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Review Universal Pictures Video / Three Spike Lee Joints - Clockers, Do the Right Thing [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Annabella Sciorra
  • Ossie Davis
  • Wesley Snipes
  • Danny Aiello
  • Ruby Dee
  • Spike Lee
Release date: 2003-07-07
Creator: Rosalie Swedlin
RRP: £29.99
Price: £10.95

Review Three Spike Lee Joints - Clockers, Do the Right Thing [1996] / Universal Pictures Video:

Spike Lee's incendiary look at race relations in America, circa 1989, is so colourful and exuberant for its first three-quarters that you can almost forget the terrible confrontation that the movie inexorably builds toward. Do the Right Thing is a joyful, tumultuous masterpiece-maybe the best film ever made about race in America, revealing racial prejudices and stereotypes in all their guises and demonstrating how a deadly riot can erupt out of a series of small misunderstandings. Set on one block in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the summer, the movie shows the whole spectrum of life in this neighbourhood and then leaves it up to us to decide if, in the end, anybody actually does the "right thing. " Featuring Danny Aiello as Sal, the pizza parlour owner; Lee himself as Mookie, the lazy pizza-delivery guy; John Turturro and Richard Edson as Sal's sons; Lee's sister Joie as Mookie's sister Jade; Rosie Perez as Mookie's girlfriend Tina; Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee as the block elders, Da Mayor and Mother Sister; Giancarlo Esposito as Mookie's hot-headed friend Buggin' Out; Bill Nunn as the boom-box toting Radio Raheem; and Samuel L Jackson as DJ Mister Señor Love Daddy. This is a rich and nuanced film to watch, treasure and learn from-over and over again. -Jim Emerson.

Review 20th Century Fox / Pretty Poison [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dick O'Neill
  • Tuesday Weld
  • John Randolph
  • Anthony Perkins
  • Beverly Garland
  • Noel Black
Release date: 2006-09-05
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £6.28

Review Pretty Poison [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Miramax / Chocolat [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Judi Dench
  • Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Lasse Hallström
  • Antonio Gil
  • Alfred Molina
  • Juliette Binoche
Release date: 2001-08-07
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Robert Nelson Jacobs
Price: £4.71

Review Chocolat [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:

Chocolat is an enchanting, moving and heart-warming tale of love and temptation, a big-budget movie with its roots in European art house cinema. Magical and almost fairytale-like in theme, it's the story of the mysterious Vianne and her arrival in a quiet, old-fashioned French town at the end of the 1950s. Gradually her attitude to life and the delicacies that she prepares in her chocolate shop have a marked effect on the local people, bound as they are by the twin forces of religion and politics. Juliette Binoche is perfect in the role of the sensuous, captivating Vianne-a masterstroke of casting matched by the performance of Judi Dench as the splendidly grumpy but ultimately inspiring matriarch Armande. Very much an ensemble piece, the whole cast are indeed excellent, with Johnny Depp (making a fair fist of an Irish accent) superb as the drifter Roux, the one man capable of unlocking Vianne's own desires. From its majestic opening swoop to the final, joyous scene, Lasse Hallström's film, based on the bestselling novel, is nothing short of a masterpiece. On the DVD: As befits such a film, the DVD is an elegant, well thought out package. The movie itself is a visual feast, a combination of a beautiful setting, rich, opulent colours and textures and a mystical atmosphere. There's a range of documentary features examining the style of the film and its background, as well as an audio commentary and some excellent scenes deleted from the final cut. More in-depth notes are to be found in the accompanying booklet and the whole thing adds up to one of the most satisfying DVD releases in a long time. [+]
In one of the accompanying documentaries, Depp wonders if it is possible to create art through cinema. It may be a difficult task, but Chocolat is proof that it can be done. -Phil Udell.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Kinninmont
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Timothy Ackroyd
  • Royce Mills
  • Sarah Berger
  • Annabel Leventon
Release date: 2000-10-02
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Keith Waterhouse
Price: £14.99

Review Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell [1999] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review In 2 Film / Green Butchers [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Aksel Erhardtsen
  • Line Kruse
  • Nikolaj Lie Kaas
  • Nicolas Bro
  • Mads Mikkelsen
  • Anders Thomas Jensen
Release date: 2007-04-30
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.39

