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Review Universal Studios / Nutty Professor II: The Klumps [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Janet Jackson
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Larry Miller
  • Richard Gant
  • Anna Maria Horsford
  • Peter Segal
Release date: 2000-12-05
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: David Newman
Price: £2.53

Review Nutty Professor II: The Klumps [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

Eddie Murphy's remake of The Nutty Professor used the good professor's alter ego, Buddy Love, in much the same way that Jerry Lewis did in his brilliant original: a representation of the Id out of control that plays like an admission of the actor's off-screen sins. In the sequel, Murphy expands on his Klump family from the first film and makes them major characters. Consequently, his dark side has plenty more places to express itself, particularly through the oversexed grandmother, Sherman's aggressively impotent father, and his just plain surly uncle, as well as Buddy Love (all played by Murphy). The movie opens with professor Sherman Klump barely holding onto his sanity as his internal Buddy Love makes him say inappropriate things. He decides to extract his mutant Buddy Love gene (a sort of genetic version of electroshock therapy), but afterward is unable to maintain his original personality and intelligence. Sherman is the most bland character of the bunch, and the audience gets stuck with his boring romance with fellow professor Janet Jackson, his struggle to be nice, and generic intrigue surrounding a Fountain of Youth formula he developed. When it's not trying too hard to be nice-heck, one character is anally raped by a giant hamster-the movie works. The moral of the story is that Sherman needs to reconnect with his inner Buddy Love. That goes for Murphy, too. -Andy Spletzer, Amazon. [+]
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Review TLA Releasing / Possible Loves [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Emílio de Melo
  • Sandra Werneck
  • Carolina Ferraz
  • Murilo Benício
  • Beth Goulart
  • Irene Ravache
Release date: 2003-07-22
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £4.81

Review Possible Loves [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / TLA Releasing:


Review Universal Studios / Reality Bites [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Karen Duffy
  • Pat Crawford Brown
  • Joe Don Baker
  • Ben Stiller
  • Keith David
  • Bill Bolender
Release date: 2004-06-08
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Emmanuel Lubezki
Price: £2.72

Review Reality Bites [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

Ben Stiller's directorial debut was this sporadically successful twentysomething comedy that tries too hard to codify the generational experience of its young adult characters. Winona Ryder plays a still-unformed woman struggling with career and relationship issues, Janeane Garofalo portrays her best friend, and Ethan Hawke and Stiller play the two lovers pursuing her. The story is as also about generation-X confusion over how to get by in a hand-me-down world with not much to get excited about, a world filled with a pop culture currency of bad music and poetry slams. The film's chief strength is its appealing cast, which is bolstered by appearances from David Spade, Renee Zellweger, Kevin Pollak, Jeanne Triplehorn, and Stiller's mother, Anne Meara. -Tom Keogh.

Review Fox Lorber / Elective Affinities [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fabrizio Bentivoglio
  • Isabelle Huppert
  • Marie Gillain
  • Massimo Popolizio
  • Jean-Hugues Anglade
  • Paolo Taviani
  • Vittorio Taviani
Release date: 2005-05-17
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £2.01

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


Review Echo Bridge Home Entertainment / The Third Wish [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Betty White
  • Jenna Mattison
  • Shelley Jensen
  • Jennifer Blanc
  • Sean Maguire
  • Armand Assante
Release date: 2007-04-17
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £2.03

Review The Third Wish [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment:


Review Uca Catalogue / No Small Affair [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Demi Moore
  • Peter Frechette
  • George Wendt
  • Elizabeth Daily
  • Jerry Schatzberg
  • Jon Cryer
Release date: 2005-08-01
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.90

Review No Small Affair [1984] / Uca Catalogue:


Review Warner Home Video / Alice Adams [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fred MacMurray
  • Fred Stone
  • George Stevens
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Frank Albertson
  • Evelyn Venable
Release date: 2003-01-07
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £6.92

Review Alice Adams [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox / A Midsummer Night's Dream [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stanley Tucci
  • Michelle Pfeiffer
  • Michael Hoffman
  • Rupert Everett
  • Kevin Kline
  • Calista Flockhart
Release date: 2003-04-15
Run time: 120 min.
Price: £2.81

Review A Midsummer Night's Dream [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

