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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Home On The Range [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Randy Quaid
  • Will Finn
  • Jennifer Tilly
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
  • John Sanford
  • Judi Dench
Release date: 2004-11-29
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Donnie Long
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.89

Review Home On The Range [2004] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review TLA Releasing / Latter Days [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Rebekah Jordan
  • Wes Ramsey
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Steve Sandvoss
  • Amber Benson
Release date: 2005-09-26
Run time: 123 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.50

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / First Daughter [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Keaton
  • Forest Whitaker
  • Marc Blucas
  • Katie Holmes
  • Amerie Rogers
  • Margaret Colin
Release date: 2005-06-13
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.89

Review First Daughter [2004] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Cinema Club / Are You Being Served? - The Complete First Series - Including pilot episode [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Wendy Richard
  • Mollie Sugden
  • Frank Thornton
  • Nicholas Smith
  • John Inman
Release date: 2005-07-25
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.56

Review Are You Being Served? - The Complete First Series - Including pilot episode [1972] / Cinema Club:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Laurel & Hardy Volume 2 - Someone's Ailing/Classic Shorts
Actors & Directors
  • Stan Laurel
  • Oliver Hardy
Release date: 2006-10-02
Run time: 196 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.00

Review Laurel & Hardy Volume 2 - Someone's Ailing/Classic Shorts / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Tartan Video / Belleville Rendez-Vous [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Michel Robin
  • Michèle Caucheteux
  • Sylvain Chomet
  • Jean-Claude Donda
  • Monica Viegas
  • Béatrice Bonifassi
Release date: 2004-01-26
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Viviane Vanfleteren
RRP: £19.99
Price: £29.70

Review Belleville Rendez-Vous [2003] / Tartan Video:

One of the more surprising critical hits of 2003, Sylvain Chomet's Belleville Rendezvous is a French animation that combines occasional beauty and charm with sardonic grotesquerie. People have commented about its bitchy portrait of a USA where everyone is overweight and over-helpful; it is equally nasty about a provincial France, where everything is grey and nothing is convenient. A grandmother and her dog set out to rescue a cyclist who has been kidnapped by the French Mafia and is forced to race endlessly into a receding projected landscape; she is helped by a superannuated trio of female close-harmony chansonniers marooned in American poverty. Nothing in this film is mere chance-almost everything we see turns out to be relevant. There is also little dialogue-most of the time, sound effects and music take its place, from the irritating squeak of a mechanic's breathing to the sublimity of Mozart's "Kyrie" as a storm rages at sea. Belleville Rendezvous uses the best of traditional animation techniques and modern technology to produce something sharply funny and beautifully composed; it is not quite like anything you have seen before. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Hank Azaria / Mystery Men
Release date: 2003-07-21
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.95

Review Mystery Men / Hank Azaria:

Ever wonder if there was a class system in the world of superheroes? After all the big names like Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, etc. , who were the supporting players? The folks assigned to the less-than-stellar gigs of saving only a small part of the world? According to this intermittently successful send-up of comic book heroism, there are indeed masked heroes who struggle and toil for their moment in the super sun. Based on the Dark Horse comic book series, Mystery Men follows the travails of three B-list avengers-Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller), the Shoveler (William H. Macy), and the Blue Raja (Hank Azaria)-as they fight to make themselves known to the citizens of Champion City, quite difficult to do when the flashy Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear, never better) takes all the cool gigs and has product endorsements up the ying-yang. According to them, it's all a matter of timing-never mind that Mr. Furious never rises above a snit, or that the Blue Raja wears green. Their big break comes when Captain Amazing is abducted by the evil Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush), and it's up to this motley crew to save Champion City. Blessed with a wondrously gifted comic cast and full of droll details, Mystery Men struggles in fits and spurts towards its climax. Transcendently witty in parts, it's also woefully sophomoric in others. [+]
Literally, this is the kind of movie in which someone gets off a brilliant line and then sits on a fork. Still, when this movie is rolling, it's gleefully on target, thanks primarily to the mordantly cocky Stiller and Janeane Garofalo as a latecomer to the superhero gang; her secret weapon is a bowling ball in which her dead father's head is encased. The comic chemistry between these two is fierce, and when you add the dryly funny Macy and the endearing Azaria (who finally gets a chance to let loose with his comic gifts), it's a hilarious joyride. Too bad that the gas tank is only half-full; this stunning cast deserves a first-rate vehicle. With Tom Waits as a weapons expert, Claire Forlani as the requisite babe, and Paul Reubens as the Spleen, the world's most flatulent superhero. -Mark Englehart.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Hardball [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Keanu Reeves
  • Michael Perkins
  • Michael B. Jordan
  • John Hawkes
  • DeWayne Warren
  • Brian Robbins
Release date: 2003-03-03
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.47

