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Review Columbia TriStar / Whatever It Takes [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Shane West
  • David Raynr
  • Aaron Paul
  • Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
  • Marla Sokoloff
  • Manu Intiraymi
Release date: 2000-08-01
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Vicki Dee Rock
Price: £3.31

Review Whatever It Takes [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Whatever it Takes initially seems little more than another comedy with impossibly attractive teenagers trying to get into each other's pants. Ryan (Shane West) is a bit of a geek with eyes for the school sex bomb, Ashley (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), which induces cringing in his neighbour and best friend, Maggie (Marla Sokoloff), a cute intellectual girl. But popular jock Chris (James Franco) has his eye on Maggie, and he offers to help Ryan win Ashley if Ryan will help Chris woo Maggie. So begins a two-headed variation on Cyrano de Bergerac; Ryan composes soulful e-mails for Chris, and Chris advises Ryan to treat Ashley like dirt, which seems to be the only way to get her attention. At first, neither finds it easy to change their ways; Chris comes on too strong, and Ryan is too nervous to be a jerk. But as they start to succeed, Ryan begins to see Maggie in a new light and wonders if he's pursuing the right girl. Which could all be very standard and shallow, but as the story unfolds the movie examines how to stay true to yourself and find self-worth in surprisingly trenchant and un-preachy ways. Which is not to say that Whatever it Takes is high-minded-everyone's excessively good-looking and prone to wearing tight or revealing clothing, and there's a subplot about a kid who aspires to achieve school immortality through a top-notch prank. But the movie offers more than you might expect, which sets it apart from many of the recent swarm of teen flicks. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. [+]
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Review Vidtape / Amazing Adventure [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Iris Ashley
  • Mary Brian
  • Buena Bent
  • Peter Gawthorne
  • Charles Farrell
Release date: 2005-03-24
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Werner Bachman
Price: £9.95

Review Amazing Adventure [1936] / Vidtape:


Review Origin Arts / The Unkissed Bride [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Anne Helm
  • Jacques Bergerac
  • Melinda O. Fee
  • Tommy Kirk
  • Danica D'Hondt
Release date: 2007-03-20
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Douglas Lackey
Price: £6.49

Review The Unkissed Bride [1966] / Origin Arts:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Chances Are [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Cybill Shepherd
  • Ryan O'Neal
  • Christopher McDonald
  • Emile Ardolino
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Mary Stuart Masterson
Release date: 1998-04-14
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Neil A. Machlis
Price: £4.18

Review Chances Are [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Cinema Club / Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel And Laurence [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Monica Potter
  • Joseph Fiennes
  • Nick Hamm
  • Rufus Sewell
  • Ray Winstone
  • Tom Hollander
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.77

Review Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel And Laurence [1998] / Cinema Club:

The generic title of Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence suggests a bland, by-the-numbers romantic comedy. Its dialogue certainly doesn't help-there's a lot of piffle about destiny and "having only one chance", etc. -but there are some surprising differences. The plot centres around Martha (Monica Potter), an American trying to start a new life in London. She meets three men (Tom Hollander, Rufus Sewell and Joseph Fiennes, who played the title role in Shakespeare in Love). These three are best friends and all three fall in love with her but the one she falls in love with feels like he's betraying the others to be with her. Despite the resulting confusion, she pursues him to the end-which makes it unlike most current romantic comedies where the woman is a hapless love object to be captured by the right guy. But more entertainingly, Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence pays particular attention to the ways men delude themselves because the two friends Martha doesn't care for are both convinced she's hankering for them, which allows for some fairly subtle skewering of the male ego. It's a flimsy movie but no more so than Notting Hill and Joseph Fiennes, in particular, has a relaxed, winning charm that marks him as a rising star. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Lions Gate / Better Than Chocolate [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Wendy Crewson
  • Ann-Marie MacDonald
  • Marya Delver
  • Karyn Dwyer
  • Christina Cox
  • Anne Wheeler
Release date: 1999-12-28
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Rosamond Norbury
Price: £6.16