Review Green Butchers [2007] / In 2 Film:


Review Granada Media / Cold Feet - The Complete 2nd Series [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Ciaran Donnelly
  • Paul Kousoulides
  • James Nesbitt
  • Hermione Norris
  • Robert Bathurst
  • John Thomson
  • Helen Baxendale
Release date: 2000-04-10
Run time: 290 min.
Creator: Mike Bullen
RRP: £16.99
Price: £15.95

Review Cold Feet - The Complete 2nd Series [1997] / Granada Media:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Sandlot Kids
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Renna
  • Mike Vitar
  • David M. Evans
  • Chauncey Leopardi
  • Marty York
  • Tom Guiry
Release date: 1995-08-14
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Robert Gunter
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.60

Review The Sandlot Kids / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Video / Jump In [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Keke Palmer
  • Laivan Greene
  • Shanica Knowles
  • David Reivers
  • Paul Hoen
  • Corbin Bleu
Release date: 2007-04-03
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Regina Y. Hicks
Price: £8.95

Review Jump In [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Hilltop Hospital - Heart Trouble At Hilltop And Other Stories [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Emma Deschandol
  • Hervé Caradec
  • Pascal Le Nôtre
  • Bernard Bouillon
  • Philippe Bozo
  • Patrice Baudrier
Release date: 2000-09-25
Run time: 51 min.
Creator: Wayne Spencer
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.09

Review Hilltop Hospital - Heart Trouble At Hilltop And Other Stories [1999] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Barcelona [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mira Sorvino
  • Tushka Bergen
  • Whit Stillman
  • Taylor Nichols
  • Pep Munné
  • Chris Eigeman
Release date: 2002-04-02
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Jordi Tusell
Price: £9.74

Review Barcelona [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Writer and Director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco) offered up this poignant and cutting romantic 1990 comedy set in the magical southern Spanish metropolis, a city in the midst of a cultural and political upheaval. Taylor Nichols (Metropolitan) plays an American living in the Catalonian capital working for a stateside company who is visited by his unctuous cousin (Chris Eigeman), a naval attaché in Barcelona to spin a little public relations for the impending arrival of the fleet amidst some virulent left-wing, anti-American attitude. The two cousins are constantly at odds, arguing about everything from politics to women to their true feelings for one another and their constant self-examination. Largely the two men spend their time in search of romance abroad, as they humorously overanalyse the women they meet and what they want from a relationship, until fate takes a shocking turn and both men are forced to re-evaluate who they are and what they want out of life. Barcelona features a turn from Mira Sorvino (MightyAphrodite, Mimic) as a Spanish national working as a hostess, free with her sexuality and smitten with Eigeman. Stillman's writing is as crisp and observant as his striking visual take on the city and its people, both natives and expatriates. Barcelona is a terrific comedy of attitudes and culture clashes that manages to be offbeat, sardonic and unexpectedly wise. -Robert Lane.

Review Prism Leisure / Births, Marriages And Deaths [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Winstone
  • Philip Davis
  • Michelle Fairley
  • Maggie O'Neill
  • Adrian Shergold
  • Mark Strong
Release date: 2003-07-28
Run time: 224 min.
Creator: Tony Grounds
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review Births, Marriages And Deaths [1999] / Prism Leisure:


Review Eros International / Hum Aapke Hain Koun [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Renuka Shahane
  • Sooraj R. Barjatya
  • Salman Khan
  • Madhuri Dixit
  • Anupam Kher
  • Mohnish Bahl
Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 185 min.
Creator: Rajkumar Barjatya
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.89

Review Hum Aapke Hain Koun [1994] / Eros International:


Review Universal Studios / Patch Adams [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Shadyac
  • Daniel London
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Bob Gunton
  • Monica Potter
  • Robin Williams
Release date: 2002-06-11
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Steve Oedekerk
Price: £2.63

