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Review Paramount / Beauty and the Beast: The Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Daniel Attias
  • Ron Perlman
  • Richard Partlow
  • Christopher Leitch
  • Linda Hamilton
  • Alan Cooke
  • Bethany Rooney
  • Bruce Malmuth
  • Roy Dotrice
  • Jay Acovone
Release date: 2008-09-30
Run time: 2654 min.
Price: £43.36

Review Beauty and the Beast: The Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Tartan Video / Shiri [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Yunjin Kim
  • Je-gyu Kang
  • Min-sik Choi
  • Johnny Kim
  • Suk-kyu Han
  • Kang-ho Song
Release date: 2003-08-25
Run time: 121 min.
Creator: Moo-Rim Byun
RRP: £14.99
Price: £17.97

Review Shiri [2003] / Tartan Video:

A dazzling action movie from South Korea, Shiri follows two South Korean government agents, Ryu and Lee, as they pursue a female super-assassin from North Korea. Meanwhile, an elite paramilitary squad from North Korea has stolen a shipment of CTX, an undetectable liquid explosive of enormous power, which they've planted all over the city of Seoul. As their investigations are successively foiled, Ryu and Lee begin to suspect that there is a mole within the ranks of the agency-and it may be one of them. Both hyperstylish and hyperrealistic, Shiri rips along as a smooth fusion of Hong Kong and American action movies. Ryu's troubled romance with his alcoholic fiancée adds a striking emotional counterpoint to the blazing gunfights and high-speed chases; the ending is unexpectedly moving. It's not surprising that this film beat Titanic's box-office records in Korea. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Warner Home Video / Twilight Zone: The Movie [Blu-ray] [1983] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Brocco
  • Nancy Cartwright
  • Domingo Ambriz
  • Patricia Barry
  • Larry Cedar
Release date: 2007-10-09
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: John Hora
Price: £14.45

Review Twilight Zone: The Movie [Blu-ray] [1983] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Freedomland [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Roth
  • Edie Falco
  • Julianne Moore
  • Philip Bosco
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • William Forsythe
Release date: 2006-09-04
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.99

Review Freedomland [2006] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Trainspotting - Green Edition [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin McKidd
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Robert Carlyle
  • Ewen Bremner
  • Jonny Lee Miller
  • Danny Boyle
Release date: 1997-09-15
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: John Hodge
Price: £12.99

Review Trainspotting - Green Edition [1996] / Universal Pictures UK:

The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed with abandon by Danny Boyle, Trainspotting conspires to be at once a hip youth flick and a grim cautionary fable. Released on an unsuspecting public in 1996, the picture struck a chord with audiences worldwide and became adopted as an instant symbol of a booming British rave culture (an irony, given the characters' main drug of choice is heroin not ecstasy). McGregor, Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner play a slouching trio of Scottish junkies; Carlyle their narcotic-eschewing but hard-drinking and generally psychotic mate Begbie. In Boyle's hands, their lives unfold in a rush of euphoric highs, blow-out overdoses and agonising withdrawals (all cued to a vogueish pop soundtrack). Throughout it all, John Hodge's screenplay strikes a delicate balance between acknowledging the inherent pleasures of drug use and spotlighting its eventual consequences. In Trainspotting's world view, it all comes down to a question of choices-between the dangerous Day-Glo highs of the addict and the grey, grinding consumerism of the everyday Joe. "Choose life", quips the film's narrator (McGregor) in a monologue that was to become a mantra. "Choose a job, choose a starter home. [+]
But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?" Ultimately, Trainspotting's wised-up, dead-beat inhabitants reject mainstream society in favour of a headlong rush to destruction. It makes for an exhilarating, energised and frequently terrifying trip that blazes with more energy and passion than a thousand more ostensibly life-embracing movies. -Xan Brooks.

Review Momentum Pictures Home Ent / CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Complete Season 3 [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Szmanda
  • Marg Helgenberger
  • George Eads
  • William Petersen
  • Paul Guilfoyle
Release date: 2004-07-26
Creator: Richard J. Lewis
RRP: £59.99
Price: £34.95

Review CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Complete Season 3 [2001] / Momentum Pictures Home Ent:

Now firmly established as one of the top-rated television dramas, by its third year CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a show positively glowing with confidence. Even when individual cases seem either too contrived or too easily resolved, the indefatigable night shift at the Las Vegas PD crime lab always look the part, solving conundrums and discovering microscopic damning evidence while, apparently, never shedding their own loose hair or skin cells all over the supposedly quarantined crime scenes. In reality, Catherine Willows' flowing blonde locks would contaminate any evidence she collected, but in the world of CSI only the bad guys leave body parts behind-the CSIs themselves are so good they're positively pristine. The 23 episodes of season 3 on this five-disc set present more deliciously bizarre situations for the problem-solving sleuths: cannibalism, snuff movies, dwarfs, death while drag racing, bodies falling from the sky, and various dismemberments all tax the team's acumen. These are all double or multiple-case episodes, though in a characteristic trick of the writing sometimes apparently unrelated murders turn out to be connected (or vice versa, as in "Blood Lust," in which a road-accident victim is not what he seems, and the death of the driver at the hands of an angry mob is made all the more tragic). The mix of genuine forensic science with the glossiest Jerry Bruckheimer production values, plus the virtues of a good ensemble cast headed by William Peterson's modern-day Sherlock Holmes, remains as compelling as ever. -Mark Walker.

Review Delta Visual Entertainment / A Shock To The System [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Swoosie Kurtz
  • Jan Egleson
  • Elizabeth McGovern
  • Peter Riegert
  • Will Patton
  • Michael Caine
Release date: 2002-09-09
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Simon Brett
RRP: £7.99
Price: £6.24

Review A Shock To The System [1990] / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Review Shriek Show / A Lizard in a Woman's Skin [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lucio Fulci
  • Leo Genn
  • Alberto de Mendoza
  • Stanley Baker
  • Florinda Bolkan
  • Mike A. Kennedy
Release date: 2007-02-06
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Ennio Morricone
Price: £8.60

Review A Lizard in a Woman's Skin [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Shriek Show:


Review Warner Home Video / Seven
Actors & Directors
  • Brad Pitt
  • Morgan Freeman
  • Kevin Spacey
  • David Fincher
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
Release date: 2008-12-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £7.80

Review Seven / Warner Home Video:

The most viscerally frightening and disturbing homicidal maniac picture since The Silence of the Lambs, Seven is based on an idea that's both gruesome and ingenious. A serial killer forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully arranged into a grotesque tableau, a graphic illustration of each mortal vice. From the jittery opening credits to the horrifying (and seemingly inescapable) concluding twist, director David Fincher immerses us in a murky urban twilight where everything seems to be rotting, rusting, or molding. The air is cold and heavy with dread. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are the detectives who skillfully track down the killer, all the while unaware that he has been closing in on them, as well. Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey are also featured, but it is director Fincher and the ominous, overwhelmingly oppressive atmosphere of doom that he creates that are the real stars of the film. It's a terrific date movie, for vampires. -Jim Emerson.

Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Notorious [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Leopoldine Konstantin
  • Louis Calhern
  • Ingrid Bergman
  • Claude Rains
  • Cary Grant
Release date: 2000-10-30
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: John Taintor Foote
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99

Review Notorious [1946] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:

One of Alfred Hitchcock's classics, this romantic thriller features a cast to die for: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant and Claude Rains. Bergman plays the daughter of a disgraced father who is recruited by American agents to infiltrate a post-World War II spy ring in Brazil. Her control agent is Grant, who treats her with disdain while developing a deep romantic bond with her. Her assignment: to marry the suspected head of the ring (Rains) and get the goods on everyone involved. Danger, deceit, betrayal-and, yes, romance-all come together in a nearly perfect blend as the film builds to a terrific (and surprising) climax. Grant and Bergman rarely have been better. -Marshall Fine.

Review Sony Pictures / Wild Things [Blu-ray] [1998] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Bacon
  • John McNaughton
  • Theresa Russell
  • Matt Dillon
  • Neve Campbell
  • Denise Richards
Release date: 2007-07-17
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Stephen Peters
Price: £14.86

Review Wild Things [Blu-ray] [1998] [US Import] / Sony Pictures:

