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Review Angel Cop 2 / Angel Cop 2 [1994]
Release date: 1995-06-05
Run time: 29 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.95

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Lost World / Return To The Lost World [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric McCormack
  • John Rhys-Davies
  • Timothy Bond
  • Darren Peter Mercer
  • Nathania Stanford
  • David Warner
Release date: 1998-03-02
Run time: 191 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review Columbia Tri-Star Home Video / The Guns Of Navarone [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Alexander Mackendrick
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • David Niven
  • Gregory Peck
  • Stanley Baker
Release date: 1994-09-26
Run time: 157 min.
Creator: Alistair MacLean
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.91

Review The Guns Of Navarone [1961] / Columbia Tri-Star Home Video:

This rousing, explosive 1961 WWII adventure, based on Alistair MacLean's thrilling novel, turns the war thriller into a deadly caper film. Gregory Peck heads a star-studded cast charged with a near impossible mission: to destroy a pair of German guns nestled in a protective cave on the strategic Mediterranean island of Navarone, from where they can control a vital sea passage. As world famous mountain climber turned British army Captain Mallory, Peck leads a guerrilla force composed of the humanistic explosives expert, Miller (David Niven), the ruthless Greek patriot with a grudge, Stavros (Anthony Quinn), veteran special forces soldier Brown (Stanley Baker) and the cool, quiet young marksman Pappadimos (James Darren). This disparate collection of classic types must overcome internal conflicts, enemy attacks, betrayal and capture to complete their mission. Director J. Lee Thompson sets a driving pace for this exciting (if familiar) military operation, a succession of close calls, pitched battles and last-minute escapes as our heroes infiltrate the garrisoned town with the help of resistance leader Maria (Irene Papas) and plot their entry into the heavily guarded mountain fort. Carl Foreman's screenplay embraces MacLean's role call of clichés and delivers them with style, creating one of the liveliest mixes of espionage, combat and good old-fashioned military derring-do put on film. In 1978, the sequel Force 10 from Navarone was released, but MacLean fans will prefer to check out the action-packed thriller Where Eagles Dare. -Sean Axmaker.

Review MGM Entertainment / Legend of the Lost [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Rossano Brazzi
  • Sophia Loren
  • Kurt Kasznar
  • Sonia Moser
  • John Wayne
Release date: 1995-06-12
Run time: 104 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review Manga Entertainment / New Dominion Tank Police - Act 7 [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Harper
  • Noboru Furuse
  • Adam Henderson
  • Shigeru Chiba
  • Toni Barry
  • Ichirô Nagai
Release date: 1995-06-05
Run time: 29 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.59

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Review Legend of Crystania: Resurrection Gods King / Legend Of Crystania - Resurrection Of The God's King
Release date: 1999-09-06
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.44

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Cyborg 3-The Creation [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Lynch
  • Khrystyne Haje
  • Malcolm McDowell
  • Zach Galligan
  • Andrew Bryniarski
  • Michael Schroeder
Release date: 1996-05-13
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.75

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Guns Of Dragon [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Steven Darrow
  • Mark Cheng
  • Ray Lui
  • Alex Fong
  • Jackson Liu
  • Tony Leung Siu Hung
Release date: 1995-09-24
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Peter Chan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Bravados [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Joan Collins
  • Henry King
  • Albert Salmi
  • Gregory Peck
  • Henry Silva
  • Stephen Boyd
Release date: 1998-03-23
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Philip Yordan
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.00

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Review Ultimate Fighting Championship / The Ultimate Fighting Championship 2 [1994]
Release date: 1995-05-15
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.38

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Viva Zapata [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Arnold Moss
  • Marlon Brando
  • Jean Peters
  • Joseph Wiseman
  • Elia Kazan
  • Anthony Quinn
Release date: 1990-06-07
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: John Steinbeck
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.48

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Review Art House Productions Ltd. / Goodbye Pork Pie [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Geoff Murphy
  • Bruno Lawrence
  • Kelly Johnson
  • Claire Oberman
  • Tony Barry
  • Shirley Gruar
Release date: 1995-04-24
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Ian Mune
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.95

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Review Silver Vision / Super Duper Baseball Bloopers - 2 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Warner Fusselle
Release date: 1995-06-12
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.99

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / No Surrender [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Corey Feldman
  • Ted Jan Roberts
  • Mako
  • Bernard Hill
  • Peter Smith
  • Tom Georgeson
Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / Big Parade [1927]
Actors & Directors
  • King Vidor|John Gilbert|Renée Adorée|Hobart Bosworth
Release date: 1995-06-12
Run time: 137 min.
Price: £14.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / The Bridge At Remagen [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • John Guillermin
  • Ben Gazzara
  • Robert Vaughn
  • E.G. Marshall
  • Bradford Dillman
  • George Segal
Release date: 2000-05-29
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: William Roberts
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.94

Review The Bridge At Remagen [1968] / MGM Entertainment:

Fine casting, rugged characters and authentic military detail make The Bridge at Remagen one of the best World War II action films of the 1960s. Based on actual incidents during the final Allied advance on Germany in March 1945, the story focuses on the US Army's exhausted 27th Armoured Infantry, assigned to seize the bridge at Remagen, on the Rhine river, to prevent 50,000 German troops from retreating to safety. Lt Hartman (George Segal) leads the mission, while a Nazi major (Robert Vaughn) defies orders by attempting to hold the bridge instead of blowing it up. With strong emphasis on war's harsher realities, the film's compelling characters illustrate the camaraderie of survivors and the heroism of mavericks in the thick of battle. Segal and Ben Gazzara effectively convey a hard-won friendship, and the film's dynamic action (filmed in Czechoslovakia and Italy) never overwhelms the story's emotional impact. This is highly recommended. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Entertainment in Video / Sugar Hill
Actors & Directors
  • Wesley Snipes
  • Abe Vigoda
  • Leon Ichaso
  • Theresa Randle
  • Clarence Williams
  • Michael Wright
Release date: 1995-03-14
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.94

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Review Warner Home Video / Unforgiven [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Jaimz Woolvett
  • Richard Harris
  • Morgan Freeman
  • Gene Hackman
  • Clint Eastwood
Release date: 2000-03-20
Run time: 131 min.
Creator: David Webb Peoples
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.95

Review Unforgiven [1992] / Warner Home Video:

Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarised everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay. " To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission-to find the men who brutalised a prostitute-to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colourful role for Richard Harris, Unforgiven is arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. -Jeff Shannon Set in Wyoming in 1881 during the sunset years of the Wild West, 1992's Unforgiven was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood, and is generally considered to be the towering achievement of his twilight years. Eastwood plays William Munny, once a vicious, whisky-swilling bounty hunter, brought to heel by his marriage to a good woman. When she dies, he must raise two children and run a hog farm alone, something which we see him make a comically poor fist of doing. [+]
Then, in a twist of fate, a young outlaw called the Schofield Kid trots up to his farm and invites him to collect on a $1,000 reward raised by a group of prostitutes. However, Clint must not only face up to his own somewhat rusty skills as a gunslinger, but also to genial-but-psychopathic lawman Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman in superb form). Unforgiven ultimately conforms to the expectations of the genre, while subverting quite a few of them on the way. There's brooding on the consequences of violence ("It's a hell of a thing to kill a man"), as Munny's ineptitude with a rifle is matched by his feelings of penitence for his younger wrongdoings. Finally, however, Eastwood casts aside age and inhibition in a chillingly ruthless shootout, his powers miraculously (improbably?) restored, in what could also be seen as an assertion on the part of the ageing Eastwood of his own potency as a major player in Hollywood. On the DVD: Unforgiven is presented in this Special Edition release in a 2. 35:1 widescreen transfer that gives due emphasis to what critic David Thomson described as the "drained, wintry" feel of the movie. There are numerous bonus features in addition to the original trailer. Eastwood official biographer Richard Schickel offers a particularly copious and detailed audio commentary which touches on all aspects of the film. The 64-minute 1997 documentary Clint on Clint offers a detailed if inevitably worshipful account of Eastwood's career. Finally, there's a 47-minute 1959 episode of Maverick, the old James Garner TV series, guest-starring a 29-year-old Clint, several years away from his big Hollywood break. -David Stubbs.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Bridges At Toko-Ri [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • William Holden
  • Grace Kelly
  • Fredric March
  • Mickey Rooney
  • Mark Robson
  • Robert Strauss
Release date: 1997-06-16
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Valentine Davies
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.35

Review The Bridges At Toko-Ri [1954] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

A powerful study of courage in the face of irrational odds, The Bridges at Toko-Ri (based on James Michener's novel) is no less patriotic than many other war films, but it dispenses with the gung-ho bluster to focus on the very real and tragic consequences of war. This is also one of the first films to openly criticise the morality of the Korean War while praising the honour and integrity of the men who fought it. Lt Harry Brubaker (William Holden) is one of those men: a lawyer with a loving wife (Grace Kelly) and two young daughters, who is recalled to duty from the Navy Reserve, his mission; to fly with a bomber jet squadron over one of the Communists' most heavily protected targets, the strategically vital bridges in the Korean canyon of Toko-Ri. Brubaker has his own noble protection from his fellow pilots (including Charles McGraw in a fine supporting role), admiring admiral (Frederic March), and from the helicopter scouts (Mickey Rooney, Earl Holliman) who saved his life on a previous missions. But his ambivalence-and his fear that the Toko-Ri mission will be his last-is what gives the film its potent emotional impact. Holden is perfect in his role, and director Mark Robson steadfastly avoids any false sentiment or macho theatrics that would diminish the film's devastating climax. The Bridges at Toko-Ri is also a superlative showcase for the naval operations; the aerial sequences earned an Oscar for special effects and the Navy's cooperation assures total authenticity in the "flat-top" aircraft carrier scenes. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Legend of Crystania / Legend Of Crystania - The Cave Of The Sealed
Release date: 1999-07-05
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.79

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