Actors & Directors
- Lisa Coleman (II)
- Naoko Mori
- Adrian Ross Magenty
- James Lance
- Tim Woodward
Release date: 2005-11-07 Run time: 417 min. RRP: £29.99 Price: £16.28
Review The Who - Quadrophenia And Tommy Live With Special Guests [2005] / Warner Music Vision:
Release date: 2006-10-16 Run time: 150 min. RRP: £9.99 Price: £6.50
Review The Music Of The Irish Showband Legends / Various:
Release date: 2008-05-05 Run time: 120 min. RRP: £15.99 Price: £10.98
Review Sam And Dave - The Original Soul Men / Sam and Dave:
Actors & Directors
- Karen Lynn Gorney
- Paul Pape
- Joseph Cali
- Barry Miller
- John Travolta
- John Badham
Release date: 1998-10-05 Run time: 114 min. Creator: Norman Wexler RRP: £9.99 Price: £4.24
Review Saturday Night Fever [1978] / Paramount Home Entertainment:The years have endowed Saturday Night Fever with a powerful, elegiac quality since its explosive release in 1977. It was the must-see movie for a whole generation of adolescents, sparking controversy for rough language and clumsily realistic sex scenes which took teen cinema irrevocably into a new age. And of course, it revived the career of the Bee Gees to stratospheric heights, thanks to a justifiably legendary soundtrack which now embodies the disco age. But Saturday Night Fever was always more than a disco movie. Tony Manero is an Italian youth from Brooklyn straining at the leash to escape a life defined by his family, blue collar job and his gang. Disco provides the medium for him to break free. It was the snake-hipped dance routines which made John Travolta an immediate sex symbol. But seen today, his performance as Tony is compelling: rough-hewn, certainly, but complex and true, anticipating the fine screen actor he would be recognised as 20 years later. Scenes of the Manhattan skyline and the Brooklyn Bridge, representing Tony's route to a bigger world, now have an added poignancy, adding to Saturday Night Fever's evocative power. It's a bittersweet classic. [+]
On the DVD: Saturday Night Fever is presented in 2. 35:1 anamorphic widescreen with a Dolby Digital 5. 1 surround soundtrack, both of which help to recapture the unique atmosphere of the late 1970s. The main extra is a director's commentary from John Badham, with detailed descriptions of casting and the improvisation behind many of the scenes, plus the unsavoury reality behind Travolta's iconic white disco suit. -Piers Ford.
Release date: 2005-08-22 RRP: £9.99 Price: £8.08
Review Hawkwind - in Concert Out of the Shadows / Hawkwind:
Actors & Directors
- The Dandy Warhols
- Ondi Timoner
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Release date: 2005-11-14 Run time: 107 min. RRP: £15.99 Price: £31.87
Review Dig! [2004] / Tartan Video:
Release date: 2008-11-03 RRP: £13.99 Price: £14.00
Review A Finnish Summer [2008] / Turisas!:
Actors & Directors
- Brad Gerlach
- Raimana Boucher
- Chris Malloy
- Timmy Curran
- Emmett Malloy
- Shane Dorian
- Jack Johnson
- Saxon Boucher
Release date: 2005-11-28 Run time: 45 min. RRP: £14.99 Price: £6.32
Review Jack Johnson - Thicker Than Water [2000] / Universal Island:
Actors & Directors
- American Ballet Theatre
- The Kirov Ballet
- Darcey Bussell
- The Royal Ballet
- Paris Opera Ballet
Release date: 2004-08-02 Run time: 60 min. RRP: £17.99 Price: £10.00
Review Ballet Favourites (NTSC) / Warner Music Vision:
Actors & Directors
- Anthony Van Laast
- Nicole Cutler
- Fergus Logan
- David Mallet
- Rebecca De Roche
- Matthew Cutler
Release date: 1999-12-06 Run time: 90 min. Creator: Maria Medcalf RRP: £15.99 Price: £8.70
Review Burn The Floor [1999] / Vision Video Ltd.:
Release date: 2008-07-21 Run time: 35 min. RRP: £12.99 Price: £7.97
Review Tea For The Tillerman Live - A Classic Concert - Cat Stevens [1971] / Cat Stevens:
Release date: 2006-11-06 Run time: 279 min. RRP: £19.99 Price: £11.51
Review Later With Jools Holland - Cool Britannia/Cool Britannia 2 / Later... With Jools Holland:
Release date: 2006-08-28 Run time: 78 min. RRP: £11.99 Price: £6.34
Review John Entwistle - An Ox's Tale / John Entwistle:
Release date: 2006-05-29 RRP: £12.99 Price: £9.98
Review Caught in the Loop: +DVD / Goldfish:
Release date: 2008-09-29 Run time: 83 min. RRP: £14.99 Price: £9.67
Review Jazz Icons - Oscar Peterson - Live In '63, '64 And '65 [1963] / Naxos:
Release date: 2007-09-24 Run time: 156 min. RRP: £14.99 Price: £7.02
Review Fantasia - Live In Tokyo / Asia:
Release date: 2004-11-15 RRP: £17.99 Price: £10.38
Review Mariza - Live In London / EMI:The new queen of the Portuguese folk music known as fado shines in the impressive Mariza Live in London, a 2003 concert recorded at the Union Chapel in London. The twentysomething Lisbon resident has been hailed as the successor to fado legend Amália Rodrigues; now, after two well-received CDs, comes Mariza's first filmed concert performance, and it is stunning. No wonder fado has been compared to the blues: the actual musical content is different, but in terms of both origin (both come from a variety of cultures, in this case including strains of Spanish, Brazilian, and African sounds) and lyrical bent (with its constant element of saudade, roughly translated as yearning or longing, fado, like blues, is mournful, soulful music), it's every bit as deep. Mariza is backed primarily by acoustic guitar, acoustic bass guitar, and "Portuguese guitar," a 12-string instrument that looks something like a lute and sounds a bit like a Greek bouzouki; there is some piano as well, and Guy Barker's muted trumpet provides "O Deserto" with a pronounced jazzy feel. But the singer is the main attraction here, and the power and passion of Mariza's delivery on "Barco Negro" and nearly all the others in the 16-song set, including more upbeat, celebratory numbers like "Oica La o Senhor Vinho" (the introductions are in English, but the tunes are all in Portuguese) are undeniable. Add to that Mariza's black cloak and clothing, her stylish, peroxide-blonde perm, and her highly theatrical movements and expressions, along with the darkened chapel and superb lighting, and you've got an audio-visual experience so dramatic and moving that it easily renders the language barrier irrelevant. -Sam Graham.
Release date: 2001-11-12 Run time: 75 min. RRP: £15.99 Price: £5.05
Review Russell Watson - The Voice - Live / Universal Pictures UK:
Release date: 2006-07-10 Run time: 60 min. RRP: £12.99 Price: £8.48
Review Muse - Manic Depression [2005] / Chrome Dreams:
Release date: 2003-03-03 RRP: £4.99 Price: £4.78
Review Broadway Karaoke / Karaoke:
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