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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Waiting To Exhale [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Angela Bassett
  • Loretta Devine
  • Gregory Hines
  • Lela Rochon
  • Forest Whitaker
  • Whitney Houston
Release date: 2004-03-01
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Terry McMillan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.06

Review Waiting To Exhale [1996] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Flashdance / Footloose / Pretty In Pink [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Jon Cryer
  • Herbert Ross
  • Lori Singer
  • Jennifer Beals
  • Adrian Lyne
  • Howard Deutch
  • Kevin Bacon
  • Molly Ringwald
Release date: 2004-10-04
Creator: Thomas Hedley Jr.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.68

Review Flashdance / Footloose / Pretty In Pink [1984] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed And Fabulous [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Sandra Bullock
  • John Pasquin
  • William Shatner
  • Ernie Hudson
  • Regina King
  • Enrique Murciano
Release date: 2005-07-11
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £0.49

Review Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed And Fabulous [2005] / Warner Home Video:

F. B. I. operative Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) famously went undercover in a beauty pageant a while back, and now she's supposedly so recognizable that her only use to the agency is as a pretty public representative. Dumped by her boyfriend (whom Benjamin Bratt wisely decided not to portray this time around), a gloomy Gracie goes along with the promo biz until her friend, Miss United States (Heather Burns), is kidnapped along with pageant official Stan Fields (William Shatner) in Las Vegas. Bullock still has perk to please her fans, but neither she nor her awkward alter-ego has any purpose in a sequel to a movie released five years prior. The result is a desperately unfunny, feature-length commercial for Las Vegas tourism, with outdated homosexual stereotypes (Diedrich Bader, as Gracie's stylist) and the usually terrific Regina King (of Ray and Jerry Maguire fame) stuck in a glum role as Bullock's butch bodyguard. Armed? Yes. Fabulous? No. -Steve Wiecking, Amazon. [+]
com.

Review Warner Home Video / Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls (1995)
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Callow
  • Maynard Eziashi
  • Steve Oedekerk
  • Ian McNeice
  • Jim Carrey
  • Bob Gunton
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Jack Bernstein
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.13

Review Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls (1995) / Warner Home Video:

This inevitable sequel finds Jim Carrey reprising his role as the world's greatest pet detective. His latest case, the disappearance of a rare African white bat, draws him out of his spiritual retreat at a Tibetan monastery following the tragic outcome of his previous case. That traumatic experience, which makes for a hilarious opening-scene send-up of the Stallone thriller Cliffhanger, prompts Ace to venture to Africa, where he goes native with the tribe that hired him to find their symbolic bat. From that point anything goes, with Carrey pushing the boundaries of good taste (what, you were expecting good taste?) up to and including his now-infamous "birth" scene from the backside of a mechanical rhinoceros. Lighten up, and don't be ashamed if you find yourself laughing. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Cheaper By The Dozen / Cheaper By The Dozen 2 [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Bonnie Hunt
  • Steve Martin
  • Adam Shankman
  • Carmen Electra
  • Jaime King
  • Shawn Levy
  • Alyson Stoner
Release date: 2006-04-03
Run time: 188 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £3.98

Review Cheaper By The Dozen / Cheaper By The Dozen 2 [2003] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Oh What A Lovely War: Special Edition [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Vanessa Redgrave
  • Jean-Pierre Cassell
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Richard Attenborough
  • John Gielgud
  • Phyllis Calvert
Release date: 2006-10-30
Run time: 138 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £17.99

Review Oh What A Lovely War: Special Edition [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

It's a product of its Vietnam era just as surely as Robert Altman's M*A*S*H, and like that film Oh! What a Lovely War is ostensibly about a different war. Based on a celebrated anti-war stage piece produced by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, the film chronicles the various madnesses of the First World War. Along with vignettes involving the members of the fictional Smith family, the movie lands its punches with a two-pronged attack: by using the songs of the war, mostly patriotic; and by using the real-life words of various figures from WWI. You can see how this would have fit a stylised stage show; in the more literal, realistic realm of film, it mostly comes across as heavy-handed pretentiousness. Richard Attenborough, who would later explore the lives of Gandhi and Chaplin, first made his way to the director's chair here, and he enlisted a staggering who's who of his fellow British actors for roles in the large ensemble: Olivier, Gielgud, and Richardson among them. John Mills plays the most bull-headed of the generals, blithely measuring out yards of territory gained by the thousands of casualties involved. The songs are a historically fascinating lot, mostly given an ironic or sinister treatment in this incarnation, as jolly patriotic tunes that mask the utter carnage at the front. Among the high points is Maggie Smith singing (well, declaiming) an ode to recruitment, promising war as a grand adventure. The blending of arch content with Attenborough's realistic staging of trench warfare just doesn't take, but what does hit home are the actual quotes and the statistics of killing; World War I set a bloody standard for sheer, blind slaughter. -Robert Horton.

