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Review Ilc Prime / Casino Royale - (Previously Casino Royale - The Lost TV Classic) (1954)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Parrish
  • Ursula Andress
  • John Huston
  • Ken Hughes
  • Richard Talmadge
  • Joseph McGrath
  • Peter Lorre
  • John Huston
  • Barry Nelson
  • Charles Boyer
Release date: 1996-06-24
Run time: 50 min.
Creator: Billy Wilder
Price: £10.99

Review Casino Royale - (Previously Casino Royale - The Lost TV Classic) (1954) / Ilc Prime:

John Huston was only one of five directors on Casino Royale, the expensive, all-star 1967 spoof of Ian Fleming's 007 lore. David Niven is the aging Sir James Bond, called out of retirement to take on the organised threat of SMERSH and pass on the secret-agent mantle to his idiot son (Woody Allen). The amazing cast (Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, Deborah Kerr and others) is wonderful to look at, but the film is not as funny as it should be, and the romping even starts to look mannered after a while. The musical score by Burt Bacharach, however, is a keeper. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / All Quiet on the Western Front [1930]
Actors & Directors
  • Louis Wolheim
  • John Wray
  • Lewis Milestone
  • Ben Alexander
  • Arnold Lucy
  • Lew Ayres
Release date: 2001-01-08
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Walter Anthony
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.99

Review All Quiet on the Western Front [1930] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

This 1930 film, No 54 on the AFI's Top 100 list, still holds up as a surprisingly forceful and honest antiwar drama. Indeed, the modern sensibility is almost as startling as the sometime stagy acting of Lew Ayres, which can be excused by the fact that, three years after the introduction of sound, actors were still applying stage techniques to talking pictures. Ayres plays a German college student during World War I, who is brainwashed into enlisting in the Army (along with the rest of his class) by a zealously inspirational college professor. Once in uniform and on the front lines, however, he quickly discovers that the glory of the Fatherland is of little concern to a soldier dodging bullets and explosions, whose comrades are dying in his arms. As powerful in its way as Platoon almost 60 years later, All Quiet on the Western Front remains a classic tale of young soldiers' confrontations with the possibility of imminent and arbitrary death. Director Lewis Milestone shows a surprising range of techniques in this film from the formative years of moviemaking with sound. -Marshall Fine.

Review Entertainment in Video / The Trench [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • James D'Arcy
  • Julian Rhind-Tutt
  • Paul Nicholls
  • Daniel Craig
  • Danny Dyer
  • William Boyd
Release date: 2000-07-17
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Xavier Marchand
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

Review The Trench [1999] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Flash [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Amanda Pays
  • Robert Iscove
  • John Wesley Shipp
  • Tim Thomerson
Release date: 1995-07-10
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.37

Review The Flash [1990] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Ivanhoe [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • George Sanders
  • Robert Taylor
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Richard Thorpe
  • Emlyn Williams
  • Joan Fontaine
Release date: 2002-04-22
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Æneas MacKenzie
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.19

Review Ivanhoe [1952] / Warner Home Video:


Review Cinema Club / Highlander - Endgame [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Douglas Aarniokoski
  • Christopher Lambert
  • Adrian Paul
  • Peter Wingfield
  • Bruce Payne
  • Donnie Yen
Release date: 2002-04-08
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.95

Review Highlander - Endgame [2000] / Cinema Club:

Never has a franchise been more surprisingly prolific or brain-bogglingly convoluted than Highlander. In case you were wondering why, Endgame will give you an answer of sorts. It's always great to see folks hacking away at each other with swords, especially when they are imaginatively choreographed action-actors like Adrian Paul and Christopher Lambert. But it's all complicated by the fact that they shouldn't be together at all. Ever since the first film, no writer has been able (or bothered) to follow the continuity it established. The second film (The Quickening) is considered forgettably apocryphal, with only the third (The Sorcerer) making some sort of vague chronological sense. Then the TV series began in 1992 (starring Paul) and created its own rules and timeline. Skip over a further TV spin-off and even an animated series, and we now have Endgame, which flips between present-day New York, 16th-century Scotland and various times in-between, with none of it even attempting to tie-in with anything that has gone before. But if you can get past its basic inconsistencies, it's fun to see an aging Lambert in a kilt, still wielding that sword. The new baddies are pretty cool too, though, more importantly, the film proves conclusively that the original legend "There can be only one" was a complete lie. [+]
Heads will roll again. -Paul Tonks.

