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Review Mosaic Movies / Zulu Dawn [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Denholm Elliott
  • Simon Ward
  • Douglas Hickox
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Peter Vaughan
  • James Faulkner
Release date: 1999-11-01
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Cy Endfield
RRP: £24.99
Price: £40.00

Review Zulu Dawn [1979] / Mosaic Movies:

Cy Endfield co-wrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of Isandhlwana, which remains the worst defeat of the British army by natives, with the British contingent outnumbered 16-to-1 by the Zulu tribesmen. The film's opinion of events is made immediately clear in its title sequence: ebullient African village life presided over by King Cetshwayo is contrasted with aristocratic artifice under the arrogant eye of General Lord Chelmsford (Peter O'Toole). Chelmsford is at the heart of all that goes wrong, initiating the catastrophic battle with an ultimatum made seemingly for the sake of giving his troops something to do. His detached manner leads to one mistake after another and this is wryly illustrated in a moment when neither he nor his officers can be bothered to pronounce the name of the land they're in (Isandhlwana). It is a beautiful land nonetheless-superb cinematography drinks in the massive open spaces that shrink the British army to a line of red ants. Splendidly stiff-upper-lipped support comes from a heroic Burt Lancaster and a fluffy, yet gruff, Bob Hoskins. Although the story is less focused and inevitably more diffuse than the concentrated events of Rorke's Drift which followed soon after, Zulu Dawn is about the most honest depiction of British Imperial diplomacy ever seen on screen. -Paul Tonks.

Review Shanachie / Unpublished Story [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Greene
  • Harold French
  • Roland Culver
  • Basil Radford
  • Brefni O'Rorke
  • Valerie Hobson
Release date: 2004-04-06
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Sidney Gilliat
Price: £7.99

Review Unpublished Story [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Shanachie:


Review Columbia Tri-Star Home Video / Hamburger Hill [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • John Irvin
  • Michael Boatman
  • Don James
  • Anthony Barrile
  • Michael Dolan
  • Don Cheadle
Release date: 2001-07-23
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Marcia Nasatir
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.81

Review Hamburger Hill [1987] / Columbia Tri-Star Home Video:

Because Hamburger Hill was released less than a year after Oliver Stone's Platoon and within months of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, this exceptionally well-made film about one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War was largely overshadowed and overlooked. It's a pity, because in some respects this is the best of the Vietnam films of the late 1980s, at least in terms of the everyday authenticity it depicts. Stripped clean of dramatically extraneous narrative, the movie opts instead for a straightforward approach to its day-by-day account of one of the war's costliest victories-a deadly siege on Hill 937 in the Ashau Valley, where soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division engaged the enemy over the course of 11 brutal assaults between May 10 and May 20, 1969. The film specifically follows the 3rd Squad, 1st Platoon, a mixture of "new guys" and battle-weary "short-timers" who fought against terrifying odds and suffered a 70 per cent casualty rate. From first scene to last, Hamburger Hill traces the rise and fall of their battle experience, from the horror of fire-fights to the camaraderie of men who've faced death and survived. Racial tensions flare and subside, trusts are established and courage emerges from unexpected places. Through it all, writer Jim Carabatsos and director John Irvin maintain a purity of focus that pays tribute to the soldier's life without promoting false patriotism or gung-ho theatrics. In addition, the film features a cast full of talented and well-known actors in the early stages of their careers, including Dylan McDermott and Don Cheadle (Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights). Colour accuracy, image clarity and the explosive soundtrack have been remarkably preserved in a flawless DVD transfer, lending even greater immediacy to this underrated film. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. [+]
com.

Review Odyssey Video / Britannic [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Amanda Ryan
  • Ben Daniels
  • John Rhys-Davies
  • Brian Trenchard-Smith
  • Jacqueline Bisset
  • Edward Atterton
Release date: 2003-02-24
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Kim Owen Smith
RRP: £5.99
Price: £27.89

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Review Blackhorse Entertainment / Lakshya [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Amitabh Bachchan
  • Preity Zinta
  • Farhan Akhtar
  • Hrithik Roshan
Release date: 2004-08-23
Run time: 185 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.99

Review Lakshya [2004] / Blackhorse Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Aces High [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Plummer
  • Peter Firth
  • Simon Ward
  • Jack Gold
  • Malcolm McDowell
  • David Wood
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: R.C. Sherriff
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.75

Review Aces High [1976] / Warner Home Video:


Review Filmgalerie / Hitler: A Film from Germany ( Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland ) ( Our Hitler )
Actors & Directors
  • André Heller
  • Harry Baer
  • Peter Kern
  • Heinz Schubert
  • Hellmut Lange
  • Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Release date: 2007-06-08
Run time: 442 min.
Creator: Bernd Eichinger
RRP: £17.33
Price: £23.95

Review Hitler: A Film from Germany ( Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland ) ( Our Hitler ) / Filmgalerie:


Review Paramount / Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Edward H. Feldman
  • Bob Sweeney
  • Bruce Bilson
  • Howard Morris
  • Irving J. Moore
Release date: 2007-06-05
Run time: 4281 min.
Creator: Jack H. Robinson
Price: £83.11

Review Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Image Entertainment / Bill Maher:
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Maher
  • Michael Drumm
Release date: 2005-11-01
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Marc Gurvitz
Price: £7.59

Review Bill Maher: "I'm Swiss" - And Other Treasonous Statements [2005] / Image Entertainment:


Review Moonstone Pictures / Jungle Heat [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Jones
  • Lenny Bryce
  • Bobby Ming
  • Craig Scott
  • Christopher Doyle
Release date: 2002-02-18
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.20

