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Review Warner Home Video / Addicted to Love [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kelly Preston
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Maureen Stapleton
  • Griffin Dunne
  • Meg Ryan
  • Tchéky Karyo
Release date: 1997-10-29
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £5.20

Review Addicted to Love [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Actor-director Griffin Dunne made his filmmaking debut with this ethically ambiguous and not-very-funny movie about a pair of jilted lovers (Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick) who conspire to break up a relationship between their ex-sweethearts (Tchéky Karyo and Kelly Preston). Part classic screwball comedy, part nightmare along the lines of Martin Scorsese's After Hours (in which Dunne starred), part tribute to Hitchcock's Rear Window, Addicted to Love is all over the map and seriously hampered by the sheer, unwarranted nastiness aimed at the innocent characters played by Karyo and Preston. The DVD release includes production notes, original theatrical trailer, optional widescreen and standard formats, and optional French and Spanish soundtracks. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount / Sabrina [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Wood
  • Greg Kinnear
  • Sydney Pollack
  • Harrison Ford
  • Nancy Marchand
  • Julia Ormond
Release date: 2002-01-15
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Billy Wilder
Price: £3.92

Review Sabrina [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

Julia Ormond faced one of the great challenges of her career when she tried to re-create Audrey Hepburn's title role in the 1995 remake of 1954's Sabrina. Happily, Ormond performed admirably, and while she may not have the same gamine charm of Hepburn, she makes the role her own. In fact, her transformation from mousy girl to sophisticated young woman is actually more dramatic in this updated version. The basic plot is the same-chauffeur's daughter falls in love with the son of the rich household, only to be wooed away by the older brother for business purposes-but it has been entertainingly modernised: The head of the Larrabee household is the strong matriarch (Nancy Marchand); Sabrina goes to Paris to work with a photographer instead of going to cooking school (although that means the wonderful "new egg" scene of the original had to be ditched); David's (Greg Kinnear) character has been toned down and made more sympathetic; and Humphrey Bogart's revolutionary plastic has become the flattest TV screen ever made. Lauren Holly does a fine job playing Elizabeth Tyson, David's fiancée. If you watch this for its own worth-instead of comparing it to the original-this will prove to be a terrific light-hearted romantic comedy. -Jenny Brown.

Review Indican Pictures / A Wake in Providence [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Victoria Rowell
  • Mike Pagano
  • Adrienne Barbeau
  • Billy Van Zandt
  • Vincent Pagano
  • Rosario Roveto Jr.
Release date: 2006-11-07
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Sean Ireland
Price: £6.92

Review A Wake in Providence [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Indican Pictures:


Review MGM / Romantic Comedy [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Frances Sternhagen
  • Mary Steenburgen
  • Janet Eilber
  • Dudley Moore
  • Arthur Hiller
  • Robyn Douglass
Release date: 2001-12-26
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Marvin Mirisch
Price: £6.24

Review Romantic Comedy [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Live/Artisan / And God Created Woman [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Donovan Leitch
  • Frank Langella
  • Vincent Spano
  • Rebecca De Mornay
  • Roger Vadim
  • Judith Chapman
Release date: 2004-03-16
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Patrick McCormick
Price: £6.04

Review And God Created Woman [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:

Despite being directed by Roger Vadim, this And God Created Woman is not the 1956 classic but a loose remake from some 30 years later (1987) which attempts to update the original's themes. Rebecca De Mornay takes the central role, this time as Robin, a woman released from jail on parole due to her recent marriage to Billy (Vincent Spano). Once on the outside, she pursues her dreams of rock stardom and enters into a love triangle with state governor elect, James Tiernan (Frank Langella). Whereas Vadim's own original film may have exuded unspoken sexual tension (in no small part due to its star, Brigette Bardot), any pretence of subtlety here is lost as De Mornay sheds her clothes at every possible opportunity in the film's series of soft porn sex scenes, all accompanied-as indeed is virtually every moment of the film-by an appalling 80s rock soundtrack. The acting is uniformly awful, with De Mornay taking the prize for the worst performance of all, fighting a losing battle for the viewer's attention with her seemingly ever-growing hair. Indeed, And God Created Woman is best recommended to those who gleefully indulge in the worst that the cinematic arts have to offer and it would easily feature in a top ten of most awful films of recent years. On the DVD: Alongside the chapter selection facility, the various filmographies point to what a waste of potential talent this film is. With the picture quality unable to improve on the TV-movie feel of the whole project, the audio presents the horrible American rock backing in all its glory-despite that fact the music sequences are amongst the most laughingly unconvincing ever committed to celluloid. -Phil Udell.

