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Review Icon Home Entertainment / What Women Want [DVD] [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Helen Hunt
  • Nancy Meyers
  • Mel Gibson
  • Alan Alda
  • Marisa Tomei
  • Ashley Johnson
Release date: 2001-08-06
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Josh Goldsmith
RRP: £13.99
Price: £1.75

Review What Women Want [DVD] [2001] / Icon Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Robert Young
  • Michael Palin
  • Kevin Kline
  • Fred Schepisi
  • John Cleese
  • Robert Lindsay
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
Release date: 2003-04-14
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: William Goldman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.22

Review Fierce Creatures [DVD] [1997] / 4 Front Video:

In an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle, John Cleese wrote Fierce Creatures with the purpose of reuniting the comedic cast of A Fish Called Wanda. Media mogul (Kevin Kline) owns a London zoo. He demands that the park raise more profit, so the new zoo director (Cleese) orders that only dangerous animals be displayed in order to maximize ticket sales. In a dual role, Kline also plays the mogul's son, who plans to run the zoo with the help of displaced employees (including Michael Palin) and zoo programmer Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis). The situation lends itself to comedic confusion and split-second timing, and for a few good laughs the film is a pretty safe bet. It's not as hilarious as A Fish Called Wanda (that's a pretty tall order), but Cleese knows comedy, and his efforts are worth a look. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Come September [DVD] [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Walter Slezak
  • Bobby Darin
  • Rock Hudson
  • Sandra Dee
  • Gina Lollobrigida
  • Robert Mulligan
Release date: 2005-04-04
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Gina Lollobrigida
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.80

Review Come September [DVD] [1961] / Universal Pictures UK:

Hanging out at an Italian villa with Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida sounds like a painless way to kill a vacation-and Come September is a pretty painless movie, too. Rock is a millionaire who spends a month at his home on the Riviera every year, except this year he's come early and surprised his staff, who've been running the place as a paying hotel. This is one of those comedies of sexual frustration-Rock can't get alone with Gina, because the "hotel" is overrun with American teenagers (chief among them Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin, who married after meeting on the shoot). The plot is laboured, and director Robert Mulligan shows little feel for farce (he would shortly hit his stride with To Kill a Mockingbird). At least the location shooting has a nice summer breeze to it, and Darin sings "Multiplication" in a nightclub, complete with hepcat moves. -Robert Horton.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Orange County [DVD] [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Black
  • Jake Kasdan
  • Bret Harrison
  • Kyle Howard
  • Colin Hanks
  • Schuyler Fisk
Release date: 2003-07-07
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Van Toffler
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.01

Review Orange County [DVD] [2002] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

While it invites charges of Hollywood nepotism, Orange County overcomes that stigma with a delightful cast of newcomers and veterans alike. It's no better or worse than many teen comedies, but director Jake Kasdan (son of director Lawrence Kasdan) astutely combines teen-flick staples (stoner gags, raucous parties) with a biting undercurrent of southern California absurdity. This comedic texture helps Colin Hanks (son of Tom) and Schuyler Fisk (daughter of Sissy Spacek) to prove their big-screen promise. They play (respectively) an Orange County teen and aspiring writer named Shaun who yearns for admission to Stanford, and his sensible girlfriend who knows just how to nurture his dreams. Much of the comedy arises from the foibles of Shaun's dysfunctional family (played to perfection by Jack Black, Catherine O'Hara and John Lithgow), while unbilled cameos by Ben Stiller and Kevin Kline add zest to a movie that tries to be different, and mostly succeeds. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Warner Home Video / The Unsinkable Molly Brown [DVD] [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Hermione Baddeley
  • Harve Presnell
  • Charles Walters
  • Debbie Reynolds
  • Ed Begley
Release date: 2006-04-03
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Hermione Baddeley
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.30

Review The Unsinkable Molly Brown [DVD] [1964] / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Lady Eve [DVD] [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Eugene Pallette
  • Charles Coburn
  • Henry Fonda
  • William Demarest
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Preston Sturges
Release date: 2006-10-02
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Monckton Hoffe
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.02

