Luckily, the beloved gang stumbles on a treasure map. In the hopes of finding the treasure to buy back their houses, the Goonies embark on their quest through underground passages, aboard pirate ships, and behind waterfalls. This swashbuckling and rollicking ride was also a great breeding ground for a couple of child actors who went on to enjoy numerous successes in adulthood: Josh Brolin (Into the Blue, Planet Terror) and Corey Feldman (The Lost Boys). -Samantha Allen Storey Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton, Steve Antin.

Review 2 Entertain Video / We Can Be Heroes (The Nominees) [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Lilley
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 162 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.98

Review We Can Be Heroes (The Nominees) [2005] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Billy Connolly / Billy Connolly: The Essential Box Set Collection (6 Disc Set)
Release date: 2006-11-27
RRP: £49.99
Price: £27.47

Review Billy Connolly: The Essential Box Set Collection (6 Disc Set) / Billy Connolly:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Napoleon Dynamite [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Jon Heder
  • Efren Ramirez
  • Aaron Ruell
  • Diedrich Bader
  • Jon Gries
Release date: 2005-04-25
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.97

Review Napoleon Dynamite [2004] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review John Williams Productions / The Vital Spark
Actors & Directors
  • Pharic Maclaren
  • John Grieve
  • Russell Hunter
  • Walter Carr
  • Alex Avoy
  • Roddy Macmillan
Release date: 2006-02-27
Run time: 153 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.48

Review The Vital Spark / John Williams Productions:


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Ferris Bueller's Day Off [1987], The Sting [1973], Ever Decreasing Circles - The Complete Collection, Only Fools and Horses - To Hull and Back [1981], Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels [1998], Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie [1997], Big Bang Theory - Season 1 [2007], Benny And Joon [1993], Moonlighting - Complete Seasons 1 and 2, Stewart Lee '41st Best Stand Up Ever' [2008], Weeds - Series 2 - Complete [2006], Wedding Crashers - Uncorked [2005], Winnie The Pooh - A Very Merry Pooh Year [2002], Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere, Little Britain - Series 3 (2 Disc Set) [2003], The Goonies [Blu-ray] [1985], We Can Be Heroes (The Nominees) [2005], Billy Connolly: The Essential Box Set Collection (6 Disc Set), Napoleon Dynamite [2004], The Vital Spark

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