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Review Universal Music / Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Denise Dowse
  • Jeff Byrd
  • Loretta Devine
  • Bill Duke
  • Robin Givens
  • Salli Richardson
Release date: 2005-09-27
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Stanley James Taylor
Price: £4.78

Review Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Music:


Review Ugc Films / Goodbye Lenin! [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Maria Simon
  • Katrin Sass
  • Daniel Bruhl
  • Chulpan Khamatova
  • Wolfgang Becker
Release date: 2004-03-01
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £16.40

Review Goodbye Lenin! [2002] / Ugc Films:

Contemporary comedies rarely stretch themselves beyond a bickering romantic couple or a bickering couple and a bucket of bodily fluids, which makes the ambition and intelligence of Goodbye, Lenin! not simply entertaining but downright refreshing. The movie starts in East Germany before the fall of communism; our hero, Alex (Daniel Bruhl), describes how his mother (Katrin Sass), a true believer in the communist cause, has a heart attack when she sees him being clubbed by police at a protest. She falls into a coma for eight months-during which the Berlin Wall comes down. When she awakens, her fragile health must avoid any shocks, so Alex creates an illusive reality around his bedridden mother to convince her that communism is still alive. Goodbye, Lenin! delicately balances wry satire with its rich investment in the lives of Alex, his mother, and other characters around them. On the DVD: Though the DVD extras for Goodbye Lenin! include a detailed featurette on the digital effects used in the movie (particularly intriguing because they had to be completely invisible-many viewers won't realize there were digital effects until they see this featurette) and a convivial cast commentary (in German with English subtitles) with Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass, and Alexander Beyer, the star of the DVD is director Wolfgang Becker himself. Not only is his commentary rich with historical information and thoughtful notes about the making of the movie, for the deleted scenes (including two lovely scenes that expand on the relationship between Alex and his girlfriend Lara) he and Tom Tykwer (director of Run Lola Run and part of the X Filme collective that produced Goodbye Lenin!) have an insightful conversation about the editing process, storytelling, and the essence of watching a movie. Utterly fascinating, and invaluable to any aspiring filmmaker. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Warner Home Video / Bright Young Things [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Campbell Moore
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Stephen Fry
  • Guy Henry
  • John Mills
Release date: 2004-04-19
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £1.99

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Timecode [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Stellan Skarsgård
  • Saffron Burrows
  • Mike Figgis
  • Viveka Davis
  • Xander Berkeley
  • Golden Brooks
Release date: 2003-10-27
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.97

Review Timecode [2000] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Studios / Deliver Us From Eva [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Meagan Good
  • Gary Hardwick
  • Matt Winston
  • LL Cool J
  • Mel Jackson
  • Duane Martin
Release date: 2003-06-17
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Marcus Miller
Price: £3.91

Review Deliver Us From Eva [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review ITV DVD / Blithe Spirit [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Margaret Rutherford
  • Kay Hammond
  • Rex Harrison
  • Joyce Carey
  • David Lean
  • Constance Cummings
Release date: 2008-09-15
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.98

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Review Network / The Card [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Ronald Neame
  • Valerie Hobson
  • Alec Guinness
  • Petula Clark
  • Glynis Johns
  • Edward Chapman
Release date: 2007-03-12
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.76

Review The Card [1952] / Network:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Remington Steele - Series 1 - Complete [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Gleason
  • Rocky Lang
  • Thomas Carter (II)
Release date: 2007-03-12
Run time: 1035 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £13.00

Review Remington Steele - Series 1 - Complete [1983] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review MGM / Teen Witch [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Gauthier
  • Joshua John Miller
  • Robyn Lively
  • Dorian Walker
  • Dick Sargent
  • Caren Kaye
Release date: 2005-07-12
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £5.08

Review Teen Witch [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review 4dvd / Raining Stones [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Gemma Phoenix
  • Ricky Tomlinson
  • Julie Brown
  • Tom Hickey
  • Bruce Jones
  • Ken Loach
Release date: 2008-03-17
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.93

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Review Revolver Entertainment / My Brother is an Only Child [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Daniele Luchetti
Release date: 2008-08-11
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.99

Review My Brother is an Only Child [2007] / Revolver Entertainment:


Review MGM / Little Monsters [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Greenberg
  • Fred Savage
  • Rick Ducommun
  • Howie Mandel
  • Daniel Stern
  • Margaret Whitton
Release date: 2004-04-06
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £4.22

Review Little Monsters [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Rhino Entertainment / Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Diane Lane
  • Ray Winstone
  • John Lehne
  • Lou Adler
  • David Clennon
  • Peter Donat
Release date: 2008-09-16
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £6.67

