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Actors & Directors
  • Cary Grant
  • Ned Glass
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Thomas Chelimsky
  • Paul Bonifas
  • Stanley Donen
Release date: 1998-02-24
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Henry Mancini
Price: £8.33

Review Charade [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Madacy:


Review First Run Features / Boyfriends [1996] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Urwin
  • Mark Sands
  • Neil Hunter
  • Barry Purves
  • James Dreyfus
  • Andrew Ableson
  • Tom Hunsinger
  • David Coffey
Release date: 1999-12-07
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Jo Cameron Brown
Price: £12.96

Review Boyfriends [1996] (NTSC) / First Run Features:


Review Anchor Bay / Minnie and Moskowitz [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Gena Rowlands
  • Val Avery
  • Timothy Carey
  • Seymour Cassel
  • John Cassavetes
  • Katherine Cassavetes
Release date: 2000-01-25
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Paul Donnelly
Price: £181.09

Review Minnie and Moskowitz [1971] / Anchor Bay:


Review Universe Laser & Video Co. / Tokyo Eyes [1998] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Shinji Takeda
  • Kaori Mizushima
  • Ren Osugi
  • Jean-Pierre Limosin
  • Tetta Sugimoto
  • Hinano Yoshikawa
Release date: 2002-06-25
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Yuji Sakamoto
Price: £32.16

Review Tokyo Eyes [1998] (NTSC) / Universe Laser & Video Co.:


Review Paramount / Blue Hawaii [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Walters
  • Elvis Presley
  • Norman Taurog
  • Jenny Maxwell
  • Joan Blackman
  • Angela Lansbury
Release date: 2007-08-07
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £50.30

Review Blue Hawaii [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

Elvis Presley's seventh film was the first of his "Hawaii trilogy" (a group completed by Girls! Girls! Girls! and Paradise, Hawaiian Style). While its story is daft-the King has just been released from his army-posting in Italy and returned to the islands, where he's trying to avoid working in his father's fruit business-the music, including "Blue Hawaii," "Almost Always True" and the beautiful "Can't Help Falling in Love", is not. Angela Lansbury plays Elvis's mother, who can't seem to get through to him. The film is directed by Elvis's frequent collaborator, Norman Taurog. -Tom Keogh.

Review Image Entertainment / Looking for Lola [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Kagan
  • Boaz Davidson
  • Adam Biesk
  • Ara Celi
  • Mark Kassen
  • Vincent Ventresca
Release date: 2000-05-09
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Les Weldon
Price: £35.24

Review Looking for Lola [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Paramount / Just a Kiss [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Eldard
  • Marley Shelton
  • Fisher Stevens
  • Marisa Tomei
  • Patrick Breen
  • Kyra Sedgwick
Release date: 2003-03-18
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Matthew H. Rowland
Price: £12.44

Review Just a Kiss [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

A romantic comedy with an absurdist edge, Just a Kiss begins when Dag (Ron Eldard), a commercial director, sleeps with his best friend's girlfriend, Rebecca (Marley Shelton), a dancer, while she's touring in Europe. When their infidelity is revealed back home in New York City it sets off a cascade of people falling into bed together, including Dag's girlfriend Halley (Kyra Sedgwick), Rebecca's other lover Andre (Taye Diggs) and a waitress at a bowling alley (Marisa Tomei) with strange obsessions and loose morals. Just a Kiss slips to and fro in time and veers in and out of rotoscope animation, but even the live sequences have a cartoonish edge; it's hard to care about what happens to these caricatures, no matter how tight their pants or how skimpy their tank tops. Also featuring Patrick Breen (who wrote the screenplay) and Sarita Choudhury. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Warner Home Video / Home Fries [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Luke Wilson
  • Dean Parisot
  • Catherine O'Hara
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Jake Busey
  • Shelley Duvall
Release date: 2000-02-14
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Vince Gilligan
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.09

Review Home Fries [1997] / Warner Home Video:

A man is frightened to death by a menacing military helicopter, piloted by two young Texan men who just happen to be the dead man's stepsons, Dorian and Angus (Luke Wilson and Jake Busey). To complicate matters, the dead man had had an affair with young Sally (Drew Barrymore), a clerk at the local Burger-Matic who didn't know the guy was married. Now she's pregnant and looking for a supportive guy to be her unborn child's potential father. Dorian fits the role quite nicely, but Angus thinks Sally knows about the helicopter incident, and their scheming mother (Catherine O'Hara) is trying to mastermind a cover-up, and. So goes the cleverly amusing plot of this light, character-based romantic comedy, which proves Barrymore's charm and versatility once again, gives O'Hara one of her best roles, and moves right along at its own amiable pace. Small-town romance combines with darkly tinged comedy (scripted by X-Files staffer Vince Gilligan), and first-time director Dean Parisot guides it all with casual assurance. There's nothing going on in Home Fries that's particularly inspired, but Barrymore and Wilson (an off-screen couple during production) make a delightful pair, and the cast makes the most of some hilarious down-home dialogue. All in all, a very pleasant diversion. [+]
-Jeff Shannon.

Actors & Directors
  • George Kennedy
  • Cary Grant
  • James Coburn
  • Walter Matthau
  • Stanley Donen
  • Audrey Hepburn
Release date: 2003-01-01
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Marc Behm
Price: £1.27

Review Charade [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Diamond Entertainment Corp.:

Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid but his real motives aren't entirely clear-could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen but it has been called "Hitchcockian" for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant as a Hitchcock film but suspense-wise it holds its own; and Donen's glossy production lends itself to the welcome experience of stargazing. One wants Cary Grant to be Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn to be no one but Audrey Hepburn in a Hollywood product such as this, and they certainly don't let us down. -Tom Keogh In Charade Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid, but his real motives aren't entirely clear-could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen, but it has been called "Hitchcockian" for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant as a Hitchcock film, but in terms of suspense it holds its own; and Donen's glossy production lends itself to the welcome experience of stargazing. You want Cary Grant to be Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn to be no one but Audrey Hepburn in a Hollywood product such as this, and they certainly don't let us down. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Tai Seng / Comic King [2001] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julian Cheung
  • Ruby Lin
  • Hak Kan Lee
  • Eason Chan
  • Sing-Pui O
  • Nicholas Tse
Release date: 2001-11-20
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Ding Kin Lau
Price: £93.94

Review Comic King [2001] (NTSC) / Tai Seng:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Excess Baggage [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Walken
  • Marco Brambilla
  • Benicio Del Toro
  • Jack Thompson
  • Nicholas Turturro
  • Alicia Silverstone
Release date: 1998-02-04
Run time: 101 min.

Review Excess Baggage [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Alicia Silverstone was so hot after the success of Clueless that she formed her own production company at the age of 19, and Excess Baggage was the first movie she chose as a starring vehicle. Silverstone plays Emily, a spoiled rich girl who has everything but her father's affection, so she decides to stage her own kidnapping to see if dad will come to his senses and appreciate the daughter he so blindly disregards. But when Emily locks herself in the trunk of her own car, she's surprised when the car is stolen by Vincent (Benicio Del Toro, from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), a professional car thief whose partner (Harry Connick Jr. ) has misplaced 200,000 dollars of the Mob's money. Christopher Walken stars as Emily's "Uncle Ray," who's hot on her trail as she goes on the lam with Vincent. It's not the meandering plot that matters so much as the funny dialogue between Silverstone and Del Toro, who steals his scenes with a smoky mumble and easygoing charm. Excess Baggage is mostly for Alicia fans, but the film has got enough good laughs and low-key appeal to make it a home-video sleeper. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Momentum Pictures / When Brendan Met Trudy [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Flora Montgomery
  • Kieron J. Walsh
  • Marie Mullen
  • Don Wycherley
  • Peter McDonald
  • Pauline McLynn
Release date: 2002-03-11
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Roddy Doyle
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.98

Review When Brendan Met Trudy [2001] / Momentum Pictures:


Review Columbia TriStar / The Man From Elysian Fields [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mick Jagger
  • Olivia Williams
  • James Coburn
  • Julianna Margulies
  • George Hickenlooper
  • Andy Garcia
Release date: 2003-03-18
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £5.99

Review The Man From Elysian Fields [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Add The Man from Elysian Fields to the list of essential movies about the pains of writing. This wry comedy-drama charts the frustrations of a financially strapped novelist (Andy Garcia) as he desperately and secretly agrees to be an "escort" for ladies who need, err, escorting. This leads him into a Faustian bargain to help a beautiful client (Olivia Williams) whose husband, a once-great, now-dying writer (a mighty James Coburn), is struggling with a final work. Of course the fact that the men are sharing a project and a woman complicates matters-and Garcia's loyal wife (Julianna Margulies) is curious about all these nights spent away. The movie explores different levels of compromise and betrayal, yet it remains tartly amusing throughout. And it has a glorious casting inspiration: the director of the mysterious escort service is played by Mick Jagger, looking decadently elegant and purring like a vaguely satanic Siamese cat. -Robert Horton.

