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Review Magnolia / Man on Wire [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Marsh
  • Philippe Petit
  • Annie Allix
  • David Demato
  • Ardis Campbell
  • Jean-Louis Blondeau
Release date: 2008-12-09
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Victoria Gregory
Price: £14.55

Review Man on Wire [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Magnolia:


Review 20th Century Fox / Remington Steele: Season 3 [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Burt Brinckerhoff
  • Harry Harris
  • Christopher Hibler
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • James Read
  • Stephanie Zimbalist
  • Doris Roberts
  • Don Weis
  • Janet DeMay
  • Gabrielle Beaumont
Release date: 2006-04-18
Run time: 1071 min.
Price: £21.41

Review Remington Steele: Season 3 [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Game Of Death [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
  • Robert Clouse
  • Bruce Lee
  • Gig Young
  • Colleen Camp
  • Bruce Lee
  • Dean Jagger
  • Tai Chung Kim
Release date: 2001-10-01
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Jan Spears
RRP: £24.99
Price: £19.99

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Review Warner Home Video / The Night of the Iguana [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ava Gardner
  • Richard Burton
  • Sue Lyon
  • Skip Ward
  • Deborah Kerr
  • John Huston
Release date: 2006-05-02
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Tennessee Williams
Price: £9.64

Review The Night of the Iguana [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review WGBH Boston / The Masterpiece Theatre: The Woman in White [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Susan Vidler
  • Andrew Lincoln
  • John Standing
  • Tara Fitzgerald
  • Tim Fywell
  • Justine Waddell
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Wilkie Collins
Price: £8.57

Review The Masterpiece Theatre: The Woman in White [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / WGBH Boston:


Review MGM / The Fall of the House of Usher /The Pit and the Pendulum (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Antony Carbone
  • Vincent Price
  • Barbara Steele
  • John Kerr
  • Luana Anders
  • Roger Corman
Release date: 2005-02-15
Run time: 160 min.
Creator: Richard Matheson
Price: £4.26

Review The Fall of the House of Usher /The Pit and the Pendulum (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Family Home Ent / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Cam Clarke
  • Rob Paulsen
  • Barry Gordon
  • Renae Jacobs
  • Jim Cummings
Release date: 2004-04-20
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: Stan Sakai
Price: £6.17

Review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Family Home Ent:


Review Entertainment in Video / Desert Saints [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Greenberg
  • Rachel Ticotin
  • Christopher Bersh
  • Shawn Woods
  • Kiefer Sutherland
  • Brent Roam
Release date: 2003-05-26
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Wally Nichols
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.04

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Minus Man [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Dwight Yoakam
  • Hampton Fancher
  • Sheryl Crow
  • Janeane Garofalo
  • Brian Cox
  • Owen Wilson
Release date: 2007-07-23
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.19

Review The Minus Man [1999] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review IFC Films / Alone With Her [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ana Claudia Talancón
  • Eric Nicholas
  • Jonathon Trent
  • Jordana Spiro
  • Colin Hanks
  • Alex Boling
Release date: 2007-05-22
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Tom Engelman
Price: £6.64

Review Alone With Her [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / IFC Films:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Boston Strangler [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Curtis
  • Richard Fleischer
  • Sally Kellerman
  • Murray Hamilton
  • Henry Fonda
  • George Kennedy
Release date: 2007-04-23
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.92

Review The Boston Strangler [1968] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Eyes Wide Shut [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Madison Eginton
  • Sydney Pollack
  • Nicole Kidman
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Jackie Sawiris
  • Tom Cruise
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 159 min.
Creator: Frederic Raphael
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.98

Review Eyes Wide Shut [1999] / Warner Home Video:

Visually beautiful, Kubrick's last completed film Eyes Wide Shut blends the sinister, the sensual and the clinical in a combination that is rather too personal and idiosyncratic to be entirely successful as the final statement about gender and sexuality he intended it to be. Adapted by Frederick Raphael from the Dream Story of Freud's friend Schnitzler, it shows a young successful couple confront the dangers that lurk beyond monogamy; Nicole Kidman's Alice does little more than fantasise, flirt and dream, but even this causes guilt and pain. Doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) does rather more-he visits a whore, crashes an orgy and continues to ask questions when warned off; if no disaster ensues, and it is possible that two people die as a result, it is only luck that averts it. Much of the best of what is here is to be found in the occasional moments of stillness-Cruise walking through a morgue-or wild comedy-Cruise's attempt to hire a costume in the middle of the night interrupts major shenanigans at the fancy-dress shop. Cruise and Kidman do what they can with material that never means as much as it aspires to and the stand-out performance is Sydney Pollack's, as a worldly wise client. On the DVD: The DVD is presented in a lavish Dolby Sound that makes the most of the obsessive Ligeti piano piece and Shostakovich waltz that dominate the score and in the 1. 33:1 ratio that was Kubrick's considered choice. It has subtitles in English, Arabic, Bulgarian and Rumanian, two TV spots and informative interviews with Kidman and Cruise, as well as with Stephen Spielberg to whom Kubrick had talked at length about his artistic intentions. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Half Past Dead [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Weitz
  • Don Michael Paul
  • Matt Battaglia
  • Steven Seagal
  • Ja Rule
  • Morris Chestnut
Release date: 2003-09-15
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: James A. Holt
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.48