Review Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Rhino Entertainment:


Review Lions Gate Home Entertainment / The All Together [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Corey Johnson
  • Amanda Abbingdon
  • Richard Harrington
  • Danny Dyer
  • Martin Freeman
  • Gavin Claxton
Release date: 2007-09-24
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.98

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Quiet Man [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • John Ford
  • John Wayne
  • Ward Bond
  • Maureen O'Hara
  • Barry Fitzgerald
  • Victor McLaglen
Release date: 2001-01-15
Run time: 129 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.83

Review The Quiet Man [1952] / Universal Pictures UK:

Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since-it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen-that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. -Robert Horton Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. [+]
John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since-it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen-that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding, and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland, but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. -Robert Horton.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) / Sex and the City: Complete HBO Season 5
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
Release date: 2003-11-17
Run time: 240 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £12.00

Review Sex and the City: Complete HBO Season 5 / Paramount Home Entertainment (UK):

It was a short but sweet fifth season for Sex and the City, as HBO's resident comediennes found themselves affected by forces beyond their control-the pregnancies of both Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon. A truncated shooting schedule to accommodate the actresses forced this season to be reduced to a mere eight episodes, but they and the writers forged ahead, creating a handful of episodes that if short in content were long on emotion and laughs. Carrie and Miranda wrestled with their solitary lifestyles, albeit with new attachments-Miranda had new baby Brady and single motherhood, while Carrie found herself in the world of publishing as the author of a real-life book of her columns. Charlotte wondered if she'd ever find another man, while Samantha finally got rid of the one that had been vexing her far too much. If the season as a whole felt less than the sum of its parts, those parts were some of the best comedy in the show's history. The season's climactic episode, "I Love a Charade", was one of the series' best episodes ever, equally touching and funny, and grounded the show in an emotional maturity that announced that, after all their wild travails, these women had truly grown up. -Mark Englehart.

Review Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd / The Rocket Post [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Malahide
  • Ulrich Thomsen
  • Gary Lewis (III)
  • Shauna Macdonald
  • Stephen Whittaker
  • Kevin McKidd
Release date: 2007-09-17
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.47

Review The Rocket Post [2006] / Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd:


Review United Artists / The Sergeants 3 [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Lawford
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Sammy Davis Jnr
  • Joey Bishop
  • Dean Martin
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 113 min.
Price: £5.14

Review The Sergeants 3 [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / United Artists:


Review Network / Leolo [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Maxime Collin
  • Jean-Claude Lauzon
  • Ginette Reno
  • Denys Arcand
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.64

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Review Universal Pictures Video / Catch Me If You Can [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Hanks|Christopher Walken
  • Leonardo DiCaprio
Release date: 2003-07-28
Run time: 135 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.54

Review Catch Me If You Can [2003] / Universal Pictures Video:

A lot less momentous in subject matter than most recent Steven Spielberg films, Catch Me If You Can is the "inspired by a true story" tale of Frank Abagnale Jr (Leonardo di Caprio), a mature-looking teenager who spent the 1960s as an odd type of conman: passing himself off as an airline pilot to get free flights, holding down a job as supervisor of an ER team, and even passing a bar exam after only two weeks' study, all the while dealing in forged cheques. As his illicit earnings spiral up above four million dollars, Frank is dogged by FBI agent Hanratty (Tom Hanks), a plodder who begins to have a relationship with his quarry-the boy politely telephones him every Christmas to catch up. It may have a Spielbergian running time (two hours and 20 minutes) and boast big stars usually found only in thumping epics, but it's basically a breezy character piece with tactful shots of melancholy amid the high-flying, no-harm-done criminality. DiCaprio does his best screen work as the compulsive impersonator, turning his rather vague presence to his advantage as he slips into his various roles, and the typical Spielberg fathers-and-sons theme is delicately played in the kid's scenes with his real (Christopher Walken) and surrogate dads. It's a pleasure to find that Spielberg can play it light without sacrificing depth. Set in the pastel 1960s, with James Bond and vintage Flash comics for context, the film has smart patter, a terrific mod-look credits animation and John Williams' most finger-snappin' score in decades. -Kim Newman.

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Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Goodbye Lenin! [2002], Bright Young Things [2003], Timecode [2000], Deliver Us From Eva [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Blithe Spirit [1945], The Card [1952], Remington Steele - Series 1 - Complete [1983], Teen Witch [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Raining Stones [1993], My Brother is an Only Child [2007], Little Monsters [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The All Together [2007], The Quiet Man [1952], Sex and the City: Complete HBO Season 5, The Rocket Post [2006], The Sergeants 3 [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Leolo [1992], Catch Me If You Can [2003]

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