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Review Trans Global International / Alien Terminator (AKA Top Line) [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Franco Nero
  • Nello Rossati
  • George Kennedy
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £7.99

Review Alien Terminator (AKA Top Line) [1988] / Trans Global International:

Plot: Author Ted Angelo discovers an UFO in the Columbian jungle. When he tries to spread the word, he earns more than the usual disbelief: suddenly he's hunted by almost every organization, like CIA, KGB, the mob, Nazis. and even extraterrestrials - Those ETs obviously do not want to go home. Youtube link: http://youtube. com/watch?v=M4m1WEVUaqc.

Review Warner Home Video / Executive Decision [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • John Leguizamo
  • Halle Berry
  • Steven Seagal
  • Oliver Platt
  • Stuart Baird
  • Kurt Russell
Release date: 1997-07-14
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Spencer Franklin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review Executive Decision [1996] / Warner Home Video:

Steven Seagal gets killed during the first 20 minutes of this enjoyable thriller, so Executive Decision scores points for ingenuity because it immediately improves when you realise that Seagal's role is just a heroic cameo. That leaves Kurt Russell to star as an American intelligence expert who (due to Seagal's untimely demise) finds himself leading a strike force against Islamic terrorists who have seized in-flight control of a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers. It's not all that different from Air Force One, but the formula story perks right along with considerable suspense as Russell's cohorts (Oliver Platt, Joe Morton) try to defuse a chemical bomb that could wipe out (you guessed it) the entire Eastern seaboard. John Leguizamo plays one of the US commandos attempting to stop the violent hijackers and Halle Berry co-stars as a flight attendant who risks her life to assist Russell's rescue team. As action movies go, Executive Decision marked an impressive directorial debut for veteran film editor Stuart Baird. -Jeff Shannon.

Actors & Directors
  • J Lee Thompson
  • Rock Hudson
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Zaci Noy
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Ellen Burstyn
Run time: 96 min.

Review The Ambassador / Guild Home Video:

rock hudson,robert mitchum,donald pleasence,ellen burstyn,fabio testi,zaci noy. An Amerian ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East, but his efforts are hampered when his wife has an affair with a PLO leader.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Drop Zone [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Busey
  • Yancy Butler
  • John Badham
  • Michael Jeter
  • Wesley Snipes
  • Corin Nemec
Release date: 2000-02-07
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Tony Griffin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.85

Review Drop Zone [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Tartan Video / October - Ten Days That Shook The World [1927]
Actors & Directors
  • Vladimir Popov
  • Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Nikolai Popov
  • Boris Livanov
  • Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Vasili Nikandrov
  • Layaschenko
Release date: 1997-07-28
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: John Reed
Price: £15.99

Review October - Ten Days That Shook The World [1927] / Tartan Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Man From U.N.C.L.E.Vol.3 [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Theo Marcuse
  • Sharon Farrell
  • David McCallum
  • John Brahm
  • Barry Shear
  • Robert Vaughn
  • Eve Arden
Release date: 1992-07-27
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £7.99

Review Man From U.N.C.L.E.Vol.3 [1965] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Sahara [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Zoltan Korda
  • J. Carrol Naish
  • Lloyd Bridges
  • Bruce Bennett
  • Rex Ingram
  • Humphrey Bogart
Release date: 2003-01-13
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Sidney Buchman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.96

Review Sahara [1943] / 4 Front Video:

Columbia's biggest hit of 1943, Sahara confirmed the superstar status Humphrey Bogart attained with his Warner Brothers' North African adventure, Casablanca (1942). Surrounded by the Germans on three sides, Bogart's tough-as-they-come Sergeant Joe Gunn takes his tank and a crew of American, British and French soldiers into the Sahara to reach the retreating allied forces. But when they find that the only water for 100 miles is also the target of a German battalion they decide to take a desperate stand. Early scenes present the characters with assorted perils: thirst, sandstorms and a German air attack. The characters are rather stereotypical: the cowardly Italian prisoner, the Frenchman obsessed with food, the German humourless and fanatical, though the British come out well, and there's a sympathetically drawn black British Sudanese soldier (Rex Ingram). The director was Zoltan Korda, the man behind such British classics as The Four Feathers (1939), and though Sahara lacks the scale of that adventure, Korda's experience pays off in mounting the extended and suspenseful siege/action climax. With support from Lloyd Bridges and Dan Duryea, Oscar-nominated photography by Rudolph Mate and a fine score by Miklós Rózsa, Sahara is a taut, gripping desert war thriller which wouldn't be bettered until Ice Cold in Alex (1958). On the DVD: The black and white picture is presented in the original 4:3 ratio and looks very good for its age, though there are numerous brief instances of substantial print damage. Audio is strong, clear mono. Given the age of the movie it is not surprising the only extras are filmographies and a small selection of beautifully reproduced original advertising posters. [+]
The film is presented with alternative soundtracks in French, Italian and Spanish, as well as with English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Finnish subtitles. There are trailers for The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and The Guns of Navarone (1961). -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / 3 Ninjas
Actors & Directors
  • Rand Kingsley
  • Michael Treanor
  • Chad Power
  • Max Elliott Slade
  • Jon Turteltaub
  • Victor Wong (III)
Release date: 1994-10-18
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £10.99

Review 3 Ninjas / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

A slightly better movie than you might be expecting, 3 Ninjas is a variation on The Karate Kid that has three youngsters helping out their grandfather in his fight against evil ninja warriors. The real secret weapon is director Jon Turtletaub, paying some dues on this 1992 family feature. He subsequently went on to direct John Travolta in Phenomenon and Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping. -Tom Keogh.

Review MGM Entertainment / Man From U.N.C.L.E.Vol.1 [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Vaughn
  • Cesar Romero
  • David McCallum
  • Joseph Sargent
  • William Shatner
  • Barbara Feldon
Release date: 1992-06-15
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £14.99

Review Man From U.N.C.L.E.Vol.1 [1965] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Michael Caine Collection - Alfie / The Italian Job / Zulu [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Noel Coward
  • Stanley Baker
  • Peter Collinson
  • Jack Hawkins
  • Cy Endfield
  • Michael Caine
  • Ulla Jacobsson
Release date: 1999-10-18
Run time: 339 min.
Creator: Troy Kennedy-Martin
RRP: £24.99
Price: £6.49

Review The Michael Caine Collection - Alfie / The Italian Job / Zulu [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Alfie: In this extremely grim comedy, Michael Caine plays a ne'er-do-well who never does good. The rakish Alfie moves from woman to woman; alternately talking up to the camera and talking down to his sexual conquests, Alfie manoeuvres through the minefield of emotions by remaining aloof, until of course he is left alone. A fine performance by Shelley Winters as the wealthy woman Alfie seeks to court rounds out this well-aimed attack on the lady's man lifestyle. Nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. -James DiGiovanna, Amazon. com Zulu: "Sentries have come in from the hill, sir. They report Zulus to the southeast. [+]
Thousands of them". One of the best pure action movies ever made, this rousing adventure recounts the true story of a small 18th-century regiment of British troops (including a very blue-blooded turn by a young Michael Caine) endlessly besieged by a seemingly unceasing number of fierce attackers. Although the basic premise has since been executed with more technical skill and panache (most notably by Aliens and Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans), it's unlikely that anything will ever top the utter spectacle and, above all, sheer unbelievable size of the combat scenes that almost wholly take up the last half of this film. A gloriously exhilarating essential for anyone looking to get lost in the heat of cinematic battle, topped off with a healthy dose of gallows humour. Not to be missed. Richard Burton voiced the stirring narration. Zulu was followed by a slightly dry but still recommended prequel, Zulu Dawn. -Andrew Wright, Amazon. com The Italian Job: This cult caper is about as depraved as they come. Michael Caine, ever the enterprising swinger and swindler, has an ingenious plan to steal a huge cache of Chinese gold to be shipped to Turin as collateral for a new Fiat plant. Since the Italy-Great Britain soccer match is being played at the same time, Caine wants to create a diversion in the form of a monumental traffic jam. For financing, he turns to Noel Coward, who directs British criminal enterprises from his jail cell. A motley crew is assembled, including Benny Hill as a computer expert with a fetish for large women. It's all a nasty and fun parody, with the most memorable robbery-chase sequence in the history of the caper genre. -Bill Desowitz, Amazon. com.

