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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Young Sherlock Holmes And The Pyramid Of Fear [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Barry Levinson
  • Susan Fleetwood
  • Sophie Ward
  • Alan Cox
  • Anthony Higgins
  • Nicholas Rowe
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Chris Columbus
Price: £10.99

Review Young Sherlock Holmes And The Pyramid Of Fear [1986] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Showtime Entertainment / Dexter: The Complete First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Cuesta
  • Lauren Vélez
  • Adam Davidson
  • Steve Shill
  • Keith Gordon
  • David Zayas
  • Jennifer Carpenter
  • Michael C. Hall
  • Julie Benz
  • Robert Lieberman
Release date: 2007-08-21
Run time: 650 min.
Creator: Drew Z. Greenberg
Price: £20.94

Review Dexter: The Complete First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Showtime Entertainment:


Review First Independent Video / Night Falls On Manhattan [1996] [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • James Gandolfini
  • Sidney Lumet
  • Richard Dreyfuss
  • Andy Garcia
  • Lena Olin
  • Ian Holm
Release date: 2001-06-04
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Robert Daley
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.13

Review Night Falls On Manhattan [1996] [1997] / First Independent Video:

The dominant themes of director Sidney Lumet's distinguished career are in full force in Night Falls on Manhattan, a moral melodrama involving a young district attorney (Andy Garcia) who takes on a career-making case only to uncover his father's possible involvement in pervasive police corruption. Balancing personal ethics and political compromise in a high-wire act of power and its abuse, Lumet relies on dialogue and superb performances (including those by Ron Leibman, Richard Dreyfuss and Lena Olin) to achieve a devastating impact. The script (based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley) is too smart and Lumet's direction too sure-footed to fall back on the black-and-white exploits of conventional criminals and their crimes. The movie's moral framework (like that of Lumet's earlier film Q&A) is more realistic, dealing in the grey areas between right and wrong where misdeeds can arise from the best intentions. At the centre of Garcia's dilemma is his father, a seasoned New York cop played so convincingly by Ian Holm that you'd never guess the actor was British. Although it received mixed reviews when released in 1997, Night Falls on Manhattan ranks among Lumet's finest films. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review In2film / The Deal [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Christian Slater
  • Harvey Kahn
  • Robert Loggia
  • Colm Feore
  • Selma Blair
Release date: 2008-12-26
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.25

Review The Deal [2005] / In2film:


Review Dogwoof Pictures / Ecoute Le Temps [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Ludmilla Mikael
  • Alante Kavaite
  • Emile Dequenne
  • Mathieu Demy
Release date: 2007-11-05
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / Licence to Kill [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • John Glen
  • Robert Davi
  • Anthony Zerbe
  • Timothy Dalton
  • Talisa Soto
  • Carey Lowell
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Richard Maibaum
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.85

Review Licence to Kill [1989] / MGM Entertainment:

Timothy Dalton's second and last James Bond assignment in Licence to Kill is darker and harder-edged than anything from the Roger Moore years, dropping the sometimes excruciating in-jokes that had begun to dominate the series in favour of gritty, semi-realistic action. When CIA colleague and close friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison) gets married immediately after arresting villainous drug baron Franz Sanchez (with a little help from Bond), the crime lord's retribution is swift and terrible. Bond goes on a personal vendetta against Sanchez after his licence to kill is revoked. There are plenty of spectacular stunt scenes, of course, but the meaty story of revenge is this film's distinguishing feature. Dalton's portrayal of the iconic hero as tough but flawed was a brave decision that the producers subsequently retreated from after Licence to Kill's relatively poor box-office showing. On the DVD: Timothy Dalton's insistence that Bond was a man not a superhero, and "a tarnished man" at that encouraged the producers to redefine Bond with a tougher edge more in keeping with Fleming's original conception of the character. Licence to Kill is Bond's darkest assignment. The production team experienced their usual difficulties in bringing it to the screen, the "making-of" documentary reveals, including a haunted road in Mexico and a mysterious flaming hand that appeared out of the fire during the climactic tanker explosion. There are two commentaries here, both montage selections of interviews from cast and crew. The first features director John Glen and many of the actors; the second has producer Michael G Wilson and the production team. [+]
Gladys Knight pops up in the first music video, Patte La Belle in the second ("If You Asked Me To"). There are the usual trailers, gallery of stills and a feature on the Kenworth trucks specially adapted for the movie's stunt work. -Mark Walker.

