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Review Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment / Delirious [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Buscemi
  • Michael Pitt
  • Tom DiCillo
  • Gina Gershon
  • Alison Lohman
Release date: 2008-08-11
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.61

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Review Criterion / Dazed and Confused [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sasha Jenson
  • Wiley Wiggins
  • Rory Cochrane
  • Michelle Burke
  • Jason London
  • Richard Linklater
Release date: 2006-06-06
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £16.12

Review Dazed and Confused [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:

After changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker, director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself. "). But it's also way too much fun to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. -Grant Balfour, Amazon. [+]
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Review Bluebell Films / Mon Pere Ce Heros [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Gerard Depardieu
  • Gerard Lauzier
  • Marie Gillian
  • Chatherine Jacob
Release date: 2007-05-28
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.65

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Review Miramax / Children of Heaven [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bahare Seddiqi
  • Amir Farrokh Hashemian
  • Majid Majidi
  • Mohammad Amir Naji
  • Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi
  • Fereshte Sarabandi
Release date: 2002-09-03
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £4.51

Review Children of Heaven [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review MGM Entertainment / Pieces Of April [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Hedges (II)
  • John Gallagher Jr.
  • Alison Pill
  • Oliver Platt
  • Derek Luke
  • Katie Holmes
Release date: 2004-06-14
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.94

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Review Warner Home Video / Forget Paris [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Andre Rosey Brown
  • Charles Barkley
  • Marvin Albert
  • E.E. Bell
  • Billy Crystal
Release date: 2000-01-18
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Marc Shaiman
Price: £2.56

Review Forget Paris [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review BBC Warner / Martin Chuzzlewit [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lynda Bellingham
  • Stephen Mapes
  • Jimmy Gardner
  • Sue Wallace
  • Charlie Condou
  • Pedr James
Release date: 2005-09-06
Run time: 334 min.
Price: £5.70

Review Martin Chuzzlewit [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:


Review Tla Releasing / Itty Bitty Titty Committee [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Clea Duvall
  • Melonie Diaz
  • Carly Pope
  • Nicole Vicius
Release date: 2008-12-08
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.98

Review Itty Bitty Titty Committee [2007] / Tla Releasing:


Review Castle Rock / Chaos Theory [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Chalke
  • Mike Erwin (II)
  • Marcos Siega
  • Ryan Reynolds
  • Emily Mortimer
  • Stuart Townsend
Release date: 2008-06-17
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £11.59

Review Chaos Theory [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Castle Rock:


Review Prism Leisure / The Hotel New Hampshire [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Joely Richardson
  • Beau Bridges
  • Seth Green
  • Wallace Shawn
  • Tony Richardson
  • Jodie Foster
Release date: 2006-09-25
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

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Review Lighthouse DVD Distribution / Desperate Housewife - The Early Years [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Marcia Cross
  • Polly Draper
  • Joshua Beckett
Release date: 2006-09-25
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.99

Review Desperate Housewife - The Early Years [2005] / Lighthouse DVD Distribution:


Review Columbia TriStar / In the Company of Men [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Emily Cline
  • Neil LaBute
  • Aaron Eckhart
  • Matt Malloy
  • Jason Dixie
  • Stacy Edwards
Release date: 1998-03-17
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £11.28

Review In the Company of Men [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Fox Lorber / My Night At Maud's [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Léonide Kogan
  • Eric Rohmer
  • Françoise Fabian
  • Antoine Vitez
  • Marie-Christine Barrault
  • Jean-Louis Trintignant
Release date: 1998-01-14
Run time: 110 min.
Price: £5.23

Review My Night At Maud's [1969] / Fox Lorber:

French director Eric Rohmer, former critic and Cahiers du Cinema editor, created a very special romantic film series around the difficult choices men make when they fall in love with two women, called "Six Moral Tales. " My Night at Maud's was the third entry and it was so well received in 1969 that it gave Rohmer international prominence. To this day, it remains Rohmer's masterpiece, a brilliantly insightful and sublime meditation on adult indiscretions. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a chaste engineer who thinks he has met his soul mate in church (Marie-Christine Barrault), yet winds up accidentally spending the night with the seductive Maud (Francoise Fabian), who is more his intellectual equal. Filmed in stark black and white by Nestor Almendros, this is one of those rare films in which questions about philosophy translate into unexpected answers about the heart. It's slow and methodical but well worth the experience. -Bill Desowitz.

