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Review Fox / Elsa and Fred ( Elsa y Fred )
Actors & Directors
  • Manuel Alexandre
  • China Zorrilla
  • Marcos Carnevale
  • Blanca Portillo
  • José Ángel Egido
  • Omar Muñoz
Release date: 2006-07-05
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Marcela Guerty
RRP: £13.99
Price: £18.99

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Review Acorn Media / Tales of the City [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marcus D'Amico
  • Chloe Webb
  • Olympia Dukakis
  • Laura Linney
  • Donald Moffat
  • Alastair Reid
Release date: 2003-02-25
Run time: 300 min.
Creator: Richard Kramer
Price: £22.38

Review Tales of the City [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review Image / Men Cry in the Dark [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Williams
  • Allen Payne
  • Richard Roundtree
  • Je'Caryous Johnson
  • Rhona Bennett
Release date: 2007-02-13
Run time: 140 min.
Creator: Norris Burse
Price: £6.83

Review Men Cry in the Dark [2006] / Image:


Review Icon Home Entertainment / Duets [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Paltrow
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Lochlyn Munro
  • Paul Giamatti
  • Andre Braugher
  • Huey Lewis
Release date: 2001-05-14
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Lee R. Mayes
RRP: £13.99
Price: £12.50

Review Duets [2000] / Icon Home Entertainment:

Karaoke is a way for average people to get on stage and sing cover songs; in Duets, it's also a money sport. No, really. As with other bar sports (pool, darts), the karaoke-for-money game is rife with hustlers. One such hustler is Ricky Dean (Huey Lewis), who takes time off the karaoke circuit to attend the funeral of his ex-wife, where he meets his estranged daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow) and can't shake her desire to go on the road with him. The other hustler is Suzi Loomis (Maria Bello), a woman who literally prostitutes herself to get from gig to gig, until she meets up with a kind-hearted cabby (Scott Speedman). Then there's Todd Woods (Paul Giamatti), who gets so fed up with his sales job and being ignored at home that he hits the road, moving from karaoke bar to karaoke bar in a voyage of self-discovery. Along the way he picks up Reggie Kane (Andre Braugher), an escaped felon with a voice like an angel. All three couples end up in Omaha for the $5,000 karaoke finals. Chock-full of bad writing and bad direction, the movie inspires a perverse fascination. Braugher and Giamatti chew up the scenery at every opportunity, but most interesting is the father-daughter incest subtext (compounded by the fact that the movie is directed by Gwyneth's dad, Bruce Paltrow). [+]
Eeeeesh. -Andy Spletzer, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Music Operations / Mozart - The Magic Flute [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Edita Gruberova
  • Lucia Popp
  • Peter Windgassen
  • Francisco Araiza
  • Jan-Hendrik Rootering
  • Kurt Moll
Release date: 2005-11-14
Run time: 160 min.
Creator: Emanuel Schikaneder
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.92

Review Mozart - The Magic Flute [1983] / Universal Music Operations:


Review Universal Studios / The Starter Wife [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Debra Messing
  • Judy Davis
  • Gigi Edgley
  • Bethany Whitmore
  • Trilby Glover
Release date: 2007-09-11
Run time: 276 min.
Creator: Marsha Oglesby
Price: £13.03

Review The Starter Wife [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Warner Home Video / My Dream Is Yours [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Carson
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Eve Arden
  • Doris Day
  • Lee Bowman
  • Friz Freleng
  • Adolphe Menjou
Release date: 2007-04-10
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Jerry Wald
Price: £9.16

Review My Dream Is Yours [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Umbrella Entertainment / A Feast at Midnight
Actors & Directors
  • Aled Roberts
  • Robert Hardy
  • Andrew Lusher
  • Christopher Lee
  • Justin Hardy
  • Freddie Findlay
Release date: 2006-06-05
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Yoshi Nishio
RRP: £13.99
Price: £2.95

Review A Feast at Midnight / Umbrella Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Video / Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey/Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Waite
  • David R. Ellis
  • Duwayne Dunham
  • Don Alder
  • Ed Bernard
  • Michael J. Fox
  • Sally Field
Release date: 2008-02-10
Run time: 173 min.
Creator: Sheila Burnford
Price: £9.57

Review Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey/Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / Mississippi Masala [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mira Nair
  • Roshan Seth
  • Charles S. Dutton
  • Sharmila Tagore
  • Sarita Choudhury
  • Denzel Washington
Release date: 2003-05-27
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Michael Nozik
Price: £3.94

Review Mississippi Masala [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Acorn Media / Sleepers [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Geoffrey Sax
  • Warren Clarke
  • Michael Gough
  • Nigel Havers
  • David Calder
  • Joanna Kanska
Release date: 2007-03-27
Run time: 211 min.
Price: £16.74

Review Sleepers [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review Warner Home Video / Zero Effect [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Matt O'Toole
  • Jake Kasdan
  • Bill Pullman
  • Hugh Ross
  • Ryan O'Neal
  • Ben Stiller
Release date: 1998-07-14
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Greyboy Allstars
Price: £4.58

Review Zero Effect [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Beaches [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • John Heard
  • Garry Marshall
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Lainie Kazan
  • Bette Midler
  • Spalding Gray
Release date: 2003-02-03
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Mary Agnes Donoghue
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.45

