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Review Anchor Bay / Fatso [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Costanzo
  • Argentina Brunetti
  • Ron Carey
  • Candice Azzara
  • Jinaki
Release date: 2006-06-13
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Joe Renzetti
Price: £2.88

Review Fatso [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Warner Home Video / Top Hat [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Everett Horton
  • Ginger Rogers
  • Eric Blore
  • Mark Sandrich
  • Lloyd French
  • Erik Rhodes
  • Fred Astaire
Release date: 2005-08-16
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £6.98

Review Top Hat [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Even the best Fred and Ginger musicals are merely lavish excuses for some of the most elegant dancing ever put on screen, and Top Hat is no exception. The story is a silly but timeless tale of mistaken identity that compounds itself to extremes. Fred Astaire is the famous American hoofer Jerry Travers, in London preparing for a new show with his befuddled producer Horace Hardwick (the always entertaining Edward Everett Horton) when he falls for Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers), a lovely, wisecracking American girl as light on her feet as Jerry. Dale believes Jerry to be Horace, the husband of her best friend Madge (Helen Broderick) and rebuffs his advances by marrying her dressmaker Alberto (Erik Rhodes), but in the best tradition of musical comedy, true love finds its own way. Practically the entire cast of the 1934 hit The Gay Divorcee reunites for this frothy confection, along with director Mark Sandrich, designer Van Nest Polglase, and choreographer Hermes Pan. Irving Berlin provides a tuneful score, including "Cheek to Cheek", which provides a classic duet for Astaire and Rogers, and "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails", which remains one of Astaire's finest solo numbers. Polglase outdoes himself with sets both elegant and outrageous and Hermes Pan's choreography is as smooth as ever, but ultimately it is the grace and chemistry of the leads that makes Top Hat top entertainment. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Dreamworks Video / Norbit [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Crews
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Clifton Powell
  • Brian Robbins
  • Mighty Rasta
  • Thandie Newton
Release date: 2007-06-05
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Norbit [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import] / Dreamworks Video:

Eddie Murphy stars and stars in this very broad and raucous comedy that finds the Oscar-nominated Dreamgirls actor revisiting the multiple-character shtick that worked so well for him in Coming to America and The Nutty Professor. The latter's makeup-effects artist, Rick Baker, once again transforms Murphy into a variety of grotesques and caricatures, including the hugely fat, monstrous Rasputia, the Asian Mr. Wong, and the timorous Norbit, a nervous orphan raised by Wong and married to Rasputia. The latter, a member of a construction family with a plan to turn Wong's orphanage into a strip club, is a relentlessly narcissistic shrew who puts the screws on Norbit at every turn, especially when he rediscovers his love for an old friend, Kate (Thandie Newton). Kate's wish to buy and maintain the orphanage herself is secretly compromised by her fiancé (Cuba Gooding, Jr. ), who is in cahoots with Rasputia's family and using Norbit to further their agenda. Extraordinarily silly, frequently crude and mean-spirited to an extreme, Norbit is far more sour than The Nutty Professor. But there are moments of inspiration, especially a wedding interrupted by wannabe pimps who launch a profane gospel groove, and a dog that talks to Norbit while he is semi-conscious. For the most part, though, Norbit impresses as a technical marvel utilizing careful shot design and skillful editing. Murphy participates in several remarkable, three-character scenes in which he happens to be all three characters, and those moments move so briskly it's easy to forget one is looking at a comic stunt. [+]
-Tom Keogh.

Review Paramount / Marci X [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Benjamin
  • Jane Krakowski
  • Veanne Cox
  • Charles Kimbrough
  • Paula Garcés
  • Christine Baranski
Release date: 2004-01-20
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Mervyn Warren
Price: £3.56

Review Marci X [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review MGM / Lucky 13 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sasha Alexander (II)
  • Lauren Graham
  • Debra Jo Rupp
  • Brad Hunt
  • Chris Hall
  • Harland Williams
Release date: 2005-03-15
Run time: 78 min.
Price: £3.93

Review Lucky 13 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Tai Seng / The Harmonium in My Memory [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jae-in Kim
  • Byung-hun Lee
  • Young-jae Lee
  • Do-yeon Jeon
  • Mi-yeon Lee
  • Hye-rin Seo
Release date: 2006-02-28
Run time: 118 min.
Price: £6.70

Review The Harmonium in My Memory [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tai Seng:


Review Fox Lorber / Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Jaglom
  • Frances Fisher
  • Michael Emil
  • Michael Margotta
  • Martin Harvey Friedberg
  • Karen Black
Release date: 2003-03-11
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £4.80

Review Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Love Actually / Bridget Jones's Diary / Notting Hill [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Renee Zellweger
  • Roger Michell
  • Julia Roberts
  • Sharon Maguire
  • Hugh Grant
  • Bill Nighy
  • Richard Curtis
  • Colin Firth
Release date: 2004-11-22
RRP: £32.99
Price: £17.55

Review Love Actually / Bridget Jones's Diary / Notting Hill [1999] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Universal Studios / Sweet Charity [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stubby Kaye
  • Chita Rivera
  • Paula Kelly
  • Shirley MacLaine
  • John McMartin
  • Bob Fosse
Release date: 2003-03-04
Run time: 153 min.
Price: £4.26

Review Sweet Charity [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

After several years as the hottest musical director on Broadway, Bob Fosse made his film directorial debut with this movie version of his Broadway hit, which was based on Fellini's Nights of Cabiria. Shirley MacLaine is terrific as the proverbial hooker with the heart of gold, one who is convinced that she will find the right man if she just turns enough tricks. The Cy Coleman score is a solid one; the film is at its best when Fosse lets his cast of singer-dancers (which includes Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, and Sammy Davis Jr) unleash his leggy brand of choreography. While the film suffers from stylistic excesses of the period, you can see the seeds being planted for Fosse's future musical film forays in Cabaret and All That Jazz. -Marshall Fine.