Review Warner Home Video / Tin Cup [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Shelton
  • Linda Hart
  • Rene Russo
  • Don Johnson
  • Kevin Costner
  • Cheech Marin
Release date: 1998-05-11
Run time: 129 min.
Creator: John Norville
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.63

Review Tin Cup [1996] / Warner Home Video:

One of the better romantic comedies of the 1990s, this quirky love story stars Kevin Costner as washed-up golf pro, Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy, who has the singular misfortune of falling in love with the girlfriend (Rene Russo) of his arch rival (Don Johnson). Although he is inspired to re-ignite his golf career, challenge his opponent in the US Open, and win the affection of the woman of his dreams, McAvoy has just one flaw: he's a show off when he should just focus on playing the game. Reunited with his Bull Durham writer-director Ron Shelton, Costner fits into his Tin Cup role like a favourite pair of shoes and costar Cheech Marin scores a memorable scene-stealing comeback as McAvoy's best buddy, Romeo Posar. Mixing his love of sports with his flair for fresh, comedic dialogue, Shelton takes this enjoyable movie down unexpected detours (although some may find it a bit too long), and his characters are delightfully unpredictable. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 4 - Complete
Actors & Directors
  • Graham Chapman
  • Michael Palin
  • Terry Jones
  • Eric Idle
Release date: 2007-06-11
Run time: 169 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.33

Review Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 4 - Complete / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Entertainment in Video / This Year's Love [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Annabelle Apsion
  • Richard Armitage
  • Matt Bardock
  • Dennica Abdo
  • David Kane
  • Doreene Blackstock
Release date: 2000-02-21
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Simon Scotland
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.96

Review This Year's Love [1999] / Entertainment in Video:

An unpretentious Brit-flick distinguished by a great cast, This Year's Love is writer-director David Kane's wry, funny study of six singletons in search of something-possibly love, possibly just sex-that will help them make sense of an untidy world. Aside from the acting, the film's strongest feature is its unflinching realism. The setting is North London's Camden Lock, an area that is in equal parts ultra-trendy and horrendously squalid. The characters reflect the locale: a circle of youthful drop-outs, wannabes and never-have-beens united in their common desire to surmount loneliness and find that elusive "perfect match". The central figures are newlyweds Danny and Hannah (the wonderful Douglas Henshall and Catherine McCormack) and the film in essence concerns itself with the fallout from the spectacular and rapid disintegration of their marriage. Danny first hooks up with cleaner-cum-nightclub singer Mary (a marvellously self-deprecating Kathy Burke), while Hannah finds lecherous womaniser Cameron (an unwashed Dougray Scott). Cameron's flatmate Liam (Ian Hart) fails to impress posh single mum Sophie (Jennifer Ehle in dreadlocks), who goes on to reject Danny and Cameron in turn, while Liam becomes dangerously obsessed by Hannah then Mary. So the merry-go-round of relationship swapping, unlikely coincidences and bittersweet life-lessons turns full circle. David Kane's comic dialogue is witheringly sharp, the situations (aside from all the coincidental meetings) are well-observed and the characters sympathetically three-dimensional (helped in no small part by the quality of the ensemble cast). The frequently hilarious comedy is tempered by an underlying despair: if it's not exactly Brassed Off or The Full Monty for neurotic, self-obsessed metropolitans, it's a film that's at least happy to exist in the same genre and achieves the same poignant empathy with its characters. [+]
The soundtrack is great, too. Imagine that the cast of Trainspotting gate-crashed Four Weddings and a Funeral and the result would be This Year's Love. On the DVD: Short on-set interviews with the principals and a promotional featurette are supplemented by a sequence of unedited behind-the-scenes footage. The film itself is presented in a good-looking anamorphic (16:9) print. -Mark Walker.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Bedazzled [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Frances O'Connor
  • Orlando Jones
  • Brendan Fraser
  • Harold Ramis
  • Elizabeth Hurley
  • Miriam Shor
Release date: 2004-08-02
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Peter Tolan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.80