Review Island Entertainment / Unda Mi Nose, Vol. 3: Den Den Come to Town [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tanya Graham
  • Paul O. Beale
  • Dayne McDonald
  • Donald Thompson
  • Donna Bucknall
  • Dennis Hall
Release date: 2008-02-05
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £6.82

Review Unda Mi Nose, Vol. 3: Den Den Come to Town [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Island Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / Blithe Spirit [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Kay Hammond
  • Constance Cummings
  • Hugh Wakefield
  • David Lean
  • Margaret Rutherford
  • Rex Harrison
Release date: 1998-11-24
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Anthony Havelock-Allan
Price: £118.05

Review Blithe Spirit [1945] / Image Entertainment:

Noel Coward's favourite play, Blithe Spirit, was certainly a departure for David Lean, best known at the time for adapting Dickens. While it's the director's only comedy, the result is a delightful gem. Rex Harrison is an acerbic author haunted by the ghost of first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond), who tries to seduce him all over again. This throws his second wife (Constance Cummings) into a panic, second-guessing her lack of passion. It's a celestial sex romp that hasn't lost its bite. Margaret Rutherford, as always, steals the show as the sardonic medium. -Bill Desowitz.

Review MGM / Romantic Comedy [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Steenburgen
  • Janet Eilber
  • Dudley Moore
  • Robyn Douglass
  • Frances Sternhagen
  • Arthur Hiller
Release date: 2001-12-26
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Marvin Mirisch
Price: £6.24

Review Romantic Comedy [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Vista India / Neal 'n' Nikki [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Richa Pallod
  • Arjun Sablok
  • Gaurav Gera
  • Uday Chopra
  • Abhishek Bachchan
  • Tanisha Mukerjee
Release date: 2006-01-30
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Salim-Sulaiman
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.46

Review Neal 'n' Nikki [2005] / Vista India:


Review Miramax / That's The Way I Like It [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Pierre Png
  • Medaline Tan
  • Adrian Pang
  • Steven Lim
  • Glen Goei
  • Anna Belle Francis
Release date: 2000-04-18
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Jeffrey Chiang
Price: £5.37

Review That's The Way I Like It [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review Monterey Video / Under the Biltmore Clock [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Gegenhuber
  • Deanna Dunagan
  • Pauline Brailsford
  • James Deuter
  • Barnard Hughes
  • Neal Miller
Release date: 2006-08-22
Run time: 68 min.
Creator: Ilene Cooper
Price: £8.72

Review Under the Biltmore Clock [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Monterey Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / The New Guy [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lyle Lovett
  • Zooey Deschanel
  • Ed Decter
  • Eliza Dushku
  • DJ Qualls
  • Jerod Mixon
Release date: 2004-01-06
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: David Kendall
Price: £6.26

Review The New Guy [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Aimed at teens with numb senses of humour, The New Guy earns its chuckles mostly by accident. Most of the comedy is DOA, although the cast-especially DJ Qualls in the title role-possesses a modicum of scrappy charm. DJ plays a "blip" on his high school's social radar, briefly jailed for chronic misbehavior and mentored in coolness by a fellow inmate (Eddie Griffin), who becomes the funky "new guy" at a new school, where he's worshipped as a mysterious hipster and attracts the hottest cheerleader (Eliza Dushku). Directed without a shred of inspiration (by a co-writer of There's Something About Mary) and looking like a drab 16-millimetre industrial film, the movie would be a waste of time were it not for its abiding cheerfulness, rock-star cameos (Henry Rollins, Gene Simmons, Tommy Lee), Lyle Lovett as DJ's dad, and a fresh cast that almost makes this low-brow mess worthwhile. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Paramount / Heaven Can Wait [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Larry Block
  • Roger Bowen
  • Hamilton Camp
  • Jim Boeke
  • R.G. Armstrong
Release date: 1999-07-27
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Dave Grusin
Price: £3.49