Review Paramount / Back Roads [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Bailey
  • Barbara Babcock
  • Nell Carter
  • Don "Red" Barry
  • Royce D. Applegate
Release date: 2008-08-05
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Henry Mancini
Price: £5.01

Review Back Roads [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Wolfe Video / Big Eden: A Small Miracle [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Louise Fletcher
  • Thomas Bezucha
  • George Coe
  • Arye Gross
  • Tim DeKay
  • Eric Schweig
Release date: 2002-04-30
Run time: 117 min.
Price: £9.49

Review Big Eden: A Small Miracle [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Wolfe Video:


Review Fox Lorber / Venus Beauty Institute [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nathalie Baye
  • Jacques Bonnaffé
  • Tonie Marshall
  • Bulle Ogier
  • Samuel Le Bihan
  • Mathilde Seigner
Release date: 2001-06-26
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £4.75

Review Venus Beauty Institute [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Review MCA Home Video / Whirlygirl [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Johnny Pruitt
  • Jim Wilson
  • Julian Morris
  • Monet Mazur
  • Fran Kranz
  • J.A.Q.
Release date: 2006-05-02
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £2.15

Review Whirlygirl [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MCA Home Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / Being Julia [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • István Szabó
  • Leigh Lawson
  • Michael Gambon
  • Shaun Evans (II)
  • Mari Kiss
  • Annette Bening
Release date: 2005-03-22
Run time: 104 min.
Price: £4.52

Review Being Julia [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review 20th Century Fox / First Daughter [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Natalie Core
  • Michael Keaton
  • Margaret Colin
  • Jay Leno
  • Barry Livingston
Release date: 2005-01-25
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Damon Elliot
Price: £4.00

Review First Daughter [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Pathe Distribution / An Ideal Husband [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Minnie Driver
  • Cate Blanchett
  • Rupert Everett
  • Julianne Moore
  • Jeremy Northam
  • Oliver Parker
Release date: 2000-04-10
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.99

Review An Ideal Husband [1999] / Pathe Distribution:

For truly clever dialogue and a smartly structured plot, you can't go wrong with Oscar Wilde. Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is not his best known, but this film adaptation has all the wit you could ask for and a cast with the chops to deliver it: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth, Oscar and Lucinda), Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights, Short Cuts), Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank, Big Night), Jeremy Northam (The Winslow Boy, Emma), and especially Rupert Everett (My Best Friend's Wedding, A Midsummer Night's Dream), who tosses off perfect epigrams with unflappable aplomb. The plot hinges on Northam, a member of Parliament (the British governing body, not the funk band) with a skeleton in his closet who is blackmailed into a shady business deal by a lady of mystery (Moore), who turns out to be a loathed school chum of the parliamentarian's wife (Blanchett). Everything is resolved happily, but not until after some devious twists of fate, several mistaken identities, lots of comic banter, and much social skewering. Wilde, whose troubled life and public exposure of his homosexuality is chronicled in the movie Wilde (1997), has a sharp eye for hypocrisy and the artificial poses demanded by society-but political commentary never gets in the way of a smart laugh. Visually sumptuous and briskly paced, An Ideal Husband will satisfy anyone looking for social satire or romantic comedy. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review First Look Pictures / Sleeping Dogs Lie [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bryce Johnson
  • Bob Goldthwait
  • Melinda Page Hamilton
  • Jack Plotnick
  • Colby French
  • Geoffrey Pierson
Release date: 2007-04-10
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £2.69

Review Sleeping Dogs Lie [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / First Look Pictures:


Review Universal Studios / Nutty Professor II: The Klumps [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Gant
  • Anna Maria Horsford
  • Larry Miller
  • Janet Jackson
  • Peter Segal
  • Eddie Murphy
Release date: 2001-05-22
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: David Newman
Price: £2.52

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. [+]
com.

Review THINKFilm / The Wendell Baker Story [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Dean Stanton
  • Seymour Cassel
  • Andrew Wilson
  • Kris Kristofferson
  • Jacob Vargas
  • Eddie Griffin
Release date: 2007-10-30
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Aaron Zigman
Price: £4.92

Review The Wendell Baker Story [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / THINKFilm:


Review HBO Home Video / The Oh in Ohio [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Winter Ave Zoli
  • Parker Posey
  • Danny DeVito
  • Miranda Bailey
  • Paul Rudd
  • Billy Kent
Release date: 2006-12-05
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £4.73

Review The Oh in Ohio [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / HBO Home Video:


Models & Brands:
Fatso [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Top Hat [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Norbit [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import], Marci X [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lucky 13 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Harmonium in My Memory [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Love Actually / Bridget Jones's Diary / Notting Hill [1999], Sweet Charity [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Back Roads [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Big Eden: A Small Miracle [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Venus Beauty Institute [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Whirlygirl [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Being Julia [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), First Daughter [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), An Ideal Husband [1999], Sleeping Dogs Lie [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nutty Professor II: The Klumps [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Wendell Baker Story [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Oh in Ohio [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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