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Review New Line Home Video / Blast From the Past [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Wilson
  • Christopher Walken
  • Dave Foley
  • Brendan Fraser
  • Alicia Silverstone
  • Sissy Spacek
Release date: 1999-07-27
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Renny Harlin
Price: £6.33

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 Universal Studios / Because I Said So [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Diane Keaton
  • Gabriel Macht
  • Tom Everett Scott
  • Lauren Graham
  • Michael Lehmann
  • Mandy Moore (II)
Release date: 2007-05-08
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £4.85

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


Review Lightyear Video / Take a Leap of Faith [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yvette Saunders
  • Erica Renee Johnson
  • Jean-Claude LaMarre
  • Mike Gamble
  • Rayan Lawrence
  • Elliot Ruiz
Release date: 2008-11-04
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Koji Horii
Price: £8.47

Review Take a Leap of Faith [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lightyear Video:


Review Miramax / The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Judi Dench
  • Colin Firth
  • Oliver Parker
  • Rupert Everett
  • Frances O'Connor
  • Reese Witherspoon
Release date: 2002-11-12
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Oscar Wilde
Price: £6.38

Review The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review Third Millennium / Fourplay
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Dee
  • Mike Binder
  • Irene Jacobs
  • Colin Firth
  • Stephen Fry
  • Mariel Hemingway
Release date: 2006-04-10
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £19.95

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Review Columbia TriStar / All I Want [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Franka Potente
  • Deborah Harry
  • Mandy Moore
  • Elijah Wood
  • Jeffrey Porter
  • Chris William Martin
Release date: 2003-09-16
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Charles Kephart
Price: £6.39

Review All I Want [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Elijah Wood has one of his first post-Frodo leading roles in the mild-mannered comedy All I Want (the original title of which was Try Seventeen in its film festival showings). He's a 17-year-old college dropout who moves into a funky old apartment building and becomes intrigued by his wacky neighbours. Mandy Moore plays the self-absorbed actress across the hall and Run Lola Run goddess Franka Potente is a cranky photographer. The movie has a few surprises (the casting seems to suggest a teenybopper romance for Wood and Moore, but not so fast), although the energy level rarely perks up and it's pretty thin on actual narrative happenings. Wood's tendency toward fantasy is an especially tired device. A furtive sense of humour, plus the big adoring close-ups of the highly photogenic leading ladies, provides the low-key interest. Trivia: Elizabeth Perkins plays the hero's irresponsible mum; she was also Elijah Wood's mother in Avalon. -Robert Horton.

Review Warner Home Video / Breaking Up [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Salma Hayek
  • Abraham Alvarez
  • Carlo Corazon
  • Robert Greenwald
  • Russell Crowe
  • Mary Ann Schmidt
Release date: 2003-01-07
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Michael Cristofer
Price: £3.89

Review Breaking Up [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Steve (Russell Crowe) and Monica (Salma Hayek) make a dreadful couple. Something about Monica, a teacher, turns Steve, a photographer, into an insensitive jerk. Steve's behaviour makes Monica clingy and hysterical. When the romantic "dramedy" Breaking Up opens, Steve and Monica are doing just that-breaking up. But every time they break up, one of them breaks down and calls the other to suggest, "Let's get together for dinner and talk. " By now, they're so hot for each other that they tumble right into bed. As Monica puts it, "As the relationship has deteriorated, we f*** like monkeys!" Breaking Up is a very real portrait of an addictive love affair that strikes a decidedly familiar chord. How many of us have been through unhealthy relationships like this one? Crowe and Hayek are so credible that the movie is most compelling to watch. Their good times are achingly sweet. (When Crowe proposes marriage to Hayek in the back of a taxi, the heart of every female viewer is guaranteed to melt. [+]
) But can the good times make up for the bad? Using a mixture of filming techniques-montages, monologues, on-street interviews, plus straight-out dramatic scenes-director Robert Greenwald (The Burning Bed), and Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter Michael Cristofer (The Shadow Box), create a provocative, intimate, and erotic anatomy of the quintessential destructive relationship. -Laura Mirsky, Amazon. com.

