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Review Platinum Disc / Sweet Talker [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bryan Brown
  • Michael Jenkins
  • Justin Rosniak
  • Bill Kerr
  • Karen Allen
  • Chris Haywood
Release date: 2004-02-24
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Tony Morphett
Price: £2.91

Review Sweet Talker [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Review Miramax / Love's Labour's Lost [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alicia Silverstone
  • Alessandro Nivola
  • Natascha McElhone
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Carmen Ejogo
  • Kenneth Branagh
Release date: 2000-12-19
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: William Shakespeare
Price: £3.78

Review Love's Labour's Lost [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:

Having taken Shakespeare at his word on Hamlet (i. e. , not cutting a single syllable out of a very long play), Kenneth Branagh selects a more radical approach with Love's Labour's Lost. Here the prolific director-star weeds out much of the play's dialogue, and adds songs and dances of a decidedly modern bent. The King of Navarre (Alessandro Nivola, Nicolas Cage's wacko brother in Face/Off) and his three comrades (Branagh, Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester) take a vow: no womanly distractions while they pursue their studies. Ah, but at that very moment, floating down a magical studio-built river, is the queen of France (Alicia Silverstone), accompanied by three ladies-in-waiting. You do the maths. Branagh has set the tale on the eve of the Second World War, which allows for the inclusion of vintage pop songs, including "Cheek to Cheek", "The Way You Look Tonight" and a rousing chorus of "There's No Business Like Show Business", led by-who else?-Nathan Lane. The fact that most of the cast members are not accomplished song-and-dance folk is clearly meant to charm, but the results are spotty at best. Perhaps the most dynamic performer is Natascha McElhone (memorable from Ronin), whose aristocratic bearing and bottomless eyes lend a gravity to the material that is otherwise absent from Branagh's twinkly staging. [+]
The play contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest paeans to the language of love, yet Branagh seems to be in a hurry to juice everything up lest the audience lose interest. The labour shows. -Robert Horton.

Review IFC Films/Genius Products, LLC/The Weinstein / The Trouble with Men and Women [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Vas Blackwood
  • Kate Ashfield
  • Christine Tremarco
  • Joe McFadden
  • Matthew Delamere
  • Tony Fisher
Release date: 2007-04-24
Run time: 74 min.
Creator: Peter Broderick
Price: £8.79

Review The Trouble with Men and Women [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / IFC Films/Genius Products, LLC/The Weinstein:


Review 20th Century Fox / Someone Like You [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ellen Barkin
  • Ashley Judd
  • Greg Kinnear
  • Hugh Jackman
  • Marisa Tomei
  • Tony Goldwyn
Release date: 2001-09-18
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Laura Zigman

Review Someone Like You [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review MGM / Untamed Heart [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Bill
  • Marisa Tomei
  • Willie Garson
  • Christian Slater
  • Kyle Secor
  • Rosie Perez
Release date: 2001-01-09
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Tom Sierchio
Price: £5.65

Review Untamed Heart [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Water Bearer Films / Theft [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David La Duca
  • Matthew Charles Burnett
  • Paul Bright
  • Cynthia Schiebel
  • Patrick Henderson
Release date: 2008-03-18
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £12.85

Review Theft [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Water Bearer Films:


Review New Line Home Video / Corrina, Corrina [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tina Majorino
  • Jessie Nelson
  • Lucy Webb
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Ray Liotta
  • Noreen Hennessey
Release date: 1999-12-21
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Paula Mazur
Price: £3.48

Review Corrina, Corrina [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:

In Corrina, Corrina Ray Liotta plays a 1950s jingle composer whose wife dies, leaving him to raise their grieving young daughter (Tina Majorino) alone. Dad hires an African-American housekeeper (Whoopi Goldberg), who helps fill the gap in the child's life-and then Dad's life. Soon an interracial relationship crossing the social mores of the era is underway. Written and directed by Jessie Nelson (The Story of Us), the film is a spot-on recreation of 1950s suburbia without gratuitous kitsch. Liotta is perfect as a working man of the day, given to white shirts and narrow ties; Goldberg gives one of her finest performances as the level-headed Corrina; and little Majorino is heartbreakingly effective. But the film entirely bears the stamp of one person, and that's Nelson, who has a wonderfully witty eye and a sophisticated but sensitive approach to the crosscurrents of emotion at play in this story. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Live/Artisan / Hook'd Up [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stacey Dash
  • Rhonda Ross Kendrick
  • Monteria Ivey
  • Malik Yoba
  • Mike Sargent (II)
  • Sheryl Lee Ralph
Release date: 2003-07-22
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £3.94

Review Hook'd Up [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:


Review MGM / I'll Take Sweden [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tuesday Weld
  • Jeremy Slate
  • Frederick De Cordova
  • Dina Merrill
  • Frankie Avalon
  • Bob Hope
Release date: 2005-05-17
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Nat Perrin
Price: £7.89

Review I'll Take Sweden [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / How Stella Got Her Groove Back [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Taye Diggs
  • Suzzanne Douglas
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Regina King
  • Angela Bassett
  • Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Release date: 2000-01-31
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Terry McMillan
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.70

Review How Stella Got Her Groove Back [1999] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back, stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mother whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. Sparks fly when Bassett meets a 20-year-old stud (Taye Diggs) who has an ambivalent career path but a great body and lots of sexual energy to burn. After some prodding by Goldberg's warm-funny secondary character, Bassett gets it on with the fellow-and proceeds to worry about what she's doing with a man half her age. The film is most enjoyable in its sunny, exotic early scenes and becomes more formulaic once the unlikely couple transports their will-we-stay-together-or-won't-we tensions back to the Big Apple. But director Kevin Rodney Sullivan goes out of his way to make a movie unabashedly thick with fantasy and wish-fulfilment for female audiences (it's Diggs who reveals a lot more flesh than the regal Bassett). This is a Saturday-night movie all around. -Tom Keogh.