Review Bedazzled [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Brendan Fraser stars in Bedazzled as Elliot, a dweebish office worker who yearns for Alison (Frances O'Connor), a coworker who barely knows he exists. When he blithely says he'd give his soul for Alison, the Devil appears in the fetching guise of Elizabeth Hurley and promises him seven wishes in exchange. Elliot is dubious at first, but agrees out of desperation. Unfortunately, his every wish always leaves the Devil with a little wiggle-room. When he asks to be rich and powerful, the Devil turns him into a drug lord beset on all sides. When he asks to be a successful, well-endowed writer, the Devil adds a male lover to the mix. The setup and situations are clever, though this Bedazzled has less bite than the original 1968 version starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. It does, however, provide some better comic substance for Fraser than most of his previous roles and will give his fans something to enjoy. O'Connor is entirely pleasant in her largely straight role, and Hurley fills out her part delectably by filling out a number of revealing outfits. This is an enjoyable bit of froth. [+]
-Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Spencer Tracy / Katharine Hepburn - Signature Collection : Keeper Of The Flame / Woman Of The Year / Adams Rib / Pat And Mike (4 Disc Box Set)
Actors & Directors
  • George Cukor
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Judy Holliday
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Audrey Hepburn
Release date: 2006-10-17
RRP: £29.99
Price: £13.98

Review Spencer Tracy / Katharine Hepburn - Signature Collection : Keeper Of The Flame / Woman Of The Year / Adams Rib / Pat And Mike (4 Disc Box Set) / Warner Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Turner And Hooch [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Roger Spottiswoode
  • Tom Hanks
  • Mare Winningham
  • Scott Paulin
  • Craig T. Nelson
  • Reginald VelJohnson
Release date: 2006-06-15
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Michael Blodgett
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.98

Review Turner And Hooch [1990] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Much better than your average cop-and-dog movie (such as K-9), Turner and Hooch is really a love story about a control freak (Tom Hanks) who gradually resigns to the messy chaos of a sweet hulk of a pooch named Hooch. The excuse for this relationship is that the dog can identify a murderer and Hanks needs him, but the film is really about such hilarious moments as Hanks bathing Hooch with a long brush, and a wild chase through the streets when the sharp-eyed mutt spots his suspect. Layered over this is a healthy love story between Hanks and animal vet Mare Winningham, who share a terribly sexy scene together-while fully clothed-doing no more than making breakfast. (Hanks directed this scene, though Roger Spottiswoode directed the rest of the movie. ) -Tom Keogh.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Dora The Explorer - Dora's Map Adventure
Actors & Directors
  • Sherie Pollack
  • Arnie Wong
  • George S. Chialtas
  • Harrison Chad
  • Matthew Gumley
  • Jason Thornton
  • Henry Madden
Release date: 2004-11-01
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Valerie Walsh
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.95

Review Dora The Explorer - Dora's Map Adventure / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Beethoven: The Pooch Pack
Release date: 2006-06-26
Run time: 437 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £16.97

Review Beethoven: The Pooch Pack / Universal Pictures UK:

Put Charles Grodin together with a 200-pound Saint Bernard and you're likely to come up with some good laughs. In this popular family comedy from 1992 Grodin plays a beleaguered dad who reluctantly lets his kids keep the lost puppy they've adopted. The dog quickly grows into the huge and clever hound named Beethoven. In a marked departure from his nice-guy roles in several Disney comedies from the 1960s and '70s, Dean Jones plays the villainous veterinarian who abducts Beethoven to be a subject in his sadistic animal experiments. The kidnapping sets the stage for a raucous rescue and, of course, an inevitable sequel. Innocuous but harmlessly entertaining, Beethoven is one of those movies that some kids can't get enough of. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Clerks [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Mewes
  • Marilyn Ghigliotti
  • Brian O'Halloran
  • Lisa Spoonauer
  • Jeff Anderson
  • Kevin Smith
Release date: 2008-02-25
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.98

Review Clerks [1993] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Warner Home Video / Charlie Chaplin - City Lights [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Florence Lee
  • Al Ernest Garcia
  • Charles Chaplin
  • Hank Mann
  • Virginia Cherrill
Release date: 2003-09-22
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.08

Review Charlie Chaplin - City Lights [1931] / Warner Home Video:

