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Review Touchstone / Disney / Popular: Season 1 [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Carly Pope
  • Sara Rue
  • David Petrarca
  • Brian Robbins
  • Leslie Bibb
  • Tamara Mello
  • Craig Zisk
  • Elodie Keene
  • Arvin Brown
  • Christopher Gorham
Release date: 2004-09-21
Run time: 900 min.
Price: £31.54

Review Popular: Season 1 [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Touchstone / Disney:


Review Cinema Club / Brassed Off [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Tompkinson
  • Jim Carter
  • Pete Postlethwaite
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Tara Fitzgerald
  • Mark Herman
Release date: 1999-09-06
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Steve Abbott
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

Review Brassed Off [1996] / Cinema Club:

Take The Full Monty, add a sharper emotional edge and replace the strutting strippers with a dignified British band. That's the essence of Brassed Off, a bittersweet gem released in 1996, a year before its more popular (and Oscar-nominated) counterpart. In the Yorkshire town of Grimley, there has always been a coal mine, just as for the last 111 years there has been a brass band and it seems that Danny (the wondrous Pete Postlethwaite) has been the director for every one of those years. Tory economic policies, however, are closing coal mines around the country in favour of nuclear power and Grimley appears to be next on the list. Danny is unfazed by the threat, claiming, "It's music that matters. " But some of the men are about to quit the band until the appearance of Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald at her most radiant), who dazzles the all-male group (including old flame Andy, played by Ewan McGregor) first with her beauty, then with her flügelhorn playing. The new member gives the band a boost as they continue to perform and compete but closure remains very real, as director Mark Herman (Little Voice) accompanies the band's performances (played with gusto by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band) with scenes of angry labour-management confrontations and family strife. In this context, some of the characters claim that the music is an irresponsible form of escapism. It becomes clear, however, from a touching performance of "Danny Boy" to the stirring conclusion at Royal Albert Hall, that music is an expression of the human spirit, a bit of beauty and sanity in a harsh world. With defiance, the band can play "Land of Hope andGlory" even when the land offers them neither. [+]
-David Horiuchi.

Review Universal Studios / No Man of Her Own [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George Barbier
  • Wallis Clark
  • Wesley Ruggles
  • Tommy Conlon
  • Clark Gable
  • Lionel Belmore
Release date: 2007-05-22
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Leo Tover
Price: £5.36

Review No Man of Her Own [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Ariztical / Hotel Room [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Xavier Domingo
  • Barbara Boudon
  • Cesc Gay
  • Danielo Gimelberg
  • David Jacob Ryder
  • Paris Kiely
  • Heidi Wolfe
Release date: 2005-03-08
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £9.85

Review Hotel Room [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ariztical:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Ring Of Bright Water [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Couffer
  • Virginia McKenna
  • Helena Gloag
  • Peter Jeffrey
  • Bill Travers
  • Jameson Clark
Release date: 2001-07-02
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Gavin Maxwell
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.49

Review Ring Of Bright Water [1969] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:

Coincidence throws Mij the otter and Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) the computer worker together on a busy London street in Ring of Bright Water. What transpires from this chance meeting is an epiphany that leads to the complete upheaval of Graham's life. Evicted from his city flat thanks to the antics of his newly acquired, mischievous otter, Graham embarks on a train journey to the Scottish Highlands. Suffice it to say that trying to smuggle Mij onboard as a "diving terrier" is not successful. When the pair finally arrives in Scotland, they fall in love with the countryside and a dilapidated cottage by the sea. Fate introduces Graham to the town's animal-loving doctor (Virginia McKenna), and an enduring friendship and romance are forged. The photography of both the Scottish Highlands and the antics of Mij the otter in this 1969 movie are truly wonderful-it might just make you reconsider your current digs and friendships. The story (based on Gavin Maxwell's book of the same name) is somewhat formulaic and dated by its romanticism, but enjoyable nonetheless. Slip into an ideal world of simple happiness and celebrate the cyclical nature of life, if only for 106 minutes. -Tami Horiuchi, Amazon. [+]
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Review Warner Home Video / Best Friends [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Audra Lindley
  • Goldie Hawn
  • Norman Jewison
  • Barnard Hughes
  • Burt Reynolds
  • Jessica Tandy
Release date: 2004-01-20
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Patrick J. Palmer
Price: £6.04

