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Review Strand Home Video / Love Forbidden [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Herve Brunon
  • Echo Danon
  • Orietta Gianjorio
  • Rodolphe Marconi
  • Andrea Necci
  • Rodolphe Marconi
Release date: 2004-04-27
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Bruno Alexiu
Price: £8.87

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Review First Run Features / The Best of Boys in Love (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Gingerich
  • Colleen O'Neill (II)
  • Terracino
  • Patrick McGuinn
  • P. David Ebersole
  • Todd Downing
  • George Camarda
  • Kelvin Walker
  • Joseph Paolini
  • John Cantwell
Release date: 2000-09-19
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £25.00

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Review Meridian Entertainment / Czech Mating
Release date: 2008-09-08
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.95

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Review Tla Releasing / Sorry, Haters [2006]
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.45

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Review Water Bearer Films / To Play or To Die [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Gribling
  • Tjebbo Gerritsma
  • Joost Hienen
  • Diane Lensink
  • Frank Krom
  • Titus Muizelaar
Release date: 1998-11-11
Run time: 50 min.
Price: £13.84

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Review Universal Studios / Gods and Monsters [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David Dukes
  • Ian McKellen
  • Lynn Redgrave
  • Lolita Davidovich
  • Bill Condon
  • Brendan Fraser
Release date: 2003-06-17
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £5.14

Review Gods and Monsters [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1998 and winner of several awards including the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Gods and Monsters is a compassionate speculation about the final days of James Whale (1889-1957), the director of Frankenstein and 20 other films of the 1930s and 40s, who was openly gay at a time when homosexuality in Hollywood was discreetly concealed. Adapted and directed by Bill Condon from Christopher Bram's novel Father of Frankenstein,the film stars Ian McKellen in a sublime performance as the white-haired Whale, who is portrayed as a dapper gent and amateur artist prompted by failing health into melancholy remembrance of things past. Flashbacks of lost love, World War I battle trauma and glory days in Hollywood combine with Whale's present-day attraction to a newly hired yard worker (Brendan Fraser) whose hunky, Frankenstein-like physique makes him an ideal model for Whale's fixated sketching. The friendship between the handsome gardener and his elderly gay admirer is by turns tenuous, humorous, mutually beneficial and ultimately rather sad-but to Condon's credit Whale is never seen as pathetic, lecherous or senile. Equally rich is the rapport between Whale and his long-time housekeeper (played with wry sarcasm by Lynn Redgrave), who serves as protector, mother and even surrogate spouse while Whale's mental state deteriorates. Flashbacks to Whale's film-making days are painstakingly authentic (particularly in the casting of look-alike actors playing Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester), and all of these ingredients combine to make Gods and Monsters (executive produced by horror novelist-film maker Clive Barker) a touchingly affectionate film that succeeds on many levels. It is at once a keen glimpse of Hollywood's past, a loving tribute to James Whale and a richly moving, delicately balanced drama about loneliness, memory and the passions that keep us alive. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Greenwood / Cooper / The House of Morecock (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jonas Morecock
  • Joe Phillips
Release date: 2004-01-06
Price: £10.74

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Review Merchant Ivory / Maurice: The Merchant Ivory Collection [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Callow
  • Rupert Graves
  • Denholm Elliott
  • James Ivory
  • Hugh Grant
  • James Wilby
Release date: 2004-02-24
Run time: 140 min.
Price: £12.10

Review Maurice: The Merchant Ivory Collection [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Merchant Ivory:

The second of the Merchant/Ivory films (A Room with a View, Howard's End), Maurice deals with a theme few period pieces dare mention-a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It's not just a gay coming-of-age story, however. The hero wrestles with British class society as much as his personal and sexual identity. The film opens on a stormy, windswept beach, as an older man awkwardly instructs young, fatherless Maurice Hall (James Wilby) in the "sacred mysteries" of sex. The same turbulent, wordless struggle with passion lasts throughout this slowly evolving, beautifully filmed story. Novelist E M Forster's brainy, British melodrama hinges on choice and compulsion, as the pensive hero falls for two completely different men. First comes frail, suppressed Clive (Hugh Grant), who wants nothing more than classical Platonic harmony. and a straight lifestyle. [+]
(Grant's performance is so convincing, one wonders how he ever became a heterosexual sex symbol. ) After Clive's wedding, Maurice turns to hypnosis to cure his unspeakable longings. Unfortunately, his "cure" is interrupted by Clive's lustful, brooding, barely literate gamekeeper Scudder (Rupert Graves), a worker more at home gutting rabbits than discussing the classics. Maurice's love for a "social inferior" forces him to confront his illicit desire and his ingrained class snobbery. -Grant Balfour.

