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Review Network / The Possession Of Joel Delaney [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Hordern
  • Waris Hussein
  • Miriam Colon
  • Shirley Maclaine
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.92

Review The Possession Of Joel Delaney [1971] / Network:


Actors & Directors
  • Martyn Friend
  • Joan Hickson
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: George Gallaccio
Price: £17.90

Review Agatha Christie's Miss Marple - 4.50 From Paddington / BBC BBCV 6311:

Celebrated actress Joan Hickson makes her mark once more in this period thriller as Jane Marple, a determined lady with an unassuming air and a flair for solving crime. A traveller in a country train sees a woman being strangled in another. The witness is Miss Marple's friend and, together, they report the murder to Inspector Slack.

Review Live/Artisan / Beyond the Law [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Madsen
  • Larry Ferguson
  • Courtney B. Vance
  • Charlie Sheen
  • Leon Rippy
  • Linda Fiorentino
Release date: 2001-08-14
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Mark Tarlov
Price: £4.16

Review Beyond the Law [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:


Review Acorn Media / Midsomer Murders - Vixen's Run
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Smith
  • Jason Hughes
  • Jane Wymark
  • Barry Jackson
  • John Nettles
  • Laura Howard
Release date: 2006-10-09
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.99

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Review Weinstein Company / Death Proof [Blu-ray] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Rose McGowan
  • Michael Bacall
  • Nicky Katt
  • James Parks
  • Kurt Russell
Release date: 2008-12-16
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Jack Nitzsche
Price: £17.90

Review Death Proof [Blu-ray] [2007] / Weinstein Company:


Review Cinema Club / The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Last Vampyre [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Roy Marsden
  • Tim Sullivan
  • Jeremy Brett
  • Keith Barron
  • Edward Hardwicke
Release date: 2003-04-28
Run time: 104 min.
Price: £9.99

Review The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Last Vampyre [1993] / Cinema Club:

The Last Vampyre is an overblown two-hour adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire", and was perhaps the most ill-advised of Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes series. Entirely contrary to the tone and spirit of Doyle's tale-which finds Holmes victoriously pitting his well-grounded deductive powers against irrational fears of a rise in blood sucking-The Last Vampyre is something of an embarrassment to the largely wonderful legacy of Granada's earlier efforts. (For the record, most of the creative executives who, along with star Jeremy Brett, had made the beloved series what it was in the 1980s were replaced by 1992, the year of this film. ) In this version, Holmes does battle with a Dracula-like fellow who may or may not be the real McCoy. There is a great deal of padding to fill out the story to feature length, and it is mostly silly. So, you ask, is there anything to recommend this? Well, there is the ailing Brett's ever-fascinating performance, which deviates from Doyle's vision of the detective hero toward something darker and more personal. Edward Hardwicke does his usual warm and capable work as Dr Watson. -Tom Keogh.

Review Cinema Club / Dangerfield - Series 1 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Kim Vithana
  • Nigel Le Vaillant
  • Dougie Brimson
  • Jan Sargent
  • Amanda Redman
  • George Irving
  • Diana Patrick
Release date: 2006-03-06
Run time: 293 min.
Creator: Don Shaw
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.80

Review Dangerfield - Series 1 [1995] / Cinema Club:


Review Lionsgate / 6 Films to Keep You Awake (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mateo Gil
  • Roger Babia
  • Álex de la Iglesia
  • Jaume Balagueró
  • Paco Plaza
  • Pau Poch
  • Daniel Casadellà
  • Enrique Urbizu
  • Maru Valdivielso
  • Christian Casas
Release date: 2008-08-19
Run time: 456 min.
Creator: Igor Legarreta
Price: £15.05

Review 6 Films to Keep You Awake (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Wild At Heart [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • David Lynch
  • Nicolas Cage
  • Crispin Glover
  • Willem Dafoe
  • Laura Dern
  • J.E. Freeman
Release date: 2003-07-07
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Barry Gifford
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.48

Review Wild At Heart [1991] / Universal Pictures UK:

David Lynch's 1990 Wild at Heart is an utterly random and ugly experience with pockets of startling imagery and inspired set pieces. Based on a Barry Gifford novel, the film stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as lovers on the lam whose relationship is tested and who meet some truly dangerous wackos (including an almost-simian Willem Dafoe). Lynch's thoughts seem to be everywhere, and he expects the audience to keep up with a story that seems more a collection of avant-garde whims than a coherent vision with the intuitive brilliance of his Blue Velvet. Cage gives one of his more chaotic performances, but then he was just reading Lynch's signposts. -Tom Keogh.

