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Review Universal Studios / How to Make an American Quilt [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Nelligan
  • Alfre Woodard
  • Jocelyn Moorhouse
  • Anne Bancroft
  • Winona Ryder
  • Ellen Burstyn
Release date: 1999-02-23
Run time: 117 min.
Price: £2.82

Review How to Make an American Quilt [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Universal Studios / Love Actually [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Bovell
  • Sheila Allen
  • Alan Barnes
  • Rowan Atkinson
  • Colin Firth
Release date: 2004-04-27
Run time: 135 min.
Creator: Craig Armstrong
Price: £3.98

Review Love Actually [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the London Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: he just wants to be loved, and he'll go to absurdly appealing lengths to win our affection. With Love Actually, Curtis orchestrates a minor miracle of romantic choreography, guiding a brilliant cast of stars and newcomers as they careen toward love and holiday cheer in London, among them the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who's smitten with his caterer (Martine McCutcheon); a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer (Colin Firth) who falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother (Emma Thompson) coping with her potentially unfaithful husband (Alan Rickman); and a lovelorn American (Laura Linney) who's desperately attracted to a colleague. There's more-too much more-as Curtis wraps his Christmas gift with enough happy endings to sweeten a dozen other movies. That he pulls it off so entertainingly is undeniably impressive; that he does it so shamelessly suggests that his writing fares better with other, less ingratiating directors. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Prism Leisure / Secret Lives Of Dentists
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Rudolph
  • Campbell Scott
  • Hope Davis
  • Denis Leary
Release date: 2007-03-19
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.63

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Partners [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robyn Douglass
  • John Hurt
  • Ryan O'Neal
  • Denise Galik
  • Jennifer Ashley
Release date: 2008-07-01
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £4.94

Review Partners [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount / Nobody's Fool [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Melanie Griffith
  • Dylan Walsh
  • Bruce Willis
  • Jessica Tandy
  • Robert Benton
  • Paul Newman
Release date: 2003-09-09
Run time: 110 min.
Price: £55.95

Review Nobody's Fool [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Whe Europe Limited / Il Bidone [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Basehart
  • Broderick Crawford
  • Franco Fabrizi
  • Sue Ellen Blake
  • Federico Fellini
  • Giulietta Masina
Release date: 2004-03-22
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.01

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Review Parasol Pictures Releasing / You'll Get Over It [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Fabrice Cazeneuve
  • Julia Maraval
  • François Comar
  • Julien Baumgartner
  • Patrick Bonnel
  • Jérémie Elkaïm
Release date: 2004-03-01
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.95

Review You'll Get Over It [2003] / Parasol Pictures Releasing:


Review Miramax / Chasing Amy [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ben Affleck
  • Dwight Ewell
  • Kevin Smith
  • Kevin Smith
  • Joey Lauren Adams
  • Matt Damon
Release date: 2000-06-13
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: David Klein
Price: £7.36

Review Chasing Amy [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:

Writer-director Kevin Smith (Clerks) makes a huge leap in sophistication with this strong story about a comic-book artist (Ben Affleck) who falls in love with a lesbian (Joey Lauren Adams) and actually gets his wish that she love him, too. Their relationship is attacked, however, by his business partner (Jason Lee), who pulls a very unsubtle Iago act to cast doubt over the whole affair. The film has the same sense of insiderness as Clerks-this time, Smith takes us within the arcane, funny world of comic-book cultism-but the themes of jealousy, deceit and the high price of growing up enough to truly care for someone make this a very satisfying movie. -Tom Keogh.

Review Miramax / All I Wanna Do [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Tom Guiry
  • Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kirsten Dunst
  • Lynn Redgrave
  • Sarah Kernochan
Release date: 2000-06-13
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £8.99

Review All I Wanna Do [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review ITV DVD / The Peter Sellers Triple - Never Let Go/Soft Beds, Hard Battles/The Wrong Arm Of The Law [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Bernard Cribbins
  • Cliff Owen
  • Curt Jurgens
  • Roy Boulting
  • Jenny Hanley
  • Peter Sellers
  • Nanette Newman
  • John Guillermin
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 269 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.74

Review The Peter Sellers Triple - Never Let Go/Soft Beds, Hard Battles/The Wrong Arm Of The Law [1960] / ITV DVD:


Review First Look Pictures / Local Boys [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Dale
  • Archie Kao
  • Jeremy Sumpter
  • Ron Moler
  • Eric Christian Olsen
  • Mark Harmon
Release date: 2003-07-15
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £3.15

Review Local Boys [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / First Look Pictures:


Review 20th Century Fox / Next Stop, Greenwich Village [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Shelley Winters
  • Lenny Baker
  • Ellen Greene
  • Christopher Walken
  • Lois Smith
  • Paul Mazursky
Release date: 2005-12-13
Run time: 111 min.
Price: £3.08

Review Next Stop, Greenwich Village [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Legacy Entertainment / Francesco [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Helena Bonham Carter
  • Peter Berling
  • Mario Adorf
  • Paolo Bonacelli
  • Andréa Ferréol
Release date: 2005-03-01
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Vangelis
Price: £4.62

