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Review Lions Gate / Cube [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicole de Boer
  • Andrew Miller
  • Vincenzo Natali
  • Nicky Guadagni
  • David Hewlett
  • Maurice Dean Wint
Release date: 1999-01-26
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Graeme Manson
Price: £6.22

Review Cube [1998] / Lions Gate:

If Clive Barker had written an episode of The Twilight Zone, it might have looked something like Cube. A handful of strangers wake up inside a bizarre maze, having been spirited there during the night. They quickly learn that they have to navigate their way through a series of chambers if they have any hope of escape but the problem is that there are lethal traps awaiting if they choose their route unwisely. Having established some imaginative and grisly punishments in store for the hostages, cowriter and director Vincenzo Natali turns his attention to the characters, for whom being trapped amplifies their best and worst qualities. The film is, in fact, similar to a famous episode of Rod Serling's old television series, though Natali's explanation for why these poor people are being put through hell is a lot closer to the spirit of The X-Files. Cube has some solid moments of suspense and drama and the sets are appropriately striking: one is tempted to believe at first the characters are lost inside a computer chip. -Tom Keogh.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Naked Gun 33.3 - Final Insult The [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Fred Ward
  • George Kennedy
  • Leslie Nielsen
  • O.J. Simpson
  • Priscilla Presley
  • Peter Segal
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Robert LoCash
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.53

Review Naked Gun 33.3 - Final Insult The [1994] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Police Story 2 [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Benny Lai
  • Jackie Chan
  • Kwok-Hung Lam
  • Jackie Chan
  • Maggie Cheung
  • Bill Tung
Release date: 2002-03-25
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Raymond Chow
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.97

Review Police Story 2 [1989] / Contender Entertainment Group:

Police Story 2 (1989) is one of those rare sequels that's more fun than its predecessor. Jackie Chan plays his usual rule-breaking cop, loyal to superiors that carp at the destruction he leaves in his wake but are prepared to take credit for every success he has. Here he finds himself up against vengeful gangsters whose plans he frustrated in the first of the series; but he also has to combat a ruthless team of extortionists with a taste for explosions both large and small-blowing up large buildings, turning people into human bombs and torturing people with firecrackers are all part of their repertoire. He has girlfriend trouble, too, since his fiancée is worried that he always puts the job first. Like its predecessor and the quasi-sequel First Strike (1996), Police Story 2 is transitional between Chan's early more fight-orientated Hong Kong movies and his later, blander Hollywood films. The fights and stunts here are most of the point of what is essentially a very good generic Jackie Chan vehicle; he takes on progressively larger groups of opponents, coping, for example, with a dozen gangsters armed with swords in a terraced garden by leaping from level to level and paying each opponent individual attention. The final fight in a fireworks factory is a Chan classic, depending as it does as much on the comedy of frustrating repetition as on daring stunts. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Manga Entertainment / Neon Genesis Evangelion - Death And Rebirth [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Spike Spencer
  • Allison Keith
  • Masahiko Ôtsuka
  • Megumi Ogata
  • Megumi Hayashibara
  • Kazuya Tsurumaki
  • Kotono Mitsuishi
  • Masayuki
  • Keiichi Sugiyama
  • Hiroyuki Ishidô
Release date: 2002-09-30
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.37

Review Neon Genesis Evangelion - Death And Rebirth [2002] / Manga Entertainment:


Review Echo Bridge Home Entertainment / 10.5 Apocalypse [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Cain
  • John J. Lafia
  • David Cubitt
  • Frank Langella
  • Beau Bridges
  • Kim Delaney
Release date: 2008-04-01
Run time: 169 min.
Creator: Henning Lohner
Price: £6.99

Review 10.5 Apocalypse [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import] / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Final Cut [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Sadie Frost
  • John Beckett
  • Jude Law
  • Ray Winstone
  • William Scully
  • Dominic Anciano
  • Ray Burdis
Release date: 2000-03-20
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Mark Sloper
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.99

Review Final Cut [1999] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Sony Pictures Home Ent / Who's Harry Crumb? [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Candy
  • Jeffrey Jones
  • Paul Flaherty
  • Annie Potts
  • Tim Thomerson
  • Barry Corbin
Release date: 2000-03-07
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £4.09

Review Who's Harry Crumb? [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Pictures Home Ent:


Review Universal Pictures UK / A Bronx Tale [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert De Niro
  • Francis Capra
  • Chazz Palminteri
  • Taral Hicks
  • Lillo Brancato
Release date: 2001-04-30
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.99