Review Cult Epics / In a Glass Cage [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Agustí Villaronga
  • Gisèle Echevarría
  • David Sust
  • Günter Meisner
  • Marisa Paredes
  • Imma Colomer
Release date: 2004-05-25
Run time: 108 min.
Price: £13.01

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Review Tartan Video / Edmond [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • William H. Macy
  • Debi Mazar
  • Denise Richards
  • Stuart Gordon
  • Dylan Walsh
  • Russell Hornsby
Release date: 2008-01-28
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.96

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Review Blue Underground / Baba Yaga [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ely Galleani
  • George Eastman
  • Corrado Farina
  • Isabelle De Funès
  • Carroll Baker
  • Daniela Balzaretti
Release date: 2003-05-27
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Guido Crepax
Price: £6.06

Review Baba Yaga [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Blue Underground:


Review Tartan Video / Dead Or Alive 2 [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Sho Aikawa
  • Noriko Aota
  • Takashi Miike
  • Edison Chen
Release date: 2003-02-24
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.97

Review Dead Or Alive 2 [2000] / Tartan Video:

An off-the-cuff Japanese gangster movie with an absurdist streak that shades into surrealism, Dead or Alive 2 isn't thrown by its brief to sequelise a film that ended not only with the deaths of its lead characters but the destruction of Japan. Takashi Miike-the prolific auteur whose best-known film is the atypically considered Audition-brings back his lead actors in different roles and spins off another strange shaggy dog tale. The film starts out with a Yakuza vs Triads gang war in the offing, then sidesteps into "'Beat"' Miike territory as a couple of hit-men who meet when they turn up for the same assassination turn out to be childhood friends and enjoy a nostalgic wallow as they return to the orphanage where they met, re-encounter other old pals and even stand in for some injured actors putting on a play for the children. White-suited and terminally ill Sawada (Riki Takeuchi) and bleached blond and Hawaiian-shirted Otamoko (Sho Aikawa) get back to gunplay, committing contract murders and funnelling the profits into third world charities, which earns them occasional angel-wings or transformations back into innocent children. In constant danger of collapse, the film keeps pulling surprises: txt msg-addicted killers, an animated diagram of bullet trajectories through an unfortunate dwarf's brain. The first film blew up the country because it couldn't think of an ending, and this also has a lot of trouble signing off, with protracted deaths and redemptions for the heroes. Miike alternates clumsiness and confusion with exciting and powerful cinema. -Kim Newman.

Review Acorn Media / Agatha Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans? [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leigh Lawson
  • Francesca Annis
  • John Davies
  • James Warwick
  • Connie Booth
  • John Gielgud
  • Tony Wharmby
Release date: 2003-04-08
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Jack Williams
Price: £13.30

Review Agatha Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans? [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review Warner Home Video / White Heat
Actors & Directors
  • James Cagney
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Virginia Mayo
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • Fred Clark
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Louis F.Edelman
Price: £7.94

Review White Heat / Warner Home Video:

James Cagney plays a psychotic thug devoted to his hard boiled ma.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) / NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) Season 3
Actors & Directors
  • Colin Bucksey
  • David McCallum
  • Pauley Perrette
  • Michael Weatherly
  • James Whitmore Jr.
  • Mark Harmon
  • Dennis Smith
  • Aaron Lipstadt
  • Sean Murray
  • Billy Webb
Release date: 2007-06-18
Run time: 1012 min.
RRP: £49.99
Price: £25.25

Review NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) Season 3 / Paramount Home Entertainment (UK):


Review Warner Home Video / Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Stockwell
  • Kevin Conroy
  • Mark Hamill
  • Will Friedle
  • Curt Geda
  • Angie Harmon
Release date: 2005-07-05
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Paul Dini
Price: £3.66

