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Review Henstooth Video / A Child's Christmas in Wales [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Don McBrearty
  • Mathonwy Reeves
  • Jesse McBrearty
  • Glynis Davies
  • Michael Fawkes
  • Denholm Elliott
Release date: 2005-11-01
Run time: 55 min.
Price: £9.21

Review A Child's Christmas in Wales [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Henstooth Video:


Review Platinum Disc / The Murders in the Rue Morgue [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Val Kilmer
  • Jeannot Szwarc
  • Rebecca De Mornay
  • George C. Scott
  • Ian McShane
  • Neil Dickson
Release date: 2005-02-08
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Eric Albertson
Price: £2.07

Review The Murders in the Rue Morgue [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Review Quantum Leap / Tempest, The [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Palillo
  • Ted Sorel
  • William Woodman
  • William H. Bassett
Release date: 2002-09-02
Run time: 127 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.99

Review Tempest, The [1985] / Quantum Leap:


Review Arrow Films / Seduction Of A Priest aka The Final Temptation [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Freda Dowie
  • Sophie Ward
  • Francisco Lara Polop
  • Paul McGann
  • Isla Blair
  • Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Release date: 1996-07-15
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £29.90

Review Seduction Of A Priest aka The Final Temptation [1990] / Arrow Films:


Review 20th Century Fox / Titus [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Osheen Jones
  • Dario D'Ambrosi
  • Jessica Lange
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Raz Degan
  • Julie Taymor
Release date: 2006-04-18
Run time: 162 min.
Price: £4.82

Review Titus [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

Considered by some to be Shakespeare's worst play, Titus Andronicus is a bloodthirsty tragedy full of villainous heroes and bottomless revenge-hardly the stuff of big-screen directorial debuts, it would seem. Yet Julie Taymor dives headfirst into moviemaking with Titus, a spectacular adaptation that manages to find beauty and humour in the piles of carnage. The story begins simply enough by Shakespearean standards: celebrated Roman warrior Titus Andronicus (Anthony Hopkins) returns from a hard-won victory to bury his slain sons and avenge their deaths by killing the eldest son of his enemy, Tamora, queen of the Goths (Jessica Lange). Tamora responds by seducing the impressionable new emperor and setting all of Rome into a downward spiral of revenge, madness, and death. Taymor, who won a Tony for her Broadway production of The Lion King, throws all her theatrical sensibilities at the story-armies are exquisitely choreographed, blood is shed so beautifully that it hardly seems real, and characters are costumed in symbolic combinations of ancient Roman and 20th-century garb. She plays up the dark comedy at every opportunity, and an eclectic and powerful score by Taymor's composer husband Elliot Goldenthal helps lend a carnival flavour to the story's most gruesome moments. Excellent performances from Hopkins (whose deranged Titus is more than a little reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter), Lange, and the supporting cast help make the endless treachery credible. -Claire Campbell, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Video / Selma, Lord, Selma [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yolanda King
  • Clifton Powell
  • Charles Burnett
  • Jurnee Smollett
  • Mackenzie Astin
  • Ella Joyce
Release date: 2004-02-03
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £3.77

Review Selma, Lord, Selma [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review BBC Warner / Our Mutual Friend [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julian Farino
  • Anna Friel
  • David Morrissey
  • Steven Mackintosh
  • Paul McGann
  • Keeley Hawes
Release date: 2005-09-06
Run time: 351 min.
Price: £5.40

Review Our Mutual Friend [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:


Review Miramax / Star Maker [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Clelia Rondinella
  • Franco Scaldati
  • Tiziana Lodato
  • Sergio Castellitto
  • Leopoldo Trieste
  • Giuseppe Tornatore
Release date: 2003-02-04
Run time: 107 min.
Price: £3.75

Review Star Maker [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review Walt Disney Video / Tin Men [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Barry Levinson
  • Jackie Gayle
  • Richard Dreyfuss
  • Danny DeVito
  • John Mahoney
  • Barbara Hershey
Release date: 2002-04-02
Run time: 108 min.
Price: £3.93

Review Tin Men [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Paramount / The Reckoning [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Simon McBurney
  • Paul Bettany
  • Paul McGuigan
  • Tom Hardy
  • Trevor Steedman
  • Marián Aguilera
Release date: 2004-08-03
Run time: 110 min.
Price: £16.94

Review The Reckoning [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Miramax / Torrents of Spring [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Harry H. Corbett
  • Charles Houston
  • Sandra Dorne
  • Penelope Horner
  • Wilfrid Brambell
Release date: 2004-01-13
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £2.62

Review Torrents of Spring [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review MCA Home Video / Day of Wrath [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Szonja Oroszlán
  • Blanca Marsillach
  • Brian Blessed
  • James Faulkner
  • Christopher Lambert
  • Adrian Rudomin
Release date: 2006-06-27
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £2.24

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


Review 2 Entertain Video / Thomas And Sarah - Episodes 1 To 7 [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Thornton
  • Maria Charles
  • Norman Bird
  • Graham Cull
  • Charles West (III)
Release date: 2004-06-07
Run time: 350 min.
Price: £14.99