Review Better Than Chocolate [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:

Many lesbian movies are long on charm and short on production values; Better Than Chocolate has a solid dose of both and steamy sex scenes to boot. Our heroine Maggie (Karyn Dwyer), a clerk at a lesbian bookshop, meets footloose butch Kim (Christina Cox) and, after Kim's van is towed away, they move in together. Unfortunately for their romantic bliss, Maggie's mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson), and teenage brother move in that very evening thanks to Lila's impending divorce. But what really complicates matters is that Maggie can't bring herself to come out to her mother. Even when she tries, Lila steamrollers through the conversation, as if she knows what's coming and doesn't want to hear it. Interwoven with this is the struggle of Judy (Peter Outerbridge), a male-to-female transsexual who's in love with the bookshop's owner, Frances (Ann-Marie MacDonald), who's freaking out because customs officers are holding a list of books at the border that they claim are obscene. The overlapping plots are deftly juggled, the personal and political are compellingly interwoven, and, most satisfying of all, the characters have problems that aren't going to be easily resolved. A handful of candy-coloured lip-synching musical numbers give the movie some flash and the sex scenes give it some heat, but it's the elements of sorrow and ambiguity that really make the joy in Better Than Chocolate something to savour. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Columbia TriStar / Sense and Sensibility [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ang Lee
  • Kate Winslet
  • Tom Wilkinson
  • James Fleet
  • Emma Thompson
  • Harriet Walter
Release date: 2004-09-28
Run time: 136 min.
Creator: Lindsay Doran
Price: £9.66

Review Sense and Sensibility [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with Sense and Sensibility, a marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood-the one with "sense"-she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister, Marianne (the one with "sensibility"). Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. All of this is doled out with the usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. The director, an inspired choice, is Taiwan-born Ang Lee, here making his first English-language film. He brings the same exquisite taste and discreet touch he displayed in his previous Asian films (such as Eat Drink Man Woman). Thompson's script won an Oscar. -Robert Horton.

Review Universal Studios / The Wedding Date [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dermot Mulroney
  • Sarah Parish
  • Clare Kilner
  • Amy Adams
  • Debra Messing
  • Jack Davenport
Release date: 2005-08-16
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Elizabeth Young
Price: £3.52

Review The Wedding Date [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hector Elizondo
  • Garry Marshall
  • Julie Andrews
  • Callum Blue
  • Anne Hathaway
  • John Rhys-Davies
Release date: 2004-12-14
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Shonda Rhimes
Price: £4.67

Review The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Entertainment in Video / Destiny Turns On The Radio [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • James LeGros
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • James Belushi
  • Nancy Travis
  • Jack Baran
  • Dylan McDermott
Release date: 1996-06-26
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Robert Ramsey
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.89

Review Destiny Turns On The Radio [1995] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / Saving Face [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Guang Lan Koh
  • Jin Wang
  • Lynn Chen
  • Alice Wu
  • Joan Chen
  • Michelle Krusiec
Release date: 2005-10-18
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Scott Macaulay
Price: £6.25

Review Saving Face [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Paramount / Sliding Doors [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Lynch
  • Peter Howitt
  • John Hannah
  • Zara Turner
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Jeanne Tripplehorn
Release date: 1998-12-01
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Nigel Sinclair
Price: £3.96

Review Sliding Doors [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

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.

