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Review Acorn Media / The Far Pavilions [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Amy Irving
  • Benedict Taylor
  • Peter Duffell
  • Ben Cross
  • Christopher Lee
  • Rossano Brazzi
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 310 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £1.74

Review The Far Pavilions [1984] / Acorn Media:


Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / The Real Charlotte [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Barry (II)
  • Jeananne Crowley
  • Doreen Keogh
  • Marie Kean
  • Robin Lermitte
  • Sian Maguire
Release date: 2003-09-16
Run time: 198 min.
Price: £16.13

Review The Real Charlotte [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Review Cinema Club / Catherine Cookson - The Dwelling Place [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Tracy Whitwell
  • Philip Voss
  • Edward Rawle-Hicks
  • Gavin Millar
  • Lucy Cohu
  • Ray Stevenson
Release date: 2003-04-14
Run time: 154 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99

Review Catherine Cookson - The Dwelling Place [1994] / Cinema Club:


Review Columbia TriStar / Me Without You [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Allan Corduner
  • Ella Jones
  • Anna Popplewell
  • Sandra Goldbacher
  • Trudie Styler
  • Cameron Powrie
Release date: 2003-06-17
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £7.98

Review Me Without You [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Sandra Goldbacher's intense drama of friendship and betrayal Me Without You was not especially liked by UK reviewers, but opened in the US to rave reviews. Carrying the relationship between two teenagers through their student days and into adulthood, it shows the more obviously charismatic Marina (Anna Friel) as parasitic on her more intelligent friend Holly (Michelle Williams) and then utterly devastated when Holly tries to break away (a brief epilogue shows them still involved years later). Best known for her role in Dawson's Creek, Michelle Williams (whose English accent is impeccable) gives a finely nuanced performance; Anne Friel runs the gamut from drug-induced stupor to malice to hysteria with a staginess that is only partly the character's. There are solid performances from Trudy Stiler as the neurotic ex-croupier mother who is part of Marina's problem and Kyle McLachlan as the oddly passive lecturer whom both seduce. The film is good on the passage of time-it has a fine eye for the fashion disasters of 1970s to 90s Britain-yet it's somehow disingenuous in its avoidance of emotional subtext. It's overly partial, too: Holly is obviously a stand-in for the writer-director. On the DVD: Me Without Your is presented in a widescreen visual ratio of 2. 35:1 with Dolby 5. 1 digital sound that gives full weight and intensity to a soundtrack which revisits a well-chosen selection of obvious and obscure tracks from the period. It has no extra features. [+]
-Roz Kaveney.

Review Miramax / The Grandfather [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • José Luis Garci
  • Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
  • Agustín González
  • Cristina Cruz
  • Rafael Alonso
  • Fernando Fernán Gómez
Release date: 2000-08-08
Run time: 146 min.
Price: £6.85

Review The Grandfather [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review New Line Home Video / Bright Young Things [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Stephen Fry
  • Jim Carter
  • Julia McKenzie
  • Bill Paterson
  • Simon McBurney
Release date: 2005-02-08
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Anne Dudley
Price: £10.64

Review Bright Young Things [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:


Review Pathfinder Home Ent. / The Setting Sun [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Biao Yuen
  • Diane Lane
  • Masaya Kato
  • Donald Sutherland
  • Rou Tomono
  • Hideo Sunazuka
Release date: 2004-04-13
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £6.98

Review The Setting Sun [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Pathfinder Home Ent.:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Forever Amber [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • Glenn Langan
  • Linda Darnell
  • George Sanders
  • Otto Preminger
  • John M. Stahl
  • Richard Greene
  • Cornel Wilde
Release date: 1995-04-03
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £44.95

Review Forever Amber [1947] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Criterion / Coup de Grace [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rüdiger Kirschstein
  • Marc Eyraud
  • Matthias Habich
  • Bruno Thost
  • Margarethe von Trotta
  • Volker Schlöndorff
Release date: 2003-05-27
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £11.59

Review Coup de Grace [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review Paramount / A Separate Peace [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Danny Swerdlow
  • Jacob Pitts
  • J Barton
  • Aaron Ashmore
  • Toby Moore
  • Peter Yates
Release date: 2005-02-08
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £7.32

Review A Separate Peace [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review BBC Warner / Byron [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Natasha Little
  • Vanessa Redgrave
  • Philip Glenister
  • Julian Farino
  • Julie Cox
  • Jonny Lee Miller
Release date: 2007-10-16
Run time: 150 min.
Price: £5.33

Review Byron [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:


Review Hallmark / A Painted House [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Scott Glenn
  • Logan Lerman
  • Arija Bareikis
  • Robert Sean Leonard
  • Alfonso Arau
  • Melinda Dillon
Release date: 2003-10-21
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £4.91

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


Review Warner Home Video / American Pastime [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Big Budah
  • Jeff Herr (III)
  • Sami Roe
  • Jeff Olson
  • Jon Gries
  • Desmond Nakano
Release date: 2007-05-22
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £4.20

Review American Pastime [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / I Claudius - Parts 1 And 2 [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • John Hurt
  • George Baker
  • Brian Blessed
  • Derek Jacobi
  • Siân Phillips
  • Herbert Wise
Release date: 1991-09-02
Run time: 324 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.30

