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Review / Shaker Run (Video Tape/PAL) 1985
Actors & Directors
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Lisa Harrow
  • Leif Garret
  • Petery Hayden
  • Shane Briant
Run time: 96 min.

Review Shaker Run (Video Tape/PAL) 1985:

Fearing the ability of her government to retain control of a newly discovered lethal virus, Dr Christine Rubin agrees to supply the biological agent to the CIA. To reach the rendezvous, Dr Rubin hires the services of two Americans, a top ex racing driver and his mechanic, who are touring as a one man stunt show (two man surely? - Ed). The drive soon becomes a high speed chase as they are pursued relentlessly by the security forces. Shaker run is a fast action film with breathtaking stunts that lead to a spectacular climax.

Review Universal Pictures UK / The Ultimate Mummy Collection - The Mummy / The Mummy [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Arnold Vosloo
  • Brendan Fraser
  • John Hannah
  • The Rock
  • Rachel Weisz
  • Stephen Sommers
Release date: 2001-12-01
Run time: 254 min.
RRP: £21.99
Price: £7.00

Review The Ultimate Mummy Collection - The Mummy / The Mummy [1998] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review 4 Front Video / Gray Lady Down [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Charlton Heston
  • David Greene
  • Ned Beatty
  • Stephen McHattie
  • Stacy Keach
  • David Carradine
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Gray Lady Down [1978] / 4 Front Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Sudden Death [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Hyams
  • Powers Boothe
  • Whittni Wright
  • Ross Malinger
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Raymond J. Barry
Release date: 1999-09-13
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.90

Review Sudden Death [1996] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Robert Flemyng
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Curt Jurgens
  • Nigel Patrick
  • Walter Grauman
  • Guy Hamilton
  • Michael Redgrave
Release date: 1993-07-19
Run time: 202 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.50

Review Battle of Britain/633 Squadron [1969] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 21st CENTURY / Captain America-the Movie
Actors & Directors
  • MATT SALINGER
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £21.99

Review Captain America-the Movie / 21st CENTURY:

MATT SALINGER does a decent job as the good Captain in this fairly faithful rendition of the classic MARVEL COMICS hero's origin, with a decidely evil RED SKULL!

Actors & Directors
  • Flora Robson
  • Jack Hawkins
  • Brian Desmond Hurst
  • Alec Guinness
  • Anthony Steel
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.50

Review The Malta Story [1953] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Robards
  • Kris Kristofferson
  • James Coburn
  • Rita Coolidge
  • Sam Peckinpah
  • Bob Dylan
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid [1973] / Warner Home Video:

Billy the Kid is re-imagined by director Sam Peckinpah in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as a kind of Old West rock star, a young man who wants to do his own thing but constantly runs up against the objections of the establishment-in this case, the cattle barons who run this part of the country. Peckinpah indulged in some quirky casting, including Bob Dylan as an outlaw named Alias and most of Kristofferson's band as Billy's gang. He also draws exceptional performances out of a cast of old veterans, including James Coburn as the reluctant Pat Garrett, R G Armstrong, Katy Jurado and Slim Pickens, who has a terrific death scene to Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door. " Look for this longer version; the shorter version is the one that MGM recut against Peckinpah's wishes, removing all the character development and Peckinpah's elegiac sense of the Old West in favour of action and violence. -Marshall Fine.

Review Warner Home Video / The Time Machine [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Gore Verbinski
  • Guy Pearce|Jeremy Irons|Yancey Arias
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £0.49

Review The Time Machine [2002] / Warner Home Video:

Reinterpreting HG Wells' The Time Machine, one of the most well-loved science fiction classics both as a book and in its 1960 film incarnation, was always going to risk critical condemnation. Yet despite all the problems experienced in making the film (reshoots, September 11 comparison fears, Guy Pearce breaking a rib), this new Time Machine is still great fun. Critics and naysayers may point at the obvious timeline gaffes, the lazy groundlaying for a sequel, or even the radical departure from Wells' scenario, but the film is still gorgeous to look at and imbued with a sense of carefree adventure. Pearce plays Professor Hartdegen with just the right touch of distraction turning into passionate resolve. The secondary cast all manage to make something of their brief on-screen appearances, too, notably Mark Addy as faithful friend Philby, Samantha Mumba as Morlock babe Mara and Jeremy Irons making more of his shadowy baddie than might be thought likely. The film's chief accomplishment is that it in no way supersedes the George Pal version. If anything, it enriches the spirit of fun it has happily inherited. On the DVD: The Time Machine 2002 incarnation has picture (2. 35:1) and sound (Dolby 5. 1) that are as pristine as you'd expect from so recent a digital FX extravaganza. [+]
In the extras department there's plenty to keep you busy: a gallery of production drawings, an action sequence animatic, three trailers, four mini-documentaries on stunts, FX, Morlocks and building the Time Machine. The only thing missing is anything acknowledging the 1960 version or the link with director Simon Wells (the author's great-grandson). Wells joins editor Wayne Wahrman for one commentary track dealing with the broad strokes of conceptualisation and changes along the way. Commentary two is from the Designer, FX Supervisor and Producer, so is naturally more technically focused. -Paul Tonks.

