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Review Dimension / Runaway Daughters [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Young
  • Joe Dante
  • Paul Rudd
  • Jenny Lewis
  • Holly Fields
  • Julie Bowen
Release date: 2005-04-05
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Lou Rusoff
Price: £12.95

Review Runaway Daughters [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Dimension:


Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / The Secret: Episode 1 [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hannah Yelland
  • Stephen Moyer
  • Clare Higgins
  • June Whitfield
  • Alan Grint
  • Colin Buchanan
Release date: 2000-09-19
Run time: 156 min.
Creator: T.R. Bowen

Review The Secret: Episode 1 [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Review Polart / Mother Joan of the Angels [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lucyna Winnicka
  • Mieczyslaw Voit
  • Jerzy Kawalerowicz
  • Kazimierz Fabisiak
  • Maria Chwalibóg
  • Anna Ciepielewska
Release date: 2006-04-25
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Tadeusz Konwicki
Price: £13.40

Review Mother Joan of the Angels [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Polart:


Review Playa Films / La Feria de Las Flores [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Antonio Badú
  • María Luisa Zea
Release date: 2006-12-19
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £3.83

Review La Feria de Las Flores [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Playa Films:


Review Sony Pictures / Memoirs of a Geisha [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rob Marshall
  • Suzuka Ohgo
  • Togo Igawa
  • Ziyi Zhang
  • Michelle Yeoh
  • Ken Watanabe
Release date: 2006-03-28
Run time: 145 min.
Creator: Robin Swicord
Price: £9.43

Review Memoirs of a Geisha [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / A Very Long Engagement [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dominique Pinon
  • Jodie Foster
  • Audrey Tautou
  • Gaspard Ulliel
  • Chantal Neuwirth
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Release date: 2005-07-12
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: Sébastien Japrisot
Price: £6.73

Review A Very Long Engagement [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox / Anna and the King [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yun-Fat Chow
  • Ling Bai
  • Tom Felton
  • Jodie Foster
  • Andy Tennant
  • Syed Alwi
Release date: 2003-02-04
Price: £3.72

Review Anna and the King [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

What's a director to do? Andy Tennant's previous film was the highly enjoyable Cinderella romance Ever After, which vanished from theatres and became a video hit. Then Tennant made this gorgeous, non-musical version of Anna and the King, and once again felt the sting of box-office failure. Both films deserved better, and this Anna is certain to eventually find the appreciative audience that eluded it in the cinemas. In many ways, this delightful costume romance transcends the latter-day quaintness of The King and I to offer a more lavish and rewarding version of the story of Anna Leonowens, based on her diaries and first told in Margaret Landon's 1944 novel. In an otherwise admirable performance (although many felt her miscast), Jodie Foster struggles with her Victorian accent as Anna, the grieving widow who arrives in Siam in 1860 with her young son. Having accepted a post as tutor for the many children of the polygamous King Mongkut (Chow Yun-Fat), Anna finds herself drawn to the progressive monarch, whose passions swirl in a turbulent political climate. If the chemistry isn't entirely there, this culture clash still has plenty of regal charm, and Luciana Arrighi's production design is appropriately magnificent. Humour and politics are given equal measure, and Chow Yun-Fat is arguably the most endearing king to date-powerful yet tender, forceful but anguished by the heavier burdens of leadership. Bai Ling's intense performance as the tragic lover Tuptim adds emotional depth to one of the most underrated films of 1999. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Bonneville Ent. / Caddie Woodlawn [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Emily Schulman
  • Melissa Clayton
  • Trey Parker
  • James Stephens
  • Season Hubley
  • Giles Walker
Release date: 2003-11-25
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Joe Wiesenfeld
Price: £26.95

Review Caddie Woodlawn [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Bonneville Ent.:


Review Diamond Entertainment Corp. / Duel of the Champions [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Franco Fabrizi
  • Terence Young
  • Ferdinando Baldi
  • Robert Keith
  • Jacqueline Derval
  • Franca Bettoia
  • Alan Ladd
Release date: 2000-10-03
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Luciano Vincenzoni
Price: £13.95

Review Duel of the Champions [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Diamond Entertainment Corp.:


Review Koch Vision / To Catch a King [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marcel Bozzuffi
  • Horst Janson
  • Teri Garr
  • Barry Foster
  • Clive Donner
  • Peter Egan
Release date: 2005-07-12
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Nick Bicat
Price: £3.56