Review Heaven Can Wait [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

The whimsical comedy-romance Heaven Can Wait is a delightful example of the small sub-genre of afterlife comedies. The film, which teams then lovers Warren Beatty and Julie Christie for a third time following McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) and Shampoo (1975), is not a remake of the 1943 supernatural film of the same name, but of the Robert Montgomery classic Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941). Here Beatty is American football player Joe Pendleton, who accidentally dies, decades too early, and is incarnated in a new body which, until recently, was occupied by a ruthless multi-millionaire. James Mason is superb as a most authoritative angel (Mr Jordan), heading a fine cast including Charles Grodin, Buck Henry and Jack Warden. In a sub-plot paralleling The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and revisited in You've Got Mail (1998), Julie Christie plays an English woman outraged that one of the former millionaire's companies is destroying her village, while simultaneously falling in love with the man now occupying the hated millionaire's mortal coil. Much comic and romantic misunderstanding follows, as well as some appealing slapstick, courtesy of Dyan Cannon. Aided by a lovely musical score by Dave Grusin, this is a beautifully played and thoroughly charming bittersweet fantasy about the transcendent power of love. It is a joy for romantics everywhere. On the DVD: Heaven Can Wait comes to DVD in a good 1. 77:1 ratio transfer which exhibits just a little grain in some darker scenes. [+]
The print shows some very minor, occasional damage, but nothing to complain about in a film of this vintage. The sound is the original mono mix, which is perfectly serviceable. The only extra is the theatrical trailer. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review 20th Century Fox / Bus Stop [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eileen Heckart
  • Arthur O'Connell
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Betty Field
  • Don Murray
  • Joshua Logan
Release date: 2001-05-29
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: William Inge
Price: £6.30

Review Bus Stop [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

Though it seems dated now, Bus Stop was considered pretty hot stuff in 1956. Directed by Joshua Logan from George Axelrod's script of William Inge's comic-romantic Broadway hit, the film stars Marilyn Monroe as the kind of woman who can't understand why she always brings out the worst in men. She attracts the attention of a young rodeo rider (Don Murray) while on a bus, and finds herself trapped at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere during a blizzard. The young cowboy, whose intentions are honourable, can't control his temper and can't understand why this experienced woman won't take him seriously-and why she rejects him when he begins acting jealous and possessive. Love takes its lumps but comes out slugging in the end, with Marilyn at her vulnerable, jaded best. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com.

Review Urban Works / Masquerade [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leonard Roberts
  • Simbi Khali
  • Roy Campanella II
  • Cress Williams
  • Anna Maria Horsford
  • Kellita Smith
Release date: 2003-04-08
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Janine Sherman
Price: £11.95

Review Masquerade [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Urban Works:


Review First Run Features / The Watermelon Woman [1996] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Guinevere Turner
  • Cheryl Dunye
  • Lisa Marie Bronson
  • Valarie Walker
  • Cheryl Clarke
  • Cheryl Dunye
Release date: 2000-05-09
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Cate Wilson
Price: £9.29

Review The Watermelon Woman [1996] (NTSC) / First Run Features:


Review 20th Century Fox / Bus Stop [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Betty Field
  • Don Murray
  • Eileen Heckart
  • Joshua Logan
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Arthur O'Connell
Release date: 2001-05-29
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: William Inge
Price: £6.30

Review Bus Stop [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

Though it seems dated now, Bus Stop was considered pretty hot stuff in 1956. Directed by Joshua Logan from George Axelrod's script of William Inge's comic-romantic Broadway hit, the film stars Marilyn Monroe as the kind of woman who can't understand why she always brings out the worst in men. She attracts the attention of a young rodeo rider (Don Murray) while on a bus, and finds herself trapped at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere during a blizzard. The young cowboy, whose intentions are honourable, can't control his temper and can't understand why this experienced woman won't take him seriously-and why she rejects him when he begins acting jealous and possessive. Love takes its lumps but comes out slugging in the end, with Marilyn at her vulnerable, jaded best. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com.