Actors & Directors
  • John Huston
  • Charles Bronson
  • Stuart Rosenberg
  • Strother Martin
  • Henry Silva
  • Rod Steiger
  • Jill Ireland
Release date: 2000-02-28
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review Love And Bullets [1979] / ITV DVD:


Actors & Directors
  • Andy Wood
  • Carl Franklin
  • Ken Jacobson
  • Todd Field
Release date: 1990-09-10
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.99

Review Eye Of The Eagle II [1988] / Columbia Tri-Star Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / McQ [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Albert
  • John Wayne
  • Diana Muldaur
  • John Sturges
  • Colleen Dewhurst
  • Clu Gulager
Release date: 1997-04-21
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £14.95

Review McQ [1974] / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / True Grit [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Glen Campbell
  • Kim Darby
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Robert Duvall
  • John Wayne
  • Jeremy Slate
Run time: 128 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.98

Review True Grit [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

John Wayne hams it up as a one-eyed, broken-down marshal in this 1969 adaptation of Charles Portis's bestselling novel. Kim Darby plays the formal-speaking adolescent who goes to Wayne for help tracking down her father's killer, and singer Glen Campbell straps on his guns to join the quest. Directed by old lion Henry Hathaway (Rawhide), True Grit is largely a showcase for Wayne (who finally won an Oscar), but it is also a decent Western with a particularly stirring final act. -Tom Keogh.

Review Acorn Media / Return To Lonesome Dove
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Robe
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Jon Voight
  • Louis Gossett Jr.
  • Rick Schroder
  • William Petersen
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 331 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.90

Review Return To Lonesome Dove / Acorn Media:


Review Warner Home Video / Enter The Dragon [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Kien Shih
  • Bruce Lee
  • John Saxon
  • Ahna Capri
  • Angela Mao
  • Robert Clouse
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 131 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.93

Review Enter The Dragon [1973] / Warner Home Video:

One of the most successful martial arts movies of all time, if not the best, Enter the Dragon (filmed in 1973) was Bruce Lee's last completed film and the first significant meeting of Hollywood and Hong Kong cinema. But it wasn't an entirely harmonious marriage, with on-set communication breakdowns and rows resulting in some poor scripting, editing and overdubbing. Lee plays a Shaolin fighter recruited by British intelligence to spy on renegade Shaolin master and crime overlord Han (Shih Kien) by entering the martial arts tournament held on Han's fortress island. If the plot sounds a touch contrived, it is. Han's fluffy white cat, clawed hand and ruthless megalomania suggest nothing so much as a classic Bond villain, and the plot has holes you could pilot a large Junk through (Lee's discovery that his sister committed suicide rather than submit herself to Han's men is particularly weak). Nonetheless, Lee is utterly compelling. At the height of his skills, he choreographed, directed and performed fight scenes which are among the most gripping ever filmed, including the classic underground scene which, in this uncut version, contains Lee's incredible (and previously deleted) nun-chuck display. John Saxon and karate champion Jim Kelly ably support him as fellow contestants, with the massive Yang Sze playing Bolo, Han's lieutenant. Despite being cheesy and overblown, Enter the Dragon is a highly entertaining and accessible Kung Fu film and a showcase for Bruce Lee's considerable skills. -Duncan Thomson.

Review 4 Front Video / Total Recall [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Sharon Stone
  • Michael Ironside
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Rachel Ticotin
  • Ronny Cox
  • Paul Verhoeven
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review Total Recall [1990] / 4 Front Video:

A triple-bill of Schwarzenegger at his muscular monosyllabic best:The Running Man is an action thriller based on an early story by Stephen King. When Arnold is chosen as a contestant on the ultimate reality TV show, all hell breaks loose. Cheesy sets and a slimy role for game-show host Richard Dawson make this violent mess of mayhem a candidate for guilty pleasure; it is the kind of movie that truly devoted Arnold fans will want to watch more than once. Total Recall is the science-fiction blockbuster from 1990, loosely based on Philip K Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". Oscar-winning special effects and violent action propel the twisting plot, in which Arnold manipulates his manipulators in a world of dazzling high technology. Director Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Starship Troopers) indulges his usual penchant for gratuitous bloodshed, but the movie has enough cleverness to rise above its excesses. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a legitimate sequel: there's more story to tell about a hulking, leather-clad android (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who arrives from the future to protect a rebellious teenager and future leader (Edward Furlong) from being killed by the tenacious T-1000 robot (Robert Patrick), whose liquid-metal construction makes him seemingly unstoppable. The fate of the future lies in the balance, with Linda Hamilton (who would later marry her director) reprising her role as the rugged woman whose son will change the course of history. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount / Escape from L.a. [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Buscemi
  • John Carpenter
  • Kurt Russell
  • A.J. Langer
  • Georges Corraface
  • Stacy Keach
Release date: 2002-09-02
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.99

Review Escape from L.a. [1996] / Paramount:

Fifteen years after John Carpenter squandered a great idea on a mediocre movie (Escape from New York), he does it again-this time on the Left Coast. Kurt Russell is back as the terminally cynical one-eyed action hero Snake Plissken who, this time, has been coerced into saving the world in Los Angeles. It's 2013 and L. A. is now an island maximum-security prison off the coast of California. Snake has 10 hours to find a doomsday weapon that's fallen into the hands of revolutionaries before he dies of a virus with which he's been injected. But the action is clumsy and unimaginative: lots of shootouts and very little suspense. Even the bad guys aren't particularly inventive; only Pam Grier, as a transsexual gang leader, strikes any sparks. Russell growls his way through the role but can only blame himself: He cowrote the script with Carpenter. -Marshall Fine.

Review 4 Front Video / Universal Soldier - The Return [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Mic Rogers
  • Michael Jai White
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.98

Review Universal Soldier - The Return [1999] / 4 Front Video:

UniSol Luc Deveraux is back in Universal Soldier-The Return. Jean-Claude Van Damme gallantly attempts to resurrect interest in his tepid career with this action-riddled roller-coaster ride. Set in the not-too-distant future, here Deveraux has been employed by the government to oversee the new UniSol project. What is UniSol? It's a military plan to turn dead soldiers into invincible fighting machines (see the first Universal Soldier for more details). It's also the scheme that went horribly wrong when the soldiers turned psycho, killing the scientists who created them. Not deterred by this early setback, the government replicates the project. This time they figure that they can control the soldiers through a supercomputer called SETH (kind of like HAL in 2001, but smarter). But, as we all know, machines frequently break down. Pretty soon the computer comes to the conclusion that it's superior to humans and therefore it must destroy them. Uh oh, Van Damme to the rescue. [+]
The muscles from Brussels heroically leap into action confronting the dangerous soldiers led by Bill (WCW) Goldberg and Michael Jai White. The action is impressive and the stunts are engrossing. Goldberg is charismatic as the cartoonish villain who sneers and snouts while muttering macho things like, "I'm gonna kill that guy. " Van Damme looks more at home in a production that he is not directing, and for once he lets his fists do the talking. But the movie misses the gloss and big-budget pathos of its predecessor (created by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich), making the original decidedly better. -Jeremy Storey, Amazon. com.

Actors & Directors
  • William Brayne
  • Peter Duguid
  • Tom Clegg
  • Joanna Van Gyseghem
  • Michael Latimer
  • Martin Wyldeck
  • Ben Bolt (II)
  • Anthony Simmons
Release date: 2002-07-22
Run time: 149 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.05

Review Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 2 Of 4 [1972] / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review / Space Raiders (PAL) 1983
Actors & Directors
  • David Mendenhall
  • Howard R. Cohen
  • Patsy Pease
  • Thom Christopher
  • Vince Edwards
Run time: 86 min.

Review Space Raiders (PAL) 1983:

He's a stowaway on a stolen inter-galactic space cruiser. He's 10 Years old and 10 million miles from home! Thundering accross the galaxy he soars through deadly laser fire to join the Star Fighters against aliens from a thousand worlds and to challenge the most powerful force in the universe!.

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Shaker Run (Video Tape/PAL) 1985, The Ultimate Mummy Collection - The Mummy / The Mummy [1998], Gray Lady Down [1978], Sudden Death [1996], Battle of Britain/633 Squadron [1969], Captain America-the Movie, The Malta Story [1953], Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid [1973], The Time Machine [2002], Love And Bullets [1979], Eye Of The Eagle II [1988], McQ [1974], True Grit [1969], Return To Lonesome Dove, Enter The Dragon [1973], Total Recall [1990], Escape from L.a. [1996], Universal Soldier - The Return [1999], Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 2 Of 4 [1972], Space Raiders (PAL) 1983

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