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Review MGM / Beach Party/Bikini Beach [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Harvey Lembeck
  • William Asher
  • Don Rickles
  • Frankie Avalon
  • Martha Hyer
  • Annette Funicello
Release date: 2005-02-15
Run time: 198 min.
Price: £5.16

Review Beach Party/Bikini Beach [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Touchstone / Disney / Good Morning, Vietnam [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Williams
  • Tung Thanh Tran
  • Chintara Sukapatana
  • Barry Levinson
  • Forest Whitaker
  • Bruno Kirby
Release date: 2006-01-17
Run time: 121 min.
Price: £3.90

Review Good Morning, Vietnam [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Touchstone / Disney:

Good Morning Vietnam is a more than usually human take on America's most controversial war, an often poignant and always entertaining fictionalisation of the Vietnam years of DJ Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams). Cronauer is employed as the voice of the US Armed Forces radio in South East Asia, but it soon emerges that his idea of entertaining the troops and the Army's are poles apart. This isn't a biopic-director Barry Levinson doesn't give any detail of Cronauer's life before Vietnam-instead it's about Cronauer discovering a better understanding of the war, the people and himself. Interspersed with the radio sequences is a gentle plot which follows Cronauer as he teaches English to some Vietnamese kids, falls for a local girl and narrowly misses being killed in a terrorist attack. However, it is the sheer frenetic genius of Williams' largely improvised radio monologues that account for the film's box office success. On the DVD: Good Morning Vietnam gets the special edition DVD with digitally remastered audio and picture. Extras include a couple of previews-both the theatrical and a teaser trailer-as well as a production diary which contains interviews with director Levinson, crew and the real Cronauer. But the best feature by far is the "Raw Monologues": introduced by Levinson, this featurette shows the process that Robin Williams went through to improvise the radio slots and is a valuable insight into the comedic talents of the film's star. -Kristen Bowditch.

Review Criterion / Mafioso [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alberto Sordi
  • Ugo Attanasio
  • Cinzia Bruno
  • Norma Bengell
  • Michele Bally
  • Alberto Lattuada
Release date: 2008-03-18
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Nino Baragli
Price: £11.42

Review Mafioso [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review Lions Gate / Hellcab [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Cusack
  • John Tintori
  • Moira Harris
  • Michael Ironside
  • Harry J. Lennix
  • Paul Dillon
Release date: 2005-03-15
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Page Hamilton
Price: £5.04

Review Hellcab [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review TLA Releasing / Bulgarian Lovers [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Roger Pera
  • Dritan Biba
  • Fernando Guillén Cuervo
  • Anita Sinkovic
  • Pepón Nieto
  • Eloy de la Iglesia
Release date: 2004-10-19
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £4.95

Review Bulgarian Lovers [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / TLA Releasing:


Review First Look Pictures / Preaching to the Perverted [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Bell
  • Christien Anholt
  • Julie Graham
  • Stuart Urban
  • Charlotte Weston
  • Guinevere Turner
Release date: 2003-10-21
Run time: 97 min.

Review Preaching to the Perverted [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / First Look Pictures:


Review Anchor Bay / Till Death Us Do Part [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Una Stubbs
  • Warren Mitchell
  • Norman Cohen
  • Anthony Booth
  • Dandy Nichols
  • Liam Redmond
Release date: 2003-07-08
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £7.69

Review Till Death Us Do Part [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review MGM / Pauline at the Beach [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Amanda Langlet
  • Arielle Dombasle
  • Eric Rohmer
  • Simon de La Brosse
  • Pascal Greggory
  • Féodor Atkine
Release date: 2003-03-04
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £4.40

Review Pauline at the Beach [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Caiman [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Jasmine Trinca
  • Margherita Buy
  • Silvio Orlando
  • Michele Placido
  • Elio De Capitani
  • Nanni Moretti
Release date: 2007-08-13
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.84

Review The Caiman [2006] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Cabin in the Sky [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rex Ingram
  • Vincente Minnelli
  • Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
  • Busby Berkeley
  • Lena Horne
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Ethel Waters
Release date: 2006-01-10
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £7.47

Review Cabin in the Sky [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

The first film directed by Vincente Minnelli (who directed the original Broadway version), this musical offers its pleasures but also may make you squirm at the racial stereotypes that were considered both acceptable and entertaining in 1943. A story of the struggle between good and evil for the soul of a man named Little Joe (Eddie "Rochester" Anderson), the film plays with the same kind of racial notions that made Stepin Fetchit a star. Still, there's much to recommend it, particularly performances by some of the greatest musical stars of the day: Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington, among others. The film also includes a terrific score, a combination effort by Ellington, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke and E Y Harburg that includes the song "Taking a Chance on Love. " -Marshall Fine.

Review Warner Home Video / Swing Shift [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ed Harris
  • Goldie Hawn
  • Fred Ward
  • Jonathan Demme
  • Christine Lahti
  • Kurt Russell
Release date: 2004-01-20
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £3.66

Review Swing Shift [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Artsmagic / The Bird People in China [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Li Li Wang
  • Tomohiko Okuda
  • Masahiro Motoki
  • Mako
  • Renji Ishibashi
  • Takashi Miike
Release date: 2004-11-16
Run time: 118 min.
Price: £8.56

Review The Bird People in China [1998] / Artsmagic:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Cold Feet - The Complete 3rd Series [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Mylod
  • Tim Sullivan (III)
  • Nigel Cole
  • Laurie Jenkins
  • Paul Kousoulides
  • Steve Edge (II)
  • Kimberley Joseph
  • Ciaran Donnelly (II)
  • Daniel O'Brien (III)
  • Liam O'Brien (II)
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 383 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.92

