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Review Entertainment in Video / Swing [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Hugo Speer
  • Tom Bell
  • Lisa Stansfield
  • Paul Usher
  • Rita Tushingham
  • Nick Mead
Release date: 2000-05-15
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Su Lim
Price: £5.99

Review Swing [1999] / Entertainment in Video:

Swing is the good-natured tale of a Liverpudlian ex-con who decides to make a new life for himself as the leader of a swing band. When we are first introduced to Martin (The Full Monty's Hugo Speer), he is being released from prison, where he did time out of loyalty to his wayward brother, Liam. His cellmate, Jack, a shell suit-wearing, dreadlocked sax player who looks suspiciously like Clarence Clemons (because he is), inspired Martin to make swing his vocation and serves as his conscience throughout the film. This is a good thing, because nobody else seems to think he can pull it off, including his ex-girlfriend, Joan (Lisa Stansfield), now married to the cop that put him away and his own parents (nicely played by veteran British actors Rita Tushingham and Tom Bell). Joan has missed singing, however and eventually decides to join Martin's band, along with a soccer-loving bass player, skinhead drummer, and horn section of Orange Brigades led by The Young Ones' Alexei Sayle. Speer isn't the most dynamic actor but generates the appropriate degree of sympathy and works well with pop vocalist Stansfield, who acquits herself nicely in her feature film debut. She also sings several numbers, including "Mack the Knife" and "Baby, I Need Your Loving" both of which can be found on the motion picture soundtrack. If Swing doesn't ever hit the heights of The Blues Brothers or The Commitments, it keeps the beat more often than not. -Kathleen C Fennessy, Amazon. com.

Review Fox Lorber / Elective Affinities [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Vittorio Taviani
  • Massimo Popolizio
  • Paolo Taviani
  • Marie Gillain
  • Fabrizio Bentivoglio
  • Jean-Hugues Anglade
  • Isabelle Huppert
Release date: 2005-05-17
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Price: £16.44

Review Elective Affinities [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Review Warner Home Video / Four Rom-Com Classics
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Kline
  • Michael Caine
  • Michael Caton-Jones
  • Ivan Reitman
  • Donald Petrie
  • Michael J. Fox
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • William Shatner
  • Kelly Makin
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 408 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.49

Review Four Rom-Com Classics / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox / National Lampoon Presents Repli-Kate [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Desmond Askew
  • Frank Longo
  • Ali Landry
  • James Roday
  • Eugene Levy
  • Todd Robert Anderson
Release date: 2003-12-16
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Stuart Gibbs
Price: £1.85

Review National Lampoon Presents Repli-Kate [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Arrow Films / Happy Accidents [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Brad Anderson
  • Marisa Tomei
  • Anthony Michael Hall
Release date: 2008-02-25
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.94

Review Happy Accidents [2001] / Arrow Films:


Review 20th Century Fox / French Kiss [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • François Cluzet
  • Jean Reno
  • Kevin Kline
  • Meg Ryan
  • Lawrence Kasdan
  • Timothy Hutton
Release date: 2000-01-18
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Adam Brooks
Price: £3.90

Review French Kiss [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review PorchLight Home Entertainment / Dear Me: A Blogger's Tale [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Feifer
  • Dan Lauria
  • Michael Bowen
  • Sarah Thompson
  • David O'Donnell
  • David DeLuise
Release date: 2008-11-04
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Bryan Roberts
Price: £10.06

Review Dear Me: A Blogger's Tale [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / PorchLight Home Entertainment:


Review Miramax / Ella Enchanted [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tommy O'Haver
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Cary Elwes
  • Aidan McArdle
  • Hugh Dancy
Release date: 2004-08-24
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Kirsten Smith
Price: £4.68

Review Ella Enchanted [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review Miramax / About Adam [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stuart Townsend
  • Kate Hudson
  • Frances O'Connor
  • Tommy Tiernan
  • Stewart Roche
  • Gerard Stembridge
Release date: 2001-10-23
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Mary Alleguen
Price: £4.68

Review About Adam [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:

Directed by playwright Gerard Stembridge, About Adam is a charmingly funny romantic comedy set against an unusually trendy Dublin backdrop. Adam (Stuart Townsend) is the sweetly bashful young man for whom singing bistro waitress Lucy (Kate Hudson) falls. She introduces him to her family who adore him, she proposes marriage to him from onstage, he accepts. However, in a clever series of flashbacks and alternative narrative perspectives, we see that Adam has shown very different sides of his character and told a very different story about himself in seducing Lucy's bookish sister Laura (Frances O'Connor), her older, unhappily married sister Alice (Charlotte Bradley) and even inducing a deeply embarrassing boyish infatuation in young brother David. Two questions arise; which of these is the "real" Adam? And will he be exposed and punished as a bounder? The resolution, when it comes, is as pleasingly unpredictable as the film itself, which not only resolutely avoids the usual rustic clichés of skirling soundtracks and verdant scenery usually deployed in Irish films, but, in its deceptively light way, poses some pertinent questions about romance, fidelity and truth, while filling you with a warm glow. On the DVD: Presented in audio options 5. 1 and 2. 0. The disc contains various extras, including trailer, interviews with cast and director (in which Gerard Stembridge explains that Adam is "a joke on the New Man") and b-roll footage. However, the interviews are sloppily edited, while the b-roll footage consists of little than various inconsequential outtakes, which look like they've been grabbed randomly from the cutting room floor and sellotaped together. [+]
-David Stubbs.

Review American Independence / The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Maria Maggenti
  • Nicole Ari Parker
  • Kate Stafford
  • Laurel Holloman
  • Maggie Moore
  • Sabrina Artel
Release date: 1999-07-05
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Zoë Oka Edwards
RRP: £9.99
Price: £12.83

Review The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love [1996] / American Independence:


Review 20th Century Fox / A Perfect Couple [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Dooley
  • Robert Altman
  • Belita Moreno
  • Henry Gibson
  • Marta Heflin
  • Titos Vandis
Release date: 2007-04-10
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Tommy Thompson
Price: £5.27

Review A Perfect Couple [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review In2film / Cake [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Nisha Ganatra
  • David Sutcliffe
  • Taye Diggs
  • Sandra Oh
  • Heather Graham
  • Cheryl Hines
Release date: 2008-11-03
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99

Review Cake [2005] / In2film:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Love Actually/Notting Hill/About A Boy
Actors & Directors
  • Liam Neeson
  • Bill Nighy
  • Laura Linney
  • Julia Roberts
  • Richard Curtis
  • Toni Collette
Release date: 2006-10-02
Run time: 345 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.61

Review Love Actually/Notting Hill/About A Boy / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Pathe Distribution / The Wedding Planner [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Judy Greer
  • Adam Shankman
  • Jennifer Lopez
  • Matthew McConaughey
  • Justin Chambers
  • Bridgette Wilson
Release date: 2002-01-21
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Pamela Falk
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

Review The Wedding Planner [2001] / Pathe Distribution:

The good news is, yes, Jennifer Lopez can do comedy. In The Wedding Planner Lopez is Mary, a lovable woman who believes "those who can't do, teach. Those who can't wed, plan!" Her slapstick moments are light-hearted and offer a spot-on performance as the compulsive-yet-sweet planner. The bad news is Lopez didn't get much of a vehicle in which to test drive her newfound comedic skills. The main problem with this film is that no one wants to hurt anyone else's feelings. Everyone is just so gosh-darn nice. In a subplot, Mary's father is trying to arrange her marriage to just the nicest Italian boy. Gee, he's sweet. Golly, Mary's rival in love Fran is so nice. Yet, there is a touch of old-fashioned romance to this wholesome film, which can only be described as "cute. [+]
" While things may unfold in a predictable manner, The Wedding Planner is still light-hearted fun of the sort that inspires dreamy romantic thoughts. -Jenny Brown, Amazon. com On the DVD: The Wedding Planner on disc has a soft focus to the widescreen 2. 35:1 image which is perfect for this purely entertaining romantic comedy fluff. The soundtrack is done well with both the dialogue and music coming through crisp and clear and despite the fact that this DVD doesn't set out to be a special edition there is more than enough to keep extras features fans happy. There's a good audio commentary from director Adam Shankman and writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellism as well as a couple of rough-cut deleted scenes with commentary, and two featurettes-one on the making of the film and the second on the choreography of the tango sequence. -Kristen Bowditch.

