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Review 4dvd / Wish You Were Here [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • David Leland
  • Pat Heywood
  • Tom Bell
  • Geoffry Durham
  • Emily Lloyd
  • Jesse Birdsall
Release date: 2007-09-17
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.55

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Review Vdi Entertainment / Love Chronicles [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Monica Calhoun
  • Terrence Howard
  • Holly Joy Gaines
  • Caroline Whitney Smith
  • Tyler Maddox-Simms
  • Al Clegg
Release date: 2005-06-20
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Gregory Everett
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.90

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Review Pathe Distribution / Barber Of Siberia [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Oleg Menshikov
  • Julia Ormond
  • Aleksei Petrenko
  • Richard Harris
  • Nikita Mikhalkov
  • Marina Neyolova
Release date: 2005-09-26
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Rustam Ibragimbekov
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.47

Review Barber Of Siberia [1998] / Pathe Distribution:

Much criticised on its first appearance as spectacle without affect, Nikita Mikhalkov's The Barber of Siberia is a fascinating, loopy mess worth seeing for its large-scale set pieces and good central performances. The Barber of Siberia was the most expensive film ever made in Russia, with its epic sweeps of landscape and scenes of disorder and drunkenness that remind us what lurked under the superficial structures of late-Tsarist life. Jane Callaghan (Julia Ormond) is an adventurer hired to smooth the way for McCracken (Richard Harris), inventor of a vast tree-felling machine. She blunders around a world of aristocratic influence and intrigue, having become so used to cunning and deceit that she has forgotten she has a heart. Andrei (Oleg Menshikov) is the military cadet whom she meets on the train going east, an aesthete and chancer whose love for her in the face of all the her good sense finally becomes tragic. Menshikov is convincing as lover, buffoon and tragic hero. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Eureka Entertainment / The Buster Keaton Collection [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • Glen Cavender
  • Frederick Vroom
  • James W. Horne
  • Clyde Bruckman
  • Buster Keaton
  • Charles Reisner
  • Marion Mack
  • Jim Farley
  • Buster Keaton
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 321 min.
Creator: Carl Harbaugh
RRP: £39.99
Price: £10.86

Review The Buster Keaton Collection [1926] / Eureka Entertainment:

Buster Keaton's 1926 masterpiece The General shows the great stone-faced comedian at the height of his powers. Buster is a train driver from the South who's caught up in the American Civil War. The film is basically an extended chase, with trains pursuing each other up the track. The level of stuntwork (including a huge train wreck) has to be seen to be believed, but it's the deftness and elegance of Keaton's comedy that is ultimately most memorable. For many, Buster Keaton is the greatest comedian of the silent era rated even above Chaplin, and College (1927) is one of his finest films. A poor student who has to work his way through college, Buster is desperate to win the attention of a pretty girl so takes up sports. Through every disaster, the great "stone face" as he was nicknamed betrays not a flicker of emotion, enduring all humiliations with aplomb. College shows Keaton at the top of his form. Steamboat Bill Jr dates from 1928 and is the last great film Buster Keaton made before he gave up his independence. Buster is the rather fey son of an elderly steamboat owner who is being driven out of business by a wealthy competitor. [+]
More by accident than intention Buster turns things around and gets the girl as well. The last 15 minutes are truly astonishing: a storm sequence in which a whole town is blown apart, with Buster experiencing a series of amazing escapes as buildings fall down around his ears. Tragically, the following year he lost his independence when he signed for MGM. His career collapsed, his marriage broke up and he became an alcoholic, never to regain former glories. On the DVD: The organ music accompanying this silent feature is pleasantly unobtrusive, and apart from a short section in the middle where it deteriorates, the print quality is a reasonable 4. 3. In addition there are five excellent Keaton shorts, One Week (1920), The Boat (1921) Cops (1922), The Blacksmith (1922) and The Balloonatic (1923). -Ed Buscombe.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Punch-Drunk Love [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Emily Watson
  • Jason Andrews
  • Adam Sandler
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Don McManus
  • Paul Thomas Anderson
Release date: 2003-07-28
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: JoAnne Sellar
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.50

Review Punch-Drunk Love [2003] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

