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Review Greek City / Mantalena
Actors & Directors
  • Demetris Papamichael
Release date: 1989-01-31
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £22.99

Review Mantalena / Greek City:


Actors & Directors
  • Anita Blanch
  • Arturo de Cordova
  • Joaquin Pardave
  • Julio Bracho
  • Mapy Cortes
  • Miguel Montemayor
Release date: 2003-12-02
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Raul Lavista
Price: £7.07

Review Ay Que Tiempos Senor Don Simon [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Veracruz:


Actors & Directors
  • Rebecca Hall
  • James McAvoy
  • Catherine Tate
  • Tom Vaughan
  • Mark Gatiss
  • Alice Eve
Release date: 2009-12-08
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £17.59

Review Starter For Ten [Blu-ray] [2006] / Icon Home Entertainment:


Review Dimension / Boys and Girls [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Raquel Beaudene
  • Claire Forlani
  • Brendon Ryan Barrett
  • Freddie Prinze Jr.
  • Robert Iscove
  • Gay Thomas
Release date: 2000-11-14
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Andrew Miller
Price: £4.49

Review Boys and Girls [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Dimension:

Behind the generic title of Boys and Girls lies a surprisingly enjoyable and nuanced romantic comedy. Teen heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr plays Ryan, a dorky, emotionally sincere young guy who keeps crossing paths with Jennifer (Claire Forlani), an independent and wilfully unattached young woman. Their chance meetings coincide with relationship traumas and they start to confide in each other, which leads to a more genuine friendship and, in the midst of their college years, a romance. It's a bit of a stock plot line to have their friendship threatened by sexual attraction, but Boys and Girls has just enough genuine feeling to make it compelling. Meanwhile, Jason Biggs (from American Pie) plays Ryan's roommate, a compulsive liar and would-be scam artist, who carries off some pretty funny scenes. Forlani and Prinze work together quite well. Their performances hearken back to the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s, with the repressed male simultaneously attracted and horrified by a footloose dame. Some kooky moments are a little strained, but at other times the movie has a refreshing realism about human emotions. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review MTI Home Video / Love Goggles [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Trevor David
  • Ruby Campbell
  • Sticky Fingaz
  • Steven Peacock Jacoby
  • Tony Travis
  • Q-Tip
Release date: 2004-04-06
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Daniel Sollinger
Price: £8.15

Review Love Goggles [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MTI Home Video:


Review Tai Seng / A Diary of a Big Man [1988] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Waise Lee
  • Elaine Jin
  • Kent Cheng
  • Yun-Fat Chow
  • Yuen Chor
  • Carrie Ng
Release date: 2001-01-23
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Philip Cheng
Price: £25.29

Review A Diary of a Big Man [1988] (NTSC) / Tai Seng:


Review MTI Home Video / The Arrangement [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Keskhemnu
  • H.H. Cooper
  • Billie James
  • Marilyn Torres
  • Helen G. Williams
  • Keith Davis
Release date: 2000-10-24
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Douglas W. Shannon
Price: £11.69

Review The Arrangement [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MTI Home Video:


Review Millivres Multimedia / Defying Gravity [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Niklaus Lange
  • John Keitel
  • Don Handfield
  • Seabass Diamond
  • Linna Carter
  • Daniel Chilson
Release date: 2000-02-07
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Jack Koll
RRP: £8.99
Price: £10.89

Review Defying Gravity [1999] / Millivres Multimedia:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / I.Q. [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Tim Robbins
  • Gene Saks
  • Fred Schepisi
  • Walter Matthau
  • Meg Ryan
  • Lou Jacobi
Release date: 1996-02-05
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Michael Leeson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.25

Review I.Q. [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Razor Digital Entertainment / Would I Lie to You? [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Susan Ward
  • Stephanie Beacham
  • Tom Sheppard
  • Jonathan Penner
  • Samaire Armstrong
  • Brad Rowe
Release date: 2004-10-26
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Michael Feifer
Price: £11.61

Review Would I Lie to You? [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Razor Digital Entertainment:


Review Lions Gate / Dish Dogs [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Kubilos
  • Shannon Elizabeth
  • Sean Astin
  • Matthew Lillard
  • Brian Dennehy
  • Maitland Ward
Release date: 2000-08-29
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Nathan Ives
Price: £5.34

Review Dish Dogs [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review 20th Century Fox / Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Antonio Serrano
  • Susana Zabaleta
  • Víctor Huggo Martin
  • Jorge Salinas
  • Demián Bichir
  • Cecilia Suárez
Release date: 2004-09-07
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Matthias Ehrenberg

Review Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Uca / Bridget Jones's Diary [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Sally Phillips
  • Colin Firth
  • Sharon Maguire
  • James Callis
  • Hugh Grant
  • Jim Broadbent
Release date: 2007-12-10
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.96

Review Bridget Jones's Diary [2001] / Uca:


Review Universal Studios / Notting Hill [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Grant
  • Roger Michell
  • Richard McCabe
  • James Dreyfus
  • Julia Roberts
  • Rhys Ifans
Release date: 2001-07-17
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Mary Richards
Price: £41.30

Review Notting Hill [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

They don't really make many romantic comedies like Notting Hill anymore-blissfully romantic, sincerely sweet, and not grounded in any reality whatsoever. Pure fairy tale, and with a huge debt to Roman Holiday, Notting Hill ponders what would happen if a beautiful, world-famous person were to suddenly drop into your life unannounced and promptly fall in love with you. That's the crux of the situation for William Thacker (Hugh Grant), who owns a travel bookshop in London's fashionable Notting Hill district. Hopelessly ordinary (well, as ordinary as you can be when you're Hugh Grant), William is going about his life when renowned movie star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) walks into his bookstore and into his heart. After another contrived meeting involving spilled orange juice, William and Anna share a spontaneous kiss (big suspension of disbelief required here), and soon both are smitten. The question is, of course, can William and Anna reconcile his decidedly commonplace bookseller existence and her lifestyle as a jet-setting, paparazzi-stalked celebrity? (Take a wild guess at the answer. ) Smartly scripted by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and directed by Roger Michell (Persuasion), Notting Hill is hardly realistic, but as wish fulfilment and a romantic comedy, it's irresistible. True, Roberts doesn't really have to stretch very far to play a big-time actress who makes $15 million per movie, but she's more winning and relaxed than she's been in years, and Grant is sweetly understated as a man blindsided by love. Together, in moments of quiet, they're a charming couple, and you can feel her craving for real love and his awe and amazement at the wonderful person for whom he has fallen. The only blight on the film is its overbearing pop soundtrack, though Elvis Costello's heart-wrenching version of "She" gets poignant exposure. [+]
With Rhys Ifans as Grant's scene-stealing, slovenly housemate and Alec Baldwin in a sly, perfectly cast cameo. -Mark Englehart.

Review 20th Century Fox / El Segundo Aire: A Second Chance [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fabiana Perzabal
  • Lisa Owen
  • Fernando Sariñana
  • Jorge Poza
  • Jesús Ochoa
  • Ximena Sariñana
Release date: 2004-09-07
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Carolina Rivera
Price: £7.38

Review El Segundo Aire: A Second Chance [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / Made For Each Other [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Lucile Watson
  • James Stewart
  • Eddie Quillan
  • Charles Coburn
  • Carole Lombard
  • John Cromwell
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Rose Franken
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.85

Review Made For Each Other [1939] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:

Produced in a time when films were both literally and figuratively black and white, Made for Each Other was unique in its effective blending of the comedic, the dramatic and, as perhaps some would insensitively say, the melodramatic. Beautiful Carole Lombard and likeable James Stewart are Jane and John Mason, a couple who meet, fall madly in love, marry and quickly have a baby. But while they-and the audience-are confident that they are meant for each other, life intercedes and the couple must meet with disapproving in-laws, job stress, financial challenges and, finally, a devastating illness. Lombard and Stewart-and the genuinely good people they portray-are utterly compelling and charming. Say yawningly what you will about tradition but the Masons' path is one that many, if not most, go down. And unlike the wonderful but wholly fantasy world of peer Preston Sturges, director John Cromwell's universe is, like real life, full of ups and downs. It's an accessible, sensitive portrayal. He gives the audience characters they want to see succeed, and to see stay together in the process. It may be a tale of triumph of the human spirit but its ultimate sentiment-one that celebrates the kindness of strangers-is thoroughly sweet, though in no way saccharine. Look for a great supporting cast, including a blustery Charles Coburn as John Mason's boss and Lucile Watson as Mason's interfering mother. [+]
-N F Mendoza Produced in a time when films were both literally and figuratively black and white, Made for Each Other was unique in its effective blending of the comedic, the dramatic, and, as perhaps some would insensitively say, the melodramatic. Beautiful Carole Lombard and likeable James Stewart are Jane and John Mason, a couple who meet, fall madly in love, marry and quickly have a baby. But while they-and the audience-are confident that they are meant for each other, life intercedes and the couple must meet with disapproving in-laws, job stress, financial challenges and, finally, a devastating illness. Lombard and Stewart-and the genuinely good people they portray-are utterly compelling and charming. And unlike the wonderful but wholly fantasy world of peer Preston Sturges, director John Cromwell's universe is, like real life, full of ups and downs. It is an accessible, sensitive portrayal. He gives the audience characters they want to see succeed, and to see stay together in the process. It may be a tale of triumph of the human spirit, but its ultimate sentiment-one that celebrates the kindness of strangers-is thoroughly sweet, though in no way saccharine. Look out for the great supporting cast, including a blustery Charles Coburn as John Mason's boss, and Lucile Watson as Mason's interfering mother. -N. F. Mendoza.

Review 4 Front Video / Jerry Maguire [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Cameron Crowe
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • Renée Zellweger
  • Kelly Preston
  • Tom Cruise
  • Jerry O'Connell
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: John D. Schofield
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.98

Review Jerry Maguire [1997] / 4 Front Video:

One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s as well as a box-office hit, Jerry Maguire cemented writer-director Cameron Crowe's reputation as "the voice of a generation". Crowe could probably do without that label, but he's definitely in sync with the times with this savvy story about a sports agent (Tom Cruise) whose fall from grace motivates his quest for professional recovery, and the slow-dawning realisation that he needs the love and respect of the single mom (Renée Zellweger in her breakthrough role) who has supported him through the worst of times. This is one of Cruise's best, most underrated performances, and in an Oscar-winning role, Cuba Gooding Jr. plays the football star who remains Jerry Maguire's only loyal client on a hard road to redemption and personal growth. If that sounds touchy-feely, it is only because Crowe has combined sharp entertainment with a depth of character that is rarely found in mainstream comedy. -Jeff Shannon.

Review 4 Front Video / The American President [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Rob Reiner
  • Anna Deavere Smith
  • Annette Bening
  • Martin Sheen
  • Michael J. Fox
  • Michael Douglas
Release date: 2000-07-17
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Aaron Sorkin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.50

Review The American President [1995] / 4 Front 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.

Review Creative Light / Sally [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fatmir Haskaj
  • Gerrit Vooren
  • Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Michael Weston
  • David Goldsmith
  • David Goldsmith
Release date: 2002-12-10
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Ted Collins
Price: £23.39

Review Sally [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Creative Light:


Actors & Directors
  • Andy Lau
  • Eric Tsang
  • Samson Chiu
  • Sandra Ng
  • Hu Jun
  • Alfred Cheung
Release date: 2008-07-22
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Peter Kam
Price: £17.26

Review Golden Chicken [2002] / Panorama:


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Mantalena, Ay Que Tiempos Senor Don Simon [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Starter For Ten [Blu-ray] [2006], Boys and Girls [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Love Goggles [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Diary of a Big Man [1988] (NTSC), The Arrangement [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Defying Gravity [1999], I.Q. [1995], Would I Lie to You? [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dish Dogs [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bridget Jones's Diary [2001], Notting Hill [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), El Segundo Aire: A Second Chance [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Made For Each Other [1939], Jerry Maguire [1997], The American President [1995], Sally [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Golden Chicken [2002]

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