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Actors & Directors
  • Gian Maria Volontè
  • Jaime Fernández (II)
  • Lou Castel
  • Klaus Kinski
  • Damiano Damiani
  • Martine Beswick
Release date: 1995-08-21
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.06

Review A Bullet For The General [1967] / 4 Front Video:


Review Maverik Motion Pictures Ltd / The Ultimate Learning Experience Lesson 1 - Getting Off The Intermediate Plateau
Actors & Directors
  • Warren Smith
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £15.99

Review The Ultimate Learning Experience Lesson 1 - Getting Off The Intermediate Plateau / Maverik Motion Pictures Ltd:


Review 4 Front Video / Nevada Smith [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Karl Malden
  • Arthur Kennedy
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Steve McQueen
  • Brian Keith
Release date: 1994-08-08
Run time: 125 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.98

Review Nevada Smith [1965] / 4 Front Video:


Review Warner Home Video / One Million Years BC [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • John Richardson
  • Robert Brown
  • Martine Beswick
  • Raquel Welch
  • Don Chaffey
  • Percy Herbert
Release date: 1995-10-30
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.50

Review One Million Years BC [1966] / Warner Home Video:

One Million Years B. C. might be about as palaeontologically accurate as The Flintstones, but it's still a lasting kitsch masterpiece, as much for Raquel Welch's Amazonian presence in an abbreviated fur bikini as for Ray Harryhausen's wonderful stop-motion dinosaurs. A rare big-budget venture from Hammer Films, this 1966 version of the 1940 Victor Mature classic One Million B. C. is set in a fantasised prehistory where Caucasian cavemen coexist with dinosaurs. Loana (Welch) of the Shell People teaches Tumak (John Richardson) of the Rock Tribe that harmonious cooperation on the beach is a better way of life than rule-of-the-mightiest savagery in caves. Every quarter of an hour, the gibberish-spouting ("Akita akita"), skin-wearing, remarkably clean cave folk are inconvenienced by special effects: a giant sea turtle, a hungry Allosaur, a Triceratops/Iguanodon battle, a Pterodactyl that wants to feed Raquel to its chicks, a major volcanic upheaval. Poster icon Welch gets stiff competition from a lithe Martine Beswick in a cat fight, and the camp goings-on are given real screen presence by gorgeous, primitive Canary Isles locations and an epic score from Mario Nascimbene. On the DVD: One Million Years B. [+]
C. arrives on DVD with minimal extras: a wonderfully ballyhoo-intensive trailer, plus nice little retrospective chats with Welch and Harryhausen. The picture is an anamorphic print of the original 1. 85:1 ratio, and sound is Dolby mono. -Kim Newman.

Actors & Directors
  • Debra Feuer
  • John Turturro
  • John Pankow
  • Willem Dafoe
  • William Petersen
  • William Friedkin
Release date: 1991-09-16
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.12

Review To Live And Die In L.A. [1985] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / New Jack City [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Judd Nelson
  • Mario Van Peebles
  • Wesley Snipes
  • Ice-T
  • Mario Van Peebles
  • Chris Rock
Release date: 1996-02-19
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.98

Review New Jack City [1991] / Warner Home Video:

Some pundits called it a flawed, exploitative action film that glamorised drug dealing and the luxury of a lucrative criminal lifestyle, spawning a trend of films that attracted youth gangs and provoked violence in cinemas. Others hailed it as a breakthrough movie that depicted drug dealers as ruthless, corrupt, and evil, leading dead-end lives that no rational youth would want to emulate. However you interpret it, New Jack City is still one of the first and best films of the 1990s to crack open the underworld of cocaine and peer inside with its eyes wide open. It's also the film that established Wesley Snipes as an actor to watch, with enough charisma to bring an insidious quality of seduction to his role as coke-lord Nino Brown, and enough intelligence to portray a character deluded by his own sense of indestructible power. Director Mario Van Peebles stretched his otherwise-limited talent to bring vivid authenticity and urgency to this crime story, and subplots involving a pair of tenacious cops (Ice-T, Judd Nelson) and a recovering coke addict (Chris Rock) provide additional dramatic tension. Although some critics may hesitate to admit it, New Jack City deserves mention in any serious discussion about African American filmmakers and influential films. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Sovereign Multimedia Ltd / Band Of The Hand [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Lang
  • Michael Carmine (II)
  • John Cameron Mitchell
  • Danny Quinn
  • Lauren Holly
  • Paul Michael Glaser
Release date: 1998-05-04
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Band Of The Hand [1986] / Sovereign Multimedia Ltd:


Review 4 Front Video / Jason And The Argonauts / The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad / Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Todd Armstrong
  • Sam Wanamaker
  • Margaret Whiting
  • Taryn Power
  • Patrick Troughton
  • Nancy Kovack
  • Don Chaffey
  • Gordon Hessler
Release date: 2002-09-16
Run time: 305 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Jason And The Argonauts / The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad / Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger [1963] / 4 Front Video:


Review Entertainment in Video / Blind Side [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Mariska Hargitay
  • Rutger Hauer
  • Ron Silver
  • Geoff Murphy
  • Rebecca De Mornay
  • Jonathan Banks
Release date: 1994-01-31
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.75

Review Blind Side [1993] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Firecreek [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Jagger
  • Henry Fonda
  • Gary Lockwood
  • Inger Stevens
  • Vincent McEveety
  • James Stewart
Release date: 1998-01-19
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99

Review Firecreek [1968] / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Cynthia Rothrock
  • Doug Wright
  • Nijel
  • Robert Clouse
  • Keith Cooke
  • Richard Norton
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £5.99

Review China O'Brien [1989] / 4 Front Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Full Metal Jacket [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Matthew Modine
  • Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Adam Baldwin
  • R. Lee Ermey
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Dorian Harewood
Release date: 2001-09-10
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.94

Review Full Metal Jacket [1987] / Warner Home Video:

One of a series of revisionist Vietnam cinema released in the late 1980s, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is essentially split into two stories linked by a number of characters. The film follows new recruit Joker (Matthew Modine) and his fellow soldiers through their basic training and into combat in Vietnam. The first half is a chilling portrayal of military brutality and de-humanisation, mainly at the hands of Sgt Hartman (played at a level of staggering intensity by ex-Marine Lee Ermey), that centres around the tragic character of Private Pyle, a young man pushed to the edge of his endurance. The tone of the film is no less harsh when transported to the combat zone as we see the results of the training process in action: the young men turned into unquestioning killing machines. Joker is perhaps the one exception, a soldier with "Born to Kill" written on his helmet who also sports a peace sign on his lapel. But the film finds itself caught in the trap of many of the war movies of the time-how to create audience empathy with characters who are essentially in the wrong. It's a dilemma that Full Metal Jacket never really solves, although as a spectacle the film is a masterpiece. Made in the days before CGI became the norm, the battle sequences-filmed, rather bizarrely, in London's Docklands before its redevelopment-are hugely realistic and are perhaps the key moments of the movie, heightening the disorientation and fear felt by the soldiers. By offering no more than a snapshot of the Vietnam conflict (the action deals with one individual skirmish), Kubrick cleverly leaves any judgement on the war to the audience, although clearly attempting to influence them. The fate of the characters who survive is also left in the balance, but we can perhaps imagine what awaits them. [+]
On the DVD: Part of a series of Kubrick DVD reissues, Full Metal Jacket has been treated to the full remastering and restoration treatment. The battle sequences have benefited the most, gaining a new audio and visual crispness and clarity that adds to their already impressive sense of realism-you can almost feel the heat searing from the screen and the explosions detonating around you. Maybe not the best war film ever made, as some may claim, but certainly one to take you right to the heart of the action. -Phil Udell.

Review Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd / The Lion Has Wings [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Richardson
  • Alexander Korda
  • Robert Douglas
  • June Duprez
  • Merle Oberon
  • Adrian Brunel
  • Michael Powell
  • Flora Robson
  • Brian Desmond Hurst
Release date: 1997-07-14
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.00

Review The Lion Has Wings [1939] / Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd:


Review MGM Entertainment / Delta Force 3-Killing Game [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Norris
  • Nick Cassavetes
  • Sam Firstenberg
  • Matthew Penn
  • Eric Douglas
Release date: 1993-02-22
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Delta Force 3-Killing Game [1991] / MGM Entertainment:


Review ITV DVD / Man In A Suitcase - Vol. 2 - Episodes 3 And 4 - The Sitting Pigeon / Day Of The Execution [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Don Chaffey
  • Charles Frend
  • Gerry O'Hara
  • Jeremy Summers
  • Herbert Wise
Release date: 2000-06-26
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.94

Review Man In A Suitcase - Vol. 2 - Episodes 3 And 4 - The Sitting Pigeon / Day Of The Execution [1967] / ITV DVD:

Taking the well-travelled outlaw hero format of The Saint and reinventing the hero as a Mickey-Spillane-like Yank, this tough-edged but trivial detective series stars the brick-like Richard Bradford as McGill as a former CIA man who owns only a gun and a change of clothes (hence the title) and wanders about foreign locales, using two-fisted methods to protect beautiful women or foil dastardly plots. Ron Grainer's title theme is among the best 60s TV tunes, and the intense, serious Bradford makes a refreshing change after so many breezy, unflappable, eyebrow-cocking heroes, but the mix of postcard backdrops, character villains and drama-school tottie is much the same as in The Saint, Danger Man, The Persuaders, and their ilk. Volume Two includes: "The Sitting Pigeon" wherein McGill becomes a mobster's bodyguard, with George (UFO) Sewell and Mark (Coronation Street) Eden; and "Day of Execution" in which McGill receives death threats, with Rosemary (Department S) Nichols and Donald Sutherland. -Kim Newman.

Review Made in Hong Kong / Warriors Two
Actors & Directors
  • Leung Kar-Yan
  • Sammo Hung
  • Sammo Hung
Release date: 1997-09-29
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £13.99

Review Warriors Two / Made in Hong Kong:


Actors & Directors
  • Richard Edson
  • Run DMC
  • Rick Rubin
  • Jenny Lumet
Release date: 1991-06-17
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.55

Review Tougher Than Leather [1988] / Palace Video (Defunct):


Review 4 Front Video / Soldier Blue [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Strauss
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Ralph Nelson
  • Candice Bergen
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.81

Review Soldier Blue [1970] / 4 Front Video:


Review Uca Catalogue / The Bridge On The River Kwai [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Alec Guinness
  • William Holden
  • Sessue Hayakawa
  • Jack Hawkins
  • David Lean
  • James Donald
Release date: 2003-04-07
Run time: 155 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.24

Review The Bridge On The River Kwai [1957] / Uca Catalogue:

Based on the true story of the building of a bridge on the Burma railway by British prisoners-of-war held under a savage Japanese regime in World War II, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is one of the greatest war films ever made. The film received seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Performance (Alex Guinness), for Sir Malcolm Arnold's superb music, and for the screenplay from the novel by Pierre Boulle (who also wrote Monkey Planet, the inspiration for Planet of the Apes). The story does take considerable liberties with history, including the addition of an American saboteur played by William Holden, and an entirely fictitious but superbly constructed and thrilling finale. Made on a vast scale, the film reinvented the war movie as something truly epic, establishing the cinematic beachhead for The Longest Day (1962), Patton (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). It also proved a turning-point in director David Lean's career. Before he made such classic but conventionally scaled films as In Which We Serve (1942) and Hobson's Choice (1953). Afterwards there would only be four more films, but their names are Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970) and A Passage to India (1984). On the DVD: Too often the best extras come attached to films that don't really warrant them. Not so here, where a truly great film has been given the attention it deserves. The first disc presents the film in the original extra-wide CinemaScope ratio of 2. [+]
55:1, in an anamorphically enhanced transfer which does maximum justice to the film's superb cinematography. The sound has been transferred from the original six-track magnetic elements into 5. 1 Dolby Digital and far surpasses what many would expect from a 1950s' feature. The main bonus on the first disc is an isolated presentation of Malcolm Arnold's great Oscar-winning music score, in addition to which there is a trivia game, and maps and historical information linked to appropriate clips. The second disc contains a new, specially produced 53-minute "making of" documentary featuring many of those involved in the production of the movie. This gives a rich insight into the physical problems of making such a complex epic on location in Ceylon. Also included are the original trailer and two short promotional films from the time of release, one of which is narrated by star William Holden. Finally there is an "appreciation" by director John Milius, an extensive archive of movie posters and artwork, and a booklet that reproduces the text of the film's original 1957 brochure. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Warner Home Video / Cairo Road [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • David MacDonald|Eric Portman|Laurence Harvey|Maria Mauban
Release date: 1994-05-09
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Cairo Road [1950] / Warner Home Video:


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A Bullet For The General [1967], The Ultimate Learning Experience Lesson 1 - Getting Off The Intermediate Plateau, Nevada Smith [1965], One Million Years BC [1966], To Live And Die In L.A. [1985], New Jack City [1991], Band Of The Hand [1986], Jason And The Argonauts / The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad / Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger [1963], Blind Side [1993], Firecreek [1968], China O'Brien [1989], Full Metal Jacket [1987], The Lion Has Wings [1939], Delta Force 3-Killing Game [1991], Man In A Suitcase - Vol. 2 - Episodes 3 And 4 - The Sitting Pigeon / Day Of The Execution [1967], Warriors Two, Tougher Than Leather [1988], Soldier Blue [1970], The Bridge On The River Kwai [1957], Cairo Road [1950]

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