Review Lions Gate / Better Than Chocolate [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Karyn Dwyer
  • Anne Wheeler
  • Marya Delver
  • Wendy Crewson
  • Ann-Marie MacDonald
  • Christina Cox
Release date: 1999-12-28
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Rosamond Norbury
Price: £6.16

Review Better Than Chocolate [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:

Many lesbian movies are long on charm and short on production values; Better Than Chocolate has a solid dose of both and steamy sex scenes to boot. Our heroine Maggie (Karyn Dwyer), a clerk at a lesbian bookshop, meets footloose butch Kim (Christina Cox) and, after Kim's van is towed away, they move in together. Unfortunately for their romantic bliss, Maggie's mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson), and teenage brother move in that very evening thanks to Lila's impending divorce. But what really complicates matters is that Maggie can't bring herself to come out to her mother. Even when she tries, Lila steamrollers through the conversation, as if she knows what's coming and doesn't want to hear it. Interwoven with this is the struggle of Judy (Peter Outerbridge), a male-to-female transsexual who's in love with the bookshop's owner, Frances (Ann-Marie MacDonald), who's freaking out because customs officers are holding a list of books at the border that they claim are obscene. The overlapping plots are deftly juggled, the personal and political are compellingly interwoven, and, most satisfying of all, the characters have problems that aren't going to be easily resolved. A handful of candy-coloured lip-synching musical numbers give the movie some flash and the sex scenes give it some heat, but it's the elements of sorrow and ambiguity that really make the joy in Better Than Chocolate something to savour. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Ardustry Home Entertainment / How to Go Out on a Date in Queens [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Perlman
  • Rob Estes
  • Michelle Danner
  • Kimberly Williams-Paisley
  • Alison Eastwood
  • Jason Alexander
Release date: 2006-08-22
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Richard Vetere
Price: £3.74

Review How to Go Out on a Date in Queens [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ardustry Home Entertainment:


Review Miramax / Carolina [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julia Stiles
  • Randy Quaid
  • Edward Atterton
  • Alessandro Nivola
  • Marleen Gorris
  • Shirley MacLaine
Release date: 2005-02-01
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Katherine Fugate
Price: £8.99

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


Review Universal 9052753 / The Making of Bridget Jones's Diary
Actors & Directors
  • Colin Firth
  • Hugh Grant
  • Renee Zellweger
Run time: 23 min.

Review The Making of Bridget Jones's Diary / Universal 9052753:

The Making of Bridget Jones's diary features exclusive interviews with the author Helen Fielding, Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth among others, talking about the origins of the story. This programme offers a unique and funny insight into the making of one of the most successful romantic comedies.

Review Image Entertainment / Pie in the Sky [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bryan Gordon
  • Christine Lahti
  • Christine Ebersole
  • Josh Charles
  • John Goodman
  • Anne Heche
Release date: 2003-12-30
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Stephen Einhorn
Price: £8.11

Review Pie in the Sky [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review MGM / Four Friends [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Scott Hardt
  • Craig Wasson
  • Arthur Penn
  • Jodi Thelen
  • Jim Metzler
  • Michael Huddleston
Release date: 2005-08-23
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £6.37

Review Four Friends [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Eros / Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! [1994] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Salman Khan
  • Renuka Shahane
  • Mohnish Bahl
  • Madhuri Dixit
  • Sooraj R. Barjatya
  • Anupam Kher
Release date: 2003-03-25
Run time: 206 min.
Creator: Rajkumar Barjatya
Price: £9.99

Review Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! [1994] (NTSC) / Eros:


Actors & Directors
  • Elisabeth Shue
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Kim Basinger
  • Jerry Rees
Run time: 112 min.

Review Too Hot to Handle / Hollywood Pictures:

alec baldwin,kim basinger,elisabeth shue. sexy romantic comedy.

Models & Brands:
Whatever It Takes [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Amazing Adventure [1936], The Unkissed Bride [1966], Chances Are [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel And Laurence [1998], Better Than Chocolate [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sense and Sensibility [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Wedding Date [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Destiny Turns On The Radio [1995], Saving Face [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sliding Doors [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Better Than Chocolate [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), How to Go Out on a Date in Queens [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Carolina [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Making of Bridget Jones's Diary, Pie in the Sky [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Four Friends [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! [1994] (NTSC), Too Hot to Handle

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