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Review 20th Century Fox / Love's Unending Legacy [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Holliston Coleman
  • Samantha Smith
  • Erin Cottrell
  • Victor Browne
  • Mark Griffiths
  • Dale Midkiff
Release date: 2007-12-04
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Pamela Wallace
Price: £7.24

Review Love's Unending Legacy [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Emma/Mansfield Park [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
Release date: 2005-10-10
Run time: 223 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.86

Review Emma/Mansfield Park [1996] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review MGM / Copying Beethoven [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Matyelok Gibbs
  • Matthew Goode
  • Ralph Riach
  • Ed Harris
  • Agnieszka Holland
  • Diane Kruger
Release date: 2007-04-03
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Stephen J. Rivele
Price: £8.53

Review Copying Beethoven [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Acorn Media / Clarissa [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Phillips
  • Lynsey Baxter
  • Robert Bierman
  • Jeffrey Wickham
  • Saskia Wickham
  • Sean Bean
Release date: 2005-08-09
Run time: 156 min.
Creator: Samuel Richardson
Price: £15.52

Review Clarissa [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review Odyssey Video / The War Bride [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Julie Cox
  • Aden Young
  • Brenda Fricker
  • Lyndon Chubbuck
  • Anna Friel
  • Loren Dean
Release date: 2004-07-19
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Angela Workman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.97

Review The War Bride [2002] / Odyssey Video:

Marry in haste, repent at leisure, goes the old adage. Certainly, The War Bride sees the chirpy Cockney Lily (Anna Friel) with plenty of time to regret her lot. After a whirlwind romance in wartime Britain she marries her handsome Canadian hunk, Charlie (Aden Young). Finding herself pregnant and alone, Charlie having been sent back to the front, she jumps at the chance of a new life abroad when she receives a one-way ticket to Canada. Unfortunately Charlie's tales of his family ranch in Alberta are more fanciful than factual and when she gets there her natural ebullience is tested to the limit by a crumbling shack and a frostbite-inducing welcome from his widowed mother (Brenda Fricker, superbly dour) and his crippled sister (Molly Parker). They view her townie ways, her penchant for picture houses and scarlet lipstick, with deep suspicion. The only light in these dark days is derived from visits from her longstanding best friend Sophie (who also married a Canadian, but one with rather more to offer) and a burgeoning friendship with Joe, her sister-in-law's boyfriend. The film was inspired by the experiences of screenwriter Angela Workman's mother, one of 48,000 war brides who immigrated to Canada during World War II, and it vividly demonstrates that for the unlucky ones the future was far from rosy. The result could have been mawkish but it's saved by fine performances from Friel-who is increasingly showing herself to be an actress of some versatility-and the always splendid Brenda Fricker. -Harriet Smith.

Review Warner Home Video / Swing Shift [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Goldie Hawn
  • Kurt Russell
  • Ed Harris
  • Jonathan Demme
  • Christine Lahti
  • Fred Ward
Release date: 2004-01-20
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Nancy Dowd
Price: £4.24

Review Swing Shift [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Red Badge of Courage [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Douglas Dick
  • John Dierkes
  • Royal Dano
  • Audie Murphy
  • John Huston
  • Bill Mauldin
Release date: 2003-02-04
Run time: 69 min.
Creator: Gottfried Reinhardt
Price: £6.44

Review The Red Badge of Courage [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review MTV / Affinity [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Madeley
  • Anne Reid
  • Tim Fywell
  • Amanda Plummer
  • Zoe Tapper
  • Domini Blythe
Release date: 2008-08-19
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Sarah Waters
Price: £13.75

Review Affinity [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MTV:


Review Warner Home Video / Mrs. Soffel [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Diane Keaton
  • Trini Alvarado
  • Edward Herrmann
  • Mel Gibson
  • Gillian Armstrong
  • Matthew Modine
Release date: 2002-01-08
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Dennis E. Jones
Price: £3.43

Review Mrs. Soffel [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Simply Media / Madame Bovary
Actors & Directors
  • John Cater
  • Rodney Bennett
  • Tom Conti
  • Denis Lill
  • Francesca Annis
Release date: 2005-08-22
Run time: 211 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.45