Review MGM / Home for the Holidays [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anne Bancroft
  • Jodie Foster
  • Charles Durning
  • Dylan McDermott
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Holly Hunter
Release date: 2001-09-04
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £4.79

Review Home for the Holidays [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Paramount / It's a Wonderful Life [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Anderson
  • Stanley Andrews
  • Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
  • Frank Albertson
  • Lionel Barrymore
Release date: 2007-11-13
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Dimitri Tiomkin
Price: £9.57

Review It's a Wonderful Life [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming-in the teary-eyed final reel-his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to weave a special magic. -Robert Horton.

Review Universal Studios / Private School [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fran Ryan
  • Matthew Modine
  • Michael Zorek
  • Phoebe Cates
  • Betsy Russell
  • Noel Black
Release date: 2007-03-06
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £4.40

Review Private School [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Millivres Multimedia / Homo Promo [1993]
Release date: 2006-03-06
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.73

Review Homo Promo [1993] / Millivres Multimedia:


Review Image Entertainment / The Cat and the Canary [1927]
Actors & Directors
  • Forrest Stanley
  • Gertrude Astor
  • Paul Leni
  • Tully Marshall
  • Creighton Hale
  • Laura La Plante
Release date: 2005-02-01
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £7.91

Review The Cat and the Canary [1927] / Image Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / The Bucket List [Blu-ray] [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Morgan Freeman
  • Sean Hayes
  • Rob Reiner
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Beverly Todd
Release date: 2008-07-07
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £27.99
Price: £12.99

Review The Bucket List [Blu-ray] [2008] / Warner Home Video:

"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you," says the quietly wise Carter Chambers, played with gravitas and grace by a Morgan Freeman. In Rob Reiner's moving, often hilarious film The Bucket List, all sorts of people measure themselves against the two heroes, Chambers and his hospital suitemate, Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson). But as Cole finds, having spent his entire life building a Fortune 500 company, none of that much matters when cancer, the great equalizer, pays a visit. The film traces the adventures of the two unlikely friends, who meet in a hospital cancer ward, each given six months to live. The "bucket list" of the title refers to a lifelong list of goals that a teacher of Chambers once advised him to compile-and achieve-"before you kick the bucket. " Soon the two are off on what may be the last grand adventure of their life, vowing to tick off as many goals (skydiving, race-car driving, seeing the wonders of the world) as they can in the time they have left. What starts as a medical melodrama becomes a road trip, yet the men's mortality realities are never far from thought. The two leads give impressive performances, and remind the viewer of just how few American films focus on the lives and loves of senior citizens. Nicholson even manages to lose his persona in his character, much as he did in About Schmidt. There's a lovely John Mayer tune, "Say (What You Need to Say)", that's perfectly matched to the film's clear-eyed view of life: What does one person leave behind as his true legacy? -A. [+]
T. Hurley Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Anna Neagle Collection
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Neagle
  • Herbert Wilcox
  • Dean Jagger
  • John McCallum
  • Rex Harrison
  • Michael Wilding
Release date: 2008-01-07
Run time: 580 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £25.18

Review The Anna Neagle Collection / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
Delirious [2006], Dazed and Confused [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mon Pere Ce Heros [1997], Children of Heaven [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pieces Of April [2004], Forget Paris [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Martin Chuzzlewit [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Itty Bitty Titty Committee [2007], Chaos Theory [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Hotel New Hampshire [1984], Desperate Housewife - The Early Years [2005], In the Company of Men [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), My Night At Maud's [1969], Home for the Holidays [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), It's a Wonderful Life [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Private School [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Homo Promo [1993], The Cat and the Canary [1927], The Bucket List [Blu-ray] [2008], The Anna Neagle Collection

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