Review / Supercarrier 2 (AKA Super Carrier 2) (Video Tape/PAL) 1988
Actors & Directors
  • Dale Dye
  • Robert Hooks
  • William A Graham
  • Ken Olandt
  • John David Bland
  • Cec Verrell
Run time: 95 min.

Review Supercarrier 2 (AKA Super Carrier 2) (Video Tape/PAL) 1988:

The elite top guns of the US Navy are back, with more supersonic skills and thrills, as they demand the maximum from their multi million dollar flying hot-rods. While out on war game manoeuvres, pilots Sierra and Anzac encounter the unbelievable, a Russian MIG fighter. Face to face with the flying machine they dream to do combat with, temperatures run high. The situation is complicated by a Soviet submarine in close range to the Supercarrier Georgetown. The story goes on. faster, deadlier and way over the edge. Supercarrier 2 takes you where no previous aviation action adventure has been before.

Review Entertainment in Video / Live Wire [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Silver
  • Tony Plana
  • Lisa Eilbacher
  • Christian Duguay
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Ben Cross
Release date: 1993-06-30
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Suzanne Todd
RRP: £5.99
Price: £15.89

Review Live Wire [1992] / Entertainment in Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Man From U.N.C.L.E.Vol.5 [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Vaughn
  • Sherman Marks
  • Leo G. Carroll
  • Shari Lewis
  • George Waggner
  • Nancy Sinatra
  • David McCallum
Release date: 1993-04-05
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £7.99

Review Man From U.N.C.L.E.Vol.5 [1966] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Uca Catalogue / Cat Ballou [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Silver
  • Billy Zane
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Allan Eastman
  • Lisa Collins
  • Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Release date: 2003-06-02
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Jeff Albert
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.74

Review Cat Ballou [1965] / Uca Catalogue:


Review Manga Entertainment / Venus Wars [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Alba
  • Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
  • Bob Sessions
  • Gorô Naya
  • Denica Fairman
  • Bradley Cole
Release date: 1992-10-05
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Venus Wars [1989] / Manga Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Platoon Leader [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Jesse Dabson
  • Michael DeLorenzo
  • Michael Dudikoff
  • Aaron Norris
  • Tony Pierce
  • Robert F. Lyons
Release date: 1997-09-22
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Rick Marx
Price: £5.99

Review Platoon Leader [1988] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Braveheart - Special Edition Box Set [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • James Robinson
  • Mel Gibson
  • Sandy Nelson
  • Sean Lawlor
  • Sophie Marceau
  • Mel Gibson
Release date: 1999-07-05
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Randall Wallace
RRP: £24.99
Price: £17.00

