![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Sahara [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518W4K7ZR4L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Steve Zahn
- Penelope Cruz
- Breck Eisner
- Matthew McConaughey
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.84
Review Sahara [2005] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Will Patton
- Tony Goldwyn
- George Segal
- Peter Boyle
- Tom Mankiewicz
- Lynn Whitfield
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Taking The Heat [1992] / Universal Pictures UK:
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Poseidon Adventure [1972]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GF1243T1L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Red Buttons
- Carol Lynley
- Gene Hackman
- Roddy McDowall
- Ronald Neame
- Ernest Borgnine
Run time: 112 min.
Price: £5.99
Review The Poseidon Adventure [1972] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:Hands down, this is the best movie (and was one of the first) to come out of the seemingly endless cycle of disaster movies that dominated box offices during the 1970s. It could even be argued that Titanic owes some of its success to the precedent set by this 1972 blockbuster starring Gene Hackman as a priest who leads a small group of survivors to safety from the bowels of a capsized luxury liner. From its stellar cast to its cheesy, Oscar-winning theme song, The Morning After, the movie has all the ingredients of a popular classic, beginning with a New Year's Eve celebration aboard the ill-fated Poseidon and ending as a pop allegory when the Hackman character becomes a Christ-like martyr. Filmed on spectacular sets where everything down is up and the ship's thick hull points in the direction of salvation, this is "a waterlogged Grand Hotel" (in the words of New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael) that is as entertaining as it is unabashedly brainless. The Poseidon Adventure is filled with performances that rise above the limits of the screenplay. It's also the only movie-unless you count her underwater corpse in Night of the Hunter-that lets Shelley Winters strut her stuff as an aquatic heroine. Who could ask for anything more? -Jeff Shannon.
Actors & Directors
- John Laurie
- James Hill
- Julian Glover
- Kathleen Byron
- Peter Hammond
- Robert Fuest
- Diana Rigg
- Linda Thorson
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.00
Review The Avengers - Parallel Lines Collection - Volume 3 Of 6 - Don't Look Behind You / Epic / Pandora / Contender Entertainment Group:
![Review Dd Home Entertainment / A Hill In Korea [1956]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JN7ST58BL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- George Baker
- Stanley Baker
- Julian Amyes
- Michael Medwin
- Harry Andrews
- Ronald Lewis
Run time: 69 min.
Price: £10.99
Review A Hill In Korea [1956] / Dd Home Entertainment:
![Review 4 Front Video / The Fighting Seabees [1944]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517TT0G2RNL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Leonid Kinskey
- John Wayne
- William Frawley
- Edward Ludwig
- Susan Hayward
- Dennis O'Keefe
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.88
Review The Fighting Seabees [1944] / 4 Front Video:
Actors & Directors
- Richard Beymer
- Andrew Marton
- Arletty
- Paul Anka
- Eddie Albert
- Bernhard Wicki
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Ken Annakin
- Jean-Louis Barrault
Run time: 172 min.
Price: £19.99
Review Longest Day, The 50th Anniversary Commemorative Limited Edition Box Set [1962] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:After seeing Saving Private Ryan, this epic tale about the Normandy invasion will look sanitised. But in its re-creation of events leading to the epochal battle, The Longest Day is captivating and grand, and the parade of famous actors who cross the screen naturally give the already charged action even more of a boost. Three directors worked on it: Ken Annakin (Battle of the Bulge), Andrew Marton (Crack in the World) and Bernhard Wicki (this film being his only credit). -Tom Keogh The Longest Day is Hollywood's definitive D-day movie. More modern accounts such as Saving Private Ryan are more vividly realistic, but producer Darryl F Zanuck's epic 1962 account is the only one to attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful day from all perspectives. From the German high command and front-line officers to the French Resistance and all the key Allied participants, the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own authoritative book, is as factually accurate as possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and Richard Burton, to name a few) makes for an uneasy mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power, however, and the film falls a little flat for too much of its three-hour running time. But the set-piece battles are still spectacular, and if the landings on Omaha Beach lack the graphic gore of Private Ryan they nonetheless show the sheer scale and audacity of the invasion. -Mark Walker.
![Review Cinema Club / Breaker Breaker [1977]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S8W3AEF9L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Don Gentry
- George Murdock
- Don Hulette
- Terry O'Connor
- John Di Fusco
- Chuck Norris
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99
Review Breaker Breaker [1977] / Cinema Club:
![Review Five Star Entertainment / The Beastmaster [1982]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z7WK7RTDL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Tanya Roberts
- Don Coscarelli
- Joshua Milrad
- Marc Singer
- Rip Torn
- John Amos
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.99
Review The Beastmaster [1982] / Five Star Entertainment:
Release date: 2003-02-03
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.00
Review The Count of Monte Cristo / Buena Vista Home Entertainment:Retelling a story that has made it onto the silver screen more than most, this latest adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo makes yet another swashbuckling attempt to win over a new generation of cinema goers. A dashing James Caviezel takes the role of the Count, who is driven by a desire for revenge after being betrayed by his best friend Fernand (played by a dishevelled Guy Pearce) and landed with 16 years of solitary confinement in Chateau D'If, a damp cavernous prison. Thus the scene is set for a good old-fashioned romp. The trouble with this "re-imagining" (to borrow a phrase from Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes) is that it's never quite sure whether to take itself seriously or not. Alexandre Dumas's original story is a traditionally melodramatic tale of deceit and double-crossing, with clear-cut bad guys and a moral lesson to be learned at the end. Here, director Kevin Reynolds appears unsure about whether to stick with tradition or bring the story up to date and turn it into a post-modern play on the old Victorian values and style. When the Count and his heavy-breathing loved one are reunited, their kiss is actually framed as a cameo. Both lead actors are also prone to heavy bouts of overacting, garnishing their performances with exaggerated baroque gestures. Clearly this is a film in which the actors could over-indulge themselves and (almost) get away with it, were it not for the fact that-bar Richard Harris as the "Priest"-none of them seem to have the faintest idea about how to conduct themselves in a period drama. This Count of Monte Cristo will leave the audience a little confused as to whether they should cry along with the story or laugh along with the actors. [+]-Nikki Disney On the DVD: The Count of Monte Cristo on disc offers no escape from the dry drawl of director Kevin Reynolds, who features in almost every element of the extensive extras package. With a shy studio disclaimer before his commentary, he's got a refreshingly frank attitude to explaining a movie's making. Also included are details of the ambitious swordfight choreography, the origins and adaptation of Dumas's classic book and how the sound was developed as well as a behind-the-scenes feature on location. Quite often the footage feels like a tourism promo for Malta. The 5. 1 sound mix is superbly utilised (when Reynolds isn't talking) and the transfer (1. 85:1) is as pristine as you'd hope and expect. -Paul Tonks.
