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Review Tartan Video / Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita 1958) [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Keisuke Kinoshita
  • Kinuyo Tanaka
Release date: 2007-06-11
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.97

Review Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita 1958) [2007] / Tartan Video:


Review ITV DVD / 3 Classic World War 2 Naval Battles - The Battle Of The River Plate / In Which We Serve / We Dive At Dawn [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Emeric Pressburger
  • Anthony Quayle
  • John Mills
  • Michael Powell
  • Anthony Asquith
  • John Gregson
  • Noel Coward
  • Noel Coward
  • Derek Elphinstone
  • David Lean
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 344 min.
Creator: J.B. Williams
RRP: £17.99
Price: £17.54

Review 3 Classic World War 2 Naval Battles - The Battle Of The River Plate / In Which We Serve / We Dive At Dawn [1956] / ITV DVD:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Ship Of Fools [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Elizabeth Ashley
  • Simone Signoret
  • Stanley Kramer
  • Vivien Leigh
  • George Segal
  • Lee Marvin
Release date: 2007-02-05
Run time: 143 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.77

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Review R. W. Paul / R. W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908
Release date: 2006-11-27
Run time: 147 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.99

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Review Warner Home Video / Twilight Zone: The Movie [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George Miller (II)
  • Albert Brooks
  • Charles Hallahan
  • Doug McGrath
  • Joe Dante
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • Vic Morrow
Release date: 2007-10-09
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £9.13

Review Twilight Zone: The Movie [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Yearling [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gregory Peck
  • Claude Jarman Jr.
  • Clarence Brown
  • Jane Wyman
  • Chill Wills
  • Clem Bevans
Release date: 2002-09-03
Run time: 128 min.
Creator: Sidney Franklin
Price: £3.46

Review The Yearling [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Mogambo [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Clark Gable
  • Grace Kelly
  • Philip Stainton
  • Ava Gardner
  • John Ford
  • Donald Sinden
Release date: 2004-07-19
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.49

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Review 4 Front Video / A Kind Of Loving [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Malcolm Patton
  • June Ritchie
  • Bert Palmer
  • John Schlesinger
  • Thora Hird
  • Alan Bates
Release date: 2001-01-08
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Willis Hall
RRP: £5.99
Price: £17.95

Review A Kind Of Loving [1962] / 4 Front Video:

Pity poor Vic (Alan Bates): when he begins a relationship with Ingrid (June Ritchie), a typist at the Lancashire factory where he works as a draughtsman; his life comes apart at the seams. Ingrid's gossiping, malicious friends are bad enough, but her mother Mrs Rothwell (the terrifying Thora Hird) is something else. Vic has to marry Ingrid-she's pregnant-and the only place for them to stay is chez Rothwell. There's a tenderness about A Kind of Loving which you don't find in the more abrasive "kitchen sink" films of the 60s. Vic is not a rebel like Arthur Seton in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning or a macho lunk like Richard Harris' rugby-league player in This Sporting Life. He's a likable, easygoing youngster who soon discovers that real-life love affairs are infinitely messier than he and his mates could ever have imagined. The acute, witty screenplay, adapted by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse from Stan Barstow's novel, shows how limited Vic and Ingrid's choices really are. They have no privacy or independence. Bounced into a marriage that neither necessarily wants, their romance quickly sours. Mrs Rothwell is truly the mother-in-law from Hell-a busybody and a tyrant. [+]
Look out for the Queen Victoria-like expression on her face when a drunken Vic throws up in her front room. Debut-feature director John Schlesinger captures the humour and the pathos in the young lovers' plight without ever making fun of them. -Geoffrey Macnab.

Review Warner Home Video / Operation Crossbow [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Trevor Howard
  • Richard Johnson
  • Michael Anderson
  • George Peppard
  • John Mills
  • Sophia Loren
Release date: 2006-12-19
Run time: 116 min.
Price: £9.22

Review Operation Crossbow [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Stay Away, Joe [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Elvis Presley
  • Joan Blondell
  • Thomas Gomez
  • Katy Jurado
  • Burgess Meredith
  • Peter Tewksbury
Release date: 2007-08-07
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Michael A. Hoey
Price: £4.76

Review Stay Away, Joe [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM / Hans Christian Andersen [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Zizi Jeanmaire
  • Charles Vidor
  • Farley Granger
  • Philip Tonge
  • Danny Kaye
  • Joseph Walsh
Release date: 2001-03-06
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Moss Hart
Price: £4.88

Review Hans Christian Andersen [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Tartan Video / Through A Glass Darkly [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Max von Sydow
  • Gunnar Björnstrand
  • Harriet Andersson
  • Lars Passgård
  • Ingmar Bergman
Release date: 2001-11-19
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Allan Ekelund
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.99

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Guess Who's Coming To Dinner [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Cecil Kellaway
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Stanley Kramer
  • Katharine Houghton
Release date: 2002-03-04
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: William Rose
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.30

Review Guess Who's Coming To Dinner [1968] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). Guess Who's Coming to Dinner has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier's character in every socioeconomic sense a good catch: but what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find it as easy to accept a mixed-race relationship? But there's no denying the drawing power of this movie, which gets most of its integrity from the stirring performances of Tracy and Hepburn. When the former (who had been so ill that the production could not get completion insurance) gives a speech toward the end about race, love and much else, it's impossible not to be affected by the last great moment in a great actor's life and career. -Tom Keogh.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Touch Of Evil [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Calleia
  • Janet Leigh
  • Akim Tamiroff
  • Orson Welles
  • Orson Welles
  • Charlton Heston
Release date: 2003-11-10
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Whit Masterson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.49

Review Touch Of Evil [1958] / Universal Pictures UK:

Considered by many to be the greatest B movie ever made, the original-release version of Orson Welles' film noir masterpiece Touch of Evil was, ironically, never intended as a B movie at all-it merely suffered that fate after it was taken away from writer-director Welles, then reedited and released in 1958 as the second half of a double feature. Time and critical acclaim would eventually elevate the film to classic status (and Welles' original vision was meticulously followed for the film's 1998 restoration), but for four decades this original version stood as a testament to Welles' directorial genius. From its astonishing, miraculously choreographed opening shot (lasting over three minutes) to Marlene Dietrich's classic final line of dialogue, this sordid tale of murder and police corruption is like a valentine for the cinematic medium, with Welles as its love-struck suitor. As the corpulent cop who may be involved in a border-town murder, Welles faces opposition from a narcotics officer (Charlton Heston) whose wife (Janet Leigh) is abducted and held as the pawn in a struggle between Heston's quest for truth and Welles' control of carefully hidden secrets. The twisting plot is wildly entertaining (even though it's harder to follow in this original version), but even greater pleasure is found in the pulpy dialogue and the sheer exuberance of the dazzling directorial style. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Walt Disney Video / Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh - 1964 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Geoffrey Keen
  • James Neilson
  • Michael Hordern
  • Patrick McGoohan
  • Tony Britton
  • George Cole
Release date: 2008-11-11
Run time: 287 min.
Creator: Hugh Attwooll

Review Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh - 1964 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Maltese Falcon [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Lorre
  • Gladys George
  • Mary Astor
  • Barton MacLane
  • John Huston
  • Humphrey Bogart
Release date: 2006-06-01
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Dashiell Hammett
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.54

Review The Maltese Falcon [1941] / Warner Home Video:

The Maltese Falcon is still the tightest, sharpest, and most cynical of Hollywood's official deathless classics, bracingly tough even by post-Tarantino standards. Humphrey Bogart is Dashiell Hammett's definitive private eye, Sam Spade, struggling to keep his hard-boiled cool as the double-crosses pile up around his ankles. The plot, which dances all around the stolen Middle Eastern statuette of the title, is too baroque to try to follow, and it doesn't make a bit of difference. The dialogue, much of it lifted straight from Hammett, is delivered with whip-crack speed and sneering ferocity, as Bogie faces off against Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet, fends off the duplicitous advances of Mary Astor, and roughs up a cringing "gunsel" played by Elisha Cook Jr. It's an action movie of sorts, at least by implication: the characters always seem keyed up, right on the verge of erupting into violence. This is a turning-point picture in several respects: John Huston (The African Queen) made his directorial debut here in 1941, and Bogart, who had mostly played bad guys, was a last-minute substitution for George Raft, who must have been kicking himself for years afterward. This is the role that made Bogart a star and established his trend-setting (and still influential) antihero persona. -David Chute END.

Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Hell In The Pacific [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Lee Marvin
  • John Boorman
  • Toshiro Mifune
Release date: 2008-10-27
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.38

Review Hell In The Pacific [1969] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Easy Rider/Taxi Driver [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Cybill Shepherd
  • Peter Fonda
  • Dennis Hopper
  • Martin Scorsese
  • Robert De Niro
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Dennis Hopper
Release date: 2007-04-30
Run time: 200 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.98

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Review Bfi Video / More [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Klaus Grünberg
  • Michel Chanderli
  • Henry Wolf
  • Mimsy Farmer
  • Barbet Schroeder
  • Heinz Engelmann
Release date: 2003-07-28
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Paul Gégauff
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.16

Review More [1969] / Bfi Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Curse of Frankenstein [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hazel Court
  • Terence Fisher
  • Peter Cushing
  • Melvyn Hayes
  • Robert Urquhart
  • Christopher Lee
Release date: 2002-10-01
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Michael Carreras
Price: £4.88

Review The Curse of Frankenstein [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Britain's Hammer Studios had been making films for decades before they suddenly redefined themselves with this lurid remake of the Universal Studios horror classic. Prohibited by Universal from copying their blocky make-up (and their script, for that matter), Hammer returned to Mary Shelley's novel for inspiration and then went in its own direction. Peter Cushing plays Dr. Frankenstein as the rational scientist turned cold-blooded criminal in his campaign to discover the secret of life, committing murder to further his ends or to remove an inconvenient mistress. Christopher Lee is the pitiable creature, a terrified behemoth more innocent new-born than malevolent monster. His pale, pallid, grotesquely scarred face was so thickly applied that he emotes almost exclusively with his eyes and his awkward, stumbling gestures. The not-so-good Dr. Frankenstein is the true monster, a ruthless scientist whose rejection of superstition extends to all moral considerations. Shot in blood-red colour by Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher, the stylish, often salacious film became Hammer's biggest success to date, made horror stars out of the classically trained Cushing and Lee, and transformed the B studio into the Hammer we know and love today: the house that dripped blood. The Horror of Dracula immediately followed, reuniting the winning team of Cushing and Lee, and Cushing returned in four of six Frankenstein sequels. [+]
-Sean Axmaker.

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Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita 1958) [2007], 3 Classic World War 2 Naval Battles - The Battle Of The River Plate / In Which We Serve / We Dive At Dawn [1956], Ship Of Fools [1965], R. W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908, Twilight Zone: The Movie [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Yearling [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mogambo [1954], A Kind Of Loving [1962], Operation Crossbow [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Stay Away, Joe [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hans Christian Andersen [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Through A Glass Darkly [1961], Guess Who's Coming To Dinner [1968], Touch Of Evil [1958], Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh - 1964 (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Maltese Falcon [1941], Hell In The Pacific [1969], Easy Rider/Taxi Driver [1969], More [1969], The Curse of Frankenstein [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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