Review Francesco [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Legacy Entertainment:


Review Water Bearer Films / A Midsummer Night's Dream [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Holm
  • Michael Jayston
  • Donald Eccles
  • Derek Godfrey
  • Judi Dench
Release date: 2005-03-10
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Guy Woolfenden
Price: £10.00

Review A Midsummer Night's Dream [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Water Bearer Films:


Review Henstooth Video / Sooner or Later [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lilia Skala
  • Judd Hirsch
  • Barbara Feldon
  • Bruce Hart
  • Rex Smith
  • Denise Miller
Release date: 2001-03-13
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £10.81

Review Sooner or Later [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Henstooth Video:


Review Artificial Eye / Divine Intervention [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Elia Suleiman
  • Nayef Fahoum Daher
  • Manal Khader
  • Elia Suleiman
Release date: 2003-05-26
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.57

Review Divine Intervention [2002] / Artificial Eye:


Review Alliance Canada / Trailer Park Boys: Season 5 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robb Wells
Release date: 2007-09-25
Run time: 231 min.
Price: £13.85

Review Trailer Park Boys: Season 5 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alliance Canada:


Review HBO Home Video / Sex and the City Essentials: Mr. Big [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2006-02-07
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Kristin Davis
Price: £2.22

Review Sex and the City Essentials: Mr. Big [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / HBO Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Blu-ray] [1975] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • William Redfield
  • Louise Fletcher
  • Milos Forman
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Peter Brocco
  • Michael Berryman
Release date: 2008-07-15
Run time: 133 min.
Price: £15.55

Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Blu-ray] [1975] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:

One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasised the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority, as personified by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system-and it works on every level. Forman populates his film with memorably eccentric faces, and gets such freshly detailed and spontaneous work from his ensemble that the picture sometimes feels like a documentary. Unlike a lot of films pitched at the "youth culture" of the 1970s, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest really hasn't dated a bit, because the qualities of human nature that Forman captures-playfulness, courage, inspiration, pride, stubbornness-are universal and timeless. The film swept the Academy Awards for 1976, winning in all the major categories (picture, director, actor, actress, screenplay) for the first time since Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in 1931. -Jim Emerson A big Oscar winner in 1975, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest still holds up remarkably well. Ken Kesey's novel, an allegory of repression and rebellion set in a mental hospital in the early 1960s, is cannily adapted by Czech director Milos Forman into a comedy drama with a cool, unassuming, near-documentary look. Jack Nicholson has his most jacknicholsonian role as Randle P McMurphy, a livewire troublemaker who unwisely cons his way out of prison and into a mental institution without realising he has switched from serving a sentence with a release date to being committed until adjudged sane by the same people he is winding up on a daily basis. Louise Fletcher, in a career-defining turn, is Nurse Ratched, the soft-spoken sadist who represents the worst type of matronly authoritarianism and clashes with Randle all down the line. [+]
Taking another look at the picture after all these years, it's a surprise that all the unknown actors who seemed like real mental patients have graduated to becoming prolific character actor stars: Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, Brad Dourif, the late Will Sampson, Sidney Lassick, Michael Berryman. Unlike many Best Picture Oscar winners, this deals with profound subject matter without seeming self-important: Forman's approach and all-round great acting make it play as a small character story as well as a Big Statement about the human condition. Full marks also for Jack Nitzsche's musical saw-based score. On the DVD: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes to DVD in a two-disc special edition with a great-looking anamorphic 1. 85:1 print and 5. 1 Dolby Digital soundtrack, plus tracks in French and Italian and optional subtitles in half a dozen languages. Disc 2 has the trailer, about 13 minutes of deleted scenes (mostly from the first third of the film, and all pretty good) and a making-of retrospective documentary with interesting material from producers Michael Douglas (who inherited the rights from Kirk) and Saul Zaentz, Forman, screenwriter Bo Goldman and many cast-members (though not Nicholson). There's also a commentary track by Forman, Douglas and others which repeats a few things from the documentary but also goes into more scene-specific detail about the development and shooting. -Kim Newman.

Review Echo Bridge Home Entertainment / What I Did for Love [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Griffiths
  • James Lashly
  • James Gammon
  • Sally Struthers
  • Jeremy London
  • Steve Monroe
Release date: 2007-12-18
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Jennifer Jean Cacavas
Price: £1.72

Review What I Did for Love [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment:


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How to Make an American Quilt [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Love Actually [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Secret Lives Of Dentists, Partners [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nobody's Fool [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Il Bidone [1955], You'll Get Over It [2003], Chasing Amy [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), All I Wanna Do [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Peter Sellers Triple - Never Let Go/Soft Beds, Hard Battles/The Wrong Arm Of The Law [1960], Local Boys [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Next Stop, Greenwich Village [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Francesco [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Midsummer Night's Dream [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sooner or Later [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Divine Intervention [2002], Trailer Park Boys: Season 5 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sex and the City Essentials: Mr. Big [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Blu-ray] [1975] [US Import], What I Did for Love [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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