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Going My Way [1944]
Actors & Directors
  • Leo McCarey
  • Bing Crosby
  • Frank McHugh
  • Jean Heather
  • James Brown
  • Barry Fitzgerald
Release date: 2006-02-20
Run time: 126 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.57

Review Going My Way [1944] / Universal Pictures UK:

This irresistible Oscar winner from writer-director Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember) stars Bing Crosby as a low-key, crooning priest who joins the parish of a no-nonsense but sweet old Irish man of the cloth (Barry Fitzgerald). While Bing turns local toughs into a choir, the elder priest worries over the church building fund and whether he'll get a chance to see his old mother back in Ireland before she dies. One would have to have a heart of stone not to be won over by this charmer, with a lovely ending guaranteed to make you bawl for a week. -Tom Keogh.

Review MGM Entertainment / Irma La Douce [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Herschel Bernardi
  • Bruce Yarnell
  • Billy Wilder
  • Lou Jacobi
  • Jack Lemmon
  • Shirley MacLaine
Release date: 2001-11-26
Run time: 137 min.
Creator: I.A.L. Diamond
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.30

Review Irma La Douce [1963] / MGM Entertainment:

Irma La Douce reunited The Apartment team of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine with director Billy Wilder in an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name which had been a hit in Paris, London and New York. The screen transfer by Wilder and his colleague-writer IAL Diamond-however, omits the show's songs, relegating them to a background score refashioned by Andre Previn with some additional themes of his own. Background here is a complimentary term, for whatever qualms one might entertain as to this move, the two sets of themes are skilfully woven together by Previn and emerge as a witty and lyrical aural delight in their own right which is given due prominence on the soundtrack. Wilder is no rush to tell prostitute Irma's story: her affair with Lemmon being the pivot of the tale as he takes on the disguise of an English Lord. Lemmon and MacLaine beautifully play their mutual attraction under Wilder's deft direction with the slapstick never allowed to get out of hand. Many will recognise Wilder's touch in his handling of the scene where Lemmon as a policeman is carted off in a van full of voracious prostitutes from the bunks-in-the-train sequence in Some Like It Hot. The handsome production, designed by Alexander Tranner-with the occasional view of the Seine thrown in for good measure-and the Panavision photography by Joseph La Shelle are further assets. On the DVD: The DVD contains a longer than usual theatrical trailer, half shot as a cartoon with characters closely resembling those Pink Panther figures who emerged at the same time from the Mirisch Brothers, a pair prominent in sustaining the unique success of United Artists, whose name was deleted, in favour of the MGM logo, in the early 1960s. It's too bad that the music on this DVD transfer sometimes strikes a coarse note particularly over the extended opening credits. -Adrian Edwards.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Still Game - The Complete Series 4 [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Hines
  • Ford Kiernan
  • Paul Riley
  • Greg Hemphill
  • Mark Cox
  • Jane McCarry
Release date: 2006-07-17
Run time: 174 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.06

Review Still Game - The Complete Series 4 [2002] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / That 70s Show - Series 4 - Complete [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Mila Kunis
  • Ashton Kutcher
  • Danny Masterson
  • Laura Prepon
  • Topher Grace
Release date: 2006-08-21
Run time: 621 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £14.95

Review That 70s Show - Series 4 - Complete [2002] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Down With Love [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Peyton Reed
  • David Hyde Pierce
  • Sarah Paulson
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Renee Zellweger
  • Rachel Dratch
Release date: 2004-02-02
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.48

Review Down With Love [2003] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The bright, glossy world of Doris Day and Rock Hudson sex comedies gets a self-aware brush-up in Down with Love. Pillow-lipped Renée Zellweger (Chicago) plays Barbara Novak, the author of a bestselling book called Down with Love that advises women to focus on their careers and have sex à la carte-just like a man would. Determined to prove that Novak is just as vulnerable to love as any woman, dashingly chauvinist magazine writer Catcher Block (ever-charming Ewan McGregor, Moulin Rouge) pretends to be a courtly astronaut who wouldn't dream of putting his hand on a woman's knee. This piffle of a story seems like nothing more than an excuse for ironic double-entendres and dazzling production design, until a sneaky plot twist suddenly raises the stakes for the movie's end. As he always does, the brilliant David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) scores the most comic points as Block's fussy editor. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Big Chill [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Glenn Close
  • Jeff Goldblum
  • Tom Berenger
  • Kevin Kline
  • Lawrence Kasdan
  • William Hurt
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Barbara Benedek
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.47

Review The Big Chill [1983] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

This seminal film about the reunion of thirtysomething friends works even better than when first released in 1983. The fine performances of the ensemble cast and a rockin' soundtrack always made this eminently enjoyable. However, the characters' often pompous blather occasionally stalled the action. Baby Boomer introspection has become so common that such navel gazing seems less problematic than it did in the early 1980s. Seven former classmates from the University of Michigan gather for the funeral of Alex, their idealistic and suicidal friend. They use their time together to become reacquainted, all the while discussing lost dreams and current hopes. (This should appeal to anyone who enjoyed that other famous reunion flick of the 1980s, John Sayles' Return of the Secaucus Seven. ) Director-cowriter Lawrence Kasdan culled finely textured performances from his cast and filled the screen with memorable details. He may manipulate us with his writing but the actors do an impressive job of pulling at our heartstrings while Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye play in the background. -Rochelle O'Gorman.

