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Review Warner Home Video / Alexander [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Val Kilmer
  • Rosario Dawson
  • Colin Farrell
  • Oliver Stone
  • Angelina Jolie
  • Anthony Hopkins
Release date: 2005-08-02
Run time: 175 min.
Creator: Laeta Kalogridis
Price: £18.52

Review Alexander [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM / Rob Roy [DVD] [1995] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • John Hurt
  • Michael Caton-Jones
  • Tim Roth
  • Jessica Lange
  • Eric Stoltz
  • Liam Neeson
Release date: 1997-10-14
Run time: 139 min.
Creator: Peter Broughan
Price: £5.25

Review Rob Roy [DVD] [1995] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / MGM:

One of the most invigorating period adventures to hit the big screen in decades, this lavish, brilliantly directed film drew critical and audience raves when it was released in 1995. Inspired by historical fact and larger-than-life legend, the intelligently scripted story takes place in Scotland in 1713, when Highland farmer and clan leader Rob Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) is forced to borrow money from the duplicitous aristocrat Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt) to help his clan survive a harsh winter. When Montrose's vile henchman (Tim Roth) schemes to dishonour MacGregor and his wife (Jessica Lange) and take the money for himself, the rugged Highlander must take courageous action to preserve his integrity. What follows-along with some of the finest sword-fighting ever filmed-is a tale of courage and valour destined to become an enduring movie classic. Tim Roth received a well-deserved Oscar nomination (for Best Supporting Actor) for his indelible performance as the foppish but deadly villain Cunningham, and both Neeson and Lange bring an earthy, sensual quality to their passionate roles. Boasting a wealth of breathtaking scenery and high-intensity action, Rob Roy is further blessed by a splendid supporting cast (including Brian Cox and Eric Stoltz), and the lush soundtrack by Carter Burwell strikes a perfect balance of romanticism and vigorous dramatic energy. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Synkronized USA / A Viking Saga: Son of Thor [DVD] [2008] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Neel Ronholt
  • Ken Vedsegaard
  • Julie Ølgaard
  • Michael Mouyal
  • Erik Holmey
  • Peter Gantzler
Release date: 2008-12-09
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Erik Holmey
Price: £9.66

Review A Viking Saga: Son of Thor [DVD] [2008] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Synkronized USA:


Review Sony Pictures / The King Maker [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • John Rhys-Davies
  • Dom Hetrakul
  • Nirut Sirichanya
  • Cindy Burbridge
  • Gary Stretch
  • Lek Kitaparaporn
Release date: 2007-04-03
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Sean Casey
Price: £6.19

Review The King Maker [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Sony Pictures:


Review Republic Pictures / Distant Drums [DVD] [1951] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Teal
  • Mari Aldon
  • Gary Cooper
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Richard Webb
  • Arthur Hunnicutt
Release date: 2004-05-11
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Niven Busch
Price: £5.99

Review Distant Drums [DVD] [1951] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Republic Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / 300 [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Lena Headey
  • David Wenham
  • Vincent Regan
  • Zack Snyder
  • Gerard Butler
  • Dominic West
Release date: 2008-11-18
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Michael Gordon
Price: £24.41

Review 300 [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Warner Home Video:


Review Vci Video / Julius Caesar [DVD] [1950] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Harold Tasker
  • Charlton Heston
  • Mary Sefton Darr
  • David Bradley
  • Theodore Cloak
  • David Bradley
Release date: 2006-07-25
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: William Shakespeare
Price: £7.84

Review Julius Caesar [DVD] [1950] [US Import] / Vci Video:


Review Polart / Enigma Secret [DVD] [1979] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • K. Zakrzewski
  • Marcin Tronski
  • Roman Wionczek
  • Marcel Novek
  • Czeslaw Byszewski
  • Tadeusz Szaniecki
Release date: 2006-03-28
Run time: 158 min.
Creator: Marcin Tronski
Price: £12.97

Review Enigma Secret [DVD] [1979] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Polart:


Review Republic Pictures / Julius Caesar [DVD] [1970] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • John Gielgud
  • Jason Robards
  • Stuart Burge
  • Robert Vaughn
  • Charlton Heston
  • Richard Johnson
Release date: 2004-05-11
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Jason Robards

Review Julius Caesar [DVD] [1970] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Republic Pictures:


Review Tango Entertainment / Zulu Dawn [DVD] [1979] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Peter Vaughan
  • Denholm Elliott
  • James Faulkner
  • Douglas Hickox
  • Simon Ward
Release date: 2005-09-27
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Cy Endfield
Price: £7.33

Review Zulu Dawn [DVD] [1979] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Tango Entertainment:

Cy Endfield cowrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of Isandhlwana, which remains the worst defeat of the British army by natives-the British contingent was outnumbered 16-to-1 by the Zulu tribesmen. The film's opinion of events is made immediately clear in its title sequence: ebullient African village life presided over by King Cetshwayo is contrasted with aristocratic artifice under the arrogant eye of General Lord Chelmsford (Peter O'Toole). Chelmsford is at the heart of all that goes wrong, initiating the catastrophic battle with an ultimatum made seemingly for the sake of giving his troops something to do. His detached manner leads to one mistake after another and this is wryly illustrated in a moment when neither he nor his officers can be bothered to pronounce the name of the land they're in. That it's a beautiful land none the less is made clear by the superb cinematography, which drinks in the massive open spaces that shrink the British army to a line of red ants. Splendidly stiff-upper-lipped support comes from a heroic Burt Lancaster and a fluffy, yet gruff, Bob Hoskins. Although the story is less focused and inevitably more diffuse than the concentrated events of Rorke's Drift that followed soon after, Zulu Dawn is an unflinchingly honest depiction of British Imperial diplomacy. -Paul Tonks.

Review Warner Home Video / Battle of the Bulge [DVD] [1966] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Shaw
  • Ken Annakin
  • Robert Ryan
  • George Montgomery
  • Dana Andrews
  • Henry Fonda
Release date: 2005-05-03
Run time: 167 min.
Creator: Sidney Harmon
Price: £5.37

Review Battle of the Bulge [DVD] [1966] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Warner Home Video:


Review Fox Lorber / The Queen of Sheba [DVD] [1955] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Gino Leurini
  • Pietro Francisci
  • Franco Silva
  • Leonora Ruffo
  • Gino Cervi
  • Marina Berti
Release date: 2002-07-09
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Gino Cervi
Price: £2.33

Review The Queen of Sheba [DVD] [1955] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Fox Lorber:


Review Brightspark Productions / La Femme Musketeer [DVD] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Boyum
  • Susie Amy
  • Michael York
  • Gerard Depardieu
  • Nastassja Kinski
Release date: 2009-04-20
Run time: 179 min.
Creator: Michael York
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.99

Review La Femme Musketeer [DVD] [2004] / Brightspark Productions:


Review 20th Century Fox / Epic Action Triple (Kingdom Of Heaven, Tristan & Isolde, Braveheart) [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Eva Green
  • Rufus Sewell
  • Jeremy Irons
  • Mel Gibson
  • Orlando Bloom
  • Kevin Reynolds
  • Ridley Scott
  • Liam Neeson
Release date: 2007-03-12
Run time: 449 min.
Creator: Eva Green
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.00

Review Epic Action Triple (Kingdom Of Heaven, Tristan & Isolde, Braveheart) [DVD] / 20th Century Fox:


Review MGM / Exodus [DVD] [1960] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Richardson
  • Paul Newman
  • Eva Marie Saint
  • Otto Preminger
  • Peter Lawford
  • Lee J. Cobb
Release date: 2002-10-15
Run time: 208 min.
Creator: Leon Uris
Price: £6.10

Review Exodus [DVD] [1960] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / MGM:

Otto Preminger's 1960 adaptation of Leon Uris's novel Exodus is a sprawling tale of the founding of modern Israel, starring Paul Newman as a resistance leader. The film works best as an example of Preminger's estimable skill with all levels of drama and action, but as a reflection upon history it is compromised by stereotypes, unpersuasive relationships and a certain moral ambivalence about issues related to the subject. There are good and exciting sequences, however, particularly one involving an effort to break through a British blockade and get to the homeland. -Tom Keogh.