Wild Things is the kind of lurid, trashy thriller that you'll either dive into with unabashed pleasure or turn away from in prudish disgust; it's entirely your choice, but we suggest the former option since it's obviously much more fun. The plot's so convoluted it's hardly worth describing, except to say that it's set in humid Florida and involves a respected high school teacher (Matt Dillon-yes, Matt Dillon as a teacher!) who is faced with accusations of rape by a student (Denise Richards, from Starship Troopers) who had been giving him the kind of attention most people would consider improper for such a "nice" young lady. Another student (Neve Campbell) raises a similar charge against the teacher, and that's when a police officer (Kevin Bacon) begins to investigate the allegations. Just when you think the movie's gone overboard with its shameless sex and absurdly twisted plot, in drops Bill Murray as an unscrupulous lawyer (of course) to spice things up with insurance scams and welcomed comic relief. As directed by John McNaughton (who has a way of making just the right moves with this kind of film noir melodrama), Wild Things is a bona fide guilty pleasure-the kind of movie you may be ashamed to enjoy, but what the heck, you'll enjoy it anyway. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Warner Home Video / Warner Gangsters Collection, Vol. 3 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Ben Hardaway
  • James Cagney
  • Mae Clarke
  • Cal Dalton
  • Archie Mayo
  • Edward G. Robinson
  • Ann Sheridan
  • Hugh Harman
  • Alfred E. Green
Release date: 2008-03-25
Price: £31.49

Review Warner Gangsters Collection, Vol. 3 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Criterion / WR: Mysteries of the Organism [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tuli Kupferberg
  • Ivica Vidovic
  • Milena Dravic
  • Dusan Makavejev
  • Zoran Radmilovic
  • Jagoda Kaloper
Release date: 2007-06-19
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £17.85

Review WR: Mysteries of the Organism [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review New Line Home Video / The Mack [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Don Gordon
  • Richard Pryor
  • Carol Speed
  • Max Julien
  • Roger E. Mosley
  • Michael Campus
Release date: 2002-09-03
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Robert J. Poole
Price: £5.77

Review The Mack [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Dead Ringer [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Lawford
  • Paul Henreid
  • Bette Davis
  • Karl Malden
  • Jean Hagen
  • Philip Carey
Release date: 2004-08-10
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Rian James
Price: £9.03

Review Dead Ringer [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / Matt Helm Lounge [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Levin
  • Ann-Margret
  • Phil Karlson
  • Dean Martin
  • Janice Rule
  • Senta Berger
  • Stella Stevens
Release date: 2005-12-06
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: William P. McGivern
Price: £14.32

Review Matt Helm Lounge [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Criterion / Carnival of Souls [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Herk Harvey
  • Art Ellison
  • Stan Levitt
  • Sidney Berger
  • Frances Feist
  • Candace Hilligoss
Release date: 2000-05-16
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: John Clifford
Price: £14.78

Review Carnival of Souls [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review MGM / War Gods of the Deep/At the Earth's Core [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Cushing
  • Caroline Munro
  • Kevin Connor
  • Doug McClure
  • Jacques Tourneur
  • Vincent Price
  • Cy Grant
Release date: 2005-09-20
Run time: 175 min.
Creator: Milton Subotsky
Price: £4.23

Review War Gods of the Deep/At the Earth's Core [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Warner Home Video / Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George Cukor
  • Frank McHugh
  • Jack Conway
  • Myrna Loy
  • Murray Roth
  • Clark Gable
  • William Powell
  • Hugh Harman
  • Leo Carrillo
  • Richard Thorpe
Release date: 2007-08-07
Run time: 454 min.
Price: £27.25

Review Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Bfi Video / Rashomon [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Akira Kurosawa
  • Minoru Chiaki
  • Takashi Shimura
  • Toshirô Mifune
  • Masayuki Mori
  • Machiko Kyô
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Shinobu Hashimoto
Price: £19.99

Review Rashomon [1950] / Bfi Video:

This 1950 film by Akira Kurosawa is more than a classic: it's a cinematic archetype that has served as a template for many a film since. (Rashomon's most direct influence was on a Western remake, The Outrage, starring Paul Newman and directed by Martin Ritt. ) In essence, the facts surrounding a rape and murder are told from four different and contradictory points of view, suggesting the nature of truth is something less than absolute. The cast, headed by Kurosawa's favourite actor, Toshiro Mifune, is superb. -Tom Keogh.

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Beauty and the Beast: The Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC), Shiri [2003], Twilight Zone: The Movie [Blu-ray] [1983] [US Import], Freedomland [2006], Trainspotting - Green Edition [1996], CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Complete Season 3 [2001], A Shock To The System [1990], A Lizard in a Woman's Skin [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Seven, Notorious [1946], Wild Things [Blu-ray] [1998] [US Import], Warner Gangsters Collection, Vol. 3 (REGION 1) (NTSC), WR: Mysteries of the Organism [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Mack [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dead Ringer [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Matt Helm Lounge [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Carnival of Souls [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), War Gods of the Deep/At the Earth's Core [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rashomon [1950]

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