Review A Bronx Tale [1993] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Odeon Entertainment / The Quare Fellow [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Walter Macken
  • Hilton Edwards
  • Sylvia Syms
  • Arthur Dreifuss
  • Jack Cunningham
  • Patrick McGoohan
Release date: 2007-01-22
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.00

Review The Quare Fellow [1962] / Odeon Entertainment:


Review Universal Studios / Death Race [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tyrese Gibson
  • Jason Statham
  • Paul W.S. Anderson
  • Ian McShane
  • Natalie Martinez
  • Joan Allen
Release date: 2008-12-21
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Robert Thom
Price: £15.43

Review Death Race [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Out Of Sight [HD DVD] [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Keaton
  • Isaiah Washington
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • George Clooney
  • Steven Soderbergh
  • Luis Guzman
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.98

Review Out Of Sight [HD DVD] [1998] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Warner Home Video / Teen Titans: The Complete First Season [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Greg Cipes
  • Khary Payton
  • Hynden Walch
  • Scott Menville
  • Tara Strong
Release date: 2006-02-07
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: John Esposito
Price: £6.40

Review Teen Titans: The Complete First Season [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

The complete first season of Cartoon Network and WBTV's fine adaptation of Marv Wolfman and George Perez's '80s-era DC Comics title Teen Titans arrives in a 13-episode two-disc set. The attractive, anime-influenced episodes of the series' 2003 debut season pit the Titans-former Batman sidekick Robin, Beast Boy, Starfire, Cyborg, Terra, and Raven-against a horde of regular foes, including Slade (voiced by Ron Perlman), Trigon, Trident, Mad Mod, and many others. True to their age, the Titans also have to deal with issues about maturity, confidence, a hint of romance, and even a body-switch between two members. -Paul Gaita.

Review Uca / Feardotcom [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Udo Kier
  • William Malone
  • Natascha McElhone
  • Stephen Dorff
  • Stephen Rea
  • Amelia Curtis
Release date: 2005-10-03
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Moshe Diamant
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.55

Review Feardotcom [2003] / Uca:

Fear Dot Com is a total-dot-mess, but at least it's a stylishly graphic frightfest that die-hard horror buffs will probably appreciate. As he did with his 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill, director William Malone favours trippy atmosphere at the expense of acting, character development and plot. Belatedly jumping on the Internet-thriller bandwagon, the film follows a brooding detective (Stephen Dorff) and a public-health inspector (Natascha McElhone) as they investigate the deadly influence of the titular website, which channels the innermost fears of its visitors until they die of fright 48 hours later. Why 48 hours? Don't ask; Josephine Coyle's screenplay is as incoherent as Malone's grasp of narrative momentum, leaving Dorff and McElhone with little to do but look frightened and doomed. But Fear Dot Com has its moments, especially after mad doctor Stephen Rea's gruesome villainy is fully revealed, and the proceedings take on the monochrome pallor of silent German expressionism. Too bad these fantastic visuals weren't servicing a better movie. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Momentum Pictures / Extreme Prejudice [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Maria Conchita Alonso
  • Nick Nolte
  • Rip Torn
  • Powers Boothe
  • Walter Hill
  • Michael Ironside
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: John Milius
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.27

Review Extreme Prejudice [1987] / Momentum Pictures:


Review Uca / Mary Reilly [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • George Cole
  • Stephen Frears
  • Kathy Staff
  • Michael Gambon
  • John Malkovich
  • Julia Roberts
Release date: 2005-05-02
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Valerie Martin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.25

Review Mary Reilly [1996] / Uca:


Review Uca / The Patriot [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Camilla Belle
  • Silas Weir Mitchell
  • L.Q. Jones
  • Dean Semler
  • Gailard Sartain
  • Steven Seagal
Release date: 2004-07-12
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: William Heine
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.94

Review The Patriot [1998] / Uca:


Review Momentum Pictures / Murder By Decree [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • David Hemmings
  • Bob Clark
  • James Mason
  • Christopher Plummer
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Susan Clark
Release date: 2003-03-17
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: John Lloyd
RRP: £12.99
Price: £59.90

Review Murder By Decree [1980] / Momentum Pictures:

Murder by Decree has the distinction of being not only one of the best Sherlock Holmes films, but one of the best pastiches (i. e. , a Holmes fiction created by someone other than author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) featuring the late-Victorian detective. Christopher Plummer is very good as Holmes, and James Mason redeems the many mishandled screen portrayals of Dr John Watson with a rare, insightful performance. The story may not be unique in post-Doyle Holmes adventures-the private investigator pursues Jack the Ripper during the latter's murderous reign in foggy London-but the script by John Hopkins (Thunderball) is keenly intelligent, developing concentric circles of power and evil with great subtlety. Before losing himself in Porky's, director Bob Clark did a masterful job of surprising audiences with Murder by Decree, convincing viewers they were watching one kind of drama but then unleashing something very different, very unsettling. -Tom Keogh.