A 97-minute Paul Thomas Anderson picture, Punch-Drunk Love concentrates on a tight little story that might have made a subplot for earlier PTA epics such as Boogie Nights or Magnolia. Adam Sandler has a break-out art film lead not by abandoning his usual persona, but by playing his familiar man-child-out-of-control with far more depth than he has shown in Big Daddy. Though prone to fits of terrifying rage, oddball entrepreneur Barry Egan (Sandler) is essentially sweet and timid, alternately nagged and cajoled by his seven sisters, and intent on exploiting a loophole in a supermarket promotion to convert piles of cheap puddings into unlimited free flights, though he has never actually been anywhere. Over the course of a day Barry enters into two unusual relationships: with a phone-sex girl (Ashley Clark) who runs a scam with "mattress man" (Philip Seymour Hoffman)-by getting Barry's credit card information and declaring a war of extortion-and with hesitant nice girl Lena (Emily Watson), whom he impulsively follows to Hawaii while trying desperately to seem more like a dedicated romantic than a psycho stalker. Anderson's trademark use of loud background music (including a Shelley Duvall track from Popeye) and obsessively repeated bits of dialogue and business make for a controlled film that still seems on the edge of madness. The result is magical, romantic, comic and creepy. -Kim Newman.

Review Icon Home Entertainment / Bright Young Things [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Campbell Moore
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Guy Henry
  • Stephen Fry
  • Peter O'Toole
  • John Mills
Release date: 2007-11-19
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.09

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Review Warner Bros. / Little Voice [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Caine
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Mark Herman
  • Philip Jackson
  • Brenda Blethyn
  • Jane Horrocks
Release date: 2001-01-22
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Jim Cartwright
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.29

Review Little Voice [1999] / Warner Bros.:

Michael Caine was robbed of an Oscar. He gives his finest performance in a decade as big-talking small-time agent Ray Say, a paunchy, pale life-of-the-party hiding his desperation under gold chains and cool bravura. When he hears the almost magical voice of Jane Horrocks's meek little LV (short for Little Voice) fill her bedroom with the rich voice of Judy Garland, he sees his ticket to the big time. Little Voice is ostensibly LV's story, and in fact the original play was written for Horrocks, whose amazing vocal impressions of Garland, Shirley Bassey, and Marilyn Monroe (among others) form the centrepiece performance of the film. But as directed by Mark Herman (Brassed Off), the story of this mousy girl who shuts herself in from a bellowing world is just as overwhelmed by the bombastic characters as LV herself. Brenda Blethyn babbles a blue streak as LV's overbearing mother, Mari, an ageing widow who escapes her unhappiness in carousing and becomes almost pathologically jealous when Ray's attentions turn from her to LV. As Ray puts his dreams on the line for LV's showcase, he reveals his true self: a venal man who spits and barks out his bottled-up anger in an astoundingly bile-filled delivery of Roy Orbison's "It's Over". The showstopping moment once again overwhelms LV's tale, but Caine's performance is so astounding it seems a fair trade -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Breakfast At Tiffany's [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Patricia Neal
  • George Peppard
  • Martin Balsam
  • Buddy Ebsen
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Blake Edwards
Release date: 2000-11-06
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Truman Capote
RRP: £15.99
Price: £24.98

Review Breakfast At Tiffany's [1961] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

No film better utilises Audrey Hepburn's flighty charm and svelte beauty than this romantic adaptation of Truman Capote's novella. Hepburn's urban sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewellery. George Peppard is her upstairs neighbour, a struggling writer and "kept" man financed by a steely older woman (Patricia Neal). His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon turns to love and threatens the delicate balance of both of their compromised lives. Taking liberties with Capote's bittersweet story, director Blake Edwards and screenwriter George Axelrod turn New York into a city of lovers and create a poignant portrait of Holly, a frustrated romantic with a secret past and a hidden vulnerability. Composer Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song "Moon River" and his tastefully romantic score. The only sour note in the whole film is Mickey Rooney's demeaning performance as the apartment's Japanese manager, an offensively overdone stereotype even in 1961. The rest of the film has weathered the decades well. Edwards's elegant yet light touch, Axelrod's generous screenplay and Hepburn's mix of knowing experience and naivety combine to create one of the great screen romances and a refined slice of high-society bohemian chic. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days / Sliding Doors / Ghost [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Swayze
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Demi Moore
  • Matthew McConaughey
  • Donald Petrie
  • Jerry Zucker
  • Kate Hudson
  • Peter Howitt
Release date: 2004-10-04
Creator: Kristen Buckley
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.86

Review How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days / Sliding Doors / Ghost [2003] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review The Definitive Ealing Studios Collection / The Definitive Ealing Studios Collection - Volume 2
Release date: 2006-10-16
Run time: 338 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £13.93