Review Thomas And Sarah - Episodes 1 To 7 [1979] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Acorn Media / The House Of Eliott - Part 2
Actors & Directors
  • Stella Gonet
  • Louise Lombard
Release date: 2004-10-11
Run time: 200 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £19.99

Review The House Of Eliott - Part 2 / Acorn Media:


Review BBC Warner / Bleak House [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Denholm Elliott
  • Philip Franks
  • Diana Rigg
  • Brian Deacon
  • Ross Devenish
  • T.P. McKenna
Release date: 2005-09-06
Run time: 418 min.
Price: £5.29

Review Bleak House [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:


Review Kino / Life and Nothing But [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Maurice Barrier
  • Pascale Vignal
  • Philippe Noiret
  • François Perrot
  • Sabine Azéma
  • Bertrand Tavernier
Release date: 2004-10-05
Run time: 135 min.
Price: £11.75

Review Life and Nothing But [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review MGM / The Story of Adele H. [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Isabelle Adjani
  • Louise Bourdet
  • Joseph Blatchley
  • Cecil de Saumarez
  • Geoffrey Crook
Release date: 2001-01-23
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Maurice Jaubert
Price: £3.85

Review The Story of Adele H. [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

The Story of Adele H is Francois Truffaut's dramatisation of the true story of Adele Hugo, the daughter of French author-in-exile Victor Hugo, and her romantic obsession with a young French officer. It's a cinematically beautiful and emotionally wrenching portrait of a headstrong but unstable young woman. Adele (Isabelle Adjani, whose pale face gives her the quality of a cameo portrait) travels under a false name and spins half-a-dozen false stories about herself and her relationship to Lieutenant Pinson (Bruce Robinson), the Hussar she follows to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Pinson no longer loves her, but she refuses to accept his rejection. Sinking further and further into her own internal world, she passes herself off as his wife and pours out her stormy emotions into a personal journal filled with delusional descriptions of her fantasy life. Beautifully shot by Nestor Almendros in vivid colour, Truffaut's re-creation of the 1860s is accomplished not merely in impressive sets and locations but in the very style of the film: narration and voiceovers, written journal entries and letters, journeys and locations established with map reproductions, and a judicious use of stills mixing old-fashioned cinematic technique with poetic flourishes. The result is one of Truffaut's most haunting portraits, all the more powerful because it's true. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Sense And Sensibility / Remains Of The Day / Little Women [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • John Haycraft
  • James Ivory
  • Caroline Hunt
  • Christopher Reeve
  • Ang Lee
  • Emma Thompson
  • Gillian Armstrong
  • Anthony Hopkins
Release date: 2004-05-17
Run time: 373 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.99

Review Sense And Sensibility / Remains Of The Day / Little Women [1996] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

The Remains of the Day is one of Merchant-Ivory's most thought-provoking films. Anthony Hopkins is a model of restraint and propriety as Stevens, the butler who "knows his place"; Emma Thompson is the animated and sympathetic Miss Kenton, the housekeeper whose attraction to Stevens is doomed to disappointment. As Nazi appeaser Lord Darlington, James Fox clings to the notion of a gentleman's agreement in the ruthless political climate before World War Two. Hugh Grant is his journalist nephew all too aware of reality, while Christopher Reeves gives a spirited portrayal of an American senator, whose purchase of Darlington Hall 20 years on sends Stevens on a journey to right the mistake he made out of loyalty. As a period drama with an ever-relevant message, this 1993 film is absorbing viewing all the way. On the DVD: the letterbox widescreen format reproduces the 2. 35:1 aspect ratio with absolute clarity. Subtitles are in French and German, with audio subtitles also in English, Italian and Spanish, and with 28 separate chapter selections. The "making-of" featurette and retrospective documentary complement each other with their "during and after" perspectives, while "Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honour" is an interesting short on the question of appeasement and war. The running commentary from Thompson, Merchant and Ivory is more of a once-only diversion. [+]
-Richard Whitehouse.

Review Merchant Ivory / Quartet [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Ivory
  • Maggie Smith
  • Anthony Higgins
  • Isabelle Adjani
  • Alan Bates
  • Pierre Clémenti
Release date: 2004-02-24
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £7.78

Review Quartet [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Merchant Ivory:


Review Columbia TriStar / Desert Bloom [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ellen Barkin
  • Annabeth Gish
  • Eugene Corr
  • JoBeth Williams
  • Jay Underwood
  • Jon Voight
Release date: 2003-03-11
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £11.15

Review Desert Bloom [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Models & Brands:
A Child's Christmas in Wales [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Murders in the Rue Morgue [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tempest, The [1985], Seduction Of A Priest aka The Final Temptation [1990], Titus [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Selma, Lord, Selma [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Our Mutual Friend [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Star Maker [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tin Men [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Reckoning [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Torrents of Spring [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Day of Wrath [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Thomas And Sarah - Episodes 1 To 7 [1979], The House Of Eliott - Part 2, Bleak House [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Life and Nothing But [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Story of Adele H. [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sense And Sensibility / Remains Of The Day / Little Women [1996], Quartet [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Desert Bloom [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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