Review The Lady Eve [DVD] [1941] / Universal Pictures UK:

In 1941, Barbara Stanwyck was offered two screwball roles equally suited to her tart intelligence, deft comic timing, and undeniable sex appeal, and it's a photo finish as to which was funnier-showgirl-on-the-lam Sugarpuss O'Shea, the title character in Howard Hawks's Ball of Fire, or con artist Jean Harrington a. k. a. Lady Eve Sidwich, the delirious fulcrum for this classic Preston Sturges comedy. Under Sturges's typically antic microscope, the collision between the gold-digging Harrington and the very rich, very hapless brewery-heir-turned-herpetologist Charles Pike (a wonderfully callow, guileless Henry Fonda) yields ample opportunity for the writer-director to skewer issues of class and sex; as always, Sturges is bold in pushing the censors' envelope, capturing a palpable erotic heat between the canny Jean and the literally feverish Charlie, who, after a year up the Amazon, is instantly smitten by the mere sight of her shapely ankles (in hindsight, a precursor to her subsequent effect in Double Indemnity). To give away the plot machinations driving the farce would spoil the fun, beyond confirming impersonations, mixed signals, and misunderstandings as the turns in a consistently rollicking ride that makes good use of Charles Coburn and screwball character veterans Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, and Eric Blore. -Sam Sutherland.

Review Uca / Layer Cake/Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (Steelbook) [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Nick Moran
  • Vinnie Jones
  • Daniel Craig
  • Brad Pitt
  • Matthew Vaughn
  • Guy Ritchie
  • Jason Statham
Release date: 2008-09-22
Run time: 310 min.
Creator: Jason Statham
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.95

Review Layer Cake/Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (Steelbook) [DVD] / Uca:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Pink Panther [Blu-ray] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Claudia Cardinale
  • Peter Sellers
  • David Niven
  • Blake Edwards
  • Robert Wagner
Release date: 2009-02-02
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Claudia Cardinale
RRP: £22.99
Price: £10.65

Review The Pink Panther [Blu-ray] [1963] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Peter Sellers, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Wagner, David Niven Directors: Blake Edwards

Review Showbox Home Entertainment / Comedy Classics - The Love Match [1955] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Shirley Eaton
  • Arthur Askey
  • Dorothy Blythe
  • William Franklyn
  • David Paltenghi
  • Jill Adams
Release date: 2007-04-02
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Arthur Askey
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.15

Review Comedy Classics - The Love Match [1955] [DVD] / Showbox Home Entertainment:


Review Slam Dunk Media / Not Now, Darling [1973] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Leslie Phillips
  • Barbara Windsor
  • Julie Ege
  • Cicely Courtneidge
  • Moira Lister
  • David Croft
  • Ray Cooney
Release date: 2007-10-08
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Cicely Courtneidge
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.00

Review Not Now, Darling [1973] [DVD] / Slam Dunk Media:


Review Arrow Films / Les Visiteurs [1993] [DVD] [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Christian Clavier
  • Jean-Marie Poiré
  • Jean Reno
  • Marie-Anne Chazel
  • Valérie Lemercier
  • Christian Bujeau
Release date: 2000-02-07
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Alain Terzian
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.72

Review Les Visiteurs [1993] [DVD] [1994] / Arrow Films:


Review Lions Gate Home Entertainment / War Inc. [DVD] [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Marisa Tomei
  • Joshua Seftel
  • Ben Kingsley
  • Hilary Duff
  • John Cusack
  • Joan Cusack
Release date: 2009-03-16
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Hilary Duff
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.98

Review War Inc. [DVD] [2008] / Lions Gate Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Being There [Blu-ray] [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Hal Ashby
  • Melvyn Douglas
  • Richard Basehart
  • Shirley Maclaine
  • Jack Warden
  • Peter Sellers
Release date: 2009-02-23
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Shirley Maclaine
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.98