Review Half Past Dead [2003] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Despite critical roasting, Half Past Dead is, surprisingly, not half bad. Once you recognise this bastard child's recent action-flick heritage (The Rock being the most obvious of a dozen pilfered plot lines), you can kick back and enjoy the unexpected perks that arise when a deep-cover FBI sleuth (Steven Seagal) accompanies a convicted crook (rapper Ja Rule) into "New Alcatraz" prison. A death-row killer (Bruce Weitz) sits on a $200 million goldmine, keeping his secret as a bargaining chip when criminal commandos (led by the ever-cool Morris Chestnut) drop in for a lethally greedy raid. After cutting his teeth on trashy, short-lived US TV series, director Don Michael Paul can't do much to help the puffy, career-tanking Seagal, but he's got lively allies in Ja Rule and alleged "has-been" Nia Peeples (forget Lara Croft, this babe rocks), and even legendary action-TV producer Stephen J Cannell drops in for a cameo. Derivative from the get-go, but fun just the same. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Columbia TriStar / Ruby [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arliss Howard
  • Tobin Bell
  • Sherilyn Fenn
  • Joseph Cortese
  • Danny Aiello
  • John Mackenzie
Release date: 2003-09-02
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Stephen Davis
Price: £9.99

Review Ruby [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Warner Home Video / Lethal Weapon 2 [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mel Gibson
  • Joe Pesci
  • Richard Donner
  • Patsy Kensit
  • Danny Glover
  • Joss Ackland
Release date: 2000-06-06
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Jeffrey Boam
Price: £4.01

Review Lethal Weapon 2 [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

The series formula started to kick in with this immediate sequel to Lethal Weapon, but that doesn't necessarily make it a weak movie. Joe Pesci joins the fold, Richard Donner directs again, and Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as LAPD partners, their relationship smoother now that Gibson's character has recovered from his maddening grief over his wife's death. But the reckless Mel and cautious Danny equation, good for a million laughs, settles into place in this story involving a South African smuggler and a new girlfriend (Patsy Kensit) for Gibson. The movie is hardly comfy, though. The last act gets nasty, and a climactic fight between Gibson (who gets the worst of it) and some high-kicking villain is ugly. -Tom Keogh.

Review Tartan Video / City Of Lost Souls [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Takashi Miike
  • Koji Kikkawa
  • Patricia Manterola
  • Michelle Reis
  • Mitsuhiro Oikawa
  • Teah
Release date: 2002-11-18
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Seishu Hase
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.78

Review City Of Lost Souls [2000] / Tartan Video:

A stylised and violent thriller, prolific director Miike Takashi's The City Of Lost Souls (2000) is set in the ganglands of Tokyo and pays homage to Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino and, in a daft, animated cockfighting sequence, The Matrix. Mario (Teah) is the Japanese-Brazilian gunslinger fresh out jail who, in a hilariously audacious action sequence, hijacks a helicopter to save his Chinese girlfriend Kei (Michelle Reis) from deportation. He must then secure 18 million yen to secure fake passports for both of them to make a new life for themselves in Australia. In a misconceived operation, Mario arrives at the lair of the intriguing Ko, Kei's ex-boyfriend-a self-assured, effeminate young exchange student-who is somehow head of a vicious gang of Triads. He is on the point of buying a consignment of cocaine from decadent, cold-blooded Yakuza gangster Fushimi when Mario's arrival triggers a shootout, with Mario escaping with the wrong suitcase. Now, in time-honoured True Romancefashion, Mario and Kei are on the run from the mob. Although visually tricksy with some strong set-pieces, The City of Lost Souls is rather hazy when it comes to story and characterisation. We get little sense of the runaway couple as people. A young blind girl is introduced into the tale and there are romantic moments between Mario and Kei but these feel like sugary palliatives to the bloodshed rather than touching moments. Better perhaps to check out Takashi's Audition, a brilliantly gruesome satire on male Japanese attitudes towards womanhood. [+]
This is a flashier, faster but less artistically satisfying affair. On the DVD: The City of Lost Souls is presented in video aspect ratio 1. 85:1, with reasonable clarity and sharpness. However, the English subtitles are a little pidgin and slapdash in places, none of which improves the main special feature, a rather dull and vague interview with director Takashi. -David Stubbs.

