Review, buy Music DVDs: Bing Crosby: White Christmas [1979], James - Getting Away With It...Live [2001], Best Of Country Live [2006], Sympathy For The Devil, Oscar Peterson Trio, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - An Evening Of Yes [1989], Masked And Anonymous [2003], Ben Folds Five - The Complete Sessions At West 54th [1998], Swan Lake/Sleeping Beauty/The Nutcracker, Queen Live In Japan 1985, The Cotton Club [1984], Frank Sinatra - Karaoke [2002], Now That's What I Call Music 2008, Andrea Bocelli - Vivere - Live In Tuscany [Blu-ray] [2007], Manon [1982] (NTSC), Barbra Streisand - Timeless - Live In Concert [2000], Later With Jools Holland - 10 Years Later [2002], The Fureys And Davey Arthur - 30 Years On, Stargaze - Hubble's View Of The Universe [2000], Fender Presents: Getting Started On Acoustic Guitar [2002]

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Review Quantum Leap / Bing Crosby: White Christmas [1979]

Bing Crosby: White Christmas [1979] (Quantum Leap)

Actors & Directors

Fred Astaire
Gene Kelly
Bing Crosby
David Bowie
Kathryn Grant

Release date: 2007-10-09
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Michael Amedeo
Price: £4.20

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Review Warner Music Vision / James - Getting Away With It...Live [2001]

James - Getting Away With It...Live [2001] (Warner Music Vision)

Actors & Directors

Dick Carruthers
James

Release date: 2002-06-10
Run time: 165 min.
RRP: ~~£17.99~~
Price: £13.75

Review James - Getting Away With It...Live [2001] / Warner Music Vision:

Getting Away With It … Live is an electric souvenir of James' last ever live performance (before their new 2002 line-up), recorded in their home city of Manchester. The energy which bounces between the exuberant audience and the band crackles from start to finish. Tim Booth's bad language, particularly during the infamous technical breakdown at the start of "Out to Get You" just adds to the explosive atmosphere of the gig. The footage of these problems luckily remains in the final cut, exposing a more human side to the band, and highlighting James' long-term forte as a live band through their impromptu rendition of "Johnny Yen". Despite special appearances by former band members Andy Diagram and Larry Gott, Booth steals the show through his unique vocal talent and his trademark dancing style (when he gyrates round the stage like a possessed pipe cleaner). Featuring a sensible mix of old and new tunes, the concert concludes with an encore of break-through tracks "Come Home" and "Sit Down". On the DVD: Getting Away With It … Live is presented in Dolby Digital 5. 1, and the sharp visual footage further enhance the excellent live show. Through the use of random transitions (short excerpts from the documentary), the DVD is fun and informative to navigate through, and the two bonus documentaries provide further added value. Discussion on the making of selected songs can be accessed at various points during the concert when the band's trademark flower logo appears in the top right-hand corner of the screen. [+]

As well as the promotional videos for three of their biggest hits from the 1990s ("Laid", "Say Something" and "She's a Star"); there's also a hidden section where the band discuss their nicknames. -John Galilee.

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Review Various Artists / Best Of Country Live [2006]

Best Of Country Live [2006] (Various Artists)

Release date: 2007-03-05
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £4.06

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Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Sympathy For The Devil

Sympathy For The Devil (Fremantle Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Jean-Luc Godard

Release date: 2006-06-05
Run time: 146 min.
RRP: ~~£15.99~~
Price: £6.67

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Review Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd / Oscar Peterson Trio

Oscar Peterson Trio (Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd)

Actors & Directors

Oscar Peterson

Release date: 2005-05-02
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £5.77

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Review Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe / Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - An Evening Of Yes [1989]

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - An Evening Of Yes [1989] (Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe)

Release date: 2007-05-07
RRP: ~~£16.99~~
Price: £12.49

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Masked And Anonymous [2003]

Masked And Anonymous [2003] (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

Bob Dylan
Jessica Lange
Jeff Bridges
Penélope Cruz
Larry Charles
John Goodman

Release date: 2004-05-10
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Jeff Rosen
RRP: ~~£15.99~~
Price: £3.88

Review Masked And Anonymous [2003] / 2 Entertain Video:

Sometimes surprising, often baffling and occasionally entertaining, Masked and Anonymous is another in the long but not necessarily distinguished line of rock-star movie vehicles. Bob Dylan stars in this BBC Films coproduction as an alter ego of himself, ageing rocker Jack Fate, released from jail to play a benefit concert in an alternative America that is run down and ruled by a military dictator. When not singing he makes little impression, so it's fortunate that director Larry Charles surrounds him with a galaxy of excellent supporting players, including John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Penelope Cruz, Jeff Bridges, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Dern, Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi and Val Kilmer-all of whom gave their services for free. The screenplay, cowritten by Dylan, is full of the kind of cryptic aphorisms familiar from his song lyrics: "What's bugging me?", remarks Jeff Bridges' character, "The absurdity of a lifetime of human labour, that's what's bugging me. " "They have no ideology. They push both Jesus and Judas aside," says an anonymous bus driver, and there are plenty more didactic, speechy comments that even these veteran actors can't make sound natural or spontaneous. Better to focus on the music-both the songs Dylan performs on screen and those on the soundtrack, which consists mostly of foreign-language covers of Dylan classics. On the DVD: Masked and Anonymous on disc comes with a commentary track from director Larry Charles, who is good on the details of the shooting schedule, but vague about the movie's aspirations. There are some deleted scenes (none of which shed any more light on the plot), another Dylan performance, and a 20-minute "making of" featurette, with the many supporting stars waxing lyrical about the freewheeling shooting style and semi-theatrical staging. The anamorphic widescreen picture is unexceptional, as is the Dolby 5. [+]

1 soundtrack, which naturally enough works best with the music. -Mark Walker.

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Review Sony Bmg / Ben Folds Five - The Complete Sessions At West 54th [1998]

Ben Folds Five - The Complete Sessions At West 54th [1998] (Sony Bmg)

Actors & Directors

Jim Gable

Release date: 2008-06-23
Run time: 115 min.
RRP: ~~£7.99~~
Price: £5.72

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Review Ballet Box / Swan Lake/Sleeping Beauty/The Nutcracker

Swan Lake/Sleeping Beauty/The Nutcracker (Ballet Box)

Release date: 2008-03-17
Run time: 373 min.
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £14.90

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Queen Live In Japan 1985 (Queen)

Release date: 2006-09-25
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: ~~£23.99~~
Price: £5.70

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Review Momentum Pictures / The Cotton Club [1984]

The Cotton Club [1984] (Momentum Pictures)

Actors & Directors

Bob Hoskins
Gregory Hines
Francis Ford Coppola
Richard Gere
Lonette McKee
Diane Lane

Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: William Kennedy
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £5.99

Review The Cotton Club [1984] / Momentum Pictures:

The Cotton Club is routinely eclipsed by the controversies that surrounded its tumultuous production, but the film itself offers abundant pleasures that should not be overlooked. If Apocalypse Now represents the triumph of director Francis Coppola's perilous ambition, then The Cotton Club represents the ungainly glory of uncontrolled genius, as brilliant as it is out of its depth. As an upscale homage to classic gangster films it's frequently astonishing, cramming a thick novel's worth of plot and characters into 129 minutes, gloriously serviced by impeccable production design, elegant cinematography, and stylistic flourishes that show Coppola at the top of his game. What The Cotton Club lacks is cohesion. Written by Coppola and novelist William Kennedy (then enjoying the peak of his critical acclaim), the film struggles to exceed the narrative scope of The Godfather, but its multiple early-'30s plotlines fail to form any strong connective tissue. It's three (or four) movies in one, with cornet player Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere, playing his own jazzy solos) drifting from one story to the next-loving a young, ambitious vamp (Diane Lane, with whom Gere shares precious little chemistry), enjoying the success of a hot-shot hoofer (Gregory Hines), and protecting his brazen brother (Coppola's then-newcomer nephew, Nicolas Cage) from the deadly temper of mob boss "Dutch" Schultz (James Remar). Bob Hoskins and Fred Gwynne also score big in grand supporting roles, but The Cotton Club is perhaps best appreciated for its meticulous recreation of Harlem's Cotton Club heyday, and the brilliant music (Ellington, Calloway, etc. ) that brought rhythm to gangland's rat-a-tat-tat. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

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