Review Beaches [1988] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Garry Marshall's 1988 drama about a 30-year friendship between two women, one wealthy (Barbara Hershey) and the other (Bette Midler) seeking her fortune in show business, is well written (based on the novel by Iris Rainer Dart) and nicely textured in its contrast between the characters' separate destinies. When Hershey becomes ill with cancer, the film takes a predictably sentimental course, yet Marshall brings out the best in both actresses and catches some very fine drama. Beaches is a little too long, perhaps, but overall it is a fine experience. -Tom Keogh Director Garry Marshall's 1988 drama Beaches about the 30-year friendship between two women, one wealthy (Barbara Hershey) and the other (Bette Midler) seeking her fortune in show business, is well written (based on the novel by Iris Rainer Dart) and nicely textured in its contrast between the characters' separate destinies. When Hershey becomes ill with cancer, the film takes a predictably sentimental course, yet Marshall brings out the best in both actresses and catches some very fine drama. Beaches is a little too long, perhaps, but overall it is a fine experience. -Tom Keogh.

Review Warner Home Video / Gypsy [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Karl Malden
  • Paul Wallace
  • Rosalind Russell
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Natalie Wood
  • Betty Bruce
Release date: 2000-05-02
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Gypsy Rose Lee
Price: £6.01

Review Gypsy [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Live/Artisan / Suicide Kings [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Watson
  • Denis Leary
  • Nina Siemaszko
  • Sean Patrick Flanery
  • Christopher Walken
  • Peter O'Fallon
Release date: 2001-08-14
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Wayne Allan Rice
Price: £4.00

Review Suicide Kings [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:

Inspired script, great cast-what could be a better recipe for a true classic amid the soul-sapping morass of straight-to-tape? Storywise, Suicide Kings goes something like this: when wealthy straight-arrow college kid Max (Sean Patrick Flanery) learns his girlfriend has been kidnapped for a $2 million ransom, he panics big-time. Roping in his friends-T. K. (Jeremy Sisto); a strangely steely medical student named Brett (Jay Mohr from Go), a loud-mouthed ball of machismo; and Avery (Henry Thomas), the elder brother of the girl in peril-Max organises another kidnapping to raise the ransom, this time of neighbourhood ganglord Christopher Bartlett (Christopher Walken). Bartlett is understandably is rather piqued about the whole business, particularly when he's inadvertently shot while being spirited back to the summer home of the Ira (Johnny Galecki), another pal of Max's, much of whose time is spent fretting about his parents' soft furnishings. But the real intrigue has only just started. Much to his credit and the film's benefit, first-time director Peter O'Fallon avoids the Tarantino-like excesses of violence his storyline could have fallen back on. Instead, he summons up a blackly comic tone which veers masterfully between understated farce and noir-ish melodrama without once losing its footing. Remarkably, the maze of plot twists which could have capsized the entire project actually work, while the innumerable one-liners which pepper the script stay snappy and vital throughout. ("I'm not asking for dinner and dancing", remarks an avuncular Walken, having asked to be momentarily cut free to use the bathroom. [+]
"I'm not asking for commitment. "). But it's the uniformly astute performances which elevate Suicide Kings above the herd: Mohr and Thomas, in particular, are impressively supple, and it's a relief and a pleasure to see Walken giving a role his full attention even though he spends the majority of his screen time tied to a chair. -Danny Leigh.

Review Westlake Entertainment / Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Massey
  • Dan Ireland
  • Joan Plowright
  • Robert Lang (II)
  • Rupert Friend
  • Zoe Tapper
Release date: 2006-12-12
Run time: 108 min.
Price: £6.58

Review Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont [2005] / Westlake Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / The Courtship of Eddie's Father [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Vincente Minnelli
  • Ron Howard
  • Shirley Jones
  • Stella Stevens
  • Glenn Ford
  • Dina Merrill
Release date: 2003-05-13
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: John Gay
Price: £5.77

Review The Courtship of Eddie's Father [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox / Remington Steele: Season 2 [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Peters
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Alexander Singer
  • Karen Arthur
  • Don Weis
  • Christopher Hibler
  • Joel Polis
  • Doris Roberts
  • Stephanie Zimbalist
  • Barbara Cason
Release date: 2005-11-08
Run time: 1078 min.
Price: £19.72

Review Remington Steele: Season 2 [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Universal Pictures Video / Love Actually - Special Christmas Edition [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Liam Neeson
  • Richard Curtis
  • Hugh Grant
  • Bill Nighy
  • Laura Linney
  • Martine McCutcheon
Release date: 2004-11-08
Run time: 129 min.
Creator: Tim Bevan
Price: £17.99

Review Love Actually - Special Christmas Edition [2003] / Universal Pictures Video:

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 Momentum Pictures / Raising Victor Vargas [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Altagracia Guzman
  • Peter Sollett
  • Victor Rasuk
  • Judy Marte
  • Melonie Diaz
  • Silvestre Rasuk
Release date: 2004-04-05
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Eva Vives
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.97

Review Raising Victor Vargas [2003] / Momentum Pictures:


Models & Brands:
Elsa and Fred ( Elsa y Fred ), Tales of the City [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Men Cry in the Dark [2006], Duets [2000], Mozart - The Magic Flute [1983], The Starter Wife [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), My Dream Is Yours [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Feast at Midnight, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey/Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mississippi Masala [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sleepers [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Zero Effect [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Beaches [1988], Gypsy [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Suicide Kings [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont [2005], The Courtship of Eddie's Father [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Remington Steele: Season 2 [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Love Actually - Special Christmas Edition [2003], Raising Victor Vargas [2003]

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