![Review Cinema Club / Men In Black / Bad Boys [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510K7JD7JTL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Barry Sonnenfeld|Michael Bay|Will Smith|Tommy Lee Jones
Run time: 208 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99
Review Men In Black / Bad Boys [1997] / Cinema Club:
![Review Buena Vista / Thirteen Days [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411Z602PNML._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Len Cariou
- Lucinda Jenney
- Bruce Greenwood
- Steven Culp
- Kevin Costner
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.00
Review Thirteen Days [2001] / Buena Vista:On its theatrical release Thirteen Days was pummelled by American critics for taking liberties with the facts of the Cuban missile crisis and smothering its compelling drama with phoney Boston accents by its primary stars. But anyone who enjoys taut, intelligent political thrillers will find little to complain about here. Co-star and co-producer Kevin Costner drew criticism for fictionally enhancing the White House role of presidential aide Kenneth O'Donnell, but while Costner's Boston accent may be grating, his fine performance as O'Donnell offers expert witness to the crisis, its nerve-wracking escalation and the efforts of John F Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) and Robert F Kennedy (Steven Culp) to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Russia. While Soviet missiles approach operational status in Cuba, director Roger Donaldson (who directed Costner in No Way Out) cuts to exciting US Navy flights over the missile site, ramping up the tension that history itself provided. Donaldson's occasional use of black and white is self-consciously distracting, and he's further guilty of allowing a shrillness (along with repetitive, ominous shots of nuclear explosions) to invade the urgency of David Self's screenplay. Still, as Hollywood history lessons go, Thirteen Days is riveting stuff. You may find yourself wondering what might happen if reality presented a repeat scenario under less intelligent leadership. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.
Actors & Directors
- Akim Tamiroff
- Richard Todd
- Michael Anderson
- William Hartnell
- Keye Luke
- Donald Houston
Run time: 120 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Yangtse Incident (1957) / Dd Home Entertainment:
Run time: 217 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.99
Review Master of the Game Part 1 / BRAVEWORLD:PART ONE ONLY from the best selling novel 217 minutes. dyan cannon harry hamlin ian charleson jean marsh cheri lunghi donald pleasance.
![Review Bfi Video / Delius - Song Of Summer [1968]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WA17KC8EL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2001-08-20
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.95
Review Delius - Song Of Summer [1968] / Bfi Video:
![Review Momentum Pictures / Kitchen [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411WCG8QNPL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Karen Mok
- Siu-Ming Lau
- Kar-Ying Law
- Jordan Chan
- Yasuko Tomita
- Ho Yim
Run time: 124 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.95
Review Kitchen [1997] / Momentum Pictures:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Nobody's Children [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CDDMCJ5SL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Katrin Cartlidge
- Dominique Sanda
- Allan Corduner
- Ann-Margret
- David Wheatley
- Jay O. Sanders
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £4.99
Review Nobody's Children [1994] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review Artificial Eye / The Ox [1992]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/710RMJTSBPL._SL160_.gif)
Actors & Directors
- Sven Nykvist|Max Von Sydow|Stellan Skarsgard|Ewa Froling
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £15.99
Review The Ox [1992] / Artificial Eye:
![Review Cinema Club / Croupier [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KWR5KHF8L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Nicholas Ball
- Clive Owen
- Alex Kingston
- Kate Hardie
- Gina McKee
- Mike Hodges
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.98
Review Croupier [1998] / Cinema Club:
Actors & Directors
- patty duke
- fred gerber
- richard crenna
- missy crider
Review Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah (vhs pal) / odyssey:The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents are forced to act on their own to find her.
Actors & Directors
- Eva Marie Saint
- Andy Griffith
- Gary Cole
- David Greene
- Karl Malden
- Barry Newman
Price: £10.99
Review Fatal Vision [1984] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / The Ice House - By Minette Walters [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415VDFQYRCL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Kitty Aldridge
- Daniel Craig
- Penny Downie
- Tim Fywell
- Corin Redgrave
- Frances Barber
Run time: 172 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £49.99
Review The Ice House - By Minette Walters [1997] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Gormenghast [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416Z23F5N5L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Warren Mitchell
- Celia Imrie
- Ian Richardson
- Andy Wilson (IV)
- George Yiasoumi
- John Sessions
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 Warner Home Video / Roots - The Next Generation - Vol. 1 [1978]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FK7Q03J1L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Ernest Kinoy
- Kene Holliday
- Dorian Harewood
- John Erman
- Charles S. Dubin
- Irene Cara
- Pam Grier
- Rosy Grier
Run time: 375 min.
RRP: £20.99
Price: £15.00
Review Roots - The Next Generation - Vol. 1 [1978] / Warner Home Video:
![Review Bfi Video / It [1927]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MYHN97NCL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Priscilla Bonner
- William Austin
- Clara Bow
- Clarence G. Badger
- Josef von Sternberg
- Jacqueline Gadsden
- Antonio Moreno
Run time: 76 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £15.00
Review It [1927] / Bfi Video:
![Review Eureka Entertainment / The Geisha House [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412BZK1DT6L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Kaho Minami
- Masahiko Tsugawa
- Junko Fuji
- Mai Kitajima
- Maki Miyamoto
- Kinji Fukasaku
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.99
Review The Geisha House [1999] / Eureka Entertainment:A moving and entrancing exploration of a culture that has fascinated the Western world for centuries, Kinji Fukasaki's Geisha House was released in 1998, presaging a flurry of literature and memoirs that have helped to broaden our understanding of the geisha's role in Japanese society. Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omacha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through her eyes, we see the protocols and complex financial relationships which dictate the running of the geisha house. Fukusaki's film is a work of great delicacy with moments of hypnotic beauty, and his tender direction, often touched with a sense of wonder, fills the screen with lovingly constructed scenes. At its heart is the poignant situation of the women who must sacrifice their normal relationships to live an ambiguous life in which they are a key part of society while being kept, for the most part, on its periphery, like perpetual mistresses. On the DVD: Geisha House is presented with subtitles in widescreen anamorphic format. The string-laden Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack is occasionally overpowering. The only extra is a short, text biography of Fukusaki. -Piers Ford.
![Review Curzon Video / Paris Trout [1991]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41K6YF9XGFL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Barbara Hershey
- Stephen Gyllenhaal
- Ed Harris
- Dennis Hopper
- Ray McKinnon
- Tina Lifford
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £12.99
Review Paris Trout [1991] / Curzon Video:
Run time: 122 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Competition / Columbia Pictures CVT10034:The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?.
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Brother Sun, Sister Moon [1973]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ANM2GMVRL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Lee Montague
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Judi Bowker
- Kenneth Cranham
- Graham Faulkner
- Leigh Lawson
Run time: 116 min.
Price: £5.99
Review Brother Sun, Sister Moon [1973] / Paramount Home Entertainment:It seemed like a good idea in 1973: a musical scored by Donovan about the life and times of St. Francis of Assisi, the passionate ascetic who expressed love for God by loving nature. But the finished product was something else. Filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli (Endless Love) makes a decorous effort at communicating the ideals of Francis and even tweaking the character toward flower-power relevance. But the result is feel-good fluff, a boring movie that doesn't penetrate its subject as much as reinvent him toward a modern bias. Graham Faulkner is entirely forgettable in the lead and Donovan's songs on this project aren't exactly first-rate, either. -Tom Keogh.
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 107 min.
Price: £5.99
Review Hud / Paul Newman:
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