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In Arthur Penn's adaptation of Thomas Berger's novel Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman stars as Jack Crabb, the only white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Giving a bravura performance, Hoffman plays Jack from teen years into old age in this picaresque fable of the Old West. Jack's story is a fantastic one: captured by Indians as a boy, reared as an Indian, shuttling back and forth between the white and Indian worlds. In the process, he befriends everyone from Wild Bill Hickock to George Armstrong Custer and is a gunslinger, a snake-oil salesman and an Army scout. This is a solid blend of comedy and tragedy, making a strong statement about America's treatment of Native Americans without sermonising. A terrific cast includes Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam and Richard Mulligan, but this show is all Hoffman's. -Marshall Fine.

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Review Manga Entertainment / Rumik World - Mermaid Forest

Rumik World - Mermaid Forest (Manga Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Takaya Mizutani
Kôichi Yamadera
Minami Takayama
Aiko Konoshima
Mika Doi
Ryûji Saikachi

Release date: 1994-05-09
Run time: 53 min.
Creator: Rumiko Takahashi
Price: £9.99

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Driving Force [1989]

Driving Force [1989] (Universal Pictures UK)

Actors & Directors

Ancel Cook
Don Swayze
Sam J. Jones
Andrew Prowse
Catherine Bach
Stephanie Mason

Release date: 1994-02-14
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Patrick Edgeworth
Price: £10.99

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life [2003]

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life [2003] (Paramount Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Chris Barrie
Noah Taylor
Jan de Bont
Gerard Butler
Angelina Jolie
Ciarán Hinds

Release date: 2004-02-02
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Steven E. de Souza
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £0.50

Review Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life [2003] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life may be an improvement on its 2001 predecessor, but its appeal is mostly aimed at fans of the video games that inspired both movies. That pretty much leaves you with some fun but familiar action sequences, and the ever-alluring sight of Angelina Jolie (reprising her title role) as she swims, swings, kicks, shoots, flies, jet-skis, motorcycles, and free-falls her way toward saving the world, this time by making sure that a grimacing villain (Ciaran Hinds) doesn't open Pandora's Box (yes, the actual mythological object) and unleash a deadly plague that will "weed out" the global population. Exotic locations add to Jolie's own coolly erotic appeal, but we're left wondering if this franchise has anywhere else to go. -Jeff Shannon.

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Professionals - Vol. 7

The Professionals - Vol. 7 (Contender Entertainment Group)

Actors & Directors

William Brayne
Gordon Jackson
Ray Austin
Lewis Collins
Martin Shaw

Release date: 1998-07-06
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review Uca Catalogue / Bad Boys 2 / Terminator 3 - Rise Of The Machines / Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle

Bad Boys 2 / Terminator 3 - Rise Of The Machines / Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle (Uca Catalogue)

Actors & Directors

Nick Stahl
Michael Bay
Martin Lawrence
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Will Smith
Joseph McGinty
Cameron Diaz
Jonathon Mostow

Release date: 2004-09-13
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £6.95

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The Avengers - Vol. 16 - Get-A-Way / Have Guns... Will Haggle (Lumiere Pictures)

Actors & Directors

Peter Bowles
Andrew Keir
Linda Thorson
Patrick Macnee
Johnny Sekka

Release date: 1994-09-05
Price: £10.99

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / The New Avengers - Issue 2 - Vol. 1 - House Of Cards / Dead Men Are Dangerous / Angels Of Death / Medium Rare

The New Avengers - Issue 2 - Vol. 1 - House Of Cards / Dead Men Are Dangerous / Angels Of Death / Medium Rare (Contender Entertainment Group)

Actors & Directors

Patrick Macnee
Ernest Day
Sidney Hayers
Joanna Lumley
Jon Finch
Ray Austin
Jeremy Wilkin
Mike Hallett

Release date: 1999-03-08
Run time: 200 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The New Avengers - Issue 2 - Vol. 1 - House Of Cards / Dead Men Are Dangerous / Angels Of Death / Medium Rare / Contender Entertainment Group:

Sometimes dismissed as a pale descendant of a great original, The New Avengers deserves a second look and is perhaps best considered as a largely successful attempt to re-imagine its predecessor for 1970s audiences. Patrick McNee was never the most convincing of action heroes, and the decision to make his John Steed the supervisor and mentor of two younger agents was a sensible one-Steed's virtues are style, wisdom and fortitude rather than physical prowess. Gareth Hunt's Gambit has an unattractively smug side, but has also a louche charm. Joanna Lumley's Purdey is one of the most attractive heroines of genre television, astonishingly leggy and beautiful. Those who only know her later incarnation as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous will understand now why such a fuss is made over her. The script team overlaps heavily with that of the original series; the new show has the same quirkiness, only occasionally varying it with a rather darker leCarrésque complexity or sudden outbreaks of Hammer Horror. If it lacks some of the sheer style of the original, that is a reflection of its period-the 1970s were less visually imaginative than the 60s. Tightly plotted, imaginatively cast with interesting guest stars, it is only with The Avengers that The New Avengers suffers by comparison. -Roz Kaveney.