Review Warner Home Video / Gene Hackman Collection [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Hackman
Release date: 2003-11-24
RRP: £50.99
Price: £6.92

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Review Universal Studios / Lionheart [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sheldon Lettich
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Deborah Rennard
  • Ashley Johnson
  • Lisa Pelikan
  • Harrison Page
Release date: 1998-09-09
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: S.N. Warren
Price: £3.56

Review Lionheart [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Echo Bridge Home Entertainment / The Last Sentinel [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jesse Johnson
  • Bokeem Woodbine
  • Steven Bauer
  • Keith David
  • Katee Sackhoff
  • Don "The Dragon" Wilson
Release date: 2007-11-13
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Ken Blackwell
Price: £2.94

Review The Last Sentinel [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment:


Review Lions Gate / DragonBall: The Saga of Goku (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Osamu Saka
  • Tôru Furuya
  • Naoko Watanabe
  • Daisuke Nishio
  • Doug Parker
  • Masako Nozawa
Release date: 2000-10-24
Run time: 337 min.
Creator: Akira Toriyama
Price: £6.92

Review DragonBall: The Saga of Goku (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Live/Artisan / Belly [1999] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hype Williams
  • Method Man
  • Nas
  • DMX
  • Taral Hicks
  • Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins
Release date: 1999-04-20
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Anthony Bodden
Price: £18.95

Review Belly [1999] (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Suspect Zero [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Aaron Eckhart
  • Ben Kingsley
  • E. Elias Merhige
  • Carrie-Anne Moss
Release date: 2005-05-02
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.29

Review Suspect Zero [2004] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

If you're into serial killer thrillers, you'll want to see Suspect Zero if only to soak up the genre's reliable penchant for creepy atmosphere and creepier behaviour. Dark, anguished and saturated with superficial style, it's a passable exercise in mystery from E. Elias Merhige, who fared better (both critically and artistically) with his acclaimed 2001 film Shadow of the Vampire. The directorial vision evident in that film is also apparent here, but it's pretentiously over-indulged in a grisly plot about the tormented victim of a secret, psychically abusive crime-fighting program (Ben Kingsley) whose pursuit of serial killers in New Mexico is designed to lure a similarly tormented FBI agent (Aaron Eckhart) and his understanding partner (Carrie-Anne Moss) into an investigation that grows increasingly violent and tragically intense. Like Eckhart's character, you may need a handful of aspirin after subjecting yourself to Merhige's visual excess, but as yet another variant of Seven, Suspect Zero scores points for attempting something different. -Jeff Shannon.

Review ITV DVD / Inspector Morse - Disc 7 And 8 - Last Bus To Woodstock / The Ghost In The Machine [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Patricia Hodge
  • Peter Duffell
  • John Thaw
  • Anthony Bate
  • Herbert Wise
  • Amanda Hillwood
  • Kevin Whately
Release date: 2002-06-24
Run time: 206 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.15

Review Inspector Morse - Disc 7 And 8 - Last Bus To Woodstock / The Ghost In The Machine [1987] / ITV DVD:

When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world-and with his colleagues in the police force-most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred-more deeply than he would ever admit-by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. [+]
It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! -Piers Ford.

