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Review Universal Studios / Pillow Talk [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rock Hudson
  • Thelma Ritter
  • Doris Day
  • Tony Randall
  • Nick Adams
  • Michael Gordon
Release date: 2004-04-06
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Clarence Greene
Price: £5.40

Review Pillow Talk [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

Jan Morrow (Doris Day) and Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) have never met, but they are sworn enemies because of one small appliance in their lives: the telephone. The two share a party line, and Jan is outraged over the amount of time Bill spends wooing women over the phone. A convenient triangle emerges when a client (Tony Randall) of Jan's-she's an interior decorator-falls in love with her and happens to be Brad's old college chum. When Brad makes the connection, he decides to try to court Jan himself, to make her more sympathetic to his phone woes. Of course, she'd never go for such a heel, so he passes himself off as Rex Stetson, a Texas rancher visiting New York. The ensuing tale, albeit predictable, is lots of fun, with some quick-witted dialogue and some clever use of split-screens for the phone calls. Thelma Ritter is hilarious as Jan's always-hung-over maid, Alma; and the pairing of Rock and Doris works beautifully, as always. -Jenny Brown.

Review DreamWorks / Anything Else [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christina Ricci
  • Fisher Stevens
  • Jason Biggs
  • Danny DeVito
  • Woody Allen
  • Woody Allen
Release date: 2003-12-23
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Stephen Tenenbaum
Price: £4.25

Review Anything Else [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / DreamWorks:


Review Warner Home Video / Love Beat the Hell Outta Me [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Clyde Jones
  • Kristen Andreotti
  • Glenn Plummer
  • Kennedy Goldsby
  • Terrence Howard
  • Charles R. Penland
Release date: 2002-03-05
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Paul Goldsby
Price: £6.84

Review Love Beat the Hell Outta Me [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The American President [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rob Reiner
  • Anna Deavere Smith
  • Annette Bening
  • Michael Douglas
  • Martin Sheen
  • Michael J. Fox
Release date: 1999-08-31
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £4.58

Review The American President [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

What sounds like a high-concept romantic comedy pitch from hell-widower president falls for smart lobbyist while the world watches-is actually intelligent, charming, touching and quite funny. Granted, it's wish fulfilment all the way (when was the last time you saw a president who was truly presidential?) but in the capable hands of writer Aaron Sorkin (TV's Sports Night) and director Rob Reiner, TheAmerican President is incredibly enjoyable entertainment with quite a few ideas about both romance and the government. Michael Douglas stars as the president, who after three years in office starts thinking about the possibility of dating. When he auspiciously encounters cutthroat environmental lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening), sparks begin to crackle and the two begin a tentative but heartfelt romance. Of course, his job gets in the way-their first kiss is interrupted by a Libyan bombing-but darn it if these two kids aren't going to try and make it work! However, they hadn't counted on the president's Republican antagonist (Richard Dreyfuss), who starts carping about family values. The predictable plot-Douglas finally goes to bat for his lady and his country-is leavened by Sorkin's wonderful, snappy dialogue and a light touch from the usually subtle-as-a-sledgehammer Reiner. Both manage to create a believable White House-office atmosphere (with a crack staff including Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, Anna Deavere Smith and Samantha Mathis) as well as a plausible and funny dating scenario. The true success of the movie, though, rides squarely on Douglas and Bening; this is unequivocally Douglas's best comedic performance (ergo his best performance, period) and Bening, usually such a good bad girl, takes a standard career-woman role and fleshes it out magnificently. You can see in an instant why Douglas would fall for her. [+]
One of the best unsung romantic comedies of the 90s. -Mark Englehart.

Actors & Directors
  • billy crystal
  • joan rivers.
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £14.99

Review rabbit test / embassy:

Outrageous comedy where a virgin bachelor teacher finally loses his manhood. The result - he becomes pregnant! billy crystal. directed by joan rivers.

Review BFS Entertainment / Dead Letter Office [1998] (Region) (NTSC) (REGION 1)
Actors & Directors
  • Nicholas Bell
  • Syd Brisbane
  • Mark Wilson
  • Barry Otto
  • John Ruane
  • Miranda Otto
Release date: 2007-10-09
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Roger Mason
Price: £11.48

Review Dead Letter Office [1998] (Region) (NTSC) (REGION 1) / BFS Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / The Goodbye Girl [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hallie Kate Eisenberg
  • Alan Cumming
  • Patricia Heaton
  • Richard Benjamin
  • Jeff Daniels
  • Lynda Boyd
Release date: 2004-07-20
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Timothy Marx
Price: £8.95

Review The Goodbye Girl [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Comedy And Romance: What Women Want, Miss Congeniality, Three To Tango
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Petrie
  • Sandra Bullock
  • Damon Santostefano
  • Michael Caine
  • Helen Hunt
  • Marisa Tomei
  • Nancy Meyers
  • Mel Gibson
Release date: 2002-09-09
Run time: 326 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £16.99

Review Comedy And Romance: What Women Want, Miss Congeniality, Three To Tango / Warner Home Video:


Review Brightspark Productions / 3 Play
Release date: 2007-08-06
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.25

Review 3 Play / Brightspark Productions:


Review HBO Home Video / Love For Rent [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Angie Cepeda
  • Shane Edelman
  • Jim Piddock
  • Jr. Richard Speight
  • Ken Marino
  • Nora Dunn
Release date: 2006-08-22
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Love For Rent [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / HBO Home Video:


Review Quantum Leap / The Pajama Game
Actors & Directors
  • John Rait
  • Doris Day
Release date: 2005-12-05
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.10

Review The Pajama Game / Quantum Leap:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Bewitched/Wimbledon/The Perfect Man
Actors & Directors
  • Nicole Kidman
  • Will Ferrell
  • Mark Rosman
  • Heather Locklear
  • Shirley Maclaine
  • Nora Ephron
  • Christopher Noth
  • Richard Loncraine
Release date: 2006-10-02
Run time: 288 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.49

Review Bewitched/Wimbledon/The Perfect Man / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Cinema Club / With Or Without You [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Eccleston
  • Alun Armstrong
  • Julie Graham
  • Dervla Kirwan
  • Michael Winterbottom
  • Yvan Attal
Release date: 2001-12-03
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: John Forte
Price: £9.99

Review With Or Without You [1999] / Cinema Club:

With or Without You works as an above-average television drama; but that's about the height of its ambition. It's strange that Michael Winterbottom, director of the hard-edged, bitter Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) and the grandiose snowy western The Claim (2000) should have bothered with anything as routine and undemanding. Perhaps its greatest distinction is that it's set in present-day Belfast without so much as a mention of the Troubles. The plot is a bog-standard romantic triangle. Rosie and Vincent, who have been married five years or so, want a baby, but nothing's happening. It doesn't help that Rosie's older sister has sprogs burgeoning like mushrooms wherever you look. Then up pops a figure from Rosie's past-Benoît, her pen-pal from before she met Vincent. And being French, he's naturally charming, witty, romantic and everything poor old Vincent isn't. Think you can guess what's coming? Well, most likely you can-right down to the all-too-pat happy ending. Still, the actors (Christopher Ecclestone, Dervla Kirwan and Yvan Attal are the leads) are accomplished and watchable, the dialogue stays the right side of banal and it's refreshing to see Belfast shown as a civilised, cultured place to live. [+]
With or Without You passes an hour and a half pleasantly enough and may even raise the odd chuckle, but it covers well-trodden territory without much new to say. On the DVD: aptly routine stuff-the theatrical trailer, a bland "making of" featurette and some interviews with the three principal players. Widescreen (16:9 anamorphic) and Dolby Surround Sound give the material the best possible showcase. -Philip Kemp.

Review 20th Century Fox / What Happens in Vegas [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Vaughan
  • Julian Farino
  • Queen Latifah
  • Dennis Farina
  • Maddie Corman
  • Rick Garcia
  • Deirdre O'Connell
Release date: 2008-08-26
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Christophe Beck
Price: £23.16

Review What Happens in Vegas [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import] / 20th Century Fox:


Review Maverick Entertainment Group / The Engagement [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Clifton Davis
  • Ytasha Yomack
  • BernNadette Stanis
  • Nancy Baird
  • Dan Flannery
  • Devin Wesley
Release date: 2008-04-08
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Rob "Diggy" Morrison
Price: £7.81

Review The Engagement [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Maverick Entertainment Group:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Girl Next Door / Say It Isn't So [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Timothy Olyphant
  • Emile Hirsch
  • Luke Greenfield
  • Elisha Cuthbert
  • Heather Graham
  • J.B. Rogers
  • Chris Marquette
Release date: 2005-07-25
Run time: 197 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.82

Review The Girl Next Door / Say It Isn't So [2004] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / Strange as Angels [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Craven
  • Steven Foley
  • Mimi Ayers
  • Inny Clemons
  • Jamila Anderson
  • Herschel McPherson
Release date: 2005-10-18
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Michael Moylan
Price: £9.90

Review Strange as Angels [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Universal Studios / No Man of Her Own [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tommy Conlon
  • Wallis Clark
  • George Barbier
  • Clark Gable
  • Wesley Ruggles
  • Lionel Belmore
Release date: 2007-05-22
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Leo Tover
Price: £5.37

Review No Man of Her Own [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review 20th Century Fox / Waitress [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Adrienne Shelly
  • Keri Russell
  • Andy Griffith
  • Adrienne Shelly
  • Sarah Hunley
  • Jeremy Sisto
Release date: 2007-11-27
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Andrew Hollander
Price: £9.37

Review Waitress [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review / Outside Providence (Region 2) (import)
Actors & Directors
  • George Wendt
  • Samantha Lavigne
  • Amy Smart
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Shawn Hatosy
  • Michael Corrente
Price: £19.99

Review Outside Providence (Region 2) (import):

REGION 2 DVD - DUTCH IMPORT - OFFICIAL RELEASE - - ENGLISH AUDIO - DUTCH SUBTITLES (on/off)

Models & Brands:
Pillow Talk [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Anything Else [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Love Beat the Hell Outta Me [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The American President [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), rabbit test, Dead Letter Office [1998] (Region) (NTSC) (REGION 1), The Goodbye Girl [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Comedy And Romance: What Women Want, Miss Congeniality, Three To Tango, 3 Play, Love For Rent [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Pajama Game, Bewitched/Wimbledon/The Perfect Man, With Or Without You [1999], What Happens in Vegas [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import], The Engagement [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Girl Next Door / Say It Isn't So [2004], Strange as Angels [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), No Man of Her Own [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Waitress [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Outside Providence (Region 2) (import)

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