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Review Touchstone Home Video / Face/Off [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • John Travolta
  • Alessandro Nivola
  • John Woo
  • Joan Allen
  • Nicolas Cage
  • Gina Gershon
Release date: 1998-09-28
Run time: 133 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.28

Review Face/Off [1997] / Touchstone Home Video:

At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/Off marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise-hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery-and creates a double-barrelled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) becomes a perversely paternal family man, while using every tool at his disposal to destroy his nemesis. Travolta vamps Cage's tics and flamboyant excess with the grace of a dancer after his transformation from cop to criminal, while Cage plays the sullen, bottled-up agent excruciatingly trapped behind the face of the man who killed his son. His attempts to live up to the terrorist's reputation become cathartic explosions of violence that both thrill and terrify him. This is merely icing on the cake for action fans, the dramatic backbone for some of the most visceral action thrills ever. Woo fills the screen with one show-stopping set-piece after another, bringing a poetic grace to the action freakout with sweeping camerawork and sophisticated editing. This marriage of melodrama and mayhem ups the ante from cops-and-robbers clichés to a conflict of near-mythic levels. -Sean Axmaker.

Actors & Directors
  • David Birney
  • Charlotte Rampling
  • Marcel Bozzuffi
  • Michael Lonsdale
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £19.99

Review Caravan to Vaccares [1974] / Parkfield Entertainment:

American Neil Bowman (David Birney) is travelling through France when he meets British photographer Lila (Charlotte Rampling). They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter (Michel Lonsdale) to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But they soon realise that the job is not a cushy number, and have to deal with a gang of kidnappers who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the scientist.

Review 4 Front Video / Daylight / Hard Rain [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Minnie Driver
  • Rob Cohen
  • Mikael Salomon
  • Dan Hedaya
  • Edward Asner
  • Amy Brenneman
  • Sylvester Stallone
Release date: 2001-06-18
Run time: 203 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.98

Review Daylight / Hard Rain [1996] / 4 Front Video:

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.

Review 4 Front Video / Stockade (1990)
Actors & Directors
  • Laurence Fishburne
  • F.Murray Abraham
  • Blu Mankuma
  • Martin Sheen
  • Martin Sheen
  • Charlie Sheen
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review Warner Home Video / Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • John Huston|Paul Newman|Roy Jenson|Gary Combs
Release date: 1996-06-17
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean [1972] / Warner Home Video:


Review 4 Front Video / An Eye For An Eye [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Roundtree
  • Mako
  • Matt Clark
  • Steve Carver
  • Christopher Lee
  • Chuck Norris
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.39

Review An Eye For An Eye [1981] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • David Janssen
  • Don Medford
  • Barry Morse
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The Fugitive - Vol. 6 - The Judgement - Parts 1 And 2 [1966] / Metrodome Video:


Review 4 Front Video / To Hell And Back [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Gregg Palmer
  • Charles Drake
  • Jesse Hibbs
  • Marshall Thompson
  • Jack Kelly
  • Audie Murphy
Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.50

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Predator [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Jesse Ventura
  • John McTiernan
  • Elpidia Carrillo
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Bill Duke
  • Carl Weathers
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.86

Review Predator [1988] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Rambo meets Alien in this terrific science-fiction thriller from 1987, directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood's most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of US Army commandos to a remote region of the South American jungle, where they've been assigned to search for South American officials who've been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a bunch of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realise that they're now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that's heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it all in describing the relentless, escalating action that follows, maintained by McTiernan with an abundance of visual flair. The film's special effects are still impressive, and stunning locations in the Mexican jungles create a combined atmosphere of verdant beauty and imminent danger. The plot doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, but the movie's so exciting and tightly paced that its weaknesses seem irrelevant. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / The Rambo Trilogy [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter MacDonald
  • George P. Cosmatos
  • Steven Berkoff
  • Charles Napier
  • Richard Crenna
  • Julia Nickson-Soul
  • Ted Kotcheff
  • Sylvester Stallone
Release date: 2003-09-15
Run time: 401 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.99

Review The Rambo Trilogy [1985] / Universal Pictures UK:

