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Review Universal Studios / Loving Jezebel [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hill Harper
  • Nicole Ari Parker
  • David Moscow
  • Laurel Holloman
  • Kwyn Bader
  • Sandrine Holt
Release date: 2001-04-10
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Franny Baldwin

Review Loving Jezebel [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review 20th Century Fox / Prelude to a Kiss [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Meg Ryan
  • Patty Duke
  • Norman René
  • Kathy Bates
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Ned Beatty
Release date: 2003-01-14
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Jennifer Ogden
Price: £3.80

Review Prelude to a Kiss [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

Alec Baldwin reprises a role he originated in Craig Lucas's off-Broadway smash (which later had a Broadway run without him) in this touchingly romantic, funny and underrated fantasy. He falls for a woman (Meg Ryan) at first sight and marries her but on their wedding day an elderly stranger wanders into the reception, kisses the bride and trades bodies with her. Once Baldwin figures out that something is amiss with the Mrs. , he must track down the old man, in whom resides the spirit of his true love. This is a beautiful allegory about the nature of love and the commitment to give oneself in sickness and health, for better or worse, to achieve a true meeting of the spirits. Prelude to a Kiss was directed with a light touch by the late Norman Rene, with strong performances by Baldwin and Ryan. -Marshall Fine.

Review Columbia TriStar / Bossa Nova [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Amy Irving
  • Bruno Barreto
  • Antônio Fagundes
  • Débora Bloch
  • Drica Moraes
  • Alexandre Borges
Release date: 2000-12-26
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Fernanda Young
Price: £60.95

Review Bossa Nova [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review 20th Century Fox / Woman on Top [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Feuerstein
  • Penélope Cruz
  • Harold Perrineau
  • Murilo Benício
  • John de Lancie
  • Fina Torres
Release date: 2001-02-13
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Vera Blasi
Price: £17.95

Review Woman on Top [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

Woman on Top pretends to be your standard fish-out-of-water romantic comedy laced with touches of magic realism. However, when you break it down and look at its elements, it turns out to be slightly different. Hot Spanish star Penélope Cruz (All About My Mother) plays Isabella Oliveira, a Brazilian chef who falls madly in love with, and marries, a dashing waiter (Murilo Benício). Throughout her life she's been a victim of motion sickness, and the only way she can overcome it is by being in control, whether it's driving or being on top during sex. Her husband starts to feel that as a threat to his Latin masculinity, and when he steps out on her, she catches him. She decides to leave Brazil and stop loving him, ending up in San Francisco with an old friend (Harold Perrineau Jr), now a drag queen. There she meets a nice guy-television producer (Mark Feuerstein), who sets her up with her own cooking show. Normally in this kind of movie his character would be the perfect antidote for her heartbreak, but he ends up more seduced by the success of her cooking show than by her. When her husband shows up, she becomes trapped in a love triangle where both men are deeply flawed. Can she forgive her husband's infidelity and fall back in love with him? Forget the answer. [+]
The fact that the question is being asked separates Woman on Top from the other broad, romantic comedies that share its tone. Plus it's chock-full of seductive Brazilian music. -Andy Spletzer, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Adam's Rib [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David Wayne
  • Tom Ewell
  • Judy Holliday
  • Spencer Tracy
  • George Cukor
  • Katharine Hepburn
Release date: 2000-09-19
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Garson Kanin
Price: £10.03

Review Adam's Rib [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Adam's Rib, released in 1949, was one of the on-screen peaks for the matchless pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. George Cukor's instinctively light touch on the director's tiller, the wittiest of Garson Kanin scripts and apparently effortless acting from the stars, merge for 100 minutes of sophisticated comic perfection. It's tempting to think that, as the sparring husband and wife lawyers, Hepburn and Tracy drew on aspects of their now legendary real-life love affair. Screen chemistry alone can't account for the endless nuances, sidelong looks and timing which make Adam's Rib such a delight. There's also a generosity to their fellow actors that few major stars, then or now, would be confident enough to indulge in. Judy Holliday, playing the wife accused of shooting her philandering husband, had still not secured the lead in the film of her Broadway hit, Born Yesterday. Aware that anything else would have been a travesty, Hepburn as her defence lawyer ensured that Holliday was favoured in their scenes together and she duly got the part. In all the best ways, Adam's Rib is a quick-fire battle-of-the-sexes comedy, with Hepburn's brittle feminism striking sparks off Tracy's bemused chauvinism. The verdict might be a victory for Hepburn, but the real winner is an underlying love and respect which made this partnership one of the all time greats. On the DVD: Adam's Rib is presented in standard 4:3 format from a decent print, with a picture quality and mono soundtrack to please anyone who knows the film primarily from TV matinees. [+]
The lack of extras, apart from a scene index, is disappointing for a film of this stature. -Piers Ford.