Review Patch Adams [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

Patch Adams raises two schools of thought: there are those who are inspired by the true story of a troubled man who finds happiness in helping others-a man set on changing the world and who may well accomplish the task. And then there are those who feel manipulated by this feel-good story, who want to smack the young medical student every time he begins his silly antics. Staving off suicidal thoughts, Hunter Adams commits himself into a psychiatric ward, where he not only garners the nickname "Patch" but learns the joy in helping others. To this end, he decides to go to medical school, where he clashes with the staid conventions of the establishment as he attempts to inject humour and humanity into his treatment of the patients ("We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease", he declares throughout the film). Robin Williams, in the title role, is as charming as ever, although someone should tell him to broaden his range-the ever-cheerful, do-gooder à la Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society is getting a little old. His sidekick Truman (Daniel London) steals the show with his gawky allure and eyebrows that threaten to overtake his lean face-he seems more real, which is odd considering that Patch Adams does exist and this film is based on his life. Monica Potter is the coolly reluctant love interest and she makes the most of her one-dimensional part. While moments of true heartfelt emotion do come through, the major flaw of this film is that the good guys are just so gosh-darn good and the bad ones are just big meanies with no character development. Patch Adams, though, does provide the tears, the giggles and the kooky folks who will keep you smiling at the end. -Jenny Brown.

Review 4 Front Video / The Graduate [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Murray Hamilton
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Katharine Ross
  • Mike Nichols
  • William Daniels
  • Anne Bancroft
Release date: 2001-03-05
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Charles Webb
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.55

Review The Graduate [1967] / 4 Front Video:

Few films have defined a generation as much as The Graduate did. The alienation, the nonconformity, the intergenerational romance, the blissful Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack-they all served to lob a cultural grenade smack into the middle of 1967 America, ultimately making the film the third most profitable up to that time. Seen from a later perspective, its radical chic has dimmed a bit, yet it's still a joy to see Dustin Hoffman's bemused Benjamin and Anne Bancroft's deliciously decadent, sardonic Mrs Robinson. The script by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham is still offbeat and dryly funny and Mike Nichols, who won an Oscar for his direction, has just the right, light touch. -Anne Hurley, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Ally McBeal - Season 2 Part 2 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Calista Flockhart
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 474 min.
Creator: David E. Kelley
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.95

Review Ally McBeal - Season 2 Part 2 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Lynette Curran
  • Ray Lawrence
  • Barry Otto
  • Gia Carides
  • Miles Buchanan
  • Helen Jones
Release date: 1993-04-05
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Peter Carey
Price: £6.99

Review Bliss [1985] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / Imaginary Heroes [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • Michelle Williams
  • Dan Harris
  • Kip Pardue
  • Emile Hirsch
  • Jeff Daniels
Release date: 2005-06-07
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Illana Diamant
Price: £5.15

Review Imaginary Heroes [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Artificial Eye / Secret Ballot [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Farrokh Shojaii
  • Nassim Abdi
  • Babak Payami
  • Gholbahar Janghali
  • Cyrus Abidi
  • Youssef Habashi
Release date: 2003-02-24
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Marco Muller
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.61

Review Secret Ballot [2002] / Artificial Eye:


Review Universal Studios / Clint Eastwood: Western Icon Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Sturges
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Robert Duvall
  • Verna Bloom
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Shirley MacLaine
  • Don Siegel
  • Marianna Hill
Release date: 2007-05-01
Run time: 307 min.
Creator: Ernest Tidyman
Price: £8.42

Review Clint Eastwood: Western Icon Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Universal Studios / I Wanna Hold Your Hand [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Susan Kendall Newman
  • Bobby Di Cicco
  • Robert Zemeckis
  • Nancy Allen
  • Theresa Saldana
  • Marc McClure
Release date: 2004-09-28
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Tamara Asseyev
Price: £5.40

Review I Wanna Hold Your Hand [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


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Three Spike Lee Joints - Clockers, Do the Right Thing [1996], Pretty Poison [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Chocolat [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell [1999], Green Butchers [2007], Cold Feet - The Complete 2nd Series [1997], The Sandlot Kids, Jump In [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hilltop Hospital - Heart Trouble At Hilltop And Other Stories [1999], Barcelona [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Births, Marriages And Deaths [1999], Hum Aapke Hain Koun [1994], Patch Adams [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Graduate [1967], Ally McBeal - Season 2 Part 2 [1998], Bliss [1985], Imaginary Heroes [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Secret Ballot [2002], Clint Eastwood: Western Icon Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), I Wanna Hold Your Hand [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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