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Review Universal Pictures UK / Monk Seasons 1-6
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Shalhoub
  • Ted Levine
  • Traylor Howard
  • Jason Gray-Stanford
  • Stanley Kamel
Release date: 2008-10-13
Run time: 3883 min.
RRP: £54.99
Price: £39.98

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Review Cinema Club / Entertaining Mr Sloane [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Beryl Reid
  • Harry Andrews
  • Alan Webb
  • Douglas Hickox
  • Peter McEnery
Release date: 2005-06-20
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.48

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Review Entertainment in Video / Don Juan De Marco [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Leven
  • Johnny Depp
  • Marlon Brando
  • Faye Dunaway
  • Géraldine Pailhas
  • Bob Dishy
Release date: 2001-12-17
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.58

Review Don Juan De Marco [1995] / Entertainment in Video:

You might not get a thrill from the sight of Faye Dunaway and Marlon Brando throwing popcorn into each other's mouths, but that didn't stop this movie from gaining a new lease on life thanks to cable television and home video. It's a quirky romantic comedy about a mental patient (Johnny Depp) who claims to be Don Juan, the world's greatest lover, and he gets quite a few women to believe it's true. Brando plays the psychiatrist who tries to analyze his patient's apparent delusion, and Dunaway plays Brando's wife, who wants to inject some Don Juan-ish romance into their marital routine. Walking a fine line between precious comedy, wistful drama, and delicate fantasy, the movie gets a big dose of charm from its esteemed cast, with Depp delivering dialogue that would have sounded ludicrous from a lesser actor. Don Juan DeMarco may not be a great movie, but it is guaranteed to put you in an amorous mood. -Jeff Shannon.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Ally McBeal - Season 5 (M-Lock Packaging)
Actors & Directors
  • Calista Flockhart
  • Peter MacNicol
  • Greg Germann
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 875 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.98

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Review Warner Home Video / The Women [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Boland
  • Joan Crawford
  • George Cukor
  • Norma Shearer
  • Rosalind Russell
  • Paulette Goddard
Release date: 2005-06-14
Run time: 133 min.
Price: £7.43

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Nanny Diaries [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Giamatti
  • Chris Evans
  • Shari Springer Berman
  • Scarlett Johansson
  • Laura Linney
  • Alicia Keys
  • Robert Pulcini
Release date: 2008-02-18
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.00

Review The Nanny Diaries [2007] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Based on the best-selling book of the same name, the film version of The Nanny Diaries is a chick flick, but it lacks the witty tone of the novel, which took time to flesh out the characters. The tone is set early on when the narrator notes, "In Africa they have the saying: 'It takes a village to raise a child. ' But for the tribe of the Upper Eastside of Manhattan, it takes just one person: the nanny. " Recent college graduate Annie Braddock (a brunette Scarlett Johansson) becomes the nanny for Mr. and Mrs. X, a narcissistic and selfish couple who have no clue that what their precocious son Grayer really needs is a mum and a dad who will pay attention to him. At first, Annie can't believe her good fortune. Caring for Grayer a few hours each day in the X's luxurious apartment seems like a dream job. But as her job turns into a 24/7 nightmare, she loses her identity and becomes Nanny. Annie's attempts to befriend her oddly charismatic boss are met with rebuffs by Mrs. [+]
X (Laura Linney). When Annie mentions her home life, Mrs. X is stunned. "Nanny, you never mentioned you had a mother," she says, as if she expected that nannies were shot out of giant pods. Despite the film's flaws, Linney is a standout. Like Meryl Streep, who made an unlikeable character sympathetic in The Devils Wears Prada, Linney brings humour to her role. Unfortunately, Paul Giamatti (as the philandering Mr. X) and singer Alicia Keys (as Annie's best friend Lynette) are wasted in their thankless roles. While we are meant to feel sorry for Annie, we are left wondering why a beautiful and educated young woman would allow herself to be manipulated into working ridiculous hours for less than minimum-wage pay. When Annie finally does stand up to her employers, it's a little too late. For everyone. -Jae-Ha Kim.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Northern Exposure - Season 6 - Complete [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Teri Polo
  • Joshua Brand
  • Rob Morrow
  • Paul Provenza
  • Janine Turner
  • Barry Corbin
Release date: 2007-06-25
Run time: 1018 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £17.97

Review Northern Exposure - Season 6 - Complete [1994] / Universal Pictures UK:

And so, the sun sets on Cicely, Alaska. While Northern Exposure somewhat jumped the moose in its last season, there are enough characteristically "weird, almost surreal" moments to make season 6 a nice place to revisit. The auspicious season opener, "Dinner at Seven Thirty," is a typically disarming and disorienting quirk fest that recasts the characters in a parallel New York universe. Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) is married to a high society (and high maintenance) Shelly (Cynthia Geary), Maggie (Janine Turner) is their au pair, Ed (Darrin E. Burrows) is an Armani clad corporate raider, Holling (John Cullum) is a Piano Man, Ruth-Anne (Peg Phillips) is the leader of an internal medicine group, Chris (John Corbett) is an inarticulate fashion photographer, and Maurice (Barry Corbin) is the luxury-highrise doorman. "I'd rather practice medicine in some hick rural outback than stay here another minute," Joel rebels, returning things to what passes for normal in Cicely. Another early gem is "The Robe," with guest star Charles Martin Smith (American Graffiti) as no less than the Devil who tries to corrupt Shelly. But then the series goes off the beaten path. Joel, following a bumpy courtship with Maggie, goes "Up River" to live in a remote fishing village (His final episode is the bittersweet, "The Quest," in which he departs for good for his "jeweled city"). [+]
Enter new doctor Phillip Capra (Paul Provenza) and his journalist wife, Michelle (Teri Polo), brie-eating yuppies from Los Angeles. Northern Exposure remained a fish-out-of-water comedy, but these two characters are as bland as tilapia. Though not nearly the hard cases that a resistant Joel was, they, too, succumb to Cicely's charms, and by series' end, Michelle is having hallucinatory forest chats with Joel's former New York rabbi. Happily, the rest of the characters are still good company. Between Ruth-Anne and trapper Walt (Moultrie Patten) and Maurice (Corbin) and Officer Barbara Semanski (Diane Delano), love really blossoms this season. But as Iris Dement sings in the heartbreaking lament, "Our Town," which ends this series on a lovely grace note (and is one of the few originally broadcast songs to survive the transition to DVD), "Nothing good ever lasts. " Northern Exposure lasted six seasons, which is good enough. To paraphrase a postcard Joel sends to Maggie in "The Quest," Cicely is a state of mind, and thanks to DVD, there is no need to "kiss it goodbye. " -Donald Liebenson.

Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / High Hopes [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Philip Davis
  • Mike Leigh
  • Heather Tobias
  • Edna Doré
  • Ruth Sheen
  • Philip Jackson (II)
Release date: 2007-09-03
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.80

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Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Charlie Bubbles
Actors & Directors
  • Liza Minnelli
  • Albert Finney
  • Albert Finney
  • Billie Whitelaw
Release date: 2008-09-15
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.97

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Review Uca / Layer Cake/Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Statham
  • Matthew Vaughn
  • Daniel Craig
  • Nick Moran
  • Vinnie Jones
  • Brad Pitt
  • Guy Ritchie
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 310 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.56

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Review Lionsgate / Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Louis Gossett Jr.
  • Idris Elba
  • Gabrielle Union
  • Tracee Ellis Ross
  • Tyler Perry
  • Tasha Smith
Release date: 2007-06-12
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £5.04

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The King Of Comedy [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Tony Randall
  • Martin Scorsese
  • Robert De Niro
  • Diahnne Abbott
  • Sandra Bernhard
Release date: 2004-04-19
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.89

Review The King Of Comedy [1982] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The King of Comedy, which flopped at the box office, is actually a gem waiting to be rediscovered. Like A Face in the Crowd (a not-so-distant cousin to this film), Network, and The Truman Show, its target is show business-specifically the burning desire to become famous or be near the famous, no matter what. Robert De Niro plays the emotionally unstable, horrendously untalented Rupert Pupkin, a wannabe Vegas-style comedian. His fantasies are egged-on by Marsha, a talk-show groupie (brilliantly played by Sandra Bernhard) who hatches a devious, sure-to-backfire plan. Jerry Lewis is terrific in the straight role as the Johnny Carson-like talk-show host Jerry Langford. De Niro's performance as the obsessive Pupkin is among his finest (which is saying a lot) and he never tries to make the character likable in any way. Because there's no hero and no-one to root for, and because at times the film insists we get a little too close and personal with Pupkin, some will be put off. Yet it's one of Scorsese's most original and fascinating films, giving viewers much to consider on the subject of celebrity. Its inevitable climax is clever and quietly horrific. -Christopher J Jarmick.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Antonio Banderas
  • Carmen Maura
  • Pedro Almodóvar
Release date: 2006-12-04
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.45

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Breakfast Club - 2 Disc Special Edition [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Emilio Estevez
  • Ally Sheedy
  • Molly Ringwald
  • Anthony Michael Hall
  • John Hughes
  • Judd Nelson
Release date: 2008-09-22
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.97

Review The Breakfast Club - 2 Disc Special Edition [1985] / Universal Pictures UK:

John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students-a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)-sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. Hughes (Sixteen Candles), who wrote and directed, is heavy on dialogue but he also thoughtfully refreshes the look of the film every few minutes with different settings and original viewpoints on action. The movie deals with such fundamentals as the human tendency toward bias and hurting the weak, and because the characters are caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood, it's easy to get emotionally involved in hope for their redemption. Preteen and teenage kids love this film, incidentally. -Tom Keogh.