Review Vanguard Cinema / Ivory Tower [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Keith Coogan
  • Kari Wuhrer
  • James Wilder
  • Michael Ironside
  • Darin Ferriola
  • Patrick Van Horn
Release date: 2001-03-06
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Kevin Flint

Review Ivory Tower [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vanguard Cinema:


Review Warner Home Video / Pat and Mike [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Aldo Ray
  • George Cukor
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • William Ching
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Sammy White
Release date: 2000-09-19
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Garson Kanin
Price: £10.39

Review Pat and Mike [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Kate plays Pat Pemberton, a college physical education teacher who excels at just about every sport there is. She's also a great athletic competitor, except when her overbearing, worrywart fiancé, Collier Weld, is around. (As Weld, William Ching does an admirable job in a thankless role. ) All Pat has to do is see Collier's face on the sidelines and her golf swing loses its power; her tennis game goes haywire. It takes crooked sports manager Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy, of course) to recognise Pat's outstanding talent. He takes her on as his most important client and handles her with the same loving care that he gives to his favourite racehorse. Naturally, Pat and Mike's relationship is destined to overstep its professional boundaries. The mutual attraction grows from the moment they meet. Watching Pat walk away, Mike comments to his partner, "Not much meat on her, but what's there is "cherce". " The film carries a powerful feminist message, especially considering that it was made in the early 1950s: Pat is undone by Collier, who would rather have her stick to being "the little woman" and forget about succeeding. [+]
But with Mike in her corner, Pat can have a great career. Her union with him is a true partnership; everything is, as he says, "Five-oh, five-oh. " In the end, he's secure enough to be comfortable as "the man behind the woman". The film features terrific comic performances by Aldo Ray as a bone-headed boxer, a young Charles Bronson (before he changed his name from Buchinski) as a small-time gangster, and Our Gang's Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as a high-strung bus boy. -Laura Mirsky, Amazon. com.

Review Columbia TriStar / Tao of Steve [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Hines
  • Jenniphr Goodman
  • John Harrington Bland
  • Ayelet Kaznelson
  • Donal Logue
  • Jessica Gormley
Release date: 2001-03-20
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Duncan North
Price: £13.50

Review Tao of Steve [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

The Tao of Steve is an American indie take on the slacker lothario and falls into the old familiar story: eternally adolescent man meets grown-up woman and is forced to face up to a life in which he has never taken an emotional risk or a life-changing plunge. In his college days, Dex (Donal Logue) was a slim, cool, smooth-talking ladies' man. A decade later, he's an overweight, underachieving kindergarten teacher, but he's honed his pick-up technique into a fine art-a mix of zen, tough-guy cool, and college philosophy he and his buddies call "the Tao of Steve", named after the manly triad of Steve Austin (aka the Six Million Dollar Man), Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord's unflappable cop on Hawaii Five-0), and the king of all Steves: Steve McQueen. Santa Fe is populated with his one-night stands, but then he runs into Syd (Greer Goodman), a smart, sexy ex-classmate with an arsenal of sharp retorts, at a college reunion. Logue's easy charm and low-key confidence makes Dex an easy guy to like, and director Jenniphr Goodman (who co-wrote the script with Greer, her sister and star of the film) invests his lifestyle of leisure (mostly guys chatting about girls and trading pop culture references) with an offhanded naturalness. But neither is she oblivious to the holding pattern his life has taken. Sure, there's inevitability to this shaggy romance, but there's an undeniable pleasure in seeing the change in landscape of a familiar road. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox / An Affair to Remember [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dorothy Adams
  • Brian Corcoran
  • Mary Carroll
  • Fortunio Bonanova
  • Genevieve Aumont
Release date: 2007-09-18
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Leo McCarey
Price: £7.00

Review An Affair to Remember [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Actors & Directors
  • Martin Kemp
  • Miranda Otto
  • Kathy Mueller
  • Bruce Venables
  • Gia Carides
  • Anne Looby
Run time: 82 min.

Review Daydream Believer / RCA Columbia Pictures:

He's the kind of guy women fall for. She's the kind of girl men fall over. Is this any way to fall in love? martin kemp,miranda otto.

