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Review Columbia TriStar / Matt Helm Lounge [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Phil Karlson
  • Ann-Margret
  • Senta Berger
  • Dean Martin
  • Henry Levin
  • Janice Rule
  • Stella Stevens
Release date: 2005-12-06
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: William P. McGivern
Price: £13.51

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Review 20th Century Fox / Wonderfalls: The Complete Viewer Collection [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-02-01
Run time: 570 min.
Creator: Todd Holland
Price: £20.40

Review Wonderfalls: The Complete Viewer Collection [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / She's Having A Baby [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Kevin Bacon
  • Elizabeth McGovern
  • Holland Taylor
  • John Hughes
  • William Windom
Release date: 2002-11-04
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Ronald Colby
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.94

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Review Warner Home Video / The World According to Garp [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hume Cronyn
  • Glenn Close
  • Mary Beth Hurt
  • George Roy Hill
  • Robin Williams
  • John Lithgow
Release date: 2001-04-03
Run time: 136 min.
Creator: Robert L. Crawford
Price: £5.32

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Review Peccadillo Pictures / Poltergay [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Lavaine
  • Julie Depardieu
  • Clovis Corillac
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.36

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Review Entertainment in Video / Storytelling [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Wisdom
  • Leo Fitzpatrick
  • Todd Solondz
  • James Van Der Beek
  • Selma Blair
  • Maria Thayer
Release date: 2002-06-24
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Ted Hope
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.85

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Review C'est La Vie / Tatie Danielle [ English subtitles ] [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Tsilla Chelton
  • André Wilms
  • Étienne Chatiliez
  • Catherine Jacob
Release date: 2005-04-11
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.84

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Review Yash Raj Films / Kal Ho Naa Ho [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Preity Zinta
  • Shahrukh Khan
  • Saif Ali Khan
  • Sushma Seth
  • Jaya Bachchan
Release date: 2004-02-09
Run time: 187 min.
RRP: £21.99
Price: £5.49

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Review UMBRELLA / The Idiots [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Bodil Jørgensen
  • Anne Louise Hassing
  • Jens Albinus
  • Lars von Trier
  • Nikolaj Lie Kaas
  • Troels Lyby
Release date: 2005-03-18
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Svend Abrahamsen
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.54

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Review Prism Leisure Corporation / Oh Marbella!
Actors & Directors
  • Craig Kelly
  • Tom Bell
  • Piers Ashworth
  • Lara Belmont
  • Rik Mayall
  • Mike Reid
Release date: 2006-05-22
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Nick Moorcroft
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / Igby Goes Down [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Kieran Culkin
  • Jared Harris
  • Susan Sarandon
  • Jeff Goldblum
  • Burr Steers
  • Claire Danes
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Marco Weber
RRP: £19.99
Price: £0.93

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Blow Dry [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Natasha Richardson
  • Josh Hartnett
  • Alan Rickman
  • Rachel Griffiths
  • Paddy Breathnach
  • Rachael Leigh Cook
Release date: 2006-06-15
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Simon Beaufoy
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.33

Review Blow Dry [2001] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Despite a gifted Anglo-American cast, Blow Dry strikes an uneasy balance between sentiment and camp. It aims for the same sort of high-wire act that Strictly Ballroom and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert pulled off so effortlessly, but melodrama wins the day. The comic moments are suitably over the top (as expected in a film about duelling hairdressers), but rarely as amusing as intended. The relationships between barbershop owner Phil (Alan Rickman), ex-wife Shelley (Natasha Richardson) and Sandra (Rachel Griffiths), "the other woman", could be more fully developed but are affecting nonetheless. The setting is West Yorkshire. The event that brings them together is the British National Hairdressing Championships. Phil initially resists the urge to compete as it reminds him of the success he and Shelley once enjoyed, but his son Brian (Josh Hartnett) convinces him to give it a go. Hartnett and Rachael Leigh Cook (She's All That), as the daughter of Phil's old nemesis, seem like peculiar casting choices for a British film, but Hartnett's accent is passable (Cook plays an American) and they don't embarrass themselves as much as supermodel Heidi Klum, who plays a tacky, two-timing hair model. The screenplay is by Simon Beaufoy of Full Monty fame. Although not up to that standard-and certainly no match for Shampoo (the greatest hairdressing movie of all time)-Blow Dry is still a good showcase for the talents of its three leads. [+]
-Kathleen C Fennessy On The DVD: Blow Dry's on disc anamorphic 1. 85:1 widescreen transfer holds a great spectrum or colour. A film about hairdressing needs to faithfully recreate the lavish, over-the-top barnets in all their glorious Technicolor detail and luckily the result is a rich and detailed film with excellent colour saturation throughout. In terms of extras, the film is pretty much left to speak for itself. A blink and you'll miss it "making of" documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew and an eclectic collection of trailers for such other comedies as She's All That and Muriel's Wedding are all that you get to while away the post feature presentation minutes. -Kristen Bowditch.