Review MGM Entertainment / Kinjite - Forbidden Subjects [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Juan Fernandez
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • Peggy Lipton
  • Charles Bronson
  • Perry Lopez
  • James Pax
Release date: 2006-01-16
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.84

Review Kinjite - Forbidden Subjects [1989] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Acorn Media / Midsomer Murders - Judgement Day [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • John Nettles
  • Daniel Casey
  • Jeremy Silberston
Release date: 2004-06-14
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.93

Review Midsomer Murders - Judgement Day [1997] / Acorn Media:


Review Momentum Pictures / Blair Witch 2 - Book Of Shadows - Special Edition 2 Disc Set [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Kim Director
  • Erica Leerhsen
  • Tristine Skyler
  • Jeffrey Donovan
  • Joe Berlinger
  • Stephen Barker Turner
  • Ben Rock
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Eduardo Sánchez
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.77

Review Blair Witch 2 - Book Of Shadows - Special Edition 2 Disc Set [2000] / Momentum Pictures:

Sexier and pacier than its predecessor, but still occupying the same psychological horror genre, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 takes up the Blair Witch story one year on from the time when the three student filmmakers went missing in Maryland's Black Hills. Flashbacks and forward leaps are agitatedly and excitedly cut together, drawing us quickly back into the terror territory of the original movie. Once again, to blur the line between fiction and reality, the actors use their own names for their characters. Jeffrey Donovan is Jeff, a Burkettsville entrepreneur making a fortune from selling Blair Witch memorabilia. He has the bright idea of starting Blair Witch tours, but on his inaugural one the malign spirits of the wood make mischief once more. Director Joe Berlinger previously worked on a real-life documentary about a Wiccan who was executed for murders he may not have committed. Parallels with this story and the plot of Book of Shadows are clearly visible and the influences cited by Berlinger-Rosemary's Baby and The Shining-shed their demonic shadow throughout. -Lorna Read On the DVD: the film may have divided critics, but no-one can deny that this special two-disc edition of the Blair Witch sequel is positively packed with added value. Firstly there's the "Secret of Esrever" ("Secret of Reverse") which alludes to ghostly goings on during the filming and then challenges the viewer to find the secret apparitions dotted around the film-although whether it sheds any more light on the plot is open to debate. Director Joe Berlinger's commentary is informative, talking as he does about the personal issues (how he lost some editorial control over the project) and about bringing the myth to life. [+]
Book of Shadows is presented in its original 1. 85:1 widescreen aspect ratio, with a sharp-looking anamorphic transfer and intentional graininess that adds to the overall effect. The audio is also an important factor as the soundtrack uses disjointed voices, screams and the excellent music of composer Carter Burwell to build tension. There are also two "mockumentaries"-"Shadow of the Blair Witch" is about the events that the sequel is based on and "The Burkittsville 7" looks at the grisly murders of seven children by the hermit Rustin Parr. -Kristen Bowditch.

Review Shriek Show / A Lizard in a Woman's Skin [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lucio Fulci
  • Stanley Baker
  • Silvia Monti
  • Florinda Bolkan
  • Alberto de Mendoza
  • Jean Sorel
Release date: 2005-02-22
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Roberto Gianviti
Price: £13.95

Review A Lizard in a Woman's Skin [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Shriek Show:


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Man on Wire [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Remington Steele: Season 3 [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Game Of Death [1979], The Night of the Iguana [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Masterpiece Theatre: The Woman in White [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Fall of the House of Usher /The Pit and the Pendulum (REGION 1) (NTSC), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (REGION 1) (NTSC), Desert Saints [2002], The Minus Man [1999], Alone With Her [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Boston Strangler [1968], Eyes Wide Shut [1999], Half Past Dead [2003], Ruby [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lethal Weapon 2 [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), City Of Lost Souls [2000], Kinjite - Forbidden Subjects [1989], Midsomer Murders - Judgement Day [1997], Blair Witch 2 - Book Of Shadows - Special Edition 2 Disc Set [2000], A Lizard in a Woman's Skin [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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