![Review Encore Entertainment / You Can't Win 'Em All [1970]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N33N2RTSL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Fikret Hakan
- Peter Collinson
- Charles Bronson
- Michèle Mercier
- Tony Curtis
- Grégoire Aslan
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Harold Buck
RRP: £12.99
Price: £64.99
Review You Can't Win 'Em All [1970] / Encore Entertainment:
![Review Beckmann Visual Publishing / The Complete Guide To The World Of Martial Arts [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418FMX3EBTL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1994-03-14
Run time: 130 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.99
Review The Complete Guide To The World Of Martial Arts [1993] / Beckmann Visual Publishing:
Actors & Directors
- Kappei Yamaguchi
- Sumi Shimamoto
- Shôzô Îzuka
- Yasuhiro Imagawa
- Kazue Komiya
- Norio Wakamoto
Run time: 48 min.
Creator: Mitsuteru Yokoyama
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.95
Review Giant Robo - Part 4 / Manga Entertainment:
![Review Uca Catalogue / Silverado [1985]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510CB8RS7TL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Marvin J. McIntyre
- Scott Glenn
- Danny Glover
- Kevin Kline
- Kevin Costner
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Michael Grillo
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.79
Review Silverado [1985] / Uca Catalogue:Director Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill) clearly set out to make an old-fashioned Western, but he couldn't help bringing a hip, self-conscious attitude to the proceedings. Silverado thus finds its own funky tone-sometimes rousing, sometimes winking. Four cowboys-Kevin Kline (a distinctly modern kind of Western hero), Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, and the rowdy young Kevin Costner-converge on a little Western burg called Silverado. Kasdan peppers the somewhat generic action with smart dialogue and a parade of quirky supporting players, including John Cleese as a sheriff who seems to have stepped straight from a Monty Python sketch into an Old West saloon. Bruce Broughton supplies the music, a real throwback to the glory days of thundering Western themes. One thing's for sure: Silverado's a lot more fun than the later Kasdan-Costner Western, Wyatt Earp. -Robert Horton, Amazon. com.
![Review 4 Front Video / Farewell My Lovely [1944]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71GKH1HMHDL._SL160_.gif)
Actors & Directors
- Claire Trevor
- Otto Kruger
- Dick Powell
- Edward Dmytryk
- Mike Mazurki
- Anne Shirley
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Raymond Chandler
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.70
Review Farewell My Lovely [1944] / 4 Front Video:
Actors & Directors
- Kazuo Hasegawa
- Fujiko Yamamoto
- Kon Ichikawa
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £23.00
Review An Actor's Revenge [1962] / Connoisseur Video:If ever there was a triumph of bricks without straw, this is it. An Actor's Revenge is based on a weary old melodrama that had already been twice filmed before Kon Ichikawa got to it. The action is set in 1836. A Kabuki star famed for his female roles sets out to avenge himself on three rich merchants who drove his parents to suicide, aided by an audacious bandit. In the 1935 film version both roles were taken by matinee idol Kazuo Hasegawa. In this, Ichikawa's 1963 remake, his outrageous ploy was to cast the same actor (now well into his 50s, paunchy and jowly) in the same double role-and then throw at him a whole heap of extravagant visual and stylistic tricks: split screen, distorted colour, strip-cartoon thought-bubbles and more. Rather than trying to rationalise the corny plot Ichikawa plays it at full throttle, revelling in its wild implausibilities and sexual ambiguity: at one point Hasegawa as the bandit watches himself as the actor, in drag, making falsetto advances to a woman. The photography, art direction and jazz-tinged music score all contribute to the mood of shameless bravura. An Actor's Revenge is a film that has to be seen to be disbelieved. -Philip Kemp.