Review Columbia TriStar / The New Guy [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ed Decter
  • Zooey Deschanel
  • Lyle Lovett
  • Eliza Dushku
  • Jerod Mixon
  • DJ Qualls
Release date: 2004-01-06
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: David Kendall
Price: £6.26

Review The New Guy [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Aimed at teens with numb senses of humour, The New Guy earns its chuckles mostly by accident. Most of the comedy is DOA, although the cast-especially DJ Qualls in the title role-possesses a modicum of scrappy charm. DJ plays a "blip" on his high school's social radar, briefly jailed for chronic misbehavior and mentored in coolness by a fellow inmate (Eddie Griffin), who becomes the funky "new guy" at a new school, where he's worshipped as a mysterious hipster and attracts the hottest cheerleader (Eliza Dushku). Directed without a shred of inspiration (by a co-writer of There's Something About Mary) and looking like a drab 16-millimetre industrial film, the movie would be a waste of time were it not for its abiding cheerfulness, rock-star cameos (Henry Rollins, Gene Simmons, Tommy Lee), Lyle Lovett as DJ's dad, and a fresh cast that almost makes this low-brow mess worthwhile. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Paramount / Heaven Can Wait [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Larry Block
  • Hamilton Camp
  • Jim Boeke
  • Roger Bowen
  • R.G. Armstrong
Release date: 1999-07-27
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Dave Grusin
Price: £3.49

Review Heaven Can Wait [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

The whimsical comedy-romance Heaven Can Wait is a delightful example of the small sub-genre of afterlife comedies. The film, which teams then lovers Warren Beatty and Julie Christie for a third time following McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) and Shampoo (1975), is not a remake of the 1943 supernatural film of the same name, but of the Robert Montgomery classic Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941). Here Beatty is American football player Joe Pendleton, who accidentally dies, decades too early, and is incarnated in a new body which, until recently, was occupied by a ruthless multi-millionaire. James Mason is superb as a most authoritative angel (Mr Jordan), heading a fine cast including Charles Grodin, Buck Henry and Jack Warden. In a sub-plot paralleling The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and revisited in You've Got Mail (1998), Julie Christie plays an English woman outraged that one of the former millionaire's companies is destroying her village, while simultaneously falling in love with the man now occupying the hated millionaire's mortal coil. Much comic and romantic misunderstanding follows, as well as some appealing slapstick, courtesy of Dyan Cannon. Aided by a lovely musical score by Dave Grusin, this is a beautifully played and thoroughly charming bittersweet fantasy about the transcendent power of love. It is a joy for romantics everywhere. On the DVD: Heaven Can Wait comes to DVD in a good 1. 77:1 ratio transfer which exhibits just a little grain in some darker scenes. [+]
The print shows some very minor, occasional damage, but nothing to complain about in a film of this vintage. The sound is the original mono mix, which is perfectly serviceable. The only extra is the theatrical trailer. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Ariztical / The Young, the Gay and the Restless [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Holly Karroll Clark
  • Caleb Campbell
  • Kerry Liu
  • Miss Elliott
  • Joe Haggerty
  • Joe Castro
Release date: 2006-12-12
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Steven Escobar
Price: £10.37

Review The Young, the Gay and the Restless [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ariztical:


Models & Brands:
Addicted to Love [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sabrina [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Wake in Providence [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Romantic Comedy [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), And God Created Woman [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Unda Mi Nose, Vol. 3: Den Den Come to Town [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Blithe Spirit [1945], Romantic Comedy [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Neal 'n' Nikki [2005], That's The Way I Like It [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Under the Biltmore Clock [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The New Guy [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Heaven Can Wait [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bus Stop [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Masquerade [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Watermelon Woman [1996] (NTSC), Bus Stop [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The New Guy [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Heaven Can Wait [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Young, the Gay and the Restless [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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