Review Braveheart - Special Edition Box Set [1995] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. Extremely moving, it reveals Gibson as a multitalented performer and remarkable director with an eye for detail and an understanding of human emotion. (His first directorial effort was 1993's Man Without a Face. ) The film is nearly three hours long and includes several plot tangents, yet is never dull. This movie resonates long after you have seen it, both for its visual beauty and for its powerful story. -Rochelle O'Gorman Mel Gibson's birth-of-a-nation epic Braveheart does for England what Spartacus did for Rome: every Englishman in this film is weak or nasty or a fool, or all three. Gibson plays William Wallace, the highland warrior whose fierce fighting spirit prompted Robert the Bruce's memorable victory over the English at Bannockburn. [+]
The film opens with boy Wallace losing his father and brother to the murdering English. Gibson's over-age Wallace then indulges in an unintentionally risible spot of teenage romance with the chaste Murron (Catherine McCormack), who is promptly despatched by yet another wicked Englishman. Gibson swings into action in some truly impressive (and horribly gory) fight scenes, culminating in the battles of Stirling and Falkirk. When not separating English body parts, Gibson finds time for a clandestine romance with Isabelle, the Princess of Wales (Sophie Marceau), whom he manages to impregnate, thereby ensuring that the current British monarchy are all descended from him and not from William the Conqueror as they might heretofore have supposed. He trounces the weak and venial English at every turn, causing England's nasty Edward I (Patrick McGoohan) to cough and splutter a lot. Only treachery by the Scotch nobility (lowlanders to a man) stops Wallace's triumphant crusade. His final apotheosis, complete with pre-Passion of the Christ crucifixion imagery, posits Wallace as the redeemer of his country's lost independence. The set-piece battles are a feast for the senses: a combination of the scale of Spartacus with the mud of Branagh's Henry V. But the continual use of slow motion in tandem with the gorgeous scenic backdrops and James Horner's cloying "folksy" music score of indeterminate national origin, enhances the feeling that this is a slick promo for the Scottish tourist board (ironic, perhaps, that much of it was shot in Ireland). Gibson and his Caledonian costars give the impression that a good time was had by all. -Mark Walker.

Actors & Directors
  • Ernie Hudson
  • Peter Strauss
  • Molly Ringwald
  • Michael Ironside
  • Lamont Johnson
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Andre Link
Price: £10.99

Review Spacehunter / Columbia Pictures:

Three women makes an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their talents, they try to rescue the women.

Review Entertainment in Video / Blade II [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Wesley Snipes
  • Leonor Varela
  • Ron Perlman
  • Guillermo del Toro
  • Norman Reedus
  • Kris Kristofferson
Release date: 2002-09-30
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Marv Wolfman
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.99

Review Blade II [2002] / Entertainment in Video:

Aptly described by critic Roger Ebert as "a vomitorium of viscera", Blade II takes the express route to sequel success. So if you enjoyed Blade, you'll probably drool over this monster mash, which is anything but boring. Set (and filmed) in Prague, the plot finds a new crop of "Reaper" vampires threatening to implement a viral breeding program, and they're nearly impervious to attacks by Blade (Wesley Snipes), his now-revived mentor Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), and a small army of "normal" vampires who routinely combust in a constant conflagration of spectacular special effects. It's up to Blade to conquer the über-vamps, and both Snipes and director Guillermo del Toro (Mimic) serve up a nonstop smorgasbord of intensely choreographed action, creepy makeup, and graphic ultra-violence, with the ever-imposing Ron Perlman as a vampire villain. It's sadistic, juvenile, numbing, and-for those who dig this kind of thing-undeniably impressive. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Cinema Club / Silent Trigger [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Gina Bellman
  • Russell Mulcahy
  • Conrad Dunn
  • Christopher Heyerdahl
  • Emma Stevens
  • Dolph Lundgren
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Sergio Altieri
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.59

Review Silent Trigger [1996] / Cinema Club:


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Alien Terminator (AKA Top Line) [1988], Executive Decision [1996], The Ambassador, Drop Zone [1995], October - Ten Days That Shook The World [1927], Man From U.N.C.L.E.Vol.3 [1965], Sahara [1943], 3 Ninjas, Man From U.N.C.L.E.Vol.1 [1965], The Michael Caine Collection - Alfie / The Italian Job / Zulu [1969], Supercarrier 2 (AKA Super Carrier 2) (Video Tape/PAL) 1988, Live Wire [1992], Man From U.N.C.L.E.Vol.5 [1966], Cat Ballou [1965], Venus Wars [1989], Platoon Leader [1988], Braveheart - Special Edition Box Set [1995], Spacehunter, Blade II [2002], Silent Trigger [1996]

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