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Review Future Video Services / WWF - Wrestlemania 2

WWF - Wrestlemania 2 (Future Video Services)

Actors & Directors

Randy Savage
King Kong Bundy
Hulk Hogan
George 'The Animal' Steele
Fred Blassie

Release date: 1991-04-18
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Vince McMahon
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £23.23

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / The Deceivers [1988]

The Deceivers [1988] (Mia Video Entertainment Ltd)

Actors & Directors

Keith Michell
Helena Michell
Pierce Brosnan
Shashi Kapoor
Nicholas Meyer
Saeed Jaffrey

Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Michael Hirst
Price: £10.99

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Avengers - Parallel Lines Collection - Volume 6 Of 6 - The Undertakers / The Living Dead / Bizarre [1963]

The Avengers - Parallel Lines Collection - Volume 6 Of 6 - The Undertakers / The Living Dead / Bizarre [1963] (Contender Entertainment Group)

Actors & Directors

John Krish
Patrick Macnee
Leslie Norman
Diana Rigg
Linda Thorson
James Kerry
Bill Bain
Honor Blackman

Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £24.99

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Red Badge of Courage (MGM)

Actors & Directors

Bill Mauldin
Audie Murphy
John Huston

Run time: 67 min.
Creator: Gottfried Reinhardt
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £12.99

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Daylight [1996]

Daylight [1996] (Universal Pictures UK)

Actors & Directors

Dan Hedaya
Jay O. Sanders
Amy Brenneman
Sylvester Stallone
Viggo Mortensen
Rob Cohen

Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Leslie Bohem
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £0.89

Review Daylight [1996] / Universal Pictures UK:

This echo of 1970s disaster films stars Sylvester Stallone as the disgraced former head of New York City's Emergency Medical Services, a loser who is nevertheless a compulsive rescuer of people in danger. When the Holland Tunnel is sealed off after a fiery explosion and car passengers are trapped within, he goes inside and leads a group of survivors (a mixed group allegorically representing America's diversity) through all manner of pestilence toward safety. Directed by the imaginative Rob Cohen (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story), Daylight finds Stallone outrageously (and to almost campy effect) pushing the envelope of his martyr persona to near-religious levels. He throws himself, quite literally, into this part and between that entertainment factor and the unnervingly convincing effects, this is a pretty watchable film. -Tom Keogh.

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Review Warner Home Video / Maverick [1994]

Maverick [1994] (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Jodie Foster
Mel Gibson
James Garner
Graham Greene
Richard Donner
Alfred Molina

Release date: 1999-04-19
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: William Goldman
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £7.15

Review Maverick [1994] / Warner Home Video:

The joined-at-the-hip team of director Richard Donner and star Mel Gibson (all the Lethal Weapon movies and Conspiracy Theory) had obvious fun resurrecting the Wild Western comedy television series about a roguish rambler-gambler. In Maverick, Gibson assumes the role of cardsharp Bret Maverick, equally quick with a pair of aces and a pair of guns. Good sport James Garner (who played Maverick on TV) takes another role, as a lawman who travels alongside the hero to a big-money poker game on a riverboat. The real peach in this fruit salad of satire and broad jokes, however, is Jodie Foster, who plays a crafty Southern belle quite adept at poker herself. Sexy, funny, and (from the onscreen evidence) a great kisser, Foster has never been more of a delight. Written by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). -Tom Keogh.

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Review MGM Entertainment / Agent Cody Banks [2003]

Agent Cody Banks [2003] (MGM Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Frankie Muniz
Angie Harmon
Hilary Duff
Harald Zwart
Andrew Francis
Keith David

Release date: 2003-11-24
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Zack Stentz
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £0.75

Review Agent Cody Banks [2003] / MGM Entertainment:

Agent Cody Banks is a wish-fulfilment adventure for James Bond wannabes who are still too young to shave. Just in time for puberty's curtain call, Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz stars in the title role as a 15-year-old recruit to the CIA's youth-agent programme, who gets what millions of men desire: a face full of Angie Harmon's cleavage. (It's just for laughs; the sexy Law & Order alumnus plays Cody's CIA handler, but you've got to admit this Bond Girl with a boy thing is a bit perverse. ) Otherwise, the movie's a low-rent Bond clone from the director of One Night at McCool's, with a pair of twisted villains (Ian McShane, Arnold Vosloo) threatening to unleash stolen "Nanobot" technology that can ruin everyone's day. It's barely fun enough to be worthwhile, but the best gag (at 007's expense) is buried in the soundtrack, when a CIA receptionist announces, "Will the owner of a silver Aston Martin please report to security. you are parked in a handicapped zone". So much for respecting your elders! -Jeff Shannon.

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