By far the best thing about director Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the extraordinary all-star cast, which follows the precedent created by Kenneth Branagh's Italian-set romantic Shakespeare comedy, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), of mixing major Hollywood stars, here Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer, with top British talent, in this instance Christian Bale, Rupert Everett, Roger Rees, David Strathairn and Dominic West. Kline makes a fine Nick Bottom, with Pfeiffer equally good as the fairy queen Titania and Everett brooding effectively as Oberon. Unfortunately, while both look ravishing, it is hard to tell which actress between Anna Friel (Brookside) and Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal) gives the most wretched performance. Both are completely out of their depth the moment they begin to speak, and utterly outclassed by the excellent Sophie Marceau. Shot in Tuscany and set in the 19th century, parts of the film are extraordinarily beautiful, while other sections could have benefited from some judicious special effects magic. This is not a bad movie, but it is rather uninspired, lacking any real imaginative grasp of the play. In contrast, the much less well known and lower budget Royal Shakespeare Company version of 1996 positively revels in the fantastically surreal possibilities this timeless text. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Columbia TriStar / Hitch [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eva Mendes
  • Kevin James (III)
  • Andy Tennant
  • Amber Valletta
  • Will Smith
  • Julie Ann Emery
Release date: 2005-06-14
Run time: 118 min.
Price: £4.90

Review Hitch [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Will Smith's easygoing charm makes Hitch the kind of pleasant, uplifting romantic comedy that you could recommend to almost anyone-especially if there's romance in the air. As suave Manhattan dating consultant Alex "Hitch" Hitchens, Smith plays up the smoother, sophisticated side of his established screen persona as he mentors a pudgy accountant (Kevin James) on the lessons of love. The joke, of course, is that Hitch's own love life is a mess, and as he coaches James toward romance with a rich, powerful, and seemingly inaccessible beauty named Allegra (Amber Valetta), he's trying too hard to impress a savvy gossip columnist (Eva Mendes) with whom he's fallen in love. Through mistaken identities and mismatched couples, director Andy Tennant brings the same light touch that made Drew Barrymore's Ever After so effortlessly engaging. As romantic comedies go, Hitch doesn't offer any big surprises, but as a date movie it gets the job done with amiable ease and style. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox / Two Girls and a Guy [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Natasha Gregson Wagner
  • Frederique Van Der Wal
  • Angel David
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Heather Graham
  • James Toback
Release date: 2002-05-21
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £2.64

Review Two Girls and a Guy [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Tai Seng / Citizen Dog [2004] (Region 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Pen-ek Ratanaruang
  • Sawatwong Palakawong
  • Wisit Sasanatieng
  • Sanftong Ket-U-Tong
  • Na Ayuthaya
  • Mahasmut Bunyaraksh
Release date: 2007-08-28
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Polarat Kitikunpairoj
Price: £5.06

Review Citizen Dog [2004] (Region 1) (NTSC) / Tai Seng:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Last Kiss [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marco Cocci
  • Stefania Sandrelli
  • Stefano Accorsi
  • Giovanna Mezzogiorno
  • Pierfrancesco Favino
  • Gabriele Muccino
Release date: 2003-11-11
Run time: 118 min.
Price: £3.77

Review The Last Kiss [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review First Look Pictures / Bong Water [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Amy Locane
  • Alicia Witt
  • Brittany Murphy
  • Luke Wilson
  • Richard Sears
  • Jack Black
Release date: 2007-04-03
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £4.57

Review Bong Water [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / First Look Pictures:


Review Image Entertainment / Can You Keep It Up for a Week? [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joy Harington
  • Neil Hallett
  • Maria Coyne
  • Jim Atkinson
  • Jeremy Bulloch
  • Jill Damas
Release date: 2002-10-08
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £4.93

Review Can You Keep It Up for a Week? [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review New Line Home Video / Blast From the Past [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alicia Silverstone
  • Sissy Spacek
  • Dave Foley
  • Hugh Wilson
  • Dale Raoul
  • Brendan Fraser
Release date: 1999-07-27
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Steve Dorff
Price: £4.62

Review Blast From the Past [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:

Coasting on the successes of Gods and Monsters and George of the Jungle, Brendan Fraser turns in yet another winning performance in this fish-out-of-water comedy in which Pleasantville meets modern-day Los Angeles, with predictably funny results. Fraser stars as Adam, who was born in the bomb shelter of his paranoid inventor dad (a less-manic-than-usual Christopher Walken), who spirited his pregnant wife (Sissy Spacek, in fine comic form) underground when he thought the Communists dropped the bomb (actually, it was a plane crash). Armed with enough supplies to last 35 years, the parents bring up Adam in Leave It to Beaver style with nary any exposure to the outside world. When the supplies run out, and dad suffers a heart attack, Fraser goes up to modern-day LA for some shopping and long-awaited culture shock. More of a cute premise with lots of clever ideas attached than a fully fleshed out story, Blast from the Past is also supposed to be part romantic comedy, as the hunky Adam hooks up with his jaded Eve (Alicia Silverstone) and tries to convince her to marry him and go underground. The sparks don't fly, though, because Silverstone is saddled with the triple whammy of being miscast, playing an underwritten character, and suffering a very bad hairdo. Fraser, however, carries the film lightly and easily on his broad, goofy shoulders, mixing Adam's gee-whiz innocence with genuine emotion and curiosity; only Fraser could pull off Adam's first glimpse of a sunrise or the ocean with both humour and pathos. Also winning is Dave Foley as Silverstone's gay best friend, who manages to make the most innocuous statements sound like comic gems. - Mark Englehart, Amazon. com.

