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Review Warner Home Video DO65097 / Woman Of The Year [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Spencer Tracy
  • George Stevens
Run time: 109 min.
Price: £3.98

Review Woman Of The Year [1942] / Warner Home Video DO65097:

He's earthy, she's erudite. He's lumpy, she's angular. He's Tracy, she's Hepburn. Together, they're spectacular. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn show what chemistry is all about in this Academy Award winner about the grand, bumpy romance between a meat-and-potatoes sportswriter and a world-renowned political pundit. This is the first of the duo's nine film collaborations, and legend says the pairing had a portentous start. "I'm afraid I'm a little too tall for you," the willowy actress observed. "Don't worry, I'll cut you down to my size," Tracy replied. George Stevens directs, ending this dramatic and comic delight with a standout of a slapstick breakfast scene that helps make a movie for every year.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Shall We Dance? [Blu-ray] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Gere
  • Jennifer Lopez
  • Peter Chelsom
  • Susan Sarandon
  • Anita Gillette
  • Stanley Tucci
Release date: 2008-05-12
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £23.99
Price: £15.50

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Review Young Love Triples / New York Minute / The Prince And Me / Cinderella Story
Release date: 2006-10-09
RRP: £18.99
Price: £6.96

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Review MGM / Four Weddings and a Funeral [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Fleet
  • John Hannah
  • Simon Callow
  • Hugh Grant
  • Mike Newell
  • Andie MacDowell
Release date: 1999-09-07
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Eric Fellner
Price: £5.47

Review Four Weddings and a Funeral [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

When it was released in 1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral quickly became a huge international success, pulling in the kind of audiences most British films only dream of. It's proof that sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. In terms of plot, the title pretty much says it all. Revolving around… well, four weddings and a funeral (though not in that order), the film follows Hugh Grant's confirmed bachelor Charles as he falls for visiting American Carrie (Andy McDowell), whom he keeps bumping into at various functions. But with this most basic of premises, screenwriter Richard Curtis has crafted a moving and thoughtful comedy about the perils of singledom and that ever-elusive search for true love. In the wrong hands, it could have been a horribly schmaltzy affair, but Curtis' script-crammed with great one-liners and beautifully judged characterisations-keeps things sharp and snappy, harking back to the sparkling Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The supporting cast, including Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow and Rowan Atkinson (who starred in the Curtis-scripted television show Blackadder) is first rate, at times almost too good-John Hannah's rendition of WH Auden's poem "Funeral Blues" over the coffin of his lover is so moving you think the film will struggle to re-establish its ineffably buoyant mood. But it does, thanks in no small part to Hugh Grant as the bumbling Charles (whose star-making performance compensates for a less-than-dazzling Andie MacDowell). Though it's hardly the fault of Curtis and his team, the success of the Four Weddings did have its downside, triggering a rash of inferior British romantic comedies. In fact, we had to wait until 1999's Notting Hill for another UK film to match its winning charm (scripted, again, by Curtis and also starring Grant). [+]
-Edward Lawrenson.

Review Millivres Multimedia / Everything Relative
Actors & Directors
  • Sharon Pollack
  • Olivia Negron
  • Monica Bell
  • Harvey Feirstein
  • Ellen McLaughlin
Release date: 2006-02-06
Run time: 115 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.49

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Review Echo Bridge Home Entertainment / What I Did for Love [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy London
  • Mark Griffiths
  • James Lashly
  • Steve Monroe
  • Sally Struthers
  • James Gammon
Release date: 2007-12-18
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Jennifer Jean Cacavas
Price: £2.28

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Review Universal Studios / Pride and Prejudice [HD DVD] [2005] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Sutherland
  • Talulah Riley
  • Joe Wright
  • Matthew Macfadyen
  • Keira Knightley
  • Brenda Blethyn
Release date: 2007-11-13
Run time: 129 min.
Creator: Jane Austen
Price: £5.91