Review Columbia TriStar / Lawrence of Arabia [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Omar Sharif
  • Jack Hawkins
  • Alec Guinness
  • David Lean
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Anthony Quinn
Release date: 2002-08-27
Run time: 216 min.
Creator: Sam Spiegel
Price: £5.51

Review Lawrence of Arabia [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Columbia TriStar:

In 1962 Lawrence of Arabia scooped another seven Oscars for David Lean and crew after his previous epic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, had performed exactly the same feat a few years earlier. Supported in this Great War desert adventure by a superb cast including Alex Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole gives a complex, star-making performance as the enigmatic TE Lawrence. The magnificent action and vast desert panoramas were captured in luminous 70mm by Cinematographer Freddie Young, here beginning a partnership with Lean that continued through Dr Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970). Yet what made the film truly outstanding was Robert (A Man For All Seasons) Bolt's literate screenplay, marking the beginning of yet another ongoing collaboration with Lean. The final partnership established was between director and French composer Maurice Jarre, who won one of the Oscars and scored all Lean's remaining films, up to and including A Passage to India in 1984. Fully restored in 1989, this complete version of Lean's masterpiece remains one of cinema's all-time classic visions. -Gary S Dalkin On the DVD: This vast movie is spread leisurely across two discs, with Maurice Jarre's overture standing in as intermission music for the first track of disc two. But the clarity of the anamorphic widescreen picture and Dolby 5. 1 soundtrack justify the decision not to cram the whole thing onto one side of a disc. The movie has never looked nor sounded better than here: the desert landscapes are incredibly detailed, with the tiny nomadic figures in the far distance clearly visible on the small screen; the remastered soundtrack, too, is a joy. [+]
Thanks are due to Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg who supervised (and financed) the restoration of the picture in 1989; on disc two Spielberg chats about why David Lean is his favourite director, and why Lawrence had such a profound influence on him both as a child and as a filmmaker (he regularly re-watches the movie before starting any new project). Other features include an excellent and exhaustive "making-of" documentary with contributions from surviving cast and crew (an avuncular Omar Sharif is particularly entertaining as he reminisces about meeting the hawk-like Lean for the first time), some contemporary featurettes designed to promote the movie and a DVD-ROM facility. The extra features are good-especially the documentary-but the breathtaking quality of both anamorphic picture and digital sound are what make this DVD package a triumph. -Mark Walker.

Review Castaway NW [VCP] / Above and Beyond [DVD] [1952] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Cott
  • Melvin Frank
  • John Baer
  • Patrick Conway
  • Jim Backus
  • Robert Burton
  • Norman Panama
Release date: 2008-03-25
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Cotton Warburton
Price: £7.16

Review Above and Beyond [DVD] [1952] [US Import] / Castaway NW [VCP]:


Review MGM / Kings of the Sun [DVD] [1963] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Brad Dexter
  • George Chakiris
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • Yul Brynner
  • Richard Basehart
  • Shirley Anne Field
Release date: 2008-03-25
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: James R. Webb
Price: £5.17

Review Kings of the Sun [DVD] [1963] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / MGM:


Review Vci Video / Saul and David [DVD] [1964] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Pilar Clemens
  • Luz Márquez
  • Marcello Baldi
  • Gianni Garko
  • Norman Wooland
  • Elisa Cegani
Release date: 2005-08-16
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Gianni Garko
Price: £5.76

Review Saul and David [DVD] [1964] [US Import] / Vci Video:


Review Diamond Entertainment Corp. / Santa Fe Trail [DVD] [1940] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Alan Hale
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Raymond Massey
  • Errol Flynn
  • Olivia de Havilland
Release date: 2003-01-01
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Robert Fellows
Price: £1.17

Review Santa Fe Trail [DVD] [1940] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Diamond Entertainment Corp.:


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Alexander [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Rob Roy [DVD] [1995] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], A Viking Saga: Son of Thor [DVD] [2008] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], The King Maker [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Distant Drums [DVD] [1951] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], 300 [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Julius Caesar [DVD] [1950] [US Import], Enigma Secret [DVD] [1979] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Julius Caesar [DVD] [1970] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Zulu Dawn [DVD] [1979] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Battle of the Bulge [DVD] [1966] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], The Queen of Sheba [DVD] [1955] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], La Femme Musketeer [DVD] [2004], Epic Action Triple (Kingdom Of Heaven, Tristan & Isolde, Braveheart) [DVD], Exodus [DVD] [1960] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Lawrence of Arabia [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Above and Beyond [DVD] [1952] [US Import], Kings of the Sun [DVD] [1963] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Saul and David [DVD] [1964] [US Import], Santa Fe Trail [DVD] [1940] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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