Review Miramax / Mouth to Mouth [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Javier Bardem
  • María Barranco
  • Myriam Mézières
  • Josep Maria Flotats
  • Manuel Gómez Pereira
  • Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Release date: 2003-09-02
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Naomi Wise
Price: £3.79

Review Mouth to Mouth [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review Sony Pictures / Made of Honor (Region 1) [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Dempsey
  • Sydney Pollack
  • Kadeem Hardison
  • Kathleen Quinlan
  • Kevin McKidd
  • Paul Weiland
Release date: 2008-09-16
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Rupert Gregson Williams
Price: £15.26

Review Made of Honor (Region 1) [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / Run, Fat Boy, Run [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Pegg
  • David Schwimmer
  • Thandie Newton
  • Harish Patel
  • Dylan Moran
  • Hank Azaria
Release date: 2008-09-23
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Michael Parker
Price: £13.38

Review Run, Fat Boy, Run [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Alpha Video / Heartbeat [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Wood
  • Ginger Rogers
  • Adolphe Menjou
  • Jean-Pierre Aumont
  • Mikhail Rasumny
  • Melville Cooper
Release date: 2004-11-23
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.74

Review Heartbeat [1946] / Alpha Video:


Review Zeitgeist Films / Seventh Heaven [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Benoît Jacquot
  • Francine Bergé
  • Vincent Lindon
  • François Berléand
  • Sandrine Kiberlain
  • Pierre Cassignard
Release date: 2004-03-30
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Jérôme Beaujour
Price: £12.31

Review Seventh Heaven [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Zeitgeist Films:


Review Special Ops Media / Pizza [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Campetta
  • Mark Christopher
  • Kylie Sparks
  • Ethan Embry
  • Joey Kern
  • Julie Hagerty
Release date: 2006-10-24
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Jake Abraham
Price: £6.52

Review Pizza [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Special Ops Media:


Review MGM / Gregory's Girl [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Gordon Sinclair
  • Clare Grogan
  • Bill Forsyth
  • Robert Buchanan
  • Jake D'Arcy
  • Dee Hepburn
Release date: 2001-11-06
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Davina Belling
Price: £5.38

Review Gregory's Girl [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

There is something so utterly captivating about this Bill Forsyth film-whether it's the quaintly authentic Scottish accents (they had to be softened for its US release) or the wholly universal story of young love. But what really gives Gregory's Girl its evergreen appeal is the enchanting performance of young Gordon John Sinclair as the eponymous gangly lead. With his shock of red hair, he's all arms and legs-and inexperience. Gregory becomes infatuated with Dorothy (a lovely Dee Hepburn), who proves a heartier and better athlete than he is. Gregory's so clueless, he relies on advice from his wee sister. The story may be familiar, but Forsyth's astute and affectionate rendering gives the film its momentum (the film won best screenplay at the British Academy Awards). If American viewers at first struggle to understand the well-written banter, it is worth the effort because there's charm in nearly every line. It's curious that both Sinclair and Hepburn, seemingly poised on the brink of stardom here, either chose not to take advantage of the possible opportunity or weren't ever offered roles as wonderful as these. (Sinclair had a small role in Forsyth's Local Hero and starred in 1986's The Girl in the Picture and other small films. Hepburn appears to have worked only once post-Gregory, a brief stint in the British series Crossroads. [+]
) Forsyth completed a 1998 sequel, with Sinclair and Ever After's Dougray Scott. -N. F. Mendoza.

Review Walt Disney Video / Under the Tuscan Sun [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Raoul Bova
  • Lindsay Duncan
  • Audrey Wells
  • Vincent Riotta
  • Sandra Oh
  • Diane Lane
Release date: 2004-02-03
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Frances Mayes
Price: £3.79

Review Under the Tuscan Sun [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Though she made her first movie at the age of 13, Diane Lane has only blossomed into a true star in her 30s, and Under the Tuscan Sun marks her full flowering. After a brutal divorce, Frances (Lane) is persuaded by her friend Patti (Sandra Oh) to take a tour of Italy-where, on a whim that she hopes will rescue her from her desperate unhappiness, she buys a rundown villa and sets out to renovate it. Along the way, she gets advice from a former Fellini actress, meets a scrumptious Italian lover, and helps support Patti after her own relationship derails. The conclusion of Under the Tuscan Sun holds no surprises, but the deft turns and observations along the way are delightful. Lane carries the film effortlessly but surely, exuding both heartbreak and re-awakening passion. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Warner Home Video / Marriage on the Rocks [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hermione Baddeley
  • Cesar Romero
  • Jack Donohue
  • Dean Martin
  • Deborah Kerr
  • Frank Sinatra
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Cy Howard
Price: £4.67

Review Marriage on the Rocks [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Fox Lorber / Couch in New York [1996] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Guilfoyle
  • Barbara Garrick
  • Stephanie Buttle
  • Juliette Binoche
  • William Hurt
  • Chantal Akerman
Release date: 2000-07-05
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Jean-Luc Ormières
Price: £26.95

Review Couch in New York [1996] (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Models & Brands:
Sweet Talker [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Love's Labour's Lost [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Trouble with Men and Women [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Someone Like You [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Untamed Heart [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Theft [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Corrina, Corrina [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hook'd Up [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), I'll Take Sweden [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), How Stella Got Her Groove Back [1999], Mouth to Mouth [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Made of Honor (Region 1) [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Run, Fat Boy, Run [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Heartbeat [1946], Seventh Heaven [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pizza [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gregory's Girl [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Under the Tuscan Sun [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Marriage on the Rocks [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Couch in New York [1996] (NTSC)

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