Made in 1931 shortly after the introduction of the talkies, Charlie Chaplin's City Lights is nonetheless near-silent. Chaplin was afraid that, should his universally known and beloved Tramp speak onscreen, he would be severely limited and compromised as a character. And so, City Lights is billed as "pantomime", a piece of cinema harking back to the manners and methods of an already defunct era. Chaplin fell out of fashion towards the end of the 20th century as a new wave of comedians (Rowan Atkinson for one) castigated him for what they saw as his excessive, maudlin sentimentality. Certainly, City Lights-which sees Chaplin's Tramp befriended by a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a rich benefactor-is hokum indeed. Accepting this, however, what makes the film so marvellous is the deceptive skill and artistry of Chaplin the filmmaker, the immaculate timing and acrobatic grace of his seemingly slapstick comedy, in particular a justly famous boxing sequence. Chaplin's sparing use of sound is inventive also: the wordless waffle of public speakers in the opening scene and another in which the tramp swallows a whistle. Moreover, the conclusion, in which the dishevelled Tramp encounters again the flower girl, her eyesight restored is-sentimentality notwithstanding-one of the most moving and superbly executed scenes in cinema history, not least for its economy and restraint. On the DVD: City Lights contains a generous package of extras on this two-disc set, including an introduction by David Robinson, in which he relates how poorly Chaplin and his leading lady Virginia Cherrill got on, an extended documentary/interview with Peter Lord (partner in animation to Nick Parks), who sings the praises of Chaplin's screen art, and a deleted scene, an immaculate piece of business involving a grate and a stick. There's a bonus in the form of an excerpt from 1915's The Champion, in which Chaplin prefigures the boxing scene from City Lights. [+]
Meanwhile, the "documents" section includes a wealth of behind-the-scenes footage, including a test screening for alternative actress Georgia Hale, rehearsal shots, chaotic scenes of Chaplin being mobbed in Vienna, a meeting with Winston Churchill and 1918 footage of Chaplin horsing around with famous boxers of the day including Benny Leonard. It also contains trailers, photo gallery and subtitles. On the first disc, the film's transfer to DVD is splendid. -David Stubbs.

Review Lionsgate / The Monster Squad [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Macht
  • Robby Kiger
  • Duncan Regehr
  • Fred Dekker
  • Andre Gower
  • Tom Noonan
Release date: 2007-07-24
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Peter Hyams
Price: £6.25

Review The Monster Squad [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Dreamworks Home Entertainment / Terminal, The [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Hanks
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Steven Spielberg
Release date: 2005-01-31
Run time: 129 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.63

Review Terminal, The [2004] / Dreamworks Home Entertainment:

Like an airport running at peak efficiency, The Terminal glides on the consummate skills of its director and star. Having refined their collaborative chemistry on Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me if You Can, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks mesh like the precision gears of a Rolex, turning a delicate, not-very-plausible scenario into a lovely modern-age fable (partly based on fact) that's both technically impressive and subtly moving. It's Spielberg in Capra mode, spinning the featherweight tale of Victor Navorski (Hanks, giving a finely tuned performance), an Eastern European who arrives at New York's Kennedy Airport just as his (fictional) homeland has fallen to a coup, forcing him, with no valid citizenship, to take indefinite residence in the airport's expansive International Arrivals Terminal (an astonishing full-scale set that inspires Spielberg's most elegant visual strategies). Spielberg said he made this film in part to alleviate the anguish of wartime America, and his master's touch works wonders on the occasionally mushy material; even Stanley Tucci's officious terminal director and Catherine Zeta-Jones's mixed-up flight attendant come off (respectively) as forgivable and effortlessly charming. With this much talent involved, The Terminal transcends its minor shortcomings to achieve a rare degree of cinematic grace. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Bellboy, The [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Clayton
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Milton Berle
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Alex Corry
Release date: 2004-11-08
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.97

Review Bellboy, The [1960] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 5 - Complete [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Will Mellor
  • Natalie Casey
  • Kathryn Drysdale
  • Gareth Carrivick
  • Ralf Little
  • Sheridan Smith
  • Nick Wood
Release date: 2005-09-05
Run time: 420 min.
Creator: Susan Nickson
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.97

Review Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 5 - Complete [2001] / 2 Entertain Video:


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Waiting To Exhale [1996], Flashdance / Footloose / Pretty In Pink [1984], Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed And Fabulous [2005], Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls (1995), Cheaper By The Dozen / Cheaper By The Dozen 2 [2003], Oh What A Lovely War: Special Edition [1969], Tin Cup [1996], Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 4 - Complete, This Year's Love [1999], Bedazzled [2000], Spencer Tracy / Katharine Hepburn - Signature Collection : Keeper Of The Flame / Woman Of The Year / Adams Rib / Pat And Mike (4 Disc Box Set), Turner And Hooch [1990], Dora The Explorer - Dora's Map Adventure, Beethoven: The Pooch Pack, Clerks [1993], Charlie Chaplin - City Lights [1931], The Monster Squad [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Terminal, The [2004], Bellboy, The [1960], Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 5 - Complete [2001]

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