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Review Warner Home Video / Sweet November [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Pat O'Connor
  • Charlize Theron
  • Jason Isaacs
  • Greg Germann
  • Keanu Reeves
Release date: 2002-07-22
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Sweet November [2001] / Warner Home Video:


Review Granada Media / Flambards - Episodes 7 To 13 - Sing No Sad Songs [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Geoffrey Hooper
  • Lawrence Gordon Clark
  • Michael Ferguson
  • Jonathan Darvill
  • Alan Parnaby
  • Christine McKenna
  • Peter Settelen
  • Leonard Lewis
  • Peter Duffell
Release date: 1999-09-13
Run time: 361 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.89

Review Flambards - Episodes 7 To 13 - Sing No Sad Songs [1979] / Granada Media:


Review Odyssey Video / War And Remembrance - Part 4 [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Jane Seymour
  • Victoria Tennant
  • Tommy Groszman
  • Hart Bochner
  • Dan Curtis
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Polly Bergen
Release date: 1994-04-25
Run time: 212 min.
Price: £10.99

Review War And Remembrance - Part 4 [1986] / Odyssey Video:


Review Acorn Media / A Family At War - Series 3
Actors & Directors
  • Lesley Nunnerley
  • Richard Martin
  • Colin Douglas
  • Ian Thompson
  • Barbara Flynn
  • Les Chatfield
  • Baz Taylor
  • Gerry Mill
  • John McKelvey
  • David Giles
Release date: 2005-07-11
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £67.99
Price: £25.00

Review A Family At War - Series 3 / Acorn Media:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Gormenghast [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Celia Imrie
  • George Yiasoumi
  • Andy Wilson (IV)
  • Warren Mitchell
  • Ian Richardson
  • John Sessions
Release date: 2000-02-07
Run time: 245 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.68

Review Gormenghast [2000] / 2 Entertain Video:

The BBC's lavish, glowingly designed adapation of Mervyn Peake's eccentrically brilliant novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast is a triumph of casting. Ian Richardson's Lear-like depiction of the mad earl of a remote, vast, ritual-obsessed building is matched by the brutal pragmatism of Celia Imrie as his wife, the synchronised madness of Zoe Wanamaker and Lynsey Baxter as his twin sisters and the duplicitous charm of Jonathan Rhys-Meyer as Steerpike, the kitchen-boy determined to take over no matter how many deaths it costs. John Sessions is surprisingly touching as Prunesquallor, the family doctor who realises almost too late what Steerpike intends. It is always tricky to film a book dear to the hearts of its admirers: Wilson and his design team achieve a look rather more pre-Raphaelite than Peake's own illustrations, shabby velvets, garish sunlight and dank stone passages. The score by Richard Rodney Bennett is full of attractive surprises-fanfares and waltzes and apotheoses-and John Tavener's choral additions are plausibly parts of the immemorial ritual of Gormenghast. -Roz Kaveney.

Review First Independent Video / Naked [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Leigh
  • Katrin Cartlidge
  • Lesley Sharp
  • Greg Cruttwell
  • David Thewlis
  • Claire Skinner
Release date: 1997-06-09
Run time: 125 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.95

Review Naked [1993] / First Independent Video:

In between his breakthrough film (Life Is Sweet) and his world sensation (Secrets and Lies), filmmaker Mike Leigh created his most abrasive and daring film, Naked. This "Angry Young Man" for the 1990s follows an acidic wanderer (Cannes award winner David Thewlis) who observes a corrosive Britain. An intellectual, bitter film filtered with debauchery and black humour, Naked follows the bemusing Johnny as he crosses in and out of doorways, drifting into old acquaintances and new lost souls. It is more of a character film than sheer entertainment and thus it can be hard to watch but it offers one of the great performances of the 1990s. Thewlis would have been an Oscar shoo-in if he'd worn a dinner jacket and repressed his emotions. He didn't, and his brilliant work went unrecognised in mainstream America. -Doug Thomas.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Nobody's Children [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Ann-Margret
  • David Wheatley
  • Jay O. Sanders
  • Allan Corduner
  • Dominique Sanda
  • Katrin Cartlidge
Release date: 1997-05-19
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £4.99

Review Nobody's Children [1994] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Night of the Iguana [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Deborah Kerr
  • Richard Burton
  • Grayson Hall
  • John Huston
  • Ava Gardner
  • Sue Lyon
Release date: 1996-07-22
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.89

Review Night of the Iguana [1964] / MGM Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Penelope Wilton
  • Keith Barron
  • Gavin Millar
  • Joan Plowright
  • Jonathan Burteaux
  • Dorothy Tutin
Release date: 1999-02-01
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.80

Review This Could Be The Last Time [1998] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Sony Bmg / The Harder They Come [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Carl Bradshaw
  • Basil Keane
  • Ras Daniel Hartman
  • Jimmy Cliff
  • Perry Henzell
  • Janet Bartley
Release date: 2001-09-10
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.98

Review The Harder They Come [1972] / Sony Bmg:

Director-producer Perry Henzel's all-Jamaican 1973 classic The Harder They Come-one of the most beloved of all international cult favourites-fiercely expresses the live-wire Jamaican spirit when an impoverished Africa tuned to American radio. Ivan, a country boy who dreams of fame as a singer, rides into Kingston on a rickety country bus in the opening scenes, only to meet with disaster heaped on disaster at the hands of those masked as friends. In a breathless defining climax, Ivan finally breaks from his passivity and begins to wreak his revenge. Soon Kingston's music Mafia and the equally corrupt authorities are after him, but like the real-life people's hero (a man named Rhygin) on whom this character is partially based, Ivan leads them on a maddening chase eluding capture until the movie's shocking final moments. ,p. The film incorporates an archetypal passion for "outlaw" justice common to American Westerns, which were a staple of the Caribbean theatre circuit at the time. Released just 12 years after Jamaica achieved independence, The Harder They Come also reflects the disenchantment that soon followed a massive post-independence exodus from the island's country hamlets to the tropical ghettos of Kingston, where a more grinding urban poverty awaited. Brilliantly shot, directed, written, and acted; singer Jimmy Cliff excels in the leading role and Carl Bradshaw shines as his arch-enemy, the film tells an anthemic Jamaican story to seductive rhythms of a soundtrack that became a reggae bestseller. -Elena Oumano.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Among Giants [1998] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Andy Serkis
  • Lennie James
  • Pete Postlethwaite
  • James Thornton (II)
  • Sam Miller
  • Rachel Griffiths
Release date: 2000-05-15
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.00

Review Among Giants [1998] [1999] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Farrah Fawcett
  • Nicholas Clay
  • Bruce Davison
  • Burl Ives
  • Kevin McCarthy
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £19.64

Review Poor Little Rich Girl - The Barbara Hutton Story Part 2 [1989] / EUKV0017:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Governor - Pilot Special [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Janet McTeer
  • Alan Dossor
Release date: 1995-08-08
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.95

Review The Governor - Pilot Special [1995] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Kes [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • David Bradley (II)
  • Freddie Fletcher
  • Ken Loach
  • Brian Glover
  • Colin Welland
  • Lynne Perrie
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £13.88

Review Kes [1969] / MGM Entertainment:

This was only Ken Loach's second cinema feature but it still ranks as one of his finest and most moving films. Billy, a disaffected young lad living on a soulless Barnsley estate, finds a fledgling kestrel and, for the first time in his life, feels his imagination gripped. With infinite patience-and a book on falconry nicked from a local bookstore-he starts to train the bird. There's no boy-and-his-pet sentimentality here: the relationship between Kes the bird and the puny, taciturn Billy is the kinship, full of wary respect, between two wild creatures, and when Kes for the first time flies free and returns to Billy's wrist, the sense of exhilaration is overwhelming. Although Loach never rams his message home, it's clear that Billy stands for a whole generation of youngsters whose potential, barring some such chance event, will never be even fractionally realised. Chris Menges' photography brings out all the austere beauty of the Yorkshire locations, and Loach draws believable performances from his largely non-professional cast-especially the 14-year-old David Bradley, stunningly convincing as Billy. And anyone who has ever suffered under a bullying, self-satisfied sports teacher will squirm with recognition at the brilliant cameo from the late Brian Glover. -Philip Kemp.

Review Tartan Video / Providence [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Ellen Burstyn
  • David Warner
  • Alain Resnais
  • Elaine Stritch
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • John Gielgud
Release date: 1994-05-09
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £15.99

Review Providence [1976] / Tartan Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Sound Barrier (1952)
Actors & Directors
  • David Lean
  • Ralph Richardson
  • Robert Brooks Turner
  • Nigel Patrick
  • Ann Todd
  • Joseph Tomelty
Release date: 2000-07-03
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £24.99

Review The Sound Barrier (1952) / Warner Home Video:


Review Curzon Video / The Hour Of The Pig [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Leslie Megahey
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Nicol Williamson
  • Amina Annabi
  • Ian Holm
  • Colin Firth
Release date: 1995-02-06
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £44.99

Review The Hour Of The Pig [1994] / Curzon Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Heartbeat - Forever Yours
Actors & Directors
  • Tim Dowd
  • Niamh Cusack
  • Alister Hallum
  • Nick Berry
Release date: 1995-09-18
Run time: 152 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £16.99

Review Heartbeat - Forever Yours / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Little Dorrit - Part 1 [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Derek Jacobi
  • Luke Duckett
  • Max Wall
  • Christine Edzard
  • Joan Greenwood
  • Patricia Hayes
Release date: 1991-03-21
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £29.95

Review Little Dorrit - Part 1 [1990] / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Don Murray
  • Bo Derek
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Julie Newmar
  • Victoria Burgoyne
  • John Derek
Release date: 1993-04-19
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £4.99

Review Ghosts Can't Do It [1990] / 4 Front Video:


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Models & Brands:
Sweet November [2001], Flambards - Episodes 7 To 13 - Sing No Sad Songs [1979], War And Remembrance - Part 4 [1986], A Family At War - Series 3, Gormenghast [2000], Naked [1993], Nobody's Children [1994], Night of the Iguana [1964], This Could Be The Last Time [1998], The Harder They Come [1972], Among Giants [1998] [1999], Poor Little Rich Girl - The Barbara Hutton Story Part 2 [1989], The Governor - Pilot Special [1995], Kes [1969], Providence [1976], The Sound Barrier (1952), The Hour Of The Pig [1994], Heartbeat - Forever Yours, Little Dorrit - Part 1 [1990], Ghosts Can't Do It [1990]

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