Six hours of monosyllabic John Rambo high jinks, best savoured in surround sound (for the bone-rattling explosions) and with your brain on pause (for everything else). Sylvester Stallone's second signature character, after Rocky, a seething ex-Green Beret killing machine, went from Viet-vet victim in the original picture, First Blood, flipping out over the ingratitude of his beloved homeland, to a muscle-bound terminator in Rambo III, mowing down Commies in the deserts of Afghanistan. The middle chapter, Rambo: First Blood Part 2, written by James Cameron and directed by George Pan Cosmotos, is the most balanced and satisfying of the three films: Rambo is dropped back into 'Nam to rescue some POWs, and the action builds steadily in scale and ferocity. Each fireball seems to be bigger than the last. Of all the recent headbanger action movies, only the first Die Hard offers more bang for the buck. The underrated character actor Richard Crenna (a standout sleazebag in Body Heat), as Rambo's military mentor and staunch defender, is the series' secret weapon, providing some welcome human ballast. -David Chute.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Dan Dare
Release date: 2003-06-09
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.75

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Review Warner Home Video / The Fastest Gun Alive [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Allyn Joslyn
  • Jeanne Crain
  • Glenn Ford
  • Russ Tamblyn
  • Broderick Crawford
  • Russell Rouse
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £22.45

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Review 4 Front Video / Heroes [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Kerr
  • Donald Crombie
  • Jason Donovan
  • Paul Rhys
  • David Wenham
  • Cameron Daddo
Release date: 1995-04-10
Run time: 208 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £44.99

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Review 4 Front Video / Naked Lies [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Steven Bauer
  • Shannon Tweed
  • Ralph E. Portillo
  • Salvador Pineda
  • Jay Baker
  • Fernando Allende
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.95

Review Naked Lies [1997] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Charlton Heston
  • Michael Anderson Jr.
  • Richard Harris
  • Jim Hutton
  • James Coburn
  • Sam Peckinpah
Release date: 1997-06-02
Run time: 117 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.70

Review Major Dundee [1965] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / My Darling Clementine [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Walter Brennan
  • Cathy Downs
  • Henry Fonda
  • Victor Mature
  • John Ford
  • Linda Darnell
Release date: 1998-03-23
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.89

Review My Darling Clementine [1946] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Vision Replays / End of the Line [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Jay Russell
  • Kevin Bacon
  • Levon Helm
  • Wilford Brimley
  • Judy Benson
  • Bob Balaban
Release date: 1994-08-30
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £7.99

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Young Indiana Jones - Attack Of The Hawkmen [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Marc Warren
  • Ronny Coutteure
  • Craig Kelly (II)
  • Sean Patrick Flanery
  • Patrick Toomey
  • Ben Burtt
Release date: 2000-06-05
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Young Indiana Jones - Attack Of The Hawkmen [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Pathe Distribution / The Fifth Element [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Luc Besson
  • Gary Oldman
  • Chris Tucker
  • Bruce Willis
  • Milla Jovovich
  • Ian Holm
Release date: 1998-04-27
Run time: 121 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.90

Review The Fifth Element [1997] / Pathe Distribution:

Ancient curses, all-powerful monsters, shape-changing assassins, scantily-clad stewardesses, laser battles, huge explosions, a perfect woman, a malcontent hero-what more can you ask of a big-budget science fiction movie? Luc Besson's high-octane film The Fifth Element incorporates presidents, rock stars and cab drivers into its peculiar plot, traversing worlds and encountering some pretty wild aliens. Bruce Willis stars as a down-and-out cabbie who must win the love of Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) to save Earth from destruction by Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) and a dark, unearthly force that makes Darth Vader look like an Ewok. -Geoff Riley Luc Besson's high-octane film The Fifth Element incorporates presidents, rock stars and cab drivers into its peculiar plot, traversing worlds and encountering some pretty wild aliens. Bruce Willis stars as a down-and-out cabbie who must win the love of Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) to save Earth from destruction by Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) and a dark, unearthly force that makes Darth Vader look like an Ewok. Ancient curses, all-powerful monsters, shape-changing assassins, scantily-clad stewardesses, laser battles, huge explosions, a perfect woman, a malcontent hero-what more can you ask of any big-budget science fiction movie? -Geoff Riley.

Actors & Directors
  • Mel Smith
  • Geraldine James
  • Stuart Orme
  • Emily Hudson
  • Aleks Darowska
  • Stephanie Beacham
Release date: 1992-09-21
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £44.99

Review The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase [1989] / Universal Pictures UK:


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Face/Off [1997], Caravan to Vaccares [1974], Daylight / Hard Rain [1996], Stockade (1990), Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean [1972], An Eye For An Eye [1981], The Fugitive - Vol. 6 - The Judgement - Parts 1 And 2 [1966], To Hell And Back [1955], Predator [1988], The Rambo Trilogy [1985], Dan Dare, The Fastest Gun Alive [1956], Heroes [1988], Naked Lies [1997], Major Dundee [1965], My Darling Clementine [1946], End of the Line [1988], Young Indiana Jones - Attack Of The Hawkmen [1995], The Fifth Element [1997], The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase [1989]

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