Review Live/Artisan / Substitute 2: School's Out [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Edoardo Ballerini
  • Chuck Jeffreys
  • Susan May Pratt
  • Christopher Cousins
  • Treat Williams
  • Steven Pearl
Release date: 2001-10-23
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Roy Frumkes
Price: £3.94

Review Substitute 2: School's Out [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:


Review Criterion / Breathless [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Domarchi
  • Henri-Jacques Huet
  • Claude Mansard
  • Van Doude
  • Roger Hanin
Release date: 2007-10-23
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Martial Solal
Price: £18.24

Review Breathless [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:

Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), an ex-airline steward turned hoodlum, steals a car and heads to Paris. Discovering a gun in the car's glove department, he uses it to shoot and kill a cop who tries to wave him down. He wants to escape to Italy with his American girlfriend Patricia (Jean Seberg), but the police are after him, and he is distracted by all the pleasures Paris has to offer. Story-wise, Jean-Luc Godard's A Bout De Souffle (1960) (aka Breathless) is pretty thin, but as its director always proclaimed, you don't need much in the way of narrative to make a movie. Sometimes a girl and a gun are quite enough. The effortlessly cool and laconic Belmondo mirrors the director's mischief and flamboyance. With his fat cigarette stub perched on his bottom lip, his shades, his felt hat and white socks, he looks like a cross between a left-bank intellectual and an American gumshoe (perhaps his beloved Bogart). With her close-cropped hair and New York Herald Tribune T-shirt, his girlfriend (Jean Seberg) is equally stylish. A Hollywood star (she had appeared in the lead in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan in 1957 when she was still a teenager), the Iowa-born Seberg is turned by Godard into the lithe embodiment of European radical chic. The film has a spontaneity that studio-bound offerings of the time missed by a mile. [+]
Cameraman Raoul Coutard uses natural light and real locations whenever possible. Lots of the pet tricks in the movie-jump cuts, whip pans and improvised tracking shots-have been copied relentlessly by imitators ever since. A Bout De Souffle, though, is unique: anarchic, liberating and hugely stylish, "the best film around now", as its trailer proclaimed. It made Godard, almost overnight, into "the world's most discussed, interviewed and quoted filmmaker". -Geoffrey MacnabOn the DVD: Godard's greatest movie has been lovingly transferred to disc by Optimum, and comes with several extras including trailers and production notes and an old Godard short, Charlotte Et Son Jules, also starring the swaggering, arrogant Belmondo. -Geoffrey Macnab.

Review Revelation Films / Oktober [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Gallagher
  • Stephen Tompkinson
  • James McCarthy
  • Maria Lennon
  • James Duke
  • Lydzia Englert
Release date: 2004-05-24
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Ted Morley
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.39

Review Oktober [1998] / Revelation Films:


Review Warner Home Video / Big Jim McLain [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Olson
  • John Wayne
  • James Arness
  • Edward Ludwig
  • Veda Ann Borg
  • Alan Napier
Release date: 2007-05-22
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: William Wheeler
Price: £4.02

Review Big Jim McLain [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Artist Not Provided / In Search of History: Hell's Angels [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-09-27
Run time: 50 min.
Price: £10.49

Review In Search of History: Hell's Angels [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Artist Not Provided:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Last Great Wilderness [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Victoria Smurfit
  • Jonathan Phillips
  • Alastair Mackenzie
  • David Mackenzie
  • David Hayman
  • Ewan Stewart
Release date: 2003-09-29
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Michael Tait
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.99

Review The Last Great Wilderness [2003] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Allumination / Archangel [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gabriel Macht
  • Jon Jones
  • Konstantin Lavronenko
  • Yekaterina Rednikova
  • Lev Prygunov
  • Daniel Craig
Release date: 2007-01-02
Run time: 120 min.
Price: £3.96

Review Archangel [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Allumination:


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Young Sherlock Holmes And The Pyramid Of Fear [1986], Dexter: The Complete First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Night Falls On Manhattan [1996] [1997], The Deal [2005], Ecoute Le Temps [2006], Licence to Kill [1989], Gene Hackman Collection [1992], Lionheart [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Last Sentinel [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), DragonBall: The Saga of Goku (REGION 1) (NTSC), Belly [1999] (NTSC), Suspect Zero [2004], Inspector Morse - Disc 7 And 8 - Last Bus To Woodstock / The Ghost In The Machine [1987], Substitute 2: School's Out [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Breathless [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Oktober [1998], Big Jim McLain [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), In Search of History: Hell's Angels [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Last Great Wilderness [2003], Archangel [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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