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Review Acorn Media / All Passion Spent [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Faith Brook
  • John Franklyn-Robbins
  • David Waller
  • Phyllis Calvert
  • Wendy Hiller
Release date: 2006-05-30
Run time: 158 min.
Price: £12.12

Review All Passion Spent [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review HBO Home Video / The Middle Passage [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Guy Deslauriers
  • Djimon Hounsou
  • Maka Kotto
Release date: 2003-02-04
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Walter Mosley
Price: £8.96

Review The Middle Passage [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / HBO Home Video:


Review Acorn Media / The Pallisers - Vol. 4 - Episodes 21 To 26 [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Susan Hampshire
  • Philip Latham
  • Roland Culver
  • Hugh David
  • Anna Massey
  • Barbara Murray
Release date: 2005-06-13
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.23

Review The Pallisers - Vol. 4 - Episodes 21 To 26 [1974] / Acorn Media:


Review WGBH Boston / Masterpiece Theatre: Pollyanna [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Georgina Terry
  • Amanda Burton
  • Pam Ferris
  • Aden Gillett
  • Sarah Harding
  • Kenneth Cranham
Release date: 2004-11-23
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Simon Nye
Price: £7.54

Review Masterpiece Theatre: Pollyanna [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / WGBH Boston:


Review A&E Home Video / The Mayor of Casterbridge [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Juliet Aubrey
  • David Thacker
  • Ciarán Hinds
  • James Purefoy
  • Polly Walker
  • Jodhi May
Release date: 2003-09-30
Run time: 200 min.
Creator: Thomas Hardy
Price: £9.27

Review The Mayor of Casterbridge [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A&E Home Video:


Review MCA Home Video / Day of Wrath [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Szonja Oroszlán
  • Christopher Lambert
  • Blanca Marsillach
  • Brian Blessed
  • Adrian Rudomin
  • James Faulkner
Release date: 2006-06-27
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Dana Dubovsky
Price: £2.43

Review Day of Wrath [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MCA Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Inkwell [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Larenz Tate
  • Matty Rich
  • Suzzanne Douglas
  • Joe Morton
  • Vanessa Bell Calloway
  • Glynn Turman
Release date: 2003-04-08
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Paris Qualles
Price: £3.87

Review The Inkwell [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Digital Multimedia / Blood and Honor [1999] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Farmer
  • Stancy Clements
  • Maria Ortiz
  • Andy Hamrick
  • Miles O'Keeffe
  • Rena Watts
Release date: 2000-08-01
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Maurice J. Fagan
Price: £19.95

Review Blood and Honor [1999] (NTSC) / Digital Multimedia:


Review MGM / CQ [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Giancarlo Giannini
  • Angela Lindvall
  • Élodie Bouchez
  • Jeremy Davies
  • Gérard Depardieu
  • Roman Coppola
Release date: 2002-09-10
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Michael Polaire
Price: £3.63

Review CQ [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review 4 Front Video / Howard's End [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Emma Thompson
  • Joseph Bennett
  • James Ivory
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Vanessa Redgrave
  • Helena Bonham Carter
Release date: 1999-09-13
Run time: 136 min.
Creator: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.99

Review Howard's End [1992] / 4 Front Video:

Howards End is E M Forster's beautifully subtle story of the criss-crossing paths of the privileged and those they disdain-and of a remarkable pair of women who can see beyond class distinctions. Dramatic and tragic but also surprisingly funny, this James Ivory film focuses on a pair of unmarried sisters (Emma Thompson, who won an Oscar, and Helena Bonham Carter) who befriend a poor young clerk (Sam West) and, without meaning to, ruin his life. Meanwhile, Thompson also makes the acquaintance of a dying neighbour (Vanessa Redgrave), who leaves her a family home in her will-which her husband (Anthony Hopkins) destroys. But, ironically, he meets and falls in love with Thompson, even as their paths once more intersect with the increasingly miserable young clerk. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's beautifully economical script also won an Oscar. -Marshall Fine.

Review Paramount / 1900 [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Laura Betti
  • Francesca Bertini
  • Robert De Niro
  • Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Gérard Depardieu
  • Dominique Sanda
Release date: 2006-12-05
Run time: 315 min.
Price: £8.91

Review 1900 [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Universal Studios / Waking the Dead [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Billy Crudup
  • Janet McTeer
  • Keith Gordon
  • Jennifer Connelly
  • Paul Hipp
  • Molly Parker
Release date: 2002-11-05
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Scott Spencer
Price: £3.36