Review Cold Feet - The Complete 3rd Series [1997] / 2 Entertain Video:

Although its premise of three men, three women and their interconnected lives and loves may mark the show as a copy based on an American template, Cold Feet has slowly but surely developed into a masterpiece of its own. The third series delivers more of the same, but the script is so perfectly written and delivered that it feels like they could continue running with the same premise indefinitely and no one would mind. The performances are, as ever, sublime-particularly the trio of James Nesbitt, John Thomson and Fay Ripley-and the humour is relaxed and unhurried, leaving room for large amounts of drama. With this series seeing dramatic plot lines being developed for all six characters there is also a fair amount of suspense (the story of Rachel and Adam's wedding will have you on the edge of your seat) and the writers are in no rush to wrap things up, merely leaving you agog for the developments in Series Four. Newcomers to Cold Feet should not worry about joining the show late, as they will quickly fall into step with the ins and outs of this group of British friends. On the DVD: With eight episodes split over two discs, there is little room for any substantial extras. The scene selection process is clear and concise and there is a rather pointless photo gallery. The standard behind the scenes footage is brief but certainly entertaining, not least the material surrounding the cast's location shoot in Nesbitt's home town in Northern Ireland-including a memorable drunken ride in a police wagon. -Phil Udell.

Review Universal Studios / Bulletproof [HD DVD] [1996] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • James Farentino
  • Adam Sandler
  • Ernest R. Dickerson
  • Jeep Swenson
  • Damon Wayans
  • James Caan
Release date: 2007-06-26
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £6.75

Review Bulletproof [HD DVD] [1996] [US Import] / Universal Studios:

Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler actually work together pretty well as action-flick buddies on opposite sides of the law. The storyline is familiar, to put it mildly, as car-thief and drug-courier Sandler is set up and busted by Wayans' undercover cop, a man he's come to trust with his life. Dozens of movies, including Quentin Tarantino's great Reservoir Dogs, have tilled this fallow field before. But for once we can actually feel the bonds connecting the two tough guys, and the pain of their falling out, even when the movie dawdles over repetitious squabbling scenes. Cinematographer-turned-director Ernest Dickers.

Review Platinum Disc / Trouble in Paradise [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nicholas Hammond
  • Di Drew
  • Jack Thompson
  • Ralph Cotterill
  • Charles Little
  • John Gregg
Release date: 2005-09-13
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Chris Neal
Price: £2.23

Review Trouble in Paradise [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Review Momentum Pictures / Raising Victor Vargas [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Judy Marte
  • Victor Rasuk
  • Altagracia Guzman
  • Peter Sollett
  • Silvestre Rasuk
  • Melonie Diaz
Release date: 2004-04-05
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.00

Review Raising Victor Vargas [2003] / Momentum Pictures:


Review Umbrella / La Grande Bouffe [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Philippe Noiret
  • Florence Giorgetti
  • Marcello Mastroianni
  • Andréa Ferréol
  • Monique Chaumette
Release date: 2008-02-12
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Philippe Sarde
Price: £7.90

Review La Grande Bouffe [1973] / Umbrella:


Review Warner Home Video / Barcelona [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Eigeman
  • Taylor Nichols
  • Tushka Bergen
  • Whit Stillman
  • Mira Sorvino
  • Pep Munné
Release date: 2002-04-02
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £8.28

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

Writer and Director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco) offered up this poignant and cutting romantic 1990 comedy set in the magical southern Spanish metropolis, a city in the midst of a cultural and political upheaval. Taylor Nichols (Metropolitan) plays an American living in the Catalonian capital working for a stateside company who is visited by his unctuous cousin (Chris Eigeman), a naval attaché in Barcelona to spin a little public relations for the impending arrival of the fleet amidst some virulent left-wing, anti-American attitude. The two cousins are constantly at odds, arguing about everything from politics to women to their true feelings for one another and their constant self-examination. Largely the two men spend their time in search of romance abroad, as they humorously overanalyse the women they meet and what they want from a relationship, until fate takes a shocking turn and both men are forced to re-evaluate who they are and what they want out of life. Barcelona features a turn from Mira Sorvino (MightyAphrodite, Mimic) as a Spanish national working as a hostess, free with her sexuality and smitten with Eigeman. Stillman's writing is as crisp and observant as his striking visual take on the city and its people, both natives and expatriates. Barcelona is a terrific comedy of attitudes and culture clashes that manages to be offbeat, sardonic and unexpectedly wise. -Robert Lane.

Review Columbia TriStar / SLC Punk [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Merendino
  • Michael A. Goorjian
  • Christopher McDonald
  • Kevin Breznahan
  • James Duval
  • Annabeth Gish
Release date: 1999-10-19
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Melanie Miller
Price: £5.20

Review SLC Punk [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Acorn Media / The Student Prince [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robson Green
  • Tara Fitzgerald
  • Gavin Richards
  • Terence Rigby
  • Peter Lovstrom
  • Simon Curtis
Release date: 2005-05-10
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £8.55

Review The Student Prince [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Models & Brands:
Beach Party/Bikini Beach [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Good Morning, Vietnam [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mafioso [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hellcab [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bulgarian Lovers [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Preaching to the Perverted [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Till Death Us Do Part [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pauline at the Beach [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Caiman [2006], Cabin in the Sky [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Swing Shift [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Bird People in China [1998], Cold Feet - The Complete 3rd Series [1997], Bulletproof [HD DVD] [1996] [US Import], Trouble in Paradise [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Raising Victor Vargas [2003], La Grande Bouffe [1973], Barcelona [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), SLC Punk [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Student Prince [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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