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Review Warner Home Video / Alice Adams [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Evelyn Venable
  • Fred MacMurray
  • Frank Albertson
  • Fred Stone
  • George Stevens
Release date: 2003-01-07
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Booth Tarkington
Price: £8.77

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Review Universal Studios / Easy [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Alvim
  • Jane Weinstock
  • Naveen Andrews
  • Marguerite Moreau
  • Vincent Angell
  • Nelson Aspen
Release date: 2005-03-01
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Olivia Harris
Price: £2.62

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


Review Whe Europe Limited / The Amazing Adventure [1937]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Gawthorne
  • Henry Kendall
  • Cary Grant
  • Leon M. Lion
  • Mary Brian
  • Alfred Zeisler
Release date: 2004-01-26
Run time: 62 min.
Creator: John L. Balderston
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.95

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Review Entertainment in Video / Living Out Loud [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Holly Hunter
  • Martin Donovan
  • Danny DeVito
  • Richard Schiff
  • Richard LaGravenese
  • Queen Latifah
Release date: 1999-10-11
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Stacey Sher
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.75

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Review Image Entertainment / Gentlemen of Fortune [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Natalya Fateyeva
  • Georgi Vitsin
  • Evgeni Leonov
  • Saveli Kramarov
  • Aleksandr Seryj
  • Radner Muratov
Release date: 2002-12-10
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Viktoriya Tokareva
Price: £13.98

Review Gentlemen of Fortune [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Lionsgate / Weeds: Season 2 [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mary-Louise Parker
  • Craig Zisk
  • Tucker Gates
  • Kevin Nealon
  • Hunter Parrish
  • Bryan Gordon
  • Chris Long
  • Elizabeth Perkins
  • Alexander Gould
  • Lev L. Spiro
Release date: 2007-07-24
Run time: 283 min.
Creator: Jenji Kohan
Price: £15.42

Review Weeds: Season 2 [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Universal Studios / Cry-Baby [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Johnny Depp
  • Amy Locane
  • John Waters
  • Polly Bergen
  • Ricki Lake
  • Susan Tyrrell
Release date: 2005-07-12
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Jim Abrahams
Price: £8.13

Review Cry-Baby [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review ITV DVD / Caesar And Cleopatra [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Stewart Granger
  • Gabriel Pascal
  • Claude Rains
  • Flora Robson
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Francis L. Sullivan
Release date: 2002-05-13
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.30

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Claire's Knee [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Rohmer
  • Laurence de Monaghan
  • Jean-Claude Brialy
  • Michèle Montel
  • Aurora Cornu
  • Béatrice Romand
Release date: 2002-10-28
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Pierre Cottrell
RRP: £19.99
Price: £33.48

Review Claire's Knee [1970] / Optimum Home Entertainment:

Eric Rohmer's Claire's Knee is one of his series of "Moral Tales", though it deals delicately with areas of intense moral ambiguity rather than in any obvious certainty. Jerome, a man holidaying at the very end of his youth, allows his old friend Aurora to co-opt him in her experiments with the hearts of two teenage girls. Sensitive gawky Laura fixates on him, but knows enough to realise he is dangerous to her, whereas Claire, for whom he develops a vague obsession, largely ignores him as a sexual being. He develops elaborate theories in justification of what he does and says, and the film does not dismiss these theories, while allowing for the possibility that Jerome is nothing but a manipulative self-deceived letch. This is a movie with a delicate visual palette; Nestor Almendros' elegiac camera work constantly makes clear that for all the characters this is a summer vacation with consequences. It is also a conversation piece in which almost nothing happens-the most Jerome ever allows himself is to stroke Claire's knee-and the interesting thing is how all the intense talk and extended scenes of one-to-one dialogue make that quite enough to sustain our fascinated interest. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Image Entertainment / Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (Broadway Theatre Archive) [1975] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George Ede
  • David Clennon
  • Blythe Danner
  • Lee Grant
  • John Desmond
  • Olympia Dukakis
Release date: 2002-02-05
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Stark Young
Price: £24.31

Review Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (Broadway Theatre Archive) [1975] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Films Sans Frontiers / Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Actors & Directors
  • Russ Meyer
  • Sue Bernard
  • Haji
  • Lori Williams
  • Stuart Lancaster
  • Tura Satana
Release date: 2002-03-03
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Jack Moran
RRP: £13.74
Price: £22.99

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Love Actually / Bridget Jones's Diary / Notting Hill [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Roger Michell
  • Hugh Grant
  • Martine McCutcheon
  • Laura Linney
  • Richard Curtis
  • Julia Roberts
  • Liam Neeson
  • Sharon Maguire
Release date: 2004-11-22
Creator: Helen Fielding
RRP: £32.99
Price: £17.49

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Review Columbia TriStar / Respiro [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Emanuele Crialese
  • Filippo Pucillo
  • Francesco Casisa
  • Veronica D'Agostino
  • Valeria Golino
  • Vincenzo Amato
Release date: 2003-10-21
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Domenico Procacci
Price: £27.45

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Review 4 Front Video / About A Boy [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Madison Cook
  • Chris Weitz
  • Nicholas Hoult
  • Sharon Small
  • Jordan Cook
  • Paul Weitz
  • Hugh Grant
Release date: 2004-02-09
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01

Review About A Boy [2002] / 4 Front Video:

The film version of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy takes a deeper though no less entertaining approach than the easy laughs of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity. The "coming together" of idle playboy Will (Hugh Grant) and put-upon loner Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) is a revealing tale of self-understanding and role reversal. Will finds that being yourself is of little consequence without a defining human context, while Marcus finds that pleasing others counts for little without a degree of self-confidence. How they arrive at this complementary awareness is the intriguing subject matter of the film, involving well-meaning single mothers, difficult adolescents and helpless older adults. Yet there's a wider significance to all this in the guise of human stereotypes-how we fall into them and how we can try to get out of them. The film's wit and amusement comes down to deft and understated directing from Chris and Paul Weitz, and a snappily crafted screenplay from Peter Hedges and the Weitz brothers. Grant clips his hair as well as his vowels for a believable and ultimately sympathetic Will-by far his best performance since Four Weddings and a Funeral. As Marcus, Hoult is convincingly self-dependent, but could have been even more self-absorbed. Toni Colette is a dead-ringer for the well-meaning but ineffectual hippie mother Fiona, while Rachel Weisz gives her best screen performance to date as the attractive and vulnerable Rachel, with whom Will comes of age emotionally. Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack will delight those who enjoy his brand of reconstituted 1970s Dylan; the title track has a wistful charm and there's a gem of an instrumental in the "Countdown" sequence. [+]
About a Boy is in the best traditions of British comedy: enlightening as it amuses, it's a film to enjoy and come back to. -Richard Whitehouse.

Review Acorn Media / Oliver's Travels [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Miles Anderson
  • Giles Foster
  • John Arthur
  • Alan Bates
  • Bill Paterson
  • Sinéad Cusack
Release date: 2005-03-01
Run time: 245 min.
Creator: Alan Plater
Price: £16.75

Review Oliver's Travels [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review Bandai / Gurren Lagann, Pt. 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yukari Fukui
  • Hiroshi Iketomi
  • Kana Asumi
  • Nobuyuki Hiyama
  • Ayumu Kotake
  • Kouzou Douzaka
  • Hiroaki Tomita
  • Tesshô Genda
  • Hiroshi Kurimoto
  • Akitoshi Yokoyama
Release date: 2008-11-18
Run time: 25 min.
Price: £25.10

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Review Direct Source / Baby of the Bride [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Bixby
  • Bonnie Burroughs
  • L. Scott Caldwell
  • Clyde Kusatsu
  • Anne Bobby
  • David Doty
Release date: 2006-09-26
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Jay Gruska
Price: £25.90

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Review Kino / Waxworks [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Olga Belajeff
  • William Dieterle
  • Emil Jannings
  • Paul Leni
  • Conrad Veidt
  • Werner Krauss
  • Leo Birinsky
Release date: 2002-09-24
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Henrik Galeen
Price: £7.65

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Review Koch Lorber Films / 301/302: A Film By Chul-Soo Park [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eun-jin Bang
  • Sin-Hye Hwang
  • Cheol-su Park
Release date: 2005-01-11
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Suh-Goon Lee
Price: £5.62

Review 301/302: A Film By Chul-Soo Park [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Koch Lorber Films:


Review Warner Vision International / Sex And The City - Series 1 [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
Release date: 2002-02-11
Run time: 296 min.
Creator: Darren Star
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.50

Review Sex And The City - Series 1 [1999] / Warner Vision International:

A series that's as much about one as the other, the wonderfully funny, touching and utterly genuine Sex and the City dares to portray real adults in a thoroughly realistic environment. Filmed in and around the streets of Manhattan, the show brings New York life-and specifically singles life-alive as no other has done before. Like its HBO stablemate The Sopranos, this is TV for grown-ups: frank and non-patronising, dizzyingly well written and devastatingly accurate in its characterisations. Sarah Jessica Parker plays Carrie Bradshaw, Manhattan's "sexual anthropologist" whose weekly newspaper column gives the series its title. Kristen Davis, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon are her acerbic, cynical, thirtysomething singleton pals: gossip, sex, men, shoes, shopping, sex, designer clothes, fashion and sex dominate their affluent yet incomprehensibly empty lifestyles as they move from swanky restaurant opening to night club to art exhibition in the relentless pursuit of fulfilment and validation. Conspicuously, the men in their lives-from "toxic bachelors" to "modelisers" and beyond-fail to provide either, leaving the women to pick up the pieces after each shattered relationship. Adapted from Candace Bushnell's bestseller, in the first season Carrie embarks on her long and tortuous liaison with "Mr Big" and watches wryly as her pals seek solace with various members of the male sex, electric appliances and even, disastrously yet briefly, celibacy. On the DVD: Fortunately, 12 outstanding episodes are their own selling point here, since the presentation of these two discs leaves something to be desired. Although Region 2 encoded, inexcusably the broadcast format is American NTSC not PAL, so if you don't have a reasonably modern TV you'll have trouble playing the discs in the first place; there's a tiny promo feature and teaser trailers, plus cast biographies and synopses that pop up at the beginning of every episode. The interface lacks a "Play All" facility, forcing you to skip back and forth from the main menu after each episode. [+]
Add to that some pretty nasty packaging and this set won't win any prizes for presentation. But the shows themselves are a constant delight: anyone who's ever dated or been dumped should own this set. -Mark Walker.

Models & Brands:
Alice Adams [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Easy [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Amazing Adventure [1937], Living Out Loud [1998], Gentlemen of Fortune [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Weeds: Season 2 [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cry-Baby [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Caesar And Cleopatra [1946], Claire's Knee [1970], Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (Broadway Theatre Archive) [1975] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Love Actually / Bridget Jones's Diary / Notting Hill [1999], Respiro [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), About A Boy [2002], Oliver's Travels [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gurren Lagann, Pt. 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Baby of the Bride [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Waxworks [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 301/302: A Film By Chul-Soo Park [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sex And The City - Series 1 [1999]

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