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Review Columbia TriStar / The Velocity of Gary [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Olivia d'Abo
  • Jason Cutler (II)
  • Elizabeth D'Onofrio
  • Dan Ireland
  • Hakan D'Onofrio
  • Danny Arroyo
Release date: 2004-04-13
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £5.27

Review The Velocity of Gary [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review MGM / Women vs. Men [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Darryl Armbruster
  • Elle Alexander (II)
  • Troy Martin
  • Chazz Palminteri
  • Paul Reiser
  • Glenne Headly
Release date: 2003-02-11
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £3.92

Review Women vs. Men [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review / Mr.Wrong
Actors & Directors
  • Ellen Degeneres
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Mr.Wrong:

Martha (Ellen DeGeneres) is a single woman working at a television talk show. When her younger sister gets married, everyone's wondering when Martha is going to meet Mr. Right and tie the knot. When by chance, Martha meets a handsome stranger named Whitman (Bill Pullman), the two fall madly in love with each other. But soon Martha discovers little quirks in Whitman. little quirks that become horrifying nightmares. But by the time Martha realizes that she must break up with him, it'll take more than subtle hints to make him go away - she'll have to get into the most outrageous predicaments to rid herself of Mr. Wrong.

Review Entertainment in Video / Swing [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Nick Mead
  • Lisa Stansfield
  • Rita Tushingham
  • Tom Bell
  • Hugo Speer
  • Paul Usher
Release date: 2000-05-15
Run time: 94 min.
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 Universal Studios / That Funny Feeling [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nita Talbot
  • Sandra Dee
  • Larry Storch
  • Bobby Darin
  • Donald O'Connor
  • Richard Thorpe
Release date: 2004-08-03
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £4.30

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


Review Lions Gate / The Zane Grey Collection: Dude Ranger [1934] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Earl Dwire
  • Alma Chester
  • Hank Bell
  • Irene Hervey
  • Edward F. Cline
  • Smiley Burnette
Release date: 2006-09-19
Run time: 64 min.
Creator: Donn W. Hayes
Price: £2.87

Review The Zane Grey Collection: Dude Ranger [1934] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review 4 Front Video / Sleepless In Seattle [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Rosie O'Donnell
  • Meg Ryan
  • Tom Hanks
  • Nora Ephron
  • Bill Pullman
  • Ross Malinger
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review Sleepless In Seattle [1993] / 4 Front Video:

The director and stars of 1998's You've Got Mail scored a breakthrough hit with this hugely popular romantic comedy from 1993, about a recently engaged woman (Meg Ryan) who hears the sad story of a grieving widower (Tom Hanks) on the radio and believes that they are destined to be together. She's single in New York, he lives in Seattle with a young son, but the cross-country attraction proves irresistible and pretty soon Meg's on a westbound flight. What happens from there is. well, you must have been living in a cave to have let this sweet-hearted comedy slip below your pop-cultural radar. There's little complexity or depth to writer-director Nora Ephron's cheesy tale of a romantic fait accompli, and more than a little contrivance to the subplots that threaten to keep Hanks and Ryan from actually meeting. But the purity of star chemistry here is hard to deny, and this may be the first film to indicate the more serious and sympathetic side of Hanks that is revealed in later roles. With its clever jokes about "chick movies" and repeated homage to the classic weeper An Affair to Remember, this may not be everybody's brand of amorous entertainment, but it's got an old-Hollywood charm that appeals to many a movie fan. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. [+]
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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Shall We Dance? [Blu-ray] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Stanley Tucci
  • Peter Chelsom
  • Susan Sarandon
  • Richard Gere
  • Jennifer Lopez
  • Anita Gillette
Release date: 2008-05-12
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £23.99
Price: £15.50

Review Shall We Dance? [Blu-ray] [2004] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Good Girl [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Deborah Rush
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Jennifer Aniston
  • John Carroll Lynch
  • Miguel Arteta
  • Mike White
Release date: 2003-05-12
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.45

Review The Good Girl [2003] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

In The Good Girl Jennifer Aniston gets a make-under that would make her Friends character weep, but she finally proves her acting mettle away from the ditzy-but-glamorous Rachel type. A low-key drama from the writer and director duo behind Chuck and Buck, The Good Girl places Aniston's bored shop-girl Justine at the centre of a soul-destroying life in a sleepy Texan town. Like a modern Madame Bovary, Justine's life is stuck in a rut-her marriage is dull and her job at the Retail Rodeo even duller-when a new colleague Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal) offers her an escape. A tortured soul who's obsessed with The Catcher in the Rye and thinks nobody understands him, Holden is a typical, angst-ridden young man. But to Justine he's intriguing and romantic and their shared sense of dejection soon leads to an affair and a short-lived liberation from their daily lives. Aniston could never pass as dowdy but she does a very convincing turn as the crestfallen Justine, using subtlety and dry humour rather than melodrama to convey her quiet desperation. John C Reilly as her permanently stoned husband and Tim Blake Nelson as his creepy chum are both superb alongside her. Even the smaller roles are furnished with some memorable moments: Justine's colleague makes outrageous tannoy announcements to zombie-like customers at the Retail Rodeo. Funny, strange and touching by turns The Good Girl, has its awkward moments but as a quirky slice of life it gets most things right. On the DVD: The Good Girl offers a feature-length commentary from director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White that takes a while to get going but does provide some insight and humour. [+]
Aniston adds a scene-specific commentary that sadly does little to enhance the viewing of the film; short comments, some with massive pauses, offer little in the way of insight into her breakout performance. Deleted scenes with optional commentary and an alternate ending add a little more bulk where the gag reel (out-takes of the cast laughing) fails. It's not the package the film deserves. -Laura Bushell.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Knocked Up [Blu-ray] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Rudd
  • Jonah Hill
  • Martin Starr
  • Jay Baruchel
  • Katherine Heigl
  • Judd Apatow
Release date: 2008-12-01
Run time: 128 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.99