![Review Contender Entertainment Group / Full Eclipse [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VY6M1Q0BL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Anthony Hickox
- Anthony John Denison
- Patsy Kensit
- Bruce Payne
- Jason Beghe
- Mario Van Peebles
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Michael Reaves
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.99
Review Full Eclipse [1994] / Contender Entertainment Group:
Release date: 2001-10-22
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.15
Review Dukes Of Hazzard - Vol. 1 - Daisy Duke Collection / Dukes of Hazzard:From the golden age of early-evening weekend telly The Dukes of Hazzard works as a reminder of a simpler time. An era when having a sense of morals meant leaping into a souped-up orange racer with the doors welded shut and having endless car chases with the crooked law, and when problems were solved with a good-natured fistfight at your local watering hole. It also maintains the classic good/bad divide of character types-the baddies were bumbling fools and the good guys and gal were clean-cut and clean-thinking but not so sanitised that they lost their individuality or their cool. The original series ran from 1979-1985 and during that time cousins Luke, Bo and Daisy Duke (all under the watchful eye of the stern-but-decent Uncle Jesse) tussled with the dishonest duo of Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane. Each week, Hogg and Coltrane came up with an illegal moneymaking scheme and the Dukes did their best to scupper their plans, "battling the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods". Cue Boss Hogg blubbling like an overgrown baby, and the ever-popular Daisy Duke sending teenage boys into fits of confusion. The plots didn't vary hugely from episode to episode, but The Dukes of Hazzard-just like the enduring A-Team-was not about thought provoking television. Rather it offered familiarity, friendship and a sense of knowing your place in the world-usually in front of the TV on a Saturday evening. -Ian Watson.
![Review Manga Entertainment / Goku Midnight Eye - Part 2 [1989]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51179GMR6SL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Rebecca Forstadt
- Steven Jay Blum
- Clara York
- Kirk Thornton
- Yoshiaki Kawajiri
- Wendee Lee
Run time: 56 min.
Price: £5.99
Review Goku Midnight Eye - Part 2 [1989] / Manga Entertainment:
![Review Warner Home Video / The Glimmer Man [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41386JGQJSL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Bob Gunton
- Steven Seagal
- Brian Cox
- John M. Jackson
- Keenen Ivory Wayans
- John Gray
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Kevin Brodbin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99
Review The Glimmer Man [1996] / Warner Home Video:Steven Seagal needed a new approach to his standard head-busting heroics, so he teamed up with Keenen Ivory Wayans for this routine 1996 action flick. This time stone-faced Steve plays Los Angeles homicide detective Jack Cole, newly transplanted from New York and teamed up with Jim Campbell (Wayans). They're assigned to track down "The Family Man," a serial killer who earned his nickname by crucifying entire families and leaving religious graffiti as his calling card. The case heats up when the latest victim turns out to be Cole's ex-wife, and Cole is considered a primary suspect. That makes Seagal get really mad-you don't want to get Seagal too upset, y'know-but he still has time to quote Buddhist wisdom and crack wise with Wayans, who plays it relatively straight as the practical half of this partnership. Glimmer Man is typical Seagal stuff all the way, with obligatory fight scenes every 10 minutes or so, but Seagal fans will enjoy it and Brian Cox makes a suitably hissable villain. -Jeff Shannon.
Release date: 2001-10-22
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.95
Review Dukes Of Hazzard - Vol. 2 - General Lee Collection / Dukes of Hazzard:From the golden age of early-evening weekend telly The Dukes of Hazzard works as a reminder of a simpler time. An era when having a sense of morals meant leaping into a souped-up orange racer with the doors welded shut and having endless car chases with the crooked law, and when problems were solved with a good-natured fistfight at your local watering hole. It also maintains the classic good/bad divide of character types-the baddies were bumbling fools and the good guys and gal were clean-cut and clean-thinking but not so sanitised that they lost their individuality or their cool. The original series ran from 1979-1985 and during that time cousins Luke, Bo and Daisy Duke (all under the watchful eye of the stern-but-decent Uncle Jesse) tussled with the dishonest duo of Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane. Each week, Hogg and Coltrane came up with an illegal moneymaking scheme and the Dukes did their best to scupper their plans, "battling the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods". Cue Boss Hogg blubbling like an overgrown baby, and the ever-popular Daisy Duke sending teenage boys into fits of confusion. The plots didn't vary hugely from episode to episode, but The Dukes of Hazzard-just like the enduring A-Team-was not about thought provoking television. Rather it offered familiarity, friendship and a sense of knowing your place in the world-usually in front of the TV on a Saturday evening. -Ian Watson.