Review Liberation Ent. / The Hottie and the Nottie [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paris Hilton
  • Adam Kulbersh
  • Joel Moore
  • Tom Putnam
  • Christine Lakin
  • The Greg Wilson
Release date: 2008-05-06
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £5.65

Review The Hottie and the Nottie [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Liberation Ent.:


Review HBO Home Box Office / They All Laughed [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ben Gazarra
  • Dorothy Stratten
  • John Ritter
  • Colleen Camp
  • Audrey Hepburn
Release date: 2006-10-17
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £4.53

Review They All Laughed [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / HBO Home Box Office:


Review Universal Studios / Because I Said So [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mandy Moore (II)
  • Gabriel Macht
  • Tom Everett Scott
  • Diane Keaton
  • Lauren Graham
  • Michael Lehmann
Release date: 2007-05-08
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £3.94

Review Because I Said So [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review 20th Century Fox / Bedazzled [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Brendan Fraser
  • Miriam Shor
  • Harold Ramis
  • Elizabeth Hurley
  • Orlando Jones
  • Frances O'Connor (II)
Release date: 2003-04-15
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £3.14

Review Bedazzled [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

Brendan Fraser stars in Bedazzled as Elliot, a dweebish office worker who yearns for Alison (Frances O'Connor), a coworker who barely knows he exists. When he blithely says he'd give his soul for Alison, the Devil appears in the fetching guise of Elizabeth Hurley and promises him seven wishes in exchange. Elliot is dubious at first, but agrees out of desperation. Unfortunately, his every wish always leaves the Devil with a little wiggle-room. When he asks to be rich and powerful, the Devil turns him into a drug lord beset on all sides. When he asks to be a successful, well-endowed writer, the Devil adds a male lover to the mix. The setup and situations are clever, though this Bedazzled has less bite than the original 1968 version starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. It does, however, provide some better comic substance for Fraser than most of his previous roles and will give his fans something to enjoy. O'Connor is entirely pleasant in her largely straight role, and Hurley fills out her part delectably by filling out a number of revealing outfits. This is an enjoyable bit of froth. [+]
-Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Afilm DS90782 / Soft Top, Hard Shoulder [1992] (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Catherine Russell
  • Stefan Schwartz
  • Elaine Collins
  • Richard Wilson
  • Peter Capaldi
  • Simon Callow
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Soft Top, Hard Shoulder [1992] (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import] / Afilm DS90782:

PLOT SUMMARY: With his father's birthday looming, Gavin sets out to drive to Glasgow from London. This simple task turns into the journey from hell courtesy of a troublesome car and the exasperating presence of hitchhiker Yvonne. Together and under pressure, the pair encounter a series of eccentric characters in this British road movie (from the makers of "Shooting Fish" and "Waking Ned"). ABOUT THE DVD: This is a release by A-Film for the NETHERLANDS market (Region 2 PAL format, which is the same as in the UK, so it will play without problems on all standard DVD players in this country). The text on the rear of the packaging is in Dutch, and the only subtitles on the disc are in Dutch (which can be switched off, but there are no English subtltes). The film is presented in full screen format (4:3 ratio), the audio is the original English language, the menus are in English, and so are easily navigated, there is a Scene Selection menu, and there is a choice of Dolby stereo or 5. 1 soundtracks.

Models & Brands:
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Possible Loves [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Reality Bites [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Elective Affinities [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Third Wish [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), No Small Affair [1984], Alice Adams [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Midsummer Night's Dream [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hitch [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Two Girls and a Guy [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Citizen Dog [2004] (Region 1) (NTSC), The Last Kiss [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bong Water [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Can You Keep It Up for a Week? [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Blast From the Past [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Hottie and the Nottie [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), They All Laughed [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Because I Said So [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bedazzled [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Soft Top, Hard Shoulder [1992] (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import]

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