![Review Cinema Club / Hornblower - The Even Chance [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M070PRE7L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Michael Byrne
- Robert Bathurst
- Robert Lindsay (II)
- Dorian Healy
- Andrew Grieve
- Ioan Gruffudd
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.99
Review Hornblower - The Even Chance [1998] / Cinema Club:Based freely on the classic novels by CS Forester, Hornblower is a series of TV films following the progress of a young officer through the ranks of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series greatest asset is the handsome and charismatic Ioan Gruffudd in the lead role, surely a major star in the making. For television films the production values are very good, though as Titanic, Waterworld and The Perfect Storm demonstrated, filming an aquatic adventure is a very expensive business, and it is clear that the Hornblower dramas simply make the best of comparatively small budgets. No more faithful to Forester's books than the 1951 Gregory Peck classic Captain Horatio Hornblower, the real inspiration seems to have come from the success of Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, which likewise featured a British hero in the Napoleonic Wars. Nevertheless, while rather more easy going than the real British navy of the time, the Hornblower saga delivers an entertaining adventure, greatly enhanced by the presence of such guest stars as Denis Lawson, Cheri Lunghi, Ronald Pickup and Anthony Sher. Beginning in 1794 with the 17-year-old midshipman joining the fleet at Portsmouth, "The Even Chance" offers a rather rushed introduction. -Gary S. Dalkin.
![Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Logan's War [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RJ2A5SX1L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Chuck Norris
- Joe Spano
- Michael Preece
- Jeff Kober
- Eddie Cibrian
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.90
Review Logan's War [1998] / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:
![Review Pioneer Entertainment Europe Ltd / Armitage III V3-Heart Core [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z2YQ7DHWL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1996-05-07
Run time: 30 min.
Price: £6.99
Review Armitage III V3-Heart Core [1995] / Pioneer Entertainment Europe Ltd:
![Review Downtown Video / The War Room [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R8WAYMQWL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- D.A. Pennebaker|Chris Hegedus|James Carville|George Stephanopoulos
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £12.99
Review The War Room [1993] / Downtown Video:
Actors & Directors
- Bill Mauldin
- John Huston
- Audie Murphy
Creator: Gottfried Reinhardt
RRP: £10.99
Price: £16.99
Review Red Badge of Courage / MGM:Stephen Crane's Great American Story of the Civil War
![Review Warner Home Video / Batman And Robin [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515TWETVT0L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Chris O'Donnell
- Joel Schumacher
- Alicia Silverstone
- Uma Thurman
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- George Clooney
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.94
Review Batman And Robin [1997] / Warner Home Video:Following Val Kilmer's portrayal of the caped crusader in Batman Forever, the fourth Batman feature stars George Clooney under the pointy-eared cowl, with Chris O'Donnell returning as Robin the Boy Wonder. This time the dynamic duo is up against the nefarious Mr Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who is bent on turning the world into an iceberg, and the slyly seductive but highly toxic Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), who wants to eliminate all animal life and turn the Earth into a gigantic greenhouse. Alicia Silverstone lends a hand as Batgirl, and Elle McPherson plays the thankless role of Batman/Bruce Wayne's fiancèe. A sensory assault of dazzling colours, senseless action and lavish sets run amok, this Batman & Robin offers an overdose of eye candy, but it is strictly for devoted Bat-o-philes. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.
![Review Video Gems (Defunct) / Mission Of The Shark [1990]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N6MWEZVAL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Richard Thomas
- Don Harvey
- Stacy Keach
- Robert Iscove
- Robert Cicchini
- David Caruso
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Mission Of The Shark [1990] / Video Gems (Defunct):
Actors & Directors
- Charles Bronson
- Yaphet Kotto
- Irvin Kershner
- Martin Balsam
- Horst Buchholz
- Peter Finch
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.29
Review Raid On Entebbe [1976] / 2 Entertain Video:
Actors & Directors
- Sammo Hung
- Billy Chow
- Sammo Hung
- Chia-Liang Liu
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £13.99
Review Pedicab Driver / Made in Hong Kong:
Actors & Directors
- Robert Wightman
- Tom Skerritt
- Lisa Eichorn
- Richard Roundtree
- Anthony Zerbe
- Eric Karson
Review Hell Camp a.k.a. Opposing Force [1986] / RCA/Columbia Pictures CVT20937:Tough military training action drama about a group of top US military pilots specially selected for spy training. The novelty is that the group contains the first woman to be selected. Parachuted into the Philippine jungle for a mock escape and evasion course they discover the army commander hunting them is using real bullets and if they are captured is determined to break them at all costs. Starring Tom Skerritt (M. A. S. H, Alien, Steel Magnolias), Lisa Eichorn (Yanks) & Richard Roundtree (Shaft).
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