Review Best Friends [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Cinema Club / Girls' Night [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Margo Stanley
  • Julie Walters
  • Sue Cleaver
  • Brenda Blethyn
  • Meera Syal
  • Nick Hurran
Release date: 2000-10-02
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Kay Mellor
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.99

Review Girls' Night [1998] / Cinema Club:

The Girls' Night of the title refers to Friday night, the one time of escape from the daily grind for longstanding best friends and factory co-workers, Dawn and Jackie. And Friday night means bingo. One evening their dream comes true when Dawn (the cautious, caring one) scoops £100,000, but the savage twist in the tale is that even before she gets the cheque she discovers she has an inoperable brain tumour. Cue Jackie (the spontaneous, irresponsible one) fulfilling Dawn's lifetime ambition with a holiday in Las Vegas ("Come on, we've got an hour to get the plane"). And from then on it's a buddy movie with inescapable resonances of Thelma and Louise, though the difference here is that the protagonists are two ordinary middle-aged women. Brenda Blethyn and Julie Walters are a magical pairing, with both giving mesmerising moving performances (honorary mention should also be made of Cody, the one sympathetic male character in the film, magnificently played by Kris Kristofferson). Though death is ever-present, this is by no means a depressing movie; rather the opposite, in fact, with a remarkably upbeat ending. If there's a message to be found here, it's that even the most apparently ordinary people can be extraordinary given the right circumstances. On the DVD: As well as the original trailer, there is on-location feature.

Review Warner Home Video / Racing Stripes [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Frederik Du Chau
  • David Spade
  • Bruce Greenwood
  • Snoop Dogg
  • Hayden Panettiere
  • Frankie Muniz
Release date: 2005-05-10
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Steven P. Wegner
Price: £5.29

Review Racing Stripes [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Sony Bmg / Emmerdale - The Dingles Down Under - 25th Anniversary Special [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Tim Dowd
  • Alun Lewis
  • Lisa Riley
  • Steve Halliwell
  • Jane Cox
  • Paul Loughran
Release date: 2001-02-26
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Lou Wakefield
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.99

Review Emmerdale - The Dingles Down Under - 25th Anniversary Special [1997] / Sony Bmg:


Review Columbia TriStar / Sense and Sensibility [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ang Lee
  • Harriet Walter
  • Emma Thompson
  • James Fleet
  • Tom Wilkinson
  • Kate Winslet
Release date: 1999-08-24
Run time: 136 min.
Creator: Lindsay Doran
Price: £6.33

Review Sense and Sensibility [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with Sense and Sensibility, a marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood-the one with "sense"-she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister, Marianne (the one with "sensibility"). Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. All of this is doled out with the usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. The director, an inspired choice, is Taiwan-born Ang Lee, here making his first English-language film. He brings the same exquisite taste and discreet touch he displayed in his previous Asian films (such as Eat Drink Man Woman). Thompson's script won an Oscar. -Robert Horton.

Review Lionsgate / Dishdogz [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marshall Allman
  • Luke Perry
  • Haylie Duff
  • Ryan Sheckler
  • Mikey Hilb
  • Tony Alva
Release date: 2007-06-12
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Steven Sessions
Price: £6.12

Review Dishdogz [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Criterion / I Know Where I'm Going - Criterion Collection [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Wendy Hiller
  • Pamela Brown
  • George Carney
  • Michael Powell
  • Emeric Pressburger
  • Roger Livesey
  • Finlay Currie
Release date: 2001-02-27
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: George R. Busby
Price: £18.70

Review I Know Where I'm Going - Criterion Collection [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:

Having seen this 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger movie, Martin Scorcese (like Coppola, a huge fan of the duo) declared that after this, there were no more classics to be made in cinema. I Know Where I'm Going tells the story of Wendy Hiller's unromantic but determined young bride-to-be Joan Webster, setting forth to the Isle Of Mull to marry an elderly millionaire. However, on reaching Kiloran she's prevented by adverse weather from reaching the island and must bunk down in a hotel with naval lieutenant and, it transpires, penniless Laird Torquil McNeil (Roger Livesey). It's not hard to predict the outcome of this saga but getting there is a wonderful journey. Hiller, more famous for playing less pretty elders in later life in the likes of Murder On The Orient Express, is splendid as the softening pragmatist, while Livesey, frequently used by Powell/Pressburger, again embodies a combination of British no-nonsense decency and romanticism. The strongest, most magical presence in the movie, even in black and white, is that of the Scottish scenery, beautiful and volatile and somehow serving to aid and abet the happy ending. -David Stubbs.