Review Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Some diehard Batfans have been slow to warm to the animated series Batman Beyond even though it was created by the same team responsible for the excellent Batman cartoon of the early 1990s. The Dark Knight should be a brooding avenger in a noir-nightmare Gotham City, the purists argue, not some smart-aleck teen four decades in the future, with jet packs, invisibility shields, and other sci-fi gizmos loaned him by an elderly Bruce Wayne (voiced, excellently as always, by Kevin Conroy, his stony bass given a raspy hint of old age), now confined to hobbling about on a cane and monitoring his protégé's activities from the Batcave. Between its respectful re-examination of the "tortured hero" mythos and its sleek, animé-inspired look, this feature-length movie should go a long way toward quieting their complaints. Of course, it doesn't hurt that they've brought back the most legendary figure in the Rogues Gallery (voiced by Mark Hamill, deliciously deranged), but exactly how and why the Joker has managed to turn up 40 years after his last meeting with Batman still as youthful and diabolical as ever is explained not only logically but terrifyingly as well. The secret behind his arrival is perhaps the saddest, grimmest twist any purported "kids' show" has dared to attempt. (Parents may well want to preview this tape before screening it for the very young. ) Once again, Warner Brothers' cartoon Batman has outshone all the live-action films, never allowing the thrilling action set pieces or flashes of wry humour to drown out the drama, even tragedy, of the all-too-human superheroes. -Bruce Reid, Amazon. com.

Review Cinema Club / Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • James Warwick
  • Tony Wharmby
  • Francesca Annis
  • Jane Booker
  • John A. Davis
  • Reece Dinsdale
Release date: 2004-02-09
Run time: 620 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £124.99

Review Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime [1983] / Cinema Club:

First broadcast in the early 1980s, Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime stars James Warwick and Francesca Annis as the husband-and-wife team of detectives Tommy and "Tuppence" Beresford. Together they zoom around 1920's England in a very posh car and solve all kinds of high-society crimes, from forgery at an exclusive nightclub to the mysterious disappearance of an Arctic explorer's fiancée. The show benefits from two charming lead performances and some wonderful period details-Annis seems to change her hat and her dress every 30 seconds-but it is at best only moderately entertaining. The years have not been kind to this type of mystery, in which murder is the equivalent of an especially tricky crossword puzzle, offering the amateur sleuths an opportunity to avoid boredom and have a terribly thrilling time. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple survive both in print and on film, because the central characters are interesting enough to make us forgive weak plotting and a lack of depth, but Tommy and Tuppence don't have the staying power of Christie's more famous creations. Their adventures are fun in small doses, and if you're in the mood for some witty repartee, but otherwise this series is little more than a quaint relic of a bygone age. -Simon Leake.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Sexual Predator [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • David Jean Thomas
  • Rob Spera
  • Angie Everhart
  • Robert Angelo
  • Elizabeth Barondes
  • Kevin Fry
  • Richard Grieco
Release date: 2001-12-10
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Ed Silverstein
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.69

Review Sexual Predator [2001] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / High Plains Drifter [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Marianna Hill
  • Verna Bloom
  • Mitch Ryan
  • Jack Ging
  • Clint Eastwood
Release date: 2006-09-18
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Ernest Tidyman
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.33

Review High Plains Drifter [1973] / Universal Pictures UK:

Clint Eastwood's second film as a director (and his first Western) is a variation on the "man with no name" theme, starring Eastwood as the drifter known only as "the Stranger". He rides into the desert town of Lagos and is quickly attacked by three gunmen. Recovering with the aid of a local dwarf (a memorable role for Billy Curtis), the Stranger is hired by the intimidated townsfolk to fend off a band of violent ex-convicts. After teaching the citizens self-defence and instructing them to paint the entire town red and rename it "Hell", the Stranger vanishes. He reappears when the marauding criminals arrive, and delivers justice and teaches the townsfolk a harsh lesson about moral obligation. Is he a figure from their past or a kind of supernatural avenger? Combining humour with action, High Plains Drifter is both a serious and tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Westerns that made Eastwood a household name. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

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The Possession Of Joel Delaney [1971], Agatha Christie's Miss Marple - 4.50 From Paddington, Beyond the Law [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Midsomer Murders - Vixen's Run, Death Proof [Blu-ray] [2007], The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Last Vampyre [1993], Dangerfield - Series 1 [1995], 6 Films to Keep You Awake (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wild At Heart [1991], In a Glass Cage [1985], Edmond [2006], Baba Yaga [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dead Or Alive 2 [2000], Agatha Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans? [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC), White Heat, NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) Season 3, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime [1983], Sexual Predator [2001], High Plains Drifter [1973]

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