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Review Walt Disney Video / Jefferson in Paris [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Seth Gilliam
  • Estelle Eonnet
  • James Ivory
  • Thandie Newton
  • Nick Nolte
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
Release date: 2004-04-06
Run time: 139 min.
Price: £4.97

Review Jefferson in Paris [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / Oliver Twist [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Timothy Burrill
  • Ben Kingsley
  • Laurent Bouzereau
  • James Freedman (III)
  • Allan Starski
  • Roman Polanski
  • Harry Eden
Release date: 2006-01-24
Run time: 130 min.
Price: £5.24

Review Oliver Twist [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / The Mayor Of Casterbridge
Actors & Directors
  • Ciaran Hinds
  • James Purefoy
  • Juliet Aubrey
  • Polly Walker
  • Jodhi May
Release date: 2004-01-19
Run time: 198 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.99

Review The Mayor Of Casterbridge / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


Review Koch Vision / Tom Brown's Schooldays [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alex Pettyfer
  • Dave Moore
  • Jemma Redgrave
  • Joseph Beattie
  • Harry Michell
  • Stephen Fry
Release date: 2007-04-10
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £6.35

Review Tom Brown's Schooldays [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Koch Vision:


Review Columbia TriStar / The End of the Affair [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julianne Moore
  • Stephen Rea
  • James Bolam
  • Heather-Jay Jones
  • Neil Jordan
  • Ralph Fiennes
Release date: 2000-05-16
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £3.00

Review The End of the Affair [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

It's entirely fitting that The End of the Affair plays out in a 1940s London that's either blacked-out during the Blitz or wreathed in a pea-souper during the post-war period. After all, Neil Jordan's movie is a mystery play in the guise of a love-story, and its interior is a fog of conjecture and misunderstanding. Only at the end does the mist clear away and we see things in stark clarity. Based on Graham Greene's most autobiographical novel, The End of the Affair offers an autopsy of the adulterous love affair between glacial Sarah Miles (Oscar-nominated Julianne Moore) and intense writer Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes). Out on the sidelines, Ian Hart proves convincingly twitchy as a working-class private eye, while Jordan regular Stephen Rea (as the cuckolded husband) mooches about with a face like November. In the mean-time, the movie circles deliberately around its central bone of contention: the bomb blast that spared Maurice's life but brought his relationship with Sarah to its sudden, inexplicable end. Unfortunately, The End of the Affair winds up something of a mixed bag. If anything, Jordan is almost too respectful of Greene's source material: toiling lovingly on the intricacies of his story (its shabby London settings, its clash of profane love with redemptive Catholicism) while leaving the drama idling. The result is a film you'll probably admire rather than love. Its chill ambience dampens down the passion. [+]
-Xan Brooks.

Review Live/Artisan / Snowy River: The McGregor Saga - The Race [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julian McSwiney
  • Marcus Cole
  • Colin Budds
  • Josh Lucas
  • Guy Pearce
  • Reg Evans
  • Joelene Crnogorac
  • Wendy Hughes
Release date: 2003-11-18
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £25.77

Review Snowy River: The McGregor Saga - The Race [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:


Review Warner Home Video / Camille [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lionel Barrymore
  • Jessie Ralph
  • Greta Garbo
  • Elizabeth Allan
  • George Cukor
  • Robert Taylor
Release date: 2005-09-06
Run time: 179 min.
Price: £6.92

Review Camille [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Touchstone / Disney / The Prestige [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christian Bale
  • Christopher Nolan
  • Michael Caine
  • Rebecca Hall
  • Hugh Jackman
  • Piper Perabo
Release date: 2007-02-20
Run time: 130 min.
Price: £6.11

Review The Prestige [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Touchstone / Disney:


Review Warner Home Video / Queen Christina [1933] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Gilbert
  • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Elizabeth Young
  • Greta Garbo
  • Ian Keith
  • Lewis Stone
Release date: 2005-09-06
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £7.73

Review Queen Christina [1933] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount / Fat Man & Little Boy [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Newman
  • Laura Dern
  • Dwight Schultz
  • Bonnie Bedelia
  • Roland Joffé
  • John Cusack
Release date: 2004-04-27
Run time: 126 min.
Price: £25.00

Review Fat Man & Little Boy [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Empire Pictures / Monsieur N [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Philippe Torreton
  • Richard E. Grant
  • Roschdy Zem
  • Jay Rodan
  • Antoine de Caunes
  • Elsa Zylberstein
Release date: 2005-06-28
Run time: 127 min.
Price: £10.19

Review Monsieur N [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Empire Pictures:


Review New Line Home Video / The New World [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Plummer
  • August Schellenberg
  • Colin Farrell
  • Christian Bale
  • Terrence Malick
  • Q'Orianka Kilcher
Release date: 2006-05-09
Run time: 135 min.
Price: £4.86

Review The New World [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:


Review Miramax / Edges of the Lord [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Liam Hess
  • Olaf Lubaszenko
  • Willem Dafoe
  • Richard Banel
  • Yurek Bogayevicz
  • Haley Joel Osment
Release date: 2005-01-04
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £7.51

Review Edges of the Lord [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review WideSight Entertainment Ltd./Intermedia Films / Firelight [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Anderson
  • Joss Ackland
  • Sophie Marceau
  • Stephen Dillane
  • William Nicholson
  • Dominique Belcourt
Release date: 2004-05-31
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Chris Wimble
Price: £5.64

Review Firelight [1997] / WideSight Entertainment Ltd./Intermedia Films:


Review Live/Artisan / Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sela Ward
  • John Slattery
  • Guy Ferland
  • Diego Luna
  • Jonathan Jackson
  • Romola Garai
Release date: 2004-07-20
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £4.87

Review Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:

The sinuous world of 1950s Cuban dance halls provides the setting for Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, a "re-imagining" that shares with the original movie a deep love of sexy young people pressed tightly together on the dance floor. Fresh from New England, bookish and lovely Katey (Romola Garai, adorable in the charming but little-seen I Capture the Castle) meets a fiery young busboy named Javier (Diego Luna, Y Tu Mama Tambien) at a snooty hotel. Before you can say Tito Puente, the two have found a common language in the sensual swaying of their limbs, despite the resistance of Katey's mother (Sela Ward). It's all ridiculous, of course-the dialogue is atrocious, the characters tortilla-thin, and the politics embarrassing-but that's hardly the point. Luna is dreamy, there's lots of sweaty dancing, and Patrick Swayze makes an appearance-what more can you ask from a movie called Dirty Dancing? -Bret Fetzer.

Review Lolafilms Home Ent / La Celestina [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jordi Mollà
  • Terele Pavez
  • Maribel Verdú
  • Penélope Cruz
  • Juan Diego Botto
  • Gerardo Vera
Release date: 2005-10-18
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Joaquín Rodrigo
Price: £8.00

Review La Celestina [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lolafilms Home Ent:


Review Paramount / Bride of the Wind [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Beresford
  • Simon Verhoeven
  • Sarah Wynter
  • Vincent Perez
  • Gregor Seberg
  • Jonathan Pryce
Release date: 2001-11-13
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £37.94

Review Bride of the Wind [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Warner Home Video / North And South - Book 1 - Parts 1 And 2 [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Swayze
  • Richard T. Heffron
  • James Read (II)
  • Kirstie Alley
  • Lesley-Anne Down
  • Wendy Kilbourne
Release date: 1997-03-03
Run time: 178 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

Review North And South - Book 1 - Parts 1 And 2 [1985] / Warner Home Video:


Review BBC Video / Northanger Abbey (1986) (Tv-Drama)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Firth
  • Googie Withers
  • Giles Foster
  • Robert Hardy
  • Katherine Schlesinger
  • Geoffrey Chater
Release date: 1996-06-03
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.95

Review Northanger Abbey (1986) (Tv-Drama) / BBC Video:

Jane Austen goes Gothic in this darkly dramatic rendering of her Northanger Abbey, a novel that wasn't published until after her early and sudden death. Austen pokes fun at her peers in this story, in which her heroine, Catherine Morland (Katharine Schlesinger), is hopelessly addicted to macabre romance novels that wreak havoc on her imagination. She comes from a large, but loving family, and she's taken, as a companion, to the decadent society of Bath. There, she meets the duplicitous Thorpe siblings, Isabella (Cassie Stuart) and John (Jonathan Coy), and the kindly Tilney sister and brother, Eleanor (Ingrid Lacey) and Henry (Peter Firth). The Tilneys also have an elder brother, the snobbish soldier Frederick (Greg Hicks), and an oddly eerie father, General Tilney (Robert Hardy). Needless to say, all this provides plenty of fodder for fantasies and Catherine comes up with many, even imagining all sorts of evils on a visit to the Tilney family home, Northanger Abbey. The soundtrack is more than a little melodramatic, but it's best to think of it as a humorous touch rather than a serious, punctuating one. -NF Mendoza, Amazon. com.

Review Dawn Treader Films / Melinda's World [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christina Raines
  • Ruth de Sosa
  • Zac Efron
  • David Baumgarten
  • Chad L. Stevens
  • Jenifer Olivares
Release date: 2005-05-10
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Kurt Bestor
Price: £24.48

Review Melinda's World [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Dawn Treader Films:


Models & Brands:
Jefferson in Paris [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Oliver Twist [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Tom Brown's Schooldays [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The End of the Affair [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Snowy River: The McGregor Saga - The Race [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Camille [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Prestige [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Queen Christina [1933] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fat Man & Little Boy [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Monsieur N [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The New World [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Edges of the Lord [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Firelight [1997], Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), La Celestina [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bride of the Wind [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), North And South - Book 1 - Parts 1 And 2 [1985], Northanger Abbey (1986) (Tv-Drama), Melinda's World [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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