Review TLA Releasing / Circuit [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dirk Shafer
  • Jonathan Wade-Drahos
  • Andre Khabbazi
  • Brian Lane Green
  • Kiersten Warren
  • Daniel Kucan
Release date: 2002-12-31
Price: £4.80

Review Circuit [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / TLA Releasing:


Review Vanguard Cinema / Seducing Maarya [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Cas Anvar
  • Mohan Agashe
  • Nandana Sen
  • Hunt Hoe
  • Vijaya Mehta
  • Ryan Holliman
Release date: 2001-10-23
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Phyllis Lewis
Price: £16.33

Review Seducing Maarya [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vanguard Cinema:


Review TLA Releasing / Three Dancing Slaves [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Thomas Dumerchez
  • Stéphane Rideau
  • Bruno Lochet
  • Salim Kechiouche
  • Nicolas Cazalé
  • Gaël Morel
Release date: 2005-12-13
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £6.74

Review Three Dancing Slaves [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / TLA Releasing:


Review Warner Home Video / Cruising [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • William Friedkin
  • Paul Sorvino
  • Richard Cox
  • Karen Allen
  • Al Pacino
  • Don Scardino
Release date: 2007-09-18
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £7.33

Review Cruising [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Strand Home Video / Formula 17 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dada Ji
  • Tony Yang
  • Yin-jung Chen
  • Duncan Lai
  • Jimmy Yang (II)
  • Chin King
Release date: 2005-11-29
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £8.07

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Review Here / Looking for Cheyenne [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Laurence Côte
  • Guilaine Londez
  • Malik Zidi
  • Pierre Hiessler
  • Aurelia Petit
  • Valerie Minetto
Release date: 2008-04-08
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Christophe Chevallier
Price: £9.89

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Review Quantum Leap / White Steel
Actors & Directors
  • Jamie Hendrix
  • John Summers
  • Mark Brandon
Release date: 2004-07-26
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.51

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Review Water Bearer Films / Mango Souffle [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ankur Vikal
  • Atul Kulkarni
  • Faredoon Dodo-Bhujwala
  • Mahesh Dattani
  • Heeba Shah
  • Sanjit Bedi
Release date: 2004-11-09
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Amit Heri
Price: £10.09

Review Mango Souffle [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Water Bearer Films:


Review Ariztical / Darker Secrets: Sideline Secrets 2 [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Riley Sheridan
  • David Beutler
  • Danika Christie
  • Steven Vasquez
  • Ryan Bauer
  • Richard Bolander
Release date: 2008-02-26
Run time: 70 min.
Price: £8.53

Review Darker Secrets: Sideline Secrets 2 [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ariztical:


Review Miramax / Closet [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Daniel Auteuil
  • Michèle Laroque
  • Gérard Depardieu
  • Thierry Lhermitte
  • Jean Rochefort
  • Francis Veber
Release date: 2001-11-13
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £5.24

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Review Peccadillo Pictures / Paris Was A Woman [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Berthe Cleyrerque
  • Maureen All
  • Greta Schiller
  • Gillian Hanna
  • Juliet Stevenson
  • Margaret Robertson
Release date: 2004-08-26
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £16.55

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Review Columbia TriStar / Monster [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Dern
  • Lee Tergesen
  • Charlize Theron
  • Patty Jenkins
  • Annie Corley
  • Christina Ricci
Release date: 2004-06-01
Run time: 109 min.
Price: £3.04

Review Monster [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Critics have universally praised Charlise Theron's performance in Monster and the praise, for once, is astonishingly deserved. The gorgeous star of The Italian Job and The Cider House Rules vanishes into the character of Aileen Wuornos, a real-life serial killer and prostitute who murdered at least seven men in Florida. Monster traces her relationship with a young woman named Selby (Christina Ricci), which intertwines with Wuornos's murder spree. This remarkable movie finds compassion for Wuornos but unflinchingly faces her brutal crimes; Theron expresses this woman's horrific life history without softening her terrifying, dead-eyed stare. This is a gripping, devastating performance, a physical and psychological transformation comparable to Robert DeNiro's in Raging Bull. The movie's moral and emotional complexity wouldn't succeed without this searing performance-but succeed it does, and it will stick with you for some time afterwards. Those interested in the back story may also want to seek out Nick Broomfield's documentaries on Wuornos. -Bret Fetzer.

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Love Forbidden [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Best of Boys in Love (REGION 1) (NTSC), Czech Mating, Sorry, Haters [2006], To Play or To Die [1990], Gods and Monsters [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The House of Morecock (REGION 1) (NTSC), Maurice: The Merchant Ivory Collection [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Circuit [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Seducing Maarya [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Three Dancing Slaves [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cruising [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Formula 17 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Looking for Cheyenne [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), White Steel, Mango Souffle [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Darker Secrets: Sideline Secrets 2 [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Closet [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Paris Was A Woman [1995], Monster [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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