Review Entertainment in Video / 15 Minutes [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Burns
  • Kim Cattrall
  • John Herzfeld
  • Avery Brooks
  • Kelsey Grammer
  • Robert De Niro
Release date: 2001-09-10
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.10

Review 15 Minutes [2001] / Entertainment in Video:

Fifteen Minutes partners Robert De Niro and Saving Private Ryan's Edward Burns in a thriller satire on America's "reality TV" industry. De Niro plays celebrity detective Eddie Fleming, who must reluctantly work with arson investigator Jordy Warsaw (Burns) when a grisly fire is discovered to conceal a murder. This is the work of Emil (Karel Roden) and Oleg (Oleg Taktarov), East European psychos bent on a maniacal spree of killings. All of these are videotaped by Emil, who renames himself after his hero Frank Capra, in a perverse tribute to the US of A, where "no one is responsible for what they do!". Soon the duo decide to sell their footage to Kelsey Grammer's creepily shameless frontline TV journalist. As a pair of loons whose scariness is just the right side of cardboard villainy, Roden and Taktarov steal the movie as well as their camcorder. However, the central theme of voyeurism and video murder was dealt with far more effectively in the 1992 Belgian movie Man Bites Dog and, while the action tears along in explosive fashion, it does so at the expense of both plausibility and the anti-media satire, which seems hitched crudely onto the bumper of what is essentially a satisfying but conventional blockbuster thriller. -David Stubbs.

Review Uca / James Stewart Collection - Harvey/Mr Smith Goes To Washington/Rear Window/It's A Wonderful Life
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Koster
  • Frank Capra
  • James Stewart
  • Jean Arthur
  • Victoria Horne
  • Josephine Hull
  • Claude Rains
  • Alfred Hitchcock
Release date: 2008-03-13
Run time: 464 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.05

Review James Stewart Collection - Harvey/Mr Smith Goes To Washington/Rear Window/It's A Wonderful Life / Uca:


Review MGM Entertainment / Red Corner [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Gere
  • Bai Ling
  • Bradley Whitford
  • Peter Donat
  • Jon Avnet
  • Byron Mann
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Robert King
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.20

Review Red Corner [1998] / MGM Entertainment:

Using a faulty thriller for his soapbox as an outspoken critic of China, a devout follower of the Dalai Lama, and an influential supporter of Tibetan freedom, Richard Gere resorts to the equivalent of propagandistic drama to deliver a heavy-handed message. In other words, Red Corner relies on a dubious strategy to promote political awareness, but director Jon Avnet appeals to the viewer's outrage with such effective urgency that you're likely to forget you're being shamelessly manipulated. Gere plays a downtrodden TV executive who sells syndicated shows on the global market, and during a business trip to China he finds himself framed for the murder of the sexy daughter of a high Chinese official. Once trapped in a legal system in which his innocence will be all but impossible to prove, Gere must rely on a Chinese-appointed lawyer (played by Bai Ling) who first advises him to plead guilty but gradually grows convinced of foul play. Barely attempting to hide its agenda, Red Corner effectively sets the stage for abundant anti-Chinese sentiment, and to be sure, the movie gains powerful momentum with its tale of justice gone awry. It's a serious-minded, high-intensity courtroom drama with noble intentions, but one wonder if it has to be so conspicuously lacking in subtlety. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

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Cube [1998], Naked Gun 33.3 - Final Insult The [1994], Police Story 2 [1989], Neon Genesis Evangelion - Death And Rebirth [2002], 10.5 Apocalypse [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import], Final Cut [1999], Who's Harry Crumb? [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Bronx Tale [1993], The Quare Fellow [1962], Death Race [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Out Of Sight [HD DVD] [1998], Teen Titans: The Complete First Season [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Feardotcom [2003], Extreme Prejudice [1987], Mary Reilly [1996], The Patriot [1998], Murder By Decree [1980], 15 Minutes [2001], James Stewart Collection - Harvey/Mr Smith Goes To Washington/Rear Window/It's A Wonderful Life, Red Corner [1998]

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