Review Icon Home Entertainment / Bright Young Things [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Guy Henry
  • Stephen Fry
  • Stephen Campbell Moore
  • John Mills
  • Peter O'Toole
Release date: 2007-11-19
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.06

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Review Northern Exposure / Northern Exposure Complete - All The Seasons [1990]
Release date: 2007-10-08
Run time: 4889 min.
RRP: £129.99
Price: £65.49

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Review Universal Pictures UK / John Hughes High School Year Book - Weird Science/Sixteen Candles/The Breakfast Club [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Ilan Mitchell-Smith
  • Anthony Michael Hall
  • Kelly Le Brock
  • John Hughes
  • Judd Nelson
  • Ally Sheedy
Release date: 2008-09-22
Run time: 272 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.62

Review John Hughes High School Year Book - Weird Science/Sixteen Candles/The Breakfast Club [1984] / Universal Pictures UK:

The Breakfast Club John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students-a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)-sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. Hughes (Sixteen Candles), who wrote and directed, is heavy on dialogue but he also thoughtfully refreshes the look of the film every few minutes with different settings and original viewpoints on action. The movie deals with such fundamentals as the human tendency toward bias and hurting the weak, and because the characters are caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood, it's easy to get emotionally involved in hope for their redemption. Preteen and teenage kids love this film, incidentally. The DVD release includes production notes, cast and crew bios, widescreen presentation, Dolby sound, closed captioning, optional French and Spanish soundtracks, and optional Spanish subtitles. -Tom Keogh Weird Science Yes, that is Bill Paxton as Ilan Mitchell-Smith's militaristic big brother. And that's Robert Downey Jr. as one of the in-crowd jerks who makes nerds Mitchell-Smith and Hall's lives miserable. Fortunately, this is a John Hughes comedy and our smart nerds create the perfect woman, Lisa (Kelly LeBrock), using a computer and voodoo. [+]
Lisa is a willing sex toy, has magical powers, and just wants to help the boys get even and meet nice babes. She even cleans up. The fantasy ebullience of Hughes is given full rein here and that's good and bad (mostly good). It's all aimed at a certain kind of hormone-addled, 16-year-old sensibility; but who doesn't have a little bit of that in them? -Keith Simanton Sixteen Candles Molly Ringwald established herself as the teen queen of the '80s in this fresh comedy. The movie is a day in the life of Samantha, whose 16th birthday is turning out to be anything but sweet. All the traumas of teendom come down on one long day, which sees Samantha surrounded by dithery relatives, mooning over a high school hunk, and pursued by a sawed-off Lothario. Sixteen Candles marked the directing debut of John Hughes, and its goofy energy displayed a promising talent with a great ear for high school lingo. a promise neglected since Hughes became, after Home Alone, a one-man entertainment industry. There are some pretty crass moments (Why the stereotype of the foreign-exchange student from Asia?), but Ringwald's steady appeal smoothes over the rough spots. As the pubescent, self-styled lady-killer, Anthony Michael Hall turns in a hilarious portrait of a young swinger; he and Ringwald would reteam with Hughes for The Breakfast Club, another key teen picture of the decade. -Robert Horton.

Review Lions Gate / Diary of a Mad Black Woman: the Movie [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tamara Taylor
  • Darren Grant (II)
  • Lisa Marcos
  • Steve Harris
  • Kimberly Elise
  • Shemar Moore
Release date: 2007-05-07
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.04

Review Diary of a Mad Black Woman: the Movie [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Player [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Busey
  • Robert Altman
  • Elliott Gould
  • Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Cher
  • Tim Robbins
Release date: 2008-02-04
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.90

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Review MGM Entertainment / Billy Wilder Collection - Vol. 2 - The Apartment/The Seven Year Itch/Witness For The Prosecution/The Fortune Cookie/The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
Actors & Directors
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Fred MacMurray
  • Christopher Lee
  • Jack Lemmon
  • Shirley Maclaine
  • Billy Wilder
Release date: 2007-01-22
Run time: 574 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £13.94

Review Billy Wilder Collection - Vol. 2 - The Apartment/The Seven Year Itch/Witness For The Prosecution/The Fortune Cookie/The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes / MGM Entertainment:


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Monk Seasons 1-6, Entertaining Mr Sloane [1969], Don Juan De Marco [1995], Ally McBeal - Season 5 (M-Lock Packaging), The Women [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Nanny Diaries [2007], Northern Exposure - Season 6 - Complete [1994], High Hopes [1988], Charlie Bubbles, Layer Cake/Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The King Of Comedy [1982], Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown [1985], The Breakfast Club - 2 Disc Special Edition [1985], Bright Young Things [2003], Northern Exposure Complete - All The Seasons [1990], John Hughes High School Year Book - Weird Science/Sixteen Candles/The Breakfast Club [1984], Diary of a Mad Black Woman: the Movie [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Player [1992], Billy Wilder Collection - Vol. 2 - The Apartment/The Seven Year Itch/Witness For The Prosecution/The Fortune Cookie/The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes

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