Review Being There [Blu-ray] [1979] / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Uptown Girls [DVD] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Boaz Yakin
  • Brittany Murphy
  • Dakota Fanning
  • Heather Locklear
  • Marley Shelton
  • Jesse Spencer
Release date: 2004-06-21
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Mo Ogrodnik
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.99

Review Uptown Girls [DVD] [2004] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Odeon Entertainment / Those People Next Door [1953] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Warner
  • John Harlow
Release date: 2008-03-24
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Jack Warner
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.00

Review Those People Next Door [1953] [DVD] / Odeon Entertainment:


Review Pathe Distribution / Dead End [DVD] [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Mick Cain
  • Fabrice Canepa
  • Lin Shaye
  • Alexandra Holden
  • Ray Wise
  • Jean-Baptiste Andrea
  • Billy Asher
Release date: 2004-05-17
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: James Huth
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.99

Review Dead End [DVD] [2003] / Pathe Distribution:


Review MGM Entertainment / Back To School [DVD] [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Rodney Dangerfield
  • Burt Young
  • Alan Metter
  • Sally Kellerman
  • Keith Gordon
  • Robert Downey Jr
Release date: 2005-09-05
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Sally Kellerman
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.56

Review Back To School [DVD] [1986] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / The Lost Boys (2 Disc Special Edition) [1987] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Kiefer Sutherland
  • Corey Haim
  • Jason Patric
  • Joel Schumacher
  • Edward Herrmann
  • Dianne Wiest
Release date: 2004-09-13
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Corey Haim
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.64

Review The Lost Boys (2 Disc Special Edition) [1987] [DVD] / Warner Home Video:

This 1987 thriller was a predictable hit with the teen audience it worked overtime to attract. Like most of director Joel Schumacher's films, it's conspicuously designed to push the right marketing and demographic buttons and, granted, there's some pretty cool stuff going on here and there. Take Kiefer Sutherland, for instance. In Stand by Me he played a memorable bully, but here he goes one step further as a memorable bully vampire who leads a tribe of teenage vampires on their nocturnal spree of bloodsucking havoc. Jason Patric plays the new guy in town, who quickly attracts a lovely girlfriend (Jami Gertz), only to find that she might be recruiting him into the vampire fold. The movie gets sillier as it goes along, and resorts to a routine action-movie showdown, but it's a visual knockout (featuring great cinematography by Michael Chapman) and boasts a cast that's eminently able (pardon the pun) to sink their teeth into the best parts of an uneven screenplay. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Acorn Media UK Ltd / Hope Springs [DVD] [2009]
Actors & Directors
  • Annette Crosbie
  • Ronni Ancona
  • Alex Kingston
  • Christine Bottomley
  • Siân Reeves
Release date: 2009-07-27
Run time: 480 min.
Creator: Annette Crosbie
RRP: £24.99
Price: £14.98

Review Hope Springs [DVD] [2009] / Acorn Media UK Ltd:


Review Uca / Care Bears Movie II - A New Generation [DVD] [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Wiggins
  • Bob Dermer
  • Dan Hennessey
  • John Stocker
  • Melleny Brown
Release date: 2004-07-12
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Jack Olesker
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

Review Care Bears Movie II - A New Generation [DVD] [1986] / Uca:


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What Women Want [DVD] [2001], Fierce Creatures [DVD] [1997], Come September [DVD] [1961], Orange County [DVD] [2002], The Unsinkable Molly Brown [DVD] [1964], The Lady Eve [DVD] [1941], Layer Cake/Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (Steelbook) [DVD], The Pink Panther [Blu-ray] [1963], Comedy Classics - The Love Match [1955] [DVD], Not Now, Darling [1973] [DVD], Les Visiteurs [1993] [DVD] [1994], War Inc. [DVD] [2008], Being There [Blu-ray] [1979], Uptown Girls [DVD] [2004], Those People Next Door [1953] [DVD], Dead End [DVD] [2003], Back To School [DVD] [1986], The Lost Boys (2 Disc Special Edition) [1987] [DVD], Hope Springs [DVD] [2009], Care Bears Movie II - A New Generation [DVD] [1986]

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