Review The Definitive Ealing Studios Collection - Volume 2 / The Definitive Ealing Studios Collection:


Review The Definitive Ealing Studios Collection / The Definitive Ealing Studios Collection - Volume 1
Release date: 2006-10-16
Run time: 375 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £13.93

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Review Sony Pictures / Rescue Me: The Complete Fourth Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Daniel Sunjata
  • Don Scardino
  • John Fortenberry
  • Ken Girotti
  • Steven Pasquale
  • Peter Tolan
  • Jace Alexander
  • Denis Leary
  • Mike Lombardi
  • Andrea Roth
Release date: 2008-06-03
Run time: 560 min.
Creator: Evan T. Reilly
Price: £25.87

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Review MGM Entertainment / Mystic Pizza [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Lili Taylor
  • Julia Roberts
  • Donald Petrie
  • William R. Moses
  • Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Annabeth Gish
Release date: 2001-09-04
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Randy Howze
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.05

Review Mystic Pizza [1990] / MGM Entertainment:

A sweet and sassy comedy about the bonds of sisterhood, Mystic Pizza offers the opportunity to see some solid young actresses early in their careers. Three sisters of blue-collar Portuguese descent work in a pizzeria in the coastal town of Mystic, Connecticut. Each has her own unique romantic entanglements. One is the fast girl in town (Julia Roberts) who falls for a rich kid but wonders if she'll ever be accepted; one is the lifelong local girl (Lili Taylor) in love with her fisherman boyfriend (Vincent D'Onofrio) but scared of what marriage will do to their sex lives; and the youngest sister (Annabeth Gish) dreams of going to Yale but during a summer of babysitting has an affair with a married man. Through it all each sister depends on the others regardless of the complications. It's the alluring charm of the three disparate leads that makes Mystic Pizza the delightful experience it is. -Robert Lane, Amazon. com.

Review 4dvd / Skins - Series 1 - Complete [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Aysha Rafaele
  • Minkie Spiro
  • Morwenna Banks
  • Hannah Murray
  • Nicholas Hoult
  • Adam Smith
  • Paul Gay
  • Mike Bailey
  • Harry Enfield
Release date: 2008-04-07
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.14

Review Skins - Series 1 - Complete [2007] / 4dvd:


Review Revolver Entertainment / My Brother is an Only Child [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Daniele Luchetti
Release date: 2008-08-11
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.46

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


Review Universal Pictures UK / Marlene Dietrich
Actors & Directors
  • Marlene Dietrich
  • Charles Winninger
  • Clive Brook
  • Josef von Sternberg
  • Mischa Auer
  • James Stewart
  • George Marshall
Release date: 2006-08-28
Creator: Max Brand
RRP: £49.99
Price: £8.85

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Review Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd / It's All Gone Pete Tong
Actors & Directors
  • Lol Hammond
  • Mike Wilmot
  • Michael Dowse
  • Steve Oram
  • Kate Magowan
  • Paul Van Dyk
Release date: 2007-09-10
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.86

Review It's All Gone Pete Tong / Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Mile High - Complete Box Set [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Jo-Anne Knowles
  • Tom Wisdom
  • Naomi Ryan
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 1751 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £15.05

Review Mile High - Complete Box Set [2003] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / The Little Princess [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Greene
  • Anita Louise
  • Shirley Temple
  • William A. Seiter
  • Walter Lang
  • Cesar Romero
  • Ian Hunter
Release date: 2004-03-15
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £1.98

Review The Little Princess [1939] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


Review 4dvd / Shameless - Series 4 - Complete [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Catherine Morshead
  • David Threlfall
  • Gerard Kearns
  • Joseph Furnace
Release date: 2008-04-21
Run time: 350 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £7.29

Review Shameless - Series 4 - Complete [2006] / 4dvd:


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Wish You Were Here [1987], Love Chronicles [2003], Barber Of Siberia [1998], The Buster Keaton Collection [1926], Punch-Drunk Love [2003], Bright Young Things [2003], Little Voice [1999], Breakfast At Tiffany's [1961], How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days / Sliding Doors / Ghost [2003], The Definitive Ealing Studios Collection - Volume 2, The Definitive Ealing Studios Collection - Volume 1, Rescue Me: The Complete Fourth Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mystic Pizza [1990], Skins - Series 1 - Complete [2007], My Brother is an Only Child [2007], Marlene Dietrich, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Mile High - Complete Box Set [2003], The Little Princess [1939], Shameless - Series 4 - Complete [2006]

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