Review R. W. Paul / R. W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908
Release date: 2006-11-27
Run time: 147 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.99

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Hey Arnold(The Movie) Dvd [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Olivia Hack
  • Cullen Blaine
  • Phillip Van Dyke
  • Spencer Klein
  • Craig Bartlett
  • Francesca Smith
  • Toran Caudell
Release date: 2003-07-07
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Jonathan Rosenthal
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.39

Review Hey Arnold(The Movie) Dvd [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Adapted from the popular Nickelodeon show, Hey Arnold! continues the adventures of the blithely cheerful, football-headed Arnold (voice by Spencer Klein) on the big screen. When corrupt developer Schek (Paul Sorvino) threatens to buy the run-down urban neighbourhood where Arnold lives, he and his best friend Gerald (Jamil Smith) rally the neighbours to keep their homes from being turned into a mega-mall. After their peaceful efforts fail, they turn to espionage in a spoof of Men in Black and other action films. Hey Arnold! suffers from the same difficulty as many theatrical features spawned from TV cartoons: the characters have to solve a problem that's too big. The James Bond-style gadgetry and car chases don't fit into the slightly skewed vision of fourth-grade life that made the series popular. The limited animation and awkward designs will work better in the video release. -Charles Solomon.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Secrets & Lies [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Claire Rushbrook
  • Marianne Jean-Baptiste
  • Mike Leigh
  • Timothy Spall
  • Brenda Blethyn
  • Phyllis Logan
Release date: 2001-08-16
Run time: 136 min.
Creator: Simon Channing Williams
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99

Review Secrets & Lies [1996] / 2 Entertain Video:

If a film fan had never heard of director Mike Leigh, one might explain him as a British Woody Allen. Not that Leigh's films are whimsical or neurotic; they are tough-love examinations of British life-funny, outlandish and biting. His films share a real immediacy with Allen's work: they feel as if they are happening now. Leigh works with actors-real actors-on ideas and language. There is no script at the start (and sometimes not at the end). Secrets and Lies involves Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), an elegant black woman wanting to learn her birth mother's identity. She will find it's Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), who is one of the saddest creatures we've seen in film. She's also one of the most real and, ultimately, one of the most loveable. Timothy Spall is Cynthia's brother, a giant man full of love who is being slowly defeated by his fastidious wife (Phyllis Logan). There is a great exuberance of life in Secrets & Lies, winner of the Palme D'Or and best actress (Blethyn) at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival-not Zorba-type life but the little battles fought and won every day. [+]
Leigh's honest interpretation of daily life is usually found only on the stage. Secrets & Lies is more realistic than a stage production, however, especially when Leigh shows us uninterrupted scenes. Critic David Denby states that Leigh has "made an Ingmar Bergman film without an instant of heaviness or pretension. " If that sounds like your cup of tea, see Secrets & Lies. -Doug Thomas.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Three Men And A Baby [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Guttenberg
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • Margaret Colin
  • Ted Danson
  • Nancy Travis
  • Tom Selleck
Release date: 2006-06-15
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Jim Cruickshank
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.27