Review Knocked Up [Blu-ray] [2007] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Momentum Pictures / Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Actors & Directors
  • Michel Gondry
  • Jim Carrey
  • Elijah Wood
  • Tom Wilkinson
  • Kate Winslet
  • Kirsten Dunst
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.46

Review Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind / Momentum Pictures:


Review Paramount / Teacher's Pet [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Doris Day
  • Nick Adams
  • Gig Young
  • Mamie Van Doren
  • Clark Gable
  • George Seaton
Release date: 2005-04-19
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £2.94

Review Teacher's Pet [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Trinity Home Entertainment / Undercover Angel [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bryan Michael Stoller
  • James Earl Jones
  • Dean Winters
  • Yasmine Bleeth
Release date: 2006-01-31
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £3.03

Review Undercover Angel [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Trinity Home Entertainment:


Review Columbia TriStar / The New Guy [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • DJ Qualls
  • Eliza Dushku
  • Parry Shen
  • Zooey Deschanel
  • Ed Decter
  • Jerod Mixon
Release date: 2002-08-13
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £4.97

Review The New Guy [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Aimed at teens with numb senses of humour, The New Guy earns its chuckles mostly by accident. Most of the comedy is DOA, although the cast-especially DJ Qualls in the title role-possesses a modicum of scrappy charm. DJ plays a "blip" on his high school's social radar, briefly jailed for chronic misbehavior and mentored in coolness by a fellow inmate (Eddie Griffin), who becomes the funky "new guy" at a new school, where he's worshipped as a mysterious hipster and attracts the hottest cheerleader (Eliza Dushku). Directed without a shred of inspiration (by a co-writer of There's Something About Mary) and looking like a drab 16-millimetre industrial film, the movie would be a waste of time were it not for its abiding cheerfulness, rock-star cameos (Henry Rollins, Gene Simmons, Tommy Lee), Lyle Lovett as DJ's dad, and a fresh cast that almost makes this low-brow mess worthwhile. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Pegasus Entertainment / Goddess of Love
Actors & Directors
  • Vanna White
  • Little Richard
  • Amanda Bearse
  • David Naughton
  • James R. Drake
Release date: 2007-10-15
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.88

Review Goddess of Love / Pegasus Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox / French Kiss [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Kline
  • Timothy Hutton
  • Meg Ryan
  • François Cluzet
  • Jean Reno
  • Lawrence Kasdan
Release date: 2000-01-18
Run time: 111 min.
Price: £2.26

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


Review Lions Gate / Mojave Moon [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Angelina Jolie
  • Anne Archer
  • Kevin Dowling
  • Michael Biehn
  • Danny Aiello
  • Alfred Molina
Release date: 2005-02-08
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Susan R. Crutcher
Price: £4.78

Review Mojave Moon [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review MTI Home Video / Standing on Fishes [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bradford Tatum
  • Meredith Scott Lynn
  • Jason Priestley
  • Kelsey Grammer
  • Meredith Scott Lynn
  • Bradford Tatum
  • Pamela Reed
Release date: 2004-03-02
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Juliet Prater
Price: £3.19

Review Standing on Fishes [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MTI Home Video:


Review TLA Releasing / Under One Roof [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Marks
  • Sandra Lee (IV)
  • Todd Wilson
  • James Quedado
  • Audrey Finer
  • Jay Wong
Release date: 2003-04-08
Run time: 74 min.
Price: £4.78

Review Under One Roof [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / TLA Releasing:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Sliding Doors [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • John Lynch
  • Peter Howitt
  • John Hannah
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.23

Review Sliding Doors [1998] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Nice concept, shaky execution-that about sums up the mixed blessings of British actor Peter Howitt's intelligent but forgivably flawed debut as a writer-director. It's got more emotional depth than most frothy romantic comedies and its central idea-the parallel tracking of two possible destinies for a young London professional played by Gwyneth Paltrow-is full of involving possibilities. It's essentially a what-if scenario with Helen (Paltrow) at the centre of two slightly but significantly different romantic trajectories, one involving her two-timing boyfriend (John Lynch)and the other with an amiable chap (John Hannah) who represents a happier outcome. That's the film's basic problem, however: the two scenarios are so romantically unbalanced (one guy's a total cad, the other charmingly sincere) that Helen inadvertently comes off looking foolish and needlessly confused. Still, this remains a pleasant experiment and Howitt's dialogue is witty enough to keep things entertaining. It's also a treat for Paltrow fans; not only does the svelte actress handle a British accent without embarrassing herself but she gets to play two subtle variations of the same character, sporting different wardrobes and hairstyles in a role that plays into her glamorous off-screen persona. -Jeff Shannon.

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The Velocity of Gary [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Women vs. Men [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mr.Wrong, Swing [1999], That Funny Feeling [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Zane Grey Collection: Dude Ranger [1934] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sleepless In Seattle [1993], Shall We Dance? [Blu-ray] [2004], The Good Girl [2003], Knocked Up [Blu-ray] [2007], Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Teacher's Pet [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Undercover Angel [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The New Guy [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Goddess of Love, French Kiss [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mojave Moon [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Standing on Fishes [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Under One Roof [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sliding Doors [1998]

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