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Review Ica Projects Ltd. / The Kingdom [DVD] [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Ghita Nørby
  • Holger Juul Hansen
  • Ernst-Hugo Järegård
  • Udo Kier
  • Kirsten Rolffes
Release date: 2002-05-27
Run time: 325 min.
Creator: Sven Abrahamsen
RRP: £21.99
Price: £21.49

Review The Kingdom [DVD] [1996] / Ica Projects Ltd.:

The Kingdom has been described as "ER meets Twin Peaks", and seldom can the standard and the surreal have met in more perfect accord. The hospital that conceals dark secrets is the premise for this riveting "soap"-seen on Danish TV in 1994-in which science and civilisation are eroded by superstition and instinct. Lars von Trier is not a director who aims to please, and the claustrophobic visuals he draws from handheld cameras and natural lighting anticipate the stripped-down film work of his Dogme 95 movement. Yet there's nothing cerebral about the goings-on here, thanks to the rich variety of characters who people the labyrinthine corridors and functional wards. The Minister's visit and the Haiti jaunt are slapstick humour worthy of the best Python sketches, and Trier is never afraid to mix the prosaic with the profound. There are wonderfully observed performances from Ernst Hugo Jaregard as chequered Swedish surgeon Stig Helmer, and Kirsten Rolffes as common-sense psychic Sigrid Drusse. These are only the first five episodes: having seen them, you'll be awaiting the remainder with impatience. This is persuasive, provocative filmmaking. On the DVD: The Kingdom on disc has audio and visual reproduction that is authentically Trier, with English subtitles and 10 access points per episode. Each part is viewable separately or in sequence, though make sure you don't lose some of the director's amusingly offbeat postscripts. [+]
The first disc also features Tranceformer, a frank insight into the mind and movies of Lars von Trier with extracts from his features between 1984 and 95. -Richard Whitehouse.

Review New Yorker Video / Privilege [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Shrimpton
  • Max Bacon
  • Paul Jones
  • William Job
  • Peter Watkins
  • Mark London
Release date: 2008-07-29
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Johnny Speight

Review Privilege [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / New Yorker Video:


Review MGM / Some Like It Hot [DVD] [1959] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Billy Wilder
  • Jack Lemmon
  • Tony Curtis
  • George Raft
  • Pat O'Brien
  • Marilyn Monroe
Release date: 2001-05-22
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Robert Thoeren
Price: £10.00

Review Some Like It Hot [DVD] [1959] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / MGM:

Maybe "nobody's perfect", as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them. In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo (George Raft), the boys, in drag, join an all-woman band headed for Florida. They vie for the attention of the lead singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a much-disappointed songbird who warbles "I'm Through with Love" but remains vulnerable to yet another unreliable saxophone player. (When Curtis courts her without his dress, he adopts the voice of Cary Grant-a spot-on impersonation. ) The script by director Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is beautifully measured; everything works, like a flawless clock. [+]
Aspiring screenwriters would be well advised to throw away the how-to books and simply study this film. The bulk of the slapstick is handled by an unhinged Lemmon and the razor-sharp Joe E. Brown, who plays a horny retiree smitten by Jerry's feminine charms. For all the gags, the film is also wonderfully romantic, as Wilder indulges in just the right amounts of moonlight and the lilting melody of "Park Avenue Fantasy". Some Like It Hot is so delightfully fizzy, it's hard to believe the shooting of the film was a headache, with an unhappy Monroe on her worst behaviour. The results, however, are sublime. -Robert Horton.

Actors & Directors
  • Ione Skye
  • James Spader
  • Bill Paterson
  • Dexter Fletcher
  • Damian Harris
  • Jonathan Pryce
Release date: 1992-02-10
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Martin Amis
Price: £10.99

Review The Rachel Papers [1989] [VHS] / Virgin Vision:


Review FUNimation Entertainment / Fullmetal Alchemist: Season Two Part One [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Vic Mignogna
  • Aaron Dismuke
  • Caitlin Glass
Release date: 2008-02-05
Run time: 264 min.
Creator: Aaron Dismuke
Price: £19.27

Review Fullmetal Alchemist: Season Two Part One [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / FUNimation Entertainment:


Review Dd Home Entertainment / For The Love Of Mary [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Deanna Durbin; Edmond O'Brien; Don Taylor; Jeffrey Lynn; Ray Collins; Hugo Haas; Harry Davenport; Griff Barnett; Katharine Alexander; James Todd; Morris Ankrum; Frank Conroy; Leon Belasco; Louise Beavers; Raymond Greenleaf
  • Frederick De Cordova
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Deanna Durbin; Edmond O'Brien; Don Taylor; Jeffrey Lynn; Ray Collins; Hugo Haas; Harry Davenport; Griff Barnett; Katharine Alexander; James Todd; Morris Ankrum; Frank Conroy; Leon Belasco; Louise Beavers; Raymond Greenleaf
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.04

Review For The Love Of Mary [DVD] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review Entertainment in Video / Twelfth Night [VHS] [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Imogen Stubbs
  • Steven Mackintosh
  • Nicholas Farrell
  • Trevor Nunn
  • Richard E. Grant
  • Helena Bonham Carter
Release date: 1997-09-15
Run time: 128 min.
Creator: William Shakespeare
Price: £5.99

Review Twelfth Night [VHS] [1996] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Mosaic Movies / Do Not Disturb [DVD] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Maas
  • Francesca Brown
  • William Hurt
  • Denis Leary
  • Jennifer Tilly
  • Michael Chiklis
Release date: 2003-02-24
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Martin Lagestee
RRP: £13.99
Price: £1.70