Review Excel Entertainment / Charly [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Elliott
  • Heather Beers
  • Adam Johnson
  • Adam Thomas Anderegg
  • Randy King
  • Lindsay Killian
Release date: 2006-06-05
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Janine Whetten Gilbert
Price: £9.29

Review Charly [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Excel Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Wimbledon/Love Actually
Actors & Directors
  • Keira Knightley
  • Richard Curtis
  • Paul Bettany
  • Kirsten Dunst
  • Martine McCutcheon
  • Richard Loncraine
  • Alan Rickman
Release date: 2007-01-29
Run time: 237 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.45

Review Wimbledon/Love Actually / Universal Pictures UK:

Wimbledon Professional tennis makes an unlikely but surprisingly effective backdrop for a lively romantic comedy in Wimbledon. Peter Cort (Paul Bettany, Master and Commander), once ranked 11th in the world, has slipped to 119th and is heading into his last Wimbledon tournament when he runs into Lizzie Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst, The Virgin Suicides, Spider-Man), a rising star. The two strike up a whirlwind romance that gives his game new life-but she insists it's going to be nothing but a passing fling. Their affair heats up and Cort finds himself steadily rising through the competition while Lizzie stumbles. Of course, the ending is never really in doubt-but Bettany is a unique cinematic presence, pale and lithe, doubtful of life but also hungry for it. Thanks to him and the ever-engaging Dunst, Wimbledon is funnier, more suspenseful, and more touching that anyone might expect, turning a conventional flick into a genuine charmer. -Bret Fetzer Love Actually With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the London Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: he just wants to be loved, and he'll go to absurdly appealing lengths to win our affection. [+]
With Love Actually, Curtis orchestrates a minor miracle of romantic choreography, guiding a brilliant cast of stars and newcomers as they careen toward love and holiday cheer in London, among them the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who's smitten with his caterer (Martine McCutcheon); a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer (Colin Firth) who falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother (Emma Thompson) coping with her potentially unfaithful husband (Alan Rickman); and a lovelorn American (Laura Linney) who's desperately attracted to a colleague. There's more-too much more-as Curtis wraps his Christmas gift with enough happy endings to sweeten a dozen other movies. That he pulls it off so entertainingly is undeniably impressive; that he does it so shamelessly suggests that his writing fares better with other, less ingratiating directors. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Lions Gate / All Over the Guy [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Ruccolo
  • Adam Goldberg
  • Dan Bucatinsky
  • Andrea Martin
  • Sasha Alexander
  • Julie Davis
Release date: 2001-12-18
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Scott Budnick
Price: £3.22

Review All Over the Guy [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Universal Studios / That Funny Feeling [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Thorpe
  • Bobby Darin
  • Donald O'Connor
  • Larry Storch
  • Sandra Dee
  • Nita Talbot
Release date: 2004-08-03
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Norman Barasch
Price: £5.39

Review That Funny Feeling [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Image Entertainment / Kiss Me, Kate [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rachel York
  • Nancy Kathryn Anderson
  • Chris Hunt
  • Nicholas Colicos
  • Brent Barrett
  • Michael Berresse
Release date: 2003-05-13
Run time: 147 min.
Creator: Sam Spewack
Price: £12.62

Review Kiss Me, Kate [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review MGM / Much Ado About Nothing [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Keanu Reeves
  • Richard Briers
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Kate Beckinsale
  • Emma Thompson
Release date: 2003-01-07
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: William Shakespeare
Price: £5.62

Review Much Ado About Nothing [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

Kenneth Branagh's 1993 production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a vigorous and imaginative work, cheerful and accessible for everyone. Largely the story of Benedick (Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson)-adversaries who come to believe each is trying to woo the other-the film veers from arched wit to ironic romps, and the two leads don't mind looking a little silly at times. But the plot is also layered with darker matters that concern the ease with which men and women fall into mutual distrust. Branagh has rounded up a mixed cast of stage vets and Hollywood stars, among the latter Denzel Washington and Michael Keaton, the latter playing a rather seedy, Beetlejuice-like version of Dogberry, king of malapropisms. -Tom Keogh.

Models & Brands:
Swing [1999], Elective Affinities [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Four Rom-Com Classics, National Lampoon Presents Repli-Kate [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Happy Accidents [2001], French Kiss [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dear Me: A Blogger's Tale [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ella Enchanted [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), About Adam [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love [1996], A Perfect Couple [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cake [2005], Love Actually/Notting Hill/About A Boy, The Wedding Planner [2001], Charly [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wimbledon/Love Actually, All Over the Guy [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), That Funny Feeling [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Kiss Me, Kate [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Much Ado About Nothing [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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