Review Waking the Dead [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

Waking the Dead, like director-writer Keith Gordon's earlier films (The Chocolate War, A Midnight Clear, Mother Night), is based on a well-regarded modern novel (by Scott Spencer) and has a great many quiet virtues: a genuine engagement with near-contemporary America, complicated characters well-played by a cast of perfectly selected not-quite-star performers and a questioning approach that sits ill with the too-easy answers of most contemporary films. The complex story opens in 1974 with the death in a car bomb explosion of Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly), a radical working with a faction of left-wing Catholics to rescue dissidents from Chile. This has a devastating effect on her straighter boyfriend, Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup), who is working within the system with an eye on rising in the Democratic Party through the patronage of a senior figure (Hal Holbrook), the man who is eventually to become the President. We flash back to 1972 and Fielding's intense relationship with Sarah, marked by romantic and political differences that feel far more real than the contrived oppositional arguments in most political movies. Then skip 10 years forward to find a sleeker, hollow-faced Fielding running for Congress, tormented not only by memories of Sarah but her actual or phantasmal appearances. Another film might play this as a paranoid mystery thriller, but this goes for psychology, and Crudup delivers an intense portrait of a man cracking up by the loss of his ideals as much as his life's love-climaxing in a terrific restaurant outburst to his needy, congratulatory family. Unreleased theatrically in the UK, this outstanding film has award-quality performances from Crudup and Connelly, both doing their best screen work to date. On the DVD: The picture is presented in 1. 85. 1 anamorphic widescreen, with Dolby Digital sound. [+]
You get the usual trailer, filmographies and puff piece featurette, but also three superb extras: a commentary from Gordon that passionately and intelligently addresses the thematic material and production circumstances of the film; a package of deleted scenes that goes well beyond the usual irrelevant snippets-everything here offers additional insights into the plot and character; tracks from the composers Tomandandy which play over the menus-a rare feature that's liable to become more common. -Kim Newman.

Review Hallmark / A Painted House [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arija Bareikis
  • Alfonso Arau
  • Logan Lerman
  • Scott Glenn
  • Robert Sean Leonard
  • Melinda Dillon
Release date: 2003-10-21
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Gordon Wolf
Price: £5.72

Review A Painted House [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Hallmark:


Review Blue Underground / Marquis de Sade's Justine [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Carmen de Lirio
  • Romina Power
  • Maria Rohm
  • Rosemary Dexter
  • Klaus Kinski
  • Jesus Franco
Release date: 2004-01-27
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Marquis de Sade
Price: £7.35

Review Marquis de Sade's Justine [1968] / Blue Underground:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Girls Night In (5 Disc Box Set - 50 First Dates/Friends With Money/Marie Antoinette/Sense & Sensibility/Sleepless in Seattle) [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Jason Schwartzmann
  • Jennifer Aniston
  • Adam Sandler
  • Kirsten Dunst
Release date: 2008-11-03
Run time: 529 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £24.12

Review Girls Night In (5 Disc Box Set - 50 First Dates/Friends With Money/Marie Antoinette/Sense & Sensibility/Sleepless in Seattle) [1993] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Synkronized USA / Tolerance [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Marc de Jonge
  • Ugo Tognazzi
  • Pierre-Henry Salfati
  • Rupert Everett
  • Anne Brochet
  • Catherine Samie
Release date: 2007-05-08
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Raymond Blumenthal
Price: £6.87

Review Tolerance [1989] / Synkronized USA:


Review Acorn Media / The Irish R.M. - Series 2
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Sykes
  • Roy Ward Baker
  • Peter Bowles
Release date: 2005-09-12
Run time: 306 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.99

Review The Irish R.M. - Series 2 / Acorn Media:


Review Warner Home Video / Driving Miss Daisy [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Morgan Freeman
  • Patti LuPone
  • Esther Rolle
  • Bruce Beresford
  • Jessica Tandy
  • Dan Aykroyd
Release date: 2003-02-04
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Richard D. Zanuck
Price: £4.86

Review Driving Miss Daisy [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Winner of the Academy Award for best picture of 1989, this gracefully moving drama, adapted from the hit play by Alfred Uhry, chronicles the 25-year friendship between a stubborn, ageing Southern widow (Jessica Tandy) and her loyal chauffeur (Morgan Freeman). At first, the self-sufficient Miss Daisy is reluctant to accept the services of a chauffeur, but Hoke is quiet, wise and tolerant, and as the years pass the unlikely friends develop a deep mutual respect and admiration. Tandy deservedly won the Oscar for her sassy and sensitive performance, and Freeman earned an Oscar nomination for bringing quiet depth and integrity to his memorable role. Ironically, director Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies) was not nominated, but the film won Oscars for make-up and for Uhry's screenplay, in addition to a supporting actor nomination for Dan Aykroyd as Daisy's supportive son. Delicate, funny, and bittersweet, Driving Miss Daisy was a surprise hit when released, and marked the crowning achievement of Tandy's great career. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Columbia TriStar / Avalon [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eve Gordon
  • Lou Jacobi
  • Barry Levinson
  • Leo Fuchs
  • Aidan Quinn
  • Elizabeth Perkins
Release date: 2001-03-13
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Marie Rowe
Price: £5.97

Review Avalon [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Dd Home Entertainment / Nicholas Nickleby
Actors & Directors
  • Freddie Jones
  • Liz Smith
  • Nigel Havers
  • Patricia Routledge
Release date: 2005-09-19
Run time: 325 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.99

Review Nicholas Nickleby / Dd Home Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
All Passion Spent [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Middle Passage [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Pallisers - Vol. 4 - Episodes 21 To 26 [1974], Masterpiece Theatre: Pollyanna [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Mayor of Casterbridge [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Day of Wrath [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Inkwell [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Blood and Honor [1999] (NTSC), CQ [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Howard's End [1992], 1900 [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Waking the Dead [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Painted House [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Marquis de Sade's Justine [1968], Girls Night In (5 Disc Box Set - 50 First Dates/Friends With Money/Marie Antoinette/Sense & Sensibility/Sleepless in Seattle) [1993], Tolerance [1989], The Irish R.M. - Series 2, Driving Miss Daisy [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Avalon [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nicholas Nickleby

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