Review Do Not Disturb [DVD] [1999] / Mosaic Movies:


Review Bandai / Scrapped Princess: Anime Legends Complete Collection [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Soichi Masui
  • Takashi Kondô
  • Fumiko Orikasa
  • Sayaka Ohara
  • Shinichirô Miki
  • Takahiro Mizushima
Release date: 2007-03-20
Run time: 550 min.
Creator: Masahiko Minami
Price: £20.26

Review Scrapped Princess: Anime Legends Complete Collection [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Bandai:


Review Momentum Pictures / Rambling Rose [DVD] [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Laura Dern
  • Diane Ladd
  • Robert Duvall
  • Martha Coolidge
  • John Heard
  • Lukas Haas
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Calder Willingham
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.99

Review Rambling Rose [DVD] [1991] / Momentum Pictures:


Review MGM Entertainment / Hannah And Her Sisters [VHS] [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Woody Allen
  • Dianne Wiest
  • Mia Farrow
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Woody Allen
  • Michael Caine
Release date: 2000-10-16
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Robert Greenhut
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.50

Review Hannah And Her Sisters [VHS] [1986] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Gnome-Mobile [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Lowell
  • Robert Stevenson
  • Walter Brennan
  • Richard Deacon
  • Karen Dotrice
  • Matthew Garber
Release date: 2004-03-02
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Ellis Kadison
Price: £3.32

Review The Gnome-Mobile [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Walt Disney Video:


Review Dynamic Entertainment Ltd / Meet John Doe [DVD] [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Cooper
  • Edward Arnold
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Walter Brennan
  • Spring Byington
  • Frank Capra
Release date: 2003-10-06
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Robert Riskin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01

Review Meet John Doe [DVD] [1941] / Dynamic Entertainment Ltd:


Review Venevision / Los Anos Barbaros [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Juan Echanove
  • Jordi Mollà
  • Allison Smith
  • Hedy Burress
  • Fernando Colomo
  • Ernesto Alterio
Release date: 2006-03-14
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Nicolás Sánchez Albornoz
Price: £2.35

Review Los Anos Barbaros [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Venevision:


Review Retro-Seduction Cinema / Confessions of a Young American Housewife [DVD] [1978] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Rebecca Brooke
  • Joseph W. Sarno
  • David Hausman
  • Eric Edwards
  • Chris Jordan
  • Jennifer Welles
Release date: 2008-04-29
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Phil Voza
Price: £11.54

Review Confessions of a Young American Housewife [DVD] [1978] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Retro-Seduction Cinema:


Review Hart Sharp Video / Game 6 [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Griffin Dunne
  • Michael Keaton
  • Ari Graynor
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Bebe Neuwirth
  • Michael Hoffman
Release date: 2006-05-23
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Don DeLillo
Price: £3.20

Review Game 6 [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Hart Sharp Video:


Review Sony Pictures / Mozart and the Whale [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Petter Næss
  • Allen Evangelista
  • Josh Hartnett
  • Gary Cole
  • Sheila Kelley
  • Radha Mitchell
Release date: 2006-12-12
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Radha Mitchell
Price: £5.31

Review Mozart and the Whale [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Sony Pictures:


Review New Line Home Video / He's Just Not That Into You [DVD] [2009] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Trenton Rogers
  • Jennifer Aniston
  • Morgan Lily
  • Jennifer Connelly
  • Ken Kwapis
  • Ginnifer Goodwin
Release date: 2009-06-02
Run time: 129 min.
Creator: Marc Silverstein
Price: £12.90

Review He's Just Not That Into You [DVD] [2009] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / New Line Home Video:


Review Team Video Plus / All About Anna ( When Johan Came Knocking (Denmark) (original script tit ) [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Eileen Daly
  • Adrian Bouchet
  • Gry Bay
  • Thomas Raft
  • Ovidie
  • Jessica Nilsson
Release date: 2005-11-23
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Loretta Fabiana
RRP: £27.99
Price: £38.99

Review All About Anna ( When Johan Came Knocking (Denmark) (original script tit ) [DVD] / Team Video Plus:


Review MGM / The Boyfriend School [DVD] [1990] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Guttenberg
  • Kyle MacLachlan
  • Malcolm Mowbray
  • Shelley Long
  • Jami Gertz
  • Mädchen Amick
Release date: 2005-01-25
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Steve Guttenberg
Price: £7.00

Review The Boyfriend School [DVD] [1990] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / MGM:


Models & Brands:
The Kingdom [DVD] [1996], Privilege [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Some Like It Hot [DVD] [1959] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], The Rachel Papers [1989] [VHS], Fullmetal Alchemist: Season Two Part One [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], For The Love Of Mary [DVD], Twelfth Night [VHS] [1996], Do Not Disturb [DVD] [1999], Scrapped Princess: Anime Legends Complete Collection [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Rambling Rose [DVD] [1991], Hannah And Her Sisters [VHS] [1986], The Gnome-Mobile [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Meet John Doe [DVD] [1941], Los Anos Barbaros [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Confessions of a Young American Housewife [DVD] [1978] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Game 6 [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Mozart and the Whale [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], He's Just Not That Into You [DVD] [2009] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], All About Anna ( When Johan Came Knocking (Denmark) (original script tit ) [DVD], The Boyfriend School [DVD] [1990] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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