Review Three Men And A Baby [1987] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Not nearly as good as the original French comedy upon which it is based, Three Men and a Baby is nevertheless decent brain candy directed with some crackle by Leonard Nimoy. Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson star as three swinging bachelor roommates who find a baby girl on their doorstep-the daughter of Danson's character (who doesn't know about her) by a woman (Nancy Travis) with whom he had a brief fling. The jokes about dirty diapers and feeding schedules are predictable, but the film gains real warmth from Selleck, who does a convincing job playing a man whose life is changed for the better by added responsibility. A distracting subplot involving some bad guys threatens to derail everything, and the ending is a bit unconvincing as filmed, but the virtues of this film finally win out over its weaknesses. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Cold Feet Series 5 [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • John Thomson
  • Helen Baxendale
  • Robert Bathurst
  • Paul Kousoulides
  • Ciaran Donnelly
  • James Nesbitt
  • Hermione Norris
Release date: 2003-03-24
Run time: 292 min.
Creator: Mike Bullen
RRP: £24.99
Price: £4.77

Review Cold Feet Series 5 [1997] / 2 Entertain Video:

The irresistible wit, comedy and drama we have come to expect from Cold Feet is again obvious in Series 5, but the lives of the ensemble of friends have changed almost beyond recognition. Adam (James Nesbitt) and Rachel (Helen Baxendale) are preoccupied with baby son Matthew, the stable Marsden family has disbanded and fall-guy Pete looks to have found true love at last. It seems wholly appropriate that Cold Feet should end at this juncture and it's all the more fitting that the show is given such a first-class send off. That's not to say that everything is conveniently tidied up in the final episode, nor that the series has run its course to the point of becoming dull. There's still much to enjoy in this fifth series, a triumph of scriptwriting, acting and production values that stands on a level with anything from the previous episodes, or indeed with anything else on television. Simply put, it's the astonishing twist in the tale that singles this series out as the right place to stop. Cold Feet devotees will be hard pushed to hold back the tears in what is an emotional rollercoaster ride. It's all the more credible for the way it's presented: there's no over-the-top dramatics, no over-long sentimentality and no over-acting to speak of. Writer Mike Bullen insists he penned his best script for the final episode of the final series. Few would disagree, for the conclusion soars above the inevitable difficulties in ending this long-running comedy-drama to deliver a highly memorable finale. [+]
Frankly it's impossible to imagine how this unique show could have ended any better. -David Thwaites.

Review Warner Home Video / Local Hero [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Chancer
  • Bill Forsyth
  • Denis Lawson
  • Peter Riegert
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Fulton Mackay
Release date: 1999-09-21
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Iain Smith
Price: £3.34

Review Local Hero [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Long before The Full Monty there was this lovely fish-out-of-water comedy by deft Scots writer-director Bill Forsyth (Gregory's Girl). Set in the 1980s during a period of controversy over North Sea oil drilling, Local Hero follows a likeable, woolly American junior executive (Peter Riegert) dispatched from Texas by his blustering boss (a high-spirited Burt Lancaster) to a small fishing village on the coast of Scotland for the purpose of swindling the presumably simple-minded locals out of their drilling rights. The surprise isn't that the villagers turn the tables on the American schemers, but that they do so without displaying a hint of malice. They get a kick out of flummoxing the city slickers. Even Lancaster's greed-head Felix Happer eventually has a change of heart. In outline, this may sound more ordinary than it feels as you're watching it. The fine young British actor Denis Lawson, who had a tiny role as one of the fighter pilots in Star Wars plays Riegert's UK contact, Gordon Urquhart, a sad sack with a noble soul. -David Chute.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Sex And The City : Complete HBO Season 1
Actors & Directors
  • Kristin Davis
  • Cynthia Nixon
  • Kim Cattrall
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
Release date: 2005-07-11
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £14.32

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Review Playback / Moonlighting [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • James Karen
  • Robert Ellenstein
  • Robert Butler
  • Cybill Shepherd
  • Bruce Willis
  • Allyce Beasley
Release date: 2001-10-01
Run time: 178 min.
Creator: Michael Scheff
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.65

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Matt Helm Lounge [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wonderfalls: The Complete Viewer Collection [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), She's Having A Baby [1988], The World According to Garp [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Poltergay [2005], Storytelling [2001], Tatie Danielle [ English subtitles ] [1991], Kal Ho Naa Ho [2003], The Idiots [1999], Oh Marbella!, Igby Goes Down [2003], Blow Dry [2001], R. W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908, Hey Arnold(The Movie) Dvd [1996], Secrets & Lies [1996], Three Men And A Baby [1987], Cold Feet Series 5 [1997], Local Hero [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sex And The City : Complete HBO Season 1, Moonlighting [1985]

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