Review To Catch a King [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Koch Vision:


Review Laguna Films / Mexico de Mis Recuerdos [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Antonio R. Frausto
  • Fernando Soler
  • Sofia Alvarez
  • Juan Bustillo Oro
  • Joaquin Pardave
  • Luis Aldas
Release date: 2007-08-07
Run time: 135 min.
Creator: Federico Ruiz
Price: £3.24

Review Mexico de Mis Recuerdos [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Laguna Films:


Review 20th Century Fox / A Walk in the Clouds [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Keanu Reeves
  • Alfonso Arau
  • Angélica Aragón
  • Giancarlo Giannini
  • Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
  • Anthony Quinn
Release date: 2001-01-09
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Mark Miller

Review A Walk in the Clouds [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

Keanu Reeves is completely wooden in this romantic misfire by Alfonso Arau (Like Water for Chocolate). Reeves plays a World War II vet who hits the road as a travelling salesman and agrees to help a desperate, pregnant woman (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon)-who is afraid to let her father (Giancarlo Giannini) see her condition-by pretending to be her husband. Most of the story takes place in the old man's vineyard, and Arau makes a life of swollen fruit, grape-stomping, sunlight and tan flesh that looks amazingly erotic. But there are plenty of sillier distractions, such as the sight of farm hands chasing insects with flapping gossamer wings attached to their arms. Reeves is terribly self-conscious, while stalwart Anthony Quinn is memorable as the damsel's benevolent grandfather. -Tom Keogh.

Review A&E Home Video / The Last King [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rufus Sewell
  • Ian McDiarmid
  • Rupert Graves
  • Joe Wright
  • Michael Pober
  • Martin Turner
Release date: 2004-04-27
Run time: 188 min.
Creator: Lee Morris
Price: £10.08

Review The Last King [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A&E Home Video:

One of the better BBC costume dramas of recent years, 2003's Charles II: The Power and the Passion depends very strongly on its central performance. Fortunately, Rufus Sewell is admirable throughout as the saturnine, witty monarch who has retained popular fondness down the centuries in spite of his conscientious adherence to the bad and losing cause of absolute monarchy. Adrian Hodge's intelligent script dramatises the issue in quick sound bites-many politicians accepted the Restoration to avoid chaos and were determined to bring Charles to heel, whereas he was determined to defend the position for which his father had been martyred. If that meant handing the throne to his Catholic brother in default of a legitimate son of his own, so be it. The four hour-long episodes cover the Restoration, the Plague and the Fire of London, the secret treaties with France and the Popish Plot, as well as giving us a fair bit of Charles's moderately happy marriage to Catherine (Shirley Henderson in the most hideously accurate historical hairdos ever) and his affairs with various mistresses. Among a number of fine supporting performances, Rupert Graves stands out as Buckingham, the friend who betrayed Charles. This sort of costume drama only ever works if the acting is as good as it is here. On the DVD: Charles II on disc comes with a making-of documentary and a commentary on the first episode from writer Adrian Hodge and the director and producer. It also includes an extended documentary on Charles's back story-his education, his attempt to fight Cromwell's forces, his period on the run in England and his long exile-in which a number of eminent historians, including Richard Holmes and Ronald Hutton, talk about how he became the king he was. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Paramount / The Talented Mr. Ripley [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Minghella
  • Matt Damon
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Cate Blanchett
  • Jude Law
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
Release date: 2000-06-27
Run time: 139 min.
Creator: Steve E. Andrews
Price: £10.95

Review The Talented Mr. Ripley [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