Review I Claudius - Parts 1 And 2 [1976] / 2 Entertain Video:

A truly epic saga of dynastic conflict at the heart of Imperial Rome, I Claudius was the landmark BBC drama series of the 1970s. Originally transmitted as 13 50-minute episodes, it is now available as two double video packs. After chronicling the foundations of the British Empire in Elizabeth R (1971), the BBC chose to dramatise the human face of ancient Rome as interpreted by Robert Graves in his two enormously complex novels, I Claudius and Claudius The God. Derek Jacobi gives one of the greatest television performances ever as Claudius, the appalled chronicler of the decadence, corruption, intrigue and carnage which comes with absolute power of his ruling family. Augustus (Brian Blessed) is Emperor and Sian Phillips, Livia, his scheming, ambitious wife, Claudius' aunt. By virtue of his stammer and uncontrollable twitches, Claudius passes for a fool, thus escaping the poisonous machinations of Livia, all the while recording the comings and goings of the Imperial household. Inevitably lacking the visual scale of cinematic features Ben-Hur (1959) and Spartacus (1960), and today looking more studio-bound than ever, I Claudius remains a television masterpiece of intelligently written and rivetingly intense character drama. The saga ends with I Claudius - Part 2. -Gary S. Dalkin A truly epic saga of dynastic conflict at the heart of Imperial Rome, I Claudius was the landmark BBC drama series of the 1970s. [+]
Originally transmitted as 13 50-minute episodes, the series dramatises the human face of ancient Rome as interpreted by Robert Graves in his two enormously complex novels, I, Claudius and Claudius The God. Derek Jacobi gives one of the greatest television performances ever as Claudius, the appalled chronicler of the decadence, corruption, intrigue and carnage which comes with the absolute power of his ruling family. Augustus (Brian Blessed) is Emperor and Livia (Sian Phillips) his scheming, ambitious wife, Claudius' aunt. By virtue of his stammer and uncontrollable twitches, Claudius passes for a fool, thus escaping the poisonous machinations of Livia, all the while recording the comings and goings of the Imperial household. Events become increasingly frenzied as Caligula (John Hurt playing the tyrant with psychotic fury) bloodily slaughters his way to power, making a senator of his favourite horse along the way. Claudius eventually becomes Emperor himself, and Jacobi is simply magnificent in the intensely moving finale, which is not to overlook the rest of a fine cast, including George Baker, Ian Ogilvy, Christopher Guard, Stratford Johns, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hepton and Patrick Stewart as the murderous Praetorian Guard Captain Sejanus. Inevitably lacking the visual scale of cinematic features such as Ben-Hur, and today looking more studio-bound than ever, I, Claudius remains a television masterpiece of intelligently written and rivetingly intense character drama. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Diamond Entertainment Corp. / Jose Ferrer: Cyrano de Bergerac [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Martyn Green
  • Kurt Kasznar
  • Jane Connell
  • Victor Garber
  • Joan Van Ark
Release date: 2003-12-02
Run time: 112 min.
Price: £0.99

Review Jose Ferrer: Cyrano de Bergerac [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Diamond Entertainment Corp.:


Review GT Media / Cyrano De Bergerac [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Blake
  • Morris Carnovsky
  • Don Beddoe
  • Richard Avonde
  • Edgar Barrier
Release date: 2005-01-25
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Dimitri Tiomkin
Price: £1.91

Review Cyrano De Bergerac [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / GT Media:


Review Image Entertainment / Slave of Love [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Yelena Solovey
  • Oleg Basilashvili
  • Alexander Kalyagin
  • Nikolai Pastukhov
  • Rodion Nakhapetov
  • Nikita Mikhalkov
Release date: 2005-08-09
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Eduard Artemyev
Price: £10.99

Review Slave of Love [1976] / Image Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Cathy Murphy
  • Toby Stephens
  • Tara Fitzgerald
  • Sarah Badel
  • Jackson Leach
  • Mike Barker
Release date: 1996-11-18
Run time: 159 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.70

Review The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall [1996] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Facets / Waiting for the Moon [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew McCarthy
  • Jill Godmilow
  • Bruce McGill
  • Linda Bassett
  • Daniel Langlet
  • Pierre-Alain Chapuis
Release date: 2006-04-25
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £11.06

Review Waiting for the Moon [1987] / Facets:


Review BBC Warner / Persuasion [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julia Davis
  • Sally Hawkins
  • Adrian Shergold
  • Alice Krige
  • Rupert Penry-Jones
  • Anthony Head
Release date: 2008-01-15
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £7.86

Review Persuasion [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:


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The Far Pavilions [1984], The Real Charlotte [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Catherine Cookson - The Dwelling Place [1994], Me Without You [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Grandfather [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bright Young Things [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Setting Sun [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Forever Amber [1947], Coup de Grace [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Separate Peace [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Byron [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Painted House [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), American Pastime [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), I Claudius - Parts 1 And 2 [1976], Jose Ferrer: Cyrano de Bergerac [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cyrano De Bergerac [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Slave of Love [1976], The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall [1996], Waiting for the Moon [1987], Persuasion [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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