![Review Manga Entertainment / Giant Robo - Part 3 [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ME1TY1VRL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Shôzô Îzuka
- Sumi Shimamoto
- Kappei Yamaguchi
- Yasuhiro Imagawa
- Norio Wakamoto
- Kazue Komiya
Run time: 40 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.00
Review Giant Robo - Part 3 [1993] / Manga Entertainment:
![Review Sony Bmg / Warren Mitchell - The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XNB38RHFL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Warren Mitchell
- Peter Orton
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Johnny Speight
Price: £4.99
Review Warren Mitchell - The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf [1998] / Sony Bmg:
![Review 4 Front Video / Out of Africa [1986]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21HWNC5Z2TL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Sydney Pollack
- Meryl Streep
- Klaus Maria Brandauer
- Michael Kitchen
- Robert Redford
- Malick Bowens
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Kurt Luedtke
RRP: £5.99
Price: £16.99
Review Out of Africa [1986] / 4 Front Video:Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Out of Africa seems to have slipped more readily from public memory than other comparably lauded films. Yet Sidney Pollack's panoramic treatment of Karen Blixen's novel has retained its atmosphere and slow-burning emotion, and deserves reassessment. Meryl Streep is in her possibly most involving starring role as Baroness Karen Blixen, Danish free spirit whose ill-fated venture at the beginning of World War One to run a coffee plantation in Kenya is overlaid by her intimate yet distant relationship with adventurer and idealist Denys Finch Hatton, unselfconsciously portrayed by Robert Redford. Klaus Maria Brandauer puts in a rare and convincing English-language appearance as the amoral but charming womaniser Baron Bror Blixen. The film is tellingly held together by Kurt Luedke's finely honed screenplay, and John Barry's sumptuously expressive score. On the DVD: The anamorphic 1. 85:1 widescreen format reproduces superbly, as does the 4. 1 discrete audio. 18 access points are provided, with printed and aural subtitles in English only. Pollack's feature commentary is amusing enough on a single run-through, but an on-location documentary would have been preferable. [+]Production notes and biographies are very adequate, though the theatrical trailer reproduction is notably inferior. No matter, this is a major film, well worth the transfer to DVD. -Richard Whitehouse.
Actors & Directors
- Robert Morley
- Corin Redgrave
- Jack Hawkins
- Etienne Périer
- Anthony Hopkins
- Nathalie Delon
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Alistair MacLean
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.09
Review When Eight Bells Toll [1971] / 2 Entertain Video:
Actors & Directors
- Norio Wakamoto
- Sumi Shimamoto
- Kazue Komiya
- Kappei Yamaguchi
- Shôzô Îzuka
- Yasuhiro Imagawa
Run time: 47 min.
Creator: Mitsuteru Yokoyama
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.95
Review Giant Robo - Part 5 / Manga Entertainment:
Release date: 1994-03-14
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.99
Review The Professional - Golgo 13 / Manga Entertainment:
![Review Manga Entertainment / Goku Midnight Eye - Part 1 [1989]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S6XVT4HTL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Rebecca Forstadt
- Yoshiaki Kawajiri
- Wendee Lee
- Clara York
- Kirk Thornton
- Steve Blum
Run time: 48 min.
Creator: Buichi Terasawa
Price: £5.99
Review Goku Midnight Eye - Part 1 [1989] / Manga Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Ronald Fraser
- John Krish
- Quentin Lawrence
- Diana Rigg
- Julian Glover
- Paul Massie
- Patrick Macnee
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £10.99
Review The Avengers - Vol. 6 - The Gravediggers / The Living Dead [1965] / Lumiere Pictures:
Actors & Directors
- Dean Jagger
- Olivia De Havilland
- Michael Curtiz
- David Ladd
- Alan Ladd
- Cecil Kellaway
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £8.99
Review Proud Rebel [1958] / Castle Pictures (Defunct Label):
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