"I feel like I've been handed a new life", says Tom Ripley at a crucial turning point of this well-cast, stylishly crafted psychological thriller. And indeed he has, because the devious, impoverished Ripley (played with subtle depth by Matt Damon) has just traded his own identity for that of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), the playboy heir to a shipping fortune who has become Ripley's model for a life worth living. Having been sent by Dickie's father to retrieve the errant son from Italy, Ripley has smoothly ingratiated himself with Dickie and his lovely, unsuspecting fiancée, Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow). In due course, the sheer evil of Ripley's amoral scheme will be revealed. Superbly adapted from the acclaimed novel by Patricia Highsmith (also the basis of the acclaimed French version, Purple Noon), The Talented Mr Ripley is writer-director Anthony Minghella's impressive follow-up to his Oscar-winning triumph The English Patient. Recreating late-1950s Italy in exacting detail, the film captures the sensuousness of la dolce vita while developing the fracturing of Ripley's mind as his crimes grow increasingly desperate. And where Hitchcock was necessarily discreet with the homosexual subtext of Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Minghella brings it out of the closet, increasing the dramatic tension and complexity of Ripley's psychological breakdown. Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Cate Blanchett are excellent in pivotal supporting roles, and the film's final image is utterly effective: Ripley's talents have gone too far, and this study of class distinction, obsession and deadly desire reaches a disturbing yet richly appropriate conclusion. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Echo Bridge Home Entertainment / Small Town Conspiracy [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Clemente
  • Jeanetta Arnette
  • Zen Gesner
  • James Bates Jr.
  • William Morgan Sheppard
  • Patrick Cherry
Release date: 2007-04-24
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Stephen Bowles
Price: £2.64

Review Small Town Conspiracy [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / The Phantom of the Opera [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joel Schumacher
  • Minnie Driver
  • Emmy Rossum
  • Miranda Richardson
  • Gerard Butler
  • Patrick Wilson
Release date: 2005-05-03
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Gaston Leroux
Price: £4.36

Review The Phantom of the Opera [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Studios / Carlito's Way: Rise to Power [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mario Van Peebles
  • Michael Kelly
  • Jay Hernandez
  • Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs
  • Michael Bregman
  • Luis Guzmán
Release date: 2005-09-27
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Edwin Torres
Price: £3.49

Review Carlito's Way: Rise to Power [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Universal Studios / Leatherheads [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Krasinski
  • Stephen Root
  • George Clooney
  • Jonathan Pryce
  • George Clooney
  • Renée Zellweger
Release date: 2008-09-23
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Rick Reilly
Price: £14.26

Review Leatherheads [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Ifc / The Killing of John Lennon [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nicole Delorey
  • J. Francis Curley
  • Andrew Piddington
  • Gail Kay Bell
  • Joe Abbate
  • Jonas Ball
Release date: 2008-08-05
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Sabrina Tubio-Cid
Price: £8.82

Review The Killing of John Lennon [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ifc:


Review Warner Home Video / Liberty Heights [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Mantegna
  • Bebe Neuwirth
  • Orlando Jones
  • Adrien Brody
  • Barry Levinson
  • Ben Foster
Release date: 2000-06-20
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Patrick McCormick
Price: £3.21

Review Liberty Heights [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson yet again returns to Baltimore for inspiration with the semi-autobiographical Liberty Heights. Set in 1954, it tells the story of two young Jewish boys and their experiences of growing up in an America trying to come to terms with a changing society. The film focuses both on the sweet and innocent (the relationship between younger brother Ben and sole black student Sylvia) and the darker, more vicious side of a nation in flux. The evils of racism form a backdrop to all the intertwining plot lines-not only white against black but also widespread anti-Semitism. The young, largely unknown cast are all excellent-especially Adrien Brody and Ben Foster as the brothers and Rebecka Johnston as the quietly knowing Sylvia. Taking its cue from the great teen movies of the past, the film buzzes with the vitality of youth and of a generation on the verge of a new dawn (music plays a huge part), placing the political problems of the age in the context of adolescence to great effect. This is not Levinson's most high-profile work but certainly one of his best. On the DVD: The music of the period features heavily in the movie and dominates much of the action, so much so that it is possible to watch Liberty Heights with a music-only soundtrack. The film moves effortlessly between light and shade, both metaphorically and physically. Fair attempts have been made to provide an interesting set of extras: a gallery of interviews with the cast and director, deleted scenes and a very brief on-set documentary. [+]
-Phil Udell.

Models & Brands:
Runaway Daughters [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Secret: Episode 1 [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mother Joan of the Angels [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), La Feria de Las Flores [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Memoirs of a Geisha [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Very Long Engagement [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Anna and the King [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Caddie Woodlawn [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Duel of the Champions [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), To Catch a King [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mexico de Mis Recuerdos [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Walk in the Clouds [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Last King [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Talented Mr. Ripley [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Small Town Conspiracy [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Phantom of the Opera [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Carlito's Way: Rise to Power [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Leatherheads [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Killing of John Lennon [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Liberty Heights [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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