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Review Genius Entertainment / The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Berenger
  • Bill Clark
  • Jenny O'Hara
  • Ronald Pickup
  • Aran Bell
  • Robert Jezek
Release date: 2007-10-23
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: David Freeman
Price: £5.16

Review The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Genius Entertainment:


Review Miramax / Rowing With the Wind [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Grant
  • Valentine Pelka
  • Lizzy McInnerny
  • Elizabeth Hurley
  • José Luis Gómez
  • Gonzalo Suárez
Release date: 2003-08-05
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Andrés Vicente Gómez
Price: £5.94

Review Rowing With the Wind [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review Acorn Media / Sam - Series 2 - Part 1
Actors & Directors
  • Mark McManus
Release date: 2004-09-13
Run time: 250 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.99

Review Sam - Series 2 - Part 1 / Acorn Media:


Review Sullivan / Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Megan Follows
  • Wendy Hiller
  • Jonathan Crombie
  • Colleen Dewhurst
  • Kevin Sullivan
  • Frank Converse
Release date: 2004-09-07
Run time: 232 min.
Price: £10.10

Review Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sullivan:


Review MGM / Hawaii [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Hackman
  • Max von Sydow
  • Julie Andrews
  • Richard Harris
  • Carroll O'Connor
  • George Roy Hill
Release date: 2005-04-12
Run time: 189 min.
Creator: Daniel Taradash
Price: £6.36

Review Hawaii [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review WGBH Boston / The Masterpiece Theatre: The Woman in White [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tara Fitzgerald
  • Justine Waddell
  • Andrew Lincoln
  • Susan Vidler
  • John Standing
  • Tim Fywell
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Wilkie Collins
Price: £7.54

Review The Masterpiece Theatre: The Woman in White [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / WGBH Boston:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Cold Mountain (Two Disc Steelbook Collector's Edition) [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Jude Law
  • Donald Sutherland
  • Anthony Minghella
  • Jena Malone
  • Kathy Baker
  • Eileen Atkins
Release date: 2008-06-09
Run time: 148 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.97

Review Cold Mountain (Two Disc Steelbook Collector's Edition) [2003] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Freely adapted from Charles Frazier's beloved bestseller, Cold Mountain boasts an impeccable pedigree as a respectable American Civil War love story, offering everything you'd want from a romantic epic except a resonant emotional core. Everything in this sweeping, Odyssean journey depends on believing in the instant love that ignites during a very brief encounter between genteel, city-bred preacher's daughter Ada (Nicole Kidman) and Confederate soldier Inman (Jude Law), who deserts the battlefield to return, weary and wounded, to Ada's inherited farm in the rural town of Cold Mountain, North Carolina. In an epic (but dramatically tenuous) case of absence making hearts grow fonder, Inman endures a treacherous hike fraught with danger (and populated by supporting players including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and others) while the struggling, inexperienced Ada is aided by the high-spirited Ruby (Renée Zellweger), forming a powerful farming partnership that transforms Ada into a strong, lovelorn survivor. The film's episodic structure slightly weakens its emotional impact, and it's fairly obvious that director Anthony Minghella is striving to repeat the prestigious romanticism of his Oscar®-winning hit The English Patient. For the most part it works, especially in the dynamic performances of Zellweger and Kidman, and the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is recreated with violent, percussive intensity. Those who admired Frazier's novel may regret some of the changes made in Minghella's adaptation (the ending is particularly altered), but Cold Mountain remains a high-class example of grand, old-fashioned film-making, boosted by star power of the highest order. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Cinema Club / Dancing At Lughnasa [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Kathy Burke
  • Michael Gambon
  • Gerard McSorley
  • Catherine McCormack
  • Meryl Streep
  • Pat O'Connor
Release date: 2002-01-21
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: William Butler Yeats
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.20

Review Dancing At Lughnasa [1998] / Cinema Club:

This affecting, bittersweet tale-adapted from BrianFriel's semi-autobiographical Tony Award-winning play-examines the emotional lives of the five unmarried Mundy sisters in 1936 rural Ireland. In their mutual care is 8-year-old Michael (sweetly understated Darrell Johnston), the illegitimate son of youngest sister Christina (Braveheart's Catherine McCormack). A voice-over from the adult Michael recalls that significant summer, in the month of August, during the feast of Lughnasa. The bolder town folk dance around a fire to Lugh, an ancient god of light. Yes, this is fiercely Roman Catholic Ireland and Lugh a pagan god but that irony is at the core of the film: the hypocrisy of tradition. The dramatic change in the richly metaphoric movie comes with the arrival of two men: eldest sibling-and only Mundy brother-Jack (Michael Gambon), a priest returning from many years in Africa, now addled, and Christine's long-absent lover and Michael's father, the charmingly flighty Gerry (Rhys Ifans). Beautiful music and excellent performances highlight the film, which also features gorgeous cinematography of the Irish countryside. Meryl Streep is stern eldest sister Kate; Kathy Burke is lively Maggie; Brid Brennan (who appeared in the stage play) is thoughtful caretaker Agnes; and Sophie Thompson is simple sweet Rose. It's a quiet film but one filled with ironic and haunting meaning. Dancing at Lughnasa was directed by Circle of Friends Pat O'Connor. [+]
-N. F. Mendoza This affecting, bittersweet tale-adapted from Brian Friel's semi-autobiographical Tony Award-winning play-examines the emotional lives of the five unmarried Mundy sisters in 1936 rural Ireland. In their mutual care is eight-year-old Michael (sweetly understated Darrell Johnston), the illegitimate son of youngest sister Christina (Braveheart's Catherine McCormack). A voice-over from the adult Michael recalls that significant summer, in the month of August, during the feast of Lughnasa. The bolder townsfolk dance around a fire to Lugh, an ancient god of light. Yes, this is fiercely Roman Catholic Ireland and Lugh a pagan god, but that irony is at the core of the film: the hypocrisy of tradition. The dramatic change in the richly metaphoric movie comes with the arrival of two men: eldest sibling-and only Mundy brother-Jack (Michael Gambon), a priest returning from many years in Africa, now addled, and Christine's long-absent lover and Michael's father, the charmingly flighty Gerry (Rhys Ifans). Beautiful music and excellent performances highlight the film, which also features gorgeous cinematography of the Irish countryside. Meryl Streep is stern eldest sister Kate; Kathy Burke is lively Maggie; Brid Brennan (who appeared in the stage play) is thoughtful caretaker Agnes; and Sophie Thompson is simple sweet Rose. It's a quiet film, but one filled with ironic and haunting meaning. Directed by Pat O'Connor (Circle of Friends). -N. F. Mendoza, Amazon. com.

Review WGBH Boston / The Masterpiece Theatre: The Moonstone [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Terrence Hardiman
  • Robert Bierman
  • Mellan Mitchell
  • Greg Wise
  • Peter Vaughan
  • Keeley Hawes
Release date: 2005-11-01
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Wilkie Collins
Price: £7.54

Review The Masterpiece Theatre: The Moonstone [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / WGBH Boston:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Greatest Game Ever Played [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Paxton
  • Tom Rack
  • Elias Koteas
  • Shia LaBeouf
  • Bill Paxton
  • Stephen Dillane
Release date: 2006-04-11
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Mark Frost
Price: £4.72

Review The Greatest Game Ever Played [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Models & Brands:
Love's Unending Legacy [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Emma/Mansfield Park [1996], Copying Beethoven [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Clarissa [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The War Bride [2002], Swing Shift [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Red Badge of Courage [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Affinity [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mrs. Soffel [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Madame Bovary, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rowing With the Wind [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sam - Series 2 - Part 1, Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hawaii [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Masterpiece Theatre: The Woman in White [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cold Mountain (Two Disc Steelbook Collector's Edition) [2003], Dancing At Lughnasa [1998], The Masterpiece Theatre: The Moonstone [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Greatest Game Ever Played [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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