Review Warner Home Video / 10 [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Dee Wallace
  • Robert Webber
  • Julie Andrews
  • Blake Edwards
  • Dudley Moore
  • Bo Derek
Release date: 1999-06-28
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Tony Adams
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.00

Review 10 [1979] / Warner Home Video:

One of the best comedies of the 1970s, Blake Edwards' ode to midlife crisis and the hazards of infidelity now plays like a valentine to that self-indulgent decade, and it's still as funny as it ever was. In the signature role of his career (along with Arthur), Dudley Moore plays a songwriter with a severe case of marital restlessness, and all it takes is a chance encounter with Bo Derek (in her screen debut) to jump-start his libido. Julie Andrews plays Moore's wife, who will only tolerate so much of her husband's desperate need to reaffirm his sexual vitality, while Moore pursues Derek to a tropical rendezvous. The action builds to the now-famous bedroom scene that sent everyone rushing to the music store for their own copy of Ravel's Boléro. Talk about a classical climax! -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Infinity / I'll Be Home For Christmas [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Eve Gordon
  • Arlene Sanford
  • Ann Jillian
  • Gary Cole
  • Jack Palance
  • Robert Hays
Release date: 2007-11-19
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.13

Review I'll Be Home For Christmas [1997] / Infinity:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 1-2 - Complete [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Kathryn Drysdale
  • Ralf Little
  • Natalie Casey
  • Gareth Carrivick
  • Sheridan Smith
  • Will Mellor
Release date: 2003-08-18
Run time: 360 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £6.29

Review Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 1-2 - Complete [2001] / 2 Entertain Video:

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is the smuttier, stupider sitcom descendent of Men Behaving Badly, but lacks that show's charm and intelligence. The series tells the story of five twentysomethings-the loveable Johnny (The Royle Family's Ralf Little), his libidinous sidekick Gaz (Will Mellor), their long-suffering girlfriends Janet (Sheridan Smith) and Donna (Natalie Casey), and a token comedy-weirdo Louise (Kathryn Drysdale)-doing their best to fathom life's hardships through endless discussions about sex, booze and relationships. In trying to appeal to a "yoof" audience through the use of recognisable, everyday settings, Two Pints. eschews the tradition of focusing on a "situation" almost entirely; essentially consisting of a string of scenes in which the characters sit trading witless banter in a pub, then in a lounge, then in a kitchen and then in the pub again. As a result it can't punch in the same league as more sophisticated, dramatically satisfying and, frankly, funnier sitcoms such as The Office, Spaced or Black Books and feels more like a weak excuse for a series of toilet gags. On these terms, however, it is amusing if juvenile entertainment. In particular, Little's performance as Johnny, a confused child trapped in a man's body, provides both humour and a likable centre to the show. On the DVD: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps on DVD has the complete first two series with has episode selection, scene selection and subtitles but no special features -Paul Philpott.

Review Digital Classics DVD / Sir Henry At Rawlinson End [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Fowler
  • Sheila Reid
  • Trevor Howard
  • Denise Coffey
  • Steve Roberts
  • Patrick Magee
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £11.94

Review Sir Henry At Rawlinson End [1980] / Digital Classics DVD:


Review Pias UK / Mark Steel - Vive La Revolution [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Steel
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.25

Review Mark Steel - Vive La Revolution [2007] / Pias UK:


Review MGM Entertainment / Midnight Sting [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Ritchie
  • Louis Gossett Jr.
  • James Woods
  • Bruce Dern
  • Heather Graham
  • Oliver Platt
Release date: 2004-06-07
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.98

Review Midnight Sting [1992] / MGM Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
Home On The Range [2004], Latter Days [2003], First Daughter [2004], Are You Being Served? - The Complete First Series - Including pilot episode [1972], Laurel & Hardy Volume 2 - Someone's Ailing/Classic Shorts, Belleville Rendez-Vous [2003], Mystery Men, Hardball [2001], Going My Way [1944], Irma La Douce [1963], Still Game - The Complete Series 4 [2002], That 70s Show - Series 4 - Complete [2002], Down With Love [2003], The Big Chill [1983], 10 [1979], I'll Be Home For Christmas [1997], Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 1-2 - Complete [2001], Sir Henry At Rawlinson End [1980], Mark Steel - Vive La Revolution [2007], Midnight Sting [1992]

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