Review Jungle Heat [1989] / Moonstone Pictures:


Review Columbia TriStar / The Wackiest Ship in the Army [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ricky Nelson
  • Richard Murphy
  • Jack Lemmon
  • John Lund
  • Tom Tully
  • Chips Rafferty
Release date: 2004-10-12
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: William Raynor
Price: £6.03

Review The Wackiest Ship in the Army [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Indican Pictures / Two Men Went To War [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leo Bill
  • Rosanna Lavelle
  • John Henderson
  • Kenneth Cranham
  • Phyllida Law
  • Derek Jacobi
Release date: 2006-06-01
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Richard Everett
Price: £7.93

Review Two Men Went To War [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Indican Pictures:


Actors & Directors
  • Joanna Pettet
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Anatole Litvak
  • Omar Sharif
  • Tom Courtenay
Release date: 1998-06-01
Run time: 138 min.
Creator: Paul Dehn
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.86

Review The Night Of The Generals (1966) / Columbia Tristar:


Review 20th Century Fox / Drums Along the Mohawk [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Collins
  • Henry Fonda
  • Edna May Oliver
  • John Ford
  • John Carradine
  • Claudette Colbert
Release date: 2005-05-24
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: William Faulkner
Price: £5.44

Review Drums Along the Mohawk [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review MGM / Hell in the Pacific [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Toshirô Mifune
  • John Boorman
  • Lee Marvin
Release date: 2004-05-25
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Eric Bercovici
Price: £5.91

Review Hell in the Pacific [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

Hell in the Pacific is one of the most original and thoughtful war films of the 1960s. Fresh from Point Blank (1967) Lee Marvin reunited with director John Boorman for this elemental story of a US pilot and a Japanese naval officer washed ashore on an otherwise uninhabited Pacific island. Lee Marvin speaks English; Toshiro Mifune (The Seven Samurai) speaks Japanese; and the audience shares their frustrations as they attempt to communicate, as Boorman does not use subtitles. Once the men become aware of each other's presence they move from wary avoidance through conflict to an uneasy truce as they realise they will have to cooperate to survive. The naturalistic acting is key to the film's success, greatly aided by the fact that both stars served their respective countries in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War. Conrad Hall's cinematography is superb, using natural light to evoke the beauty of the island, and the wide Panavision frame to show the men's isolation and their reactions to each another. Boorman developed further his fascination with man against nature in Deliverance (1974) and The Emerald Forest (1985), and there wouldn't be another poetic war film until Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1999). On the DVD: The stereo sound is fine, atmospherically reproducing both the natural sounds of the island and Lalo Schfrin's imaginative score. The picture quality likewise is very good, with the image well focused with strong colours and plenty of detail. Unfortunately the 2. [+]
35:1 image has been panned and scanned to 1. 33:1 TV ratio, destroying the scale and beauty of the compositions and sometimes meaning the viewer sees only one side of the interactions between the two men. Extras are perfunctory, with production notes, biographies of the stars and a "slide show". Considering even BBC2 occasionally shows the film in near full Pavavision and with Boorman's preferred, TS Elliot inspired ending, this DVD is a lost opportunity to bring a modern classic into the digital age. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Noshame / Last Days of Mussolini [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Carlo Lizzani
  • Giuseppe Addobbati
  • Lisa Gastoni
  • Lino Capolicchio
  • Rod Steiger
  • Franco Nero
Release date: 2006-11-14
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Fabio Pittorru
Price: £8.05

Review Last Days of Mussolini [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Noshame:


Review Columbia TriStar / Major Dundee [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Anderson Jr.
  • Charlton Heston
  • James Coburn
  • Jim Hutton
  • Sam Peckinpah
  • Richard Harris
Release date: 2005-09-20
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Oscar Saul
Price: £6.03

Review Major Dundee [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Warner Home Video / Ocean's Eleven / We Were Soldiers / Training Day [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Julia Roberts
  • Brad Pitt
  • George Clooney
  • Steven Soderbergh
  • Antoine Fuqua
  • Denzel Washington
  • Matt Damon
  • Randall Wallace
Release date: 2005-10-17
Run time: 362 min.
Creator: Harry Brown
RRP: £20.99
Price: £4.48

Review Ocean's Eleven / We Were Soldiers / Training Day [2002] / Warner Home Video:


Review Image Entertainment / The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mel Blanc
  • Tedd Pierce
  • Friz Freleng
  • Billy Bletcher
  • Robert Clampett
  • Frank Tashlin
  • Chuck Jones
Release date: 2006-12-05
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Dr. Seuss
Price: £7.15

Review The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review HBO Home Video / Live from Baghdad [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mick Jackson
  • Helena Bonham Carter
  • Lili Taylor
  • David Suchet
  • Michael Keaton
  • Joshua Leonard
Release date: 2003-06-24
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Timothy J. Sexton
Price: £3.34

Review Live from Baghdad [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / HBO Home Video:


Models & Brands:
Zulu Dawn [1979], Unpublished Story [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hamburger Hill [1987], Britannic [2000], Lakshya [2004], Aces High [1976], Hitler: A Film from Germany ( Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland ) ( Our Hitler ), Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bill Maher: "I'm Swiss" - And Other Treasonous Statements [2005], Jungle Heat [1989], The Wackiest Ship in the Army [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Two Men Went To War [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Night Of The Generals (1966), Drums Along the Mohawk [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hell in the Pacific [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Last Days of Mussolini [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Major Dundee [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ocean's Eleven / We Were Soldiers / Training Day [2002], The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu (REGION 1) (NTSC), Live from Baghdad [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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