Actors & Directors
  • Kool Moe Dee
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • Bahni Turpin
  • Kim Cattrall
  • Beverly Johnson
Release date: 2002-07-23
Creator: Trevor Jones
Price: £37.00

Review Crossroads [2002] / Paramount:


Review US Manga Corps Video / Labyrinth of Flames [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Shôzô Îzuka
  • Yûki Masuda
  • Mami Kanatsuki
  • Kôichi Tôchika
  • Yuriko Sasaki
  • Katsuhiko Nishijima
Release date: 2002-02-12
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Kenichi Kanemaki
Price: £32.94

Review Labyrinth of Flames [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / US Manga Corps Video:


Review Editions Montparnasse / L' Impossible Monsieur Bebe [1938]
Actors & Directors
  • Cary Grant
  • Barry Fitzgerald
  • Charles Ruggles
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Howard Hawks
  • Walter Catlett
Release date: 2001-01-01
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Dudley Nichols

Review L' Impossible Monsieur Bebe [1938] / Editions Montparnasse:

"The love impulse in man", says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict. " That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse" yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster. ) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? -Robert Horton.

Review Image Entertainment / Don't Do It! [1994] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sheryl Lee
  • James LeGros
  • Eugene Hess
  • James Marshall
  • Esai Morales
  • Heather Graham
Release date: 2002-06-05
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Marco Weber
Price: £19.97

Review Don't Do It! [1994] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Jerry Maguire [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Cruise
  • Renée Zellweger
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • Jerry O'Connell
  • Cameron Crowe
  • Kelly Preston
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 Tai Seng / The Shopaholics [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Jordan Chan
  • Ella Koon
  • Ka-Fai Wai
  • Long Ching
  • Ching Wan Lau
  • Herman Yau
  • Paula Tsui
  • Cecilia Cheung
Release date: 2006-06-27
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Kin-Yee Au
Price: £6.49

Review The Shopaholics [2006] / Tai Seng:


Review Universal Studios / Pillow Talk [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Thelma Ritter
  • Nick Adams
  • Doris Day
  • Tony Randall
  • Rock Hudson
  • Michael Gordon
Release date: 1999-04-13
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £36.23

Review Pillow Talk [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

Jan Morrow (Doris Day) and Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) have never met, but they are sworn enemies because of one small appliance in their lives: the telephone. The two share a party line, and Jan is outraged over the amount of time Bill spends wooing women over the phone. A convenient triangle emerges when a client (Tony Randall) of Jan's-she's an interior decorator-falls in love with her and happens to be Brad's old college chum. When Brad makes the connection, he decides to try to court Jan himself, to make her more sympathetic to his phone woes. Of course, she'd never go for such a heel, so he passes himself off as Rex Stetson, a Texas rancher visiting New York. The ensuing tale, albeit predictable, is lots of fun, with some quick-witted dialogue and some clever use of split-screens for the phone calls. Thelma Ritter is hilarious as Jan's always-hung-over maid, Alma; and the pairing of Rock and Doris works beautifully, as always. -Jenny Brown.

Models & Brands:
Charade [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Boyfriends [1996] (NTSC), Minnie and Moskowitz [1971], Tokyo Eyes [1998] (NTSC), Blue Hawaii [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Looking for Lola [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Just a Kiss [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Home Fries [1997], Charade [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Comic King [2001] (NTSC), Excess Baggage [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), When Brendan Met Trudy [2001], The Man From Elysian Fields [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Crossroads [2002], Labyrinth of Flames [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), L' Impossible Monsieur Bebe [1938], Don't Do It! [1994] (NTSC), Jerry Maguire [1997], The Shopaholics [2006], Pillow Talk [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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