Review Vanguard Cinema / The Waiting Game [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Malavarca
  • Terumi Matthews
  • Will Arnett
  • Ken Liotti
  • Debbon Ayer
  • Dwight Ewell
Release date: 2000-10-03
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Mirjam Wertheim
Price: £10.87

Review The Waiting Game [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vanguard Cinema:


Review Image Entertainment / As You Like it [1936] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Felix Aylmer
  • Stuart Robertson
  • Henry Ainley
  • Leon Quartermaine
  • Paul Czinner
  • Austin Trevor
Release date: 1999-07-20
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £12.44

Review As You Like it [1936] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Platinum Disc / Made for Each Other [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Coburn
  • John Cromwell
  • Eddie Quillan
  • Carole Lombard
  • Lucile Watson
  • James Stewart
Release date: 2000-10-31
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £1.43

Review Made for Each Other [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:

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 Ivy Films / A Girl With a Suitcase [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Riccardo Garrone
  • Valerio Zurlini
  • Claudia Cardinale
  • Jacques Perrin
  • Luciana Angiolillo
  • Renato Baldini
Release date: 2004-12-28
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Piero De Bernardi
Price: £16.95

Review A Girl With a Suitcase [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ivy Films:


Review Anchor Bay / The Unbelievable Truth [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hal Hartley
  • Robert John Burke
  • Katherine Mayfield
  • Adrienne Shelly
  • Julia McNeal
  • Chris Cooke
Release date: 2001-03-13
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Jerome Brownstein

Review The Unbelievable Truth [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Ardustry Home Entertainment / Tattoo, a Love Story [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard W. Bean
  • Benjamin J. Burdick
  • Megan Edwards
  • Virgil Mignanelli
Release date: 2004-09-28
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Brian Murphy
Price: £3.92

Review Tattoo, a Love Story [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ardustry Home Entertainment:


Review Vanguard Cinema / Deep in the Heart (of Texas) [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tim Mateer
  • Stephen Purvis
  • C.K. McFarland
  • Kenneth Cranham
  • Amanda Root
  • Marco Perella
Release date: 2001-04-17
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Tom Huckabee
Price: £12.95

Review Deep in the Heart (of Texas) [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vanguard Cinema:


Actors & Directors
  • Zvika Hadar
  • Esti Zackheim
  • Julie Shles
  • Orly Perl
  • Aryeh Moskuna
Release date: 2001-02-06
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Maor Keshet
Price: £9.67

Review Pick a Card [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vanguard Cinema:


Review Lions Gate / Fever Pitch [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bea Guard
  • Luke Aikman
  • Ruth Gemmell
  • Colin Firth
  • Neil Pearson
  • David Evans (II)
Release date: 2000-11-28
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £6.26

Review Fever Pitch [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:

In Fever Pitch rumpled, amiable Colin Firth plays a rumpled, amiable English teacher named Paul. He's also an obsessive football fan who's been avidly following Arsenal for 18 years. When he falls into a relationship with a new teacher named Sarah (Ruth Gemmel), his deep attachment to Arsenal proves an obstacle. This sounds like some cheap men-and-women-don't-understand-each-other setup, but instead Fever Pitch not only explores the origins of Paul's football fandom, it actually communicates an infectious sense of what that kind of sports enthusiasm can mean, how it can provide an almost tribal identity. Even better, the movie takes this devotion seriously without ever losing sight of how it can be completely ridiculous at the same time, resulting in some amazing, funny scenes. Gemmel is charming, and Firth is simply superb. He's a great actor who, despite his memorable turn as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, never quite fits into conventional leading man roles and so has tended to play oddballs and redeemable villains, as in Shakespeare in Love and The English Patient. He's a perfect fit for this script, written by Nick Hornby (author of High Fidelity and About a Boy) from his novel of the same name. The humour of Fever Pitch is all the more engaging because it's grounded in richly developed characters and emotions. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. [+]
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Review Tapeworm / Nice Guys Sleep Alone [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Greene
  • Stu Pollard
  • Vanessa Marcil
  • Susannah Cranage
  • Blake Steury
  • Sean O'Bryan
Release date: 2001-01-16
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Bruce Feirstein
Price: £3.50

Review Nice Guys Sleep Alone [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tapeworm:


Models & Brands:
Loving Jezebel [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Prelude to a Kiss [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bossa Nova [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Woman on Top [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Adam's Rib [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ivory Tower [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pat and Mike [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tao of Steve [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), An Affair to Remember [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Daydream Believer, The Waiting Game [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), As You Like it [1936] (NTSC), Made for Each Other [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Girl With a Suitcase [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Unbelievable Truth [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tattoo, a Love Story [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Deep in the Heart (of Texas) [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pick a Card [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fever Pitch [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nice Guys Sleep Alone [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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