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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Melinda And Melinda [2004] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Woody Allen
  • Radha Mitchell
  • Amanda Peet
  • Will Ferrell
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Jonny Lee Miller
Release date: 2005-07-25
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Will Ferrell
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.73

Review Melinda And Melinda [2004] [DVD] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

In Melinda and Melinda, Will Ferrell does a fine job playing Woody Allen-or at any rate, playing the fumbling, neurotic, lascivious character who appears in almost every Woody Allen movie (and is usually played by Allen himself). Hobie (Ferrell) is an unemployed actor who has fallen helplessly in love with Melinda (Radha Mitchell)-or at least with one version of Melinda, because Hobie's comic story runs parallel with a more serious version of the same plot, in which Melinda falls in love with a composer (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Melinda and Melinda is intended to be a sort of showdown between a comic and a tragic view of the world, but the comic story isn't all that funny and the tragic story isn't all that sad. You're more likely to feel annoyed by these characters than sympathetic to them, as they act more like Martians than New Yorkers; their responses and attitudes aren't exactly dated or implausible, they're mostly incomprehensible. The movie is still a step up from Anything Else, Allen's last effort; there are a handful of genuinely funny moments, Chloe Sevigny (as one of Melinda's best friends) and Mitchell are particularly good, and the turns of the two-fold plot-regardless of its genre-are engaging. However, these virtues will be best appreciated by those who are already Allen fans. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Paris When It Sizzles [1964] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Grégoire Aslan
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Richard Quine
  • Christian Duvaleix
  • Raymond Bussières
  • William Holden
Release date: 2001-09-03
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Julien Duvivier
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.99

Review Paris When It Sizzles [1964] [DVD] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Paris When It Sizzles is an unusual screwball comedy to say the least. Whether it works is another matter, but the premise and humour are interesting enough to make it enjoyable. The basic problem with the film is its two stars: William Holden and Audrey Hepburn hardly sizzle with onscreen chemistry, and Hepburn's character, Miss Simpson, falls far too easily into the hands of Holden's drunken screen writer. However, the story is an interesting play on the typical Hollywood romance, with two plot lines running in parallel to each other. Holden's Richard Benson has only two days to finish a script for an enigmatic producer (Noel Coward). Hepburn's Miss Simpson is drafted in as the typist and as the script is dictated it manifests itself on the screen, allowing the two lead characters to play out any number of romantic stories. It's the cameo appearances in the imaginary world that really steal the show, with the blink-and-you'll-miss-it last screen appearance by Marlene Dietrich, as well as Tony Curtis having fun with his own screen persona. It's not one of Hepburn or Holden's best, but is worth a look purely for the interesting slant on the mechanical nature of Hollywood's romances. On the DVD Paris When It Sizzles offers little of any note in regards to special features, with only an extended trailer (which seems to try and sell the film on the merits of the stars alone). The mono soundtrack is nothing special, though the print has cleaned up nicely, offering a 1. [+]
78:1 widescreen picture that brings the Technicolor to life. -Nikki Disney.

Review Dreamworks Home Entertainment / Forces Of Nature [DVD] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Blythe Danner
  • Ben Affleck
  • Maura Tierney
  • Sandra Bullock
  • Bronwen Hughes
  • Steve Zahn
Release date: 2001-02-12
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Marc Lawrence
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.30

Review Forces Of Nature [DVD] [1999] / Dreamworks Home Entertainment:

Plane crashes, pickpockets, hurricanes-heaven and hell is moving to prevent our able hero Ben (Ben Affleck) from marrying his sweetie (Maura Tierney) in Savannah. At every turn he runs into someone else despairing about the woes of married life. And of course, temptation proves overwhelming in the face of travelling companion Sarah (Sandra Bullock), the wild woman whom he can't seem-or doesn't want-to lose. After a wayward bird flies into the engine of his aeroplane, Ben is forced to find another way to his wedding. He finds himself stuck with Sarah, whom he carried from the plane after she was whacked in the head by his laptop. The heat between them is unmistakable, and the drama in the film comes from the "will he or won't he", both in terms of sleeping with Sarah and meeting up with his bride. Forces of Nature is a fun and sentimental road-trip film, but Ben is so straight-laced, you can't help but want him to fall flat on his face just a little. Bullock is the life of this film, although her free-spirited ways get a bit tired (responsibility is not all bad). The highlight of this movie, though, is definitely the cinematography. The beautiful rain shots and the colours of the scenes lend to the unsettling mood. [+]
While the jokes are not rip-roaring, Forces of Nature is to be reckoned with for those times when a light-hearted film is what you need. -Jenny Brown, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / The Other Side Of The Bed [DVD] [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Guillermo Toledo
  • Ramon Barea
  • Paz Vega
  • Natalia Verbeke
  • Emilio Martinez-Lazaro
  • Ernesto Alterio
Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Natalia Verbeke
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.40

Review The Other Side Of The Bed [DVD] [2003] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Tla Releasing / Eating Out [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Ryan Carnes
  • Q. Allan Brocka
  • Jim Verraros
  • Emily Stiles
  • Rebekah Kochan
  • Scott Lunsford
Release date: 2006-02-20
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jim Verraros
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.78

Review Eating Out [DVD] / Tla Releasing:


Review Tla Releasing / Puccini For Beginners [2007] [DVD]
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.93

Review Puccini For Beginners [2007] [DVD] / Tla Releasing:


Review Lions Gate Home Entertainment / Good Luck Chuck [Blu-ray] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Jessica Alba
  • Dane Cook
  • Dan Fogler
  • Mark Helfrich
Release date: 2008-03-17
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Jessica Alba
RRP: £24.99
Price: £6.97

Review Good Luck Chuck [Blu-ray] [2007] / Lions Gate Home Entertainment:

Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler Director: Mark Helfrich

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Heaven Can Wait Dvd [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Warren Beatty
  • James Mason
  • Julie Christie
  • Buck Henry
  • Charles Grodin
  • Jack Warden
  • Warren Beatty
Release date: 2001-12-24
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Robert Towne
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.24

Review Heaven Can Wait Dvd [1978] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

The whimsical comedy-romance Heaven Can Wait is a delightful example of the small sub-genre of afterlife comedies. The film, which teams then lovers Warren Beatty and Julie Christie for a third time following McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) and Shampoo (1975), is not a remake of the 1943 supernatural film of the same name, but of the Robert Montgomery classic Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941). Here Beatty is American football player Joe Pendleton, who accidentally dies, decades too early, and is incarnated in a new body which, until recently, was occupied by a ruthless multi-millionaire. James Mason is superb as a most authoritative angel (Mr Jordan), heading a fine cast including Charles Grodin, Buck Henry and Jack Warden. In a sub-plot paralleling The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and revisited in You've Got Mail (1998), Julie Christie plays an English woman outraged that one of the former millionaire's companies is destroying her village, while simultaneously falling in love with the man now occupying the hated millionaire's mortal coil. Much comic and romantic misunderstanding follows, as well as some appealing slapstick, courtesy of Dyan Cannon. Aided by a lovely musical score by Dave Grusin, this is a beautifully played and thoroughly charming bittersweet fantasy about the transcendent power of love. It is a joy for romantics everywhere. On the DVD: Heaven Can Wait comes to DVD in a good 1. 77:1 ratio transfer which exhibits just a little grain in some darker scenes. [+]
The print shows some very minor, occasional damage, but nothing to complain about in a film of this vintage. The sound is the original mono mix, which is perfectly serviceable. The only extra is the theatrical trailer. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Lucas [DVD] [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Charlie Sheen
  • Corey Haim
  • Kerri Green
  • Winona Ryder
  • David Seltzer
Release date: 2005-01-03
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Charlie Sheen
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.45

Review Lucas [DVD] [1986] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Third Window Films / Dasepo Naughty Girls [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Park Jin-Woo
  • Kim Ok-Bin
  • Lee Eun-Seong
  • Lee Je-Yong
  • Lee Kyeon
Release date: 2009-06-08
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Park Jin-Woo
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.98

Review Dasepo Naughty Girls [DVD] / Third Window Films:


Review Warner Home Video / Joe's Apartment [DVD] [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • John Payson
  • Jerry O'Connell
  • Megan Ward
Release date: 2006-07-24
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Megan Ward
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.32

Review Joe's Apartment [DVD] [1996] / Warner Home Video:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Seems Like Old Times [DVD] [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Chevy Chase
  • Robert Guillaume
  • Harold Gould
  • Goldie Hawn
  • Jay Sandrich
  • Charles Grodin
Release date: 2002-04-08
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Neil Simon
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.97

Review Seems Like Old Times [DVD] [1980] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

An original Neil Simon screenplay makes Seems Like Old Times rise above what would otherwise be a forgettable comedy-love triangle. Goldie Hawn plays a good-hearted defence lawyer married to Ira (Charles Grodin), a politically ambitious district attorney. The craziness of their everyday lives becomes even more ridiculous when ex-husband Chevy Chase is framed for a bank robbery and seeks refuge with the woman he could never get over. Hawn hides the love of her life under her husband's nose as Chase tries to clear his name. Hawn tries to protect him and Grodin just tries to keep from going insane. A slapstick romance that's very often hit-and-miss, the dialogue saves this comic farce and provides wonderful moments between the three stars. -Robert Lane, Amazon. com.

Review Momentum Pictures Home Ent / My Bollywood Bride [DVD] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Rajeev Virani
  • Gulsher Grover
  • Jason Lewis
  • Kashmira Shah
Release date: 2007-04-16
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Kashmira Shah
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.99

Review My Bollywood Bride [DVD] [2006] / Momentum Pictures Home Ent:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Bridget Jones's Diary/Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Sharon Maguire
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Renee Zellweger
  • Colin Firth
  • Hugh Grant
  • Beeban Kidron
Release date: 2007-01-29
Run time: 202 min.
Creator: Colin Firth
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.35

Review Bridget Jones's Diary/Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason [DVD] / Universal Pictures UK:

Bridget Jones's Diary Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides her free time between binge eating in front of the TV, downing Chardonnay with her friends, and updating the diary in which she records her negligible weight fluctuations and romantic misadventures of the year. Things start off badly at Christmas when her mother tries to set her up with seemingly standoffish lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), whom Bridget accidentally overhears dissing her. Instead she embarks on a disastrous liaison with her raffish boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant, infinitely more likeable when he's playing a baddie instead of his patented tongue-tied fops). Eventually, Bridget comes to wonder if she's let her pride prejudice her against the surprisingly attractive Mr. Darcy. If the plot sounds familiar, that's because Fielding's novel was itself a retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, whose romantic male lead is also named Mr. Darcy. An extra ironic poke in the ribs is added by the casting of Firth, who played Austen's haughty hero in the acclaimed BBC adaptation of Austen's novel. First-time director Sharon Maguire directs with confident comic zest, while Zellweger twinkles charmingly, fearlessly baring her cellulite and pulling off a spot-on English accent. [+]
Like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill (both of which were written by this film's coscreenwriter, Richard Curtis), Bridget Jones's stock-in-trade is a very English self-deprecating sense of humour, a mild suspicion of Americans (especially if they're thin and successful), and a subtly expressed analysis of thirtysomething fears about growing up and becoming a "smug married. " The whole is, as Bridget would say, v. good. -Leslie Felperin Bridget Jones 2: The Edge Of Reason Although it's been three years since we last saw Bridget (Renée Zellweger), only a few weeks have passed in her world. She is, as you'll remember, no longer a "singleton," having snagged stuffy but gallant Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at the end of the 2001 film. Now she's fallen deeply in love and out of her neurotic mind with paranoia: Is Mark cheating on her with that slim, bright young thing from the law office? Will the reappearance of dashing cad Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) further spell the end of her self-confidence when they're shoved off to Thailand together for a TV travel story? If such questions also seem pressing to you, this sequel will be fairly painless, but you shouldn't expect anything fresh. Director Beeban Kidron and her screenwriters-all four of them!-are content to sink matters into slapstick, with chunky Zellweger (who's unflatteringly photographed) the literal butt of all jokes. Though the star still has her charms, and some of Bridget's social gaffes are amusing, the film is mired in low comedy-a sequence in a Thai women's prison is more offensive than outrageous-with only Grant's rakish mischief to pull it out of the swamp. -Steve Wiecking.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Shopgirl [DVD] [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Martin
  • Jason Schwartzman
  • Claire Danes
  • Anand Tucker
  • Frances Conroy
  • Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
Release date: 2006-05-22
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Steve Martin
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.75