Review Acorn Media / The Irish R.M.: Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Bowles
  • Brendan Conroy
  • Lise Ann McLaughlin
  • Bryan Murray
  • Anna Manahan
Release date: 2006-08-08
Run time: 945 min.
Creator: Barry Blackmore
Price: £32.90

Review The Irish R.M.: Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review Warner Home Video / Honkytonk Man [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Clint Eastwood
  • John McIntire
  • Alexa Kenin
  • Verna Bloom
  • Kyle Eastwood
Release date: 1997-06-23
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Clancy Carlile
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.95

Review Honkytonk Man [1982] / Warner Home Video:


Review Tartan Video / Golden Balls [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Maribel Verdú
  • Javier Bardem
  • Raquel Bianca
  • Maria de Medeiros
  • Bigas Luna
  • Elisa Tovati
Release date: 2000-12-27
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Cuca Canals
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.87

Review Golden Balls [1994] / Tartan Video:


Review Artificial Eye / Harry He's Here to Help [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Laurent Lucas
  • Mathilde Seigner
  • Dominik Moll
  • Liliane Rovère
  • Sophie Guillemin
  • Sergi López
Release date: 2001-05-21
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Gilles Marchand
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.67

Review Harry He's Here to Help [2000] / Artificial Eye:


Review Lionsgate / Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Tyler Perry
  • Margaret Avery
  • Frankie R. Faison
  • Angela Bassett
  • Jenifer Lewis
  • Irma P. Hall
Release date: 2008-07-01
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Aaron Zigman
Price: £28.89

Review Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import] / Lionsgate:


Review Ilc Prime / Dummy [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Adrien Brody
  • Illeana Douglas
  • Jessica Walter
  • Milla Jovovich
  • Greg Pritikin
  • Vera Farmiga
Release date: 2004-02-23
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Valerie Romer
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.10

Review Dummy [2003] / Ilc Prime:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Edward Scissorhands [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Kathy Baker
  • Dianne Wiest
  • Tim Burton
  • Johnny Depp
  • Anthony Michael Hall
  • Winona Ryder
Release date: 1999-10-04
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Richard Hashimoto
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.88

Review Edward Scissorhands [1991] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavour of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-coloured suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighbourhood-but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's child-like vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. [+]
Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. -Bret Fetzer On the DVD: Tim Burton is famed for his visual style not his ability as a raconteur, so it's no surprise to find that his directorial commentary is a little sparse. When he does open up it is to confirm that Edward Scissorhands remains his most personal and deeply felt project. The second audio commentary is by composer and regular Burton collaborator Danny Elfman, whose enchanting, balletic score gets an isolated music track all to itself with his remarks in-between cues. Again, for Elfman this movie remains one of his most cherished works, and it is a real musical treat to hear the entire score uninterrupted by dialogue and sound effects but illuminated by Elfman's lucid interstitial remarks. Also on the disc are some brief interview clips, a "making of" featurette and a gallery of conceptual artwork. The anamorphic widescreen print looks simply gorgeous. -Mark Walker.

Review 20th Century Fox / Find Me Guilty [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sidney Lumet
  • Ron Silver
  • Vin Diesel
  • Alex Rocco
  • Peter Dinklage
  • Frank Pietrangolare
Release date: 2006-06-27
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: T.J. Mancini
Price: £6.45

Review Find Me Guilty [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


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Popular: Season 1 [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Brassed Off [1996], No Man of Her Own [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hotel Room [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ring Of Bright Water [1969], Best Friends [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Girls' Night [1998], Racing Stripes [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Emmerdale - The Dingles Down Under - 25th Anniversary Special [1997], Sense and Sensibility [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dishdogz [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), I Know Where I'm Going - Criterion Collection [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Irish R.M.: Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC), Honkytonk Man [1982], Golden Balls [1994], Harry He's Here to Help [2000], Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import], Dummy [2003], Edward Scissorhands [1991], Find Me Guilty [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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