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Review New Line Home Video / Overnight Delivery [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Bloom
  • Reese Witherspoon
  • Buffy Sedlachek
  • Christine Taylor
  • Paul Rudd
  • Sarah Silverman
Release date: 2004-01-20
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Steve Bloom
Price: £9.03

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Review Sony Pictures / Mozart and the Whale [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sheila Kelley
  • Josh Hartnett
  • Gary Cole
  • Radha Mitchell
  • Petter Næss
  • Erica Leerhsen
Release date: 2006-12-12
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Ronald Bass
Price: £6.19

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Review 4-Front Triple / Sleepless In Seattle / Maid In Manhattan / French Kiss
Release date: 2005-10-03
Run time: 308 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.99

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Review White Star / John Cleese: Romance With a Double Bass [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Young
  • John Cleese
  • Desmond Jones
  • Connie Booth
  • Graham Crowden
  • Freddie Jones
Release date: 2003-07-15
Run time: 40 min.
Creator: Bill Owen
Price: £6.03

Review John Cleese: Romance With a Double Bass [1974] / White Star:


Review 20th Century Fox / Puddle Cruiser [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Kevin Heffernan
  • Erik Stolhanske
  • Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Steve Lemme
  • Paul Soter
Release date: 2005-12-06
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Gregory A. Jennings
Price: £5.14

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Review MGM / Truly Madly Deeply [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Carolyn Choa
  • Alan Rickman
  • Anthony Minghella
  • Juliet Stevenson
  • Bill Paterson
  • Jenny Howe
Release date: 2001-12-26
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Simon Mills
Price: £24.99

Review Truly Madly Deeply [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

Truly Madly Deeply is an intelligent, moving, and deeply funny story about love and death. Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a scatterbrained professional translator, has lost the love of her life, Jamie (Alan Rickman). As her life (and her flat) slowly falls to pieces, she is inundated with an endless stream of repairmen and eligible suitors. But rather than go on with life, Nina dwells on her dead love, slumped at her piano, endlessly playing half of a Bach duet. Then, in a truly magical sequence, his cello suddenly joins her melody. and Jamie's back from the dead. At first it's bliss-think of the superficially similar blockbuster Ghost, only with real people instead of pretty faces Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. But Nina gradually realises it's a thoroughly real Jamie who's back; complete with every annoying, argumentative fault she'd conveniently forgotten. [+]
(He might be dead, he explains, but he still attends political meetings. ) Moreover, he has to hide whenever any of the living are around. And he's constantly ice-cold. And he invites his dead pals to her place at all hours. What's a living woman to do? Director Anthony Minghella went on to create the melodramatic period piece The English Patient-but in this film, he shows a far more sensitive, subtle touch. The photography is brilliant, capturing the simple beauties of suburban London. And the wonderfully acted characters, quirky and all too real, will keep you laughing-and always guessing what will happen next. -Grant Balfour, Amazon. com.

Review Vci Video / Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx [1970] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Margot Kidder
  • Eileen Colgan
  • Gene Wilder
  • Seamus Forde
  • Waris Hussein
  • May Ollis
Release date: 2003-01-24
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: John H. Cushingham
Price: £4.03

Review Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx [1970] (NTSC) / Vci Video:


Review Miramax / Jet Lag [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sergi López
  • Juliette Binoche
  • Karine Belly
  • Danièle Thompson
  • Jean Reno
  • Scali Delpeyrat
Release date: 2004-01-20
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Christopher Thompson
Price: £4.08

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Review Whe Europe Limited / Made For Each Other [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Quillan
  • Charles Coburn
  • Carole Lombard
  • John Cromwell
  • James Stewart
  • Lucile Watson
Release date: 2003-09-29
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Rose Franken
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.46

Review Made For Each Other [1939] / Whe Europe Limited:

Produced in a time when films were both literally and figuratively black and white, Made for Each Other was unique in its effective blending of the comedic, the dramatic and, as perhaps some would insensitively say, the melodramatic. Beautiful Carole Lombard and likeable James Stewart are Jane and John Mason, a couple who meet, fall madly in love, marry and quickly have a baby. But while they-and the audience-are confident that they are meant for each other, life intercedes and the couple must meet with disapproving in-laws, job stress, financial challenges and, finally, a devastating illness. Lombard and Stewart-and the genuinely good people they portray-are utterly compelling and charming. Say yawningly what you will about tradition but the Masons' path is one that many, if not most, go down. And unlike the wonderful but wholly fantasy world of peer Preston Sturges, director John Cromwell's universe is, like real life, full of ups and downs. It's an accessible, sensitive portrayal. He gives the audience characters they want to see succeed, and to see stay together in the process. It may be a tale of triumph of the human spirit but its ultimate sentiment-one that celebrates the kindness of strangers-is thoroughly sweet, though in no way saccharine. Look for a great supporting cast, including a blustery Charles Coburn as John Mason's boss and Lucile Watson as Mason's interfering mother. [+]
-N F Mendoza Produced in a time when films were both literally and figuratively black and white, Made for Each Other was unique in its effective blending of the comedic, the dramatic, and, as perhaps some would insensitively say, the melodramatic. Beautiful Carole Lombard and likeable James Stewart are Jane and John Mason, a couple who meet, fall madly in love, marry and quickly have a baby. But while they-and the audience-are confident that they are meant for each other, life intercedes and the couple must meet with disapproving in-laws, job stress, financial challenges and, finally, a devastating illness. Lombard and Stewart-and the genuinely good people they portray-are utterly compelling and charming. And unlike the wonderful but wholly fantasy world of peer Preston Sturges, director John Cromwell's universe is, like real life, full of ups and downs. It is an accessible, sensitive portrayal. He gives the audience characters they want to see succeed, and to see stay together in the process. It may be a tale of triumph of the human spirit, but its ultimate sentiment-one that celebrates the kindness of strangers-is thoroughly sweet, though in no way saccharine. Look out for the great supporting cast, including a blustery Charles Coburn as John Mason's boss, and Lucile Watson as Mason's interfering mother. -N. F. Mendoza.

Review Universal Studios / Notting Hill [HD DVD] [1999] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • James Dreyfus
  • Julia Roberts
  • Roger Michell
  • Richard McCabe
  • Hugh Grant
  • Rhys Ifans
Release date: 2007-08-28
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Mary Richards
Price: £11.46

Review Notting Hill [HD DVD] [1999] [US Import] / Universal Studios:

They don't really make many romantic comedies like Notting Hill anymore-blissfully romantic, sincerely sweet, and not grounded in any reality whatsoever. Pure fairy tale, and with a huge debt to Roman Holiday, Notting Hill ponders what would happen if a beautiful, world-famous person were to suddenly drop into your life unannounced and promptly fall in love with you. That's the crux of the situation for William Thacker (Hugh Grant), who owns a travel bookshop in London's fashionable Notting Hill district. Hopelessly ordinary (well, as ordinary as you can be when you're Hugh Grant), William is going about his life when renowned movie star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) walks into his bookstore and into his heart. After another contrived meeting involving spilled orange juice, William and Anna share a spontaneous kiss (big suspension of disbelief required here), and soon both are smitten. The question is, of course, can William and Anna reconcile his decidedly commonplace bookseller existence and her lifestyle as a jet-setting, paparazzi-stalked celebrity? (Take a wild guess at the answer. ) Smartly scripted by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and directed by Roger Michell (Persuasion), Notting Hill is hardly realistic, but as wish fulfilment and a romantic comedy, it's irresistible. True, Roberts doesn't really have to stretch very far to play a big-time actress who makes $15 million per movie, but she's more winning and relaxed than she's been in years, and Grant is sweetly understated as a man blindsided by love. Together, in moments of quiet, they're a charming couple, and you can feel her craving for real love and his awe and amazement at the wonderful person for whom he has fallen. The only blight on the film is its overbearing pop soundtrack, though Elvis Costello's heart-wrenching version of "She" gets poignant exposure. [+]
With Rhys Ifans as Grant's scene-stealing, slovenly housemate and Alec Baldwin in a sly, perfectly cast cameo. -Mark Englehart.