Review Shopgirl [DVD] [2005] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Based on the novella by Steve Martin (who also pens the screenplay), Shopgirl centres on Mirabelle Buttersfield (played by Claire Danes), a lonely young woman working in the glove department of a vast department store. Working by day and occasionally spending time on her art at night, Mirabelle craves company, and that leads her to accept an offer of a date from Jeremy, a manic and slob-like character, and not one who’s instantly particularly likeable. And then the very wealthy Ray Porter (Martin) comes on the scene. He too asks Mirabelle out, and the rest of the film follows her relationship with the two men who are effectively fighting for her affections. In lesser hands, Shopgirl could easily sink under a wave of clichés, yet Martin’s script never lets that happen. Mixing in a gamut of emotions, and charting the highs and lows of romance, there’s a searing honesty to it all that makes the film hard to resist. Martin and Danes both give excellent performances too, although Jason Schwartzman as Jeremy does have a tendency to overcook his part in what’s primarily a quiet, diligent film. Yet without resorting to big grandstand moments or contrived situations, Shopgirl manages, with little fuss, to tell an intriguing story in a very warm manner. -Simon Brew.

Review MGM / Shag, the Movie [DVD] [1988] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Scott Coffey
  • Phoebe Cates
  • Annabeth Gish
  • Page Hannah
  • Bridget Fonda
  • Zelda Barron
Release date: 2001-05-22
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Julia Chasman
Price: £5.32

Review Shag, the Movie [DVD] [1988] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / MGM:


Review Metrodome Distribution / Metropolitan [DVD] [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Eigeman
  • Whit Stillman
  • Carolyn Farina
  • Edward Clements
Release date: 2006-07-17
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Edward Clements
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.00

Review Metropolitan [DVD] [1989] / Metrodome Distribution:


Review Bluebell Films / Mon Pere Ce Heros [1997] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Chatherine Jacob
  • Marie Gillian
  • Gerard Lauzier
  • Gerard Depardieu
Release date: 2007-05-28
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Marie Gillian
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.98

Review Mon Pere Ce Heros [1997] [DVD] / Bluebell Films:


Review Entertainment in Video / My Sassy Girl [DVD] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Elisha Cuthbert
  • Jesse Bradford
Release date: 2008-08-25
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Jesse Bradford
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.01

Review My Sassy Girl [DVD] [2007] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Weinstein Company / Vicky Cristina Barcelona [DVD] [2008] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Scarlett Johansson
  • Javier Bardem
  • Woody Allen
  • Rebecca Hall
  • Christopher Evan Welch
  • Penélope Cruz
Release date: 2009-01-27
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Jaume Roures
Price: £7.00

Review Vicky Cristina Barcelona [DVD] [2008] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Weinstein Company:


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Melinda And Melinda [2004] [DVD], Paris When It Sizzles [1964] [DVD], Forces Of Nature [DVD] [1999], The Other Side Of The Bed [DVD] [2003], Eating Out [DVD], Puccini For Beginners [2007] [DVD], Good Luck Chuck [Blu-ray] [2007], Heaven Can Wait Dvd [1978], Lucas [DVD] [1986], Dasepo Naughty Girls [DVD], Joe's Apartment [DVD] [1996], Seems Like Old Times [DVD] [1980], My Bollywood Bride [DVD] [2006], Bridget Jones's Diary/Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason [DVD], Shopgirl [DVD] [2005], Shag, the Movie [DVD] [1988] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Metropolitan [DVD] [1989], Mon Pere Ce Heros [1997] [DVD], My Sassy Girl [DVD] [2007], Vicky Cristina Barcelona [DVD] [2008] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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