Review 4 Front Video / Genghis Khan [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • James Mason
  • Henry Levin
  • Francoise Dorleac
  • Stephen Boyd
  • Omar Sharif
  • Eli Wallach
Release date: 2003-01-13
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Genghis Khan [1964] / 4 Front Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Cyborg / Bloodsport [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Burton
  • Deborah Richter
  • Newt Arnold
  • Albert Pyun
  • Donald Gibb
  • Leah Ayres
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
Run time: 168 min.
Creator: Sheldon Lettich
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.94

Review Cyborg / Bloodsport [1989] / Warner Home Video:

A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. Bloodsport is a guilty-pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon) and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. -Andrew Wright A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in Bloodsport, which may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. It's a guilty pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon), and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. [+]
-Andrew Wright.

Release date: 1996-08-19
Run time: 47 min.
Creator: Fred Hamilton
Price: £4.99

Review Bonanza - The Dark Gate [1961] / Creation Entertainment Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • Lewis Gilbert
  • Alain Saury
  • Virginia McKenna
  • Jack Warner
  • Denise Grey
  • Paul Scofield
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Vernon Harris
RRP: £6.99
Price: £5.99

Review Carve Her Name With Pride [1958] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Tartan Video / Aguirre, Wrath Of God / Land Of Silence And Darkness [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Rolf Illig
  • Elsa Fehrer
  • Fini Straubinger
  • Heinrich Fleischmann
  • M. Baaske
  • Werner Herzog
  • Pierre-Alain Jolivet
Release date: 1995-05-22
Run time: 175 min.
Creator: Pierre Neurrisse
Price: £15.99

Review Aguirre, Wrath Of God / Land Of Silence And Darkness [1972] / Tartan Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Héctor Olivera
  • Barbara Stock
  • Thom Christopher
  • Bo Svenson
  • Vidal Peterson
  • Maria Socas
Release date: 1991-07-22
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Ed Naha
Price: £5.99

Review Wizards Of The Lost Kingdom [1985] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Warner Home Video / White Lightning
Actors & Directors
  • Ned Beatty
  • Burt Reynolds
  • Jennifer Billingsley
  • Joseph Sargent
  • Bo Hopkins
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £10.99

Review White Lightning / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Duke Collection - The Shootist / Donovan's Reef / Rio Lobo / Big Jake [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • George Sherman
  • Jack Elam
  • Victor French
  • Don Siegel
  • John Wayne
  • John Ford
  • Jorge Rivero
  • Howard Hawks
  • Richard Boone
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 413 min.
Price: £21.99

Review The Duke Collection - The Shootist / Donovan's Reef / Rio Lobo / Big Jake [1963] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Kung Fu [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Kerrie Keane
  • David Carradine
  • Richard Lang
  • Mako
  • Luke Askew
  • William Lucking
Release date: 1999-09-13
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Durrell Royce Crays
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

Review Kung Fu [1986] / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Red Dawn [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • John Milius
  • Lea Thompson
  • Darren Dalton
  • Charlie Sheen
  • Patrick Swayze
  • C. Thomas Howell
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Kevin Reynolds
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.98

Review Red Dawn [1984] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Columbia Tristar / The Punisher [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Samantha Mathis
  • Thomas Jane
  • John Travolta
  • Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
  • Jonathan Hensleigh
  • Will Patton
Release date: 2005-12-19
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review The Punisher [2004] / Columbia Tristar:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Demetrius And The Gladiators [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Delmer Daves
  • Michael Rennie
  • Debra Paget
  • Victor Mature
  • Susan Hayward
  • Anne Bancroft
Release date: 1997-03-17
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Philip Dunne
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.49

Review Demetrius And The Gladiators [1954] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Vipco / A Man Called Blade [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Sonja Jeannine
  • Maurizio Merli
  • Salvatore Puntillo
  • Sergio Martino
  • Donald O'Brien
  • John Steiner
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Sauro Scavolini
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.95

Review A Man Called Blade [1977] / Vipco:


Actors & Directors
  • Joachim Fuchsberger
  • Nigel Green
  • Don Sharp
  • Christopher Lee
  • Karin Dor
  • James Robertson Justice
Release date: 1991-08-26
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Sax Rohmer
Price: £5.99

Review The Face Of Fu Manchu [1965] / Braveworld Ltd. (Defunct):


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Casino Royale - (Previously Casino Royale - The Lost TV Classic) (1954), All Quiet on the Western Front [1930], The Trench [1999], The Flash [1990], Ivanhoe [1952], Highlander - Endgame [2000], Genghis Khan [1964], Cyborg / Bloodsport [1989], Bonanza - The Dark Gate [1961], Carve Her Name With Pride [1958], Aguirre, Wrath Of God / Land Of Silence And Darkness [1972], Wizards Of The Lost Kingdom [1985], White Lightning, The Duke Collection - The Shootist / Donovan's Reef / Rio Lobo / Big Jake [1963], Kung Fu [1986], Red Dawn [1984], The Punisher [2004], Demetrius And The Gladiators [1954], A Man Called Blade [1977], The Face Of Fu Manchu [1965]

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