Review Warner Home Video / Love Affair [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Garry Shandling
  • Annette Bening
  • Warren Beatty
  • Glenn Gordon Caron
  • Chloe Webb
  • Katharine Hepburn
Release date: 2002-01-08
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Robert Towne
Price: £9.74

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Review Touchstone Home Video / Pretty Woman [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Gere
  • Julia Roberts
  • Laura San Giacomo
  • Ralph Bellamy
  • Jason Alexander
  • Garry Marshall
Release date: 1993-04-25
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: J.F. Lawton
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.49

Review Pretty Woman [1990] / Touchstone Home Video:

Like a pumpkin that transforms into a carriage, some very shrewd casting (and the charisma of Julia Roberts, in particular) morphed this story of a Hollywood whore into a Disneyfied Cinderella story-and a mainstream megahit. This is the movie that made Roberts a star, her charms helping tremendously to carry viewers over the rough spots in the script (which was originally to be a cynical tale about prostitution called 3000-after the amount of money Richard Gere's character pays the prostitute to stay with him for the week). Gere is the silver-haired Wall Street knight who sweeps streetwalker Roberts into a fantasy world of room service at the Regent Beverly Wiltshire Hotel and fashion boutique shopping on Rodeo Drive. The supporting cast is also appealing, including Laura San Giacomo as Roberts's hooker pal, Hector Elizondo as the hotel manager, Jason Alexander, Ralph Bellamy and Hank Azaria. -Jim Emerson, Amazon. com On the DVD: With a beautiful bubble effect offering a touch of fantasy to the special features menu, the viewer might expect a disc packed with lavish offerings. Unfortunately the extras are a little more spartan than the menu would have us believe, consisting of a theatrical trailer and a cringe-worthy pop video of "Wild Women Do", complete with a bouncing camera and "arty" black-and-white shots. The worst of these features comes in the form of the "production trailer", a useless addition which attempts to briefly summarise the film's underlying themes with inter-cut comments from the actors and directors on the original trailer (already featured in its pure form on the disc) and which offers little additional information of any merit. The disc does, however, come into its own when Gary Marshall takes the helm for the director's commentary: he has an entertaining and amusing narrative style, which is upbeat and direct like his film, and his comments really bring to life the fairy-tale narrative. Add to this a widescreen 1. [+]
85:1 presentation, which will make you feel as if Richard Gere has just swept you off your feet. -Nikki Disney.

Review First Look Pictures / Meet Bill [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Aaron Eckhart
  • Elizabeth Banks
  • Melisa Wallack
  • Jessica Alba
  • Logan Lerman
  • Bernie Goldmann
  • Holmes Osborne
Release date: 2008-07-15
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Tim Williams
Price: £8.87

Review Meet Bill [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / First Look Pictures:


Models & Brands:
Woman Of The Year [1942], Shall We Dance? [Blu-ray] [2004], New York Minute / The Prince And Me / Cinderella Story, Four Weddings and a Funeral [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Everything Relative, What I Did for Love [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pride and Prejudice [HD DVD] [2005] [US Import], Overnight Delivery [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mozart and the Whale [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sleepless In Seattle / Maid In Manhattan / French Kiss, John Cleese: Romance With a Double Bass [1974], Puddle Cruiser [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Truly Madly Deeply [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx [1970] (NTSC), Jet Lag [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Made For Each Other [1939], Notting Hill [HD DVD] [1999] [US Import], Love Affair [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pretty Woman [1990], Meet Bill [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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