Review Legacy Entertainment / Miss Right [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Virna Lisi
  • Margot Kidder
  • William Tepper
  • Dalila di Lazzaro
  • Paul Williams
  • Clio Goldsmith
Release date: 2005-03-01
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £16.95

Review Miss Right [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Legacy Entertainment:


Review 4-Front Triple / America's Sweethearts / Mona Lisa Smile / My Best Friend's Wedding [2001]
Release date: 2005-10-03
Run time: 313 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.20

Review America's Sweethearts / Mona Lisa Smile / My Best Friend's Wedding [2001] / 4-Front Triple:


Review Universal Studios / Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps [HD DVD] [2000] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Larry Miller
  • Richard Gant
  • Eddie Murphy
  • John Ales
  • Peter Segal
  • Janet Jackson
Release date: 2007-07-24
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Steve Oedekerk
Price: £6.99

Review Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps [HD DVD] [2000] [US Import] / 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 First Look Pictures / Caffeine [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Cosgrove
  • Marsha Thomason
  • Callum Blue
  • Mena Suvari
  • Roz Witt
  • Mark Pellegrino
Release date: 2007-04-24
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £6.22

Review Caffeine [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / First Look Pictures:


Review Dave E Talbert / Love on Layaway [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marla Gibbs
  • Mel Jackson
  • Leslie Small
  • Buddy Lewis
  • David E. Talbert
  • Alexander O'Neal
  • Deborah Cox
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Robbie Lewis
Price: £4.08

Review Love on Layaway [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Dave E Talbert:


Review Miramax / Shall We Dance? [Blu-ray] [2005] [US Import] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Lisa Ann Walter
  • Peter Chelsom
  • Jennifer Lopez
  • Susan Sarandon
  • Richard Gere
  • Stanley Tucci
Release date: 2008-05-06
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Masayuki Suo
Price: £9.89

Review Shall We Dance? [Blu-ray] [2005] [US Import] [2004] / Miramax:


Review Image Entertainment / Tonight or Never [1931] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gloria Swanson
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Melvyn Douglas
  • Ferdinand Gottschalk
  • Robert Greig
  • Alison Skipworth
Release date: 2001-03-20
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Lily Hatvany
Price: £15.20

Review Tonight or Never [1931] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox / Just My Luck [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Samaire Armstrong
  • Bree Turner
  • Lindsay Lohan
  • Chris Pine
  • Faizon Love
  • Donald Petrie
Release date: 2006-08-22
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £6.55

Review Just My Luck [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review MTI Home Video / Love and Mary [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Elizabeth Harrison
  • Gabriel Mann
  • Whitney Able
  • Mary Bonner Baker
  • Lauren German
  • Ben Gourley
Release date: 2008-08-19
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Peter Fandetti
Price: £9.45

Review Love and Mary [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MTI Home Video:


Review Dimension / My Boss's Daughter [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Aisbett
  • Andy Richter
  • Tara Reid
  • David Zucker
  • Ashton Kutcher
  • Molly Shannon
Release date: 2004-02-03
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: David Dorfman
Price: £4.09

Review My Boss's Daughter [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Dimension:


Review White Star / John Cleese: Romance With a Double Bass [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Young
  • John Cleese
  • Graham Crowden
  • Freddie Jones
  • Desmond Jones
  • Connie Booth
Release date: 2003-07-15
Run time: 40 min.
Creator: Bill Owen
Price: £6.09

Review John Cleese: Romance With a Double Bass [1974] / White Star:


Review Simitar / Men [1997] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dylan Walsh
  • Paul Williams
  • Zoe Clarke-Williams
  • Jordan Gurner
  • Sean Young
  • Bob Lujan
Release date: 2003-07-22
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £3.48

Review Men [1997] (NTSC) / Simitar:


Review Universal Studios / Forgetting Sarah Marshall [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mila Kunis
  • Kristen Bell
  • Paul Rudd
  • Jason Segel
  • Nicholas Stoller
  • Russell Brand
Release date: 2008-09-30
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Shauna Robertson
Price: £18.01

Review Forgetting Sarah Marshall [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Models & Brands:
Blast From the Past [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Because I Said So [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Take a Leap of Faith [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fourplay, All I Want [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Breaking Up [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Miss Right [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), America's Sweethearts / Mona Lisa Smile / My Best Friend's Wedding [2001], Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps [HD DVD] [2000] [US Import], Caffeine [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Love on Layaway [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Shall We Dance? [Blu-ray] [2005] [US Import] [2004], Tonight or Never [1931] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Just My Luck [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Love and Mary [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), My Boss's Daughter [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), John Cleese: Romance With a Double Bass [1974], Men [1997] (NTSC), Forgetting Sarah Marshall [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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